skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s weird how the argument in America is always socialised healthcare VS private healthcare. Rather than people just demanding non-insane private healthcare. I have private healthcare here in the UK through work and it costs £150 a month to add my wife too, for one of the best plans around.
This is honestly one of the shittiest moves that I've seen Apple make, but these are the same people who blatantly steal developers work and incorporate it into iOS, so I guess I really shouldn't be surprised at how big their balls are.

I hope it causes more developers to opt for first-party sign-in (because fuck 'em).
Markets created this mess. Markets will not solve it. Single payer takes insurance out of the game entirely, just run the entire industry out of town and be done with it. Doctors fix people, Doctors are paid by the Government what is reliably determined to be going rates for their services.

We (the United States) are the SOLE western country that does not have state sponsored healthcare, and it shows and it's ridiculous. I don't know how anyone can feel we are the greatest or great in any capacity when a car accident can send a family into poverty.
Also true. But arguably it was only possible for those dangers to become known recently. Smoked meats cause cancer. Death by cancer was not so frequent in the past, because fewer people lived long enough to develop cancers that could kill them. Or in other words, they were safe enough at the timescales that people previously operated in.

Also, even though the link between smoked meats and cancer is now as incontrovertible as the link between say tobacco and cancer, the risk is far lower. So it's not like they're wildly unsafe, just kinda sorta of unsafe.
Don't quit your day job yet.

Start listening to StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com the archives.

Rob and Mike have lots of great advice.

Also check out tinyseed it's by Rob from SUftRoU.

I'm 40+ and working the first SaaS app of my own. It's doable.

Good luck, enjoy the journey.
Consider a hypothetical scenario in modern police work: First pass returns a false positive on suspect match, police act on the false positive in a way that results in jail or death due to racial bias. This rarely manifests as a performance issue with easy remediation.

I'm not sure adding more humans to the mix is a solution to solving bias problems because humans are unconsciously biased and may be perversely incentivized.
Take that shorters!
I’ve been wondering why coverage costs to employers have been increasing, this could be an example of a cause if it happens frequently.
This is true, but where I live, leftover plant matter, typically from logging, is routinely just burned. Capturing that energy is a win up to the point it takes more to capture than it produces.
Ha. America.
I think the key is the amount of stress induced while driving.
If you're driving an appliance like a Tesla or Camry you're getting next to zero stimulation.
If you're driving,say, a clapped out, no powersteering, manual trans G-body, the level of stress and multitasking is an order of magnitude greater.
Though in that case let's level of stress might be more if a detriment than a benefit.
How predictable, an expose of an Emirates spy tool and all of the top comments are "what about the US tho".
Ha. American Health Care. :(
Guessing, but i bet all the hardware subsystems are in play when actually moving all available limbs in space and time.
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China is looking for an African location for its deep space network. Perhaps a dual use station in Ethiopia will fill in that gap. The third partner is Argentina.
> No, but he did have the option to buy that lottery ticket.

From Garry's blog [0], it looks the it was more than just buying a lottery ticket. Peter Thiel cut him a great deal, by all accounts, and he still let it go. The equivalent to that, imo, would be to have refused ticket offered to you for free which then won the lottery.

[0] (Peter Thiel said) "Cash this check, quit your job. This is a zero risk opportunity for you." I said, "Thank you very much, Mr. Thiel, but I might get promoted to Level 60 next year."
I'm not sure what your position is. That we're very smart? Smarter than the "primitives" who also destroyed their habitats? But definitely smarter than the humans who managed to live in their habitat for at least a hundred thousand years until our culture came along?

I can agree we are more capable than chimps, but only in the sense of being able to plan and make tools, that sort of thing. But chimps are adapted to their environment, at least until it gets upset by habitat loss or change.
To anyone reading, please do not listen to this commenter, they are making large assumptions about an industry they do not understand. Thanks.
> And single payer will not solve this.

If there is only one payer, and they refuse to pay your outrageous prices, you either lower your prices or you go out of business. Since a government-run payer does not have to make a profit, it is very easy to incentivize it to keep costs low.
If you think someone would hold their tounge because their car got hot by an empty one, i got some youtube compilations to enlighten you.
US has basically modernized slavery with the for-profit prison system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHz2Hmq7soo
Definitely easier said than done.

There is even a tendency to fool ourselves into thinking that we have broken free of it, whilst still having that feeling of worry simmering in the background.
David Calhoun is the replacement - head of Blackstone private equity. An accountant running an engineering company, what could possibly go wrong.

