skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As someone who ran a healthcare business in Canada, I can tell you that this is absolutely not the case.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Canada have publicly funded providers? I'm all for single payer, but with a completely privatized provider network. Make the free market compete for the government's dollars. Technology should theoretically reduce costs because it more automation generally means higher profits.

provider != payer
Our largest local dairy runs retail stores and sold their milk this way too (although they used heavy reusable plastic bottles rather than glass). It was awesome.

Sadly, they stopped doing that a number of years ago, and now just use the standard disposable plastic jugs.
But the thing is those are purely cosmetic. There’s no reason why one should be able to get them for free, especially when it is a multiplayer game.
Yes had one in my old boat. Nice, but not so nice where I'd install them on my current sailboat.
How much of their revenue can be attributed to their totally optional and very shady """annual fee""" they push on customers?
Ask HN: Is AWS Backing Away from PostgreSQL?
I just went to Amazon Web Services RDS to spin up an Aurora Postgres-compatible instance. That's no longer an option. They offer MySQL-compatible instances only.

It seems that they are not moving very fast on supporting new versions of Postgres for regular RDS instances, either. Postgres 12 was released in October, and 12.1 in November. They're still on 11.5.

Does anyone have an insights on what's going on? Postgres 12 is pretty important for us.
I mean, a quality program will include both numerical analysis and optimization methods classes in their program, both which will (hopefully) go through things like gradient descent in rigour.

And long before that students will hopefully have a solid fundamental knowledge in what rate of change means - not just as in banging out derivatives on paper.
Personally, I think this is cool and props to the author for pulling it off. However, the thing that strikes the more scrutinous side of me about all this - the elephant in the room, if you will - is that what the author is doing almost certainly conflicts with her rental agreement and were she to be brought to court over it, it would probably be a clear case in the favor of the lessor and she might even have to pay back what she had earned. I feel like this is sort of the dream airbnb sells and here's a model case of someone achieving that dream but at the end of the day it's only possible because she's breaking a legal agreement; this probably wouldn't work if she were responsible for the higher cost of the mortgage and maintenance that comes with owning the property.
In this case, the fan falls from the ceiling and she likely just calls her landlord to fix it. So the landlord assumes the cost to fix it and she continues to profit by subletting the apartment for significantly more than she's paying.
Airbnb is basically facilitating a situation where the tenant gets to double dip. They profit off of an asset they don't own and don't assume much liability for and the owner is ultimately the loser. I wonder how this will all play out for airbnb on a larger scale over time.
NASA Artemis
Insurance companies already have teams of doctors and pharmacists analyzing studies to ensure they are pursuing the most effective and cost effective healthcare. They’re called Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committeea.
> "I answered every question on the HN thread"
> "The Hacker News campaign behaved noticeably better."

The "campaign" had 8 upvotes and two questions (plus 1 followup). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21867143 Great to see it worked for you but I'm cautious to derive major learnings from it.
Surely you can see how mob mentality makes vote kicking and vote banning a terrible idea
The only other big example I know of is Basecamp.
Regarding escalation of school shootings, it seems plausible, but only because (here is an unpopular opinion that will get 20 downvotes) the rich want to disarm the poor and use school/kids/safety as an excuse. And that's understandable: if I was rich enough to afford private schools for my kids in a classy neighborhood, I'd want to keep weirdos with guns far from my family, while at the same time Id have 24/7 former-marines guards armed with full auto weapons.
I upgraded my mom to Windows 10 last year, with automatic updates, and she hasn't had any computer issues since then.

As a bonus, I don't have to worry about whether Google's ambivalence will eventually make the computer useless.
So your doc abrogated her responsibility to warn you about the side-effects of the prescribed drug.

You went to the ER, because you were not aware that cramps, constipation, spiking BP, and muscle weakness are symptoms of hypokalemia, which could be resolved quickly by dissolving KCl from the grocery store in water and drinking it.

That's patient education that needs to happen before you go to the ER.

Just like with the GlacialMD thing, it's no skin off your doc's nose if you have to drop $500-$2000 on an ER copay because you had an electrolyte crisis from the medication she prescribed, and didn't know ahead of time that could be a possibility.

And the rest of you out there, learn to measure your own BP. You can't leave it to an annual exam to find out it's getting high, and the BP taken in the doc's office may include the "white coat effect" (or as I call it, the "what will this cost me effect").
Cryptocurrency does not have anything close to widespread consumer adoption. If the Coinbase’s of the world don’t fix this, cryptocurrency will be massively devalued.
It cannot be done simply nor perfectly, but making the effort is at the very foundation of having a functional civilization.
I commute with a regular bike and proper clothing is your friend. It's also not rocket science. You get pretty warm through the movement so often it's okay to just wear something that stops the wind.

