skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many countries rely on privately-managed health insurers (Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, etc.).

> Edit: and I have an anecdote about this too. Last year I had an episode of AFib. I've been taking medication since then. So after almost 1 year taking a certain medication, my insurance rejected it, saying they wouldn't pay for it and that I had to switch to something else. Now, why is it OK for an insurance company to dictate what I can or cannot take, if my doctor prescribed me something? How on earth is it OK for insurance to dictate what treatments I can or cannot have? I feel like a piece of meat when I go to a clinic and they need to call my insurance to see if it is OK to give me a certain treatment. This is nuts.

Dictating what treatments you can and cannot have is how health systems all over the world control costs. Many systems do this much more aggressively than in the U.S. The U.K. NHS, for example, will only spend about 20-30,000 pounds per "quality-adjusted life year," or about double that for end-of-life drugs. In the U.S., it is routine to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars just to get a couple of extra years. (The historic practice in the U.S. was to have lifetime limits--typically in the several million dollar range, but even those are illegal under the ACA.)
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I honestly don't know the least on this subject, but I'll do more research. I certainly don't doubt the value of vaccines, I'm somewhat familiar with the impact of polio, and likewise the impact of the vaccine.

I think the inner cynic in me is troubled by the total heap on attitude of everyone towards the subject, so much so that now I think any discussion of it is blocked on Facebook and other socials. It seems like I missed the public debate on this and other topics because I didn't have social accounts, I don't know.

If you or anyone else has any suggestions for any non-politicized books on the matter, I would be happy to report back on my thoughts afterwords.
I think the point is that if you the median American and you value your non-working time at your hourly wage of $27/hr then you're better off not spending, say 4hr a week, cooking/meal-prepping since you can get a months worth of food for way less than $432.

You should really only cook your own meals if:

* You enjoy it.

* You value/need your money more than your time.

* It's difficult to meet your dietary goals with purchased food.
But there's always an immediate trigger
This strikes me as being more archaic than modern.
You could surely make a case for parking the local urgent care center (and make it 24/7) right next to the ER.
No they're not. No one is happy with a mortgage. The very simple fact that mortages exist is the reason why housing prices have multiplied over the years.
Actually, the map is Abraham-centric in a way that it emphasizes the differentiation of Asian religions too much. Most of the Asian religions are blends of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and a few local elements.

Looking at the pattern of cultural clashes around the world, it seems the there are three incompatible belief systems, Christianity, Islam, and CBT.
Proper kinder eggs are illegal in the USA so there's a sizable portion of this readership that won't get that joke.
Is there anyone who would willingly get on one of these planes, regardless of software patches and extra training, when we know they have a compromised airframe, whose design prioritized cost over safety?
I've used this for a long time. Observations:

- explains "prayer": talk it over with your God, leave it in God's hands, you get an answer.

- may have gteater survival value than the chatter we think of as "consciousness", and may be the actual intelligence that we're famous for.
The hospital afforded to write off that bad debt; after all, the procedure was done, doctors and nurses got paid, supplies bought
I've come to a different conclusion over the years.

For example, let's compare 5 legacy Rails apps (each at a different version since this is the real world) to 5 bespoke Express/Sinatra apps.

One upside of the Express apps is that all of their glue code is right there in plain sight. You can go into each code base with a blank slate and read the code to understand what it's doing with zero dependent knowledge.

Having worked on Rails apps as part of my 7 years as a contractor, you don't get that benefit in a super framework. You need so much knowledge about Rails to follow the trail through an application. And it gets hard to keep things straight once you're jumping around old versions. Even stuff like "wait, where did this variable/method come from again?" and being able to quickly ID it as something Rails itself provides vs something else (application code or gem).

Or how about figuring out how authentication works in each of your 5 Rails apps that use Devise? If you're a veteran, you know to look for some magic options in config.rb/devise.rb and you know what they translate into. Otherwise it feels like credentializing in a black box.

I think that things like React and Express are toppling the old guard idea of Ember and Rails that large applications somehow save you from work. When Rails was hitting the front page of HN every day 9 years ago, the meme of the day was how much you could do with so little code. DHH showed you how to make a blog with almost nothing but `$ rails generate`. Want a user-avatar system that uploads to S3? Just drop a few lines here and there: https://github.com/carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave#getting-s... -- this was the spice of Rails.

The benefits are almost undeniable upfront, and the down sides of the trade-offs they make usually take a long time to fruit, so they're hard to quantify. But they're there.

But I can't tell you how many times I've deep dived on a client's old Rails app with pencil and paper into the wee hours of the morning wishing it was indeed just a "microframework that half-implemented Rails" if that would mean I could follow actual code from A to B.

