skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ended up in the ER a few months ago. The paramedics wanted around $2,500, the hospital (Dignity Health) wanted maybe $3,500, and the doctor had another few hundred in fees. Sadly that all felt pretty cheap.

Dignity Health deserves a special mention though. They obfuscate their billing as much as possible. The initial bill indicated they'd give me a cash discount and wanted something like $2500. Then they sent me another bill for $1800 if I paid promptly, with lots of weasel words to make it seem like I really owed more than $1800. So, of course I paid but I had no real idea if $1800 would be sufficient (in fact their online payment portal hinted it wouldn't be). The best part was getting a survey about the quality of their billing statements right after.
What do the history books tel us about money?

It always gets devalued!! Look at the USD trend since the fed was created over 100 yrs ago.

Soon $100 will be the new dollar bill.
Tesla's Million Mile Battery
Too bad web standards went in the direction they did and we never got a simplified version of the web, but instead a bloated one that requires MB of JavaScript dependencies for dynamic applications.
No, being wealthy means that the Sacklers belong to a class that our system is designed to protect. They will not face prison time, and they will remain billionaires even after the lawsuits and settlements. The only time someone who belongs to their class goes to prison is if they fuck with another rich person's money.
Yep. More than a decade ago, I formulated this rule: if it doesn't say what it wants in the first 3 sentences, I ain't reading it.

I'd also suggest one more thing: do not send emails on which you expect a response on Friday evening. It'll be gone and forgotten by Monday. Send it on Monday morning instead. OTOH if you'd like to bury some mildly bad news, Friday evening is a perfect time to send it out, for the same reason.
I think one of the reasons why most dentists can give you a straight up price on the spot is because they own the practice which means they are the decision maker when it comes to prices. Plus with a dentist, there's a pretty decent chance you're not dealing with insurance companies. With a hospital you're dealing with a million layers of abstraction at both the hospital and insurance company level.

I'm definitely not defending hospitals and most doctor's offices but I think that plays some part in it. There's also a decent amount of dental competition when it comes to routine work such as cleanings, so prices wind up staying somewhat reasonable where as with a hospital there's no competition really due to how insurance works.
I would never be able keep straight the escaping for these incantations. Writing code at the shell is not fun.
Asymptotically close to 0
> I asked how much it cost and they said $280.

I'm shocked they could give you a price. Anytime I ask for a price it takes hours of talking to multiple people spread across several days.
First, there is no such thing as late fees or interest on a hospital bill.

Sure, just like you can't charge extra for using a credit card in California as payment in most scenarios (you can get a cash discount though). There may not be late fees, but the hospital will absolutely offer to settle for a hefty discount if you pay ASAP.

By the time you get something claiming "PAST DUE" the hospital may be less willing to negotiate.
I think the natural successor to IOCCC and the Obfuscated Perl Contest is the Code Golf^1 community on stack exchange

^1: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions?tab=Votes
People drank river water for ten thousand years, but most of that is very far from clean/good.

Manure works fine. That doesn't mean it's anywhere near optimal.
“Trust the system”?
I meant that they would successfully parse the words in context (and recognize the specific words and meanings), using their language ability. To use an example from an interview with a modern master of Sanskrit constrained writing (http://www.indictoday.com/interviews/citrakavya-the-wonder-p...), in an English sentence like “She is his panicky Hispanic friend”, the sound “hispanic” may recur when spoken (depending on the speaker's accent I guess) but most listeners would successfully parse it anyway. (I think there is some “lookahead” in the way we parse things... even if “She is Hispanic” and “She is his panicky…” begin with the same set of sounds, when listening to the latter sentence the listener would quickly backtrack and latch on to the correct understanding, which includes unconsciously re-analyzing the earlier words.)

The difference I was suggesting is that such instances are either rare or awkward in English. But in Sanskrit they are common (helped by poets' enormous skill over centuries, honed in a highly language-focused tradition) even in popular works, and feel natural/elegant.
American Privilege
Just to be clear, and maybe I'm reading your question wrong, but are you saying you consider ancient Romans to be "white" but ancient Persians to be something other than "white"?
It was probably an exchange move funds between cold wallets. OpSec would dictate you need to move wallets as employees leave, leaks happen, any number of reasons.
Jail time for high level execs will make sure that they don't cut cost by neglecting quality.
I would paraphrase what you're saying like this: Don't hyperengage. Don't live and die by every news cycle. Don't let outrage consume you. Don't "other" those who disagree with you. Retain your civility, and your humanity.

