skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've looked into this very problem. Unfortunately, the chargemaster prices are not very representative of what any patient would actually pay. Instead, they are often used as a point to start negotiations with health insurance providers. They may apply to those without insurance but even then there is usually a negotiation of some kind and the listed prices don't apply. Each healthcare and insurance provider will have differences in their contracts so there's no real way to estimate what a person will pay given the chargemaster prices. Also, many chargemasters are impossible to decode. Some of them use medical codes that allow for cross-comparison, but many of them just have an arbitrary reference number and a price so you have no idea which procedure is which.

I think if you can collect information from patients about the final amount they paid for a given procedure (plus the reference codes) and then use that to find patterns in how those bills correspond to the chargemaster you might be able to create a more useful tool. This becomes much more difficult than just scraping though.

The Trump administration started the process on a bill to force insurance providers to make the details of their contracts transparent earlier this year. If that actually ends up getting done (maybe sometime next year), that would likely be a much more useful source of info to aggregate. Insurance providers will probably try and hide the info as many hospitals did, ready for scrapers to step in.
If you're thinking about implementing this or something like this, please stop.

Unless you're writing in a compiled language, use the same language your application is written in for your configuration. If you have a python application, have a python file for the configuration. Same for ruby or whatnot.

You don't need to use the entire language, but at least use the language's lexer/parser (cf. json/javascript). That way, all existing tooling for the language will work for the config files (ask me about how saltstack happily breaks their API because you're not "supposed" to use it, despite the fact that they have public docs for it). Additionally, people won't need to figure out all the stupid corner cases in your weird language that has no uses outside of a few projects.

Additionally, by making your configuration language an actual language, you also simplify a lot of the system design, because the configuration can act directly against your API. This means using your tool from other tools becomes much more straightforward, because the only interface you actually need is the API.

The existence of "configuration language" is, itself, a mistake.
Is it ethical to keep pets and other animals? It depends on where you keep them
I'm surprised to see buses listed as being much safer per journey than trains. I guess that's just because "per journey" is a rather meaningless metric. Train journeys must be longer than bus journeys on average.
However, even when you compare bus vs train on a death per billion km base, the bus is much safer (0.4 vs 0.6). Is it because on average buses travel slower than trains? How accurate are these numbers?
I love you Adafruit but when you deal with criminals expect to get robbed once in a while.
Productive Desktop
Anyone interested in joining me to build a better desktop?

I'm fed up of the vast number of UI issues in current desktops (Windows, Mac and Linux).

I've used Windows 10 (my corporate laptop), I have 2 Mac laptops (one is a 2018 MacBook Pro with a Touch bar, one is my ancient fully maxed out 2010 MacBook Pro) and I currently use a Dell XPS13 with Ubuntu 18.04.

Frankly I'm sick of the lot of them. They've all got major productivity barriers when using them.

I want to build a simple desktop with simplicity, performance and productivity as the core goal.

I'm willing to put money in.

Anyone care to join me?
Email me at snowandfilm@gmail.com
Of course, that's what I refer to as a windows dependent workflow, like gaming and graphics designing. And I do agree linux support for those stuff is still limited, but constantly improving(especially with Steam).
For me it says “Hi there! What brings you to Bill.com?”. Guess that is the response you get when they aren’t able to mine who you are.
Windows can do all sorts of little things on the desktop better than Linux; It may be that you simply do not use those features when you try Windows. I've had my fair share of UX troubles with desktop Linux throughout the years. Now, this would not be much of a problem if it wasn't such a headache to get things fixed in FOSS. Lack of feature ownership often means you have to commit to having certain issues that can be extremely breaking for your use case for years at a time (or be told to "fix it yourself"; hint: most Windows users aren't qualified or interested, so that's a deal breaker). Even Firefox on Windows has this problem.
In our country you can also just get the transaction itself printed on your own and use that as a receipt for tax man. Sanatate!
Are corporate open source contributions the new blood money?
I've got a 100 or so hours in it and some aspects are wonderful. Some are "meh".

