skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Ontario, prices for basic health care are regulated. So the hospital doesn't get to charge $3,000 for that bag unless this is a procedure not covered by basic health care, or if the government has already approved that pricing, and it is the same in every hospital.

On the other hand, the private room you're in is not covered by basic health care, so if they feel like charging you $3,000 a night just for the room, or $1,000 for television, or $500 for WiFi, that's allowed.
I get the narrative you're trying to paint here, but it's really just not true. None of what you mention is a focal point of the game. The focal points are its story telling, level design, enemy AI, etc. I think this is reflected well in reviews from when it was released [1] [2].

Whereas Half Life 2 was definitely a big ol tech demo of the source engine.

[1] https://www.ign.com/articles/1998/11/26/half-life-5

[2] https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/half-life-review/1900-25373...
Creators could join together into a class action. Perhaps even form a union to collectively bargain with YouTube!
I totally agree my man. Wish you the best in the future.
Correct, and yep would highly recommend going. Tough to imagine it causing an issue getting into the US, as the trip originates/terminates in China and doesn't get you a passport stamp.

(Disclaimer: US immigration politics are crazy right now, so obviously take all that with a healthy grain of salt)
Property taxes + HOA fees + homeowner's insurance aren't cheap. On top of that, a average run of the mill 3/2 home worth living in is about $350k-$400k in my area (South Florida)

If you can rent one out for $2.4k/mo - $2.75k/mo and not worry about the headache + not put 20% down... I'm sure that's a way to "stay poor" in some circles but... it works for me shrug

Also, last time I checked, if you file taxes as "single", I don't think the benefits of owning a home are even tax deductible. Meaning, the deductions for mortgage interest + property taxes combined aren't more than the $12k standard. I could be wrong.
Parent comment was edited after this post, so now this reply seems out-of-context. The parent comment originally made a comparison to Pixar and Disney Animation coming up with hair and water tech first and then coming up with stories for Brave and Moana respectively to wrap around the tech.
Perhaps a deal could be worked out where the satellite companies also have to launch Atacama-scale telescopes, where Musk et al have to pay for the difference in cost between Atacama and orbit.
Improve observation data post processing. Lasers are used as artificial stars [1] to subtract atmospheric distortion, use stacking [2] to remove StarLink tracks. Those observations aren't being "ruined", they simply have some noise to remove.

Long term, we should be lifting observatories (both optical and RF) into orbit, Lagrange points, or the Moon. Observing from the ground sucks comparatively, and there's a lot of space out there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_guide_star

[2] https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-blogs/imaging-foun... (Satellites, Begone! Remove Trails from Your Astrophotography)
You're assuming that anyone with the authority to stop this , wants to. IF someone wanted to stop this, I'm sure they'd be able to get the info.
How does contract law fit in here?

If a business performs a service for me and won't tell me ahead of time how much it costs, can it afterward decide I must pay whatever it wants? One trillion dollars? For those without insurance, is there some contract agreed to with the hospital?

For those with insurance, in which contract do I end up bound to pay an amount that isn't told me until after I've already made the decision to purchase the service? Are there limits to these amounts in that contract or somewhere else?
Title should read:

"Zuckerberg’s Anti-China Rhetoric Roils (Chinese) Facebook Employees"

At any rate, I applaud Zuckerberg for actually having a spine when it comes to China, unlike Tim Cook.
My wife had a baby in September and had to return after one night home for high blood pressure.

Total bill $55k. After insurance it was $6k. We paid $250 out of pocket.
> One of the most popular entries in the Marvel universe was about a moral argument between Captain America and Iron Man regarding the appropriate use of power, and the limits of personal autonomy versus international law.

An extremely shallow moral argument on those subjects. They weren't really explored much, beyond Captain America saying "I think X" and Iron Man saying "No, I think Y."

(And then of course the argument was resolved not by having these two characters actually argue their points, but by having them punch each other a lot.)

> To this day you can find people who agree with either side.

My sense of this is that you don't so much find people who agree with a particular side as you find people who identify with a character aligned with a particular side. The agreement isn't grounded in a philosophical position, it's grounded in whether you're a fan of Captain America or Iron Man.

Which is exactly the kind of downside to superhero storytelling that Moore is on about. When the only solution available for any problem in a story is to find the right übermensch to throw at it, people are naturally going to start sorting themselves according to which übermensch they think is the ideal übermensch.
I visited last year and I think it had been enclosed somehow, so wouldn't be possible to tug away.

Google maps appears to confirm that: https://www.google.com/maps/place/USS+Pueblo/@39.0403653,125...
Right, the point of the test is that you can't do it unless you can (relatively quickly) memorize what looks like a random picture of noise. With true photographic memory, that should be possible.
> Comparing it to one is an act of such entitled privileged whining it's absurd.

But apart from the holier than though putdowns, are the comparisons valid?

