skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Note that lifetime caps are a lot more generous than what they have in say the UK, where you don’t get treatment if it costs more than $50-75k per year of extended life

Do you have any data for that? Sounds odd.
Linear A
I own two cars, and love driving. Which is why I take the train to work. If I were to drive every day, I would start hating it.
The ACA is a bandaid on a wart
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My companies insurance premiums were going up 10-15% a year for years before the ACA.
That last perspective is the most important one. I've known a few genius-ish people, and I recently had a jarring experience where one of them who's a bit older and retired, but definitely not mentally ill or demented, had gone off the cliff of believing in all kinds of crazy alien/government conspiracy theories and started working on some free-energy device, etc.

At first I found it shocking that he was being so completely irrational about these things and had become a "true believer" in so much crazy so quickly. But eventually I made the connection. All the innovative stuff he did earlier in life was no different. Every great idea he came up with and pursued with dogged passion was something that everyone else around him thought was stupid and crazy at the time.

Basically he's always been "crazy" in this sense, it's just that sometimes that ability to suspend disbelief and rationality works out well and you invent something useful that nobody else would've tried, and sometimes (probably many times!) it doesn't. His brain hasn't changed how it works, it just happened to latch onto the wrong thing this time.
Because drag and drop ML is so new.

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

I remember using this in NINETEEN NINETY FIVE (it was called clementine then).

Interestingly one of the leads (Rob Milne) sold up (to IBM , forced sale I guess due to a cash squeeze and no investors) and went to Everest, where he got to the bottom of the Hilary step, had a massive heart attack and died.

Makes ya thunk.
I hope someone at caterpillar is taking notice and offers a scholarship to Hope. This reminds me of the story of Srinivasa Ramanujuan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

Could you imagine a future where these massive machines are controlled by remote operators running green, all electric energy sources?
We recently migrated a large jsonb column to json because, iirc, both the write and the read speeds were much better when there was no (de)serialization involved.

My current understanding is that json is faster and bigger than jsonb.
You only spend out of pocket until the various out of pocket limits kick in.
Prime videos has by far the worst UX of any streaming service. I rarely even open it because of how frustrating it is to use.
>Pre ACA, pre-existing conditions could disqualify you from insurance.

It's not insurance if you already know you're going to make a claim.
It is complex if you compare it to, say, a simple cp to another system, but for all the features it has (and don't feel optional at this point) it is remarkably easy to grasp. The BitTorrent protocol is extremely straightforward, and dat clearly takes inspiration from it and build on top of it. Perhaps I'm to use to it and see the increment as too small, though.
It seems like there’s a lot of things you should never do. Why don’t they just remove said things and make everyone’s life simpler?
Poor people are often already living paycheck to paycheck. A refund at the end of the year will be pretty late for many of them.
I'd also like to see a "right to install" bill that targets all major computing device platforms.

Nobody should be able to sell devices to millions of people without giving those customers the ability to install their own software. There should be no arbitrary limits such as "you have to plug your device into another device every 7 days just to keep your custom software installed".
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Yesterday Youtube switched me over to this model. On the home page now it primarily recommends subscribing to "topics" rather than individual channels. For example, I regularly look up recipes on Youtube, so it has suggested I subscribe to the "cooking" topic as opposed to Alton Brown, Tasty, etc.

I have two "modes" though which I use Youtube. The first is searching for the answer to a specific question such as how to change the radiator on my car or a good blueberry pie recipe. The second is I might enjoy a particular "personality" like Joe Rogan or Jimmy Dore. I don't want to subscribe to car/cooking topics. Nor do I want to subscribe to MMA, general politics, or general comedy. This new model doesn't work for me. I wonder if I will be converted eventually.
Sounds good to me. Essentially it ended up being an ethical investment. I hope Cerberus can use its "methods" on more gun makers.
The ACA hasn't been what it was supposed to be since 2015. Republicans in Congress gutted the market when they took away risk corridor payments. Small health plans priced with the payments in place, then when they didn't come through, everyone in a loss position went under. The big plans could weather the storm, market consolidates, prices rise.
If the machines came as kits sold in stores with prefabricated parts most kids his age either wouldn't be interested or wouldn't be able to build them.
Fair point. Perhaps "Lisp" would be a misnomer, but I do think there's value in an S-expression-based scripting/configuration language even if that language doesn't insist on revolving entirely around linked lists and the semantics/quirks thereof. Seems like vectors/tuples/structs should be just as valid as lists for a program to represent itself.
Can’t argue about that!
Americans think the poor are slackers and they don't deserve anything. Even poor Americans think the "other" poor are slackers and don't deserve anything. Nothing will change until you change this mindset.
Just do what I do. Don't pay the medical bills.

The banks got tired of medical bills posing a barrier to lending so they got with the credit reporting agencies and had them factor out the medical bills when calculating credit scores. I have tons of medical bills in collections and the best credit scores I have have ever had.
The claim that the top 1% have realized 95% of the increase in wealth over the past decade is spurious. I think the original study[1] that claim came from only argued that was the case for percentages of income growth, which is not wealth, and only true from 2009 - 2012.

I think it has been propagated since then as a different claim that the top 1% had 95% of the increase in all the wealth for the past decade. I don't think there is any evidence for this stronger claim.

[1]: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2012.pdf
I suggest reading the first sentence from the link I posted.
Flashback... When trying C for the first time, I ported a ~300 line Pascal program. I had read C syntax for some time, and the program was rather simple so I felt confident in the job.

After transcribing the ~300 lines I tried to compile for the first time: 3728 errors and warnings...

I read through the code and everything looked correct, so I gave up.

Picked it up again some weeks later. Turned out that I had, by force of habit, erroneously added a semicolon at the end of macro definition on line 3. Fixing that it compiled flawlessly.

At the time I was also unaware that I was actually using a C++ compiler, djgpp, which I'm sure did the error count no favors.
Centrism isn't the same as "unbiased". That would be the "truth lies in the middle" fallacy.

Let's take global warming. Some people on the right may say it doesn't exist. Some people on the left may say it exists and it is a great danger. The "middle ground" would probably be something like "It exists, but it is not such a great danger". The "unbiased" view would be whatever the science says.

> I wonder if you apply your standard for quality to everything you read in an unbiased way?

No. I don't apply it to HN comments, for instance.
In other words, software as a service. You can only use the service as long as you keep paying.
Yes, I have never seen anyone taking a yoga class that has very large muscles, always lean and lengthy, typically how I hear women wanting to look and also hearing they don't want to look bulky so that would be more inline with what you are reporting but I say this knowing I have no business stating women's opinions, just what I heard.
> https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate started to gain some momentum and was killed fast.

Killed how? They've got 168,000 subscribers and seem to be fairly active.
The kid's machines are indeed impressive. We also used to spend hours building wire cars. We had a whole factory line. The younger lads did the straightening of the wires, some were good at using the smaller wire (often coloured wire or copper) to tie the pieces together. There were the designers who could bend the big piece of wire into the frame of the car you wanted. We then used empty polish tins for the wheels. Some of the cars had gears (none functional). It was pretty labour intensive but loads of fun. I realize now that this is why most of us had no low muscle tone or issues with our coordination. Your fingers needed to be nifty to make wire cars.
That sounds like it supports @crikli's assertion.
If you lived in the urban core, you could save $3786 per year by just getting a local pass. You would avoid a lot of that stress and lost time from your commute. You would not need a car. Of course, your housing costs would be higher, or your housing would be worse, or both. Worth it?
Pakistani doctor arrested after 90 infected by HIV syringe
As usual, humans are the weakest link in the security chain.
I have not seen mental health mentioned here yet as a factor in rising healthcare costs. My HSA/HD Plan has almost ZERO mental health doctors in network. Providers have been fleeing in droves (especially from UHC) because the insurance companies continue to lower payouts.

I went from spending a co-pay for mental health care for 3 of my kids to paying out of pocket until I reach my out-of-network deductible, which I never do because it's 10K. I spend thousands of dollars per year on this and there is not much I can do about it.

In some cases I've reduced frequencies of visits but the value of these types of doctors cannot be overstated in some cases. I credit my son's psychologist for his ability to function in society today. But she told me she can't take UHC because after costs she was making 10/hour.