But it's far, far from a track wreck.
But can I get that on my personal laptop?
Debian 10.2
I hate typing on the Magic Keyboards, they feel more like the butterfly to me than the pre-2015 macbook keyboards. :(
Whether the runaway trim procedure would be sufficient is disputed.

For example https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-regulat...
> Obviously IANAL, but to me as a game designer, mechanics aren't any less creative work than narrative.

I agree, to me it is a bit annoying seeing asset flips like Wargroove being hailed as new innovative games. They took the units from Advance wars straight offs. AA gun -> Wizard (fast good against infantry and air but weak against armor), Light-Tank -> Knight (fast, good against most targets and armored), Medium Tank -> Giant (slow heavy unit), Recon -> Dogs (very good against infantry, see invisible units), AA missile launcher -> Ballista (ranged unit that only attacks air), Bomber -> Dragon (strong flyer that only attacks ground) etc.

I don't think that anyone making an original game would have made those choices, like why can dragons only attack ground targets? Makes sense for bombers, not for dragons. Why are wizards so fast and weak against armored targets? Usually it is the other way around. Why can ballista only attack air? Historically they were used against ground targets, etc etc. The only original unit in wargroove not straight up taken from Advance wars is the Amphibian.

I wonder how much faster they got their game made thanks to just stealing the entire combat system from Advance wars...
Thanks for your kind words! This is just a step towards GUIs that are easy to create and modify and hack on at the same time.
How to verify the analysis of your data scientist
Telling quote from that article:

> Aviation industry insurers base their calculations on the deaths per journey statistic while the aviation industry itself generally uses the deaths per kilometre statistic in press releases.
I've ovserved something very different. Lots of debate about the likes of Uber and AirBnB - with the bulk of comments leaning towards condemnation.
Bank of Tanzania Issues Warning on Cryptocurrency
Blaming the victim doesn't help anyone.
yawn There are other databases systems doing that, no need to depend on Oracle. For example: http://erlang.org/faq/mnesia.html which is also associated with a programming language known for its quality distributed computing.

Removing contributions to the Linux kernel? I don't think so. The kernel is free software and people contribute to it knowing that it is free software, so they cannot hold any code hostage. Once you release as free software, you give up that control.
This is pure Boeing apologism. Why was it even necessary to follow the "runaway trim procedure" in the first minutes of a flight, in a brand new plane? Yes, it's possible expert pilots could have gotten out of the jam - as they did in the first Lion Air incident. But Boeing's shoddy workmanship, and the FAA's total lack of oversight, created the jam in the first place.

Boeing's victim-blaming can be understood, if not excused, from a liability perspective. It baffles me why anyone would take on that point of view otherwise.
Another typically badly explained Google product.

You arrive at one.google.com and all it says is something about your storage. Is that what it's all about?

Here's what it says in the Google Description (you have to Google what one.google.com is to find out what it does - hilarious!).

"Get expanded cloud storage, access to help from Google experts, and more benefits — in one simple plan that you can share with your family."

So, from this it's storage + experts + some mysterious other benefits - and it's about sharing it with your family.

Why don't they at least say that on their front page?!
The reason, cos Google don't employ any decent usability experts.
BS. Regulation can do whatever it wants. Facadism is not a best practice, and the result proves that. Doing what's done on most of those photos is a pure crime against the culture, heritage and architecture. Old and ancient buildings should be preserved. If you wan to build yet another gray box then build it somewhere else. There's enough place around city.
VSCode is a pure marketing effort, trying to convince people that Microsoft isn't all that evil.

