skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insurance is not supposed to make routine things more affordable. It's supposed to spread the risk of catastrophic loss from unlikely events around to a large group of people so you don't have to worry about losing your house if you get struck by lightning. Everyone needs routine medical care at some point so an insurance model doesn't work there.

You don't have gas or grocery insurance, do you? If that were a thing would we all expect to pay less for gas and groceries, or would we just be tacking on overhead for routine expenses for no reason?

Using insurance for routine, affordable expenses is one of the problems. But it's a race to the bottom where insurance companies win, because everyone in the U.S. thinks "good" insurance pays for everything and makes a 17% profit out of nothing.

In addition to the transparency the article advocates for, we'd probably be way better off with a universal health care stipend and very high deductible insurance for rare catastrophic events. Insurance should not be involved in routine care.
These ultra high net worth people are getting loans at such low interest rates because the collateral is so much larger than the loan.

If you have $10B in stock, you probably aren't going to borrow so much as to even get close to a margin call in a market downturn.
I agree. If you have an idea that realistically has a 10% chance of huge success, with UBI you just go ahead and try it. 10% chance that you succeed, and 90% chance that you will spend a few years doing something interesting, learn a lot, but ultimately won't achieve the imagined success. Which is not a bad outcome.

Without UBI... well, for people from rich families it is the same. But for everyone else, it means 90% chance that your kids will starve. Not fun.
The article says they controlled for income.
I feel you. I've done road trips accross the country, and every time I go through those midwest states I get this low-key dread that I barely notice at first. But then, once I get to a place with rolling hills and trees on the horizon, I immediately notice how relieved I feel. I always attributed it to just wanting familiarity in the landscape, but maybe trees are a bigger part of that than I realized. The smell of forests is also much more pleasant than fields, so perhaps it's a combination of visuals and odors being "off" that makes me feel uncomfortable.
The value of a company’s shares is the sum of its assets and its expected future earnings, both divided by the number of shares. The assets are a known quantity and do not fluctuate much in value, but the expected future earnings may. When a company makes a buyback, it is changing the constituent parts of its shares’ value to be less asset(ie. cash) heavy and more expected future earnings heavy. If the expected future earnings were underestimated for some reason, the result will be a more share than if the company had kept its cash. If OTOH the future earnings were overestimated, the value of the share will decline more than if the company had kept its cash.
My mother worked for years as secretary for an EdD who was unable to draft a coherent paragraph: she wrote all of his business letters for him. He did, I believe, enjoy being referred to as "Doctor".
Working on semiconductors/electronics is "old tech" that is still very important. It's been around for quite a while.

Compare to Fortran or supercomputers. Was important, isn't much so these days, although is still used.

What I'm saying is that you got on a train that has been running longer than some other trains, hence you meet older people on the train. As someone who has little interest in management I hope to be as successful as you, in this sense of picking long distance trains.
> If you're talking price point $5 would be $0 profit by that bill of items.

negative profit when you count assembly.
For a machine, is it generally a good idea to distribute a common power bus voltage like 48VDC to independent modules (embedded computers, servo controllers) for them to stepdown inside the application module (12vdc, 24vdc) or should the power be stepped down early at the distributor module? What are the advanced tradeoffs?
I must admire beautiful cover art selected for ebooks.
privileged people have the option of using pre-tax + employer funded FSA/HSA accounts, where a wide array of hygienic purchases, medical purchases and even copays can be paid for and further subsidized.

These are part of your overall “insurance package”, in conversation this is typically called being insured with no regard to whether an insurance company is actually picking up the tab.
But you are forgetting the fact that the corporation will have to pay corporate income tax on that money before they can use it to pay your dividend.
You can say it, but I'm not sure why you'd think it's true. As I mention elsewhere in this thread, Java is mainly being written in contexts where they already have a lot of Java.

And C++ has been declining for years. I'm not even sure you can write C++ for the common mobile platforms. I very rarely see it used in new server-side code bases. Or even old ones these days. It was a popular language for Windows apps, but that's a declining market these days. 5 years ago, C++ was already not getting taught much in schools [1], and surely that hasn't changed.

[1] https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-th...
I think it's also just the way trees breath. I live in a wooded area of my city, and when I go to the concrete downtown it just feels worse. Like it's much hotter, and the air is stale.
The users! It is provided for free, anyone is free to pony up the funds/effort to develop and run tests. If you find a bug but don’t know how to fix it, there’s even a guy (the developer) who will try to fix it for you free of charge!
Let's take this from the top: Rothenberg Ventures gained significant value by being featured as a HBS case study; the case study happens to written up by two professors who are heavily invested in Rothenberg. Yeah, they had a disclaimer or whatever. But I'm sorry - that is still an indication of shadiness, even before all these poor honest investors got ripped off by their even shadier business partner.
I wonder how many self-hosted GitLab instances are configured with the same assumption in mind
They do set up shop elsewhere. The problem is that the BigCos are also doing the same (NYC, Seattle, Austin, Boulder, etc.) and bringing their high salaries with them.
Scientists may have solved MLB's 'juiced' baseball problem
The curse of the expert beginner:

https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...

