skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that whenever anybody tries to fix it they're labelled as a socialist because that's how the right wing media has trained people to react. Apparently the only options are absolute survival-of-the-richest capitalism or Soviet Union socialism with no in betweens, go figure. In my opinion, democracy is dead and we're at a point where you can buy votes via professional gaslighting and mass misinformation.
ffmpeg is a stand alone executable, why did you need a docker container?
Step one: send a file that's cryptographically signed.
Step two: the client solves the problem of "which of these duplicate and conflicting packets do I need to assemble together to make a message that is appropriately signed?"
There is no single reality.

People that get locked up are just the poor souls that can't live with this fact.
You can be paranoid about it, or you can do something about it. ;)
Is there an equivalent of a 'do not resuscitate' tattoo or something you can get that's along the lines of 'do not perform for-pay medical care on me'?

If I were in the US, travelling, I'd only want immediate life saving treatment (a heart attack, say) to take effect unless I was absolutely sure of the precise cost of what I was submitting myself for.

It baffles me that you can be billed unknown amounts for this. I don't do _anything_ without knowing roughly how much it costs. My rent? Known before signing. Utilities? Rates are published, there's a meter on the wall. Supermarket? Prices are right there. Taxi? Has a meter, or it's fixed price private hire.

The only example I can come up with right now where prices aren't generally known before the fact is the pub. If you serve me a pint and claim it costs 15 quid rather than the expected ~5, you better believe that you're pouring that down the sink.

I drove by a road toll today in Norway that cost $1. I'm given enough time to turn around and decide not to use that road.

Yet Americans are getting slammed for multiple years' income whilst they're essentially unconscious?

Absolute madness.
A Theory of Failure
Is there a compilation of many of the "gotchas" (like this) that can be pulled in medical billing in the US? A wiki or GitHub repo would be a good place to start compiling them. Alternatively, post about any you know of here.
I think it is natural that when the government is picking up the tab, the government will necessarily follow through with regulations that protect their own interests.

It is definitely the horse needed before the cart, and expecting a pharmaceutical/insurance funded government to pass the requisite regulations against its own interests would be cart first.

Unless of course, we could somehow acquire a government that acts on the interests of the people.
If you can ignore the title, http://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-ca... is a fascinating view into the actual cost of delivering surgery/hospital service.

They price and sell surgery directly to patients and employers. Whatever one’s view of their approach, I learned a lot from the episode.
From the docs (https://docs.racket-lang.org/video@video-v0-2/index.html):

> Video Language (or VidLang, sometimes referred to as just Video) is a DSL for editing...videos. It aims to merge the capabilities of a traditional graphical non-linear video editor (NLVE), with the power of a programming language.
Another common misconception about medicare is that they won't deny tests or procedures that your physician deems medically necessary. Medicare can and does issue such denials. I worked next to a family medicine MD with a primarily medicare/medicaid patient panel and he would spend at least two hours per clinic day on the phone arguing with various counter parties about the medical necessity of certain orders he had submitted. He said it was by far the most frustrating part of his job. If you look at where CMS policy is headed, I would expect more care dictated by flow charts and algorithms and less autonomy in the hands of physicians.
SO content changes all the time. Votes, comments, moderation, edits, tagging, search and recommendations, etc. There are also real-time community features. It's not as simple as it seems.
>'It'll be ok!' isn't a sufficient response, because look at how journalism has been gutted over the last twenty years. It's a genuinely tougher world for content creators that aren't disney...

Can we separate fiction from non-fiction? We need non-fiction to function as a society. We like fiction a lot. Laws should protect industries that we need. Laws should not interfere with the unfettered propagation of culture even if it's churned out from a hobby that's been industrialized.
Awesome! I've been wanting to do this.
Could you expand on this?

On first glance it seems like only the well-off would go to college. I won’t respond further unless I’m sure I understand your proposal
It's a DrRacket plugin language so it probably has good Scheme inter-op.
As an outsider, it seems Bernie Sanders is a candidate that seriously wants to tackle these serious problems in the USA.

Apart from that, I wonder why the society in the USA is so adversarial. It is apparent in many aspects and it is damaging for the society. There are ways to reduce to adversity, but it seems that many people support and favour an adversial system. Is that a cultural curse of the USA?
There's no real fix for this outside of a banning providers from billing patients directly. As long as there is any legal route to people paying expenses directly, doctors will find sneaky ways to trick people into doing that.
Yes but the overall hardware is a one-time purchase and cheap considering all the other costs of the business. They're well provisioned to keep latency down and handle any unexpected outages.
Ask HN: Hackable Smartwatch for Kids?
Does anybody know of open source/open hardware smartwatches for kids that are hackable (in the maker sense, not in the black hat sense), or efforts to root/hack/install custom firmwarm/OS on existing off-the-shelf kids' smartwatches?

