skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem is that for many procedures, there are subprocedures or emergency measures or just unexpected routes that doctors have to take in order to complete the objective you did consent to which tack on charges. But TBH, I'm not convinced why they shouldn't just be forced to eat these costs as a matter of labor contingency like every other business, and raise the overall procedure cost to an amount that would cover the odds of this happening and tell us up front.
I found this very helpful. It gives clear language for a number of things I’ve thought and felt about public discourse in America. To name a few in particular, the belief that complicated explanations are suspect and that certainty is strength. I’ve repeatedly observed that successful people seem to have very strong opinions and wondered if that was a contributor to their success.

While it seems most things in this list stem from one or more logical / informal fallacies, the way the principles are categorized and described makes the fallacy obvious and, for me, familiar. Since 2003 when this was published, I believe the network effects of social media have significantly increased the frequency at which these sorts of fallacies are uttered.

What are the systems at work here that lead to this so-called cargo cult? Is it easier, psychologically speaking for people, and Americans in particular, to walk with these mental crutches? Is our education system broken? What variables are at play here?
The LOOP macro may have been derived from MacLisp.
The idea that GCed languages in general have Python-like performance is a dangerous myth. Languages that are managed but not interpreted (e.g. Java, OCaml, Haskell, C#, Swift) have performance characteristics that are much closer to C than to Python.
Ask HN: Where was your life a decade ago?
As we close out 2019 lots of people are looking back at what the 2010s meant to them.

I graduated high school in spring 2009. Fall 2009 was my first semester of college and was the first time I ever wrote a line of code. Today, I’m a lead software engineer at a company that I had never even heard of in 2009. This company is the same one I interned with in the summer of 2012 and where I joined full-time after graduating college in 2013.

Where were you at this time in 2009? And where are you today?
I agree (and even said so in my comment).

I wish I had better options.

Basically I can pay a lot more for a less good panel.
Because the nature of increased competition is accelerationism. The fastest way to change a product is to introduce more viable competitors; metaphorically, it's a form of evolution.
The Trump administration has a bill in the works that requires hospitals (and I believe all medical professionals) to publish the cost of their sevices.

Of course, it is being fought because Trump is behind it.

Politics is the relinquishing of critical thinking in favor of the interests of political parties. It is a disgusting, corrupt ecosystem populated by equally disgusting and corrupt people.

The only way someone like Trump comes into the scene is because things have become so putrid in politics that people decide their only option is to send someone into the White House who is perfectly comfortable throwing feces around.
It sounds like he’s employed, which is why he probably didn’t buy B, but if his private insurance plan still makes him pay 20% coinsurance for this then it’s a really bad plan and he should’ve just bought Part B + Medigap.
As an artist, this is a thing I grapple with constantly. I've been lucky enough to find a path where I can make art that is mostly designed around what pleases myself, and accrete a modest audience that wants enough of the same things and can't find it many other places. I'm almost paying my bills on it nowadays.

Gallery art is its own thing, greatly divorced from "getting good at drawing" and "making art that speaks to a lot of people". Making art that you have to be a rarified aesthete to understand what simply doesn't appeal to all those peons is a route to making work that stupidly rich assholes can be persuaded makes them look like Important People Of Taste to own, especially when everyone knows that your last piece went for a very large number; it's investment games, status games, and probably no small amount of money-laundering.
Exactly. Also people should consult the Kaiser Family Foundation website and look into the statistics in general on Medicare. The data there is what you can expect to deal with once you are retired.

If you have an exorbitantly expensive medicine that is covered under Medicare Part D (extremely, extremely likely), then you will face something called Medicare Part D catastrophic coverage. One should especially look into the data on that.

It is really easy to be in the Medicare Part D catastrophic coverage situation. Even if you are sitting on a mountain of cash during retirement, it is profoundly wasteful to be paying anywhere from $20,000/year-$100,000/year for your medicine, which is usually a lifesaving medicine, and is life or death, whether you take it or not.

Not to mention: The third leading cause of death in the United States in preventable medical errors. If you do not believe me then Google it. When a country has the third leading cause of death as preventable medical errors, they are almost always developing or third world countries. But, the US is an anomaly in that respect.

You can go the the best hospitals and the best doctors in the United States, but you cannot evade a statistic like that. When that statistic is so high, these issues are so pervasive that they are definitely present in a completely unacceptable way, even with the best institutions, hospitals and doctors in the United States.

If one was smart, they would investigate this further and decide to leave. Europe, especially West and Northern Europe, should be places one should by vying for. But anywhere in the European Union typically will be a step up from this chaos of a system.
For Automation maybe you could try IFTTT to pull data from one service to a google spreadsheet. Since it has dates associated with the data, you can later match them with your current dataset.

