skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this study healthcare administration costs account for the bulk of the difference between US and Canada healthcare spending. 34% of 18% of US GDP (=6% GDP) vs 17% of 11.6% of Canada's GDP (=2% of GDP). https://www.healio.com/primary-care/practice-management/news...

Other studies looking at only hospital costs put it at 1.43% of GDP. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/journal-articl...
From other comments by you & Fitz, the “define events in UI” feature is also very intriguing as a value prop.

Thanks! Look forward to trialing this soon.
I told Amazon was going to post a video to social of the third bad delivery at my apartment. It was so comical because even Amazon had posted signs on our property telling the delivery drivers what not to do. Yet the drivers did exactly that right in front of the sign.

The first two email complaints went unresponded to. After threatening to put on tiktok, I got a phone call from the regional director in charge of the deliveries within two days.
Lidar images from cargo hold in capsized car carrier ship
In other news:

- Seattle woman wins Kentucky Derby without having a horse

- Chicago man wins lottery without having winning numbers
No doubt there are other copies of those codes, but now Collins has plausible deniability :)
Environment and animal rights activists being referred to PREVENT programme
You almost never see reliable information around acquisitions of private companies like this. Your best bet is to pour beer into an insider.
Related from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19016945

(Edit: link is for the curious. Reposts are fine after a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.)
T-mobile has been throttling and creating paid fast lanes pretty heavily and I now pay as much in data overage fees to comcast per month as half my total bill.
Reminds me of employee stock purchase plans at big (non tech, older industries) companies where you can buy your employer's stock with your pre-tax income. There might be something to this idea.
Aren't the Ocaml and ReasonML syntaxes so similar that you can effectively convert both directions and still end up with clean idiomatic code? That has seemed to be the case when I've played around with the ReasonML, and if it's the case, then which one you choose to write is very much arbitrary. Heck, you could even write one syntax locally and then automatically convert to the repo's preferred syntax when you commit your code.
I think it's already that way in many places. You just have to pretend to work for the other hour or two.
This blog post is precisely that complaint. Discord banned me and deleted my account when I sent them the link.
I was referring to the VPS hosting, not the software.

Ease of hosting is one of the very biggest advantages to something like Slack or Discord.
Short version, YES, total successful theft by the Chinese government. Because of our dumb morality based "good guys win in the end" and "long arc of whatever" we are suckers and can't believe when the bad guys win, news flash, they do, much more than all those movies and religious indoctrination stories would have you believe. In fact, they win most of the time.
It’s the same data, built by the same person (jlevy).
"Different times, different customs."

Simone de de Beauvoir was a feminist, but a 'feminist' according to the normal social attitudes of the times. In today's world, 80 years later, her beliefs and attitudes from the 1940s would probably not be considered excessively 'feminist' in comparison to the 'now-normal' beliefs and attitudes of the 2020s.

Nevertheless, without those 'feminists' from the 1940s-1970s as front-runners, we would not have the feminist beliefs and attitudes of the 2020s that we have today.
You can put anything you want, but if it's not what the page expects, it will cause a redirect, which will slow down navigation just a bit.
"Screw the seller" is a proven winner for eBay, shipping services, credit card companies, etc. They are just following tradition.
.org is getting sold, all data plans have transfer caps, google is not even showing urls to mobile users anymore, yes things are going to hell.
Fortunately, "IRC with a few tweaks" is being actively developed under the name IRCv3 and it seems that scrollback support is defined by a combination of these specifications:

https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/batch/chathistory-3.3

https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/pull/393/files
> Because all the actions that took place "to fix" Greece was in order to fix the problem of the public debt.

That assertion is quite wrong and fly in the face of facts and history.

For example, Greece received a massive debt pardon which whiped out about half the state's debt toward private banks. This alone triggered the bankruptcy of a bunch of private banks, including from other countries also undergoing bailout processes of their own.

Additionally, the bailout process was focused on controlling structural deficit, and not debt. Debt is not the problem, but depending on loans just to keep the state operating is a collosal problem. After Greece's accounting fraud was blown, Greel governments were forced to face the problem of the Greek state enduring double digits deficits. "Austerity" is just a fancy word for "we need to reign in all this overspending", and it boggles the mind how the fact that Greece was routinely spending over 10% of it's fiscal revenue, resorting of loans after loans to cover the difference, is simply omitted or glanced over.
Neither one is more real than the other and you really shouldn't need to do any debugging unless there are bugs in the ReasonML parser (and you could just as easily run into a bug with the Ocaml parser, but I suspect both are very unlikely).
Personally? I don't know if I'd feel right with it but I also don't work in marketing. I was involved in observing a focus group once for a startup I worked for, but even that felt weird for me.

