skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
true story: a number of years ago I used this acronym in conversation. None of my coworkers had heard of it. They quickly googled it and ended up here: https://www.bluf.com which really confused them.
"Terrible title for HN" captures more precisely what I meant to say, thanks. I don't so much care how publications choose to tease articles in their own pages.
That is active voice, but subtly changes the meaning. “Deserve” suggests non-binding moral qualification, “are entitled to” suggests binding legal qualification. “You earned jump pay for...” is closer.

Honestly, though, this is a case where the usual purpose of active voice rules (to avoid deenohasizing or obscuring responsibility) is not actually frustrated even though the sample is in passive voice so while I wouldn't use it as an example of active voice I wouldn't necessarily avoid it even given an avoid-passive-voice guideline. (And I've reviewed documents under publication manuals with such guidelines.)
Could you expand on what you mean by the 'abuse of knowledge'?

I agree that the focus on this metric negatively influences research outcomes, which extends to university structuring, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on how this extends to abuse of knowledge in general.
Check out Path of Exile, it's the most interesting ARPG out there currently
I’m sure going to get downvoted for this but.... I just don’t pay my medical bills I pay my dentist and eye doctor bills since those are different. But I just let my insurance pay their part and I walk away from the rest. I haven’t had anything catastrophic yet. But have and do have bills in the 1,000s.

My credit score is great in the 740+ range.

I know big stuff they could take me to court or put a lien on my property. They haven’t yet.

It’s my little protest against all of this crazy healthcare prices and system we have here in the US.
I do not understand what's the point
> And the Republican party is currently avoiding discussing

Are you so sure about that? A republican president recently signed an executive order for more transparent pricing:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/24/7355785...
> The current setup of law enforcement doesn't scale to millions of lawbreakers who aren't being reported by any victims of crime.

It scales to far more than the handful we go after now (seriously, it's a handful, look it up) and guess what: business owners don't want to lose what they have, and they don't want to go to prison.

It's called a "deterrent", and it's the reason e.g. bars and restaurants don't sell liquor to kids despite the fact that the overwhelmingly vast majority of kid-looking people who would try to buy it if these laws weren't enforced are not actually undercover cops. (it's a bit of a chicken and egg thing, but I'm sure you understand)

> That's incoherent. They're moving because they can earn more money in America. The fact that there are people who 'demand' lower wage workers is irrelevant: there will always be market demand to get more for less. The issues with immigration aren't on the employer's side.

I think you're confused. Are you talking about undocumented workers, or "gang members and dealers"? I addressed the former in the comment you originally replied to; the bit of my last comment that you quoted refers to the latter, and my question stands. Why (do you think) "gang members and dealers" are coming to America?
Ad hominems really don't help any arguments you have to make. Nor do a handful of tenuous analogies.

The government is not a singular entity, but it does exercise some semblance of self-consistent control. The drug/insurance companies have no interest in minimizing their profits aside from following regulations so as to limit potential liability. If the drug companies can successfully lobby for less control then the government's bargaining power is impaired de facto.
I don’t have an answer either. Playing a lot of SC2 and waiting for Homeworld 3. 2022 ETA though. My main explanation is more recent strategy games have been a let down and as graphics don’t matter as much, players stick to old games discouraging even more game studios to try again.
At least one hospital was pretty aggressive:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/uva-has-ruined-us-heal...
> the core series focused too heavily on maximizing the experience for esports, and that spoiled the genre for the mid-range gamers that were its bread and butter.

Out of curiosity, in what ways in particular did they do this?
> Update: After spending about a year on the BYOT experiment, we’ve decided to sunset it. In short, it didn’t work; we didn’t hire any teams as a result.
I came across this recently, when writing a blog post about a puzzle I solved. I wasn't sure whether to structure the post "chronologically", telling a story:

1. Here's an interesting puzzle.
2, 3, 4, 5. These are the steps I took to solve it.
6. Hence the solution is X.

or using BLUF:

1. Here's an interesting puzzle.
2. I found the solution is X.
3, 4, 5, 6. These are the steps I took to find that solution.

I'm still not sure which structure would be the best choice in which situation. Are there any guidelines?
So you're saying this statement in the article is incorrect?

> The app it created for Alabama is the only one that tracks the locations of its students.
Someone should make a MoviePass movie.
I remember I once saw a single panel cartoon of two people playing billiards and the caption read, "Actually, it is rocket science!" but I've never been able to find it again.
Possibly people assume that they are conscious of all the tasks that their brain does?