And the Dead Sea Affect:

http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
> Startups on the other hand can't always afford to pay $100k+ for a junior engineer.

Sounds like a failed business plan then.
Buying best of breed solutions that integrate with their cloud is as good an ever-present option as I can think of.

It adds value to their cloud, is responsive to actual customer desires, and generally seems like a bargain at the right stage (a Google-supported tool being more valuable than a third-party GCP tool, even with Google's questionable dedication to longevity).

Just don't make the IBM / MS mistake and think adding more PMs to previously successful company is a good idea.
1) Double the lifetime clicks (2000 vs 1000)
2) More tightly integrated with the AWS IoT 1-Click service. (so arguably more restricted, but actually easier to manage and scale if you're an actual enterprise managing thousands of these in the field, rather than one developer building a toy app)
Thanks, it’s honestly the hardest part of the production process.
Yes. Berlin to me in Summer is trees and bikes and water.
Ah, yes, well spotted. That was an oversimplification. Two hots, one neutral, zero "grounds".
I had a few, but stopped using them because the pricing was erratic.

Push a button for pistachios, and a pound bag shows up for $8.99.

Push the same button two weeks later, and get charged $17.99.

I liked the idea, though. It would have been good if it had been incorporated into the whole Whole Foods thing.
Some critique

- psu drawing: no left-to-right flow, connector names are numbered, output connector (CONN2) is just floating around on the left and connected via net names. Same pretty generic net name ("out") is used as in the main amp.

- amplifier drawing: the main feedback loop is obscured because it's only connected via net names, connectors are again just stashed of somewhere to the side and only connected by name and not labelled. I would also point out that each op-amp of the quad-op-amp U1 shares the same designator, so you can't talk about U1a, U1b etc., which you actually do in the text.

The left half of the schematic is arranged pretty neatly and logically, but the discrete output stage is pretty cramped over there (clearly limited by the fixed sheet size), though standard arrangements of the building blocks make it quite clear what everything is (U1c U/I conversion, current mirror to the top rail, mirrored back to the bottom rail with an x3 CM, resistive load to the top, emitter follower output stage, CCS as load, off to the output).
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VC firms don't have valuations. They raise funds and get paid a percentage of the funds under management (typically 2%/yr) for operating costs and a percentage of the overall gains they make (typically 20%).

As far as reliability of results: an insider's view (perhaps slightly biased) is usually more reliable than an outsider's view (who doesn't know anything more than what's publicly reported.)
MAGA - Microsoft Apple Google Amazon:

Edit:

I just realized what else that stood for...
Another option is to just let it go to insurance, and if they fully reject it, then call the place and tell them the insurance wont cover anything - then you'll get heavy discounts (usually they just feel bad and remove codes and what not). Unless you had gone to a corporate place, of course, which they all tend to be now.
One of the few times I wish I had a reddit account, just so I could give an old post some $REDDIT_KARMA_POINTS (whatever currency they use). That is an outstanding explanation that cleared up some things for me that I do because electrical code, not because "knows the 'why' of what he's doing".
You watching the news?
Most of the work is life of the author + 70 years, but the US is anything published in 1924 or later (with a few exceptions, for example if copyright wasn’t renewed in the 60s).
It's not that favorable if all the corporate cash is stored overseas in low tax holding countries.

The corporation will have to repatriate the money and pay corporate income tax on it before they give you your dividends.

Alternatively, they could just grow that hoard of cash and let your stock appreciate after which you can sell a few shares and get capital gains rates on capital that didn't have to be double taxed.
Some animations really help usability.

I use a programme picker that is a poor Netflix clone. Selecting down to the next row is immediate, and selecting right for the next show within a row also immediately jumps.

Vertical and horizontal smooth scrolling (a type of animation) would improve the UI (caveat: unless too slow of course).
I had this backwards. How in the world did AdBlock end up with rights to the uBlock name if 'uBlock' is a fork of what was originally called 'uBlock' but then became 'uBlock Origin'? Seems like the fork should have been required to change it's name. EFF should get in on this and resolve it once and for all.
Is there a reason why programming languages use semicolons instead of dots as terminators?
There is a tree directly outside of the window right next to my bed. In the morning, I watch the variety of birds (changing with the seasons) flit around the branches, socializing with each other. It's simple, but a highlight of my day. I'm moving in a few weeks and this tree will be one of the things I miss most about my apartment.
I have good experience with FBReader for Android (from F-Droid). For some reason FBReader for Linux (from Debian) seems more problematic.
Local Routing in a new Indefinitely Scalable Architecture [pdf]
There a few different drivers of the ridiculous list prices at hospitals.

