skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Requiring explicit written consent to receive each service (after mandatory price disclosure) would also be welcome. I broke my ankle a few years ago, and half the bills sent to me I didn't recognize what they were for. In one particularly egregious example, some doctor literally spent less than 30 seconds near my ER bed, did not even look at the injury or the charts, and billed my insurance $700. And I've never seen him after that, received no prescriptions, no recommendations, and no treatment of any kind.
From the book: Carmack stepped into the local bank and requested a cashier's check for $11,000. The money was for a NeXT computer, the latest machine from Steve Jobs, cocreator of Apple.
I appreciate Schwab's other retail banking services, and like having my traditional checking/savings accounts under one roof. Makes moving money in and out of my brokerage account fast and simple. They have free checks and ATM fee rebates. Paying $5 per trade doesn't hurt much when you're 1) buying/selling very infrequently and 2) moving several thousand dollars at a time when you do.
id Software has a public GitHub and many of their classics are open sourced (Doom, Quake, etc): https://github.com/id-Software/
So we remove a bunch of well tested, working language features on the basis of making the community do less work?

UFCS will probably never change, and even it did it's actually a relatively trivial part of the compiler to implement (i.e. Just a change to the grammar and a basic lookup and type check)
Finding the 'technical value' of things can be tricky, as you say with all the special features of a deal.

But in general, it's actually fairly straightforward.

Investors are usually looking to take x% ownership, ballpark in a round, and they are all looking for at least a 10x return.

Technicalities of deals vary, but in the end, a 'round' of investors may get 10-30% and they have big expectations for returns, otherwise it's not worth it.

Given the paths to liquidity are IPO or 'get acquired', I'm hard pressed to see the logic on this one. How many pure media companies have done major IPO's based on hard, forecastable metrics lately? And what kind of 'big pockets' company would be interested in making a $500M-$1B acquisition of such a thing? Disney? I don't think so really.

I can certainly see the founders making some kind of 'big story' about what they are going to do, but the essentials of what they are doing is not great. I don't see how the experience will be protected, I don't see a lot of competitive advantage, I don't see how they get to the kinds of sales required for those massive valuations, and of course this has a lot of 'fad risk'.
I have trypophobia.
Cannot believe this is a new design style.
It's semantics, but they're important when you're talking about economics. You're describing inelasticity of demand, which is to say that I need the good irrespective of the price (and it may mean irrespective of the geographic inefficiency).

In a free market, I can open a hospital across the street from your hospital and charge whatever I want for similar (or completely different) services. Presumably, our hospitals would also have a brand reputation: I know lots of folks who say "I'll never go to X HMO again, it's so much better at Y public hospital" and would gladly drive an extra mile or two with their broken arm kid if it means they're fairly certain they'll save a few grand (or more).

A similar example is that I'm halfway down a 200 mile highway, and I need gasoline. There could be one gas station, there could be five, but the fact that I'm allowed to open a gas station next to the sole one that exists means it's a free market. If the government says "there shall be one [or two, or ten]" gas stations here, or that "all gas stations here shall charge this rate", then it's less of a free market.

You may be trying to describe the concept of perfect competition[1]. If so, I'd agree with you that health care can almost never achieve perfect competition because perfect information becomes harder to obtain as situations become more expedient or dire.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition
Robots to take 20 mn jobs, worsening inequality: study
15 years ago, conspiracy theorists were being asked to prove government spying. It's hard, and the coverup might leave only circumstantial evidence, but it doesn't mean its not true.

Either way, if you're trying to provide a source against the point being made, it needs to be better than that one. Is there any other?

Edit: I did a bit of looking into it.

Tick-borne diseases were definitely studied there, which means general subject was being researched. (a bunch of pubmed studies are listed here [1], and pubmed shows in the author information that they were from Plum Island. Ignore the site if you like, just look at the pubmed articles.)

The geography of the disease also fits a spread from the Plum Island facility. See the same article for a map.

I obviously can't go order and read a physical book off the cuff, but it seems like the Lab 257 book by Carroll is decently reliable, as far as can be expected when making claims counter to an official government position. From wikipedia: "The review in Army Chemical Review concluded 'Lab 257 would be cautiously valuable to someone writing a history of Plum Island'".

Anyway, in summary, there is enough evidence to ask a reasonable question: which puts the onus back on the government, or you, to provide credible evidence that Lyme was not developed there.
Thank you!

There is the benchmark of an echo server built with oatpp (https://oatpp.io/benchmark/websocket/5-million/).

But this room-chat server in particular I didn't test.

I think that even if its 10 times less productive compared to benchmark it is still a pretty good result.
We've got to stop letting 18-22 year-olds make incredibly expensive life/career decisions with zero information.
It has no known medical uses, legally speaking.

