skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not an apples to apples comparison. A gentleman's agreement not to poach engineers with valuable skills is very different from companies charging people with services who are not able to say "no".

There is a massive information asymmetry between health care providers and consumers. Doctors take decades of training. Hell, medical billing by itself is a degree. Consumers will never be prepared to properly assess costs. Even if they could, it doesn't matter when you are hurt and can't refuse.

It's more like food sales at a hockey game. Anyone in the arena that wants to eat or drink has to buy what is being sold. As such, prices are hugely inflated, even though the nearby gas station is much cheaper.
Looks cool, but in Brighton UK it promises me 56km a day in summertime. Seems... not a lot?

edit my bad this is how much extra it would charge a day. Seems like it could hold an 800km charge which is incredible.

Opinion: Tesla should buy them.
AFAIK you don’t get to choose where you go in case of an ambulance, but if you are taking yourself to urgent or emergency care you can shop around. Heck, I had four torn ligaments this year and at least checked yelp reviews before going to urgent care.
Trusted advisor, lists out all the services and its limits and how much am using,

like thse are the headers.

Region Service Limit Name Limit Amount Current Usage Status

It also gives out a nice overview with status color notations like green/yellow and red so that any problems can be flagged quickly.
I am personally very intrigued by ATS, I think it is striving for a truly unique and powerful point in the programming language space, but have extreme reservations about it being ready for general use. Do you consider it ready for adoption, or are bringing it up as a learning exercise?
Alternative explanation: overweight people don't get hired for sales and marketing jobs.
I’ll repeat the same comment I always make in these threads:

This is the way the French system (mostly) works for outpatient care. So anyone who suggests it can’t/won’t work is ignoring that it does work.

Refresher: Government has a reasonable and customary price list. You pay the doctor out of pocket at time of service and you get reimbursed at some percentage of R&C (IIRC 80%)
Boy, would I love to work with you. I haven't measured it, of course, but I believe very strongly that when I work from home, my productivity is at least two times greater compared to being in the office. How can you get anything at all done with dozens of interruptions every day, not to mention the constant background chatter/laughter.

My greatest dream is to be able to completely shut down the signal from the ears to the brain, with the ability to restore it at will, of course.
Looking at it, the "oh duh" moment really hits. Why don't more EVs have solar hoods?
This is not a coherent position. By this logic, every single person who is _not_ making insulin (people like you and me) are also guilty of committing mass murder.

There's clearly something very, very, very broken here, but unwinding the tremendous weight of bureaucracy and regulations that prevent an interested investor in setting up shop making insulin on the cheap is the root of the issue. The regulations need not even be a negative; I don't have a reason to believe that recombinant engineered bacteria produced insulin is really that easy, and the regulations may be all that's keeping a tide of ineffective or harmful varieties of insulin from flooding the market.
I don't think that's as long as we could possibly care, but it's a good concrete number. The Stelliferous Era is predicted to last some 10¹³ years; looking at their Arrhenius plot, we probably need to keep the temperature below about 400 K to last that long. (However, I suspect that over such long time scales, other decay mechanisms such as cosmic-ray damage will be more important.)

Most likely, for long-term archival, we need to make copies of the data from time to time. But this technique will likely allow those intervals to be longer than the current age of the universe, and it offers higher density than you can get with techniques like Norsam's planar discs, which is a useful improvement over existing media.
Even if you made that request, they wouldn't honor it.
That’s exactly how it’s done under accrued accounting. And in health care paying taxes on uncollected Billings and carrying the loses forward can make a lot of financial sense.
Now, that is the car company that Apple needs to buy, if they’re really going into that sort of thing.
I was doing the same, precisely timing work activities: https://doug.pacifico-hammond.co.uk/software/hardware/2018/0...

Though I haven't had the need to use it since I changed jobs and now spend a lot more time coding and with fewer context changes.
I don't know, getting people to prioritize their wallet over their health seems like a bad solution. Maybe we should actually work on reducing the high prices instead of scaring people away from seeking medical care due to those high prices.
The Easy Way Out: The Hidden Cost of Convenience
>The Presidency should not be a popularity contest.

Correct. Well, I mean, popular among the states, but not the people individually. I'm stunned how this is a difficult concept for people. I'd bet the people arguing for popular vote would change their mind in a hot second if LA and NYC went red.
I don’t know if i’m correct on this. but i think members of the libra have the power to manipulate exchange rate more or less, although they might choose not to use it. Also, upgrading cryptocurrency with improper algorithm or parameters could influence the market, targeting certain countries for instance.

There are decisions in cryptocurrency. and they are “democratically” made in the computing power sense, which means, as a less computationally powerful country, it might lose policy independence in the global voting.