I'm more interested in what other people here have to say. A lot of HN users have started their own businesses and been involved with startups during product validation. I guess that makes this is as good a place as any to ask strangers what they think.
This looks like something I don't see a use for and could hurt me in some obscure way. Cost/benefit causes an exception: 2/0 = error. Cost=privacy,attackvector. I don't see the benefit.

What benefit is there to this I'd use at least once a week?

Am I understanding this simply adds the ability to link to a particular word using a url? Given how motivated people are now about gathering and selling URL history I can only see a cost but little benefit.
Maybe it’s unethical if you’re a dog.
At least with coc.vim it's literally just a case of picking a vim package manager and using that to install it. Almost no configuration required, apart from `CocInstall`-ing whatever language servers you want.
yep. like this article. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-quietly-... (from 2017). I was really against repealing because of that. I would imagine these sort of things are done in secret & with NDA's though.
"The current US healthcare system has very little to do with 'free markets'!"

Sure, the US health care system is certainly not governed by wide open competition, transparent pricing or similar things. But it certainly has something to do with the "free markets".

The system is basically "what you get when you realize you have to insure and regulate but you never, ever do it in a centralized rational way, 'cause that would be socialism - plus you never, ever separate an 'entrepreneur' from a real or potential stream profits". Which indeed, builds the worst of all possible systems, sending risks to the consumer and profits to the investor/rent-seekers.

And from here, we could go forward to actual socialized, state-run medicine as functions adequately in most industrialized economies or back to a "wild west" system, where costs are lower, treatment is often OK and the heroin runs in large rivers as due the fatal scams(as was the US' 19th century health care reality).
You can never afford those benefits on a service sector job anyways.
And that's bad because drones are evil? I'm sure I don't agree with a blanket statement to that effect. They're a tool of warfare and I don't see how they're particularly worse than other ways of killing your enemies. I can think of a few ways they're better.
Given that a fake crib can actually kill a baby, this is one of those times where I put aside my convenience and drive to a real brick and mortar store and buy the crib myself.
Target is HQ'd in Minnesota. I'm pretty sure they recognize non-coastal states.
Ask HN: How worried are you about coronavirus?
I can get stressed very easily by news stories like this, and honestly I'm stressed now! I'm unsure if I'm having an over reaction or not. How stressed do you feel about it? And/or how do you manage that stress? Thank you
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How much data are you using monthly? My comcast "cap" is 3TB monthly... which is a HUGE amount of data for a residential user. I've never even broken 1TB...

If you're hosting something, might be worth upgrading to a business connection, which doesn't have data caps and comes with static ip's and a SLA.

As an aside - I'm personally OK with data caps so long as they don't impact most users (80/20, 90/10 or something like that).

ISP's pay for ingress traffic, so by setting a data cap that impacts only the egregious data hogs, it means they can charge normal users a smaller rate, rather than subsidize a few users by charging everyone more.
Mandating businesses to pay health insurance costs for employees under the current system is already reducing international competitiveness.

Medicare-for-all makes the U.S. more competitive by making healthcare similar to other developed nations.
Insurance companies negotiate down prices so the hospitals jack up the sticker prices to give room for negotiation. I've read that hospitals typically get 20-30% of what they bill.
I'm getting ads that state if I buy the ad-purchaser's product on Amazon and leave a good review, they'll refund my money. Basically, they're ads that say "Free [Product]!" and when you click them, they ask you to purchase the product, leave a positive review and then they'll refund you.

I tried to look for a way to report the seller to Amazon, but from what I found, I need to have a seller account with Amazon to do so, which I don't. As a customer, I can't report the product without buying it first. Does anyone have a link or email I can use to reach out to someone at Amazon about this?

Some of these products have thousands of positive reviews[1]. I find it misleading, and to be a nuisance to consumers who rely on these reviews to guide their purchases. I don't know why Amazon makes it so difficult to report these fraud schemes.

Since I found it difficult to reach out to Amazon, I reported the seller to my state Attorney General's consumer protection division and to the FTC. Since then, I've gotten even more ads like this, and I don't have the time to report them all to agencies that may or may not follow up on my reports.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NRGR9LL
Drop in cancer deaths reflect failures of our society. Really.
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If the doctor bill is $100 and your co-pay is $20 then you pay the doctor $20 and the insurance pays the doctor $80. Co-pay because there are two payers.
And after you think you have it all figured and and properly paid, a new bill appears out of the blue 6 months after your visit.
Oooh, neat! Reminds me of this addon:

LaTeX Note Importer: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1199027445

I'm almost sold on downloading this, but I have a question.

Let's say I create notes.md with 2 cards:

## hey

hi

## hello

howdy

But, then I modify card #2:

## hello modified

howdy modified

and recreate the deck.

