skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline “Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care” is a lie [0] and unsupported by the body of the article. Trump did not sign an executive order compelling disclosure of prices in healthcare (nor is that even possible, that's not how EOs work), and the body of the article does not support the claim that he did. He signed an executive order directing various government agencies to propose regulations consistent with existing law which would do that (which seems unlikely to be possible; to be both possible and necessary that would require a federal law to exist permitting the executive to require such disclosure without itself mandating it; if such a law did exist, you'd expect the EO to have cited it, which it didn't presumably because it doesn't) and also directs agencies to do some other, more likely to be possible, things (e.g., write reports identifying who the agencies think we should blame for the absence of price transparency.)

It's perhaps worth noting that this EO explicitly described itself as a follow-up of the report produced by the Administration as an outcome of the last EO Trump issued on this issue.

Actual EO text appears to be here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...

Though the official text will be whatever is published in th Federal Register, not what is on White House public info pages. When it is published, it should show up here: https://www.federalregister.gov/presidential-documents/execu...

[0] propaganda rather than clickbait, I suspect—its a lie to shape opinion of the large number of people who will only see the headline rather than one to get people to click through to read the article.
Since we've got all the true nerds in here I'll go ahead and drop a link to the gate-level bubblesort implementation I made a while back: https://anderspitman.net/apps/hardware-bubblesort/
Thanks! I share that experience - I've been mostly self-taught electric guitar, only to realize many years later that my unconventional (but seemingly natural) way of holding the pick is completely messing me up :O
I have done that and seen all of those. I'm thinking at the systemic level. If everyone had to care about prices, then there would be more demand for transparency, and more competition in pricing, which would help even those who are unable or unwilling to price shop.

I also bring up single-payer in a related way because the need to find in-network providers within reasonable distance often is such a limiting factor that price shopping isn't possible.

With single-payer, one could actually choose between all of the providers... in addition to other benefits.

There are websites like ZocDoc which are like yelp for doctors, but they can only do so much because of the lack of price transparency, and lack of ability of consumers to choose doctors out of network.
With SBIR funding you retain your IP
Easily burn ~70% of my time in meetings or in between meetings where there isn't enough time to get focused. Is this "working"? Doesn't feel like it. In a "good" one hour meeting I might have one important interaction or clarification that comes up. I do understand it's difficult to identify these things outside of the meeting however.

I get 95% of my work done in two or three 3 hour deep works block per week. The remaining 5% happens when free time arises randomly and is usually trivial work.

I definitely strive to get everything done that is "required" and also strive to get this done in a typical 40 hour week.
If I'm above 20% of work done, I consider it a problem, and try to come up with ways to work smarter / less. I am fairly successful in this industry, top 10% compensation, etc. Don't listen to people who tell you to be overworked!
I used Enpass for a long time but it's just not good. It was, got a big update that made it worse, I waited a long while for it to get better but nothing happened so I decided to move on. This is when I found out that there was no way to export passwords from Enpass in the latest version, so I had to do it manually. Not cool.
End-to-end Encryption – Why HTTPS is not enough
My primary concern is that with a set of 20 or 100 validators, you can’t call it a decentralized platform (it’s a blockchain run exclusively by a centralized consortium). The article discusses the fact they intend to to decentralize it in 5 years, but that would be the equivalent of a dictator stepping down and promoting democracy which... doesn’t always come to pass.
> I'll give you another set of sites which are whitelisted by browsers: github, bitbucket, gitlab, sourceforge

I might expect them to be whitelisted by firewalls, but why browsers?
It appears you’re agreeing with me? I’m suggesting the confusion would have been alleviated by reading the actual paper.
As for the physicians and pricing - I have some sympathy there. First, I'm happy that they are not making medical decisions based on overall price but instead based on risk. This seems to be the best way to treat me the patient and not me the line item.

That said, they also have to deal with liability (especially in an ER) so they have to treat any POSSIBLE thing that you might have before you leave since people often arrive with zero medical history and they have to rule out side effect things that may not be an issue. Further, the fact that their physicians often deal with advanced specialities and/or emergency medicine means you're paying for a specialty for something that could be simple. I try to stay out of ERs unless I'm worried about my life and instead use urgent care / clinic visits when my GP is not available. Their billing seems to be much more consistent, anyway, and there's less risk a physician won't be covered by your insurance just happening to stop by.
Owning coins does not provide excessive value or control for the owners, because it's basically just money market fund attached to the payment system.

FB probably wants to tap into user payment records and that's why they push this.
Not exactly the same situation, but in any of last story of factory closure in France I've seen any execs get doxxed that way
This sounds very much like my ex. I thought I could help them. For a long time, I did... think I was helping. When a sequence of tragedies struck, I found myself needing help. We deteriorated quickly, as their self-worth was propped upon mine, which was defined in large part by my ability to help. We didn't have external support and we both crumbled.