Some criteria I'm looking for:

- Camera, microphone, and display for placing video call

- WiFi (802.11n at 2.4 GHz is enough, no need for 802.11ac/5 Ghz)

- 4G LTE (i.e. it needs to have a built-in nano-SIM slot)

- GPS and GLONASS

- Water resistance (no need for diver's rating, IP67 is probably enough)
A slim subset of humans typing things is not what I would label "write heavy". Write heavy is more like 100k+ devices out in the field sending their current position every 10s. That's still very manageable, but requires some thoughtful design.
Can I predict the winning lottery numbers?
Well, you had a good run, and a run from a system which probably paid out millions in salary over the years.

"My wife and I are both physicians, but neither of us had any clue that this could be the case."
People aren’t labeled socialist for fixing billing surprises. Trump is pushing a bill to do just that. People are labeled socialist for proposing new federal programs that will cost trillions of dollars more per year, on top of the $6-7 trillion a year that federal, state, and local governments already spend each year. Moreover, people are labeled socialist for proposing solutions, such as single payer, that are in the more government-run end of the overall spectrum of universal healthcare systems. Instead of trying to refine the ACA, for example, which would give us something like the Dutch or Swiss system, people are pushing for single payer and banning private health insurance, which is overall to the left of the various universal healthcare systems that exist.
Discipline is hard because of two primary things: 1) not enough mindfulness and 2) saying no to things is difficult, but replacing a bad habit with a good habit is easy.

With mindfulness, one is aware before the bad habits starts. The earlier the habit is caught, the easier it is to change. It's the difference between struggling to replace a habit for months vs noticing it once, changing it once, and then reaping the rewards.

The mind when given a situation needs to respond to it. Habits are born and then they stick. Saying no to a habit is almost impossible. Instead an alternative habit needs to be made to replace the old habit. Every time that trigger pops up, the new habit fires instead.

Once those two criteria are met, it becomes easy to self-program.
I saw that and don't think it answers any of my questions.
FTR, they say: "As you can see, the ascp client performs over 200x faster than FTP, and can download the whole file in 9 seconds. It’s pretty magical." But the example shows MB/s vs Mb/s. It's not over 200x times faster, but about 17 times faster.
That’s not true, other people with ideas to fix it are labelled “heartless libertarian eugenicists who want to watch poor people die”
Call them and tell you can pay 5k and they would most likely agree.
Depends on the apps you want to build. What would be the first app youd create?
Tangentially related: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-enduring-mystery-o...
"The industry has decided ..."? Which industry is that? Judging by the vacancies on Indeed.co.uk there are an order of magnitude more opportunities for Java/C# developers than those using Node.js or Go. As for Elixir I think it's fair to say that the industry has largely ignored it.
Do you think Seattle is more similar to Vancouver or to some city in Alabama?

It's not an absolute rule for sure, especially over a short period, just look at Korea. However I've found that distance generally plays a very large role in culture, especially if given enough time. Of course it doesn't determine everything. You can find completely different cultures in different blocks in New York city. People don't always see eye-to-eye with their neighbor just some meters away.

In the case of Estonia & Scandinavia the history is rather long and entangled. There are the Vikings, who liked nearby islands - including islands of Estonia that aren't Scandinavia. There have been periods where Estonia was conquered and part of both the Swedish kingdom and the Danish kingdom. Even the Danish flag is attributed to a battle in Estonia. [1]

Would I say that Estonian culture is a copy of Swedish or Danish culture? Definitely not, there are significant differences. There are also big differences between rural and urban areas. There's probably more similarities between Estonian farmers and Swedish farmers than Estonian farmers & Estonian software developers.

At the end of the day, you can't deterministically say anything at all about a group of people, even if it's a small group. Saying something general about people in an area as large as Scandinavia is always going to be probabilistic.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lyndanisse
Need based scholarships allow universities to have nearly perfect price discrimination. This allows them to charge different prices to different consumers and extract the maximum amount each consumer is willing/able to pay. If they had to charge everyone the same price, that price would be considerably lower than the sticker prices now.
>"what you buy is not the hardware but a license to use a copyrighted material" //

That depends, did the advertised product say "licence $game for £50" or did it say "buy"? If it said buy then I own the copy and can certainly resell it. If it said "license" or "buy a time-limited license" then as long as they made it clear "you can not pass this license to a third party" and required explicit consent to that, they're in the clear IMO.

Beyond that they're pulling a scam and those who hold ultimate responsibility for such scams should go to jail.
> I think most people have no idea what goes on behind the scenes,

I agree with this.

> and so ascribe slowdowns, missed SLA, or other failing metrics to amorphous "others" rather than individuals.

The amorphous "other" is generally "IT" when it comes to anything computer related.

IT are the 'big evil' and the cause of most people being unable to do work, if you follow the common narrative.