You can assume that stock price will take the front seat now, if it already had not. The bean counters have yet to internalise the fact that it is am engineering culture failure, stemming from the toxic MacDac merger. This is a further signal that things are going downhill for Boeing.

To be fair, Dennis Muilenburg was at least an engineer, lead the X-32 program (the funny looking bug plane that was runner-up for the JSF). An engineer, possibly at am advanced Peter principle level, but an engineer.
Well, it did cost me 200M not working for a giant..

Edit: I don't understand getting downvoted here, does someone think that it can not vary for a person?
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Gas stations do have different octane ratings and diesel. Every station just happens to have at least 4 options these days.
It's called a Medical Cartel run by Physicians through regulatory capture. There's plenty of leeches upstream (pharmas, hospital admins, PBMs, vendors, you name it), but at the base of the funnels are doctors holding keys to supply through state-level licensing regulations.
Yes.

Luckily work environnement is usually not that chalenging, and very predictible. It helps to avoid situations that could be triggering, and medication can also mitigate the handicaping parts, even if it doesn’t solve the root issues.
Tried web in normal and private mode, can not read.
This isn't a case of an unknown mechanism. The guy noticed that the lottery didn't close for a few minutes after the winning numbers were announced, making it possible to just watch the announcement and then buy the numbers.

As such, there is no reason to believe it's anything more than it appears.
True, but the ones where upvotes win the tug-of-war stay afloat, and usually (well, sometimes at least) that's because there's some other substantive aspect to the article. In such cases we eventually notice the titles and change them to stick to the site guidelines—preferably using representative language from the article itself. I've attempted to do that above.

In this case the substantive aspect is at least partly that Garry has had a close relationship with HN over the years. And vice versa.
in practice it's 3. and 4. though. we outright ban 2. through a linter. it not only looks ugly, but is inconsistent. e.g. it has the tuple pitfall with a (language?) hack to make it work with one variable. even for logging, it's possible to use the `.format` style - although this isn't default. i've never seen `string.Template` actually used, except for niche use-cases with untrusted input, where a full-blown templating engine was overkill.
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Related discussion for a different exploit a couple months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21425804

> At the same time, it tries to leak a few kernel pointers using well-known techniques to leak kernel memory addresses (gSharedInfo, PEB’s GdiSharedHandleTable).

Wait, Windows exports kernel address to userspace?!
> and bodies like the EU haven't catched up on regulation yet (like they did e.g. for phone chargers normalized to micro-USB, now USB-C).

AFAIK they have already standardized on the IEC 62196 Type 2 connector (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_2_connector) for AC charging and the Combo 2 connector (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System) for fast DC charging.
Any questions / feedback?
Could it be because it has to compete with the public option, or at least stand up to comparison with it?
Why doesn't this happen right now in countries with single payers systems?
"And finally and perhaps most importantly. These surgeries can be performed before the age of 18."

Can you cite numbers as to where, and how often, this is happening?
Its interesting how this works! After all the damage, all Boeing can do is fire a few people. This time it is CEO! Who is accountable going forward?
The chronic lack of price transparency in U.S. healthcare is the single biggest cause of runaway healthcare spending.

Medicare for All would preempt the lack of price transparency: participating doctors get what the government says they will receive. Period. They can opt out and only serve non-M4A payees, but that will shrink their customer pool. Healthcare spending would plummet across the board.

The U.S. healthcare industry operates outside of the capitalist system. We can either try to make it more market-based, or, acknowledging the high value of life and astronomical bargaining power of medical practitioners in wealthy nations, we can socialize the provision of necessary healthcare. Almost every other developed nation has done this successfully.

Engineer: I will charge X for this project because that’s what competitive projects of equal value go for.

Gas station owner: I charge $1 for a Hershey’s bar because that’s what the convenience store next door charges for a Hershey’s bar, and my customers can just bail or hop over there if I charge too much.

Hospital/Surgeon/Doctor/Pharma exec: Well, it’s complicated. You know there are insurance companies and PBMs, they’re the real villains, what can I do? Look, let me ask you, what’s the value of life? We charge a small portion of that. Do you really want to cut back on something so vital? We save lives, respect our profession. Feel free to go to my competition, they will all tell you the same thing. Stop trying to haggle like we’re spice merchants at the Grand Bazaar.

(Of course, thousands of medical practitioners support socialized medicine, the above is simply a generalization used to illustrate my points on price transparency, crony non-capitalism, and bargaining power)
Ah, pretty sure I've never been under nor been close to anyone under an HMO so I'm not familiar with how those operate.

Given how common stuff like in TFA is, plus so much more on smaller and less eye-popping scales, and seeming endless ability for providers to say "oops our bad now it's fixed" when caught and avoid punishment, I'm skeptical that these extreme penalties kick in often enough to counteract incentives to let prices creep higher.

[EDIT] from my personal experience, it's mostly up to individuals to burn tons of time investigating irregularities and escalate them to elected officials & regulators when insurers or providers dig in their heels, to which the officials' and regulators' response is usually a strongly worded letter that makes your particular problem go away, with no follow up, presumably because pursuing it will be difficult, expensive, and unlikely to yield results that help anyone with their next election or promotion. That's kinda how it looks like this one's going, in fact, though maybe there'll be some regulatory follow-up with something resembling teeth, since it got press. It's like the Twitter-complaint model of customer support, but way worse.
Technically true. Depends on how long my wife lets me mooch off there, and I’m also winding down the number of people I help. I should be net zero starting next year and really positive when my RSU vests in a few months
It wasn't snark it was a direct agreement with the comment I was replying to. That last bit ruined your otherwise okay contribution. (Have you had a lot of coffee today? Have less.)
I worked at four startups and gained so much experience at each. Even with the long long hours I really liked it. Three of the four failed - the fourth one eventually succeeded after 15 years and I received about $4,000 for my original shares as employee #3 (I can relate to the point in one comment about being a founder instead of an employee).
JFYI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14594858
Erm yes I meant the biodiversity aspect, next to the original invasice species one. But then went on with some details :P
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I find this encouraging. If Bloomberg can convince Sanders or Warren to be his VP candidate, together they could give Trump a run for his money.
> are broadly ethnic Japanese, or Okinawan

You know that Okinawan is “bad”, right.
Canadian electronic health data explained
It bears notice that the Subway worker, Yitang Zhang, had a math PhD from Purdue.
This is neat. How was the NDS CTF challenge structured? Did someone write it up? I'm kind of fascinated by the concept of fundamental block cipher cryptanalysis being a CTF challenge, since my perception is that it's virtually never at play in real systems you might want to attack (unlike lots of other cryptographic flaws!).

Certainly, I wouldn't want to make the case that you should use this toy cipher (but I don't know that its author is making that case either, since they too use the word "toy" to describe it). I'm saying: simple flawed ciphers are extremely useful just as a model for learning how to actually code attacks.
IDK about the article but in this context: Atomic css, in particular Tachyons, paired with React is one of the fastest ways to create gorgeous and consistent designs.
That's only technically true. We don't usually think of "severance pay" as being enough to live in luxury, without working, for the rest of your life and provide enough inheritance for your offspring to be significantly privileged.

For most of us, severance pay is maybe enough to cover basic living expenses at a lower quality of life for a few months. A difference of that magnitude definitely deserves its own jargon.
Ok but don't despair.

1) on the individual level, maybe measuring other's (or one's own) worth by how much money you have or how much political power you have is the flaw.

2) on a collective level, if we do think that reward in the financial sense should go to the good people, we should think about what we consume; we have ultimate agency over all of that.

As for politicians, I'm less optimistic; the popularity contest in high school never selected for good people and I see no evidence it's any better among adults.
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Don't you know? It's the plastic they wrap it in. That's how you can tell, by the packaging.
Is there evidence to suggest that the US government will not suppress speech that they deem to be a threat to their power? There was rampant blatant suppression of supposedly communist-friendly speech in the 1950s and 1960s. Does anyone think this has significantly changed? For a more recent example, see how the US government handled the leaking of its diplomatic cables, something which (unlike late night comedy) actually threatens the reputation of the US government.
Or... this could be an honest example and you don't have a full understanding of how "safe space" is used. You apply skepticism about a charged thing to a man you don't know who seems to be writing honestly about people he wouldn't normally fit in with and how other people have misunderstood them. Do you have space for self reflection on this? Twitter and MSM run on outrage. Would it be completely shocking to you to learn that you don't know the whole story?
I'm not quite sure what you are trying to say, but I think you're either confusing who is paying here (if I run a website, I'm paying the apple fees, my users are the ones buying the iDevices) or thinking you can't run a website without an iDevice?

Also, my comment was addressing the direct parent comment, not the entire thread above it.
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> Is everyone really required to learn all these new words / triggers / etc. in order to appease a tiny tiny fraction of the population?