I wish I could tell you how to help your friend. What my spouse needed was therapy from a professional, who could maintain appropriate boundaries -- I wasn't, and couldn't.

The awful thing I learned about 'hypochondria' is that psychosomatic effects, and stress, can have real physical consequences. I never did learn how to navigate that conversation without causing distress
You have to go to the gym every day. At least 5 days a week. Heavy workout where you train intensively your upper and lower body. I do this now for about 10 years and the difference is like day and night. Both mentally and physically. The "don't have time" argument is in my opinion not valid. By exercising you gain so much more time just because you work more efficiently.
Let's not conflate Type 1 diabetes with Type 2 diabetes.
There are some markets where price shopping is possible and does happen. For instance, LASIK prices plummeted as a result of competition and price shopping.

There could be many more, if not for various policies that impede this.
>I am anti death penalty, but I would make an exception for the people who run the likes of Valeant.

Amazing how many times on this forum I've read people suggesting people should be killed for what are, at this point, nothing but alleged crimes.

Where does such an inhumane mindset come from? Hypocrisy?
The executive order doesn't do what the headline says, it instructs the relevant agencies to create rules within their power

I feel like your response is copy pasted for any use of an EO
The entire exercise is pointless because the health care market isn't actually a free and open market. There's lots of regulation on health services (obviously, as there should be, because safety is important), but more importantly, when a person is sick or injured, they usually are not able to comparison shop. Emergencies make it impossible, but even a relatively common illness makes comparison shopping unrealistic. What we have is not a market and efforts to help comparison shopping really do almost nothing to fix things.

Has anyone else had a doctor or nurse filed the wrong paperwork for a blood test, and then you get stuck footing the bill for an obscenely expensive test you didn't need or want? It's happened to me several times. And you have to pay whatever price the test facility sets, period.

The system is broken and until the insurance industry's grip is broken, we are not going to get relief.
Archives of both of her known/suspected Twitter accounts:
https://archive.fo/EwXSb
https://archive.fo/oWfPW
If I ever resume working on the project, creating a visual editor would be a priority. I have an open "issue" on my Github repo to do that. My inspiration is the Glade GUI editor for Gnome. The visual editor would output the XML file my point-and-click engine uses to define a game.
My method of learning and recall has changed over the decades so I hesitate to offer any advice as universal.

Children often have a 'photographic memory' until around puberty but in my case it lasted well into my late teens. I recall on a number of tests knowing that I had written the answer down, and even where on the page of notes the answer was. Several times I managed to wrestle the answer out of my brain by finishing the rest of the test and then running the clock down trying to picture the page of notes.

But today I am pretty close to functionally aphantasic. My dominant mental model is that I 'think in shapes'. I don't see the shapes, its more like I feel them. And that suffices for many things like getting replacement parts at the hardware store, or reassembling something I've taken apart. It's only with some difficulty that I can 'picture' an item. It's like I have a mind castle but wear a blindfold.

Anyway, in college I discovered that my recall of things I wrote down was starting to fail. If I wrote down something and lost the notes I was screwed. Todo lists were the first thing I cut out. My odds of remembering to do something by willing myself to remember were far better than having notes getting covered by a book.

Now I have electronic notes and some reminders, but if I lost my phone and my backups, my life would unravel.
Show HN: Publish from Google Docs to your website or blog
What is the benefit of Libra exactly? Why not just set it up like WeChatPay or Paypal as a centralized database?

I guess like gambling chips or video arcade tokens, the lack of belief that it's real money might confuse some people into spending it more freely.

Another thing is is that they can take all the money that's paid into Libra and run a hedge fund with the reserves because they can write their terms and conditions so they can do whatever the heck they want with the "reserves" and not tell anyone what they're doing.

Another benefit is that they can facilitate illegal commerce on facebook by letting people conduct cross border transactions outside of AML/KYC land that a PayPal like system would require.

They can also tie identities to coin transactions to analyze transactions for further ad targeting.

Did I miss anything?
The possibility to steal years of call records doesn't arise because of a legal requirement to retain such records for 18 months.

You can meet those legal requirements while (a) deleting all records after 18 months have passed and (b) storing all 'archive' records (e.g. between 30 days and 18 months) on a separate system that's only used for these specific requirements and has all access (which should be rare and narrowly specific, unlike daily business) logged.
Or, if you have an aPhone, you can ssh directly into it (ssh server apps don't require root), or make it do an additional action (such as turning off silent mode, or playing something) when you call (I'm sure automation apps can do this without root), or a million other creative ideas as root user.
How to get rid of chaos using checklists
I don't think pure economics are the only thing to worry about here. Anti-money laundering/sanctions/stopping terrorist financing efforts are generally a good thing that not ideal from an economic perspective.
I'm using virtual credit cards with a preset limit, that my bank generates on demand.

