skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A free market requires informed buyers, there is no way 98% of people can be sufficiently informed about medical issues, nor do they have time to research them. The closest option is to hire an agent of equal ability (i.e. a doctor) to verify the claims of your doctor. Obviously, that's too expensive, so the next closest alternative is to use health insurance companies who do employ many doctors to verify proper treatment options (aka prior authorizations).
As a consultant, with a couple of monthly prescriptions (thyroid, asthma, allergies), and a wife with a couple of monthly prescriptions (allergies, asthma), we pay just under $2000/mo for insurance, then about $200 every few months for doctor bills, and around $150/mo for all of our prescriptions.

All in all, we spend about half the median household income each year in health care. When my wife got pneumonia after the flu, we had to drop thousands on an ER visit.

If I wasn't well paid, between our allergies and asthma, we'd probably dead.
So predatory pricing is very illegal, and considering that there are three major players in this space (azure/gcp/aws), all three of them would have to coordinate to kill other competition (since otherwise one of them could break from the deal and make their own money by betraying the other two), which is also very illegal.

And why would they even need to do something like that? AWS is wildly profitable anyway with enormous amounts of market share. When would it ever make sense for them to give up billions and billions and billions of dollars in profits to wipe out tiny cloud providers while also screwing up the economics of the space (changing people's expectations of how cloud should be priced meaning they won't accept prices as high as they are currently) and hoping and praying that GCP and Azure play along when it's time to hike prices back up?
I think the strong inclination of scala toward FP is its main feature. It differentiate itself in a world dominated by OO languages.

Also leaning toward FP is not theoretical zealotery, FP really helps to create more robust software (no null, better error handling, better concurrency).
How does that work for a heart attack? How do you negotiate an emergency open bypass surgery?
This is anecdotal evidence. I have friends in Canada who are incredibly proud of their healthcare system. They see the US system as archaic.

Maybe rich Canadians think differently, but universal healthcare will always be better for the general population.
Tesla doesn’t pay well enough to attract good software engineering talent.
I think of it as resiliance to adversity. If someone has had a comparatively easy life, they'll probably have a harder time dealing with difficult situations. The problem is that everything is relative, so people may not see their life as easy, even if it is compared to most people. For example, I used to work with someone who was raised by wealthy parents, went to super exclusive private schools, and had multiple college degrees paid for by their parents. They didn't think they had an easy life though, because their parents only had a couple million dollars in the bank, and his classmates were mostly old money with 10s or 100s of millions in the bank, so they wouldn't hang out with him because he was "poor".

The good thing is that resliance is like a muscle and can be strengthened, people just need to leave their comfort zone occasionally.
Sewing machine.

It turns out that making basic garments for oneself is really relaxing, and, if you have a hard time finding things that fit well in stores, practical.

It felt like a clear upgrade from DIY wearable electronics and suchlike as a hobby. It's not as bloggable, but the price- and effort- to payoff ratios are immeasurably better. It's nice to be rediscovering some leisure activities that don't involve screens, too.
I use my own tool that I developed specifically for the purpose of note-taking combined with knowledge management. The tool, called Contextualise, is open source: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise
Not every solution will solve every problem for every person.

Some people thrive in open environments, some don’t. Some people need accidental encounters to propel innovative change, some don’t.

To say these types of cultures are “dumb” (or even the opposite) is akin saying “peanut butter is the worst possible thing you could ever eat!” just because you’re allergic to it.
Is there anything that shouldn’t be treated like a market?

Street lights? Police and Fire protection? Water access?
Ask HN: How should one find their inner strengths or innate skills?
I am not referring to passion here. I love singing but I sound like a drunk koala.

Last week I was hearing a podcast by Naval Ravikant on 'How to get rich'. I highly recommend it. One of the subjects he touched upon was understanding what one's natural talents are. And then leveraging them to get better. This helps in improving faster while liking it.

My question is, how can I know my innate skills/strengths? I cannot draw the line between impostor's syndrome and hubris. Any techniques for this?
In more concrete terms, of their ~1000 employees, 600 are in St. Petersburg, their largest office by far.
EU Deepens Antitrust Inquiry into Facebook’s Data Practices
Indeed. I imagine some older codecs could be dropped though, and the cost saved on IP should offset it. I'm not sure what the comparative silicon size might be though so I can't speculate.
http://archive.is/g5R6c
Refusing to give your SSN doesn't prevent things from showing up on your credit report.

https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/accounts-may-be-...

> Experian doesn't match information to a person's credit history using only the Social Security number. Experian matches information using all of the identification information provided by the lender, so the account will be accurately shown in your report, even if no Social Security number is provided.
Interestingly enough, in the Antwerp Museum aan de Stroom they illustrate a part of the 19th century Antwerp exhibit with a loop of a scene from the 1975 anime.
Malcolm Gladwell hypothesizes in Outliers that children whose parents' efforts are rewarded are more likely to work hard themselves because their brains are wired from a young age to associate work with reward.