Because you’d make a much better comment chain with “the comparisons are invalid because XYZ” than “you’re entitled and whiny and I know people who suffer more”
Steam does not reflect the VR ecosystem at all.

Oculus store has the quality games, for the most part. Many Rift owners do not have their headset connected when not using VR. Like for example when playing a flat game on Steam.
Mozilla is being more aggressive here than Google. My understanding about how Chrome will work, if the DNS servers configured on your machine support DoH, they will silently upgrade to use DoH. But it is entirely based on what your system DNS server is set to.

https://9to5google.com/2019/10/28/chrome-encrypt-dns/

Mozilla (I believe) is doing rolling out DoH to users (in the US) to use CloudFlare's DoH server. This will bypass the system configured DNS servers. This can be disabled in settings. And if the DoH DNS lookup fails, it'll fallback to the system configured DNS.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https

(I'm a googler, opinions are my own)
An interesting interview this week on Econtalk about price transparency. The interview happened before Trump's price transparency plan was announced but the podcast just made it up this week.

https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...

Some guy has been running a non-insurance based surgery center for years, the surgeons make more and patients pay less or so he claims. All prices are listed on their website. They claimed they don't change prices. If a doctor misses something and needs to do extra work their policy is that's the doctors fault for not doing enough due diligence beforehand.

He also claimed there are some perverse incentives like he claimed a hospital might bill an $100k but only receive $13k. But, they can claim a $87k loss which the government will partly reimburse. He further claimed that insurance companies often have contracts with employers where the employer is supposed to pay a percentage of the amount the insurance company saved for them. In other words, the insurance company will say "we managed to save you $87k on your $100k bill, pay us 20% of the savings" so they have an incentive to ask the hospital to charge more.

Note: I have no idea how backed up this is. Just passing on the podcast, hoping to see more knowledgeable feedback.
Yes! I noticed that too, the sound gets all jumbled up without earplugs. Not to mention the pain and damage.
What kind of plugs are designed for music? That's interesting.
So if someone murdered your whole family, you'd have no issues with it because it was predetermined. Got it.
I have bad tinnitus in both ears and doing the trick works for me, for about 60 seconds. I don't do it often because it makes me sad how much better that 60 seconds feels.
That's quite interesting. worth a shot for people suffering with that for sure.
Is it me or is that stat not that bad at all? Considering the price of ownership, having 80% of people being able to (eventually) afford to buy real estate seems alright, no?
I was in Japan two years ago; got pneumonia and needed antibiotics.

Went to a hospital with no insurance and no appointment. I was being seen by a doctor within 30 minutes. Doctor wanted to do some additional labs just to rule other things out, but he was worried that it would be expensive for me given the lack of insurance. He called up billing with me still in the room and had a price within a couple minutes: ~$70 USD.

Ultimately I left the hospital after being seen, getting chest xrays, the additional labs, and antibiotics in hand. No insurance and I paid less than ~$160 USD.
> doctors and hospitals don't want price transparency

Well, I do want price transparency - IF it works the way they promise. It’s hard for me, as a programmer, not to draw parallels to every employer’s expectation that I should be able to listen to them describe a software problem and quote them a timeframe on the spot (which, of course, they’ll then try to “negotiate” down). On the one hand, as a non-medical-professional outsider looking in, it seems to me that _of course_ they should be able to say ahead of time how much a cataract removal surgery should cost, they’ve done it hundreds of times (I hope). On the other hand, I know how much variability occurs in software projects and how little of that is trivially predictable.

On the other other hand, I can’t for the life of me imagine any possible reason why they can’t say EXACTLY how much an MRI will cost before they do it.
Ask HN: Help me find a show HN/ISS viewings
Sorry folks, this is a horrible request. A few months ago, someone posted an amazing show HN that showed positions/times for viewing the ISS along with this amazing street view implementation that showed you where to look.

My 3 year old is a hacker. I can’t describe her in better terms. I’ve never met anyone more interested in learning everything about everything and bending systems to her will, other than perhaps myself. She’s obsessed with space now and wants to see the International Space Station. But, she’s three and this will mean keeping her up past her bedtime. I don’t want her hacking to get fucked over by her old man’s inability to point out the thing.

Lauren and I would greatly appreciate any help. Or, if you’ve raised a little person and have more ideas, please help. I’m a single dad, I’m not particularly qualified and I need help.
I remember when I used it the ringing totally stopped in between the calibration sounds.

Does it do that to you as well?

The sounds were pretty annoying but at least I could control their intensity and while going to sleep I could gradually make it lower and lower until I slept.
I think there is absolutely something to this. I have mild tinnitus and my hearing is fairly poor after too many years of loud headphone use. However, I rarely notice a bothersome perception of noise unless I focus on it.