I usually wear regular clothing (like jeans and hoodie) and add to it when necessary (long johns in the winter, maybe a power-stretch jacket).
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Are keyboards going to get so flat that at some point they are concave...
One rationale (well before/without AI) is that medicine operates at 2 levels of hierarchy (doctor, nurse) whereas most fields operate at 3 levels (say exec, mgmt/expert, worker/employee), typically mapped to 2-3, 4-5, and 7+ years degrees in most countries.

It's been argued in many countries that medicine could get cheaper if only 10% of doctors-only gestures and decisions could be delegated to some 4-5 years intermediary medical degree, above nurse and below doctor. In reality it's more like 50% of doctors' work could be offloaded. Which also has the benefit of mechanically addressing the general lack of medical doctors in rich countries with aging populations.
I don't know if this would work for you, but here's how I do my food shopping...

For things that are relatively nonperishable (shelf life of a month or so), I do a single massive shopping trip every month. Then I have an entire month that I don't have to to that.

For the things that have a shorter shelf life (produce, dairy, etc.), I buy on an as-needed basis. This typically means I stop by a store every other day on my way home from work -- but since I'm just buying what I need for a day or two, that shopping trip is very brief.
This was different. Itemized inventory with a frown.
It's required, not optional last I checked. Similar to the Costco membership.
Nice rant but you miss a very important fact: there is no way Land’s End is “the cheapest uniform” Delta could have selected.
> it’s not obvious to me at all that the same direction as the (negative) gradient leads to the largest decrease in the value of the function f(x)

What am I missing here? This is straight up the definition of the gradient.
TikTok’s revenue said to skyrocket over 300% in Q4
First off, I'm not really against it in concept... about my only real complaint is the latency for server actions over the internet is rather painful (look at devexpress or telerik component demos) and the wasm payload is around 2.2mb for a hello world app to start.

The component libraries themselves are relatively poor quality and have some weird JS integrations. There's no good open-source component libraries. Even a good library that utilizes bootstrap or material-design scripts would be nice.

Once these issues are generally resolved, I'd be more inclined to suggest it, but I do not want to be the first mover on this one. I've seen way too many X to browser libraries come and go without gaining any real traction only to die on the vine so to speak, then you're stuck rewriting or patching an application that looks and feels ancient.

Even then, one of the larger arguments in favor of Blazor is really, "I can reuse my C# skills." Even there, you need a lot of Browser application context knowledge in practice, and you've just created disconnects and more work where you do need it. That doesn't even get into the mirrored trees directory structure of .Net MVC that is repeated with Blazor.

If I were to explore something similar, I'd probably favor Yew (rust) which seems to be around 220k for the todo mvc app.

In summary:

* Bulky payload or laggy response
* Lighter alternatives
* No network effect
* Dirty abstractions
* Messy structure by default
* Verbose

My preference for web applications isn't particularly lightweight, but much more responsive and imho much better developer velocity with a more consistent and better functioning application...

* React (favoring hooks)
* Redux / GraphQL
* Material-UI (jss/css-in-js themes)
* Fetch API
* connected-react-router

I'd also be more inclined to give Vue or Flutter (Dart) a try, both of which have more maturity in terms of network effect behind them.
The earliest patent of deck lights, which predate vault lights or sidewalk prisms, is from 1684.

This site includes some images and patents https://glassian.org/Prism/index.html

There's a patent for sidewalk prisms from 1834.

As other people have said, the glass broke.

> In 1834, Edward Rockwell patented a round iron plate with a single large lens, but Hyatt later complained in his own patent application, "These glasses are extremely liable to fracture, and when broken leave large and dangerous openings within their rims...". Rockwell's plates are rare today; I know of only three examples of the iron covers and none of the lenses
Please raise my taxes as much as you need to in order to do this.
Since I first saw the on-going demise of my local Fry's, I've been attempting to buy any computer parts from my local Microcenter, even if it is a little more expensive.

I don't want them to go out of business too!
How does this work compared to ML's signatures?
I want Microsoft to release a posix conpliant OS
> How much of their revenue can be attributed to their totally optional and very shady """annual fee""" they push on customers?

Of all the complaints to register against One Medical, this has got to be the weirdest. For the customer base that they're going after (higher-income people, oftentimes those who have this fee covered by their employer), $200/year is a drop in the bucket for medical expenses.
This doesn't seem to line up with the reality presented in the article at all. I caught the Jamal Khashoggi reference but don't see where the evidence is that suggests this is somehow motivating SoftBank.