For example, it's IT's fault that this machine is so slow...Not finance's for restricting budgets and using the cheapest RAM/drive configuration they can get away with.

It's IT's fault that I can't install this super important Outlook/Chrome/whatever extension that I saw on a blog somewhere. It's also IT's fault if Outlook/Chrome/whatever crashes or is slow because I've installed all these extensions.

It's IT's fault that I can't just use wordpress and put custom themes and unvetted PHP code on our main domain so I can do some promotion. It's also IT's fault if that Wordpress install gets hijacked and is used to phish/whatever customers/staff/etc.

It's IT's fault that I can't send 500MB attachments and cc 250 people at other companies. It's also IT's fault that the network (and my computer) is so slow when I'm trying to open an email.

It's IT's fault that the printers are locked down to only print in B&W, even though they have that colour option - and not because finance is sick of paying for me to print 500 full page colour birthday/soccer/wedding invitations every other month.

It's IT's fault that I got phished, even though I ignored the IT security warnings, and slept/skipped through the mandatory online training. It's also IT's fault for letting phishing emails come through, even though it was detected and put in my spam folder with a header clearly saying that it was a suspicious email.

It's IT's fault that I can't use an unencrypted USB drive to move files between computers, even thouh it's because we have had too many colleagues leave USB drives full of customer data in taxis or lost in the mail.

Don't you understand? IT just makes everyone's life more difficult.

I'm playing this up a bit, but these things happen, and people do blame IT for these things.
Because (at least in the American court system) the precedent is far more important than the target. Valve has less less of a defense than some of the bigger players that actually do offer more of a subscription (or value-add for hardware purchase) and probably have a smaller legal team to boot, while still not being nobodies.
I have Medicare, as I am on disability.

I am working on finishing my education, as I only have 1 year left of engineering school, in electrical engineering, before I enter the workforce.

I require a blood product in order to survive. If I ONLY had Medicare (I don't--I also have employer-based insurance through a family member), I can expect to pay around $50,000/year for my care, due to Part D catastrophic coverage levels. I can definitely expect to have to pay $50,000/year soon if the Affordable Care Act is abolished. Fortunately, I am a European Union citizen, but it would be tremendously sad to have to leave the United States, my homeland, over this.

I really cannot go on a Medicare Advantage plan, which might resolve this issue, as I have a very rare condition that only a few doctors in my area are qualified to treat. Most Medicare Advantage plans are HMOs too. You also cannot switch back to traditional Medicare ever, once you get a Medicare Advantage plan. I live in one of the largest metropolitan areas by population too. It puts me in a strange place where I can almost be guaranteed not to get the care I need. My care is unbelievably complex.

It is very common to be admitted to the hospital by Medicare under observational status. I am surprised that the person writing this article was unaware of this, but almost everybody outside the healthcare field is unaware of it. There are also some really, really strange rules with respect to emergency room visits and being admitted under observational status by Medicare. It also takes a lot of time to look them up and understand them.

The Medicare Part B premium is typically $135/month for most Americans. This covers 80% of your costs for outpatient care, doctors visits, medical supplies, etc., under traditional Medicare (not a Medicare Advantage plan). To cover for the remaining 20% (which you should get coverage for--you are foolish not to) you need to get a Medigap plan. Those can be expensive.

I know this is unbelievably complex, and is a huge waste of time to have to go and understand, to prevent yourself from getting in trouble, if you have Medicare. It is ridiculous.

However, the author was being penny-wise and dollar foolish. It is very, very common for people to explicitly elect to have Medicare Parts A and B if they have traditional Medicare. Saving $135/month over something that could get you in trouble is not smart in the American healthcare system.

Yes, his situation should have never happened, in a decent healthcare system. It is sad. But he did make some pretty big mistakes, especially considering he is a doctor. But, he did not deserve this.
>do not perform for-pay medical care on me

It would be impossible as even doctors and hospital staff straight up don't know what is covered and what isn't from person to person with much confidence....let alone the actual pricing.
Maybe OpenVPN + UDPspeeder could do something:

https://github.com/wangyu-/UDPspeeder
This is very misleading and surprising that a physician would make such a mistake.

It seems that he only had Medicare Part A, which is not alone really health insurance it is strictly for hospitalizations and has no premium. I think of it more like catastrophic insurance.

Medicare Part B is actually health insurance and requires a premium. He casually mentions that he didn’t have Part B but unclear why.

The 20% coinsurance he paid is what you’d pay under Part B, and unclear what other insurance he has, but for a high earner you should always buy Medigap which reduces the 20% since like in this example can still be thousands of dollars.
HackRF One – Send/Receive Radio Frequency from 1 MHz to 6 GHz
HN meta comment:

Once again, the title has been (ungrammatically) editorialized with a question mark. It would appear that this is HN editorial staff policy[1]

What is the purpose of this policy, and in particular what criterion is being applied here, that does not apply to (e.g.) the (considerably more subjective) title "McDonald's holds communities together" which remains un-editorialized on the front page of HN?