Immigrating to the United States, for a lot of people, is a great reward.
You can only control your own content while following Google guidelines, so state-of-the-art, world class content will however & pretty always be your best shot?
US is hell now
Perhaps that’s the real problem there.

If companies like Intel and AMD are still turning a respectable profit, there’s no cause for actual panic, yet.

Investors should learn that intractable P/Es on established companies are, at best, unwise in all but the edge cases.
Low-tech wellness.

Apple Cider Vinegar instead of acid reducers (Tums, Zantac, Prilosec) for heartburn, acid reflux, and indigestion.

Water Fasting instead of caloric restriction, weight loss pills, and diet fads for curing metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance, mid-section fat buildup, inflammation, diabetes).

Kettlebell, mace, stretching, and sprinting instead of a gym membership with classes and steady state cardio (or a Peloton).

Barefoot foot strength and 0-drop shoes instead of surgery and lift-pads for fasciitis and tendonitis.

A whole food, conservative, omnivorous diet of your ancestors instead of becoming vegan or carnivore.

Journaling (#bujo), practicing meditation, and studying stoicism instead of counseling and medicating.

Reading books and leaving your devices “default off” instead of aimlessly scrolling all day.

Cast iron and glass for cooking/storing instead of Teflon and plastic.
Agreed, this news doesn't square with market performance. For instance, FSELX (Fidelity Select Semiconductors portfolio) mutual fund is up 43% over one year, doubling the performance of the S&P500. Top-10 holdings (68%) include Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Nvidia, Micron, Marvell, ON, NXP, FLex, Commscope, so it's a fairly broad measure. For this cross-section to be performing so strongly, others must be circling the drain if indeed the industry is turning down steeply. I'm not seeing that.
There already are perfectly good algorithms for this stuff. What you want is an asymmetrical PAKE. The most notorious is SRP.

Don't try to roll your own. But basically there's no appetite at this point to retrofit SRP or any PAKE to "normal" user login on the web.

Avoid passwords altogether. If you must have passwords, have the very fewest possible (Buying more than one "single sign on" solution ought to be automatic grounds for firing the head of IT at a firm) and focus effort on getting rid of them not on trying to have better ones.
No. In Canada, they just take you into surgery and treat you. Then you leave without a bill.

Contrast that to the US which could leave a person bankrupt for the same emergency.
You kind of describe the reason I can’t get rid of Google.

Many people keep saying that DuckDuckGo is good enough. But no matter how hard I try use it for everything, always end up googling a few questions. Many times, Google knows what I’m looking for better than myself.
True, but: there's maybe a billion potential customers, I feel those companies are reaching only a small percentage with a pretty bad service.
I am currently in a support role at a company(not GCP) with some pretty big enterprise customers and let me just say that supporting software is fucking hard.

You essentially have to be a systems engineer/sysadmin for every one of your customers with only as much context as your customer is willing to share.

I like my job, but please have mercy on support.
No much now (except being slow on weak laptop). Scala Intellij's plugin has dramatically improved over the years.
What part of the Alps and what time of year? Did you have a lot of outdoorsman experience before?
I do. That statement is a platitude.
Clearview AI Wants to Sell Facial Recognition Software to Authoritarian Regimes
Mostly I think every posting offers those stuck in open plan offices a chance to vent and to realise that the layout is objectivly awful.

Knowing that so many others feel the same way and that the terrible experience isn't due to your own (weak! distracted! worthless!) personality is certainly worth something.
Same here but with a different first language and English as a second. I tend to be more poetic with my first language but use it a lot more sparingly nowadays. As far as I am aware most of my internal monologue isn't verbalized but it does happen. Over all I wouldn't rely too much on my internal monologue, it feels that it slows down my thinking to put whatever abstract thought I have into words.
No matter what the evidence says people will be decrying how dangers those are because they are perceived as a nuisance. Ultimately they move too fast for sidewalks, and too slow for streets making them a problem in either location. Bike lanes would seem to be the best place for them, but that comes with all of the issues with bike lanes in the city.
I'm with you, not paying medical bills affects your credit score the same way as any other bill. To me, it seems like it's just another service for the credit unions to make money on, while giving private hospitals some legal protection.

