skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use MyChart Central and Lucy. You can connect multiple MyChart accounts together, download your record and add notes to it. Then it is accessible from basically any provider that uses electronic health records in the USA if I ever get in an emergency and the hospital needs my records.
Silly Rabbit – Trix Are for Kids (Some Lolbin Examples)
Diclofenac is unfortunately extremely ill-suited for intramuscular injection, as its formulations come in a rather large fluid volume, at the upper end of the range with regards to how much even the best of IM injection sites can hold without causing pretty bad injection site pain (primarily ventrogluteal), depending of course on your body size. Dorsogluteal is better, but I don’t know many people than self-inject there.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/does-medicare...

“ In fact, the bill would outright ban private insurance that provides similar coverage to the new Medicare for All plans after a short transition period. That means everyone with comprehensive employee benefits or a private plan through the Affordable Care Act today would be moved onto Medicare.

[. . .] Sanders has said he envisions these remaining plans covering a handful of items like cosmetic surgery that are left out of Medicare. For everything else, the only option is Medicare.”
If you enjoy doing it, that's another thing entirely.
How does that work if you're like, a working adult, with an income, not in retirement, though?

If I go on holiday to the US, and for whatever reason through some minor flaw in my travel insurance (or just not having it; I imagine millions of people fly there without it each year) I'm not covered, it sounds like a person could easily rack up tens of thousands without realising if they weren't aware of this sort of thing.
the way i read is it that we have the American Cargo Cult and these are some principles that help explain what it is.
E.g. "Good intentions suffice: You can always apologize." When you see everyone just apologizing you internalize that just having good intentions suffice without understanding why this may be the case.
> Digital Fusion (much more awkward, but free)

Small nitpick, only applies to Fusion 9 and below. Fusion 16 only comes in the Studio variant, otherwise you need to use DaVinci Resolve 16 to access the embedded Fusion for free.

> Figuring out why programs like these work well and what gaps are between them and general programs is interesting because many of the reasons come down to pragmatic workflow and not technical limitations.

In the case of Nuke, the pragmatic workflow is a large part of it, but not the only one. When it comes to digital compositing, it is very easy to get up and running with layer based solutions quicker (such as Adobe products), but they hit a wall very quickly on memory usage, process duplication, and general difficulty of navigation and organization as the composite becomes more complex.

Nuke is in a different class of its own, being developed originally at Digital Domain (a VFX studio) before eventually sold to Foundry (then The Foundry). Nuke's success was a technical one, being far more memory aware and efficient (a scanline renderer and processor), as well as catering directly to the user base it served. It is still the only specialist compositing tool that has support for modern deep data, has proper handling and support for multi-layer/multi-part EXRs, and has a clean and proper handling of channels and layers throughout the comp. It has some modernization to undergo nowadays, but it is still the most trusted tool in VFX.

Software in computer graphics to note as being primarily node based that expose that directly to the user:

- Autodesk Maya (is node-based)
- SideFX Houdini (formerly Prism)
- Foundry Nuke (originated from Digital Domain)
- Foundry Katana (originated from Sony)
- Substance Designer
- Isotropix Clarisse BUiLDER
- Natron
- Blackmagic Design Fusion (an in-house tool to Eyeon Fusion -> Blackmagic Design)

Other tools that integrate node based workflows into their application:

- Autodesk 3DS Max
- Foundry Mari (originated from Weta Digital)
- Maxon Cinema 4D
- Blender (personally unsure of Blender and being nodal-based)
- Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve

There are a smattering of others I haven't gotten the chance to use, from other imaging tools to those specializing in tracking (e.g. PfTrack) and in-house non-commercialized tools.
You really want to get to a world where instead of buying a copy of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, you instead buy 1 month access to play?
Yep, all the things you mention are effectively contracts (in the broad sense) where both parties commit to previously agreed upon terms.

It's for this reason that most countries have some kind of mandatory insurance against emergency medical treatment where the person being treated basically has no choice (even if they're conscious) and is thus incapable of forming a valid contract.

You're right that in this scenario it's weird to expect someone to still pay for their treatment, but if you can't force people to be fully insured against such costs you need to force them to pay for costs they couldn't freely consent to.
> doctors

You mean hospital administration and private equity firms buying hospitals and squeezing them for all they can.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted another user pointed out he only paid $5k out of pocket...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21910193
I think "I didn't have withdrawal symptoms so no-one does" is a bit of a dodgy position. I don't think much of the post (a long post about how she doesn't drink caffeine, which ends with her recommendation for caffeinated green tea), but you need only browse this thread to see that there are people for whom caffeine withdrawal symptoms are real. My own are very mild (just some headaches), but that doesn't mean everyone's are.
Firefox has the exact same thing except for automatically recording the screenshots.