But, I would say, still engage to the degree of learning about the issues, learning about candidates' positions, and voting.
This is good news. I had assumed that raspbian was 64 bit by now. It seems weird, since the Raspberry Pi v2.1 (second revision of Raspberry pi 2) launched with a 64-bit processor. I can't find a date for that launch, but the pi 3 launched in February 2016. The Pi foundation was forthcoming about Raspbian being 32 bit in the pi3 announcement article, but the timescale they laid out for making it 64 bit was "the next few months". I guess the reason anyone bothered porting to 64 bit is the fact that the pi4 has a 4GB of RAM option (you can't address the full 4GB with 32 bits).
Why is that a problem? How would someone with autism be properly referred to in the US?

I think you have misunderstood my point.

Autism is socially impairing. People with autism have trouble dealing with social stuff. So she is probably less qualified than most 16 year olds to try to figure out how fame at a young age is likely to impact her.

Most people with autism get inculcated with social programming that I think is harmful. It's an attempt to get them to behave more normally, which is usually a fundamental violation of their personal boundaries.

It's a little like introverts being told that they are weird and need to socialize the same way that extroverts do, that there is something inherently bad and broken about wanting a lot of time alone.

If she were someone with a mental IQ of 70, would you be vociferously defending her right to express herself politically? Or would you be taking a side-eyes view at the whole thing and wondering how much of this was really their opinion and how much of this was someone with more power than them using them as a puppet?

If you have a "social IQ" of 70 and are dealing with an inherently highly social arena -- politics -- at a young age, isn't that something we should wonder at?

I worry at the harm being done to her for no real gain. There was a story on HN not that long ago about a girl who was brutally raped while still a child and wrote a book about it. She ultimately committed suicide while still a minor, which made the press because she asked for assisted suicide under the laws of her country and was denied it, then took her own life anyway.

I was raped as a child. I was also in gifted programs from an early age. I got my act together in part because I walked away from the limelight and had a very private life for a lot of years.

This kind of fame means you live in a fish bowl. The press is notorious for raking awkward adolescents over the coals for being fat, not dressing adequately well, etc. Such as the children of celebrities and the daughter of the Clintons. Growing up in the limelight can be very hard on someone with normal levels of social skills.

So my concern here is that she is essentially being abused and doesn't understand the social consequences well enough to realize it yet. That's my concern.

OK, so you think we should not travel at all if we have an opinion on fixing emissions.

No, this is absolutely not at all anything I think or said. It in no way fits with my statement that I don't lecture rich people for flying to where they need to fly.

Those are clarifications. I have zero interest in pursuing what looks to me like a fruitless and pointless argument.

You have a good day.
I suspect that the LGBTQ people in these cases must have really done something that broke the law in these cases. In the news just the other day there were TWO gay lawyers who defended a gay person PRO BONO who murdered two kids in a school with 100 witnesses just because he said those kids teased him for being gay (though witnesses said no such thing ever happened).
>Trust the system you live in, and for most HN readers, from developed western economies, things will self-correct.

The people are the system in a democracy. While I can understand not worrying about every little decision the government makes, ignoring it completely is what leads a community to decay.

Any illusion of the system self correcting is a consequence of the US and western world’s dominance after winning WW2. With the kind of economic advantage, everyone was lifted up simultaneously. The real test is what happens when resources have to start being rationed.
Greta is by now sort of a politician, so let me know if I mistook your position:

Remember - politicians have no solutions. Nor do any other politicians around them.

Unless they form a totalitarian world government and sends us to the 19th century, which would be double-plus-ungood.

The only people who have solutions are scientists and engineers working on ways to power planes that don't involve burning fossil fuels. These planes will magically be ready one day and the oil lobby will stay quiet and everything will be just fine, because science. Amen. Now keep your head down until directed otherwise.
Remarkably similar to a client I wrote a while back (http://github.com/enkiv2/fern)
So how does powerpoint impact communication density?
> You could make the same argument about China.

That's true, but this is a discussion about what the US should do to protect US interests, not about what China should do to protect Chinese interests.

This is exactly the childish "well they started it!" attitude I'm talking about. China is not going to look out for US interests, nor even should they. The US has to look out for US interests, and the US needs to do that by weighing our options and choosing the ones that make sense, not by blaming China and trying to exact petty vengeance.

I don't know what the right thing to do here is, but the only way one possibly could know the right thing to do is by comparing the costs of our options, and there's a complete lack of information on this thread about what the costs of leaving the global postal union are. If you don't know what those costs are, you aren't informed enough to have an opinion on whether we should leave, period. And whining about what other countries do should have no place in deciding what we do.