Really, it's disgusting.
Can you be more specific? Which procedures would they have to wait years for? And how many relatives do you have? All of your relatives doesn't say much if you only have one living relative in Canada.
The video they show in the page has nothing to do with what the article is about. The person is talking about finding eligibility information for patients for things like worker comp, medicare, etc.
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> writing software like Fowler's Analysis Pattern book was a holy grail

I feel like there’s something to be said for constructing an architecture entirely out of “formalized” architectural patterns, when you know that 1. you’re not going to be around to explain the architecture to whoever has to maintain the project 20 years down the line, and 2. Anyone who does come onto the project to maintain it is going to have very little time to get up to speed, since they’re very likely on a short contract to implement a single fix (“Y2K compliance” being a good example of when this happened.) At least, if all the architectural arrangements are copied out of a book, you can just put a note in a README at the project root to read said book. Might skip a lot of “software forensic anthropology.”

I mean, that, or heavily document every piece of the architecture, to the point of writing a book on your architectural choices (e.g. the reams of documentation on Erlang’s OTP-framework architecture, originally produced as a side-effect of Ericsson engineers documenting their architectural choices while writing code for their network switches.) But, well, did the customer pay for that? No? Too bad.

(I find this is one of the major differences between the way a regular IT consultancy handles these kinds of contracts, and the way a bigcorp like IBM handles a contract. The bigcorps factor things like “reams of documentation for later maintenance (not necessarily by us)” into their negotiated price, because they’ve been on both sides of that, and also have had customers who have been burned by a lack of it. But this makes their bids higher, so they’re often underbid by novice consultancies who don’t have share this mindset...)
In 2017 financial bureaus changed their scoring system to be more lenient on medical debt and also remove collection reports if paid in full. This stemmed from a state Attorney General settlement against the hospitals that were extorting patients with threats of ruining their credit when disputes between hospitals and insurance companies arouse. Hospitals would just collect from the patients and let the patient deal with the insurance company to recover funds.

Hospitals want this leverage again so they built their own credit system.
Not sure if I am the original poster—but if I am—I don't see the CCP as some all-seeing, perfectly coordinated entity.

And I also agree with you—that you are on balance pretty fair.

Like you said—the response from Beijing was "draconian" and the provincial authorities couldn't stand to report the fact that "something was rotten in the state of Wuhan/Hubei."

Why? Because there are however some characteristics to this entity—which is basic disregard for humans as individuals and community and a desperate desire for sycophancy.

Alarmingly—the CCP disregard for individuals and community is spreading—and it's too often excused by people—like the poster below me who says "Event the US government the hurricane response wrong."

By casting a wide net—and lower our standard as humans. For example...

The Trump administration was wrong on purpose for the hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico because they have similar CCP-like viewpoints and motivations. In New Orleans, for Katrina—you had Ray Nagin as governor who has been convicted on several counts of fraud. These are all people who don't care to shoulder community and build it up—however slow and difficult it might be to reconcile. We need to raise the bar.

The place with the most antibodies to this kind of thinking are some places in Europe which try to appeal to our human instincts as opposed to fueling our "Animal Instincts" (and yes, I am referring to that mid-2000s book on US Stock Market people).
I've never really worked in a cubicle (once had a mid tower PC and dual monitors acting as partitions to the front and left) but wouldn't an advantage of an open plan office over a cubicle be that you can see your manager walking towards you from a mile off and be able to quickly look like you're working.
Is there any production software in the world that is written and maintained in a formally verified language? I have only ever seen toy problems and simplified subsystems of real projects verified.

I work on space craft flight software and exactly none of it is formally verified. As far as I know, it's not practical to do so. If we could do it (without ballooning cost and schedule 10x), we would.
The medical system in the US is so awful that I already avoid getting medical care unless it's absolutely unavoidable. I guess I need to add "never go to a private hospital" to that habit.
Well, you mean besides any other CEO where software is a core part of their core business?
Ask HN: Running a home web server for side projects in 2020?
I have a spare computer at home that’s quite powerful (16core Ryzen, 64gb ram, NVMe SSDs)

I was thinking of using it as a web server for my side projects. And if a project gets some traction I’ll move it to DigitalOcean or Heroku first thing.

Does that kind of setup make sense at all? What should I know before I begin?
As if the US healthcare system couldn't get more dystopian..
Indeed, from the point of view of everybody (except the user), the password is H(password || blinding factor).

If I intercept H(password || blinding factor) and send it to the server (hashed with any other single use blinding factor), it will be accepted, even though I never knew the original password used to derive it.

So, this doesn't really achieve the goal that the server never stores your password in plain text, since the "plain text" of the password is exactly H(password||blinding factor).

It does mean the server may not know the original text you typed in to derive this password - but this is not needed to log in to the server.
I don’t think they’re particularly dangerous, the problem I have is them littering footpaths and thoroughfares (they frequently block most of the plaza in front of the BART station I use.

Then there are idiot riders going on and off the footpath essentially playing chicken with pedestrians - I had one this morning going the wrong way on the road scoot onto the footpath immediately in front of me while I was crossing the road, pushing me back into traffic.