1. The gov't forces them to disclose a price and they can't charge higher than it. Thus, they have every incentive to make it really high, then give preferred customers (insurers) a discount.

2. The system is firmly locked into a cycle of "percent of charges". Basically the insurer says "I know your chargermaster prices are inflated, so let's agree on 20% of that". The following year the hospital jacks up the chargemaster prices during negotiation so they start from a higher initial point.
Seems Wikipedia has a dedicated article on the subject!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc
Is this a joke or is Tobias a (great) grandson of Paul Gottlieb's?
Triple pane is standard for new installation, which are typically noise dampening as well. Four pane is the nonplusultra option right now.
Grass at the neighbors is always greener even for youtubers.
I believe/guess it manifests most noticably when you have a large amount of history, so it might be hard to repro with a fresh profile. I'm on the road away from a real computer, but when I get back I'll give it a shot.
The structure is a messed up mix of the red tape and regulation of a government bureaucracy, monopolistic behaviour (try getting 3 quotes for a procedure like you would for a bathroom renovation), subsidies, freeloaders, and weird incentives.

The government has decided it's too stupid to run hospitals. But it's also decided that it needs to ensure both the supply of hospitals, and to maintain standards. So instead of just telling doctors what to do (and paying them enough to ensure a steady stream of high quality medical students) it tries to get all the red tape and subsidies right, while the private sector (hospitals and insurers) try to figure out how to outsmart the government and make the system more expensive.

The US government spends a similar amount (per captia or as a percent of GDP) as Canada on its public funding (Medicare, Medicaid, VA, and so on). But the US system is so fantastically inefficient (due to weird incentives and massive amounts of bureaucracy and profit seeking) that unlike Canada it can't even offer basic universal healthcare (despite spending an insane amount of tax dollars).
Surprisingly, I find my lawn maintenance to be supremely de-stressing. I get to slap on headphones and listen to podcasts or music while doing mild physical labour that results in something becoming more aesthetically pleasing than it had been previously.
Probably, but that would require even more light.
This. Expanding words and phrases out of their acronyms, abbreviations, or shorted versions lends an air of genuineness and intention to what you are saying.
It's very common to edit your typo but still leave it there either crossed out, and/or leave an EDIT: and explain what/why you changed it.

It's perfectly okay to ensure your text is communicating accurate information - in fact leaving it may undermine your explanation as certain folks will focus on the error (or others won't notice it and learn something incorrect).
> Those same threads have logins like "indebt4life" and "kids2feed", which matches what I've heard from doctor friends: the length and cost of medical training and insurance are so brutal that the folks gatekeeping are themselves in an unhealthy lifestyle and don't want it to get worse.

It's gatekeeping that causes that.

There are complex procedures that require a decade of medical training and simpler ones that don't. If you take the doctor with the extensive training and have them do only the complex procedures, it's easy to justify paying them mid six figure salaries that cover their costs.

But if you have regulations that require that same doctor to spend three quarters of their time doing simple procedures that could reasonably be done by a PA or a nurse, the average value of their services drops and they have a harder time commanding a salary that can pay for their schooling and insurance.
Same here, I'm having a hard time telling which one will actually help. The one that seems most promising to me is Climeworks. I wrote a bit more about what they told me in another comment last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20544179
Not all the sources come from Gutenberg for a start. But for those that do I usually keep a running list of proofing corrections as I go and submit them back. Gutenberg are pretty responsive to any changed submitted if you supply a link to source scans as well.
If it wasn't in direct sunlight or of it was a light color there's a good chance it's still readable.

Come on OP, don't let us down here.
Amazon's "email to kindle" system also accepts books in the mobi format which would be a preferable to mapping pdf page sizes to Kindle reader screen sizes.
The author of this Medium post also posted about this back in January[1] so the issue hasn't been resolved since then?

[1] https://medium.com/@logicbomb_1/bugbounty-nasa-internal-user...
There's a degree of "whataboutism" to your statement. The article is about conspiracy theory extremists, who haven't typically been included in the "terrorist" grouping. It seems like you're trying to drag something unrelated (antifa) into the discussion.
Tap and hold works for me to select text on HN using iOS 12
No one is suggesting we cut down other trees though, there are large expanses of deforested land and the goal here would be rapid reforestation.