Like the idea of using fake name!
Have you managed to get it working in the end? I've encountered the same issue.
Interesting point, but that wasn't my experience. The office suite was consistent, but SharePoint differed markedly (at least in ~2010 when I last used it). IIS was different yet. I'm trying to think of other business-oriented MS products that I used (it's been a while)...
Subsidize all energy (most effectively through subsidized loan guarantees on the supply side but with off-setting cash for consumers on the demand side) but provide massive tariffs on emissions. Way more effective.
One of these is now orbiting the Sun for 30 million years in Elon Musk’s Tesla - see www.archmission.org
I totally agree, and yet for most white collar jobs there's no binary done/not done. You can always be doing more, creating more, proactively leading things, planning ahead, suggesting new initiatives.

When we start competing on that second vector then it's near impossible to say "ok I've been here for 3 hours today but I'm done so I'm going home."
> The next story we’ll be hearing about is how adderall and Ritalin made a generation of kids addicted to speed.

Didn't it though?
No idea why you're getting downvotes. I think this actually is a problem in the dev world. They often have overpowered systems compared to the average user and as a result might not realize or simply don't care how their software performs on lower end systems.

One example that's driving me mad is shotwell (photo managing software). For some reason whenever you start it, it is crawling your entire collection of photos again. There are countless rejected tickets from people asking to add an option to disable it. I personally manage my photos on an older laptop with a spinning 2tb drive, for when I travel... So I'm somewhere without a power outlet in reach, battery sitting at 12%, and would like to quickly show some photos to a friend, but opening up shotwell will make sure that remaining battery will be drained in an instant. But the neckbeards developing that software sitting in their basements with 4 SSDs running in raid 0 just fail to understand what my problem is. Sadly I haven't found a good replacement so far, feature wise.

Edit: Also forgetting your password sucks ;-)
>Could the world have been different if Hitler was a better person? Sure. It also could have been different if the people were better too...

If Hitler was a better person, he probably wouldn't have gotten into the position he did, and we'd all be invoking some other German's name as the ultimate bad-guy. However, it's also possible that the NSDAP would have picked some other fool as their leader, and that person would have been less competent, and they would have been much less successful in their war campaign, or perhaps not even have gained the power they did.

But the ultimate reason Germany took the path they did is because of the way WWI turned out for them, and the horribly punitive measures they were forced to agree to by the English and French. The world would be very different now if the English and French hadn't been such assholes.
Future CI planning, feedback requested
Exercise a lot, especially focusing on cardio and strength+flexibility in your hips. Doing this massively mitigates the adverse effects from my job for me; if I stop my routine for a week or two the soreness, tightness and discomfort come roaring back.
I guess they need to spend more money on SEO. Looks good at first glance.
Everything in health care is a code, I think there are something like 10,000 different ones in the latest version.
Regarding resampling to 8kHz, traditional telephony resampled to 300 Hz to 3400 Hz. AM (medium wave) radio was up to about 5000 Hz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_frequency
It can get so, so much worse.
Rep. Gohmert Responds to Undercover Video of Google Released by Project Veritas
My job changed recently and I focus a lot more on work than I used to. The key difference was moving from task allocation to getting objectives.

Before, I would say about 50% of “in chair” time was work, the rest was essentially co-ordination slack where I had met expectations before the next round of planning / task allocation.

Now I work towards high level objectives. An objective might be, make $thing more reliable. Tasks might break down to analyse data, add metrics to get data, oh, need to fix bugs x, y, z.

Since getting more autonomy I basically have an infinite pile of work I can draw from. The main difference from the company’s POV is that a manager is no longer choosing exactly what order the work is happening or receiving commitments on exactly how long each step supposed to take.

My observation is that I produce a lot more work when I am less closely managed.

I suppose this is how agile is supposed to work “pull tasks rather than push, loose estimates”.
Their Github page has activity, and the last merged PR commit was 7 days ago. Running this for 3 months now after I've migrated from 1password, I can say that everything that extension has (password generation, notes, file upload etc.) is supported by the server as well as nice web UI.

Security-wise, I used nginx over my custom domain to enforce HTTPS and put bitwarden app itself behind a firewall.

As a bonus, bitwarden_rs also enables all premium features for you ("You are a premium member!" label is by default in every client).
There's a really good Planet Money episode on the subject:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/12/07/166747693/epis...
Thanks for clarifying.

