skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly this. Forcing companies to show pricing is not something a EO can do. It could direct Medicare to indicate the prices it is willing to pay for example, but not to require corporations to do the same. That would require actual legislation.

That said it's a good topic to wish for.
Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020
From an email to old customers of DYN services:
"Oracle is announcing the end-of-life for the free Standard DNS service in favor of the enhanced, paid subscription version on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. On May 31, 2020, the “EOL Date”, the Standard DNS will be retired and will no longer be available."

The following capabilities are not currently supported in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DNS:

Webhop (HTTP redirect)
Dynamic DNS
Zone transfer to external nameservers
DNSSEC

The migration to the new services is apparently a copy&paste DNS zone export to the new cloud.

https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/dyn/technologies/migrate-your-services/
Separating our data and control planes with ctlstore
Browsers do a has-this-site-ever-been-known-to-host-malware URL check.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Safe_Browsing
I'm a little surprised to see this because OneDrive scans and provides malware information [1] where not every cloud storage does. I would expect apps, including theirs, would make use of this and warn the user. Maybe they broke something as their malware property is currently "empty" and I don't remember it being that way.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api...

contained in driveItems and other responses:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api...
When you're talking about using a different currency, you're not replacing Bank of America or JPMorgan Chase. You're replacing the Federal Reserve, Bretton Woods, and the U.S. government. Government's grasp on what money should mean is one of the primary ways democratic governments exercise power.
How much worse can it get while most of the population still honestly believes it's great, though?

Getting China out of the hole it's in would be much harder than reversing the course on US politics, but only if US citizens stop fooling themselves into thinking they're in "the best country in the world".
Oh, it did.
That's the "if institutions would allow that" part. Or, more accurately, if institutions would get legally forced to allow that. We didn't get price transparency and limits for ridiculously lying advertising in other consumer markets just by sheer goodwill of merchants, it required legal mandate and enforcement of it.
It's true that if you are occupied 100% of the time with high priority items that can't be interrupted you will be dropping and delaying other high priority items. But as long as some of your time is doing low priority stuff that can be interrupted by high priority tasks it means you have slack for high priority items.
Yes, Desktop builds are on the roadmap. We don't have a fixed release date for those yet. An experimental macOS build is already available in the mainline repo.
Unless there's a weird provision I'm not aware of, you could be over representing the value of the deduction.

The best thing for the doctor is to get paid (and pay taxes on) $400. The $300 deduction is of no value to them because they never recognized the $300 as income. The deduction is basically "Hey, sorry you couldn't collect your billed amount. You don't need to pay taxes on money you didn't earn".

Sorry if you fully understand this already. The lack of understanding of basic taxes is a pet peeve of mine. People make statements like "Johnny was looking for one more tax deduction, so he donated to my charity". Johnny probably cares about the charity or at least looking good in the community, because he'd have a larger net worth if he just sucked it up and paid taxes rather than donating it.
I agree 100%, just that in the scope of price transparency this is not the real price, discounting all other economic effects that are not apparent in prices.
“Don’t worry about the burning house, here’s a bucket to save the flower bed”.

“Transparent” pricing is meaningless without a functioning market, which healthcare can’t be for anything but the most discretionary procedures.
Been hearing people say that a lot more than twice a day lately.
New Xkcd: Motivated Reasoning Olympics
See for me it was always sort of the opposite.

My recall of things I got wrong on the tests is almost visceral, like it was traumatic that I was wrong. I figured this out pretty young and my studying habit was very similar to the methods employed for learning foreign language vocabulary or typing; progressively focus on the things the person still gets wrong.

So I'd read my notes and highlight or copy out only the facts that I found myself being surprised or flummoxed by. I'd go over those a few times, do one more scan of my entire notes, and sit before the test just going over the hard ones again until the instructor started handing out the test.
I don't think this was intended as a general purpose argument against ever treating mood disorders. Rather, the parent comment is describing the fact that anxiety and depression are conflated with their corresponding disorders too often.

I can somewhat relate from experience: I went to a doctor for terrible trouble sleeping, to the point that it was affecting my physical health, that we assumed was caused by anxiety/depression[1]. I was pretty shocked at the rapidity with which she suggested going on antidepressants, particularly considering the tapering periods and the seriousness of the dependency and side effects that they cause.

I pushed back a little but it turns out that my doctor's cavalier attitude towards antidepressants isn't out of the norm: they're considered a "try it and see what happens" first line of defense, without trying to get a better sense of the patient's specific issues and whether therapy or other interventions, sans medication, would be a better fit (though I should note that the doctor recommended that I go to therapy if possible in conjunction).