Does the 2nd card that has now been modified get treated as a whole new card? (In other words, if I've been using card 2 to study, do I have to start all over?)

If this is NOT the case, I am absolutely sold.
Jupyter Tutorial – Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning in PyTorch – Now Translated
Honestly I think we spend way too much teaching students calculus and differential equations and way too little on linear algebra. LA is a lot more useful for most real engineering work, particularly software engineering.

I had to build a somewhat basic SVG editor in React recently and the other devs on the team had to leave a lot of the core to me because I was the only one that remembered enough matrix math to do it.
I strongly believe that you don't get what you don't ask for. Nobody is going to advocate for your career except for yourself.

IMO, the best strategy is to have a frank conversation with your boss. You basically have two options:

1. Tell, don't ask. For example, "In the last year, I've delivered A, B, and C projects, assisted in X and Y projects, closed Z tickets, and led these N initiatives. I think a move into $newRole is appropriate at this time. What do you think?"

Or

2. Get an advocate. "Hey boss, I've been thinking about my career. In X time, I would like to be in Y job. I've made a lot of progress in that direction, but I'd love to get your insight into whether I'm at that level or not, and if not, what steps would I need to take or milestones would I need to hit to get this role?"

I prefer the latter, because it does two things:

A) It demonstrates ambition and a desire to move up. Most managers will assume that if an employee doesn't say anything, they're happy where they are. This is clearly not true for you, so you should make it clear that you have higher ambitions and career goals.

B) It gets your manager on your side. You're asking them to be a partner in your career progress. What manager doesn't want to have a protege?! (Side note: if your manager is NOT willing to help you, you have a shitty manager and your career is probably at a dead-end at this company and you should find a job somewhere else.)

In short: you don't get what you ask for. If you have enough evidence that you are senior enough, straight up tell them that you're ready for it. If you are being aspirational, let them know your goals and get them on your side.

Good luck!
Last tweaked in 2018, explicitly talks about being based on a 2017 variant of the simulation.
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To a certain extent that would have an effect. However there are strong asymmetries between the two countervailing forces.

First labor isn't perfectly fungible between sectors and firms. Moving workers will result in significant productivity lowering frictions. The clearest example of this is that the group most likely to have low insurance outlays relative to wages are high income workers. When the denominator's larger, the fraction's smaller

For example a worker making $500,000 a year, even with a platinum plan $25,000 a year plan is only outlaying the equivalent of a 5% payroll tax. They'd get hit very hard under single-player payroll tax. In contrast a worker making $25,000 with a $6000 employer-insurance is paying 20%. Unfortunately the typical $500k/year high skilled job can't easily be replaced with twenty $25k/year workers.

Second, you have to consider not just the reshuffling of demand between employers. You all also have to consider the tradeoffs potential workers make between paid labor and leisure. Universal single-payer will cause some workers to drop out of the labor force, scale back their hours worked, or take less stressful but lower productivity jobs. When everyone has access to the same healthcare regardless, the incentives between those options becomes less differentiated. People retiring early or spending more time as homemakers could be a good thing or a bad thing. But without a doubt it lowers economic output, and therefore the tax base.

Finally raising payroll taxes creates incentives for workers to reclassify in a way that shields their income. One form is outright evasion. More jobs will pay cash under the table, more "employee leasing" schemes, or just simply not declaring income. The higher taxes are the more incentive there is to take the risk. But there's also many perfectly legal ways to dodge payroll taxes. Cash compensation can be shifted to exempt benefits like life insurance, employee discounts, and meals. Employee compensation can be reclassified as director fees. American Workers can relocated to foreign offices, where they're exempt from payroll taxes. Self-employed people can re-incorporate as an S-corp.

This just scratches the surface. Once you double the effective payroll tax, expect a lot more effort and money invested in strategies to evade it. This not only means the proposed payroll tax rate captures less revenue than projected. It also means the pre-existing payroll tax now collects less revenue.
I'm all for net neutrality, but 2 of the 3 things you listed were never going to be "protected" by net neutrality laws.

Which highlights the problem with what Net Neutrality morphed into - it became something that meant everything and anything - not just "dumb pipes" like it originated as.

Ask 3 different people what Net Neutrality means and you'll get 3 different answers. How do you legislate that and make everyone happy?
20-30% decrease in reimbursement will tick doctors off big time.
Part of the point of insurance is to offset risk. He says that he doesn’t have insurance for himself. While he is probably fine, he is taking the gamble that he will not require any expensive procedures.