Now, maybe one should question the value of a statement made by law and not by science. I personally do question it. But in other areas of law people treat statements by law as if it were scientific fact, so it doesn't surprise me that so many do in this case as well.
US health-care costs are out of this world. However, for the life of me I cannot begin to comprehend why every Canadian keeps using our healthcare system as example of success when incidents like these are becoming more and more common

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/samanth...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mother-iwk-halifx...

and for a description of typical hospital visit
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/health-care-1.5170948

note, CBC is basically a more liberal Canadian CNN
But the idea to rely on companies (whose incentive is make more money) is not ridiculous?
Holy smokes, this is one of the best posts I’ve ever seen on here.
Why people downvoted this. Price control doesn't work. Just read any economic book and you will realize it's true. It hurts, but it's true. If price control works, then why prices never were freezed. Why don't freeze it forever? Because it doesn't work.
i wonder, though, if our feedback matters for a service such as youtube. i don't know how many times i have sent a feedback on having the most basic sorting order for the watch later playlist, which is simply by length. sometimes we just have time to spare for short 5mins or less videos. and yet over the years i have seen layout change, not very useful drag sort, mini player, etc., being added.

but editing your watch later playlist takes you to a 2010 webpage with very limited functionality...

(my own personal hack is to go through the list and "move to top" short videos... it's worse on mobile because you have to drag and sometimes you lose the drag...)
I don't exactly remember. When I made it, I made four tracks in the same evening. Fusion, Fused, Refuse, and Infusion were all done when I'd just got my new SSL Fusion - and I was putting everything through it to test it out, so it's a bit of a blur what I did!
And it is still quite expensive, though. I mean... having 25 little sandboxes, and a partial copy environment is just silly. I'd rather have one or two dev. environments and a full copy instead.
Ideally, we need to move to a system that prevents individuals from being liable for predatory pricing. There should be a law that prevents medical providers from charging their victims directly. They should be forced to only deal with the insurance companies and make it illegal to hold victims accountable.
I was intrigued, so I started the class. And I immediately ran into the problem I feel like I run into with any online education thing like Udemy; people without an applicable background trying to pass themselves off as knowledgeable.

> So what we have here, these are known as the primary colors. So we have blue, red, and yellow [screen shows two near-identical shades of blue, two very similar shades of yellow, and something that's very close to red]. And the primary colors are the base color for every color that we know. Any combination of these is going to create any color in existence. That's why they're called the primary colors.

So right off the bat we're perpetuating the preschool red/yellow/blue primary color myth. I expected at least a hat tip to primary colors of light (RGB), print (CMY) or something relative to color in a professional sphere.
Interested to hear of other people's experiences with async await either in C# or other languages. It took a while to click for me in C# but now I understand it, it seems intuitive and usable and I'd be interested to know if there are superior alternatives.

The thing about ConfigureAwait, for those who aren't familiar with .NET is, as far as I understand it, about the context on the thread prior to the async call (this used to include things like the User in an HTTP context) being restored on the thread which resumes after the call. In a sync block on async calls this could cause deadlocking due to the waiting thread not being able to get the context since it never got released. But as far as I'm aware in .NET Core 2 this is no longer a problem for Web apps anyway.

I know there's been a lot of talk about Rust adopting a slightly different approach and JavaScript seems to have gone through about 3 iterations so there are definitely different models out there, I just find it hard to picture how different models work so it would be good to know some guides or tutorials to check out for other good systems.
==for the same reasons they fail to draw a line between their current insurer's negotiated rates and cost of care.==

Insurance companies are not subject to FOIA requests like the government. People tie Medicare to the Government, why would this be different?

==A single negotiator will likely only make pricing more opaque==

Not sure it's possible to be more opaque than today. All of the other country's who do it this way have far more transparent pricing than the US, so I'm not sure I buy this reasoning.
With a ball end mill, theoretically.

Not that it's a good idea - you need to be able to actually evacuate material from the surface you're cutting, and milling is different than drilling in this respect. But I imagine you could come up with a very fast two step program using a cylindrical end mill for plunging/roughing and a relatively large ball end mill for finishing.
How much is a 'ton'? 5 Million? 10 million? 100 million?

How big really is the market for a celeb sending a custom 10 second video talking about something, and can this entity really control that market? How do they maintain their margins.

