skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, calling it health 'insurance' is a horrible misnomer. But, I don't think that your solution (stipend + insurance) is good, since there are conditions that increase the frequency of 'routine' care. So, for instance, a diabetic with no income/wealth, who has to rely solely on their stipend for healthcare, would still be screwed with one of these conditions.

You might say that insurance should cover this kind of condition and not consider it 'routine care', but we see how well this works in the current for-profit medical insurance system. Insurance providers seem to be okay paying out low-frequency high-cost events, since that's the risk profile they model, but they hate paying out recurring care costs. Once you become a recurring cost, it is in their profit interest to reduce your care, or get you off their rolls.
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That argument is basically Hayek's (and Mises's) answer to the economic calculation problem. Hayek argued (in "The Use of Knowledge in Society") that free markets are better than centralised planning, because of dispersed knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek#The_economic_c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Use_of_Knowledge_in_Societ...
Using ASGs with zookeeper is kind of a pain, but also not very necessary. Production zookeeper clusters are almost always either 3, 5, or 7 nodes and it's very rare to change that once a cluster is in production. Given that this is all very static, the easiest thing is to just use terraform or similar to create the ec2 instances. If a node dies, you re-run your terraform to create a replacement.

Alternatively, you can create an ASG-per-node so that you get auto-replacement.

In my experience, ZK is one of the easiest and most reliable distributed systems to operate. I've only seen issues when it's used as a database instead of a distributed coordination service.
>I worked at Vanderbilt on their payroll system, and I would regularly see general practitioners making $350,000 a year, and this was 15 years ago! It wasn’t uncommon to see teaching doctors getting paid a million dollars.

It isn't uncommon for software developers to make $350,000 a year or even over a million if they get equity in the right company. Maybe the Googles of the world wouldn't have to spy on their users to the same extent if software developers weren't so greedy and taking such a huge slice of the value of their own labor.

Would anyone here agree with that statement? If not, how is it fair to apply that same logic to doctors?

It is also worth noting that doctors have other costs that don't apply to people in the tech industry such as the high cost of the extra schooling they must receive and malpractice insurance which can cost anywhere from a low 5 digits to $150,000+ a year deepening on their specialty.
It's fine, we'll print the message on hats so people know were talking about something else haha.
I warned you that if you trolled HN like this again, we would ban you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19496857.

I don't want to ban you because your comments have been mostly good recently. But you've also continued to post flamebait, and if you keep doing it we won't have much choice. Would you please review the guidelines and not post destructively here? The idea is to preserve HN as an interesting place for all of us. Scorched earth is not interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Aka: “make it easy to do the right thing, make it hard to do the wrong thing”.

Health care software doesn’t do this concept very well. And I find it hard to get the vendor to make changes when their dev team is in a place where... personal protective equipment and/or safety isn’t really in their culture (and 10+ year shorter life expectancy).
Single player so I assume it streams fine.
With multiplayer and the other side deliberately cheating it is not going to work.
Can’t beat physics
Wow, such an interesting perspective. I never thought about it that way!
FWIW "floating" has a more general use outside of the electrical trade. I read "if the EGC is floating" as "if the EGC is disconnected from where it normally is connected", which does make the original sentence true (just not interesting in the context of discussing why systems are generally grounded).

Also the EGC does have more purposes than simply clearing fault current - for example carrying away leakage current from the chassis of something with a switching power supply where the output can't be completely isolated to meet emissions. Ever been shocked by a laptop with only a two-prong AC adapter?

IMO this whole subject is a minefield of disagreements due to terminology, when really all questions are answered by drawing out the schematic of a typical electrical system and looking at the loops (circuits). For instance in the typical ground fault, the fault current returns to the distribution transformer in parallel through all of: your service's neutral, your grounding rod, your neighbors grounding rods/service neutrals, and your other leg of the split phase via turned-on devices. This seems like a lot of unrelated details to memorize until one draws it out.
California wildfire victims still waiting for $200M in federal funds
Yeah, I did gloss over a bit the distinction between the value of the developer's labor and the value of the extension.

I do think that $200K/year is a wild overestimate of the value of the extension, on the ground that Google and other similar companies assign very few new hires to write browser extensions. But yes, the amount of skill and time and focus that goes into the average extension and the average new hire project is at least within the same order of magnitude.

