skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t understand why the article uses labor turnover or health plan churn. Why would that be relevant to the original bolded premise that people like their better coverage sponsored by employers?

If I leave a job or get laid off, usually I’ll get a similar job that has similar insurance. Now maybe you could argue that there’s a big risk of an insurance gap or that something like COBRA is unfairly priced, etc., but that would have more to do with unemployment insurance and virtually nothing to do with the basic structure of health insurance.

When I “churn” in the insurance market, it is almost always going to be a super short-term switch from Insurance A to Insurance B (both via employers) where A and B are incredibly similar.

That seems perfectly consistent with saying that people love employer-provided insurance quality. The employers have to offer the same high quality insurance everywhere, or else people won’t switch. As a result, they do provide the same high quality insurance everywhere, to ensure insurance is not a sticking point that creates job movement friction.

Of course there are outliers offering bad insurance and classes of labor like Wal-Mart retail staff that get screwed by deliberately bad corporate actors, and I’m sure anybody reading this with a personalized anecdote will angrily try to refute me.

But in the aggregate, these are exceptions, and most people like their insurance for the most part and find that almost all possible employers (for them) offer such a nearly fungible set of insurance plans that they can churn jobs without significantly worrying that the insurance they like will be very different at company A vs company B.

There could be many arguments for nationalized healthcare, but this article seems pretty much wrong from its main thesis. People “keep” the private insurance they like all the time, because “churning” the coverage is not at all similar to giving up the coverage or making concessions or compromises for the next plan of insurance you accept from an employer.
>One of the fallacies in play is buying insurance is put in one category. Whereas paying taxes for insurance is another. The first is 'good' because it's 'free market' and the second is 'bad' because it's the government taking your money's.

Well, I'm in favor of socialized healthcare and generally receptive to increased taxation, so that's definitely not the implication I was going for. But it is true that there doesn't need to be a categorical consideration at all. A more sound statement would be "I as a consumer am willing to pay dollars equal to twice my current premiums to get healthcare coverage while avoiding hassles while receiving routine healthcare"

In truth I'm not making a blanket argument for any government-run healthcare system because alleviating my pain points necessarily depends on said system being efficient and well implemented. But I KNOW that the free market isn't suddenly going to start improving on these pain points without introduction of regulations to manage issues like competing doctor networks, confusing healthcare coding and opaque pricing, etc, and I have no trust that the free market types in congress have any interest in regulations of any kind, so I personally err on the side of socialized healthcare on this one.
And don't forget to make a Checklist review checklist so you don't mess up your checklist review.
... and assessing quality in this space is way outside of what a normal consumer is capable of anyway.

The UK has periodically had a back and forth on whether the outcome ratio numbers which are collected for internal statistical measures should be published.

ie should we make it easy to get a number that says 4.6 for Mr Able, 5.2 for Ms Awesome and 3.8 for Mr Good?

At one extreme the reality may be that Mr Good isn't good and his numbers are low because he's a bad surgeon, he makes a lot of mistakes, his technique is not what it should be, he's using an approach that's outdated... that's a real problem, and maybe "patient choice" is a fix where colleagues may be reluctant to say "Fire Mr Good" because he's a good guy, he's not _terrible_ at his job, but yeah they would not themselves choose to be treated by him.

At the other extreme the reality may be that Mr Good is the only guy who'll take patients that Ms Awesome thinks are too high risk. She thinks it's better to say "No", he thinks if they seek medicine he should do his part. Maybe they're obese, or they won't stop smoking, or they won't stop doing the sport that's wrecking their body. And Ms Awesome is right that Mr Good's patients are higher risk, but that's not because he's doing a bad job, he's playing what was dealt.
A New Recruitment Tool for Construction: The Joystick
Also lftp has been working since the middle ages and will continue to do so. Cross platform.

The point is that convenient file transfer is a long solved problem with nice foss tools that are never going to stop working because of consumer market shifts.
Toothpaste tube bombs. [1]

1. https://www.thedailybeast.com/almost-everything-we-know-abou...
What is this inane gobldy guk
This article is out of date. More research indicates that neuroplasticity is a measurable phenomenon and the cortex does indeed create new brain cells.
We have enough people. We need to utilize them better. Capitalists depend on exploiting population growth to these ends, but it's not in any way necessary.

In fact when the black plague killed a large amount of population in Europe the salaries of the poor rose at least 3 times and caused good times for 100 years.

