skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several things businesses can do:

1. Automate, invest in capital equipment to reduce labor. Instead of manually boxing a product, they can buy an automated packing machine. Or a restaurant can buy tablets to automate ordering.

2. Buy more "processed" input materials, effectively shifting labor to another country. Instead of buying raw lumber to create table legs, a furniture manufacturer would buy pre-made table legs from China.

3. Subcontract to an outside company. Under the ACA, only employers with 50 full time employees are required to provide coverage. So a larger company can effectively divide labor amongst several small companies.

4. Shift to lower labor products. Instead of a sit down restaurant, the restaurant can change to "fast casual", with no waiters.
This. Easily refuted climate change effects do way more harm than good.
I wish i could upvote you 1000 times. Why is it so hard for many people to understand all of this ?
i don't pay premiums, copays or deductibles. maybe our system is super different than yours?

i just pay fixed fee per month and i can go to any doctor i want, do any procedures... i mean, i had to do a lot of stuff (including heart exams, endoscopies, blood pressure stuff) and i never had to pay anything out of pocket.
I’ve never pulled a laptop out on the subway but the LIRR or MNR is a different story.
see also: "used"
I'm using the term values to describe outcomes a person might find desirable outside their immediate sphere of interest.

You might find that you are opposed to genocide, even if it happens remotely and is no immediate skin of your nose, or that a lost child bothers you and motivates you to act to try fix the situation, even for a child not connected to your tribe or recognized responsibility. What's going on in those situations? Is that an incentive? I suppose you could work with a definition of incentive that might include it, but I think it's useful to distinguish what's going on in situations like that from situations where immediate personal benefit is more clear. One is more or less about what you want your life to be more like, the other is more or less about what you want the world to be more like.
I worked for Audiogon a long time ago and I always wanted them to start a shipping escrow service for this reason. If you do it for a niche you have access to expertise.
Interestingly about chargeback, I've noticed the same. I tried to file a chargeback with my bank in France and got denied despite it being a valid claim and me providing all the documentation for it.

But, when I used my US credit card to file a chargeback it went through fine and there was no issue. I wonder if some countries are more lax with charge backs?
One important thing all drivers should be repeatedly told (trained) is that the breaks (in a technically sound car) will always overpower the engine. In a runaway scenario, hit the break with full force and stay on it till engine cutoff.
I figure the appeal of this tool is largest to those who already use author flashcards in Anki. There's been a number of posts related to Anki in the past year on HN, so there is some overlap.
Road work or situations where the road is not in good condition will be hard to be put in a dabase realtime. Also, since this is united states, which database? Every state will have a different one.

Either way, my point is digitized information is helpful, but not sufficient
I'm sure I'm not 100% accurate on the numbers here because I don't feel like finding the receipts, but close enough. Here's another anecdote from the US.

My dog has a pulmonary condition that requires him to take Sildenafil daily (yes, generic Viagra). We got the prescription filled at a local pharmacy for a 90 count, they charged us something around $280 for. We were not expecting that high of a prescription, for a dog, for a generic medicine. Of course, since this is for a dog, we can't get our human health insurance rate for it, but the pharmacy is operating primarily for humans rather than animals. The person at the counter said that if we look at coupon sites like GoodRx, we might be able to save some money.

A coupon we pulled up on our phone while standing there brought the price down to something below $30 for the same 90 day supply. Roughly 1/10 of the price.

Clearly, the pharmacy must still be making some money even at $30. In what universe is it acceptable to charge a 900% markup above profitability on medicine? Yes, some people use this drug "recreationally", but it's also a lifesaving medicine for other humans and animals. I can't imagine what people must go through that need more expensive medicines for themselves or their families without insurance. And even with insurance, it's not much better.

And that's just one of many anecdotes. I have others, like a relative being charged hundreds of dollars per Tylenol they received while in the hospital, only for insurance to "adjust" that down to something more "reasonable" like a couple of dollars per pill.

This system is broken and needs monumental, uncomfortable, complete and total rebuilding, not repair.
Well it becomes very difficult. Allowing sellers to cancel purchases from buyers without a strong and long history of positive feedback is a start - I believe eBay technically allows this.

But naturally sellers are then cutting down their potential buyer pool - it's a dilemma they need to deal with.

