skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not too long ago I led a team that built data products using a massive dataset comprised of more than 6B medical claims. This included Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance. Two thoughts:

1) Trump is either bluffing or he doesn't have anyone around him that actually knows how medical billing works. If he were serious, the executive order would mandate that HHS publish the information based on the data that's already included in every claim (i.e. invoice) submitted to CMS for payment.

From a policy standpoint there are already rules in the federal register that allow HHS to publicly disclose cost information at the hospital-level. I'm no lawyer but it seems to me that a well-crafted executive order could stand up in court. Even if it were struck down, putting forth such an executive order would be a shrewd political move because it would cast its opponents in a bad light. These would presumably be insurance companies, the medical billing industry, and for-profit healthcare providers.

From a technical standpoint: there are already data pipelines in place for this sort of thing. The CMS Open Data initiative already reports hospital-level aggregates. It's not that hard to comment out a few 'GROUP BY' statements in order to get a POC up and running quickly.

2) Even if the current executive order comes to pass, people will continue to receive surprise bills and experience sticker shock. That's because the total (billed) cost is a function of:

- professional services (procedures rendered by doctors/therapists, etc)

- facility fees (hospital bed, in-house labs, etc)

For any given hospital stay or office visit the quantity and types of items in each category can (and does) vary. The current executive order mostly addresses the latter.

Furthermore, two patients seeing the exact same doctor for the exact same thing but using different insurance companies will get vastly different bills. That's because different insurance companies require healthcare providers to bundle/group (and sometimes break out/itemize) services in their own way.

Because out-of-pocket costs are, in turn, a % of the total negotiated rate patients necessarily end up with the short stick in terms of cost transparency.

Given the current medical billing system, there's simply no way for patients to know exactly what they're going to pay ahead of time because the charges won't be finalized until the insurance company decides what they will/won't cover.

No executive order will change that. Transparency will require Congress to muster up the will to write laws that put the patient first, not last.
I had my first earthquake a few years a go and it is for sure a weird feeling. I’ve never felt an entire building move until that, it’s a unique feeling
> If I had kid, I'd consider spending time with them as "free time with my kids"

It's really not, though. Before parenthood I had all these romantic 'Swallows and Amazons' ideas about lazy summer days on riverbanks and meadows.

In reality time with young kids is about mundane things like making meals, doing homework, playing what they want to play, trying to coax them to help with chores that you need to get done, finding craft activities to deflect them from screen-time etc etc

It's not in the slightest bit free-choice or frankly enjoyable. I've just got up on Saturday to find that it's raining heavily, my heart sank. Now to find 14 hours of indoor child-oriented activities...
SpaceX satellites cannot do 1Tbps, and it's irresponsible to keep saying this. See the MIT study. They estimate ~20Tbps of total capacity for 4000 satellites.
Note that Loma Prieta is just north of Santa Cruz, over 60 miles from San Francisco.

Not sure how to compensate for distance, but my gut feel says that's about equivalent to a 5.9 in SF itself?
Screen Usage in Computer Applications Back-in-the-Day
Remember how back in the day, computer applications were so inconsiderate about the screen space allocated to the "payload content" and just kept on piling various menu bars, toolbars, sidebars, etc to fill the screen, so that you could hardly see the content you were working on?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ridgecrest_earthquakes
usgs.gov was returning 504 within 10 minutes of the event.
What trail? I'm reading this from northern California on the Pacific Crest Trail
random observation : mountain lion calls sound like screaming primates. maybe they at least sometimes heard that.
Walmart, Target and some others have lists of low prices drugs for common conditions.

https://www.walmart.com/cp/$4-prescriptions/1078664
I prefer to rest my hands on either side of it, simply to prevent ulnar deviation style wrist angle.
Oh man I sent some 30 EUR because the counterparty was retarded to have onkly Paypal listed and and paypal took 40 or something when I counted all the hidden costs. WTF
destroyed a lot of San Francisco