WSL is more sinister - it's a counter to "I want to run Linux on my desktop / laptop". It is a carrot to the stick of Secure Boot that's trying to make anything else than Windows impossible on PC.
The pedal-cycle, and many of the walking deaths should perhaps be included in the 'car' deaths, since that is usually the cause.
Coccinelle which: a “program matching and transformation engine”
You can pay for Windows updates by having ads, or by paying for Enterprise edition every year. Or realise that you should have switched to Linux already. Or overpay for your hardware and get a Mac, prepay for 5 years of OS updates today!
Once there was a great presentation about App Store sales sorted by Categories. Outcome - social apps don't make money, do business category of apps.
Can anyone recommend a book or other resource that gives an overview of the various schools of economics including the "heterodox" ones?

When I'm learning about a subject I find it much easier if I have a framework for categorizing and organizing the different approaches or topics that the subject consists of.
First push and first pull have been slow here too (first pull was ~19s), but now I'm getting reasonable timings (~2s)
It's a very basic and simple architecture so it looks ok. What's in London is a different thing. Buildings there are much more exquisite and what's being built behind is much more uglier.
Show HG: Guy a new py3 module to create GUI(HTML/J/CSS) on any OS (android too)
What piece of text that is the REST protocol?
seriously? I assumed that it simply cooled more quickly because of high surface area to mass ratio; not that it actually was 400F but I couldn't feel it.

It doesn't make intuitive sense to me but I do understand the explanation.
In Indonesia this was not even in the manual, and the pilots were never even told MCAS existed.

That’s beside the point. In the story they discuss how airplanes are not intended to require this level of superhuman ability to stay airborne.

You are avoiding that this was a combination of an engineering flaw (reading from a single AOA sensor guiding MCAS, when in reality it should have been redundant) and a regulatory flaw (the role of MCAS was increased despite it being initially regulated as a much milder intervention).
Information exchange meetings are useless and a source of boredom. What‘s important are decision meetings - and this is where you need a precise agenda and where you always need to communicate the expected outcome.
Also, the stab trim runaway procedure is a "memory" item, meaning the pilots are supposed to memorize it rather than digging out a checklist and referring to it.

Since each crew did restore normal trim more than once, they did have more time than just seconds.
>One of the crews followed it, the other two didn't. Crews aren't always trained properly, that isn't on Boeing.

Note that the penultimate flight of Lion Air had an extra airman deadheading in the cockpit. That is a CRM luxury most normal crews would not have.
That reads like "you don't need privacy/encryption/locked doors if you have nothing to hide!", which I assume is not the point you're trying to make?
Roads are basically "killing people here is ok as long as you follow few simple rules" zones. It's insane.

If I told people "I'm going to shoot my gun in the city from time to time - if you don't want to die please step away when I light this red laser sight" and then did exactly that and blamed people for not avoiding it - that wouldn't fly. But cars are so convenient it's allowed.
Sure, if you count 5 minute drives to get cigarettes
An Open Letter to Clojure
Write Virtual Modular Synth Modules in JavaScript or Lua with VCV Prototype
That excerpt from Goedel's letter leaves out the most interesting part: he talks about what is essentially the P=NP problem!
Activitypub is one solution. Write.as implements a blogging platform that federates with other platforms using the same protocol, such as Mastodon or Pleroma.

They still haven't implemented support for seeing comments on the blog post itself, but once they have that it seems to be exactly what you are looking for.
It's almost like paying for an operating system should somehow be the payment itself.
just another affiliate spam site

But that's exactly what it is (Amazon tag pythonbooks01-20), and it's dishonest about it (it lacks any affiliation message in violation of the program's TOS).
The most interesting for me was the comment:

"I actually have a project that uses iopl to provide shell script access to ioport. Yes, you can write device drivers in shell script ...

http://git.annexia.org/?p=ioport.git;a=summary
"

And there in README:

"At first glance it would seem that /dev/port would be the best way to
access I/O ports. However /dev/port under Linux is fundamentally
flawed because it only allows byte-sized access to ports. For example
if you write a single long (4 bytes) it will turn that into 4
individual outb operations.