Have some pride for god's sake, take responsibility for your own choices and stop blaming other people.
Ask HN: Are Service Meshes an Antipattern?
Service mesh solutions like Istio and Linkerd are gaining a lot of traction in the industry. However, it seems to me like they are predicated on what I always though was a microservices antipattern i.e. a synchronous chain of microservices calling each other (as opposed to the prescribed "right way" i.e. all inter-service communication is asynchronous through some sort of messaging). I am hesitant to outright dismiss them looking at the hype and adoption. What am I missing here, are they just helping people make their mistakes more easily?
Of course the Army name is practical and descriptive, and the Air Force name is whimsical.
The FDA has been downsized many times over the past three decades. So what we're seeing here is not at all unexpected.
I'm from the UK, but live in the SF Bay Area, and this is the single biggest thing I don't get about the US (with education costs being second). I kind of get the libertarian view of not wanting to trust the government but when the alternative is some kind of Mad Max dystopian hellscape (where people are literally dying), surely looking around the world for alternatives that actually work makes sense?
People who disagree with something, usually progressive or feminist ideology or mainstream science, but can't or won't make a rational argument for their position, choosing to portray themselves as victims of persecution for their radical, dangerous, status-quo threatening ideas.

Ironically, the same people who insist that terms like "racist", "white supremacist," "hate speech," etc. are arbitrary and can only lead down the slippery slope towards a fascist Orwellian dystopia never seem to believe that an Orwellian metaphor can be incorrectly applied.
Thanks for reminding me!

I think I'll get a Rust T-Shirt and save it for a few years. It'll be like the "Oberon" T-Shirt I still have.
Do you not?
For supplements you should look at labdoor.com. They do independent lab tests for label accuracy and ingredient safety.
Is it just because they are giant? I’ve had relatively big strawberries that are sweet and flavorful in China. But in the US, they taste like cucumber plus citrus, no sweetness, no aroma, just incredibly sour and watery.
It is a bit depressing that things are so similar today - it highlights some of the larger hidden failures of egalitarianism even while it is being celebrated.
Malnutrition may be a contributing factor to obesity. We crave more food when we’re not getting what we need. If it’s not there to begin with, or at best a lesser amount, then ever more never satisfies.
"The conservative echo chamber yelled for 40 years that every mild reform to improve people’s lives is socialism, so socialism has started polling well. Couldn’t have done it without them. … @InternetHippo"
>Trust the system you live in, and for most HN readers, from developed western economies, things will self-correct.

Why should I? Is there any evidence that things "self-correct"? Self-correct according to whose interests? Surely mine are different to yours, so we have different standards for what that "correction" entails. Have you read any normative social theory written within the past century?
I think a significant cause of this has been the simplistic/restrictivee definition of "macro" as "economy." There are other simple/powerful concepts that give a bigger bang for buck---stance, position, etc.
Imagine how much more food could be grown with just making sure the soil is healthy.
Hospitals receive extra payments when they have an unusual number of Medicare patients.

https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/finance/dsh/index.html

It’s just another case where the government splits spending across multiple programs.
You conflate allowing something to happen, with endorsing it.
Einstein’s Nobel Prize-Winning Paper on the Photoelectric Effect (1905)
I Sold Microwave Meals On Deliveroo [video]
Kaiser is actually the best/most European option, if it's available to you. This exact thing happened in my family, but the lesson I took away is being grateful to Kaiser for letting us know the price ahead of time, and all but forcing us to go a different (much cheaper) route for my wife's glasses. Don't hate the player, hate the game, and all that...
Heh centralized teams to request something as simple as a branch to commit code... or to deploy a feature, and not at scale or anything, where “services” are a simple CRUD API with like 4 people who are customers.

Bloated IT organizations. Reminds me of working in the energy industry. Made up jobs, unmotivated workers, and incompetent management including the CTO. C level exec magazines says to literally eat shit? Here, let’s eat warm turds everyone.
>A statement wrong on so many levels. Good grief, we really need to start emphasizing philosophy again in our society.

Ironically, many philosophers, from Rousseau to Marx to Marcuse would probably agree at least somewhat with what GP said. It's trivial - think of any "radical" philosopher (and they are usually the ones who drive change) and then I will agree with you - we need to emphasize philosophy, just not in the way you were thinking.
Perhaps a silly question but doesn't a plant require all these minerals to grow?
I’ll also throw out that when I played (D3) football in college, the intellectual load of the sport was higher than in some of my academic classes. We’d spend an hour a day studying film, and on the field we were expected to know understand how our actions would effect multiple other parties in a system.

I still think I got more (intellectually) out of college level football than I did out of intro level sociology.
A computer is a bad metaphor for the brain, there's no reason to strain the metaphor even further by dragging threading into it.
I like to build lots of cool command-line one-liners in Python with the Mario tool.

https://github.com/python-mario/mario
This.

I lost multiple dress sizes while making zero effort to lose weight by working on improving my nutritional status.

Or at least while working on it.

