skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just proved my point, you know that right? It's the healthcare delivery and the markups along the way. If you paid doctors $0 tomorrow, healthcare costs would go down by 20%, at best, and probably less. Your analogy is perfect, actually. The problem in sandwich cost is rent, utilities, administrative expenses, marketing, an acceptable return on investment to the owners, etc, etc. The actual good being sold, a sandwich, probably costs 10% of what you pay retail.

Your repeated use of the phrase "cartel" is not impressive or convincing to me. In every other field: civil engineers, lawyers, real estate agents, accountants, teachers, police, and countless others have licensure, education, and training requirements.

And thanks for you concern, but I am familiar with many other global heath systems.

I notice you ignore LNPs and PAs in your analysis.
I might be interested in these if they offered bone conduction speakers like some sunglasses, since "bone conduction glasses with prescription lenses" isn't a product anyone has yet successfully launched.

>Amazon open-ear technology directs sound to your ears and minimizes what others can hear.

That just sounds like bullshit-speak for "earbuds hanging outside of your ears".
Helmets.
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Either they have to stay the same or you need good data on the time impact of changes.

None of this is rocket surgery. It's "just" that most software teams won't do it for one reason or another.
I don't know whether curtailment is factored in, but I don't see how any of this makes a difference to my point. Either way, wind energy is worse than advertised, relative to nuclear.
One does not accidentally develop a complex side-channel attack. It was a deliberate effort to circumvent user wishes.

I wish google had the balls to ban apps that do this for a few weeks from the Play Store. That would teach them fast.
Perhaps some NASA software does this, considering the cost of sending each and every image?
Zenni is ok but adding a simple thing like polarization can double the cost.
I'm not sure which of these two points you're trying to make:

1) These specific counties could be flukes because of their small population.

We can account for that by making multiple observations--i.e. look at multiple years of data--and seeing if the counties change rank. The visualization has yearly data for 1980-2014, and the specified counties are consistently high compared to the national average

https://vizhub.healthdata.org/subnational/usa

2) The 'rural' component of these counties isn't necessarily a factor, since the counties with lowest rates may be rural as well.

A bit of searching turns up a clear correlation between population density and suicide:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/How-population-density-a...
Trump has been informed that CrowdStrike never found shit and never could have. It was a hit job, 'IP from RUSSIA, RUSSIAN, CYRILLIC characters!'... anyone who understands these technologies understands that's stupid. I buy a VPN, tunnel to RU, insert some cyrllic in my code, send an exploit, and that's your so-called "evidence" and "proof". Help me see this otherwise, honestly.
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Why would people buy an expensive watch like this when a simple bicycle helmet could save their life? Especially if it is a MIPS helmet (because the previous non-MIPS ones apparently did not work despite all the claims they did)
Does anyone know if it breaks VoWifi?
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Yeah, some companies have cornered the market. My ISP makes it really hard to cancel but on the other hand they are the best speeds in the market.

But on the other hand, the NY Times makes it super hard to close down your account. I tell all my friends to choose other newspapers because of it.
Sure, although I'm not sure how helpful the answer will be as I'm still trying to figure things out myself :)

After I quit my job in 2017, I floundered for a bit while living off of my savings. Later that year, the big crypto bull run happened and I was introduced to trading. After the bubble popped, I learned how to trade options through TastyTrade [1] and have been doing that since. TastyTrade CEO Tom Sosnoff [2] has a refreshing attitude toward finance that totally spits in the face of Wall Street. I think the way he's addressed and dealt with Wall Street has some clues for how we can similarly criticize the excesses of tech.

For now, getting myself back on my feet has just been the start. I still feel unsatisfied with where I am in life and how I'm interacting with my community and what I can do for others. I have some vague ideas about how to use the money I've raised to bring more awareness to these issues in tech and to support those who are building organizations that address these issues from day one. I don't have anything concrete yet, but I've been trying to network and learn more.

[1] https://tastytrade.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sosnoff
I feel like perhaps using the most popular personal device ever as an example of a "bubble innovation" does not make your point.
> Sweet things like muffins or cakes are generally unbearably sweet

I have that problem eating some items here even as a native. For some items you risk buying something lethally sweet I don't want to eat. Things like lemon cake seem basically guaranteed to be inedible (I assume making even sweeter to offset lemon).

That said, the bigger issue just seems to be serving size. A traditional British cookie/biscuit is fairly small. American cookies have grown larger and larger.
>In 2011, 43,919 students applied to medical schools. However, only 20,176 of those applicants were accepted into at least one medical school. In other words, 54% of applicants got rejected to every medical school they applied to.