For gold, there would be much less space for policies, both good and bad, and hence less benefits and problems at the same time. I think that’s one of the reasons why it’s not widely adopted anymore.
Personally, I don't see anything suspicious about Facebook's stated intentions. They benefit by having more potential customers with frictionless access to digital purchases. They don't need to control the currency if they control the wallet. Like Gmail, they'll refuse to connect with certain groups, but if a controversial group like Infowars is banned by Calibra, you could just move money into a secondary wallet and then to Infowars if you wished. Unlike Gmail, you will know immediately if what you sent is being rejected by the platform and needs to be funneled through another channel.

Facebook has nothing to gain from decentralization when all their business depends on slurping up data? That couldn't be further from the truth. Reliance on selling personal data is a huge flaw in the business models of companies like Facebook and Google, and they're eager to diversify. Moving money around has been one of the top businesses to be in since the start of civilization, and it's an obvious target to diversify into.

Your last comment about libertarians being shortsighted is somewhat unrelated, but I have to disagree. That philosophy is all about avoiding expedient means of doing things if they have long-term consequences. Using the force of government is almost always the fastest and most effective way of accomplishing a goal, but the escalation of centralized power over time can lead to catastrophic results, and libertarian-minded people are willing to give up short-term benefits to avoid those long-term consequences. Likewise, businesses can also be short-sighted at times, but they do occasionally employ people who see that too much centralization can lead to collapse in the long-term, and the thinking behind Libra seems to reflect that mindset.
Predictably, the math does not work.

They say that at 3.7KW it gains range at 35km/h, and from solar it gains range at 12km/h. This means that they expect to get 1.23KW of power from their solar cells. Top theoretical efficiency possible for any solar cell is about 33% (Shockley-Queisser limit), most efficient you can buy today is 22%. So that means they expect 5.59KW of sun energy to fall on the car per square meter. A typical car is 4.5x2 meters. Let's assume they tile the whole damn thing with highest efficiency cells except the windshield (1x2m) They then have 7m^2, so they expect solar energy to provide 799W/m^2. And it is true, sunlight reaching earth is about 1KW/m^2 at the equator in noon, but that is in perfect conditions and just there, and when cell is perfectly aimed at the sun. The car will not tilt, and some days there are clouds or haze, and we do not all live at the equator. Also, in fact, not the entire car can be tiled with solar cells, and dirt exists, especially on the road.

So the numbers they promise are pretty much at the very limit of theoretical possibility in ideal conditions, and not even remotely likely to be hit in real life.
The white paper explicitly gives the Libra Association (i.e. Facebook and its partner validators) governance control over the cryptocurrency.

Here's an easy scenario to imagine that shows how incentives would get misaligned: Facebook and the other validating nodes of Libra are financially compensated by interest from the collateral for Libra tokens. If Libra is successful in its mission, it will become a global currency that's stronger than the assets that underly its collateral.

When this happens, suddenly Libra being a collateralized stablecoin stops making sense. Kind of like when the US Dollar no longer needed to be backed by gold since it was a strong enough currency/unit of financial measurement on its own. The US then got rid of the gold standard and has since saved itself untold money in custodial expenses they would have been paying to hold all that gold.

The Association would never do this for the Libra however since it is literally how they are funding their own operation. Even if it's in the best interest of all Libra users, the centralized governance association with all of the authority to make this improvement would choose not to because it's not in their best interest to do so.

There's no leap of imagination there - it's just how power and incentives work.
I think there needs to be the concept of $5 generics. Have the common stuff readily available to anyone in any part of the US for $5 or less per month. And if the private industry in any one region doesn't meet this challenge, the government should offer it.

Lets put it this way. Being in kidney failure/dialysis. I take around 12 medications a day and I think only 1 is non-generic. I think lots of health needs could be met by affordable access to the basic stuff.
First: sigh.
First-coda: past tense

Second: I worked alongside a brilliant team with rare knowledge of geometry reconstruction. We took the 70 images of people, algorithmically removed the backgrounds and then used a proprietary process to create a mesh geometry from the intersection masks of those shapes in 3D space, which all had to be carefully calibrated on the regular. That geometry was smoothed to create a valid smooth human mesh. We then created a texture which would be mapped to the physical geometry of the mesh. All lighting and camera sensors had to be carefully measured and corrected, with ample algorithmic color smoothing along the seams of this texture. Then we ran our proprietary auto-rigging algorithm on the mesh, and exported both a 3JS compatible obj+jpg as well as a Unity bundle. The entire process was optimized to take under 60 seconds. This meant that you could step out of the booth, watch the magic happen, and then immediately put on a Vive and interact with yourself in a mirror using your fully articulated new avatar.

Third: VCs were unwilling to fund something with a hardware component

Fourth: sigh
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Only when (and if) the majority of places we pay accept the new form of payment. Someone was frothing at the mouth the other day about being able to send cash to family in Africa using this. Not realizing that a toll must be paid to convert back to cash. Which is about all that works in many places there.
I do the same, but I find it depressing. Does anyone have good coping mechanisms for dealing with this?