That's overstating things by quite a bit. There was severe damage and fatalities but 'destroyed a lot of San Francisco' was 1906, an estimated 7.9 followed by fires.
I remember using the Roxen webserver somewhere in the 90s when we had a workmate who was very fond of it. Roxen is probably the single reason for the existence of Pike – or the other way round.
i got similar numbers and thought, wow, 16 hours is actually quite a lot of time. that's two work days worth.

seriously how much time do you spend on your hobbies? i have several casual hobbies that only take a few hours a week each. if i'd spend 2 hours each day on a hobby i'd call that intensive and i'd think that spending that much time is unusual unless it's maybe a music instrument you are learning.
There were plenty of studies done by astronomers that showed the effect of the satellites can be detrimental to astrology. No, we shouldn't just build them; that's a red herring. There are plenty of other competitors that have comparable bandwidth and don't light up the sky. Of course, the musk effect makes people ignore those.
I would suggest taking a look at Hybrid Cloud Workload Protection.

I can break down the buzzwords a little:

- Hybrid Cloud = Works in an on-premises DC and public cloud(s)
- Workload = Works on bare-metal servers, virtual machines, and containers
- Protection =
- Distributed micro-segmentation (enforced via host firewalls, as close as possible to the app, sometimes integrated with the app)
- Vulnerability analysis (build time and/or runtime)
- Exploit detection

This is typically achieved via a small agent that runs on each "workload" backed by some type of centralized control appliance.

Guess who one of the innovators in this space is? You might not believe it...

Cisco.

Right?! What goes around comes around.

The CWP market is still somewhat nascent, but in my opinion, it is poised to explode.

Like the parent pointed out, the days of traditional hardware firewalls - or even worse "virtualized" versions of said boxes - are numbered, like it or not.

Disclaimer: I work on Tetration, Cisco's 3-year old in-house developed Hybrid Cloud Workload Protection product. That's right, not an acquisition.

Oh, and did I mention, the whole thing is a SaaS that requires zero hardware?
You’ll be able to summon Alexa from anywhere... without even owning an Amazon device! :)
This is a fascinating insight; I would love to see these columns of continental crust. Any ideas of a particular location to view them?

In the meantime, I wonder if there are any good photos of them? I wouldn't know what to search for.
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Also alligators!
Landmass is sometimes valued much lower than we might expect. In the eighteen century, France perceived Guadeloupe (an island in the carribean) as more valuable than Canada [1] and chose to keep the former over the later. Voltaire is often quoted to have dismissed Canada as
"Quelques arpents de neige" (a few acres of snow).

Granted, France lost a war and had limited saying in what to keep, but the difference in perceived value is interesting.

[1] https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/chr.91.4.637
I have one of those cheap RTL-SDR dongles that I use for listening to ADS-B messages. Other than listening to FM radio, do you know if any other good uses in a disaster situation?
RE: A line I heard recently regarding MSR maintenance is: "You'll need robots to do the maintenance of your maintenance robots." Another memorable gem is "If you can make robots that can do that, you should just sell the robots"

Maintenance of MSRE was done by humans without much downtime or exposure[1]. Ease of maintenance is a function of design. Just design it carefully.

[1] https://energyfromthorium.com/pdf/NAT_MSREexperience.pdf
This takes me back to a summer job I had 35 years ago, calibrating a set of gauge pins. I think it was a couple hundred of them. Visually inspect them for corrosion or scratches, wipe them down with WD-40, measure each end and the middle with digital calipers, and log the measurements and any comment on their appearance. Honestly it probably to0k 2.5 days but it felt like forever.
I've tried BTT, but the biggest issue is you're trading touch typing for contextual hunt and peck, even worse if you're opening one of those submenus. You can fit 100x the shortcuts in the same real estate with f1~12 + modifier keys, and you don't have to look down from the screen.
This shook my hotel in Vegas. We evacuated but it was pretty minor. I'm glad to be leaving tomorrow!

The windows and doors were creaking and making loud cracking noises. Both times it felt like an unbalanced washing machine on a different floor.
Sure, but communities with healthy parents and elders probably successfully raise more children.
That may have been for another, smaller quake (one of the larger aftershocks of yesterday's 6.4 event). It looks like there was a 4.6 aftershock which may have triggered the email (the email system is automated).