The only thing I am advocating is people having fewer children. To point to the empirical historical fact to forward this is not advocacy of anything inhumane.
People and Postgres: April 17th
Developers love Python, TypeScript, get paid for Clojure, not using blockchain
Ask HN: Uncertainty / Monte Carlo Analysis Tools?
I recall once seeing here a web-based tool that allowed for some really simple uncertainty modeling. It was visual and node based: you could drag parameters around as inputs to functions. Each parameter could have a distribution type set to it (i.e. uniform, normal, etc) and the simulation would evaluate the function by sampling the parameters per their distribution type. You could then chain together these functions to end up with a result.

Does anyone know of a similar tool?
There are drone pilots jobs in more favorable locations for the Air Natl Gaurd, at least.
If you're in that dire an emergency you're going to max out your in-network limits anyway, so it doesn't really matter which emergency room you get taken to, you pay the same.
China went from forced to proper demographic transition.
The Verge has updated the title to reflect that multiple reviewers are seeing similar issues:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/17/18411510/samsung-galaxy-f...
>A better summary would be that those two quantities explain about half of the variation, not that they predict accurately half the time.

Frankly this is not correct either, that would be right if we were talking about a coefficient of determination aka R^2 but we are not. we are talking about correlation coefficients which are totally different.

>Explaining half the variation, and the other half?

In the context of coefficients of determination(WHICH ARE NOT RELEVANT IN THIS CASE) this would mean that those variables explains 50% of the variance and the other 50% is either unexplained or explained by other variables.

>If you have a better description, it's more helpful to chime in with that instead of "You're wrong!"

>the combined measurement accurately predicts how a potential college applicant will perform in their first year of college 56% of the time

Your statement was indeed totally wrong and honestly the lack of statistical understanding in this thread, among all participants, is a little disturbing.

Correlation coefficients imply just that, correlation. Nothing more, your "simplification" was totally incorrect and makes implications which are in no way supported by the data.

Your own citation explains correlation quite clearly -

"A correlation indicates the extent to which variables are
linearly related and can range from –1.0 to 1.0 (Miles and
Shevlin, 2001). A correlation of 1.0, for example, indicates
a perfect positive linear relationship. A general rule of
thumb for interpreting correlation coefficients is offered
by Cohen (1988): a small correlation has an absolute value
of approximately 0.1; a medium correlation has an absolute
value of approximately 0.3; and a large correlation has an
absolute value of approximately 0.5 or higher"

Theres no way to simplify this as correlation is already one of the simplest concepts in statistics...
and that’s why I said there’s no dominant strategy. It does not exist.

Chess has no micro, but also has no hidden state. You don’t really need any concept of what your opponent is thinking to play optimally.
>One example is Recaptcha, if you use Firefox, you will be asked to confirm the Recaptcha almost all the time. Switch to Chrome and your problems disappear.

I got the Recaptcha confirmation on Chrome all the time. I get it every time regardless if I use Chrome on my Macbook Pro, my iMac or my Windows PC.
That's a ridiculous exaggeration of my words. Flipping burgers will put a roof over your head, buy you some food, and give you a small amount of savings. From there you move up. Better education, better job, more savings.
webassembly will make no difference at all. You still need to know english to learn how to program and read docs for libraries. It takes ages for translated books to appear, but even then most of them will be obsolete, especially for new tech like webassembly.
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Of course it does. Because people don’t buy and use the drug if they don’t know about it..?

Money matters. Marketing to recoup costs matters. Piles of cash to get every dollar of return on an investment matters. That allows the company to turn around and invest in future promising drugs, trials, other companies, marketing to bring awareness to the solution and hopefully get people to buy and use it.
So which detection facets regarding areas likely able to conceal hidden contraband were removed due to being part of the white people testing group?
Farmers sustain their families where they work. Factory workers are separated from their families. China is full of villages with only grand-parents and small children left.
> The inner lens cells form in the embryo and then lapse into such inertness for the rest of their owner's lifetime that they dispense altogether with their nucleus and other cellular organelles.

Does anyone know what metabolic processes these cells continue to perform, if any? If they literally drop their nucleus and other organelles, is there anything left besides the cell membrane, cytoskeleton, and cytoplasm? How do they repair damage, and in what sense are they a living cell rather than just an inert husk like the dead cells in the cuticle of hair?

I believe "inner lens cells" refers to the lens fibers, but this is all Wikipedia had to say:

> New lens fibers are generated from the equatorial cells of the lens epithelium, in a region referred to as the germinative zone. The lens epithelial cells elongate, lose contact with the capsule and epithelium, synthesize crystallin, and then finally lose their nuclei (enucleate) as they become mature lens fibers....
> Another important factor in maintaining the transparency of the lens is the absence of light-scattering organelles such as the nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, and mitochondria within the mature lens fibers. Lens fibers also have a very extensive cytoskeleton that maintains the precise shape and packing of the lens fibers; disruptions/mutations in certain cytoskeletal elements can lead to the loss of transparency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_(anatomy)
They've rounded some corners, made some things more bubbly, and well, that's about it mostly.
Thanks, I didn't know about pzstd, will check it out. See my reply below for more details of my particular use case.
That's not summarizing. "It's the strength of the relationship" is summarizing. "The combined measurement accurately predicts how a potential college applicant will perform in their first year of college 56% of the time" is just wrong. See Anscombe's quartet for a great example of why it's just plain wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet
Glad cloudflare and Google are now ramming through de facto web standards without consensus from the rest of web and browser developers...
I would be more interested in going after doctors that prescribe blood pressure medications without any attempt to find and cure the root cause of the high BP symptom. This affects far more people than doctors selling narcotics.

There are far more people dependent on BP drugs and the numbers are climbing every year. They are not expensive, but they are more dangerous than narcotics, in my not so humble opinion. Once dependent on them, you can't simply stop taking them. Doing so increases changes of stroke and heart attack (your body fights the effect of the drug, so you "rebound" even higher BP than when you started). Some BP drugs also introduce high variability in BP which can be just as dangerous as high BP by itself. Again, these bandage a symptom and your body is saying it wants the BP higher for a reason.

I have tried to get Kaiser Permenente, John Muir and Stanford doctors to step up. Instead, they just throw BP masking pills at me and send me on my way. At this point, my hope is to replace this function of doctors with groups like the SENS foundation (repair vs. mask). [1]

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/sens
I hate to break it to you, but the best interface for scientific python is Jupyter Notebook, which already runs in the browser. This just moves the execution of the code into the browser also.

It's also not adding any features that weren't already there, unless you're objecting to the entire WebAssembly project, in which case I guess that's allowed, but a bit off-topic.
I'll spell it out (for the downvoter): "is a language isolate to any other known living language" as well as being "a language". It has a very special status between France and Spain. I think anyone who knows about Basque would think of Basque when reading about a computer language named Bosque.
DNS Hijacking Abuses Trust in Core Internet Service
That's true, and it is a problem that needs to be fixed.
Even reading the comments in here sheds very interesting light: People discussing about why is the person homeless: Is it because of mental issues? is it because of laziness? is it because of bad luck?

It doesn't matter! it should not matter. People should not be homeless, and the different safety nets should be agnostic of the reasons (otherwise you are catering only for the mental health issues, and you still have homeless drug addicts, or homeless bad-luck people).
Amazon’s Slow Retreat from Seattle
I bet he could get tenure in a CS department if he tried.
Show HN: Deep Tech Founders Network
To close the loop here, Support fixed this within a few hours of opening a billing support case.

Not to blame the victim, but at the time the original charges happened, OP didn't respond to the Support person for 3-days (our usual timeout) on "Hey, is this resolved on your side?". Tell them no! :). Glad this got resolved quickly though.
It takes a very specific type of person to believe that they, specifically, have enemies.
I don't believe either of these statements is true: "ampproject.org is ... controlled by Google. The core AMP team are Google employees."

https://blog.amp.dev/2018/09/18/governance/

The TSC is independent and, at this point, the committee code commits are almost 4x the volume of Googler commits.
i'm keen on the idea that such a model of a government entity (or two) in competition with an open market would provide the most favorable outcome, because a truly free and fair market (one where competition leads to efficiency and low prices) seems mythically distant at this point.

government entities can get subsumed by politics and bureaucracy, while private markets can get distorted by poor regulations and anti-competitive practices. if bureaucrats can get thrown out for not being competitive with the private companies, and private companies can go out of business for not being efficient and serving customers well, we might get decent service-oriented entities in the market.

many goods that don't fit the simple paradigm of commerce (e.g., housing) can benefit from such a model.
This is fascinating
> magical thinking

Christianity’s main claims revolve around agreeing eyewitness accounts from hundreds of people, set against a backdrop of people in power who had the motivation and opportunity to disprove them if they could (but who opted to kill them instead). You may say those people were lying or call them delusional, but my choice to believe them hardly qualifies as magical thinking.

And that could easily be lobbed the other direction. To think that a universe, its physical laws, and everything in it can come from nothing might just as well be called magical thinking.

It might be more helpful to engage the worldview and its arguments than use dismissive phrases.
This should help: https://stripe.com/sca
Yeah this sounds terrifying!!
From the original work (linked at the end of the article)

"CPR that has been towed within the North Atlantic and adjacent seas. 36% of the total number of CPR tows between 1957 and 2016 (16,725 tows) had faults logged, 4% of these faults were due to plastic entanglement and 1% were due to natural entanglement "

They only had a total of 208 cases of their devices getting entangled out of those 16,725 tows of which 52 were discarded because they did not involve plastics. Then they did a normalization across each year. I think the large variance is probably due to the small absolute numbers of total incidence and the exaggerated scale that they chose (0-5%).
No... the grandparent had it right. "Skin in the game" is just a colloquial restatement of the earlier point. The purpose isn't to make people needlessly suffer more by having to pay!