Edit: I was slow to catch the reference. I'm avoiding watching that movie again because, as much as I loved it the first time, I know my brain would just use it to reinforce the idea that my job is a joke.
That's a helpful perspective. Would it be possible for IBM to create a service that allows patients to submit their own pictures for scanning?
Not trying to downtalk

But then you went ahead and did anyway...
> when a person is sick or injured, they usually are not able to comparison shop.

Strongly disagree.

According to NPR today, something like 75% of in-patient and 90% of out-patient events are shoppable.

Think something like having strep throat, or having a possible broken arm. Nothing stops you from looking at a few places before treatment.

Sure some cases are you got shot or had a heart attack and had to get rushed to the ER. Of your total medical visits in your life, what % of your total visits were like this?
This app does not work in all countries and regions as yet.

The pricing for the firewall capability also seems to be on the higher side:

"The cost is $9.99/month (or $99.99 per year) for VPN + Firewall capabilities. VPN-only service will be available at no cost." [1]

[1]: https://guardianapp.com/blog/2019/06/introducing-guardian-fi...
This is a quote from the movie Office Space.
I feel like trying to get out of paying for reasonably-priced software, so smaller developers can barely make a living, is not a virtue.
You can have that already - use web, the real one, not Electron. Everyone then can use their favorite browser for your app, not forced to use Chromium.

And if you want to make an efficient desktop app, look at telegram source code.
This brings back memories. I still have the paper subLOGIC Flight Simulator documentation that came with my copy for my TRS-80 Model I. The blocky graphics made it so that it only looked good if you were banking.
While I've absolutely seen this, I've also seen many technical people not really understanding what the 80% do and assuming they don't do anything. You might be right for your own company/job, but I always take comments like this with a grain of salt.

Many roles are needed to counter-balance others and implement good governance, although they look like they are just getting in the way. As I've gained more experience in senior roles, this becomes more and more obvious and choices that would have been baffling to me when I started out as a dev make total sense now. So... quantifying usefulness is not a numbers game and any opinion here is subjective and biased.
Sorry I meant “accrual method of accounting” auto corrected to “actual”...looks like you caught my gist.
> The president is not a CEO; the executive branch is not a corporation.

Analogies compare dissimilar things with common attributes.

There are many many many common attributes between modern corporations and the modern executive branch.
Would like to read this, but I just get a blank page with Javascript disabled. Looks like I can't even archive the page - https://archive.fo/kLTbo. Looking at the page source code, it's completely unreadable - just a single line with a bunch of third party scripts and trackers. Disappointment over what the Web has become ensues.
Big Pharma: Mind keeping those records private?

Judge: I would never...

Big Pharma: 'Hands judge 2mil'

Judge: ..consider anything but keeping them private. I meant to say.

^You don't believe this kind of thing happens, then your living in a dream world Alice:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-judge-arrested-and-char...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/08/11/139536686...

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/feds-judge-admitte...

just to name a few.
Thanks. I have the same feeling about the tendency in Ruby to use magic tricks. Prefer the Python way, although it does have support for meta-programming, etc. People tend to write magic code less in Python, AFAIK.
It isn't just unionized people that don't care about prices. Most people on Medicare or Medicaid do not care... that's like 1/3rd of the country right there. And among the highest per-capita consumers of healthcare.

There's plenty of people on Obamacare who are getting heavily subsidized low deductible policies, and paying very little.

The government is the largest employer, and most government employees do not care about prices.

Throw in those who are unionized or at cushy stable jobs with low deductible plans, which is innumerable millions more.

I'm thinking at least 75% of the country has little reason to care about prices, and even if they did the system is so byzantine that there isn't much they could do if they did. This is all an interlocking and self-reinforcing problem, which rewards the various layers of the healthcare industry with windfall gains irrespective of their own quality.
This is what I feel is meant by stiff upper lip:

Be like a rocky promontory against which the restless surf continuously pounds; it stands fast while the churning sea is lulled to sleep at its feet. I hear you say, "How unlucky that this should happen to me!" Not at all! Say instead, "How lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened and am not afraid of what is about to happen. The same blow might have struck any one, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint."
You can get a set of lego-like toy synth for like 160 bucks. I got one of those and I do recommend it for learning and fun, even as an adult.

https://littlebits.com/products/synth-kit
> The healthcare market isn't even close to free, it's the most tightly regulated industry. Until that changes, nothing will get better.