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/
Traded in my AMG-variant Mercedes for an i3 almost five years ago, and, while I miss the Mercedes, which was far more sure footed than any BMW i've known (probably courtesy of AMG), the i3 is a great entirely weird nerdmobile. And its tail end opens like the back of a cargo plane...just weird and useful.

Tires cost a fortune because they're annoyingly thin, so wear down fast, and only are made by Bridgestone, I think. Handling is great: carbon fiber and alumin[i]um.
I got 7/7 because of my comp sci background and I expected what these would do even though I don't know lisp. I think this would've been the case with most high-level languages for me that I'm unfamiliar with.
There is a Mac program BBEdit that was first written to target 68K 32 bit Macs, then PPC 32 bit Macs, then 32 bit x86 Macs and then 64 bit Macs. Probably within the next 3 years it will target ARM Macs.

The author said he never did a full scale rewrite. He slowly migrated code from one platform to the next.

Today, Apple’s code runs on both ARM and x86 and with Marzipan, as will developers code. True most will be in Objective C, but some low level code is still in C.
Unbound is of course just one of the many programs using ldns. nsd, drill are also useful. More recently, stubby.1

1 https://getdnsapi.net/blog/dns-privacy-daemon-stubby/

Here is how to use drill to do DOH via POST, using Cloudflare DNS as an example.

test $# = 1|| exec echo usage: $0 query

# requirements: sed, wc, xxd, openssl, ldns, drill
# reference: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8484#section-4.1

a=$(drill -q /dev/stdout $1 |sed '1,2d;s/;.*//;s/ //g'|xxd -p -r|wc -m);

(printf "POST /dns-query HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: cloudflare-dns.com\r\nAccept: /\r\nContent-Type: application/dns-message\r\nConnection: close\r\nContent-Length: $a\r\n\r\n"; drill -q /dev/stdout $1|sed '1,2d;s/;.*//;s/ //g;3s/..../0001/'|xxd -p -r)|openssl s_client -no_tls1 -no_tls1_1 -no_ssl2 -no_ssl3 -ign_eof -no_ticket -host cloudflare-dns.com -port 443 -servername 1.1.1.1|sed -n \$p|xxd -p|drill -i /dev/stdin|sed '/^;; Data: \\#/d'
I do pretty much the same but moved away from Boxcryptor to Cryptomator as it's open source :)
Your having already labeled those found as “criminals” rather than “suspects” speaks volumes to the problem with legitimizing such systems.
The root problem is the identity problem on the internet.

Having anon accounts is good for HN but as soon as money is involved we need a structure that solves the identity for all people inside the transaction.

Technology has to become 1984 levels to ID users at all times. Better to have an identity relationship with a structure or body that you can meet with in real life, like a bank. A mix of tech and human relations is required for a sane identity relationship with this governing body and therefore everybody you do business with on the net.

Lying goes back to manageable levels once the identity is linked to someone's real life reputation.
I too am aware of hard solutions are in reality (or "reality"). Still, I believe we should be acutely aware that the need for doctors to get "tools" just to deal with drug prices is an indication of how off-kilter our society's approach to health care has become.
> Part of the message, aside from just quantifying how limited time is, would be to find enjoyment where you can in your 'mandatory' activities too as they'll represent the bulk of your life.

I wish I could give this comment more upvotes. I'm slowly learning this lesson in my personal life - I wish I could learn it faster, but the goddamn brain is just too much more insistent than the body..
I was in the 8.8 earthquake in chile (2010), near the epicenter. for the following days, a lot of replicas over 7.0 occurred. if your construction follows the regulations, it will be fine (some minor repairs), but any structural damage can and will be the death sentence for that structure. In those times, we were worried about the lack of water,food and electricity.a big freezer stuffed with food can last a week without electricity, because of the insulation and the amount of water inside
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I was describing the top of Wildrose peak there -- one of the coolest views I've seen in my life. I want to go back and try Telescope peak, which is right next to it and a bit higher and more strenuous, sometime.