Don't get me wrong, there are always trade-offs and there is never a best. This isn't to lambast all Rails apps across the globe. But I see the "you're going to either use Rails or reinvent Rails" meme a lot to discourage smaller frameworks more often than I see someone point out the other side of that trade-off.

Now, which
Do you know how many sieverts you get each time? I had one of those and I think I got one year's worth of background radiation in those few seconds that it lasted.
Spring Boot is so amazing. I don't feel like any of it is boiler plate at all.
Much less? I haven't use spring cloud for quite a while but last time I did it there's quite some grunt work to make config server / eureka / ribbon / hystrix and friends to work. Let alone the the deployment process.

But I think the key difference is Rails is more opinionated so you don't have to worry about which circuit breaker to use. Or just don't use any.
btw: Your shower routine sounds like http://wiki.c2.com/?RubberDucking

The act of explaining a problem verbally to someone else forces you to be explicit about details that you gloss over when you think about the problem internally. The fun part is that you don't actually need a real person to explain to. Just going through the motions and explaining out loud to no one (or to a toy) is nearly as effective.
I'm sorry about your friend. I hope this isn't insensitive, but could you elaborate any more on what happened? I'm an a-fib sufferer with a pool so I'm quite curious.
That was the promise. The reality is sails never really took off, fighting within the core team derailed development and fractured the community, and its opinions are so poorly documented that you basically have to learn it from reading the source. The founder will occasionally chime in and say that it's still alive, and his company has great success using it, but unless you are one of the core maintainers I doubt you will have a similar experience. There are very few people that have used sails in production that would recommend it. The author is undoubtedly a brilliant developer and light years beyond my own skill, but that does not matter when the community is tiny and bugs never get fixed.
Have you heard of FeathersJS? It is more akin to rails, supports many databases (neo4j, postgres, mssql, etc), runs on plain node.js, offers soa lifecycle hooks like rails, websocket/realtime support ootb and graphql via third party libs. https://feathersjs.com/
The Atlassian founders have done a remarkable job of holding on to their large founder positions (17 years in). Together they still own about 54% of the value of the company post IPO.

Warren Buffett had over 25% of Berkshire Hathaway after roughly 43 years, until he began liquidating to give it away.

Michael Dell now owns 52% of the publicly traded Dell. That had been reduced to about 14% during the company's last term as a public entity (circa 2013), prior to the move to take it private. Through very clever maneuvering he now majority controls the public conglomerate of Dell + EMC + VMWare.

Another one is Larry Ellison, who still holds 30% of Oracle after 41 years.
A lot of people get blasted with obsene amounts of ionizing radiation so the insurance pool can save a few bucks over an MRI. Disgusting.
The secure element on iOS devices is a Java Card (https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.... p. 47).
Iirc grails is built on top of Spring.
Except when it is.

As an autistic adult, it's frustrating to me that high-functioning autistics and parents/caregivers of low-functioning autistics never seem to realize that the other kind exists. You wind up with people insisting that perfectly functional human beings need to be cured, which those same human beings insist that there's nothing wrong with a kid who can't speak or dress himself at age 10.
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True, but because the FAA has (historically) done an excellent job on airline safety, people expect zero risk from air travel. Everybody knows cars are dangerous (at least in principle, even if they think they personally will never be in a crash).
The globe wasn't designed, and those animals didn't choose immunity. It was developed via evolution. And evolution will similarly wipe out massive numbers of species due to global exposure of pathogens. We are in the midst of the greatest extinction event this world has ever seen. Keep your head down and may the antigens be in your favor.
My reasoning operates under the assumption that the chip that communicates with the payment terminal sends a card number to the terminal at some point in time. I do not know how the protocol works in reality however.
That's more of a theoretical possibility than something that can be used operationally today.
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> No one here should have any interest, financial or otherwise, in good companies deteriorating.

That's a very Elon-esque understanding of what short pressure does.
Fair enough, but hitting the same spot twice (even that quora article points that out) is never going to happen. In some real world situations 22 rounds will hit a vehicle the size of a T90 if the pilot has 100% perfect aim, something that is totally possible, but unlikely. You're right on the maverick as well, but the A10 is aging. It won't be too much longer before the maximum wear of the titanium frame has happened and the entire thing will have to be rebuilt, something that likely won't happen. What they need, is a modern re-make of the A10, but it won't come from the air force. They love their fast stealth jets too much.
It would be great if YC expanded to the Asia-Pacific region... somewhere easy for Aussies to reach/apply/interview like Singapore.
...the father of a two-year-old who lives two blocks from the proposed site ... against the project out of concerns for his family’s safety.

"Family safety" has to be the most overused euphemism for "property values".
I don't disagree. I would love the option in the US for everyone to have basic health care through medicare or a public option insurance plan (with prices starting at zero).

My point was to compare it to pre ACA. Our system improved significantly when the ACA was passed.