Can they walk and chew gum?
The ACA was a blatant failure in most states. It's still not affordable and large groups of people were never insured. ACA approved plans proved to be bogus. I wrote about this once before:

https://fightthefuture.org/article/returning-to-america-and-...
I went to the ER with chest pains seeming like a heart attack. They did an EKG, determined it wasn't a heart attack, then a blood test, which determined it was low potassium, and did a chest x-ray just in case. I received a saline IV and potassium pills as treatment, and went home after a couple of hours. The bill was about $18,000 for this. The insurance negotiated rate was about $1,500, of which I had to pay about $600, then over the next weeks, I received about 20 bills, each of which was for a large amount, bit the resultant patient "responsibility" was about $20 - all from shell organizations like "CA ER Physicians", or "Hospital Diagnosticians", etc. It's such a mess!

Another example was the birth of my child. We prepared for this by setting up an FSA, and having really good PPO coverage that year, supposedly, with a 10% copay. After all the billing shenanigans, my copay was about 30% and well above the out of pocket maximum. How does that happen? You can go to an in-network hospital, and be treated by a mix of providers, all of whom bill separately. Some will be in-network, others will be out of network, so you are in effect deducting against two out of pocket limits.

Medical billing is fraudulent. Medical insurance is fraudulent. These people are all acting in violation of tons of existing laws - I don't understand why this isn't prosecuted.
Thanks for your reply and offer. I'll look into the product a bit more when I get some free time.

I think I was a bit vague about RBAC. I'm thinking that the user account creation isn't vital in this use case since the audit log holds who generated/access. It's more about controlling who can generate a cert for what.

Eg, I think Teleport's model has the RBAC config at or near the CA part, so the cert generation either happens if authorized or denied if not.
Why I'm using a drone to stop Heathrow flights
How to Crack Billions of Passwords with CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs
This thread is a total shitstorm, and yet thorourghly enjoyable. Nothing like a good disagreement!
It's also surprisingly complete and polished for an open source game. Recommended.
Transferring assets to different entities prior to impending bankruptcy is clear cut fraud.

The company was charged and convicted of a felony which would pierce the corporate veil.
This is identical to what had happened in my case, the patient was my son who had fractured his arm.

Had taken him to Stanford Emergency, he got a a cast and a really cheap sling.

Received a bill from a Texas based company, don't remember the name, for about $200-$300, for the sling. Looked online, there were bunch of BBB reviews about this, including about calling them where the issue was settled. Same sling on Alibaba.com was $1-$2.

I called them up. I was told we were out-of-network for the sling, even though Stanford hospital was in-network.
However, since we were in CA, we are kinda protected if we don't know this (in/out of network) in an emergency room.

I had the option of asking Stanford and insurance company to refile, or pay them $20 (from original invoice of $200-$300). I paid them $20 to settle the claim.
The app won't magically be incapable of tracking students outside of the stadium, so the risk of abuse is exceedingly higher than your little clicker thing which likely didn't have the range to track you from very far away.
Put a bullet in each of their heads and be done with it.
I miss Devops Borat.

https://twitter.com/devops_borat
> That quote wasn't Snowden implying he thinks he's in imminent danger of being murdered

Probably not, but it's pretty clear he believes that secret services killing someone and making the death appear a suicide is a common occurrence. And I doubt he doesn't have the Epstein case in mind, as the most recent example.
Teach a person to fish. 1 maps to 2. And how it got there is [3,6]. This is absolutely (that word) the right way to go.
I feel like pulling money out while you're engaged in behavior a reasonable person would assume might lead to future litigation... stretches the "We didn't know!" defense.

They and others were engaged in massive production and sale of opiates, even as the news reported increasing number of opiate deaths.

I'm not in favor of pinning everything on the last unlucky bastard standing around, but taking profits now when you can expect future corporate liabilities should be illegal.
Add leading zeroes that aren't leading
This is spot on--I especially liked "DevOps means the veteran admins had to check in their personal scripts, and everyone is expected to automate more things."
Just to clarify, Python has always been strongly typed. Every object has to have an explicit concrete type. However this type is only known at runtime and variables can be bound to any type of object. Aka dynamic typing.