I know a service called exist.io that does a quite similar thing based on API. You can check that out if a central hub for all personal information is what you're after!

Cheers!
You can't refuse ALL of them, only the ones related to data sharing. I have all of the optional ones off and the TV works fine for what I need. I'm obviously not using any of the smart apps at all.
One of the “pleasures” of working in a cube farm is that you get to overhear a lot phone calls. I hear a lot of people spending hours and hours arguing with providers and insurance over billing mistakes. Based on this I believe it’s pretty common. My girlfriend got hit with a $300000 bill after a surgery. It was a mistake (several actually) but it took her almost a year and literally 100s of phone calls to clear this.
Browserless.io - wonderful profitable niche running headless browsers in the cloud. Not sure if still one person anymore.
> The fact that providers can perform services on you without telling you up-front what the price will be is the problem.

Of course. In an unregulated for-profit health care system that is definitely the problem and the way we got there was because of; if there are multiple vendors then prices will automatically go down.

I'm not anti-capitalism. It just doesn't work for certain parts of society but it seems that in the US everything needs to be capitalised and the government clearly doesn't want to regulate this industry.
> He has my sympathies as this sort of situation should never exist in a developed, civilized country, like the United States.

Some how nearly everyone in France manages to deal with buying top-up insurance for the 20-30% of medical costs the national health insurance doesn’t cover. This isn’t a uniquely American thing.
Oh, my...don't you know who I am?. Classy. I guess my aversion to being Internet Famous makes me easy to condescend to.

My "actual full-time job" is building and operating security teams for Fortune 1000 sized companies, not startups. These kinds of issues are also what I do every day. I just do it with far more customers, internal stake holders, budget, technical debt, politics, employees, governance, geography, etc., etc. And I actually do those hard things; I don't just say "you should do this...it should be easy".

Consider that just maybe your perspective doesn't represent the totality of the security landscape. Things that are easy when you're consulting to the latest Foo of Bar startup or whatever is spooling out cat videos this week are very, very hard when you're dealing with entrenched, interconnected business processes processing billions of dollars of other peoples money. Just a thought.
> This is how i see travel bloggers too. Constantly updating the world about your whereabouts, framing every experience as something to be shared, it sounds exhausting to me - just like work!

A few years back, I took a ~yearlong backpacking trip which gave me a lot of exposure to travel bloggers, both personally and when doing research for my travels. The impression I got from many of them was that they didn't consider the blogging work, but rather a natural outgrowth of the journaling practice that many people do privately anyway, for the ostensible personal benefits. Once they had already gone through the work of framing and articulating their experiences, polishing it and sharing it with others wasn't a lot of marginal work (and added an extra layer of fun).

I'm sure there are people who treat it like a daily grind, but my impression is that, for most travel bloggers, it grows pretty naturally out of something they were doing anyway.
The fact is the “language” part of a programming language is the easy part. The hard part is the ecosystem, tooling, mindshare, etc.

This is certainly true, but on the other hand, any new language that will one day be successful needs to start somewhere, or we're going to be writing systems code in bug-ridden C and line-of-business applications in verbose Java forever.

A language where doing day-to-day things would be 35% easier than what I use right now is certainly significantly better, IMHO. It seems to me that to move our industry forward by adopting newer and significantly better languages then a new language probably needs some or all of:

1. easy compatibility with a major existing library ecosystem (a simple FFI to any library with a C interface, for example) or a very comprehensive set of standard libraries out of the box and some tolerable way to integrate with more specialised ones

2. compatibility with existing tools or a decent version of the essential tools of its own (where "essential" today probably means something like build system, package manager, debugger, and maybe profiler, plus usable support in editors and things like version control and diff tools)

3. a compelling use case where it is much better than anything out there today, to act as a starting point for everything else to attach to

4. a core group of initial developers who are interested enough to do things with the language and help develop the above.
The major reason people use threads is to speed up compute intensive tasks.

Ideally, pure computation like the one in your example should get a speed up linear to number of threads. 2 threads -> 2x faster. 3 threads -> 3x faster, up to a number of cores.

If that's not happening then you have excessive locking.

In Python excessive locking is caused by GIL - Global Interpreter Lock. As the name implies, there's a single, global lock and execution in a single threads effectively blocks all other threads because it holds GIL captive.

What this particular benchmarks is showing is that GIL is as bad as everyone says: instead of getting 16x speedup, you get speedups that are almost within margin of error for such a coarse measure.
It's the Google services that do the slowing down.
I wasn't so much opposed to using them originally but I just had no reason to use them since regular ordering worked fine. Now that they have removed the regular counters I have bothered to learn the self serve ones and I feel mostly indifferent about it.
Huawai is doing it alleged ... nobody has proof.
For Cisco, Amazon, Google etc. we have proof :)
If this is a joke, it's bitingly funny.