Instead we use iopl(2) to raise our I/O privilege level so that we can
do the correct in<size> and out<size> operation as requested."
Don’t use yaml or json for (infrastructure) configuration. Use code. Configuration files checked in with source doesn’t make it “configuration as code”. If you don’t want to roll your own tools, there are tools like pulumi for this.
These are just affiliation links with commentary ripped verbatim from Amazon without attribution.
I think APIs cannot be patented. Not sure what is the situation with Google vs Oracle.

https://bbvaopen4u.com/en/actualidad/patents-apis-or-copyrig...
We don't have any record of systems with more intelligence than humans, so the question to us is equivalent to asking what is the maximum potential of intelligence itself.

For this reason general AI may offer us great insight into our mortal coil.
Exactly. The suggestion that it is acceptable that a well engineered system would require heroic intervention with 4-10 seconds as the plane rapidly points nose down is baffling.
Exactly, the per-hour rate is obviously the most meaningful, and then the per-km rate which in some sense includes benefit/risk.

Per-trip is nonsense, since the the different modes entail completely different trip lengths and distances.
> In Indonesia this was not even in the manual, and the pilots were never even told MCAS existed.

It wasn't necessary to know MCAS existed - the procedure for runaway trim is in the manual and is the correct response to MCAS failure as MCAS failure exhibits itself as runaway trim.

> superhuman ability to stay airborne.

Turning off the stab trim with the cutoff switches is part of the memory procedure to deal with runaway trim, and no superhuman abilities are required. Just remembering to do it.

> You are avoiding

Not at all. I just take issue with the claim that pilots had no role in the accidents, and take issue with the bad design of the MCAS software being a cost saving measure.

Note that the fix is redesigning the MCAS software.
I'm working on devops-pipeline to make complicated infrastructure easier to understand and deploy.
https://devops-pipeline.com
It is configured by a dot graph file.
Well the best heterodox economist IMO is Michael Hudson. Recommend his blog, talks and books to anyone.
European Investment Bank to phase out fossil fuel financing
That schema could be copyrighted, but not equivalent ones, because the protocol isn't its schema. That's like saying that an algorithm can be "fixed" by writing a program that performs it, but if you do that, only the program (and its derivations) are protected, not the algorithm (the algorithms can be patented but not copyrighted). A program (including its code API) is a piece of text, and then its derivations are covered. A protocol, like an algorithm, is an idea that could be made into a piece of text, but the US copyright code explicitly states that that idea itself is not copyrighted.

For example, you and I could go to a sporting event and write down a description of it. Both of our descriptions are copyrighted, and any derivation of mine or yours are protected, but your description is not a violation of mine and vice versa, and neither is any other description by someone who saw the event but didn't derive her description from mine or yours.

Similarly for software, BTW. If you look at what a program does and then write a new program that does the same thing -- that's not copyright infringement, as you didn't derive your program from the fixed work of the original.
Thankfully most instances are moderated though, and so far it seems to be working reasonably well.

Of course, it's still smaller than Twitter for example so we'll see how it goes when it grows larger, but right now it's working, in my opinion.
Why does the Estonian EKRE hate homosexuals?
> There are plenty of examples where, basically, a roll of the dice saved civilization during the cold war. The destruction of society during the cold war was prevented by luck as much as anything else.

The systems are still in place and even today the danger of "accidental" start of the complete destruction of the current civilization is completely real. I always recommend a book subtitled "Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner." I won't write the details so that this doesn't appear as an advertisement. It's worth reading the whole book to get the exact idea how fundamentally flawed the logic of those managing these systems is. Absurdly, they still think they will "win."

As the poet said "We will all go together when we go."
Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why People Are OK with Lies
You said it better than I could.
Post it and encrypt an email address as the message, will get in touch with you there. There's not much to gpg messages, anyone who can use the command line can use them.
"In the deadly Lion Air crash in October, the pilots lost control after initially countering the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS)"

They successfully countered it 25 times before the crash, meaning they had 25 opportunities to remember to use the cutoff switches.