I am similarly curious about the difference between "Apple News No Longer Supports RSS"[2] and "Google bans niche browsers from Gmail"[3] (to my eyes they are virtually identical submissions - third party forum-based verifications of changed behavior of Big Five software).

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21767023

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21892714

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21765615
humans are bad at planning the future, but very good with the present. read something interesting immediately or forget about it. if you are willing to postpone it , it's probably not important anyway. don't worry, the internet is not going to go away. even though we believe we follow different bubbles, the same articles are being circulated in all of them.
A Rolling Update Plan for 2020
One thing I try to do is remember that onsite people take breaks too.

I very rarely go on a coffee run working remote, but I do go on a “do dishes” run.

It’s a little late now but keeping a log of what you are actually doing at the office is very valuable.
Why not get an actual Pebble? That's what I did!
Worlds oldest clan website: Team [ PnP ]
Whatever happened to living a balanced life and the satisfaction of fulfilling a responsibility? It may not be fashionable but some view the follow-your-passion cult as shallow and self-centered.
The headline is incorrect. The patient did not get stuck with a $25k hospital bill. The patient co-insurance was 20% of $25k or $5k. Still a lot of money for surgery and 2 days in the hospital, but not $25k.
People on HN look at everything not just from a regional perspective, but that of a very small clique out of all of the professional programmers. FAANG companies have plenty of work that is beneath their SWEs, which they outsource, in some cases, to American companies that have a mix of American employees and offshore. They hire people in the US around $40-60K and increase pay very slowly. Nobody gets paid $100K, because (a) if you switch jobs, you only get an incremental bump in salary, due to not having the right kind of title and pedigree, and (b) you're competing with much lower paid offshore employees. Best case is $80-90K after ten years and/or relocating to a major metro area.
It seems that that is what capitalism has become, the creation of many niche complex systems of which one can never be an expert.
In that case then, my desired tattoo is essentially "resuscitate, that's it, I'll work the rest out myself"?

Heh.
"appealing to Hume's razor"... I don't want to sound disrespectful, but that's laughable.

It seems that you believe that positive law (meaning: law that you "think" is right and want to impose on others) is perfectly reasonable.

The deal with argumentative ethics is that it derives natural law through logic reasoning. You may not like it, you may hate the conclusions it achieves, but it's only way you can build an ethical system that allows for the pacific co-existence of individuals in a way that is perennial in time and space that we can possibly agree on (but not necessarily will). Once you start removing constraints (eg. no need to allow for pacific co-existence, or no need for being perennial), then pretty much anything goes, and we're in the authoritarian/totalitarian land we live with today.

In any case, it really doesn't matter what I think or what you think, as decentralization removes the ability states and governments to exist, law will be progressively handled by the free market. How do you believe that law will be handled in a competitive environment, with no government, no "constitution" and Kelsen's pyramid for people to bow to?

In the end the only thing we can possibly agree on is that we hold negative rights on other people's properties. Even if someone doesn't agree on that, the market will find a way to record that person's actions against other's property in a distributed database, which can make the life of that person a living nightmare in a fully technologically decentralized society. We are not there though, so let's have authoritarian ideas pushed right and left while we can.
> SO ranks #36 in Alexa right now

It would rank way higher if they would be more webscale. It needs more Kubernetes, GraphQL and Golang /s
What people don’t talk about is the consequences of building too much housing. When automotive technology was the big thing, Detroit was just like San Francisco. When google and Apple inevitably decline and “tech” is no longer the platform for a one debt bubble after another, we could end up like Detroit if we recklessly build too much infrastructure on top of it all. But we happen to be in a time when it’s hard to make ends meet elsewhere. There’s no simple good solution. It’s just a bad time. Sometimes you just lose.
Where are the job ads for someone like that?
I’ve always heard it as basic quorum before Raft was a thing. One clock and you never know if it’s right or wrong. Two clocks and you’re worse off than one in case they disagree. Three and at least you can (probabilistically, anyway) reach a rough consensus good to the deviation of the clocks not exceeding some threshold in comparison to the other two.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21910186
Yes; to "Lobachevsky"
In fact he admits that he has a Blue Cross plan (probably a sort of Medicare Advantage plan) that covered 80% of the bill. But it’s obscured by the headline and the long rant preceding the admission.

> I wasn’t enrolled in Part B, but did have Blue Cross/Blue Shield supplemental insurance, which required me to pay 20% of the allowable hospital and surgical charges.
Wired Names N.K. Jemisin's “The Fifth Season” Book of the Decade
I would certainly play another Simon the Sorcerer. Thimbleweed Park was nice, but its pixel art is less visually "rich".