Even if we remove the bottom 10% or even 20% of un-accepted individuals (who we might assume, unfairly or not, are not cut out to be doctors) an absolutely significant number of people would enter the field.
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> I've not seem anyone ever try the approach of "avoid foods that taste good"

This is what I do, or try to do. This seems high on the self-denial scale but in my case I noticed that simple foods taste better than you think they as you learn to appreciate them, especially if you let yourself get hungry first. I tend to not over-eat such food as much.
> * I've heard some nasty horror stories about the inside>

Is this related to their technology, their culture, or both?
The AMA quite literally fits the definition of a cartel. It's quite absurd to use the term "conspiracy".

Academic papers going back to (at least) 1977 have suggested this: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2352286?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...

Here are some other reading links.

http://www.jparksmd.com/blog/a-massively-overpaid-cartel (this doctor attempts to refute that the AMA isn't a cartel by making the point that doctors are "overpaid" in the US as compared to Europe by the same factor as for many other professions. He however intentionally avoids the point of the restricted supply, which is the root cause of the issue, the artificially high salaries are simply a symptom of the disease)

https://wallstreetpit.com/5769-medical-cartel-md-salaries-hi...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/thanks-to-doctors-there-a...

https://fee.org/articles/the-medical-cartel-is-keeping-healt...
> The salaries are also not adjusted for cost of living

Doesn't that make the list pretty much meaningless?
Package on Package has many downsides though:

- The interconnect pitch is huge, 0.3mm-0.4mm. HBM memories have 1000s of I/Os

- The inductance of the solder balls and the impedance discontinuities in the path mean the logic below still has to have big energy-hungry I/O drivers

- If you want to stack more than one die, you need something expensive like through silicon vias (TSV)
Aren't expenses for lawyers compensated by the losing party?
This is also related to replacing simple sugars with more complex metabolites. Having your blood sugar go way up and down leads to metabolic stress and feeling hungry all the time. On the other side are fats and fibers which have a comparatively high capacity to sate hunger per calorie. Eating 2000 calories of donuts every morning may be correct from an energy balance perspective (and indeed you won't get fat doing it), but that's clearly a very painful way to live.

Insulin and blood glucose drive obesity and metabolic damage, but they don't make it hard to stay on diets. The difficulty of staying on a diet is due to a separate system in your brain that takes other factors in to account to decide if you should eat. Every successful diet boils down to finding foods that make your brain happy while keeping excessive levels (and durations) of sugar and insulin out of your blood[0].

If you had access to unlimited candy, you might eat too much and damage your body - and indeed many people do just that. If you had access to unlimited non-starchy vegtables your stomach capacity probably wouldn't be enough to maintain obesity. If you had access to unlimited sticks of butter, you would probably get sick of the very concept of butter before you ate an unhealthy number of sticks. Vegan and carnivorous diets largely rely on the last two facts.

[0] There are other things involved in your body's metabolic signaling system, but blood glucose and insulin are especially well-researched and easy to measure.
I would never buy a Bose speaker, I know that the audio quality is nothing special. But I've found among Bluetooth headphones there is nothing that feels as comfortable and works as well as the QC35.
Wake up

Check plans in Calendar

Take a shower

Take a breakfast

Prepare meals for office (healthy lifestyle :-) )

Pack & go to the office
Exactly. This guy is wrong and you are right.

If there's tons of customers lining up each morning at opening, sure, park elsewhere. Otherwise the owner should definitely take the best space to show someone is there.

Empty parking lots are more common than full. Empty means there's nothing there.
That’s not the most mature way to state it, but you have a reasonable point. I try to be careful about monitoring my kids’ behavior in public places. When people go for a meal out, they are paying for a nice time and not to hear screaming kids or dodge little unruly hooligans. Elsewhere in the thread, I noted that parents out of necessity choose their battles due to fatigue, selfishness, or letting small things go (but perhaps after recalibrating on what’s small). It’s as though parents’ tolerance for bad behavior increases.

Just like non-parents do not have a full appreciation for what parents go through, we parents forget what it was like before kids. Parents and non-parents tend to self-sort into disjoint social networks. Parents of school-aged kids forget what it was like to have infants and toddlers. Oh, just wait until they’re teenagers, say the helpful, encouraging grandparents.

Think about others. Put yourself in their shoes. Stop being selfish. That’s good advice for all of us, no matter where we are in life.
I have read that book and having worked in some companies, I can agree that tight, unrealistic deadlines are detrimental to outcomes. However, working in silicon valley, I can say that there may be need to push people to work more efficiently. It's a fine line.
In the US the optometrist (eye doctor with no MD) makes most of their money from selling marked up prescription glasses.
>(so you don't need high-index lens)
Can you elaborate on this a bit? I've been thinking about getting my next pair or glasses from Zenni but I need high index lenses.
This comment breaks the site guidelines. Could you please review and follow them when posting here? We'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Related, I love the site https://www.asciihex.com/ for giving some nice history into many of the ASCII characters. And stylin' to boot.