Other similar phenomenon exist. For example, some people are strongly bothered by floaters in the eyes while others seem to take it more easily in stride, as the brain will naturally compensate the vision. It wouldn't surprise me at all if individual tolerance varies wildly to these issues.
> It's everywhere and we don't seem to be fighting back. I browse Chinese social media and while my Mandarin isn't great I'm not seeing any level of AstroTurfing at all.

Well one benefit of a censorship state, is that it's easy to censor all the astroturfers.
You're thinking of a clock.

An orange man can be half-right, twice.
They need to provide tribute-hailing buttons on other websites otherwise it won't become pervasive enough.
In this connection I am reminded of the famous 1 Corinthians 7:9 and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;. Scanning back to the beginning of 1 Corinthians 7 for context, and reading the commentaries at [1] it seems that St. Paul recommended celibacy but recognized that sex was a major distraction, as did many other authorities of the time. As a bonus we see here that Paul says that in this matter the spouses each yield to each other (1 C 7:4) [2] and that Paul is not speaking from the law from his own opinion [3].

I can understand why people would say that the New Testament says, "Don't do it" but it only took a little effort on my part to see nuances.

And in the commentaries I've linked to, I think I see some support for GP's comment.

[1] https://biblehub.com/niv/1_corinthians/7-9.htm

[2] https://biblehub.com/niv/1_corinthians/7-4.htm

[3] https://biblehub.com/niv/1_corinthians/7-6.htm
>"older white male" shorthand to point out that we need to structure society and the economy in a way that protects all people from burnout and provides access to the tools and treatment to recover from it to all.

That "shorthand" is going to inadvertently open the possibility of the reader to drawing broader and less exact conclusions than if the writer were more careful in their choice of words.

Using "older white male" makes it sound like the goal is something that's already broadly available (and just being artificially limited) rather than a thing for people with riches or worked hard to get it. They're therefore statistically older, having worked to get into that position and probably only have access to limited doses unless they've been phenomenally successful.

>Rather than assuming all people are sufficiently well off to take 6 months to do a Jack Dorsey style Buddhist retreat.

What's the goal here? How big is the gulf between Doresy's adventure and "protect[ing] all people from burnout and provid[ing] access to the tools and treatment to recover"? Outside of fully automated luxury space communism, next to nobody is going to have the resources to not only not work for six months, but to also hand over all their regular day-to-day responsibility like taking care of family, paying their bills and making sure the house didn't burn down.
Piketty Rebuttal – Yes, R G. So What? [pdf]
I got rid of mine. I know that's just anecdotal.

I'm also replacing my Nest with an Ecobee soon now that they're forcing Google account migrations on everyone.
I can't comment on that specifically (telescopes in orbit, I invite others to). My two cents though are this: I frequently go on multi-day backpacking trips just to get away from it all. I can get so far out when the only human-made anything that I see are the occasional aircraft and the occasional satellite. It's a great disconnect -- I can pretend that the modern world doesn't exist. It would be a great disappointment to me if the evening/morning sky were to become so populated that there were constant reminders of the modern & interconnected world. I would be resentful of whoever ruined that for me, everyone else, and generations to come.
Nationalism is nationalism regardless of said nation.
Dude, if anything his newb-ness shows he really hasn't smoked before. Do you know how many people with a clearance have a history of smoking weed? (anecdatally, a lot) If we stipulate that weed smoking makes someone untrustworthy (something I vehemently disagree with) if anything then Elon demonstrated a higher worthiness than most people.
> Doesn't it? There are many non-democratic countries in the world, and many shady things happen in the democratic ones as well (by whatever definition of 'democratic').

I agree. My comment was framed for the context of a domestic debate in a country where there is current little political oppression, so the law enforcement argument may have more sway. The fact that political oppression doesn't happen every day here leads people to forget that it could happen here tomorrow.
Here's my writeup on why TikTok is doing so well: https://www.danielxli.com/posts/why-im-obsessed-with-tiktok
> I wonder if Moore would be as critical if instead of there being 20+ Marvel Character Universe movies in the span of 10 years there had only be say 4 or 5?

Almost certainly, he did write the Watchmen after all.
I've extended the blog post with more information on the libs that I used.
Gen Z'ers, please learn from my generation. Think about return before going into debt for student loans. Nobody cares about your school after your first job and many state schools are more than adequate
I'm extremely pro-space research, but if I had to weigh the benefits of some astronomers observations being obscured sometimes versus getting hundreds of millions of people onto the internet, I think the choice is pretty clear.
A few years ago, after a Ministry concert which was off the scale loud (or maybe I just have become off the scale old for this kind of music), I bought a pair of Earasers (https://www.earasers.store) and the few times I had to wear them, they worked great, protected my ears while being fairly transparent, and did wonders for my enjoyment of the music.
No, it isn't. There are three related reasons why.