"Boeing advised the airline about it after the crash."

An Airworthiness Directive was issued to all MAX flight crews after the Lion Air crash specifically laying out the procedure of countering with the trim switches and then throwing the cutoff switches.
Routers at least are easy-ish to pick. I just look up the specs of the chipset inside that specific revision of the model (yeah, bit of a pain), and make sure it works with OpenWRT or some other custom firmware. Stock firmware often doesn't even use all the features (although some have the opposite problem, due to closed source chipset drivers, like Broadcom's HW accelerated NAT).
This will be an interesting read.
indeed, per-journey is entirely meaningless, per-hour is the correct measure of risk.
The example of the failure of BeOS here is still a lesson for Linux to actually be a viable desktop contender in terms of a integrated and a consistent desktop for its users. Be Inc was just one of many losers that fell into Microsoft's monopoly on the Desktop. General Magic, Commodore (AmigaOS), etc all failed for the desktop. Linux and BSD communities found better success in the server market but still failed in getting to the desktop at the time.

Fast forward to today, Linux + its distros are still technically ahead of its time in all areas but still has 'developers, tinkerers and hobbyists' of its users for the desktop rather than the average personal computer user.

Google seemed to have learned from the BeOS failure by 'using' Linux in the literal sense for Android, ChromeOS and Chromebooks which is working for them so far, and they are re-entering the desktop OS market with Fuchsia.
Microsoft is working to bring 64-bit Intel app emulation to Windows on ARM
I pirated it.
It also is much more than most politicians and ministers. Especially the latter are typically way more influential imo.
A story I tell you in a bar and a written story may seem like the same thing to you, but one of them is copyrighted and the other isn't. A feature that may seem incidental to you is an essential one to copyright law. To copyright law it matter a great deal exactly how some expression is made, and how it is fixed to some recording medium. In particular, it requires that there exists some particular piece of text that can be called the work. This just doesn't exist for a protocol (there are many original texts that could describe the protocol), but it does exist for a code API.
Utter frustration with the eval board's tech support
This claim is being disputed by Chesley Sullenberger who is undoubtedly a great pilot and who has actually witnessed the MCAS behaviour in a simulator: http://www.sullysullenberger.com/my-letter-to-the-editor-of-...
Did you read in the article where Captain Sullenberger said he couldn’t do it in time in a simulator, even expecting it? Have you seen the YouTube videos? It’s a disaster.
Do you find that non-declarative configuration works for you for more complex setups? What sort of infrastructure do you typically deal with?
> Why was it even necessary to follow the "runaway trim procedure" in the first minutes of a flight,

Because the stabilizer trim was running away.

Emergencies can happen in any stage of the flight, and the flight crews are supposed to follow their training.

For example, sometimes an engine catches fire. This is never supposed to happen. But the pilots are trained to deal with it. Probably 90% of pilot training is learning to deal with problems that shouldn't happen.
What you're describing is basically what happens in France during hunting season in the countryside. Luckily, the most frequent victims are the hunters themselves, but sometimes random hikers too. "But we had put up a sign that there was a hunting session in the forest!" seems to be a valid defense most of the time.
It's the German word (well, Koffein, really). I do know the English word, but every now and then something gets through.
> This is my job. I design consumer electronics that ship in volumes larger than the raspberry pi. You've probably used something I've designed before.

Fair enough. Thanks for your explanation.

> The pi designers aren't incompetent, they've probably rolled up dozens of feature BOMs to find what they can afford to ship.

That's a borderline straw man argument. You're seem to be implying that I either wrote (or think) that they are incompetent, while none of those things are true.

> Now, I wouldn't be surprised if it was 50c instead of 1$, but _nothing_ is 5-10c, so you're off by an order of magnitude.

Okay, let's say it's 50 cents. I would still think it makes sense to include this feature. Also, that's "half a magnitude off" compared to 10 cents, not a magnitude off.