doesn't seem like that much of a deal breaker to me

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Performance/F...
do you have a github? I'd like to read code written by a blind person.
Pretty sure this is true in Florida as well. At least, they can’t put a lien on your house there.
Where are you moving to? Transfer or new job?
Ultra-hardened bunkers on earth are easier and cheaper to build and run than a half-assed Martian colony, and post-impact earth is less shit to live on than Mars. Unless the impactor’s, like, dwarf planet size.
Real income in the UK has plummeted in the last two decades. The government's employment figures are just smoke and mirrors masking a gig economy full of low pay and sofa-surfing. The government has now started harassing low-income in-work housing benefit claimants to make sure they are doing enough to increase their hours. This is new territory as the housing element in Universal Credit payments was previously exempt from sanctions.
Yes, the subject of the article, Medicare, a government created and run health system is a great example of capitalism run wild.

What?
Which is, perhaps, why basically no one uses Haskell in production.
Thousands seems a bit low...

Besides even if 0.1% goes disastrously wrong financially then that's still a lot of people.
The suggestion was to not hire junior for certain projects, where that makes sense.

This does not at all imply that no one should ever hire them. So get up from that slippery slope and start walking again!
Startup idea: QR code tattoo service that hosts a DNR that the tattooee has digitally signed.
Which is funny considering we moved from Canada to the US because of the health care.
Why are hospitals allowed to withhold the price of service until after treatment? No other business that I know of is allowed to get away with this kind of behavior. You don't sign a contract to buy a car, then find out the price later.

Isn't there some precandent in law somewhere saying that one parting cant change an agreement after the fact or they would be acting in bad faith? Are hospitals acting in bad faith?
If you’re not from the US, it would also be far easier for you to simply default on your debt. Actually I’m curious how medical debt is even enforced for non-citizens. Related, I have completely separate credit scores in the UK (resident) and US (citizen). I’m sure the bureaus would like to change that, but there is no system that lets them know I’m the same person.
As someone with a PineTime Dev Kit on their desk in front of them, I would say that “just not sealed/glued shut” is not the entire story. Sure, you could glue it shut. But you would be stuck with somewhat bog standard software that is neither exciting nor updateable unless you hook the device up via Serial Wire Debug (SWD) to flash it – which requires yet another piece of kit to achieve. PINE64 are not joking around when they state that: “The PineTime Dev Kit [is] aimed solely for development purpose only, this is not for end user[s] who [are] looking for [a] ready to wear Smart Watch. More specifically, [we] only intend for these units to find their way into the hands of developer[s] with extensive embedded OS experience and an interest in Smart Watch development.” [1].

That being said, I have had a lot of fun learning embedded systems over the holidays and highly recommend getting a dev kit if you want a rewarding hobby that is likely to contribute to this watch coming out “for real” with a lot of fun software some time next year. Admittedly my reading list is very Rust biased, so feel free to ignore parts of it. But I highly recommend the embedded Rust “Discovery Book” [2] and “The Embedded Rust Book” [3]. Also, anything written by Lup Yuen Lee (李立源) so far has had the highest quality of all writing related to PineTime development. The only downside is that it is on Medium (yuck!), but do start with the one where he breaks his PineTime open for the first time and go from there [4]. There is also of course the PineTime sub forum [5]. Lastly, if you are new to embedded systems (such as myself) it may also be worth getting the development board that corresponds to what is inside the PineTime [6]. Happy reading and hacking!

[1]: https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinetime-dev-kit

[2]: https://docs.rust-embedded.org/discovery

[3]: https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book

[4]: https://medium.com/swlh/sneak-peek-of-pinetime-smart-watch-a...

[5]: https://forum.pine64.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=134

[6]: https://www.nordicsemi.com/Software-and-Tools/Development-Ki...
If you are supremely confident that you've solved many problems with "no experience" you know you can solve many more.

It helps with bringing the interviewer with you also. It's actually important to stay humble and think out loud. Don't aim to have all the answers. Aim to find the answers "as a team" and give them a positive preview of how working with you is pleasant.

I've aced every interview, perhaps because I only interview for roles I am intellectually curious about and I do a lot of research beforehand "for fun."
It seems like this can only be a con if other languages give you a choice. In other words, in C++ you can decide that your debug and release are the same, or you can make them different if you know what you're doing (like a good IDE does).
Since the amount billed typically is several times the negotiated rate between a healthcare provider and an insurance company and the 20% is based upon what the insurance company actually paid the patient likely paid significantly less than even $5k.
No, there's no need for a tradeoff at all in a properly implemented compiler. You can certainly compress a table in memory and still have that table be indexable at runtime. Entropy coding is not the only type of compression that exists. DWARF solved this a decade ago.
This. Every single American should take your comment to heart 100%.

I am an American in her 30s, on disability, who has Medicare. I am looking to return to the workforce, after I complete my final year of engineering school, in electrical engineering.

I require a blood product that costs $300,000/year in order to survive. I have 2 rare immune-mediated diseases that affect my peripheral nervous system, which are in pharmaceutical remission, thanks to this medicine. It is the only thing that has worked, and we have tried about 10 treatments, plus combinations of them. It is my only option.

In addition to having Medicare, I also have employer-based insurance through a family member. For reasons which I will not discuss, it is extremely likely that I will lose this coverage if the Affordable Care Act is partly or completely repealed.

I can expect to pay at least $50,000/year for this via Medicare coverage, if it is my only insurance, as I will be subjected to Part D catastrophic coverage levels. Obviously, I cannot afford to. One would be lucky to be able to afford this, even if they saved and were living on a huge pile of money, which is unlikely even working as an engineer.

Living in the US is just not worth it. You would be lucky not to need an exorbitantly expensive medication at some point in your life. Cancer meds are unbelievably expensive too. Almost half of cancer patients exhaust their lifetime savings within 2 years of diagnosis. 62% are in debt from it.

Besides stuff like that, in the US the third leading cause of death is preventable medical errors (if you do not believe me, Google it), which is on par with third world countries. You can go to the best institutions and get the best possible medical care, but I can assure you that you cannot evade that statistic, with it being #3 as the cause of death.

I want to work in the US but with my healthcare being so tied to my insurance, it really does not work for me.

This country is no place to live, if you want to survive your health problems. The best place to go, in general, if you are concerned about healthcare are the European Union countries. They do not discriminate on the basis of your health status, but you will have to work and earn your citizenship.

You can also get citizenship by descent. I naturalized as Croatian (also as an European Union citizen), as I cannot afford to risk my health here any more. My situation is more precarious than one would think.
But depending on where that is, 5k EUR/month netto goes very far.
Not sure what this means. Medigap is supplemental insurance that reduces the 20% coinsurance responsibility. If he didn’t have Part B then he couldn’t have bought this.

Medicare Advantage is just A+B from a private insurance company.
> Your home, your 401k, is easy pickings for a bankruptcy court.

Your 401k and retirement accounts ( pensions, IRAs, trust funds, etc ) are legally protected from bankruptcy or legal judgments. In some states ( like florida ), even your home is protected from bankruptcy or legal judgments. Otherwise OJ Simpson who be homeless begging on the street rather than playing golf every other day.

Medical issues can be a source of financial distress for sure, but your statement about 401k is simply not accurate.
I suppose there's probably an equivalent scenario if a non-EU visitor falls ill in the UK.

Or if a UK citizen drives a car with (unknown to them) invalid insurance and destroys the side of a house or whatever.
Why didn't he have Part B? I'm guessing that would have covered it. There's more to this story I'm thinking.
Some survivorship bias: industries that are doing well without regulation are the least likely to be regulated
> Paradoxically, good artists also embrace limitations. Limitations force ingenuity and innovation, as well as push a form forward.

This statement is not limited to pixel graphics. In the mid 90's writing a 3D game the artist would come to me with a tank using 300 or so vertices. I did the math. "No" I responded "it needs to be as few as possible, maybe 100, but preferably less". And then I'd show them their art in the game and they'd understand, gnash their teeth and optimise. We had interesting conversations when using Level Of Detail (LOD) and I'd limit him to 6, a cube. (Because it was maybe 2 pixels in size after rasterisation). I think he ended up giving me one using 5 vertices: after the texture was applied it looked good.

Everytime, challenge accepted and passed. Graphics guys can be awesome (& and awesomely challenging)
They did for quite a while. It was only relatively recently that Tim Cook reversed the policy and allowed crypto wallets to appear on iOS.
Cacheline-Orientated Programming
Easier reproducibility and the company I was interning at did everything with containers so I did it just to learn.
It's not entirely clear, but I think the plans that are 'banned' in that case are not "on top of" Medicare, but instead of. I.e. there's a contribution you'd pay to private insurance that you don't pay to Medicare under those plans. Because otherwise... why bother banning them?
Well, hospitals aren't required to tell you what a given procedure is going to cost before doing it, so basically it boils down to:

If you get really sick, "gotcha".
And yet dicebot continues to work in D, including for me for a while.