If not... why are we brainstorming ideas for an auxiliary medical information business whose apparent business model would involve fee for service to prevent beneficial-if-expensive medical interventions? That's arguably a step down from ideas to get people to click on ads. It really seems smart people out to be able to enjoy working on the hard problems of brainstorming contributions to a medical system in which effective providers are reasonably trained and rewarded, insurance risks are effectively pooled and managed, and access to care doesn't carry a risk of bankruptcy.
Seems related but not the same. Looks like Kyllo took up the case all the way to the Supreme Court. I think the only way for this Sting Ray stuff to be ruled unconstitutional is if a specific case against it was brought forth.

> Kyllo then petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, which was granted.
at this point it seems not unreasonable to say that the collective dark parasitic menace associated with the medical system in the US (to include all of the following: leadership, admins, providers, policymakers, etc. is actively hostile towards individual citizens of the US. the whole charade of nobly helping people should be pretty well dead and buried by now: it's all about dollars and extracting the maximum possible.

i am not surprised to learn that seniors are also exposed to some goofy backdoor likely engineered by some clever lobbyists ages ago.

from where i sit the risk of existential financial danger of being inside the US is probably not worth it for the vast majority of those no longer earning a normalish W2 income. what's the point staying in the US for "retirement" when you can get clobbered by some technicality?

some people may figuratively and literally live to fight another day but you'll probably do battle with this monster until you die warding off literal mercenaries trying to get you to pay the bill... and whatever assets you have tried to build up over the years as well.

given that a large percentage of the US economy is based on this behavior (and not really getting any smaller; it's big source of jobs - check job growth reports), it's fairly unreasonable to think it will get better before it gets worse. i am not optimistic that even if Sanders were elected he could fix this. there are too many grubby hands in the money pot, and it is too easy to sell the people on the """cost""" because second order effects (lost productivity, mental health issues, crime, ability to change jobs/situations without fear of death or permanent ruin, deleterious effects on youth without access etc.) are completely ignored. big numbers on federal budgets are too easy for those of the Free Market mindset to fixate upon.

i would humbly submit that if you are worried at all about this, there are lots of opportunities to take a social security income and live out a respectable life and/or death in countries where you are not treated like a financial bloodbag to be reaped and tossed aside. a lot of these places would be happy to have your dollars and you'd also reduce your contributions to this system.
That's why I stick with the squeezebox ecosystem.

Open source server which runs locally. The hardware is long since discontinued (but plentiful and easily available on craigslist etc) and it can never be obsoleted as everything runs locally.
It's adversarial, because it's good strategy for winning elections. In a two-party system, there's no need to compromise. All you need to do is to beat one person (generally speaking). The worst way to do that is to agree on anything with the other person. You want as many wedge issues as you can, if your constituents are in favor of your position. If they're not, you attack the other person's character. Preferably you do both.

It's been this way for a very long time, and it's only getting worse.
It doesn't make sense to pay a surcharge for delivery when the product is abundant on the grey market.

As far as the "bubble bursting", well, anyone who thought the Canadian government was going to allow the market to mint Marijuana millionaires and billionaires was simply naive.
> What Californians need most is to end prop 13

How does Prop 13 inhibit new buildings?

Isn’t it an incentive to buy? property taxes on new homes are capped with prop 13
Horizontal scalability carries a lot of overhead. Probably a factor of 10, easily. But the clue is in the name: eventually you'll get to a point where you have to scale.

Back in 2010 I worked for a company whose system, in Java, ran on a single web server (with one identical machine for failover). We laughed at our nearest rivals, who were using Ruby, and apparently needed 60(!) machines to run their system, which had about 5x the average request latency of ours.

Then traffic doubled, and suddenly we were having to buy six-figure servers and carefully performance-optimize our code, and our rivals with the 120 Ruby servers didn't look so funny any more. And then traffic doubled again.
Don't hate the player, man. Don't hate the game either. Realize that reaching people, both literally and figuratively, is a prerequisite to improving their lives with your product.
Only a minority of people get murdered too. Most people walk around alive and happy.

In Australia, the number one reason for personal bankruptcy prior to the Hawke Labor government introducing Medicare in the 1980s was unexpected medical expenses [1].

insurance is the USA is largely tied to having a job. You can buy your own insurance but it's terrible in comparison to better employment-based health insurance and the reason for that is exactly why we need a public safety net.