Lack of in-network mental health coverage is a huge travesty.
I'll believe it when it's been reviewed by not Facebook
Only thing different for me in doing open source for free and asking money for it, is that for the paid products, the audience participation goes through the roof and I actually know that someone values my work as they are paying for it. Plus, money is always nice.
the point isnt that he's not exceptional, the point is he's not frontpage news exceptional.
I'm not too familiar with the Microsoft platform, but you'd think they would have great TypeScript support as they came up with the language!
Then again, you may not want to use TS for everything even if you could...
It's rather cold in my room. Looking for space heater alternatives.
I have been very happy with hover.com as well
My reading (which is not helped by the fact that the reporter appears more or less financially illiterate from a corporate finance perspective) is that Cerberus essentially took $225m out of the company (saddled the company with expensive debt). This had the effect of de-risking their equity investment (as they essentially got their money out) but making the company very levered. The net effect was that now Cerberus had a call option on Remington, if things went well they'd make a ton of money, if things went south, it would be the debt holders issue, but they would't "lose" as they'd recouped their initial investment
Housing affordability & transportation costs relationship is the cornerstone that triggered the yellow jacket movement in France.
Take most vulnerable families that live away from employment centers (cities) because they can't afford a house there, you have dependability to driving cars (no public transport). The government steps in and tries to tax fuel more for ecology - which pleases richer urban voters but squeezes people who bought a house 20 years ago back when fuel, insurance, parking wasn't as expensive. Their house are the only one that - by the way - are the only ones that didn't gain value.

The ever increasing "metropolisation" as we call it, is scary. More and more, you better be able to afford living in a big city or suffer the negative consequences
That’s also why there are trading halts built into all major exchanges, so if something triggers a large fall, there is a circuit breaker in the decision process of 18-48 hours for people to process and digest information
Sure, and the GP was not a substantive comment. It was a generic, off-topic, flamebait tangent. Why flamebait? Because people can't discuss that topic without yelling at each other, and certainly not when the trigger is an information-free one-liner.

Speaking of yelling, can you please not use allcaps for emphasis on HN? This is in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

By the way, "substantive" isn't the same as "substantiated". It just means containing information that would be of interest to a curious reader. For example, if I describe an anecdote from my experience, that can easily be substantive without there being any need to substantiate it (e.g. by proving that it happened).
I like cars and driving. I hate car-dependence.
If you're designing a society from scratch and you end up with employers, insurance or money at all, then you probably are doing it wrong, lol
Let’s not make this into another stupid polarized fight. Sanders is a pragmatic guy who I am pretty sure would entertain other thoughts if they really addressed the real problems unlike most republican proposals.
And in the case of anti-vax, while many people may be genuine in their sentiment, it is primarily based on a piece of research that was, by the author, acknowledged to be fraudulent with fabricated facts. [0]

Maybe the rise of the internet would have given birth to the anti-vax movement anyway, but my recollection is that Wakefield's fraudulent research was the catalyst that got that ball rolling. Prior, there had been an anti-vax movement in response to the first ever vaccine (for small pox) around the 1800's. It took society time accept the idea of vaccination. Regrettable, albeit understandable. For most of 100 years there wasn't much anti-vax sentiment until DTP faced criticism for a limited time in the late 70's early 80's. The things were calm again until Wakefield's fraud, and the rise of the internet has sustained it since.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136032/
Idk why people dont just keep the exponents after the function as is already the general convention. Sin^{-1}(x)^2
Sin(x)^2
This one annoys me because it's so preventable.
Ironically, an ultra high depth-of-field isn't realistic.

In computer graphics, simulating low depth of field (background and foreground blurred, while subject in focus) is a considered an advancement in realism.
The issue here is that governments have laws/methods to be able get those data. So long that fact stays true, regardless what's being built (chat apps or airports), privacy is and inevitably compromised.
The crux is hospitals and doctors don’t want their pay cut, when it should be cut (Sanders’ bill does this). This is the result of the AMA attempting to keep wages high through quotas (as well as bloated hospital admins), and the resulting policy required to fix cost inflation.

Healthcare is a utility, not a profit center, of course we’re going to compress unnecessarily high wages (or cut unnecessary non-provider jobs ruthlessly).
As e.g. the fine men and women of Int. J. POC||GTFO have demonstrated, it's possible to embed all sorts of weird and wonderful things in a PDF. I think a format where it's possible to include as much as possible is better.

Just look at HTML. Would you rather have it be impossible to extend beyond text, images and stylesheets?
That's about as fair as saying that the fossil fuel lobby won't be happy until every last living thing on Earth cooks in a Venusian Armageddon.

Actually, it's a bit less fair then that.
The phrase 'effectively illegal' does not make sense for two reasons here. First, looking at naked pictures is different from hosting them to allow others/public to view them. Second, just because something cannot be monetized easily via ads does not mean it is effectively illegal. You could also just direct charge for it, like a lot of businesses do. Also, there are a lot of adult service advertisers, including Viagra and the like that monetize porn sites.
“This is changing slowly but the putting public tabular data in pdfs has probably cost the economy billions.”