Agreed. I feel like people just like using the "socialism will solve everything" argument while not acknowledging that right or wrong - healthcare in the USA is anything but free market.
I'm curious which IKEA top you used. I also looked at the Autonomous frame, but I don't think it'll work with my existing Karlby top (25 5/8" x 74").
Fluff jobs are used by companies if the cost to build and automate is higher than just having humans do it. If the cost of a human in the US or EU/UK is too high then here comes the blood thirsty consultants to do it for you using cheap outsourced labor and terrible work environments.
Here is the important thing to understand about the Libra Association: while its members — who again, are the validators — do control the Libra protocol, Facebook does not control the validators. Which, by extension, means that Facebook will not control Libra.

But Facebook does control Libra just by virtue of providing infrastructure. They're also part of the consortium. So again, why is the author trying to make it seem like Facebook has no control?
> Most of the time, I don't see an issue with non-native looking UIs. Oftentimes, non-native UIs look better.

I think there's a threshold for this.

Throw 1 or 2 non-native designs (and UX) at me, I'm fine. I'll appreciate the aesthetics. Make every app have its own UX/design and I'm going to get lost very easily.

And there's a hidden context switch cost there that can accumulate.
The start up times really bug me too. I think the solution might be sticking to a Jupyter/Juno session or keeping a repl open and reloading. https://github.com/timholy/Revise.jl

It is incredible the degree with which small inconveniences can inhibit adoption.
What, one that's completely unproven with no customers or product? Seems like an odd choice for Apple, but I'd like to hear your argument.
Cool idea, but not applicable to our scenario. People would step in and there would be a 3-2-1 count and then step out. There was no flash to sync against. And even if there was, if the devices are all running at different speeds, the sync is moot.
”which establishes that scraping publicly available data isn't a computer crime”

…in the USA (possibly even “in DC”). Also, ”isn't a computer crime” doesn’t imply ”isn't a crime”. Copyright law likely still applies, for example.
Likewise! Although perhaps part of it is the additional effort it takes them to write in English, which would be understandable.
Reading between the lines in the article, I assume this is 100% Facebook just trying to enable WhatsApp to compete with WeChat.
Can you provide some logs? i.g. dig output of sites you try to visit, using OpenDNS and your ISP's DNS. Do you get the expected results here: [1] (Note, some of the resolvers may time out)

[1] - https://www.whatsmydns.net/
I love this. Reminds me of the happy parts of my childhood, though my imaginary excursions were more automotive/train based (with simulated accidents which my passengers did not appreciate).
This isn't surprising, but still upsetting.

First as noted, no Dynamic DNS or DNSSEC?? REALLY?? Come on.

Second as also noted, the migration is manually! You have to download a zone record and upload it, and that's after manually creating your account.

I'll be switching to Cloudflare. Been considering it for a while, but now it makes sense.
Uplift[0] also sells treadmills and exercise bikes specifically for standing desks. I purchased one of their desks a few months ago, and while it's a bit spendy, the quality is fantastic. I expect to be using it 15 years from now.

[0] https://www.upliftdesk.com/desk-accessories/movement-exercis...
YouTube Experimental Features (Desktop)
Because you can't really get that much solar power out of it. This car gains only 12 km of range for every hour it spends in direct sunlight.
In my last job I was doing something like this, and over time it felt that I was in an important role - being senior and able to attend meetings apart from the rest of the team to make the occasional decision.

Now I'm back at coding 80% or so and actually feel much more productive, more important to the team and have a lot less stress.
Some polls were tried but you will hardly get any agreement on which features to remove.
I am at work 40 hours a week. I work on what is basically an internal programmer for hire service, and on a good week I might be able to bill 20 productive hours. I don't have a good measure of how much of that is due to idle (internet) time, but a lot of the productivity loss is from meetings, switching between small projects or chatting with co-workers.

I spent a little time at Menlo (as a customer), where they do 100% pair programming. Being "on" and working >90% of the time takes some getting used to. The ability to just get up and walk around the building or the block when you want to is a nice perk.
Would you tend to feel that mental health issues are a result of nature, and not nurture then?
I hope this will be one of those games that manages to do one thing better than anyone has before: Volumetric cloud rendering. Kinda like how Sea of Thieves has really pushed the envelope when it comes to ocean and wave rendering.
To help people understand low blood sugar episodes, I think it's good to watch these three videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_0CI9jV6A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv4HIci1Qtc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TidRyyrTz4k
Because the sun provides a tiny fraction of the power required to be vaguely useful, plus, solar panels are heavy, reducing the efficiency of the car.
From the article:

"Walmart sells an old version of human insulin for $25, but as Lipska explained, it doesn’t work for all patients and is incompatible with many new delivery devices."
Because it doesn't provide enough energy to warrant the expense.
Oh I see, sorry about the confusion.
And yet Ethereum Classic [where nothing was reverted] ended up with a lower valuation than mainline Ethereum [where the DAO coin loss was reverted], showing that some path-dependent mix of {users, developers, investors} prefer a system with governance to one with immutability.