Tangentially, this fits with a larger disillusionment I have with the medical system: a combination of screwy incentives, bad lines of communication between generalists and specialists, and a serious institutional/cultural case of a God complex leading to a lack of critical thinking means that I'm at the point where I pretty much keep anything a doctor tells me as just another unreliable information source, weighted more heavily perhaps than my layman's understanding of the research but on categorically the same level.

Ive seen the same disillusionment kick in among my doctor family members: in our conversations over the years, my sister and her husband have gone from a central case of said God complex to as much as telling me not to take doctors' advice without a heavy dose of skepticism.

I should note that I don't actually consider this a criticism of any individual physicians as much as the realities of the system. One of the biggest factors is that the average person showing up at the doctor is simultaneously incredibly dumb and incredibly confident in their understanding of the medical problem. It makes sense for doctors to be a somewhat heavy-handed and reductive, and once you build those habits into your institutions and pedagogy, it's hard to turn it off.

[1] Turns out it was the other way around: consistently not sleeping causes some pretty crappy psychological problems
> ....the lack of economic understanding behind the claims that led to them kicking off a trade war is evident in how poorly the war is turning out for american businesses

Based on the impact of the trade war on American businesses, you are able to deduce the quality of understanding of economics of those behind the policies?
We have yet a microplastics problem in any case, but could deal with it later if we assure first that turtles, sharks, swordfishes, seals and dolphins will not go extinct by being tangled in ghost nets. This would alleviate the huge fishing pressure over all valuable species of fishes also. Two problems solved, one remains.

Ghost nets gradually wipe top predators that reproduce slowly. This has a noxious and permanent effect in the ecosystems, hitting specially hard the animals affected more by microplastics: small larvae and small fishes.

In marine ecosystems there is always a cascading card house effect. More predators not tangled in nets -> more big fishes eaten -> more small fishes survive. Even more important, more turtles alive to eat jellyfishes (wich gobble fish larvae and eggs but ignore microplastics). In the end the current influence of microplastics over small species would decrease compensated by a lower predation pressure.

Heavy cetaceans on the other hand can store incredible amounts of nasty substances on its fat for many years. Microplastics would affect them less than the current ball of 50 Kg of bags blocking the stomach and leaking chemicals.

Small plastic portions could have much more probability of passing trough the digestive system of big vertebrates without blocking it also. Would be safer for ship navigation also (Lose nets can tangle in boat propellers).
>>"Why? Well assuming all things being equal (convenience as medium of exchange etc.), an individual is always going to prefer holding currency that isn’t subject to inflation."

And why should they spend a so wonderful asset? And what is the point of a currency that is always appreciating and nobody want to spend?

>>"The problem for governments is: the genie is out of the bottle regarding fixed supply."

Central banks don't target the quantity of money, they target the interest rate. The quantity of money is a function of the economic activity, as it should.

The idea that people is going to change to private currencies is a joke. The only thing a government have to do, in order to create demand for its currency, is accept only its currency as payment for taxes.
From your anecdote you indicate that people will comparison shop among hospitals but are unable to do so. I have a similar story about a broken ankle where I couldn't even get an estimate for an X-ray and a cast.
It might not be magical, but I wouldn't underestimate the complexity of replicating even simple cells. We haven't been able to replicate an amoeba let alone neurons let alone a brain.
he must have meant over a two week period instead...?
Whoa, the number of times I lined up a landing on Meigs field... it's hard to imagine. I didn't realize it was gone, of course, I'm sure I wouldn't have known anyways, but thanks for the reminder :)
I think 80% is already a too much in practice. It also depends on the work. If it needs a lot of concentration 80% is just not realistic. If there is some variety, e.g., sometimes people come to ask you something, it becomes easier. But then there is also non-productive time that your brain needs to switch tasks. There are at my job maybe some people who are around 80% but they seem to be combining producing much code in little time by producing code that has a relatively high count of bugs so that may not be that productive either. All those people who want to tell us that they are working much more or that we should be working more are probably not very realistic. E.g., have they have not measured the time that they spend on pouring tea or similar activities.
Can you give some examples that you think follow that product cycle?
The economy is the sum of individual actions, which are all guided by incentives. Set up poor incentives, and each individual poor decision might not matter too much, but the collective result can be awful.

The idea that we ought to throw our trust in with bureaucrats is kind of ridiculous, particularly in the age of Trump.

But even if this were Scandinavia, incentives would still matter.
Bill Gates makes the case to regulate platform companies
Optional parentheses, UFCS, BetterC, named character entities and the objective-C & C++ interfaces to name a few.
Guiding the Future of RISC-V [video]
The question is why doesn't the market remove this inefficiency.
Which is my point as well through out the comment thread.