>SoftBank is back to its old, bold ways after a brief lull. But to keep up the pace, it will need major new commitments from the world's largest investors.

Indicates that, from the author's perspective, this is largely a return by SoftBank to their old ways.

>Meanwhile, SoftBank has reportedly only closed $2 billion of its second Vision Fund. The two sovereign wealth funds that contributed nearly half of the original Vision Fund—Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Company—have yet to commit to the new fund.

Means that there is a lot of potential money on the table if returns can be made.

None of this implies an underlying fear that someone at SoftBank is going to have their head removed by the Saudis due to bad investing.
For once a REALLY useful startup!
> They count Proton/Wine as an emulator, and playing the game through an emulator is a bannable offense.

This is a misrepresentation of the Bungie issue. Users had to patch Proton itself to disable the in-game anti-cheat just to get the game to launch. Disabling anti-cheat is the bannable offense.
I remember people scoffing at the internet like there no legitimate use-cases for it. "Yeah, we have places for information, it's called Grolier's Encyclopedia on CD-ROM, and it's cheap!". "I already have yellow pages delivered for free by C&P Bell". While cryptocurrency may be quite a bit more narrow, blockchain is most likely a far more interesting technology.
The title seems almost incomprehensible. Is it meant to be "1Life Healthcare, Inc. Form S-1", and somehow the number-removal algorithm mangled it?
It’s more the browsing factor. I typically don’t know what I need, and it’s much easier to get a feel for my options when I can see the variety up close.
I do not sit in the middle of the road waiting to make a left turn on a bike. That just seems way too dangerous. Instead I ride through the intersection to the right side of the cross street, and wait to go straight through after the light changes.
I first read of Fry's in Douglas Copland's "Microserfs" long before I came to California.

One of the first things I did after arriving was to visit Fry's in Palo Alto to soak it all in... I was in the BAY AREA!!

Sad to see them (perhaps, likely) go!
Tesla seems to have a bad reputation for parts availability. I suspect they would prioritize new owners.
When Fry's opened up here in the PNW I was looking forward to seeing what theme the store would have - it was a bummer when it wound up being a generic big box store. But still, Fry's was Fry's, and we got some great deals there (mostly thanks to their price match policy) and found some really neat stuff.

One of the things I was looking forward to in fatherhood was taking my kid to Fry's. They always had really cool science/tech toys.

We've now got a two year old, and a month ago we went to the Renton Fry's for the first time in, well, probably two years, and it's absolutely desolate. There were still a few cool toys, though - I got him a Soccer Hoverball [0] - so at least I got to do that once with my son.

0 - https://www.frys.com/product/9768454
They're known as One Medical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Medical
But in solar basically the entire cost is paid up-front. The cost in 2030 only applies if the infrastructure is built in 2030.

> I'd also note that this report was done in 2017, and the LCOE for solar has decreased more rapidly than expected. This Lazard report done only a year later puts large scale solar at US$36-43/MWh (= A$51-63/MWh).

If it started to make commercial sense to build solar in 2017 then it really doesn't make sense to change anything we're doing after these bushfires since any problem will will resolve itself. The underlining point is that this crisis isn't a catalyst to rethink our energy policy. The two things just aren't realistically linked. We don't emit enough carbon for it to be relevant for global pollution.
> The title seems almost incomprehensible. Is it meant to be "1Life Healthcare, Inc. Form S-1", and somehow the number-removal algorithm mangled it?

One Medical is the name that most people know the clinic by, because that's how they present themselves to patients.
Most restaurants I've been to (in the US) serve me approximately twice as much food as a actually want. It's so wasteful, as it means that I'm throwing away half of the food each time.
I’m pretty new to crypto in general, but it seems to me that the primary value of it in coming years would be anonymity/privacy.

As I understand it Bitcoin has some problems in this regard, but others have solved it.

I just can’t find it hard to believe we get to 2030 without a way to buy things anonymously online.
Ask HN: Tools for detailed profiling of web reflows?
Chrome has really great tools for profiling JavaScript, but actual reflows of styles/layout are hidden within big purple boxes that just say "Layout". You can see what JS code triggered the reflow, but you can't see:

- How costly the CSS selectors are to apply

- Where page weight is concentrated

- Which elements are actually being recomputed

- Which groups of elements have the most complex, cascading layout behaviors

Etc.

Does anyone know of a tool (Chrome extension perhaps?) that lets you look into this? I've been searching and can't find one. It's frustrating when reflow becomes my bottleneck, and the only conventional advice is "reduce the number of elements on the page and simplify your selectors, I guess". I have no way of knowing how much benefit, if any, would come from a given optimization strategy, which makes it hard to justify taking the time to do it.
I expected this to be about sea gulls. I think they're smarter than most people give them credit for; I've seen them open zippered bags on the beach, and they have a sort of fearless approach to humans that reminds me of the way crows behave around humans.