These hikes aren't nearly as hot as the valley, and probably manageable even in the summer. Much of Death Valley's heat comes from the air being more compressed the lower you go, so if you're 6000 ft up it's not that bad at all. Although, be careful.

Here's some pictures I found online: https://www.americansouthwest.net/california/death_valley/wi... . Note that the rock below you has clearly toppled over to almost a 45 degree angle. All the mountains in the distance are like that also.

A few hours later I was on a different ridge and a bunch of fighter jets flew through a canyon _below_ me. Death Valley is awesome. (although that may have been right outside of it?)
Anchorage shatters all-time high temperature as Alaska swelters under heat dome
I had the exact same thought also because of 9/11. I am in British Columbia and I got a vague provincial emergency alert saying there was no tsunami threat. Amazon Prime was also failing at the same time. Facebook was loading but then the USGS site was failing.
I only got two out of five. One so really didn’t know and I remembered enough C to remember sequence points.
I've been there a few times myself. I don't have time now to go into details (weekend) but if you know your app is going to stay small and simple and single server forever

1. Congratulations for your foresight skills :-)

2. You can stay with SQLite

In any other case move to PostgreSQL (or MySQL if you really have to) because you'll be hit by things you can't do or that you can do at a cost higher than migrating to a proper db and managing it.

Downsides: simple and few data types, lack of advanced SQL functions (MySQL too) and features, single server, write lock, poor CLI tool.

Be really sure you don't have and want to grow your app.
Location: Sydney, Australia

Remote: Yes

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Technologies: Javascript (both ES5 & ES6+), Greensock, PixiJS, Basic WebGL, Java, SQL Databases, Basic HTML/CSS, Unity.

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Games developer with 10+ years experience in slot game development along with some minor web development.
Looking to expand my skillset into web development, mobile app development or to continue working on HTML5 games/applications.
Were they any good? Before I came to Oz I'd only tasted the SE-Asian ones. They're okay but I much prefer the locally-made variety.
happened to me in Delhi. My couch started shaking on its own. Thought my sibling was playing. Turned out to be an earthquake.
I live in a two-floor building though, and the oscillations are amplified by tall structures, so be safe
i like your perspective on this. made me think. i'd just like to add that for an introvert free time can be considered alone time. you can get that at night after the kids are asleep if you can get it at all.
General side note: incremental slides should be "normalized" in a print version. Not sure if any software supports this. It would probably afford some manual tagging or grouping.
I think of free time as time spent doing something you want to do, not necessarily time spent doing nothing.

If you find work that feels like play, then I'd consider that "time spent doing what you want to do."
Japan’s Airports to Use Facial Recognition for Foreign Visitors
I do not have comp sci background. Programming is my hobby (I do not know Lisp). I got 6/7
How ere you able to save water? Was there water pressure for a short period of time?

I always imagine water pressure being lost right away, so if you didn’t have water already stored you’d be SOL
Very interesting. I had no idea Roxen was even a thing. Never heard it mentioned once in the past 20 years of being a linux janitor! Kinda like AOLServer/Navi levels of obscurity.
>> 150 hours in a 7 day period

> Doing what? Just curious.

I can't speak for the GP (as I am not they), but can say I pulled a 118 hour work week once doing s/w development. Four 20 hour days for one client and the other 38 for another.

Suffice to say it was not a fun week.
I searched "west ridge of death valley" and found this: https://live.staticflickr.com/4895/44030456180_28939e0a06_b.... . Maybe this was what gp was talking about?
Hardware wallet would be the safest method. I use a trezor myself.
> the compiler must take this call to an opaque host-platform closure (which evaluates to itself) and somehow marshal it into something for the target platform.

If we're cross-compiling, we are almost certainly doing file compilation whereby we have to externalize the compilation product to be transported to the target where it is loaded.

If we use ANSI Lisp file compilation as our source of requirements, then we only have to handle, as source code literals, objects which are "externalizable". Closures are not.