(Insert some XKCD comic about cause and correlation.) ;)
I'm surprised. Probably because I live in a rural area, but the average person having basic welding equipment isn't unusual around these parts.
A bit more efficient:

14.times.map { rand(33..126).chr }.shuffle.join
Eventually the timers and sensors will be able to apply the right inputs to hydroponics, too.
This is what the 2nd amendment is for. Exercise your rights. Fix your country.
It seems the predictions are ahead of the curve in terms of the year of technology arrival (think 2001 a space odyssey) but they seem to be inching closer, even if the reality lags a little behind the predictions
I've found this while looking last two days - https://visualregressiontesting.com/ - but in my case I'm more into validating 3d rendering from a tool
So do we throw out all basic contract law because of this?

I'm not being facetious here. I actually think that contract law has significant problem in that it assumes a level of informed consent the average person cannot give when dealing with corporations that have specialized legal teams. It is one thing for two neighbors to enter into a contract since it is a meeting of near equal minds. But the average individual and the entire legal team of some large corporation? I would find a child entering into a contract with an adult to be more likely to have informed consent.
It also incentivizes paying more.
They are like that because they essentially transliterated the original Pascal code from the paper. Leaving the variable names as they were in the paper allows for the paper to act as documentation for the code, so to speak.
Also this - https://github.com/mojoaxel/awesome-regression-testing
Original article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163803/
> That's why fighter pilots without legs can actually withstand higher-g maneuvers.

You just wrinkled my brain. Is there an actual group of fighter pilots without legs who are taking advantage of this?
as long as they get there in the end. It's exciting to see how we are striving as a species to realise some of these technologies for the greater good, rather than just for domination.
If they went to school to be an electrical lineman and incurred any student debt to do so then they already failed...

You can join the IBEW as an apprentice, get work experience, an education, and get paid...no student loans required.

I'm not sure how your friend did it, but they should have done more research...
>> Refusing to engage in politics is an abdication of your role in a democratic society

I was never assigned this role. I do not accept your premise.
My wife had an emergency, which ended up with removing one of her ovaries. Kaiser was pretty insistent about transferring her from the closest ER to one of their facilities (which was stressful), but after that the treatment was awesome. After a some major surgery and a few days recovering the bill was completely covered. Kaiser isn't perfect, but they're the closest thing to a reasonable health-care system I've seen in the US. Agree that there are worse models for how to do healthcare, within some of the constraints of the US system.
> Wasn't this a theoretical about if I did switch to using PRIMARY, why I would be upset?

Kind of? I like PRIMARY more and was wondering why you didn't. You gave some good points, so I reasoned that it was nice that X gives a choice.

I didn't mean for you to imagine getting upset. I just wondered why you preferred CLIPBOARD over PRIMARY.

> Middle click scrolls for me.

Wow, I totally forgot Windows did that! I never really found that useful back when I used Windows, though. Maybe it would have been useful with a mouse that didn't have a scroll-wheel. Wait... never mind, if there's no scroll-wheel then how can one click it... I see there were some 3-button mouses without scroll-wheels. Maybe if I had to use one of those it'd useful.

I missed this part:

> And I almost never copy and paste text without using the keyboard to do other things too, so I don't really see why you think it's a benefit that the copy/paste itself only needs one device.

It's probably just me, but I don't tend to use both devices at the same time. When I'm mostly typing, I evade the mouse to the point that I'll even browse the web using just the keyboard. I don't like to be constantly moving my hand from keyboard to mouse. It's slower and breaks the flow.

When I'm mostly browsing, I'll have my head resting on my left hand or I'll be laying down with just one arm controlling the laptop on my side and it's not fluid to have to either bring my hand down to hit a couple of keys or be moving my hand from the touchpad to the keyboard which I can barely see when laying down. PRIMARY makes it very convenient to copy-paste in these situations.
The three kinds of data scientists (2018)
Yeah, but you'd have to work for APS or SRP...That's a hard pass for me.
HBO's Silicon Valley: A Mathematical Model for Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency
For some reason, Americans keep complaining about the same problems with their government over and over again - particularly lobbying, and yet every election they nearly universally reject all their concerns in favor of tribalism and vote for the same two parties that are responsible for everything they don't want, or nobody at all, which has the same effect.

Wouldn't it be fun if whenever somebody criticizes their government, they also state who they voted for to force them to open their eyes to the fact that it's their own fault.

People rationalize it by saying that voting for a 3rd party is "wasting" their vote, but in that sense, voting for anybody is wasting their vote because it never comes down to one individual's vote deciding things. Really they just have two driving forces - allegiance to whatever tribe they randomly found themselves feeling like a part of (and mysteriously agree with all the inconsistent aims of), and wanting to be on the winning team. Healthcare be damned.
Could also be in the sense of "control theory", where a feedback loop like measure->analyze->predict->change->repeat is applied.
If anything, I think they'd just be relieved that dissenters are leaving while true believers / "patriotic citizens" are staying put. Makes politics a lot easier. But I'm sure the reaction would vary a lot by country.