We are generally bad at finding ways to compensate/monetize people for skilled labor that does useful things for the world but isn't directly profitable, so I think trying to tackle that for the case of extensions is a harder problem than is reasonable to demand.
Isn't Technology Review just some college newspaper? I've always found their articles be at buzzfeed quality.
Are "cash" prices always cheaper than what's billed to insurers? What if one starts an "alt-isurance" company that just gives people cash for their medical bills that operates completely outside the medical industry network?
Profitability=tax
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20592668
> but HN doesn't allow characters like '<'

Good thing that it doesn't, otherwise the next deadline would be about XSS injection on Hacker News.
It's funny that nowadays we look at images in churches, old books, and other old buildings to deduce what medieval people did. What will people use in 200 years to deduce what we did? Will they use social media selfies? Or will those have disappeared?
It's definitely unethical to pay someone to do your homework at any level of education. I was only commenting on your surprise that a PhD candidate would need help with their homework.
I appreciate the detail in your privacy policy.

- Do you collect browsing history? Do you sell it?
- How many companies have offered to buy the extension from you? For how much?
- Have you tried publishing an in-app or in-store paid version?
- Is the "User generated information" encrypted at rest?
It's always great to see public domain books being made available, and standardebooks is certainly worth a visit. However, while I read quite a lot and in particular the sort of books that are available there, I mostly give the site a miss purely because of its design. I don't want to seem too sarcastic, but having huge images as a listing for books is odd when most of the users can read quite well. I'm probably a bit sensitive about this, since our local library does the same thing - it almost looks like there is something about uncompromisingly textual information that provokes a reaction from web designers.
I have had sideloaded files mysteriously disappear from a Paperwhite 3.
There’d be almost the same amount of electronics just sitting in Google’s servers.
People don’t game 24/7 but if Google want to provision for peak loads like Christmas they can’t really get away with having less?
Non-AMP url: https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-is-a-hedge-fund-that-make...
Creating Entangled Photons [YouTube]
With math it would be easier and more exact. It would have found the (1 +- sqrt(5)) / 2 irrational number. (Google for it)
Body and Hygiene in the Medieval Western World
This made me smile: (from the style guide)

> Do convert from logical punctuation to American punctuation where possible.
Recruiters and interviewers focus too much on "technology of the day" that will always change and be out of date, and not enough on foundational knowledge that is always transferable to new tech.

So if you don't have they right modern tech stack on your resume then you have no chance of getting hired even if you are perfectly capable of doing the work.

This is where "resume driven development" comes from. Smart and rational developers will choose tech stacks that look good on their resume, not necessarily what is best for the work at hand, because they want to make sure that they stay hireable in the future. It no good to do the best work you can do today, if you cannot get hired in the future. This is partly how new tech stacks are always so hyped even if they are always just more or less rehashes of what already exists.
US drug spending accounts for about 11% of total healthcare spending.
Does anyone have more specifics on how the cancer avoids an immune system response?
It really helps to be a shrewd negotiator when it comes time to pay your bill.

https://youtu.be/pY-BGNjI2Rg?t=281

Should you have to do this? No.

No one in American healthcare knows how much it costs to deliver care. And as a result, the bills are more like: "They look rich. Let's see if they'll just pay it."
3) Ocean Afforestation via macro-algae forests covering 9% of the world’s ocean surface can produce sufficient biomethane to replace all of today’s needs in fossil fuel energy, while removing 53 billion tons of CO2 per year from the atmosphere, restoring pre-industrial levels. This amount of biomass could also increase sustainable fish production to potentially provide 200 kg/yr/person for 10 billion people.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259892834_Negative_...

Offsetting current carbon emissions would require some 50 trillion trees. An alternative offset would be to cultivate kelp forests. Kelp can grow at 2 feet per day, 30 times faster than terrestrial plants. Planting kelp across 9% of the oceans (4.5 x the area of Australia) could provide the same offset. Additionally, the kelp would support a fish harvest of 2 megatons per year and reduce ocean acidification. Large scale open ocean forestry would require engineered substrate and added nutrients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture_of_giant_kelp
Why not a PS4 hardly more expensive at this point?
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I understand that, but there is a limited amount of that which can be done before it becomes spending for spending's sake, which is pointless.

Also "expand the hospital to buy a new wing, or better equipment or hire more doctors" sounds like exactly what they should be doing, because it means they can service more people at a higher standard of care (which is the reason they exist in the first place).
My Kindle Paperwhite will read PDF, there are some limits and Mobi displays better but it possible to read a PDF on a Kindle
Thanks for sharing your experience! At Prolific, we found that one good resource for learning about marketing/growth is this book called Traction by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares. It explains 19 different growth channels and instructs you around best practices on how to experiment with them.