Are you sure you are not picking your favorite position in the argument, and reffering the opposing perspective as "not in line with the guidelines"?
What you're describing sounds like fraud.

There is certainly a difference between a list price and a negotiated rate, but there isn't some sort of secret "we'll tell the patient in writing we're paying $400, but actually we'll pay you nothing" rate.
I’ve been looking for something like this for over a year. Thank you.
That could be a mistake if it's already in the `html, body` ruleset. In general, however, it's to ensure the `body` element takes up the entire height of the page, which is useful for client apps I've found.
A few weeks ago I realized on my phone I can, from anywhere, say "Ok google, broadcast" and then say a message. That message gets played back on the Google Home devices.

My kids weren't replying to text messages about being ready to go to an appointment that we were pressed for time on, and I was on the way home, so I did that to tell them to get ready. A few seconds later I get a text from my wife: "How'd you do that?!?"
I think you would be surprised about the total number of hours people actually spend working... many of the jobs that I've worked (specifically my business) were a legitimate 60-70 hours of real work a week. I know this because I tracked it, and a lot of those hours were billable.

I will say though in my experience 80 hours is possible but most people that say "80 hour weeks" are using it as hyperbole. If someone comes to you and says they do 62 hour weeks... its probably real.
So that along with the fact that "if executed competently" is outside of the government's ability... Are two reasons this will never happen.
MacOS does (WKWebView)
It's a recent addition, and may only work on iOS/iPadOS/macOS, but it should help those users a lot!
Oh interesting. Could you use this to test a system using live traffic before a release?
I disagree, I think the interlocking issue is that few industries have as much public support for its vested interests as healthcare and education. Anyone can get away with anything because the public is generally tricked by a simplistic understanding of what medicine is, and consequently support terrible policies.

You could drop the cost of care just de-regulating. But Milton Friedman failed, who would succeed today on that path?
Ray Kurzweil has long predicted 3D computing chips would become a paradigm. I'm not talking about GPUs, but actually vertically stacked layers of transistors. https://www.kurzweilai.net/radical-new-vertically-integrated...
Medium lets writers opt-in to a paywall. It is not the default, but does come with some perks for authors.
(imperfect) stamp of quality and amount
"Ah, yes, I've self-diagnosed myself as having a heart attack. Now, which local hospital had the lowest charge for that? Oh, but what if it needs a bypass operation? That other hospital was cheaper for that..."

The actual thought process during an emergency tends to be more along the lines of "oh fuck it hurts make it stop".
Wow, this brought back some memories.
The US has long ago abandoned free market healthcare. I don't know why people keep calling it that.

It's some bastard child of socialized medicine where the poor and old are covered mixed with gov mandated private insurance coming from a few very large insurance companies capable of operating within the regulatory environment.

Which is basically one step removed from full blown single-payer public health insurance (as we have here in Canada) and about a hundred steps removed from "free market" health care.

I hope the US gov decides on single payer soon as I see no path towards going back to an actual market. Which would be better than the current system which features much of the worst of both worlds.
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For someone who worked on price transparency in 2013 - I was personally affected with surprise billing - and spent long hours working on a price discovery / transparency tool called pricepain.com, I completely welcome this move. While it won’t solve all issues at once, shining some light into the medical billing mess can only be a good thing, allow market forces to enter the picture somewhat.
Google is a juggernaut to be sure, but I just don't see that it's behaving all that badly towards consumers, compared to their competition (which they do have). Oracle, to me, is a much more evil company, and very clearly screws over their own customers, plus there was that whole evil thing they did with trying to copyright the Java API. I just don't see Google trying to shut down competitors like that, or treating customers horribly. They could do a better job with customer service (lots of horror stories about people not being able to get errors fixed in Google Maps for a long time). But as I showed in that article, Yelp was outright extorting restaurant owners, and nothing is done about it. Google Maps has their own reviews, and I've never heard of such blatantly evil behavior there.

Also, it's hard to see how breaking them up would even work. Many of their products are free, and only available because of their money-making ad business. I guess you could make them divest YouTube; that's self-supporting with its own ads, and doesn't really need to be integrated with the rest of their offerings. But things like Google Photos wouldn't survive on their own.
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Matt Levine rides again -- a fact that didn't register until "Long Confusing Story".

A treasure to humanity.
How We Won the War
That only works until enough people exploit the system in some way. (Both good and bad score...)