What the "whole Type thing" adds is type hints. That is to say they tell the programmer what types are expected. These hints can also be used in static analysis to try to restrict the types that can be bound to any particular variable. This can be useful to detect bugs in large code bases.
What programming contests taught me about code quality
I remember Richard Feynman (a theoretical physicist) explaining how you could deduce things about the human mind by observing behavior and self-reported internal states.
It was followed in print. But ad clicks have inverted it so that we scroll through all the monetization.
That'd be a good argument to try. It would probably work.
"Bought" is inaccurate.
That’s what i don’t get. A lot of the billing is clearly fraudulent. They routinely bill for treatments that never happened or for drugs that were never given.
I don't think the article suggests dispensing with the threshold, it suggests mainly that the language used to treat p < 0.05 is disingenuous and should be reconsidered:

"We conclude, based on our review of the articles in this special issue and the broader literature, that it is time to stop using the term “statistically significant” entirely."
Undoubtedly just how bad MoviePass's business model sans cooperation from the theater chains (who would eventually just do their own thing) is partially unique to the film exhibition marketplace -- but I wasn't making a sweeping statement about all businesses or disruption, I was talking about the actual MoviePass business model which would never ever ever ever work without cooperation with the theater chains (or, as I said, studios. But the studios are difficult because of the Paramount Decree).

I don't claim to be an expert at many things and I'm far from the smartest person in the room, but MoviePass hits my sweet spot because it encompasses the two industries I've studied/spent my career/life around, and the math for MoviePass just never works out.

Initially, the goal was to buy discounted tickets or have partnerships with the theater chains. The theater chains balked and refused to work with MoviePass, which led to the hack of using a pre-paid credit card and buying tickets at RETAIL prices. AMC and MoviePass actually did have a partnership at one point (2015) in a few select cities but if anything, all that partnership did was give AMC the data it needed to know how it could create its own service.

MoviePass thought it could leverage the theaters by claiming it was responsible for a large percentage of box office traffic -- but all its data really did was show that people really liked spending $10 a month to see unlimited movies. None of MoviePass's attempts to show that it was a market maker in terms of pushing subscribers towards a certain film worked (it didn't help that the films that studios were willing to advertise via MoviePass were often not very good) and MoviePass's brief sojourn as a film financier/distributor itself basically encompassed Gotti starring John Travolta (a truly bad film that no other major studio would distribute -- it should have gone straight-to-video/streaming/whatever -- which was the original plan. The producers literally bought it back from Lionsgate b/c Lionsgate smartly realized it was not worth spending money on putting in theaters), which was a flop -- and to add insult to injury, a flop whose audience was almost entirely MoviePass subscribers (meaning MoviePass basically paid for the film twice).

Again, I'm not making any larger statements about disruption. But this business, in this industry (which it should be noted, has fairly inflexible pricing and the theater chains themselves are largely only profitable because of concessions), with this ridiculous business plan was never, ever, ever going to work. And even if Regal and AMC had partnered with MoviePass, Regal and AMc would just have taken those lessons and launched their own loyalty subscription services.
The lobby for insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and hospital chains spend ungodly amounts of money to influence our political process. Once all the politicians are bought and paid for everything becomes kosher.
It's profitable only because the players aren't paid. Only a small percentage of the players make it to the NFL. Many of the remainder suffer physical consequences for the rest of their lives. It's one of the most obscene exploitation schemes still remaining.
>some of its other, stranger features (like XHP) are unlikely to ever be adopted upstream

XHP fixed one of the worst problems that PHP had, being a language intended to generate HTML that didn't recognize XML as a type, and so had no way to validate or contextually escape what it sent.

Sure, you can just use a templating framework like Twig to do it in PHP, or compile XHP into it, but you shouldn't have to.
That Single visit @ 11.5 k is about my total tax bill for a year in the UK.

This year I had sepsis and had a two week stay in hospital - o dread to think what that would have cost
The Drug Industry’s Plan to Defeat the DEA
What’s the Paramount Decree?

EDIT: Ah there’s a SCOTUS case that would prevent them: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_P....
It isn't just about getting everyone insurance. It's about fixing the whole process. My Dr ordered some not too expensive tests for me. My insurance refused. I was like, wait, what? You're overriding my Dr? It's insane.
It makes me sad to see no mention of Total Annihilation or Supreme Commander anywhere :(

IMO both are far superior to Starcraft or even AOE
You say "richer", I say "removes important difficulty". Part of what makes the genre interesting is balancing your attention between these different aspects.