On a very basic level, the best way to validate your market & marketing ideas is talking to the right target audience. Often you can do this in your personal circles, but sometimes you need a less biased sample (in which case Prolific might be able to help). Good luck!
The actual dash buttons (including the IoT ones) don't use lipo batteries, they use a primary cell. So you can probably shave a bit off there.
The article suggests that something else---something particular to trees, not just open green spaces---is at work here.

> More intriguingly, they also found that exposure to low-lying vegetation was not consistently associated with any particular health outcome. Exposure to grass was, surprisingly, associated with higher odds of psychological distress. The wellness-boosting feature, then, appears to be the trees.

> The researchers report that living in areas where 30 percent or more of the outdoor space is dominated by tree canopy was associated with 31 percent lower odds of psychological distress, compared to people living in areas with 0 to 9 percent tree canopy. “Similar results were found for self-related fair to poor general health,” with tree-rich residents reporting better health overall, the researchers write.
Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp
Nice. One time, I brought home a 3.5" disk from elementary school with a copy of Commander Keen 5 on it - the paid one that was so hard to get for a kid with no money and no modem. I somehow managed to leave it on the driveway near the car, overnight, inside of a faux leather wallets of sorts.

It snowed. It was the winter break, so there was no going back to school to see the other kid who had made the copy for me, not for 2 weeks. This was supposed to be my fun game for the break....

So, I carefully opened the disk, set it to dry over the heating vent, put it back together, and with the help of Norton Utilities 5.0's Disk Doctor, I got a mostly playable copy out of it. Absolutely amazing.
Big difference between a large flat reflector 20 feet away, and a uneven ocean surface, likely atleast 100 ft away...

That said, at the right angle, no, its not just fine, the ocean reflects alot of sun, just like anything else.
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Wow. I read a biography on Hemingway a while ago and don't remember it talking about any of this.
Are you really saying that these companies are losing money so they don't have to pay taxes?
No the parent is right. They are not "listening all the time". They're essentially sleeping while a separate process handles the audio stream looking for the wakeword. When it finds the wakeword, it then "wakes up" the assistant which reprocesses the audio snippet to confirm the wakeword is really there (using more expensive analysis), before then actively listening to the rest of the audio.
Please don't take HN threads into partisan flamewar.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20594434 and marked it off-topic.
Yes, but curved, not a large flat reflector. Huge difference
Hyrum's Law: "With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody."

http://www.hyrumslaw.com/
>but of course, DOS can only write to floppy disks

DOS can write to hard drives just fine. Maybe not some early versions, but certainly all of the versions I used.
This kind of thing fascinates me. Another example is the various names we have for types of cars- coupes, sedans, even more obscure ones like 'shooting brake'. These were names for types of horse-drawn carriages, and cars inherited the names as models were released which mimicked some aspects of one type of carriage or another.

Another example is when someone refers to recording something as "taping" it, even though tape as a recording medium is mostly long gone. In their conversations, the term "taping" made the leap from "recording on tape" to simply "recording", and lost its original meaning.
Domino’s position makes more sense if you take them at their word: the problem isn’t technical, it’s that there’s no legal (rather than industry) standard for what makes a website accessible. Corporations don’t like legal uncertainty, and what I suspect Domino’s is after is for the Court or Congress to articulate a standard (or, more likely, point to an existing standard, giving it the force of law) so that all web sites have common and stable accessibilty guidelines.
Honestly, the new one is even less informative than the original.
Visible here: https://archive.is/eUpyE
This is more about ANSI BBS art than it is about warez - which was usually contained ASCII art for releases.
I gotta say, when AI is able to converse like humans, a lot of bad stuff will happen. People are so used to the other conversation partner having self-interest, empathy, being reasonable. When enough bots all have a “swarm” program to move conversations in a particular direction, they will overwhelm any public conversation. Moreover, in individual conversations, you won’t be able to trust anything anyone says or negotiates. Just like playing chess or poker online now. And with deepfakes, you won’t be able to trust audio or video either.

The ultimate shock will come when software can render deepfakes in realtime to carry on a conversation, as your friend but not. As a politician who “said crazy stuff” but really didn’t, but it’s in the realm of believability.

I would give it about 20 years until it all goes to shit. If you thought fake news was bad, realtime deepfakes and AI conversations with “friends” will be worse.

(If you go 50 years out people can start building sleeper bots with reputations to subvert community consensus, eg about science or politics. All our systems will be subverted. Don’t believe me? How far are we from that with “skeptical” blog comments and tweets or sorta-believable allegations ruining people’s reputations?)
This will come out as pure whining and probably off-topic, but how on Earth can they can have so much money (in cash no less) and at the same time can't sell some of their flagship products worldwide?

We're halfway through 2019, I'm sitting in a small eurozone country and still can't give them my money and order a Google Pixel properly from their site. Using this example because I consider a phone to be a relatively expensive device that probably generates a good profit over its lifetime. Other non-hardware products which produce smaller profits, such as activating a magazine subscription on the Google News application probably don't even register on their radar.

Apple, with all its failings, is always there and never misses the opportunity to ring the cash register. Sometimes they move slowly, but always make it eventually. Won't even go to non-hardware players like Netflix.

Come to think of it, maybe having so much cash is a mixed blessing for Alphabet, because it could be the actual cause if the above mentioned behaviour.
The idea is actually from Jared Diamond’s “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”.
Please don't feed egregious comments by replying. That only makes things worse.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I don't know that there is a difference, and I'm finding the fact that it's becoming more widespread a problem. There could already be a nontrivial number of coerced or paid voters. Voting by mail should be a tiny percentage of the vote, largely consisting of people who are overseas. Instead, we're starting to see a lot of elections decided by mail-ins.
I recently had a "$140" blood test that Cigna declined. I was billed $6.48 (which is what Cigna would have paid if they accepted). I'm pretty sure I would have been charged more than $6.48 without Cigna involved.
Yes, basically any Linux distro or equivalent product (like Homebrew) provides this. I'm drawing a distinction between having a distro and putting the pieces together yourself, not between any two distros. (I'm mostly familiar with Debian but I think it is just about as easy everywhere.)
A lot of the price has to do with doctor's vouching for certain costs as well. Other than the airline industry I can't think of a worse case of being built on a giant house of cards.
Seeing someone fire up wireshark, sniff some traffic and solve a complex production issue in five minutes by looking at the raw packets never gets old.
...but the fact that the median income of young people (at the beginning of their career, whatever it is) is much lower than old people, pretty much nullifies this. If you want to balance out the costs over a person's life, there are much better ways than making the coffeeshop barrista subsidize the middle-manager's health costs.
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You could make the same case for those on Wall Street. I think it’s a separate debate whether all that is fair. I think what’s different in medicine is

1. Medical care is not optional when you need it.

2. There aren’t readily available options to choose between.

3. You don’t know how much you’ll be paying when you need it.

4. Band-aids and tongue suppressors costing $30. stuff like that which is unquestionably egregious.
A simple solution would have been an e-ink screen that listed the price per unit/press, but that probably would have increased button costs by an order of magnitude.

Also more users probably would become aware of price variance (as you have) and changed their shopping habits, which is not good for business.
Maybe not IT professionals by themselves. It does seem to me like the solution needs to be a technological one, though. Those working on that can probably use the help of IT professionals.
They should probably put the title as Medieval Europeans, the misconception that Medieval "people"/Europeans don't bathe isn't a global notion because Medieval people from other places bathed such as the Japanese.
I'm afraid that's not accurate. (Isn't it fascinating how something that didn't happen can be "very very obvious"?) Rather, a moderator downweighted it because this story has had several major discussions on HN recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20383708

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20479471

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20548701

No important story ever feels like it gets enough discussion on HN, because frontpage space is the scarcest resource here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... It's important to avoid repetition because the goal of the site is to gratify curiosity. When there's an ongoing story, one test we apply is whether there is significant new information in a new submission: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... In this case I don't think the bar was met.
We already have that .. sort of. They're called Health Savings Accounts and by law they're tied to high-deductible policies. Mine is $2500, so I'm on the hook up to that amount. With some caveats, such as payments for drugs, etc. The good news is that money is yours to keep and use (only!) for health related expenses. So unlike a FSA the balance will roll over to the next year and continue earning interest.

The other trend along these lines are concierge doctors. They don't accept insurance, and typically operate on a subscription basis (X dollars per month).
> What about the, let's say past 4.5 Billion years?

That's not really relevant, is it? The issues with the climate change happening now is that it is man-made, and that we've built most of our civilization around the assumption that the climate was either not changing, or was changing very slowly.

If something was causing increase flooding in, say, Nebraska, would you bring up that Nebraska was hundreds of meters below water 100 million years ago? If an arsonist were setting wildfires in your your near inhabited areas, would you bring up that there have been wildfires for hundreds of thousands of years due to lighting?

And yes, we know that most of the present day climate change is man-made, because we know that most of the CO2 increase in the atmosphere during industrial times is man-made. We know that because CO2 that comes from burning fossil fuels and plants has a different isotope makeup than CO2 that comes from other sources.