Now, if you're sharing the cost of a treatment with someone, they're always going to have a say in the treatment you get, unfortunately.

That's true under any system.
Any references?
This entire spring so far I have encountered only a single bee. We have fruit trees in full bloom now (Oregon) but no bees to feast on the veritable smorgasbord of nectar. Now that is weird.
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yo dawg, I heard you like blackbirds!
I honestly find this baffling that there is a "limit" on how much treatment you can have done based on an arbitrary $ cost.

Australia generally has great "free" healthcare but even then it is complicated with rebates and gaps etc, its not completely "free" but there isn't exactly a limit on what you can have done under Medicare. If you have private medical insurance (an option not a requirement) then you can get a nicer hospital and not pay for the extra requirements.

In the UK you just get fixed and never see a bill in your life - everyones tax pays for it. Again not exactly "free" but you don't "pay" for it. Again, if you have private you can get a better hospital, choose your doctor etc.

The way I see it the US could 'have its cake and eat it' but there is significant opposition to anything that seems "Socialist" because the moguls who run these private health insurance companies are making too much money to change the system.
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Yeah, my dad died of a heart attack at a relatively young age, and I've been paranoid about my cardiovascular health ever since. Half an hour of that HR at rest and I'd be off to the ER.
Not yet....
Yes, US users pay a lot for insulin. Price has shot up from single digit dollar to 3 digit from 70s to today
Basically all smart cards use Java Card. There's an ISO standard, so I'm sure it's possible to implement your card in other environments, but everyone uses Java Card.
They also found the location of the shipping container, which is impressive
Self-driving cars in the south, bay area, Seattle, and DC in the summer would be more than enough to make a shitload of money.
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I've been loving this project. Also a big shout out to Beagle (Sony), which is also doing good work here recently: https://github.com/yampelo/beagle .

If you're curious about this stuff for more day-to-day, we (Graphistry) add some crazy GPU graph visual analytics + visual templating / automation for daily tasks + DB connectors. Think automatically mapping your daily splunk alerts across host/network/intel data, or seeing your entire data center, or going through a ton of DNS logs for bots/intel. Super fun space right now! Ex: http://labs.graphistry.com/graph/graph.html?dataset=PyGraphi...
No, that's not quite what it is. You can have an unusually rapid, but regular (i.e. normal sinus) rhythm and that's called tachycardia. During tachycardia, the electrical impulses that control the muscles of your heart fire in the correct sequence, intensity, and spacing between impulses, they just go through a cycle much more quickly. If you looked at an ECG and measured the distances between the peaks and valleys, they'd be at consistent distances, just really close.

During a-fib, the electrical impulses are all off. The peaks and valleys are irregularly spaced and the amplitudes vary from cycle to cycle. This usually results in a rapid heart rate as a second order effect because, due to the "misfiring" not enough blood is pumping through and your heart is working harder to make up for the difference.
I'm happy with my mortgage(s); they allow me control of real estate it would've otherwise would've taken me 10-30 years to obtain.

Cheap capital can of course create asset bubbles, but nevertheless, debt is one of the most useful tools you can use for wealth creation, innovation, and economic growth.
Hinduism?
One thing to note: portable ECGs are <$100 on amazon. Not as feature rich as the apple watch, sure, but the watch only measures from one location, normally you want to measure from a few, usually at least 3: leg, arm, and chest.
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Why is it hard to dismiss Node? Do you mean business environment-wise?
Have you tried Hangouts Chat?
You are correct. Lots of places still don't take chips. Pei Wei for one.

At Lowes last month I noticed that chip is only accepted for credit transactions; debit has to be swiped. Or the other way around.
The state needs to step in a lot more. Hopefully this is starting.
It's not necessarily a cost issue. CT scanners have higher spacial resolution for angiography.
I'll second this recommendation, it isn't about that damned swede, but it does give you some sense of his magnitude.
Vim supports an undofile, to keep undo history persistently. https://jovicailic.org/2017/04/vim-persistent-undo/

IntelliJ has a feature called "Local History" which stores basically is storing undo history, but it stores other things too (like test execution).

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/local-history.html
This is called capitalizing. Companies are not allowed to do it with R&D under GAAP. But it gets tricky when one company can build a factory, call it capex, and spread the expense over 10 years. Whereas another builds software infra and must expense 100% immediately.
I'm not so sure about that... maybe I'm just old but React provides very little of anything compelling other than shadow DOM and databinding. It seems like every opinion it has outside of those two very narrow areas is INSANE
The fact you got the trip for free perfectly illustrates that for every one of you, there are thousands who get taken advantage of.