Apparently tool use has been observed in some gulls so maybe the the article title is overstating the matter a little (unless gulls aren't considered seabirds?): https://bioone.org/journals/waterbirds/volume-29/issue-2/152...
That would quickly turn into a popularity contest rather than a cheater elimination tool. I'm not really qualified to tell the difference between a cheater and a really good player on many occasions. I can vote for lack of fairplay of course but give the average player a chance to vote and they'll quickly vote out anyone they don't like.
I was thinking with some friends recently (new year's eve) : considering a bitcoin model with a fixed finite amount of currency, won't every coin be lost at some point due to storage failure/lost keys/etc ? Statistically ? And rather sooner than later, if my thinking is right ? Like the birthday problem ?

There is a maximum of 21x10^6 bitcoins, imagining a 0.01 chance of losing 1 bitcoin/day ?
Show HN: I made a WordPress plugin to backup your emails
I didn't suggest that the checkout person do the QA. They already have 1 or 2 people standing at the door. Move them to the checkouts and do QA as people start to leave. AKA look at the checkout to see if there's anything still there as the cashier closes out the sale and starts with the next customer.

It's a moot point, because good QA is not the goal.

You could swap collapsible boxes with someone who shops at Sam's Club, if it worries you.
They work outside the browser. They work in more than one browser. They have more features.
I’d agree with that but you’re still better off than people sitting in their cars in a line of traffic.

https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/fuming-air-pollution-and-c...
> And it's _possible_ for public transport to work for fairly low density suburbs; I think some places have had success with small feeder buses feeding larger buses or trams.

This is what I was sceptical about, but I haven't looked at these kinds of projects yet. I will 'research' more in to it. Thank you for these directions.
What are we going to do with all this empty retail. Osh, Sears, K-Mart all in the past few years. It should probably be demolished for high density housing.
When thinking about backup generators, consider diesel. Their maintenance is two orders of magnitude less, and the hardware lasts far longer.
>Government-run healthcare isn't a panacea

I didn't claim it was. Only that our present standards incentivize fee-for-service and not outcomes-driven, as exemplified by the author's inability to sell his outcome optimizing software. ACA tried to remedy that with preventative care standards, but the current administration is actively dismantling it.

Your model works for cosmetic surgeries because they are cosmetic - optional and not life threatening.

When calculating price, the cost to produce a drug is the last thing on pharmaceutical companies' minds. The question they ask is how much are you willing to pay for something that allows you to continue living. The factors they actually consider: the patient's perceived cost-benefit of continued suffering, the credit/insurance-worthiness of the treatment cohort, and whether the company faces competitive pressures from others selling the drug on the market.

Nothing better depicts the situation than what goes on when pharmaceutical companies merge or acquire the rights to rarely used drugs[1].

The only way to structurally combat this is with the monopsony power of a single payer system.

>I can't think of anything that the government runs better than the private sector. Healthcare is no different.

Government run care has the highest satisfaction rate of any healthcare coverage[2].

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/a-huge-overnight...

2. https://news.gallup.com/poll/186527/americans-government-hea...
Indeed. I've been living in the area for some time now and had no idea. I wonder if there is some area that can be explored?
Bitcoin's price seems to follow stock-to-flow pretty well, so if it holds, $200k is an underestimation.

https://digitalik.net/btc/
What Defines a Stem Cell? Scientists Rethink the Answer (2018)
Finding a breakthrough server in the US before 7pm EST is impossible, even on the weekends.
We use flume forwarding to s3 and then athena to query the logs. Flume processes each logfile with morphline (which is akin to logstash) and parses each rawlog into json before pushing to s3.

We used to run an elk stack but hit a bottleneck crunching logs with logstash. We found flume's morphline to be performant enough and the nice property of flume is that you can fanout and write to multiple datasources.

It's ironic, but because Athena is kind of a flaky product (lots of weird Hive Exceptions querying lots of data) and because it's really only good at searching if you know what you're looking for, we're considering having flume write to an elasticsearch cluster (but still persisting logs to long-term storage on s3).
In short: someday we will create self-improving GOFAI (Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence). Have I summarized correctly?
Look at it the other way around... maybe they could have "half portion" options for those of us who would be tossing the extra food in the trash.

I'd take that every time -- even if I were charged the same as the full portion (since it doesn't matter in the end, as I'm throwing half of the full portion away anyhow.)