Of course one easy way to do this is cut out the entire online buyer pool altogether and sell your camera at a pawn shop - near-zero chance of fraud there.

Why don't sellers just do this? Because they want more money than the pawn shop is willing to offer, so they take the risk of selling online.

It's always important to remember what we are actually buying and selling a lot of the time is risk - the value of the item is often just a fraction of the overall purchase amount.
Tracing JIT tries to synthesize graph of all distinct execution paths (in practice for some smallish value of “all” at a time), ie. there is no sliding window. In comparison OoO CPUs try to execute as much as possible of instructions they see “at once” (this can mean in parallel or in other order than is encoded by the instruction stream). Doing this in hardware involves looking at some block of memory (eg. L1I Cache line or several of them) and doing what is essentially an more involved variant of peephole optimization pass.
Sadly, examples from the dotcom burst and housing crisis abound. It's a double edged sword. I have always preferred to go for early exercising.

"Many of these workers now owe far more in taxes than their stock is worth. Former Cisco engineer Jeffrey Chou, 32, owes $2.5 million in taxes on company stock he purchased last year that has since withered in value. Chou figures that if he were to sell everything he owns, including the three-bedroom Foster City, Calif., townhouse that he shares with his wife and 8-month-old daughter, the family still could not pay the bill."

* https://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-tech-taxes-story.html
Some of the reasons VCs get a better class of shares than employees are structural and unlikely to go away no matter how ISOs are structured; for instance, VCs get liquidation preferences for reasons that are sort of intrinsic to the concept of equity investment.

The exercise window thing is a valid point and is a reason to devalue employee options.
The answer is simple, vote for a candidate that campaigns on universal healthcare. That candidate may not be the politically purest one.
What I don't understand is, if the Republican party is anti-competitive, why haven't they fought against many of the other monopolies that exist. The targeting of Google is... suspicious.
Yeah, they face that outlier cost when they're on Medicare and the government is paying anyway...
> There's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to have a good reason to withhold that consent.

The constitution is a deeply flawed document that relies on the acceptance of norms and generally good actors. Absent that you end up with a wannabe dictator like Trump acting basically unchallenged.

> and they can even remove him from office with a Senate supermajority.

an act made much harder when the executive flouts subpoenas.
It also can go the other way. I was once quoted two prices for a CT scan because they weren't sure if my insurance would cover it. If it did, they'd bill one amount to the insurance company. If they didn't cover it, I would be billed directly for an amount that was somewhere around double what the insurance would have been billed.

I got the CT scan somewhere else.
I think your use of evil is about as evil as the pattern. Overblown rhetoric harms discourse.
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Provided it's easy to get new people up to speed and experience isn't overly important
One problem is that a bunch of folks have gold platinum private insurance. Things like $0 copays, no co-insurance etc... A lot of that was union negotiated. Some high end jobs have similar perks.

Regular rank and file workers use to have HMOs but those plans have given way to HSAs and PPOs. PPOs were advertised as doctor choice but that's really misleading, all they really do is increase your out of pocket. For a condition that can't be handled in network within a reasonable distance of your house then the HMO insurer has to allow out of network access. HSAs are a great deal if you don't get sick, are rich or can put money in them... but if you need health care they aren't so good since the out of pocket is high.

If we don't get a public option or Medicare for all then I think HSAs will be the future, basically pushing insurance as catastrophic care with some legally mandated primary care covered by default (with a copay).

At least with a $25k deductible you generally won't go bankrupt and you just have to imagine paying off that imaginary new car for 5 years.
tldr: Market reacts negatively to board gender quotas.
What problems have you had with the current system?
I'm actually generally in favor of boot camps since I myself have a self taught CS background with a civil engineering degree, and I actually know quite a lot of computer science. However, there's something to be said for the additional time in and critical thinking that you might get from a CS degree. However, some people on here seem to be indicating that their degree didn't made allowances for struggling through things or was "too academic" in nature.

It perplexes me that you could get through a 4 year degree without learning how to read a compiler error message though. I'd be less perplexed at this happening in a super condensed and streamlined boot camp though.
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Least you can do is be honest and face the consequences like an adult.