I'm hiring 25 D programmers, so I suppose it very much depends on what you mean by practically!
Such a terrible experience on mobile. Sigh. WTB a new Internet where only ten html tags are allowed.
>He was told in advance he wasn't welcome there

This is inaccurate.
Not at all. As long as your keys to decrypt messages are on your device only, the body of the message will be gibberish for your email host. You could argue that metadata is in jeopardy since the email recipient is not obfuscated but that is the same thing with Signal where you rely on a central server with phone numbers connecting people to each other's.
It should get downvoted; it's heartless. Given the hundreds of millions of people in the US, the fact that thousands, or even millions, of people successfully seek medical care doesn't demonstrate much. One or two people whose lives are ruined by rent-seeking in a life-or-death matter is too many (I think one wouldn't ignore several cases of food poisoning at a restaurant and respond that hundreds had eaten there without incident); I suspect that the actual number of people affected by this sort of catastrophe is at least in the thousands. Unless you're one of the people affected (and probably not even then), you have no right to dismiss the suffering of those who have been.
I think you're confusing memory mapped files with swap. They may be sibling technologies but they're not the same thing at all.
>(multiple) people believed he was threatening others

Do you have any evidence to support this claim? Unless you're implying that his eviction in itself is evidence, which sounds pretty insane to me.
To be clear, what Valve wants and claims to sell is a license as you describe, and maybe that is the story they sell to the game publishers using their platform, and maybe it is all true in the US. What is actually being sold though depends on the jurisdiction, and Valve's bold claims have no teeth. It is common for US companies to learn the hard way that they cannot revoke legal rights in places like Australia and Europe. There is little point reading the license agreement when most of it is balderdash, falsely claiming a more limited agreement than that granted by law.
This is easily the coolest thing I've seen on HN this month! I'm a computer graphics and animation student/hobbiest in conjunction with my CS studies so this is very interesting to me. Any plans to incorporate your software into the content creation tools themselves by means of an addon?
Depends on the team. Try different times and evaluate in an agile fashion :-)

Personally I find start of businesses day Monday to be ideal since it provides an ideal time for both “we did this last week” retrospective review and “we will do this stuff this week” forward planning.
Same here!

It is simple, searchable and extremely flexible.

I have a list for each date in a Logbook list and keep dumping all my completed TODOs at work there. It has come in useful a few times already to recall when did I do thing X.

I also have an Inbox list to keep all my thoughts in there, which get groomed once a couple of weeks. The mobile app is a little slower than I'd like but it is the best tools I've found to organize my thoughts.

I also get daily emails from Workflowy which provides a nice timeline of everything I've done or recorded at any point.
https://marmoset.co/hexels/
I am not surprised for a script north of 2000 characters for this. Check out Fred's ImageMagick scripts (http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/index.php). In the similar concept, they are long shell scripts generating an imagemagick command
A Year After Amazon HQ Announcement – Northern Virginia Housing Up 33%
https://readerstyle.com/
Right, I get that. But the words "analogy" and "narrative" don't appear in the page. I'm wondering what you mean by those words?
As you point out, someone begging to fund travel certainly fits the description of non-contributor to society.

But many (most?) self-fund their ongoing travel, whether through odd jobs while traveling, savings from a previous stable employment, or "digital nomad" work on the road[1]. In that sense, they're just shifting a portion of their contributions from time period B to time period A, in the same way that spending during retirement works. I don't see how this can be described as "feel[ing] no shared responsibility to contribute to society" any more than someone who spreads their contributions more evenly over time: it's just describing the use of money as a store of value.
> It's not capitalist though, is it? The reason that hospitals can bill arbitrary amounts retroactively is because the government allows them to. The reason that there isn't strong competition between vendors is again because of government intervention.

I think it's the opposite–yes, the government does allow this sort of behaviour, but that's because the health-care-adjacent parasites lobby so furiously against any efforts to stop it. It's scarcely the government stepping in to ensure this sort of banditry (why would they, when government officials don't benefit from it?).
Acquaintance got the recognition at work for the tool implementation. They also got a vastly superior solution to a problem they had at work.

I had another opportunity to develop a similar tool for another company, but the person who pitched it wanted 50% despite having nothing to offer other than the idea, so I politely declined.
The answer is not what the author wants -- to close this one particular loophole. The answer is force price transparency, which is what we have in almost every other market. In other words, you have to be told what the price is, in advance, and you have to agree to it. If that doesn't happen, and the provider tries to hit you with charges you haven't agreed to, then it's fraud.

Let's give credit where credit is due on this: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20190625.97459...
Just think how wonderful “Medicare for All” will be!
Is it? I find a raw page like this better for pure reading than the majority of “well designed” websites, and reader mode works wonderfully.
The way you repeatedly suggest that VC was threatening others is bordering on defamatory.
It should be noted that this sort of coverage is not some sort of weird American thing. In France, for example, the government insurance only pays 80% of hospital visits. Everyone signs up for private supplemental insurance to cover the gap.
wrt why video editing needs automating: there are a host of repetitive tasks in video editing that are very tedious to do with GUI editors. For instance, labelling shots with shot number overlay text. At the moment you can get quick results for this specific task using other tools such as FFmpeg. Personally, the top item on my wishlist would be a video editing library (Python?) that outputs to Final Cut Pro XML so that I could do final tweaks in a GUI-based editor of my choice.