Specifically, once it becomes a means of political control it ceases to be useful as a system for trustworthiness.
Yeah here's the problem. Eventually the thought of rewriting the electron app native becomes too daunting. It's grown to large. Then you're shipping bloatware for life.
Expecting the general public to comparison shop for their healthcare needs is unrealistic. Healthcare is a human right in the rest of the developed world, it's time for the US to catch up.
I think OP meant purging trackers from kids apps.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/31/apple-to-limit-third-pa...
If you want older search results click on the Tools box on the right side of the News/Images/Shopping tab and you can restrict it to older links.
Yes, this type of libertarian thinking presumes good information. Medicine and chemical production rarely have good information. It is too expensive. So the people as a collective must investigate these costs. This is why the government regulation exists. Even then it took a long time to fight against the greed of the tobacco companies as they fight tooth and nail to continue poisoning the populace and keep people ignorant about it.
>I had a high school teacher who described what he called a failsafe study method:...

At this point you should just use spaced repetition. It's what I did, it has the same effects for a lot less work.
>It only seems uncalled for if you don't believe price gouging on critical drugs to point of financial ruin and death is utterly evil.

It's naive and simplistic to actually believe that the price-gouging isn't far more nuanced than "evil" people sitting in a board room discussing how to screw over poor diabetics. But whatever works for you, I guess.
A new version of the GStreamer Rust bindings, 0.14.0, was released
As someone with an hsa / high deductible plan. I totally care about the cost.
I got an estimate once. After a total of about 20 hours on the phone. The day I arrived they told me it didn't include a bunch of stuff.

They said it didn't matter though because insurance covered it. But they were wrong.
Choosing what you think is generally the cheaper hospital is not a solution. The things they charge you for is varied and you never have a choice as to what they will be. The doctors usually charge you separately, and you can't predict which doctors are on call at any time.

But even more fundamentally, the issue is information asymmetry. Consumers don't have anywhere close to adequate information to make intelligent choices about health care costs. 99% of consumers have no applicable medical training.
You may not have any option. They may not be responding because they may no longer have the email domain. The company may be dead.

If it's not dead, you still may not have a choice. You can't make them talk to you.

If they do eventually respond, I would be very cautious. If they're so out of control that they can't answer emails to get themselves some help, then you'd be walking into a really large amount of chaos if you take a job there.
I code 4 hours a day, but I’m measuring that by excluding research, questions, communication. Meetings, lunch, non-coding work tasks, and non-work are also excluded.

That’s less than 50% of my work day, but actually feels like a solid amount both by fatigue, and by comparing with friends and colleagues. My distribution is fairly bimodal, I’ve noticed I usually do 2-3 hours or 6-8 depending on the day.

Clearly I’m somewhat crazy (semi joke!), because I actually keep a running timer on my desk to measure this...
In 1930's the national spending of healthcare was like 4% of GDP, while now it is like 17%. If we could go back to the 1930's on that I'd take it.

The problem is not that the AMA was able to attack socialized healthcare, but that the AMA was able to dictate who would be able to practice medicine, what their education should be, how much they should charge and how they would organize.

Any american could go abroad to a country like say, Argentina, get free medical education and come back and treat patients without half a million dollars debt. But its illegal.
> Anti-money laundering/sanctions/stopping terrorist financing efforts

That looks like a pretty questionable line of logic, because, say for sake of argument, that it can be demonstrated from an economics objective that competitive private currencies produce higher levels of growth. Now the terrorists also have us hostage economically as we need to use monopoly government money as the only way to stop them!

Come on, it’s lazy thinking to believe that only centralized authoritarian control of currency is how to keep everyone safe from various bad actors, terrorists, criminals and rogue nations. My intuition says that just can’t be correct, otherwise let’s also just put cameras in everyone’s homes ... just in case.
What kind of an investment would someone need to make to maximize enjoyment of this game? Could I enjoy it with keyboard/mouse or should I at least buy some specific equipment?
Yes - exactly this.
Are the error bars on the decay data they're computing from tight enough to justify three significant figures? Three significant figures doesn't seem like very much to me given the precision of modern metrology. Edit: I checked the paper and it looks like in this case the precision is actually ± one order of magnitude, so even one significant figure on the decay lifetime is overstating their precision. They can probably justify 1½ significant figures on the temperature, though.
Is the motivating idea behind this that patients can demand the same price that insurance companies are getting and ultimately lessen the monopoly insurance companies have? Maybe even just get much cheaper insurance for true emergencies and pay out of pocket for everything else?
> Johnny probably cares about the charity or at least looking good in the community, because he'd have a larger net worth if he just sucked it up and paid taxes rather than donating it.

You are assuming that Johnny isn't the one that doesn't understand tax deductions.
Iranian biologists face US trial for trying to take proteins out of the country
Because people want jobs, companies want to say they employ X amount of people, and governments like to say "we have low unemployment".
You, Sir, are a hero.
Does nativescript do desktop? Their site seems squarely focused on mobile (iOS/Android).