Or you could says it has created a ton of jobs :)
"25. 20 points for naming something after yourself. (E.g., talking about the "The Evans Field Equation" when your name happens to be Evans.)"

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
>Alex Jones being the preeminent example here; my otherwise levelheaded friend bought an AK because of him to prepare for the upcoming class warfare

Your friend bought an AK because people like Alex Jones are being deplatformed and there are people openly calling for violence (eg antifa). Your friend is afraid of a civil war. It takes two to fight.

>I think Facebook has probably extrapolated the siloing effect that social media has on groups forward a few years and come to the conclusion that certain groups (namely the far and alt right) base much of their ideology on not only hate, but conspiracies and misinformation.

What you need to understand is that these companies seem to have an anti-conservative bias. Notice how when antifa attacks people it seems to not be much of a problem. There are antifa chapters that openly sell merchandise. Yet we see people in antifa cause millions in property damages, attack people with bike locks and other forms of violence. Antifa has a long history of violence in Europe. What you need to understand is that many of these companies are partisan or at least tend towards partisan actions. Do you think people demanding the abolishment of capitalism and the intuition of communism are somehow the good guys?
You are not helping your case either by pointing out a dev's inability to handle a well documented language with known pitfalls that has been in use since the 70's.

If they can't write bash scripts there are a lot of options to install, update and remove software with built-in fail-safes.
The "above it all" smugness of quips like that is tiresome.
Except for the fact that it's expensive to keep people on HIV meds, thus increasing the value of a cure. And the meds are made by lots of companies in competition - if anyone had science they thought would lead to a cure, they would be all over that straight away.

This also assumes that the only motivation is money, if a researcher came up with a cure for HIV they would become an instantaneous scientific god, immortalised in writing, films, having streets and libraries named after them. They would be a hero. That motivation is pretty powerful for many (not for all of those things, but the be a hero part).
We need to make the small print bigger on trending news
Why would you expect people to want to open their own wallet to pay for your pregnancy-related medical expenses in exchange for premiums that are much smaller than the expenses you already know you're going to incur?
Does anyone know why the official docker images stop at version 8?

https://hub.docker.com/_/gcc
Ask HN: Is lifting Linux FS drivers to user-space possible?
The current state of linux FS drivers for Mac is not good. I was wondering how difficult it would be to lift the exististing file system drivers from kernel space to user space. Would one of the following approaches be feasible?

• write a wrapper, which would provide the kernel API ?
• reuse the code as much as possible by stripping it's dependency to the kernel ?

What are the possible problems? I suppose that if it was straight-forward, it would have been already done.
When all else fails, go up one derivative.
That language also makes it trivial to make a safe wrapper function for "rm" which validates the arguments and prevents accidents.
That's my point - if you want to say a person is as dangerous as antivaxxing then you have to show some evidence.
Gender isn't a flag per se. The problem is that invoking it with a generic, informationless one-liner is almost always going to be flamebait. Not just gender—this is true of any divisive topic. If you add something interesting and thoughtful to the discussion, it's a different story. That's welcome. You just need to express it in a flame-retarding way, not the internet equivalent of a lit match.

All this is covered by the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We didn't come up with these rules in a bubble bath! They've all been hammered out by the brutal processes of the internet forum.
> If they are picked, they have to go, except for serious unforeseen circumstances

If I was "forced" into a political position, then what I would do is purposefully sabotage the position I was in, out of spite.

What are you going to do? Arrest me because I voted a certain way? That doesn't sound easily enforceable.

Be careful what kind of slavery you force people into. Those slaves might just fight back (in this case, by voting for bad policies.).
Which news organisations are censored by the UK government?
Where "better" here means "allows doctors to continue to earn much more money than they do in other countries for performing the same services".
> Park-n-ride has great quality of life but costs a ton because you inevitably wind up paying the cost of driving, parking and public transit.

Somebody pays for the cost of your parking. If you're parking at work, it's your boss. If you're parking on the street, it's taxpayers at large. If you're parking in a park and ride, it's you.

Park and rides are generally built in areas where the cost of parking is much lower then it is downtown, so the overall cost of a P&R + bus ticket will often be lower then driving and parking the whole way yourself.
Note that the original is back up again now (at new location). Linked in first paragraph.