Remember, even after giving you the trip, the CC company still turns an astronomical profit.
I can’t watch the video at the moment, but I’m of the understanding that the manual wheel actually easily overpowers the electric trim motors—-that it is simple to stop them from spinning and not to difficult to manually spin them as required.
Does it cover his role in the development of the P-38, the F-104, the NF-104A or the U2? I don't think so, but my memory may be faulty.
Try looking into Nuxt which is built on Vue. Docs could be better but once you figure out a few things I found that you can be highly productive. But it's strictly a front end tool. Some guys use Laravel on the Backend but I'm partial to Taffy.

https://nuxtjs.org/

https://laravel.com/

http://taffy.io/
from the article

> resting heart rate being in the 113-120 bpm range

with such readings, I guess one would just go to see a doc?
the watch measures from two locations actually, through the wrist and through a finger on the crown. you're still right that 3 (and more) is better.
Thanks for that link. The data on population distribution reminded me of another factoid that was popular a couple years ago, the "more people live in this circle than outside it": https://www.cntraveler.com/story/more-than-half-the-worlds-p... .

Basically, there are more people living in a circle that encompasses India and China (and hence lots of other populous parts of Asia like Indonesia) than there are in North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Australia combined.
I'll bite. One, I'm not sure next.js is the right tool for a simple dashboard. Seems a bit overkill. I think some simple MVC pages with vue dropped in where necessary would be a better fit. Also, your last sentence sounds like you're saying that it's not usable unless you know how to use it.
The similarity of Hack and TypeScript support your argument.
That's what I mean, the investors are so rich, it makes complete sense to take a portion of their riches and invest in high risk high reward states where most of the outcomes will be every cent is lost. It's not only set for life type money, but so much money that hiring teams of people to figure out how to even invest the proceeds in a rational way, of which VCs are just one subset of the team (outsourced, insourced, or otherwise).
I've wanted to mock up something similar, but more along the lines of Lightbend Pipelines mixed with Touchdesigner. Or I guess a more interactive version of Netflix's Vizceral would be another way of looking at it. But having Touchdesigner's multi-tiered workspace within a node concept would be key.
> This is not to say that JS is shit but both JS and Rails have their place. If you want flexibility, you need JS. If you want iteration speed and dev productivity you need Rails.

Not true at all. Rails can be extremely flexible; it's all modular and you can reduce it down to almost nothing if you want. Javascript's only place is to run in the browser; it lost its way once people decided to make a server platform out of it. JS is far too forgiving of mistakes to be running backend code, full stop. ES6 and up are vast improvements but the damage has already been done.

And in any case I have yet to work in an environment where I am not writing at least some ES5...
> he is generally in excellent health

with heart rate in 120 bpm? to me that is the pretty opposite of "excellent health".
I'm referring to things like dynamic find_by_* messages since more people might be familiar with that.

But I don't know why you'd say that. ActiveRecord models are one of the main places you'll see a bunch of `use SomeGem::Thing` that introduce a bunch of magic methods on model instances.

And my point is that we aren't talking about method composition here that you can statically analyze with a bolted-on type system. Ruby's metaprogramming runs so deep that it's a substantially bigger challenge than other dynamically-typed languages.

One clue is that humans even have a hard time with it. The first shock that people have with Ruby is when you see a method or identifier and grep shows up with zero results.

Aside, I can kinda tell that Ruby is entering Perl territory when there are no beginners around to chime in with their gripes.
Isn’t that what they were trying to do? Reasoning that the MCAS failure mode was runaway trim and the fact that pilots are trained for runaway trim? (Obviously in reality this reasoning is flawed)
Kemal is great, too. Though, IIRC, it's more akin to Sinatra.
> Apple is acting as though their rewards is the most generous reward system ever, period. In reality, it is not even close.

I'm looking forward to hearing about how Apple invented rewards in a few years.
There are many downsides to rent control, but #2 is usually not one of them. A sensible rent control policy limits rent control to housing built before year X. This is the case for all cities in California that have rent control. For example in San Francisco the apartment needs to be built before 1979 to be under rent control.

This is a good thing for creating new housing. New apartments will not be under rent control and can command higher rent, so developers are incentivized to build new apartments.
Nitpick:
They are not subsidized, but tax exempt.
On the flip side, fossil fueled cars are heavily taxed. And I mean heavily.
Meanwhile they refused to pull the app that allows Saudi men to monitor and control women:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sa.gov.moi&hl=... (and look at those suspicious 5 star reviews that all use similar language).
Would be good to also take care of illegal spying on presidential campaigns while they're at it. And of rubberstamping FISA warrants based on fake, uncorroborated "dossiers".
MoreLife.Tech (more=better well-being and extended life)
I don't believe that to be true, as evidenced by this debate itself and the proliferation of this same debate across the internet.
> It may be worth asking if you want to be employable outside of certain bubbles where you'll be the weird person who always needs a ride because they can't drive even though they don't have a disability.

You say that as if only a tiny minority of jobs will let you get by without a car. Most white collar jobs will not require you to drive anywhere.