Company insurance plans a) form a group and b) have negotiating power with insurance companies. The first part is really important. Being diagnosed with diabetes and then having diabetes-related medical expenses be excluded from personal insurance as a pre-existing condition is Bad. Really Bad.

The only way insurance works is if you consider the total expenses of a sufficiently large group of people. Companies, unions and government organizations are the only way to get this in the US.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-18/bob-hawke-what-did-au...
Can confirm.

I was visiting a nature reserve where the trail opened to a resting area with some seats. A tree had a woodcut QR code on it, so I thought I'd scan it to find out more about the area.

Turns out, the QR code linked to some tracking site with a short URL. Even worse, the short URL had since been deleted, so I have no way to know the original URL it went to.
Freight shipping can be a little like that.
based and updooted
At some point in there, he says, "Table? Is this 1999?"

pg explained several years ago why Arc's web library, and by extension HN, uses tables. [1]

> Arc embodies a similarly unPC attitude to HTML. The predefined libraries just do everything with tables. Why? Because Arc is tuned for exploratory programming, and the W3C-approved way of doing things represents the opposite spirit.

[...]

> Tables are the lists of html. The W3C doesn't like you to use tables to do more than display tabular data because then it's unclear what a table cell means. But this sort of ambiguity is not always an error. It might be an accurate reflection of the programmer's state of mind. In exploratory programming, the programmer is by definition unsure what the program represents.

> Of course, "exploratory programming" is just a euphemism for "quick and dirty" programming. And that phrase is almost redundant: quick almost always seems to imply dirty. One is always a bit sheepish about writing quick and dirty programs. And yet some, if not most, of the best programs began that way. And some, if not most, of the most spectacular failures in software have been perpetrated by people trying to do the opposite.

> So experience suggests we should embrace dirtiness. Or at least some forms of it

It seems to me that the iconoclastic, anti-authoritarian, "unPC" hacker spirit reflected here can be taken too far, and this sometimes has a negative impact on the experience of some users, as Sina demonstrated. Now that HN's core UI is way beyond the exploratory phase, I wonder if it's time to re-do some of the markup in a more structured way.

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/arc0.html
They've sold an entertainment/advertisement product, one that required almost no change in formula for hundreds of years.

In journalism school you learn early on the history of newspapers in New York. The consequence was more competition lead to drastic price wars and a race to the bottom. By many accounts it culminated in yellow journalism.

That all found a natural equilibrium and things remained mostly unchanged until television. With that, competition for short, snippet journalism increased and newspapers moved to longer, more in depth journalism and larger shelved the very long form because the audience was gone.

Cable news had a similarly tectonic force on network news, which changed its drab, almost newspaper-y style to compete.

Each of these forces fundamentally changed the nature of these long lived formulas. Twitter shoved another dagger in newspaper journalism by forcing them to compete on social media, eliminating journalist standards for interaction with the public.

The gatekeepers react based on what audiences do. Audiences are not discerning. Each one of these events puts a dent in the integrity of its former self. It's all a race to the bottom for advertisement, something a lack of competition previously kept slow enough to seem at bay.
The "26M pclntab" issue sounds like an excellent argument against that design decision.
Why can't the remenants from an alien war not be baryonic?

The observed distribution is very odd, actually. In some galaxies there is nearly none, in others quite a lot, yet it tends to be hang quite close to matter even though the forces between them are quite weak.
Anectodal.

Getting hit with surprise medical bills is very common among my network.

Personally, I went for a physical and hospital billed me over $600 for it. They apparently performed things that are not covered by my insurance.

No matter how much you insist, hospitals won't tell you how much things would cost or if something is covered or not.

I try to be proactive about my health but surprise bills sometimes scare me out of visiting hospitals/doctors for checkups. Or even if I go, I'm always worried about getting surprise bills weeks later.
One of the primary reasons healthcare is so expensive in the US is that so many of the factors that influence price are not constrained by competition. Fixing those problems is largely a political matter, not an economic one. The economics of capitalist systems do not make any claims about the functionality of markets that are allowed to exist without competition. Which is why all serious free market economists exclusively promote competitive free markets. A free market economist who doesn’t believe government has a role in ensuring markets are competitive is really just an extreme libertarian.

Any market where the buyer is not the person who’s paying, or where the buyer has to make a purchasing decision before they know the price (or even what goods/services they’re agreeing to buy), cannot possibly be influenced by the laws of supply and demand. It’s the same reason that you can look at essentially any government spending project, and amaze yourself by how little the government manages to achieve with so much money. The payer doesn’t have any choice about how much taxes they pay, and the decision maker has a very poorly constrained supply of other people’s money to spend.
you never wrote a compiler, you piggy-backed on others'.

stop shitting on go in every thread. rust is fine, stick with it.
The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago