skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little different. It's more like hiring someone as personal buyer who buys for likely a large group of people. A majority of people don't actually use the $3600+ they spend per year on health insurance so the money adds up fast and the buyer doesn't have time to deal with individuals so they don't seem to question paying $$$ for a tissue paper. The amount of money they are authorized to spend is so large that a $$$ tissue paper is just an insignificant percentage of the total available cash.

If hospitals and insurance companies are already tracking their income/expenses they should just be required to publish the anonymized data via a centralized API so we can all work on creating systems to analyze the average cost of the products. It will help insurance companies and patients as well as doctors and everyone in the end. Also, beyond the standardized API system which should easily cover all the standard financial points we can have multiple people / organizations analyzing the data.

Say one particular health issue shows up in the system as costing a lot of the insurance cash pool, we would notice it right away and could funnel more cash into prevention.

I'm not familiar with the industry so maybe there is already something similar available?
How would someone in China charge their electric car with clean electricity generated in the United States?
While definitely not a monopoly under the contemporary definition, I do not find it hard to believe that these companies are having an outsized influence on markets, society and politics. They end up having monopolistic effects without actually being a monopoly.

Case in point, it’s extremely hard to get discovered on internet without paying google/Facebook. Even if you are not running ads, google can wipe out a significant chunk of your internet traffic with their algorithm changes. Or google’s insane policy for Android OEM manufactures (which EU took a notice of). Amazon controls your retail presence - you can’t have cheaper products anywhere else. If you have a particularly popular product, Amazon will make its own version.

The average consumer still has an abundance of choice and low prices so the current market powers of these companies do not fit the definition of monopoly that was applied to Microsoft in the 90s. I think there needs to be another word or the definition of a monopoly needs to be updated. These companies still have an influence which teeters close the impact created by historical monopolies.
Never noticed any speed difference due to bucket size. S3 is generally slow anyway (250ms for a write isn't uncommon) but it scales very well and we use it for raw data storage that's not in our critical path, so the latency isn't a problem.

Edit Response: I've always used the partitioning conventions they suggest so not sure what sort of impact you encounter without.
Where on the 10-Q is revenue from intelligence agencies? I seemed to have missed that line.
> Homelessness: unsolvable in a society where it is illegal to force someone to take care of themselves (by being sheltered). The west has decided that individual freedom is worth the cost of some people using it to choose to be homeless. I think this legal framework will make it impossible to solve homelessness.

This may be philosophically true, and probably even technically true in practice, but I suspect the vast majority of homeless would prefer better shelter than they currently enjoy. For whatever reason, these people have failed to attain better shelter within our societal system. Some people blame the system for letting these people down, other people blame the individual for not having what it takes to "make it", but I don't think you can call this a choice unless you call failure a choice.

Given that, there probably are things we can do to "solve" the vast majority of homelessness, so don't give up just yet. The few people that then legitimately choose to be homeless will probably be so scant as to be barely noticed by the rest of us.
If you don't plan on holding Tether for a longer time, the chances of some catastrophic pricing event (such as full seizure) are slim.

That risk is weighed the utility of sending Tethers around. If Tether was somehow backed 100% by an assortment of reputable institutions, it would probably trade at 5% premium to its face value, purely due to its utility.
Realistically, "carbon recapture" barely exists today. It's a science experiment / excuse to avoid reducing emissions.
CMake is the modern build tool everyone seems to love, but regular old GNU/BSD Makefile is fine too. As for a package manager it seems like people are converging on Conan or vcpkg (I have no real metrics, just basing that statement on the posts I see on Reddit over at /r/cpp).
IANAL.

This article convinced me about the conflict: https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html.

The OpenSSL license imposes certain restrictions on people wishing to distribute their program using OpenSSL, while the GPL-2.0 license says you may not impose any further restrictions when you redistribute the program. There is an exception for OS components, but MacPorts is not part of macOS.
I emailed Rob this afternoon to set up a Launch HN thread, where people will be able to ask whatever they want. Hopefully he can show up to answer some of the comments in the current thread too, since people are obviously interested.
Normally there is a small energy base load constantly generated below varying renewables and other forms such as hydro and fossil are dispatched as demand increases. Just because a utility has capacity for higher demand does not necessarily mean there is excess energy, generally the instantaneous energy generated is equal to the energy being consumed.
The only fair comparison is with other OECD countries. Unless you consider the US a third world country...
Nah. Think different.
Having the gov decide who gets what care is incompatible with a free society. Alfie Evans is a striking example.
Trust HN commenters to call into question the (perfectly reasonable) premise of the article.

The fact that Instagram is visual, not drably textual like HN, shouldn't really prevent anyone from discerning the fact that there's a significant amount of imitation, cliché, and trendy conformity in the images people post.
I really like the design of the site. Congratulations on avoiding many of the popular trends such as massive whitespaces and making everything low contrast grey.
That would be ironic.

We would gradually go from coal and (natural gas) powered electric cars, to nuclear powered ICE cars.
Or convince them there is nothing more wrong with socialism than capitalism and the world needs more balance and nuance.
I intended my point to be that the individuals at the top profited (those making the decisions to take advantage of cheap overseas labor) in terms of money / wealth.

No, happiness has not increased (maybe fairly-floss happiness has increased, that short term heavy-crash happiness that people get from new/shiny things - but I don't count that towards general societal happiness). Fear and paranoia has increased. (my opinion).
Likely a lot easier to make gasoline out of:

(1) Crude oil.

(2) Coal, water, and electric power.

(3) Some biological reactions.

To address the hidden agenda here, see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Mx0_8YEtg
If an animal eats it, wouldn't it be combusting the captured carbon to produce CO2/H20/energy? I don't think you'd want to feed it to anything, but just let it be buried or be pushed under the earth's crust.
Vimways 2019: Call for Papers
The Morphology of Price Dispersion
They do, actually, if you choose a consistent set of basic axioms. Just as in math.

Problem is, unlike math, there's no particular objective reason to prefer some axioms over the others, and so there's substantial disagreement over which ones are "correct". And, of course, depending on which ones you choose, the conclusions derived from them can be radically different, opposite even.

But this is still formalizable - you can make statements such as "from an utilitarian perspective, X is the preferred course of action". You don't have to agree with that perspective for the conclusion to be testable and practically useful.
He's also a co-author of Lex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software)

It's human nature to demonize folks.
To me the main lack is why put these machines where the carbon is scarce vs abundant? Eg: My back yard has something like 411PPM [1] but a coal plan flue, i assume, has a very much larger PPM.

IMO it's analogous to solar panels in Canada where the sun is 1/2 the strength of other parts of the planet [2]

[1]: https://www.co2.earth/
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance#/media/File:G...
> I tried Facebook in, IDK, 2009 or so, for a month or two.

That was 10 years ago. Things may have changed for better or worse (or both)...
Recognizing that elitism exists and affects you is not the same as being elitist.

"The great achievement of the Enlightenment had been to show that might is not necessarily right. The mistake they made was to assume that the law of the strong had suddenly evaporated simply because it had been shown to be unjust."
Management of Digital Identity
If they printed 2 billion tethers and bought them all back at 99 cents each (which is realistic, because tether typically floats at basically a dollar), that would only be $20,000,000. If they get 5% per annum on the float from just keeping the cash in the bank, that's $100,000,000. So I'm not sure what's best to do in typical circumstances.

There have been ~two historical exceptions. From April 20 - May 20, 2017, they could have absolutely cleaned up by buying their own tethers back. Hundreds of millions of dollars of tethers were traded at an average price of 95 cents or so.
Precisely what changes in the market are you referring to?

Prices negotiated between payer and provider today are already 1 + N year length contracts. Having one transparent national price list would 1000x easier than the hundreds of thousands of healthcare administrators that exist today whose sole job is to negotiate and determine price lists.
Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call

https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/r5rs/Proper-tail-recursi...
seems like its an education or media-bias problem more than a healthcare problem.

If a majority of the poor in America are not educated enough to understand how public healthcare will benefit them and the country, or are educated enough to understand but not educated enough to realise media outlets have a politcal agenda and might not be reporting accurately, then public healthcare is still not going to happen.

(and they might not want socialism, but it seems like they dont understand that democracy has problems too. and healthcare is the living example. but again, it circles back around to being educated enough to understand that democracy is good, but it isnt perfect, and no system is)
It looks like they don't include the binary in the package at all, and instead the package has custom install code that downloads it during install. Which works, but it completely bypasses the package manager and would certainly take me by surprise as a user.
That source does not reliably support the claim "Bitfinex money was on an account of a small Polish bank. It was confiscated by a US government when they chased Colombian drug cartels earlier in 2018."

That's just some dude's crypto blog. There is no citation or first or second-hand info.
I suspect you'd make more progress on those particular problems by funneling the same amount of money into paying all the lobbyists to stay home and play Fortnite.
Co-evolution in biological systems is based on evolving organisms. There is a broken symmetry here (though personally I find the notion of 'artificial' constraints affecting the space of possible actions rather too dull to get excited about) in that we are considering changes in two categorically distinct mechanisms and organisms.

In fact, imo, what is actually interesting are the specific cases instances of the dull fact, such as of language and thought/expression. And btw, would you consider that specific case "co-evolution"? Is it really a linear history?)
It's much easier to take "enormous risks" when you've got a golden parachute. For 99% of people taking huge risks means career, financial or literal suicide and (at best) poverty for their loved ones.

Or I guess put another way, most people are too busy trying to survive to think about playing the game.
Plus, having runtime state around from a previous version (or versions!) of the app sounds utterly terrifying
Is Show HN for this? This isn't a startup, or some developers pet project. This is a very standard website made for a local car dealership.

And in the footer, there's a link to DealerOn:
https://www.dealeron.com/
A web dev agency for car dealership websites. I quote: "We help over 3,000 car dealers..."

This looks very much like spam.

Maybe you should take some of the money you charged for building this and hire a UX consultant.
I don't necessarily see Google as having a monopoly over the internet, but more as "The Gatekeeper" to the internet. Most people around the world go through Google if they're trying to reach somewhere (especially if they don't already have the target site bookmarked). The fact that they're the de-facto curators of content gives them enormous influence over people's perception of the internet.

The question is, do we want a largely unregulated private corporation to hold that much sway over entire populations?
Is this a thought experiment? How can you know you will never have a community, chosen family, nor friendly acquaintances? You can work on gaining those just like you can work on a career.
I had most of this using NNTP clients 25 years ago.
Ok, I think it was fairly similar then. Assignments were graded automatically (based on passing test suites essentially) but individual labs hadn't been set up the same way.

With style I always felt it was easy to say if it was bad or good, but hard to justify sometimes; 'good style' often just means 'I can follow this easily as I read it' and that becomes subjective based on how you like to read code.

Even so, it was always obvious when a student had spent time on their program, and gone back over the code to rewrite or clean it up - those tended to get the good style marks.
> He's also a co-author of Lex.

Your point is?

> It's human nature to demonize folks.

Is that criticism of Schmidt or the parent comment? If Schmidt, he was not so much demonizing people as just not giving a shit about them.

And we hold our leaders to higher standards than the common man. In prior generations, our "elites" held themselves to higher standards as well. Not any longer, it seems. Regardless of how high you rise in society, as long as you can claim decent from the middle class, you hold yourself responsible for nothing outside of yourself and your in-group.
Yes this is true in markets where the consumer (1) is the actual person paying for the product/service (2) isn't restricted to comparable options and (3) prices across all available providers are known.

None of these exist today in the market for US healthcare...but they do for fast food. Trying to compare the two would be extremely disingenuous.
It’s beyond disappointing that the article does not discuss conda and conda’s build variant capabilities [0].

Maybe 2 years ago there was still room for honest debate among Python package tooling. There just sincerely isn’t anymore.

[0]: https://conda.io/projects/conda-build/en/latest/resources/va...
Usually, those "enormous risks" require risking destitution, followed by ill health and death. Pulling the following statements out of my ass: you get approximately one of those per life, on average. People are hesitant to go looking for these "opportunities" and are content to let them come in their own time.
"Apple is rapidly losing business in china, but doing strongly everywhere else" is very different from "apple's entire business begins a slow decline."
I have this vague recollection from many years ago that the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) had a racing class for 3 wheel vehicles that had the single wheel in the back. They were typically powered by motorcycle engines and they looked really cool!

I don't remember exactly when it happened, but I think SCCA banned all 3 wheel racing vehicles some time back. I think it was because 3 wheel vehicles with the single wheel in the front are inherently less stable. It's a shame because that class was less expensive to compete in, and the cars looked great.
and spending a fortune on bootstrapping a public health system that undermines insurance and private health.

I think we could start by expanding military medical benefits. For example, give lifetime benefits to all honorably discharged service members, not just those who made it to retirement. We already have a government funded and run system. It has some excellent assets, such as Walter Reed, a research facility. We could just start quietly expanding that in a way that people could get on board with.

(Changed "honorably discharged veterans" to "honorably discharged service members" for clarity.)
Hackers went undetected in Citrix’s internal network for six months
There's no law against that, and we (USA) try to be a country of law.
oh boy, I'm sure everyone is going to have a totally rational response and not freak out at all when it launches.
How is this alarming? Who gives a toss if people who want to be "influencers" are all doing the same thing? Frankly it makes it easier for the humans to ignore them.
JG: I hope not :>
the comments here are alarmingly h... well you know the rest.
“there might be no more cost-effective self-improvement investment than enrolling in Toastmasters and buying a gym membership”

Horrible advice. Do not do.
Nobody thinks they'll get net energy out of this. They're spending energy to make carbon-neutral liquid fuels. The energy would have to come from renewables or nuclear for this to be useful.
Coincidentally, I just picked up a Mazda CX-3 last weekend. You definitely want to have filters for standard things like transmission (auto/manual) and fuel type (petrol/diesel). If these options exist I didn't see them on mobile. None of the sites I used had filters for Mazda's own colours which would have been good.