It's my go-to ascii table when I don't have the `ascii` command-line tool.
I felt this is something that politicians say to two groups: the insurance companies and the "anti-socialism" libertarian crowd (who have injected themselves into the republican party).
I would have liked to see the intermediate results in the article as I'm on mobile now and can't easily run the code.
The first sentence of the article refers and links to that article, so yes.
Until you try to do an over-the-air firmware update :-).
I think you would be an irresponsible monster if you did not track your family and yourself at all times.
That happens in San Jose also! (Santana Row)
I worked in an auto shop and we would frequently park our own cars in the bays when we were empty for this reason and/or to appear more popular.
The vast majority of health care is a commodity product. Unless you have some super rare condition, whatever your problem happens to be it's extremely likely to receive more or less the same treatment from a large number of potential providers.
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From the sound of your comment, you haven't heard of this:

https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

...putting stuff on a big truck is a very viable alternative to using a series of tubes.
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> poorly calibrated for obviousness

They should move way to the other side on the scale of obviousness. Patents should be there to protect investments, not to stake out ideas bright and not so bright practitioners can stumble upon. In my opinion only ideas that necessitated a few man-years of work to be discovered should be patentable with onus on inventors to prove nonobviousness. I wouldn't be surprised if only pharma patents would survive only because expensive trials are needed.
The lenses are of identical quality. Both are outsourced to off-site machine cut lens factories and shipped to store.

I don't know where you got this odd idea about lens quality but it isn't factually supported. You can buy thinner and thicker lenses for additional cost, but both will be as accurate as the prescription is.
It's not as easy as "improving" existing protocols. Look at the ipv4 -> ipv6 mess. And even then ipv6 suffers from issues that are tied to how networks were built, etc. See this great article: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810

If I'm building something to give connectivity to dog tags, why not do something simpler?
That...could be quite handy for the elderly. Spend some time as a caregiver and you see that a lot of these oddball form factors are quite handy for some folks.
>I'm not sure about "non-trivial amount of data" - especially if we're talking about a single row (single user) here? I suppose there might be a few blolbs of large json documents?
>
>And I'm not sure I understand "repeating information in query results" - surely we're talking about receiving a query, transforming it and responding with the data?

For a query like

SELECT u.* , c.* FROM users u INNER JOIN comments c
ON u.id = c.user_id WHERE u.id = <...>

above, the user information is repeated for each comment, e.g.,

u.id, u.name, c.id, c.text
1 Bob 1 you are right
1 Bob 2 you are wrong
1 Bob 3 you are right again

If you have a hundred comments, and many user fields, this can be a significant amount of data to pass around. Or maybe this is not what you meant? I feel like we may be talking past each other. Can you give an example of what you think the ideal sql should be for "give me user with id = 1 and all their comments"?
No one's making anyone do anything. I love the opportunity to try possibly new technology. The rest of the conservative world can just wait.
"Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."
Don't you think that main problem is that it is allowed to get the patent without implementing it? So you can patent things like "filter photos by person" without having working face recognition technology that someone else might be researching. Basically, you can patent what someone else is developing and then collect the fees for it.
Similarities don't mean anything. It's the differences that count to distinguish things.

Else, "European, male, dark eyes, had a small black moustache below his nose, was admired by millions in his prime, had artistic aspirations, had distinctive bodily and facial mannerisms" -- am I describing Charlie Chaplin or someone more ominous?
OK, Mr.{Ep|Wein}stein.
I spend most of my time these days with a database that seems to compress to 4% of its size...
Zero people from other nations come to the US to save money on health care. The ones that do come are looking for specialists for some exotic condition, not because they love the level of care or the price tags.
Yes, every time I'm running and want to change the music I'm listening to, which is at least once a run.
But why those nations have lower costs isn't so simple. If you remove all profit and admin overhead from the US system, its still something like $5000/person more expensive than other countries (I think that that was vs Canada).

A large component of healthcare cost in the US is simply healthcare use. We are deeply, deeply unhealthy with 75% overweight rates and absurd levels of pre/diabetes, which are the largest comorbidities of all, and comorbidities of each other. Costs will never be comparable until overweight/obesity rates and usage are comparable too. They are not.

High prices in the US are very unfortunately largely explained by usage, and no amount of profit-reducing or cost cutting will work unless you are cutting usage itself:

https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2016/09/25/high-us-health...
>pack dozens of servers’ worth of computing capability onto a dinner-plate-size wafer of silicon.