Take Social Media for example, it'd seem there doesn't seem to be a massive player that controls how the sponsorship money flows into influencers, and not for a lack of trying.
They don’t even seem to acknowledge this as a theft (voluntary parting?!) so I have NO doubt that 99.99 number is fake as hell.
The only argument I've heard that this is harmful comes from self-interested industry groups saying, in essence, "we make more money if patients are uninformed." That settles it for me.
Just a note, Chronic lyme disease isn't really a thing.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4477530/

This isn't to say you haven't been dealing with a lot of garbage, just that you might need to seek different medical care if your doctors are telling you that you have chronic lyme disease.
Thankfully here in the UK that sort of situation is incredibly rare. 99.9% of necessary treatments are available. That's one of the advantages of having socialised healthcare in a very wealthy country.
No, this would be a double-tax. We should tax carbon as it is emitted. Anything else is prediction and is a much harder, unnecessary problem.
In my day job I'm a security consultant and I work mostly with SIEM technologies. The other comments are right, but maybe I can give a bigger view. Basically you send syslog from your Linux servers, Security Event logs from your Windows server, access logs from your critical infrastructure, authentication logs from Active Directory, IDS/IPS and firewall logs from your firewalls, etc. The SIEM collects all this data, but what separates a SIEM from a simple log aggregator is the intelligence it uses. Many popular SIEMs have rules you can define (or are pre-defined) that fire alerts when a potential security breach is detected.

For example, if someone hacks your Internet-facing web server, your IDS might detect that. They then brute force the password to your production database server, which Active Directory might see. They then use nmap to trace your internal network, which would show up on your internal firewalls. Then they hop server-to-server until they get to a critical server. They then download a payload, infect that server (which your AV might pick up) and start exfiltrating data (which the firewalls and proxy might pick up).

You have all of these security tools, but without some intelligence linking all the logs together and correlating the data, you're stuck tailing these logs individually, hoping you catch the right log at the right time and can remember everything you've ever seen. And we're talking tens of thousands of events every second. A SIEM takes all of that data, does the searching for you, correlates all of the events across different security technologies and vendors, and alerts you when it detects someone doing something they should not be doing.

Popular SIEMs are tools like Splunk, QRadar, ArcSight, LogRhythm, etc.
This article is about people who've had cancer at some point in their lives, even if they're currently cancer free and not having any treatment. That's what the FCA report focused on, but this problem affects 15 million people in the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44601046
...or ZeroTier :)
Same thing with websites in general.
Surprised to see Lyme disease on HN, since bringing affordable DNA testing for B. burgdorferi & other pathogens to the public is the startup I've been working on since 2014.

Relevant Plug: https://www.tickcheck.com/

As mentioned in other comments, serological tests fall short in various ways (accuracy, time). If you keep the tick that bit you, we can test it for the presence Lyme, and several other pathogens. If negative, we can effectively rule out much of the risk. Super quick & accurate, too.
One technique I use is to noodle in some scale, then whatever note I land on try to play that note's chord by ear. You'll hit a lot of wrong chords at first but over time your ear will get better.
Deep learning doesn't outperform simpler models
With Bitcoin, there are certain elements that make it desirable as a bargaining chip during internal power struggles. The claim of banking and government being joined at the hip is true due to pragmatic convenience: If you want to have power over things like militaries and social services, you need a solution for financing and that sends you into the arms of the bankers. But if you start having an option to opt out, to say as a large institution, "we don't need you," then the banks have to start to compete.

At the end of that struggle, you still have a government in control of its financing, but the shape of it, borne through so many battles, is likely to be more efficient.
U.S. Tech Companies Sidestep a Ban, to Keep Selling to Huawei
It is the highest you'll get for an Enterprise Edition license as far as I know. You do get great discounts on large volumes, like some said. To give you an example: if you get, say, 500 licenses, you can probably upgrade them to Unlimited Edition (list price of USD300/user/mo) for almost no additional cost.
I was at a workshop a couple days ago, pretty worthwhile and they were pretty excited about something coming out in security - I guess this is it.

Seems a logical progression from Kibana and Logstash - but sometimes I worry search will suffer for all this other stuff.
This should really be the posted article, it has all the original data and conclusions.
Man dies by electrocution before doctors revived him 20 minutes later
Because they are not in a position of need. There are other people which were more reliant on such help to avoid a disastrous situation. If this family got no crowd sourced help, I think they would have been OK. Of course, there are a lot of assumptions in this assessment.

My comment has nothing to do with my opinion on the cost of medical services in the US. If you would like that, I think the Affordable Care Act used up a very rare opportunity for improvement to put us into a worse situation. What we really needed was a public option for the private companies to compete with.