So it’s a combo of the companies littering the l scooters everywhere, and the riders being idiots and having no consequences for said idiocy.
> It's much more complex than this. You can't run a data center on wind.

You certainly could run on it on a dedicated combination of any mix of wind/solar/hydro power and stored (e.g., battery or regenerative fuel cell) power you wanted to.

In practice, you'll probably want to connect it to the grid, but directed purchases on the grid, while they don't actually select which source really powers the DC, have all the practical effect of doing so.
Are they really trying to say that SEO was the sole reason that the organic traffic grew so much? That is ludicrous. It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that the service itself grew in popularity, or relevancy, or reputation, etc.?

I'm convinced SEO is modern-day snake oil. If you have a useful website/service with well-written content then the traffic will come to you. The idea of trying to "SEO" a useless/poorly-built website is like an obese person taking herbal pills because the bottle says they help weight loss.
"Emergent" is the term used in the trade. Webster has this to say:

> “Emergent” properly means “emerging” and normally refers to events that are just beginning—barely noticeable rather than catastrophic. “Emergency” is an adjective as well as a noun, so rather than writing “emergent care,” use the homely “emergency care.”
In English, questions are followed by this odd little symbol: ?.
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VSCode is winning Javascript developer mindshare, but for most other languages Intellij is still dominant. For example, PyCharm is free and far better than VSCode for Python development. Additionally, Jetbrains products are free to use for people in education, which has pulled a lot of users.
Are you sure there’s no debugger? I’m pretty sure I’ve debugged code in Kotlin from inside Android Studio running on an emulator.
I’m what’s considered 1.5 generation immigrant. My parents are first gen immigrants and while I wasn’t born in the west, I spent a considerable portion of my childhood here. My parents friends and their children are all in similar situation with children arriving at different ages.

Anecdotally, all of the parents of this batch came poor, most of us were below poverty level because all of the parents came as older students (30s and some times 40s) doing their masters or PhD. None of their previous degrees or work experience counted so everyone started from scratch. Add to that the language and cultural barriers and it took everyone a while to get back on their feet.

The children though had no barrier other than being in poor families. Education and hard work were very much valued. The family situation were stable and there was a lot of time investment from the parents in helping with homework etc. There was also a push towards professions fields. My parents half jokingly said to me I can pick any field of study as long as it’s medicine, law or engineering (ended up in engineering). So end result, all the children are doing well professionally and financially. Definitely in the top quartile, but not super wealthy. From my own and my parents social circles this seems to be a very common pattern.
The law explicitly permits sharing with other entities for billing purposes.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/268/does-the...

> The Privacy Rule permits covered entities to continue to use the services of debt collection agencies. Debt collection is recognized as a payment activity within the “payment” definition. See the definition of “payment” at 45 CFR 164.501. Through a business associate arrangement, the covered entity may engage a debt collection agency to perform this function on its behalf. Disclosures to collection agencies are governed by other provisions of the Privacy Rule, such as the business associate and minimum necessary requirements.
We have a ton of these in Austin. If they just dropped the allowed max speed by ~25% it would be a lot less horrifying to have them flying around.
I don’t say there isn’t any inconsistency in Apple’s behavior, but this article, IMO, doesn’t show that.

The app was rejected because “We noticed that your app offers a subscription with a mechanism other than the in-app purchase API.”

Author’s questions:

#1: ”Can anyone explain to me, how did they let the official Appfigures app into the App Store? It’s the same thing, and I’m pretty sure they don’t have IAPs.”

Apple doesn’t object to the app not having in-app purchases; it objects to it having in-app purchases that don’t use the App Store ⇒ does the official AppFigures app offer subscriptions? If not, that app doesn’t break the quoted rule.

#2: ”There are countless apps that use 3rd party data, even if a subscription is needed. This doesn’t make any sense.”

Question: does any such app offer “a subscription with a mechanism other than the in-app purchase API”? If not, that app doesn’t break the quoted rule.
What are those issues? Shouldn't every city strive to create as many bike lanes as possible to improve non-car transport?
Blankets within reach of anywhere we sit at home. Our new house has a programmable (i.e. difficult and sometimes disobedient) thermostat, so this was our lazy solution. Turns out, it's a much better solution.

Writing "to do" lists on notecards and sticking them in my keyboard when I leave work or go to lunch. Also lets other people know I'll be away from my desk for a while.
Pretty much every newspaper does this. Bloomberg Businessweek and the Globe and Mail do this as well. California has laws allowing you to cancel online. The rest of the US and Canada are not so fortunate.
I just recently went from a personal office to an open plan and find the new situation devoid of merit. Noise-canceling over-the-ear headphones are a must, and phone calls are impossible. Since meeting rooms are minimal, that's an issue too. I've done a handful of meetings in my car.
Only in life-threatening circumstances.
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