Every person you meet is a minority of 1 in 7 billion. Is it so hard for you to learn how to understand people? Do you have trouble with new words and concepts?
> some brands (Japanese iirc?) would have you go to their branded car dealership to charge

That's probably because these Japanese brands use CHAdeMO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHAdeMO), while everyone else uses Combo 2.
CPUs already work like that internally to some extent. Think of the program as a serialized description of a computation graph. Instructions are not a mental slavery. They are the most efficient way to encode and decode the graph. A superscalar processor is tracking dependencies and will reorder or execute multiple operations at the same time if it has determined that it can do so.
Comments on all platforms are easily ambushed from groups trying to push a specific point of view. Unfortunately, this place also suffers from this on political news.
> Why is that a good thing?

It (the US version) is not a good thing, correct.
It's the leading response on HN to the topic, so I'd say it's talked about frequently.
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Exactly! Competition is what makes capitalism work, otherwise you just have a monopoly and then everything turns to crap real quick.

We have a similar problem in a way with our trains. They’ve all been ‘privatised’ but if only one train company runs your route there can’t be any competition, so our trains suck big time and are really expensive.
Private healthcare here (the UK) is subsidised by the NHS, so it’s not a fair comparison. Swiss private healthcare might be closer.
The cost of getting personal [pdf]
In Israel, I had mandatory healthcare that I paid taxes for (about $100 a month) and additional private coverage for about $5 or $20/month (can't remember how much) and thats all you'd ever spend on anything. Even hospital parking was reimbursed. People in the US act like it's either/or, but why can't it be like USPS and UPS? USPS works fine for 99.9% of all deliveries and you can pay extra for UPS if you want to. Healthcare should be the same - Why would I go to a private doctor for a simple throat culture? Makes absolutely no sense.
Do you think that every reader of Hacker News can do that? Logistically, how would it work?

I'm not disputing that "people who can make software are capable of building billions of dollars worth of value." Of course that's true. I'm disputing that everyone who makes software can individually capture even hundreds of millions of dollars worth of value.
> So Karnauskas worked with a mechanical engineer and a cognitive neuroscientist to make back-of-the-envelope calculations based on the Harvard findings and projections about rising carbon-dioxide emissions.

> They created a model of a classroom full of elementary school children, with the appropriate breathing rates and room ventilation. (Karnauskas said the results would be similar for any group of people.) Then they looked at what would happen in two potential emissions scenarios projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

> The results showed that in a business-as-usual scenario, in which carbon emissions continue to rise, humans would score 50% lower on measures of complex cognitive ability by 2100. For more basic cognitive measures, performance would drop about 25%.

Not exactly a rigorous model.

Edit: Which doesn't mean there isn't a problem, but this sort of article doesn't seem helpful to me.
It is simple but not easy.

Let’s assume you want to reduce risk of capital investment and also risk of operations so we’ll rule out physical products.

That leaves us with digital products and services.

You need a business that you can sell to 20,000 people at $1 each, to 1,000 people at $20 each, 20 people at $1,000 each or 1 company at $20,000.

If you are going for the cheap value you have to mass market it somehow. Either by generating massive quality content or spending money in ads. 6 months is enough to generate leads to provide that A big enough following if you put effort into it.

If you want to go to the top bracket you will probably be in the B2B market. Since 20k is not pocket change you’ll most likely be playing the procurement game and each sale on this game can take anywhere from 3 to 12 months.

Pick your poison and good luck!
The trouble with the term 'elitism' is that sometimes the best is only adequate, and for many people the best that society has to give is legitimately not enough. One lifetime of learning is not enough. Another one is in order.

"We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."

- Henry James
Dennis M was an engineer, but the McNeirney the previous CEO was the first non-engineer and very much a MBA type. I figure Dennis is stepping down for not being able to fix problems that came up under the previous CEO fast enough or completely enough.
People always state this like it's some dirty secret, but it's an ongoing calculation for any given pharmaceutical company. If they think a cure is within reach, then they try to go for it, because if they focus purely on treatment and a competitor discovers an easily findable cure, then they make no money on the treatment.

If, however, after a lot of work, a cure seems elusive, it makes sense to focus on treatment. Both for the sinister reason that people pay more over a lifetime for treatments, but also for the less sinister reason that it's usually much easier to develop treatments than cures, and having a treatment and not having a cure is strictly better than not having a treatment and also not having a cure.
I think if you are a programmer you are working out every day.