Here in California our subsidized option, Covered California, was horrendous, at least at launch. Also, subsidized was not enough to help, and the subsidization counted as taxable income which was a slap in the face for those who needed it.
Children with parents/relatives who have disposable income is their target market.
The fact that someone was fined for using a dashcam is beyond absurd.
To put family first before other people ? Of course.
Entertaining kids is HUGE business. People are having kids in late stage and often one or two while feeling extremely obligated to provide best of the best. Most parents are spending lot more time with kids in weekends than last generation. They constantly need new activities, camps, things to go to. I think having innovative play areas in store for small fee is brilliant idea.

I have a hunch that most of the retail businesses will transition to online in next 10-20 years and all the current retail spaces, especially the malls, would be repurposed into entertainment+place to gather such as restaurants, games, private cinema booths, party places, making spaces, painting places etc. The brick-and-mortar places that stores goods for selling would be fairly odd concept in one or two generations.
A theme: Simplifying C++ (&amp; CppCast podcast)
most people have computers with 4gb of ram
D had the wrong default, but now it is too hard to break everyone's code, hence why it stays like that.
Not yet ... not anywhere close to human neural cortex.... still several orders of magnitude to go...
It's worth noting that while the affected phones run Android and Google has officially commented on this, the affected phones don't appear to be Pixel or Nexus phones or anything like that. I got the impression that the affected phones were first-party models based on the first paragraph for some reason. That does not appear to be the case.
It's crazy to spend so much time and money in school and not have a plan for what kind of career you are going to get when you get out. Parents and educators are failing these young people in not guiding them into realistic jobs and careers. The process before anyone attends college should be to decide on potential careers and then pursue the schooling and other qualifications you need to succeed in that career. A study of the job market and relative availability of different jobs should play into that process as well.

Unless you come from a wealthy family, before you spend a dime on higher education you should spend some serious time looking at websites like this one:

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
BSV is for an old version of the bitcoin protocol. People launch these daily.

There is a pre-2013 patch version of the bitcoin protocol too. People play around with it for kicks, because the exploits are already known. Maybe some exchange trades it.

This is just called an old version, due to consensus.

Ideology is just a distraction.
also the app ChordProg on android has great exercises
Finishing in music is one of the hardest things to do. My approach is to try to write something small every day (I call these daily loops), and then flesh my favorite one of those out into a full song every 1-2 weeks. I find that without some sort of system like that I also go down the noodling rabbit whole and never put anything out.
It’s always lesser of evils when you’re dealing with critical gov services.

If you can’t provide a better alternative then it’s still an improvement.

The much larger UK NHS system where even hospitals are publicly run would be even harder to pull off in America. So single payer insurance is basically the lowest hurdle. Plus the simpler the better.

At some point the right in the US has to concede on healthcare because it’s already been gutted and killed by a thousand cuts. And I say that as a libertarian leaning person. You can’t honestly believe they can solve this problem by writing a thousand more small reform bills.

Plus if you give the mob public healthcare they will be much more tolerant of pro-economy policies and take a strong argument away from the people who want to gut even more industries so they function just as poorly as the pseudo healthcare market in the name of “fairness” and “equity” (mediocrity for all!). Lesser of evils.
> And it went against the guidance of my school counselors. They thought community college would hurt my chances at getting into "Prestigious Schools".

I mean, they're not wrong. You will statistically be less likely to get into those schools. Once you're a transfer student, your acceptance rates go down significantly for prestigious private colleges. (And some public universities too)

If your goal is to graduate from a top school, you're less likely to be accepted as a transfer student.
Interesting. I got bit by 2 blacklegged ticks in the past 3 months but I couldn't find any free tick tests, so I never had them tested. Both were within a few hours so I assumed based on CDC advice that I was still in the green zone. It sounds like one of those things that health insurance companies would be out of their minds to not cover.

Separately: Bay Area hikers beware -- change your clothes immediately after getting home, do complete body checks after hiking -- ideally, shower immediately.
Wow. Here's an crazy one:

Someone was fined 2000 euros for using CC instead of BCC in his little mailing list newsletter of 150 people in Germany.

"The fine was impossed against a private person who sent several e-mails between July and September 2018, in which he used personal e-mail addresses visible to all recipients, from which each recipient could read countless other recipients. The man was accused of ten offences between mid-July and the end of July 2018. According to the authority's letter, between 131 and 153 personal mail addresses were identifiable in his mailing list."

Poor guy.

This seems to be proof that the GDPR is being weaponized against people and organizations one doesn't like.
Interesting how they make sure to mention the use of 320x200 during graphic editing to maintain proper aspect ratio, then display screenshots from the game in improper aspect ratio
You will then suffer from selection bias because only people who have a controversial opinion (no matter if it is right or wrong) will frequent those places.
"Hobby Electronics" might be close to what you're looking for?
Maybe it's wrong, but I'm happy that cases are exploding because that (hopefully) means there will be more research into better treatments and preventions.