On that point of what we need to do not affecting normal people - I don't think that's accurate either.

We WILL need to live different lives in the developed countries. Our lifestyles (beyond carbon emissions) are not sustainable.

If everyone on earth lived as those in the US did, we'd need 4-9 earths. So long as higher quality of life looks like how we live, people around will strive to adopt that. China is by volume, now the largest emitter, but it's only 1/6 of the US in per capita emissions!

I find it hard to see a scenario where we've addressed climate change and ecological collapse, while we live the way we live today.
FosUserBundle is no longer recommended, and is superseded by Guard. Guard is considerably nicer to work with, and doesn't take long to build the extra bits (password reset etc) but (a) it's not built-in, and (b) if done as a bundle, it doesn't get the same level of support.
Does the evidence from countries with tax-funded healthcare and social care bear this out? Are you assuming that everyone will eventually have a Japan-style ageing population timebomb?
I am sorry I misunderstood your comment.
It doesn't use mining, so requires negligible power to run.
Same setup, but I use Nextcloud to synchronize across systems.
Well, if we can't beat problems to death with increasing scalar speed

For those not immediately familiar with the terminology: "scalar" is Single Instructions, Single Data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn%27s_taxonomy
Groovy Trampoline Closure – a step into recursive closures
"camera in bathroom"
I wouldn't be keen on supporting dead tree magazines and its excessive ad-to-information ratio, newspapers that only are tangentially focused on providing good content and more focused on creating constant crisis as well or any kind of publishing industry with so many middleman that need to be eliminated.

Sorry, it is really not my intention to pile on you. I am just really tired of the current state of affairs in regards to the publishing/authoring economy. I know it is easier said than done, but we need to have more content creators that are willing to take a principled stand and stay away from these actors and start creating exclusively on terms that are more ethical.
What's the False Positive Rate?
Outside of funding for the ministry of war, Mitch McConnell will not allow a vote or (when possible) even debate on anything the democratic sides of Congress support, and any bill of this nature would have been supported by both parties.
For business phones, call records of salespeople would be valuable information for your competitors.
The overwhelming majority of healthcare dollars are not spent in emergency situations. If you decide to go to the doctor because of some pain in your neck that's not an emergency decision. If the doctor tells you to get tests that's not an emergency decision, etc, etc.

You can go from healthy to cancer to treatment to more cancer (wash rinse repeat until you or the cancer is dead) without a single decision made under any meaningful time pressure.
The Underrated Influence of Modern Neo-Maoists on China’s Communist Party
Ask HN: Ghosted After Job Offer
Hi everyone, I have heard about being ghosted during the interview process, but not after getting an offer.

I got introduced to a Swiss company with US funding and roughly 30 employees through a mutual friend. We set up an interview with the CEO for a part-time job quite fast. I went to the office in Berlin, said ‘hi’ to the CEO and had the interview with the CTO (who is a co-founder) and also briefly spoke with the development lead.

A couple days later the CTO sent me a LinkedIn message with general conditions and said that it takes one day to draft the actual contract normally and that I could already start next week. I said that they can go ahead and draft the contract.

A couple days later I asked the CTO how things are going and if they need anything else for the contract as I haven’t heard anything. He replied that he is gonna ask.

Having heard nothing for another week, I decided to write to the development lead (who would have been my boss) and got no reply. Then, a bit later, I also wrote to the CEO who set up the interview. No reply either.

It’s been pretty almost three weeks now.

Have you experienced something like that? What would you do?
On Resilient Intelligence
I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
If one argues in favor of "free market" solutions for healthcare, then one MUST argue in favor of pricing transparency. A functioning free market requires the open and honest sharing of price information for consumers to make informed choices.

Now, whether or not health care should operate under free market principles is a different discussion entirely. But the established powers seem to consistently fall back on the free market argument, but continue to keep pricing as opaque and complicated as possible.
The Relationship Between Intelligence and Learning
Research: Women Score Higher Than Men in Most Leadership Skills
GNI-per-head rankings: The sad stories of Greece and Italy
> but more importantly, when a person is sick or injured, they usually are not able to comparison shop

You don't need to comparison shop reactively. You can look up some prices preemptively, and choose a preferred hospital that you know to go to when you need it. Obviously not ideal, but it does allow for something.
This project shows some $8 sensors:
http://www.the-diy-life.com/simple-arduino-home-energy-meter...
Probably because the author mentioned that Bitcoin is not efficient (7 tx per second). But Lightning Network can make Bitcoin more efficient. I haven't looked into Lightning Network thouroughly so I can not make any comment whether it is up to its words.