You want poor people to die needlessly. That's what you advocate for, that's what you believe. If you don't like me saying it, too goddamn bad.
And that's a good thing I would say.
That's one of my fears indeed. But what if I have no job? Leaving my parent aside because there's no reason they should be legally liable to their adult child who lives their own life...they are going to have to enslave me or help me find a job if they ever want to see any of that bill paid. Otherwise, they could just kill me too, to repay my debt to the hospital with my life if that makes them happy.

Probably a very immature view on this, but still, I see no reason to sacrifice my health in terms of food and quality of life for health insurance. Won't that just increase the likelihood of me becoming sick and needing healthcare to begin with?
That would be great and raise the bar, but the same dispute issues would exist, just with authenticity of goods.

Scammy buyer would purchase say, 32GB sticks of RAM and ship back 1GB sticks with the stickers swapped.
Criminal Assets Bureau seizes 6k bitcoin, sale impossible without access codes
3970x is a race car in your analogy, and thus should not catch fire
Claim must be over $75k for federal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_claims_court#United_Stat...
Medicare and Medicaid are different though.

The fee schedule and structure is much more defined, simpler, and easier to abide by. So much so that software can calculate it out of the box at the time of ordering. There isn't the negotiation and level of dispute handling that private insurance companies create in their profit-maximizing behavior.
> It’s not true for single payer systems, who across the world pay less than what we pay in the US.

It's also not true for systems with public options, like Germany. You're making a hypothetical claim about the abstract economic incentives of a public option. But like many such economic arguments, without accounting for the technical realities these arguments have exceptionally poor predictive power.

The cost problem isn't about public or private. That much should be clear. Even domestically, if you look at the best run and widely loudly HMOs (e.g. Kaiser, Mayo), which also are more heavily burdened by low-income and sicker patients, their costs are still much greater than what optimists claim can be achieved.

Prescription drugs and administrative fees account for at worst 25% of expenditures. The real costs are in the practice of medicine in America: compensation, structure of surgical units, organization of hospitals, treatment recommendations, manufacturing industry, FDA regulations, etc. Single-payer doesn't address any of this directly--at best indirectly, and only if you're really optimistic. Obamacare reforms did try to address some of this (it's why it's gargantuan), but with mixed and often poor success. If you want to fix healthcare, it's these unsexy, complex, and hidden things that need to be addressed.

The debate over single-payer is a debate among armchair pundits, which often includes healthcare professionals. (Just like software programmers cargo cult poorly supported ideas about improving the software industry.) Maybe, after accounting for technical realities, an all-private, public option, or single-payer system may be marginally more efficient in the United States. But nobody is making such arguments. The debate is far too abstract, with unsupported, sweeping claims about comparative efficacy.
Back when I was a teenager my doctor was part of a four doctor practice. They had a nurse and one of the doctors wives handled everything else.

Compare with a doctors office today.
> I've never heard that - I don't know anyone who likes their insurance company.

I've never heard any normal citizen say that. I was mostly commenting on current politicians saying that to justify their stances. For example:

"One hundred sixty million people like their private insurance" - Joe Biden, Nov 21 2019

"You don't start out by saying I've got 160 million people I'm going to take away the insurance plan that they love." - Michael Bloomberg, Feb 19 2020

etc
How do I filter thousands of people calling me slurs on twitter because I made a YouTube video supporting feminism?
> In the end, I left and the startup went under, and I told him directly that I didn't trust him (to his surprise).

A classic example of an individual who would be 10x richer if they were 10 percent less greedy.
Right. And when there is a bunch of illiquid stock around but the risk has reduced enough people will sniff around for (or create) a secondary market. Usually well past your #5 though.

If the risk is too high they are all happy to let you carry it for a while.
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Crude oil is distilled (refined), not generally burned. The result is several products, all of which are used for different purposes. Naptha is best suited for plastic production; gasoline is a different chemical makeup.

Also, a good chunk of plastic can be produced from natural gas, using ethylene instead of the naptha from crude oil.
If you as the maintainer said "hey, I don't really care about Free Software, I just think this is a fun/useful project and the GPL 3.0 meets my needs." and people still bugged you about Discord, I agree you should probably just tell them to fuck off. They might still try to get you on board with Free Software in the first place, but it wouldn't make sense to bother you about details like a chat program if/while you don't care about the cause.