The popups are intrusive. I have limited patience for that kind of thing when shopping online. When there's money to spend (and car money too), my mental Internet filter is in the strictest no bullshit mode. Popups lower trust, go unread and would have sent me back to Google.
Culture is ultimately defined by the promotion and bonus criteria.
They know how much a particular code costs in advance.

They are less certain whether a particular course of treatment will be coded in one way or another.

It's probably not a good payment model, it doesn't make any sense for the insurance company to be taking on risk that the provider should be bearing, but here we are.
A company can have competition and still have a monopoly.

>> Undertakings possessing market share that is lower than 100% but over 90% had also been found dominant, for example, Microsoft v Commission case.[78] In the AKZO v Commission case,[79] the undertaking is presumed to be dominant if it has a market share of 50%. There are also findings of dominance that are below a market share of 50%, for instance, United Brands v Commission,[74] it only possessed a market share of 40% to 45% and still to be found dominant with other factors. The lowest yet market share of a company considered "dominant" in the EU was 39.7%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
Euclid's five axioms.

For one thing we learned to understand "axioms" as something less than self-evidently necessary truths. For another we learned that the original axioms didn't really prove what they were thought to prove -- at least up to modern notions of rigour.

We would now understand the original Euclidean proofs to have been "sneaking in" other, implicit, axioms disguised as obvious deductions, and so modern formulations of the geometry need more elaborate axioms.
Please don't post this kind of thing here.
I’d rather go the other direction and expand Medicaid by allowing anyone to “buy in” to it regardless of income level.
Finally had a chance to look into this further. The filter you found requires an MPEG2 Transport Stream. That tells me that this filter is just extracting the CC data within the MPEG stream. We've had tools to do that since MPEG2 was a thing.

I'm specifically talking about a full raster SD video capture at 720x486 NTSC with the VBI information visible. Is there a filter that will read the white dashes in the VBI and do some sort of optical translation of the dashes into something like an SCC file. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I used to actually be able to decode the VITC in my head by reading the dashes. It started out as a joke while bored working 3rd shift where we'd offset the H/V delay on a monitor. It actually became a useful skill when we started digitizing the full raster video image but the time code was not captured/saved in the resulting digital media. Reading the white dashes allowed me to then reset the time code of the digital file.

For those wondering, there were 2 types of time code in video tapes. LTC (linear time code) was an encoded audio signal that would sound like a series of tones that would be decoded into time. VITC (vertical interval time code) was visibly encoded into part of the video signal that consumer televisions would not display. Normally, the player would "listen" to the LTC while playing and fast scan/rewind. While a player was paused onto a video frame, it could no longer "hear" the LTC. It would instead then switch to decoding the VITC. The VITC was also not able to be decoded at fast speeds since it went by too quickly. When the VITC and LTC did not match, all sorts of interesting things would happen in an edit bay.
Medicine changes on the scale of multi-year adjustments.

What exactly do you think is going to change in the market?
> Do you think the US government could cover every single cent if all the depositors wanted their money out now?

Yes, because the US government can literally fiat dollars into existence.

OTOH, the big point of guaranteeing deposits is that a credible party doing that prevents bank runs, which are caused by fear of bank collapse that will destroy access to deposit balances.

> The FDIC only has enough to cover a tiny proportion of bank liabilities.

The FDIC’s funds are just the zero-effort first-love of payment; FDIC insurance is guarantees by the government, not just the gives held by the FDIC.

> It seems very disingenuous for people in this thread to say "well if everyone cashed out tethers" and then handwave away the alternative of "well if everyone cashed out USD".

Tether isn't backed by an entity which can simply will USD into existence; FDIC or NCUSIF insured bank or credit union balances are.
Eric was great. I always watched his town hall live streams. He's incredibly charismatic and always offered a lot of detail about his thinking.
At some point, you need to decide if you want a revolution or incrementalism.

We already have a public healthcare system, it is called medicare. We can expand medicare so that private insurance takes up a smaller segment of the total market. I believe that approach will provide incremental improvement and give policy makers leverage for further incremental improvement, but it is not a revolution.

While many of our politicians are talking about revolution, what they are all proposing is incrementalism. The reason for that is very simple; revolution is a bad idea and incrementalism has a proven track record of working.

As an aside, medicare-for-all is still a long way away from a public healthcare system; it makes one area of the healthcare system public.
You don't have to burn it. In theory governments or environmental groups could simple buy and store it.