Congratulations on the insurance money from your building burning to the ground.
>I just bought airpods yesterday, and tried running with them for the first time today. I couldn't run more than 30 seconds without them falling out of my ear.

Depends on the ear (and maybe sweat levels)? Mine have never dropped that way.
I started my kids with abacus as soon as they could count.

It gave them great intuitive understanding of arithmetic later.

Highly recommend.
Yeah, the South moves more slowly than the rest of the US in adoption of things like that. I say that as a person from north Georgia. Manners do matter more for sure!
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It's not about reversal of time so much as time-reversal symmetry in a physical system (putting a -t in place of a t).
Like all parenting advice, yours only applies to your kid. What works for you doesn't necessarily work for others.
I haven't heard this before, that it doesn't actually happen. Are those ketosis test strips you pee on not accurate?

I've ketoed before for weight loss (and am starting again soon) and when I was quite strict with it I'd be well into the ketosis range on those pee strips.

If it's not a sign the body's in ketosis, what is it a sign of?

Also, fwiw, I lose significant weight on keto without moderating my calorie intake at all; fatty meats, cheeses, butter, oil, etc., plus a lot of vegetables. If it's not ketosis, what is it?
You can't actually do that in the UK, there are stringent protections for minority shareholders to stop these exact shenanigans.

If Jim issued himself more shares for a nominal fee, he would have to offer the OP the same deal.

Yes, share dilution might happen with genuine investors, but no he can't just dilute out the OP on his own to 'screw' him.
It's worse with an assistant. Most of the time I expect it to fail, aside from trivial things like setting a timer. In which case I'll have to say things again, louder, and will look like an idiot. I'd much prefer textual interface for such things when using them in public, especially if it's able to keep the context better.
Wondering about your effort to maintain an argument in good faith, I read up a little:

"mav3rick: What about the KoolAid that HN drinks against anything Facebook, Google ?"

"mav3rick: He seems like an out and out terrorist."

I think these are indicative you will say whatever it takes to discredit rms, because he takes a stand against everything you believe in.

You are being dishonest in your motivations. I think I'll conveniently ignore you all together.
Isn't the point of a lock just to keep honest people honest? I mean you can buy the world's sturdiest, more secure lock and attach it to the world's strongest door, someone with a hammer can easily break a window.

If someone is determined and willing, there really is nothing you can do to stop them from breaking into your house.
Not to be glib, but there's no indication that continuing to scale won't result in the same death & suffering.

And yeah, I wouldn't be alive today (and probably would've never been born in the first place) if not for hyperindustrialization, but... I really wonder if that's a bad thing.

Would the world be better off if after making a product more efficient, our first reaction wasn't "Great! Now we can scale up production!"?
Some treats are already pretty much vegan, like Oreos, which are so artificial they're vegan.

(Oreos are not truly vegan because they are processed in a factory with dairy products, but outside of allergies this shouldn't be that concerning.)
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My employer dropped dental insurance a few years ago. They never gave me a pay bump to compensate. Now I spend $1,600/year on cleanings for a family of 4. At least it is out of my HSA, so pre-tax.
This is compounded by our high medical costs. People who sue often have chronic medical conditions as a result of the malpractice, and the settlement is basically paying them for their extortionately expensive medical care.
Great spell checking CNN Business.
"is located farther out to see than any other wind farm"
I had the same example in my class... purple pride represent?
I have one of the Google Home devices in every room in the house. The speakers for the bathroom/bedroom and the video screens for the living room and kitchen. It's amazing. I can tell it to play music synchronized across the house, I have photos of fun stuff scrolling in my living spaces, and I ask it for calendar, transit, and weather advice daily.

Plus, it's so far superior to a clock in that I can get in bed and say "Set alarm for 6.30" or "Wake me up in 9 hours" or whatever I want and I can snooze it from bed or stop the alarm without needing to find a button.
I wish all this energy on all sides would be put into making this country stronger, instead of creating more of a political divide. MSM does not help when they spread lies and misinformation. aka propaganda.

Both sides are to blame. The issue at this point is Dems wont take any accountability for their actions. Look at the Obama admin for example and how many shady things that happened and Dems just want to look past it. Seems like the ones who are speaking the loudest against trump are the ones that are guilty.

Its like when your gf says your cheating, when its actually her.
I have a two year old. Getting him up and going before 8 is impossible, the earliest I can get him to daycare is 8:45, sometimes much earlier or much later because he is so unpredictable day to day.

Thank god I don’t have a set schedule.
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Not even Donald Trump has read it (or wrote it, to be factual.)
HN, where you can find paranoid vegans blaming people for getting sick