But more importantly, it's critical to an RTS that you can use micro to disrupt enemy resource gathering. If all unit movement is decided on a turn-based world map, you can't sneak around a distracted army to take out a strategic point. Micro still influences who wins a battle, but you have to have a head-on fight. A combat is stuck in one grid cell instead of having access to the entire world.

(The hybrid design can make the macro richer. But troop movement and micro suffer a lot. It's not win/win.)
I was charged $50 for 2 tylenol when I had my appendix taken out. The CVS down the street would sell you a 24-pack for $5.

Of course, that was just a minor component of the final $50,000 bill ($4k for me after insurance), but it still sticks out in my mind many years later because it was an easily comparable baseline.

Health insurance companies get alot of the blame for the broken healthcare system in America but I place most of it on the providers - doctors, hospitals, and drug companies. They bill an order of magnitude too much. Sometimes more. Attacking doctors seems to be a much less politically palatable option than attacking big insurance corporations, even though those doctors are essentially gouging their loyal patients with no qualms about it.
Eat durian.
I think it's important to consider the inputs. Carnivorism is just herbivorism with more overhead. Perhaps I do need to eat ~3 times the non-heme iron to get the same level of absorption, but plant crops usually win out over cattle when it comes to scalability.

Is plant iron more bioavailable to cattle animals than humans? That might tip things slightly in favor of carnivorism, however cattle does a lot more than just convert non-heme iron to heme iron and facilitating that excess resource usage may be more trouble than the heme iron is worth.
DME is the absolute worst. Try getting a CPAP machine anywhere near MSRP. It's a joke. We are being fleeced.
Can't you really imagine anyone honestly disagreeing with this whole thing without being a total moron as you seem to describe?
It's pretty bizzare to me to say we can't. Perhaps the statement is better that we can't under inflexible solution points of our current technology. However, with impending sensor & robotization of agriculture other models are foreseeable.
Personally, I felt this way about SC2 as compared to SC1.

I think one of the largest changes I noticed was an increase in the hardness of counters as well as an increase in the APM necessary to properly wield certain units.

For the first point, in SC1, if I had suboptimal army composition against my opponent, I would likely lose any battles that ensued unless my tactics were quite superior- but I'd likely due some damage in the process, at least. In contrast, in SC2, it always felt like a failure to properly anticipate army makeup would frequently lead to completely lopsided battles where my force might be completely annihilated without doing measurable damage to the opponent.

This was aggravated by the second point. I'm not a professional player and my APM has never been amazing, and I'm fine with that. But the more complex required army composition put a higher emphasis on APM and in-battle tactics, especially with heterogenous forces and units, like blink stalkers, that really benefit from very high levels of micro. I'll be the first to admit that, when watching replays, the things that skilled players could pull off in SC2 was pretty amazing to see- but that didn't really help my playing experience.

There result was a game that felt significantly more frustrating than SC1, even if my win/loss ratio wasn't actually all that different.
We don't know why that much BTC was moved, or by who. It could have been a sale.
Amazon is not the greatest example. Amazon retail is still a poor low profit margin business with huge overhead and if that’s all Amazon was - a company that sells physical products - they would still not be worth anything near what they are worth.

Most of Amazon’s profit comes from AWS where they do have economies of scale and relatively high marginal profits. What are the chances that Dropbox will ever find a high margin profitable pivot? What is their customer acquisition cost? The lifetime value of a customer? What type of pricing power do they have.

Everyone loves to point at Amazon as evidence that all of these money losing companies will be highly profitable one day but it hasn’t happen.

Let’s not forget that out of all the big tech companies - Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft. The only one that wasn’t profitable before they went public is Amazon.

Other operating expenses can’t remain the same. Storage cost real money on a marginal basis unlike software (Microsoft) and search (Google) which has close to zero marginal cost.
The hospital sling was $200 according to the article.

Amazon sling is $12.99 to $16.99 according to the article.

So hospital sling is 12-15 times more expensive.

So I suspect that the original writer of the article correctly wrote that hospital sling is 10 times more expensive.

Then the editor came and decided that 10 times more expensive looks not as scandalous as 900% more expensive.

The result is false precision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_precision and bad journalism.
Bottom line up front does seem a little like tl;dr up front.

TLDRUF?