Replacing a complete lack of tree with any other tree is an improvement.
Facebook announces first takedown of campaign with ties to Saudi government
I was responding to the possibility of YouTube just embedding ads directly into the video to thwart current ad-blocking techniques. If that happens the audio would already be playing before an advertisement started. Something like Adblock Radio is a more sophisticated approach that could still detect ads like that.
It might not be exactly political. We seem to get about a dozen articles per day on climate change and that just gets tiresome. Dedicated climate change blogs are elsewhere. When I look at the new articles just now, 3 out of 30 are obviously about climate change. That's 10%, which is absurd. I probably missed several, because I just looked at headlines. Of course people are going to play whack-a-mole with that.

Flipping your judgement around, did you like the article for political reasons? We could equally well say this: "a few left-wingers very very obviously upvoted it for political reasons and spammed it on to the front page. Which should be actionable." We're not supposed to be doing political battle on Hacker News.

There were other articles that could have been used, without beating a dead horse. Here is one, with an insightful comment section, that doesn't needlessly push the climate guilt trip:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/07/16/university-of-alas...

Even better would be an article that actually lists the degree programs being kept and cut. There should be some concern about the loss of research that would help with petroleum extraction and mining, or a confirmation that those important programs are safe. There could be some mention of HAARP.
Proper AEAD becomes a lot simpler, on the other hand a lot of structural information is just plain there.
Wouldn't the "privileged" prefer to have actual money they could spend as they want instead of be forced to use it for a single purpose, including the extra cost of a middle man? It sounds like some sort of tax scam.
I guess because benefits of 'dot notation' vastly overpass the ones of eol-with-dot.
Where was that? In the US at least you didn’t have to confirm.
Being out on the open plain exposes you to predators.
You can make your living space a low-grade cleanroom with a decent HEPA filter or two (the 99.97 kind) for at most a few hundred dollars. If I close the windows my apartment easily achieves a PM2.5 score of 0.

You can't so much create an "outside" environment for so little effort.

My biggest grievance with where I live is that being "outside" somewhere that concrete and brief strips of grass for dogs to pee in aren't the dominant space occupiers is work and I'm not just outside, I'm at a destination.
I soured on discord/slack/etc when their absurdly bad performance caused my laptop to get so hot it probably neutered me.

Seriously though, those services are fine on a powerful tower PC plugged into the wall, but if you're on the move on battery power, they are unbearable.
More clarification. In this particular case, it was a splunk alert that had been altered. The class of alert that I'm thinking about is third party monitoring of events/metrics/logs that your service or application emits.
I've had good luck getting Google to mark books as public domain, at least if they are government publications. Here's what I do: I click on the "Report an issue" link at the bottom, select "I have a question or feedback about a book", and fill out the form, selecting "I’d like to see the entire book, and I believe the book is in the public domain" as the reason. Doesn't work every time, but I'd guess it has worked over 90% of the time for me. Might work for other reasons too. I don't know at the moment, but I'll give it a shot at the next opportunity I have.
That dude "self-investigate" Comet Pingpong based on Pizzagate rumors, and ended up shooting hole(s) in the roof, didn't he? Then there's Anthony Comello killing Franceso Cali a few months ago, with Qanon things scrawled on his hands in court.

The violence is already manifesting.
I live in Canada and my experiences are with the Canadian health care system in Ontario.

Edit: I have friends that live in the US and work in tech and enjoy better care. Like I said, the Canadian system is much better if you're poor but the US system is better for tech-worker income and above. This is why it sticks around: powerful people and voters in the US are likely to be old or rich-enough and enjoy good care.
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"it needs to be done slowly, in a sensitive manner"

I'm not sure "sensitive" is the right word, but I would go for "done in a manner that doesn't lead to mass deaths".

About 600,000 people died in the US civil war. It would have been better if the slaves could have been freed with fewer deaths, even if it took a few years longer.

(Note: I've no idea whether there was any real possibility of that.)
Indeed, this has been my career path to, I'm in my 50's and have always avoided 'going vertical' as I think of it - becoming a specialist in one little area. Stick to the bread and butter and just keep learning new stuff, really programming hasn't changed much at all if you know C and assembler, and a bit of hardware, know some maths, all the rest is just rearrangement of the words.
I feel the opposite. I'm way more prone to feeling overstimulated in urban environments. Though it's nearly impossible to say if that's from the environment, the people, or both.

Forests and beaches are both very calming to me though. I think it's the consistent, but non-threatening landscape and background noises and smells. I'm not over-stimulated by those natural environments, so I have peace to introspect. In cities I'm always watching my surroundings and trying to figure out where I am based on the buildings and roads around me, so I definitely feel like I notice and am stimulated by the city. I'm just kind of exhausted afterward and not able to relax because it demands so much attention.
I mean.. why aren't they using a vpn and restricting external access at the firewall?
Reducing US healthcare costs sounds similar to reducing carbon emissions. Cuts need to come from everywhere because the system as a whole is inefficient. There's no single silver bullet.
I don't think are any good work techniques when you're surrounded by assholes.