See 3.2.4 Literal Objects in Compiled Files

Of course, you can adopt externalizable closures as a requirement in your own compiler project, if you like.
Arq backup is fantastic and will work with any SFTP endpoint - not just name-brand (proprietary) cloud services.
I had this feature on my old 2007 Audi A6, which replaced the moon roof with a solar sun roof, which powered a fresh air fan when parked in the sun. I purchased it off-lease, and it was pretty much maxed out on features. I never saw another A6 with the solar option - I think it had to be special ordered from the factory. A shame, it was really handy in the Texas heat.

Now I have a tesla which can just run the AC at will, which is even better :)
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Northridge knocked me out of bed and I woke up on the floor.
I’ve been thinking of getting us one of those for the past 15 years!

Maybe tomorrow will be the day...
Leave it to the HN comments to argue that 7 < 6.6
Kerbal Space Program taught me so much, I now realize. I was able to follow and visualize everything in this thread due to that videogame. Neat.
However, you claim that it originated as a "slur", without any evidence to support that.
As someone living on the second floor of a rather old (built in 1940s) apartment building in Northern California, I’d love to hear any suggestions for ensuring it’s safe in the event of an earthquake like this.
Why do you have to "get something extraordinary done" on your time off? You don't have to be productive any waking moment.
Odds are high that any will be a fun investment. Common Lisp is interesting for just how much it already has. In particular, I'm finding many of the things that supposedly aren't great about it, to be quite productive if you embrace it. LOOP and FORMAT, in particular.
It's a collective action problem. If we want to give up runtime performance and get stronger guarantees about what code will be understood to mean, we should revise the standard and start using new optimizers that respect it. If every compiler goes its own way, I only benefit from what they already agreed on.
Here to plug the American Red Cross emergency apps. They have high quality, offline-available info on preparation and survival of various natural disasters. I believe they also push out real time info on them about relief efforts, shelters, etc. Here is the Earthquake app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earthquake-american-red-cross/...
Good thing Denmark owns it then. Less likely to exploit it
If I had a system where 19% of my coffee refills were toxic I’d be a dead man.

My point is, in some cases false positives are ok, in other cases they are not.
Rent control doesn't work long term [0]. If you have a healthy housing market, then normal market forces will keep rents down. That is not to say that creating a healthy housing market is easy, but it is a different problem.

At a high level, UBI is a wealth transfer from the rich to the poor [1]. One extreme is that 100% of the additional wealth received by the poor goes to rent, another extreme is that 0% does. [2]. The number will probably fall someplace in the middle, along with inflation on other assets. Regardless of what asset classes see what inflation, and what the exact amount of inflation is, the bottom tier of wealth/income people will control a bigger share of buying power, which should help them in aggregate.

Returning to the housing question, there is reason to think that UBI will improve the health of housing markets. One of the major issues in housing we are seeing is economic activity being concentrated in a few wealthy areas, driving up local housing prices. In addition to being a wealth transfer on an individual level, UBI is also a wealth transfer on a geographical level, where money goes from the few rich centers to the less rich areas. On the margins, this will cause people to move away from the high-demand areas and into the low-demand areas. I doubt this force will be strong enough to fix all of our housing markets, but I would expect it to help.

[0] Although it can work as a policy to shift market risks from the renter to the landlord; which may be worth doing.

[1] Assuming a rational funding system.

[2] Conceivably, the numbers could pass either bound, but I think that possibility falls clearly in the 'you need more specific justification; bucket.
> Compile it, look at the assembly. You can know. The answer will vary from place to place, but it isn't non-existent.

This pretty much is the definition of "undefined behaviour" in the context of a standardized language specification.
it gets easier as the kids get older. it also helps to have interesting hobbies yourself that you can involve your kids in.

so instead of asking: how am i going to entertain this bunch on rainy weekends, ask: what hobby might i like to pick up that i can get my kids interested in.

i have been struggling with that too. i am considering things like learning an instrument, programming, playing board-games.

i found a simplified version of DnD, made it even easier and combined it with using lego to build the environment (including treasure boxes)

and when it's not raining there are plenty of outdoor activities to choose from.