Depending on your risk tolerance, it could pay off for people to do this... But it’s certainly not for everyone.
My best schedule ever was also military, but it was 7-3-7-4: 7 8-hour "afternoon shift" days, then 3 days off, then 7 8-hour "day shift" days followed by 4 days off. The 3-day time off was Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday, and the 4-day was Friday through Monday - and because you were getting off the early shift and going onto the late shift, it seemed like a longer break. Of course, that implies shift work and three crews for 16-hour/7 day coverage. (The "graveyard shift" was a skeleton crew, and your turn would pop up every four months or so. Air force. It was basically for emergency landings for civil and allied aircraft and such, with some swabbing of the decks for busy work.) The work week was long, but there was plenty of time to get stuff done and to wind down. Hell, you could even cram in a weekend getaway without a lot of stress.
This topic was explored in the science fiction novel Psychohistorical Crisis by Donald Kingsbury, an unauthorized sequel to Asimov's Foundation series.
I agree there is complexity cost, but that doesn't mean you can't benefit from it if you generally can navigate said complexity. I've never had issues getting reasonable price estimates from independent doctors (large systems refuse to reveal their negotiated rates) - emergency situations are certainly costly, but under a plausible worse-case scenario I'm still solidly saving having an HDHP.

Ironically, the whole point of HDHPs was to put downward pricing pressure on the medical system by encouraging people to price-shop. Alas, due to a variety of market/regulatory factors, that hasn't happened.
Seems to be a little bit of doubt though:

> Much of what he has told the Garda has been supported by a range of witnesses, including those who cleared his house, his landlord and others who helped him break up his bitcoin fortune into 12 accounts. Garda believe he has genuinely lost the codes for the accounts

But if they are in on the reward, they might just help corroborate his story in order to get a piece. Who knows?
Many problems.

- Every visit to a doctor is a game of cat and mouse. I am never sure what bill to expect and how many bills to expect.

- Price is always inflated due to the fact that insurance company has to make money on every visit to the doctor.

- Every visit requires a Claim. Claims get filed incorrectly. Fun and games trying to call a bunch of different "departments" trying to understand the claim and why am I being charged ?

- In network/out of network game. Ohh, I am sick and unconscious but I have to make sure that the person seeing me is "in network" so that I don't get a million dollar bill. Sorry, bad luck. While you were unconscious, we called a doctor who was "out of network" and not our problem. Have fun fighting wit the insurance company.

- Why does every visit require me to show insurance ? I just wanna talk to my damn doctor. Can I not just give you some money directly ?

- I visited the doctor. Doctor has to file a claim for $x while the insurance company only allows $y. So the doctor inflates the amount of initial claim knowing that they will be reduced anyway by the insurance company. Cat and mouse game continues and finally, poor me is left with a bill that I now have to figure out. Have I already paid enough (copay, deductible, out of pocket limit) ? Lucky me.

- My employer changes my insurance company. Oh, I have to redo the entire paperwork with al my doctors. Ok I did it. Oops the doctor office still filed a claim with my previous company. I am now fighting to get that sorted.
Ok, let's go with 2018 for now. Thanks!
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For Clojure, there is Datomic[0] (a DB with S-expression Datalog) and DataScript[1] (in memory Datalog for browser) which has a fair amount of usage. Also, there's a bitemporal database use Datalog name Crux[2] seems to be quite promising.

[0] https://www.datomic.com/
[1] https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
[2] https://opencrux.com/
How? Genuine question. I am trying to distribute an app right now and it always takes at least 2 days from submission time to TestFlight approval.
That doesn’t really work as on if the common scams is to take a real box, apparently sealed, but with a brick or whatever in it with the right weight
> However, I don't get how privacy protection is so distinguishable from statutory protection against fraud, for example.

The issue is that "privacy" itself becomes ambiguous in many contexts.

For an ISP this is easy, because they can forward your traffic without ever storing any of it. They have no legitimate reason to keep it and they only want to in order to invade your privacy, so there is nothing good lost by prohibiting that.

By contrast, how do you make Waze work without user location data? How do you make recommendations based on viewing history without keeping viewing history? How do you ship a physical product to a customer without having their mailing address? In these cases it's not just a simple matter of not collecting the data.

So the problem is the complexity of the rules. "ISPs shouldn't store any user internet traffic or metadata" is simple and reasonable, and is necessary because without it the one or two local ISPs would all do the opposite and no one would have a choice.

Applying a much more complicated set of rules to companies that do have legitimate reasons to collect some data or use it for various things customers actually want has both higher costs from an administrative perspective and lower benefits because viable privacy-respecting competitors actually exist in real life for the people who don't consent.
> Are there any options I’m missing in this situation where an essential cofounder isn’t putting in enough effort?

one way I have seen this play out often is to get rid of them, then dilute the shares of the original investment.

ethical or fair? depends on the situation but nothing is as expensive as keeping a non performing asset on your team when starting out. not solving the situation can be what makes all of you fail collectively later.
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