First, we don't exclusively experience a concert through our ears. The reason people use words like "thumping" to describe bass is because it's felt as much as heard. That experience is important to many forms of music, and it isn't possible to get it at low volume.

The second is that the relative volume of different instruments is usually more important to the sound of a song than the absolute volume at the listener. Given that modern instruments have a huge range of loudness (drums are irreducibly loud, electric guitars very quiet), it's clear that you are going to have to amplify up to around the loudest noise to get the mix correct.

Third, sometimes it's just about range. Large concert halls, amphitheaters, etc need to get the mix right across hundreds of yards. Just as you would have to bellow to hold a conversation with someone on the other end of a football field, so a band has to be made loud to do the same.

So, sorry if you have to wear earplugs to cuddle the speakers-- but this really is done to a purpose.
How many users do you think HN has? No matter how many, I think I would call HN mostly a success (currently/temporary?). Seems that to have a good social network, it's less about quantity of content and more about quality. Most of Twitter is shit, but it contains some average content too, and a small amount of gold nuggets. HN feels to have much better signal/noise ratio and judging by myself and others who hang around here, it's way better here than what other "critical mass" social networks have.
I didn’t know that
React Native Doctor
To all the people poking fun at "thousands"... You have to start somewhere, and I'm sure you'd be tickled pink to see thousands of new users signing up for your app...
A and B still mean YouTubers have to dedicate a lot of time and energy to a lawsuit. C is possible today (this article is an example). D is interesting but I am skeptical that even in this hypothetical scenario, "do a thing, wait to get sued and then counter-sue" is the most efficient way for rich people to make more money.
Which just shows how backwards the Federal government is
I didn't say the UK wouldn't, I believe both countries would turn him over rather quickly to the USA to get some diplomatic points. They don't care what happens to Assange because he is a citizen of neither one.
Agreed. Tim Cook seems laser focused on shipping as much of our semiconductor industry to China as possible.
Google+ users only had to make a gmail account to be signed up for Google+, the amount of people actually actively using Google+ was far lower than 300 million.
If pharmaceutical reps were "advertising to physicians" in that they provide medical information on how a drug works, why a doctor should prescribe it, potential risks, etc. then I might agree. However, it seems like more often than not pharma reps buy doctors a fancy steak dinner and a lap dance in exchange for pushing legal heroin on every person that walks through the door. I would rather pharmaceutical marketing be made illegal, and instead require doctors to do some kind of continued education on advancements in medication and other relevant info.

https://apnews.com/82f638d6dfcf4193ad28ddf0e65897e1

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/30/stripper-...
I'm more concerned about AIPAC, which has much more influence than PRC.
The Electoral College’s Racist Origins
All great VR games are made specifically for VR from the beginning. Taking a flat game and do a VR version of it is almost never good (I cant think of a single example where they have pulled that off, outside of simulators perhaps).

The reverse is also true.
So Integer (0 or 1 or 2 or...) is a sum type in the same sense that Maybe Integer (Nothing or 0 or 1 or 2 or...) is. I see. That makes some sense.

So if I'm in Haskell, say, and I've got a Maybe Integer, and I'm trying to walk through the options (pattern matching), I usually see the options as Nothing or Just Integer. Can I instead do Nothing or Just 0 or... "Just some other Integer"? That is, can I treat... um, not sure how to say this in light of your post... "individual values of a particular named type" the same way as I can treat "different named types"?
That’s just a bunch of platitudes.
Sure, this is the reason why you can't get an answer but it's not a justification.

There are 2 parts to it. The first, which is reasonable, is that a lot of treatments are bespoke. Fine. That's a justification for their being costly not for your having to imagine the cost because no one can tell you.

Even for flights, the truth is I can get a bespoke flight if I can afford it. And if I want to know how much it is then I ring them up. The idea that you can't know what something costs, until after the event, because it's expensive is perverse.

But the second part, that everyone pays a different price, is solely a function of the lack of transparency and has no justification beyond perpetuating the scam.

Even in that socialist utopia that is the UK, we have private health care. If I wish to use it without insurance, then they'll tell me the cost upfront. If I use it with insurance then they'll tell me the same cost but I'll only pay the excess. At each stage in the process you get the cost information upfront because TBH it's insane to think that you wouldn't.

Honestly, this is a solved problem. The only real reason it's not solved in the US is because a lot of interested parties are very determined that it doesn't get solved.
It should be possible to source-separate the music from any voiceover and surgically remove it. Google should implement this feature.
Could you make something like the old Windows Personal Server [1], but dummy-proof? Make the app a DYNDNS client and let them register subdomains on your short domain (mybox.foo.bar/file.png). Essentially just a very simple server like XAMPP that users can drop their files into.

[1] http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/w98pws.htm
Federated accounts between servers might be a nice overlay feature set. Servers can just reject mail from any unauthenticated user, and sync user databases periodically.