The principle idea is that because they have to pay some, they'll be more sensitive to pricing and more willing to shop for an affordable provider, which is exactly the efficiency argument.

And in this particular case I agree, even. Though the fact that this has to be done by individuals (who are sick!) sort of makes a hash of the moral notions of "the market" being the solution here. We're buying efficiency at the cost of individual grief, and that has value too.
I think a more modern version of that last checklist would include keys and phone.
Excess capacity and, for sure, logistics. Despite their other failings, there's still no one else with the experience and infrastructure necessary to carry out huge-scale international relief efforts quite like the US military.
I am fortunate to have had the experience of growing up with a rabid Greek mother who would get to the bottom of any shenanigans with any sort of insurance agency, bill collector or anything. I now have my own experience. Yes the first time was stressful, but reading your story, trying to put myself in your partner's shoes this would not have ended up causing me any stress, especially if I knew the law is on my side. I certainly wouldn't paid any bill until it was all sorted out. I also have experience where a medical charge that was suppose to be covered as a legitimate procedure was not and charged off onto my credit (because again, I refused to pay). I was easily able to negotiate with the credit reporting agency to remove this negative mark on my credit. (Negative marks due to medical bills affect your credit much less than say missing a credit card payment, IIRC, I was still able to obtain credit cards, get loans, and generally had decent overall credit).

My father currently undergoing treatment for lung cancer. He has medicare and supplemental coverage through Humana. Bills are still in excess of 150,000, so I definitely understand the other side of it.
Sadly the TSA and really any screening process is all about trying to find abnormalities. There is no way around it, using their example if you "look" like a female and are wearing baggy underwear while 99.9% of females do not. That is an abnormality. That alone won't trigger anything, but a combination of things (purely statistics) should require a search of some sort.

I don't think the issue is with that, I think the issue is with how it is handled and what the "search" is.

Nobody ever wants to be singled out, and no one wants to be that 0.01%. But the sad truth is, some people will be, and just based on the amount the 0.01% will be the minority.
> most people would actually get used to it

All evidence we have regarding long stays in solitary confinement or sensory deprivation indicates everyone trends towards psychosis.
Scientists Partially Revive Disembodied Pig Brains, Raising Questions
Good point. It's hard to have children when you're physically apart for most of the year, and it's even harder to raise them when you're not home. Do children generally stay with family in the rural areas, or do they stay with one or both parents in the industrial zones?
It's a structural problem with how our elections work. No sense blaming individual voters for chosing "vote with the intent to maybe (but almost certainly not) affect the outcome" versus "definitely do not affect the outcome, but maybe (but almost certainly not) send a message".
Ask HN: Would you recommend buying a Tesla now?
Hello, I live in San Diego and most of my commute is to work with occasional <500mi road-trips once every couple of months. I see electric charge stations in our office (I don't have one at my apartment).
I have been eyeing the Model 3 for a while now and would love to hear the pros and cons of purchasing it.
I currently own a 10 year old Toyota that has served me reasonably well (although I spent ~$2000 overall in the last 2 months).
Please let me know what parameters do I have to consider before purchasing a Tesla. And is Model S really worth it?
Rust tool for simulating an arbitrary connection between two network endpoints
But now he doesn't fly planes, which saves them a lot of money, and I doubt he'd have voluntarily transitioned within service from jets to drones, no?
How GitHub Is Helping Overworked Chinese Programmers
I would suggest a different action for this specimen. Previously, specimens were terminated. Valuable information is lost.

If specimen 46, Vat 7 experiences a romantic relationship, our corporation will gain valuable research on emotional development past nihilism stage. Suitable partners are:
Specimen 114, Vat 7
Specimen 126, Vat 7
Specimen 67, Vat 89 (pending switch)
SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework
Huh. Because we used thumbs up or down, we called it Roman Evaluation. But that's probably wrong. Releases required unanimous approval. aka blackballing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackballing
paper also linked in the article: "Restoration of brain circulation and cellular functions hours post-mortem" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1099-1
When I say "maybe an approach like this will take off" I'm not saying "maybe we'll all be doing our programming in russian using phantom os".

I'm saying that webassembly might ultimately evolve into something that look a bit like this, since it has almost-free IPC.
I don't know. I'm just disturbed by the power imbalance between the people doing the reviving and the beings that are revived.

I hope the optimistic scenarios are true.
Google Takes on 'Africa's Challenges' with First AI Centre in Ghana – Afp.com