However if you said "I'm creating this project because I care about user freedom" someone might point out "Great. Well, since we're on the same page as far as user freedom, let's take a look at the tools we're using..."
Ive just started putting a mental business plan together on this. A few obstacles I see:

1) in the high end, is a UPS store or equivalent going to have a staff member on hand with enough expertise to vouch for a product?
2) condition is sometimes a bit subjective. One persons "Mint" is another persons "Very Good". When you have quality disputes, what are going to do? cancel the transaction? that is an expensive and painful process for all involved.

I think if you shoot for the least common denominator and can do the following there is some value to be added:
a) is it not a brick (unless he is selling an actual brick :) )
b) is it the brand and model that the listing advertises
c) if it is easy to do can you verify it is in working order when the item is packed and sent away.

I still see some wiggle room for problems, but I do think that being able to prove you shipped the item is important. Furthermore, if the seller sold an expensive item, didnt he insure it? If the item "didnt arrive" then we have a different problem. The seller keeps his money, and the buyer works with the insurer(who has a vested interest in not paying so will likely investigate a bit) to get made whole again.
Something I tend to see in online arguments, here and elsewhere, is the tendency to throw everything at the other person and see what sticks. I've been guilty of it myself.

The result is a wall of text that few will read and will contain many points that are easy to knock down, poorly worded, or irrelevant.

Now, I try to stick to one point, if possible, that I feel I can articulate well and defend.
Do apps from a $99/yr account last for a year or is there some other sort of time limit?
Completely unrealistic. If Eurogroup meetings were to become open, they would simply become like any other kind of parliamentary "debate", with politicians holding speeches directed at their voters rather than genuinely intended to reach a consensus. The real negotiations would then move elsewhere.
Fully agree with you. How would you solve it then - besides engineers being more explicit with founders? (not trying to be smart with you; honest question).
I'm not blaming social media for the problem, per se. Ultimately, it is the way people use the tool that will determine whether it is a pro or a con. The issue is that the general public (or, most anyone) does not fully grasp how their use of the tool will affect themselves and those they interact with.
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There undoubtedly will be trade-offs. For example it'll be harder to exploit the working poor which is a very important benefit rich Americans rely on today. One side effect that might be popular on HN is entrepreneurship is less scary if the society you live in has promised it won't just let you die because you dared to strike out on your own rather than sticking close to the big corporation that provides affordable healthcare to its employees.

But your "bandwidth" analogy seems confused. What is "bandwidth" here? Because lots of American medical professionals seem to insist they spend a lot of effort on things that aren't healthcare - things which are unnecessary in single payer systems. If the US redirects all this healthcare "bandwidth" to actually delivering healthcare, that's a bunch of extra healthcare delivered, not just re-organizing who gets access.
The government can only effectively print money to the extent that they can convince bond purchasers that taxes will be collected in the future.
Startup idea: create a high quality camera gear buying and selling experience for the web, with many protections and conveniences built in. Selling your gear on Craigslist and meeting with random strangers at McDonald's and Starbucks is pretty much the only real alternative right now and gets old pretty fast.

This was an issue for music gear too, but somehow reverb.com managed to address it and make it a pretty painless experience. Their customer service is excellent, and if one of the two parties are unsatisfied, they'll intervene and try to find a compromise. They send you boxes to ship your gear in, they set up shipping for you, they automatically track the shipment as it gets picked up etc. I've been hoping to find something similar for camera gear, but have had no luck so far.

The only downside is that the prosumer camera equipment world seems to be rapidly shrinking, so it might be not a great idea to step into this space right now. Whereas there doesn't seem to be a dearth of people buying guitars, drum kit pieces and effects pedals.
Billing is how the doctors and hospitals get paid.

If there is no billing, do they work for free?
>I feel like the image of overly-caffeinated, stressed-out people is embedded in our collective consciousness as representative of High Productivity

Don't forget about the over prescription of amphetamines. I knew I was in a bad place when all the "high performers" (according to management) all had darting eye, chewed gum all day, and were underweight/never ate during the work day.
I couldn’t agree more. I also really want to emphasize a less mentioned issue with Discord, which is its accessibility (or lack thereof).

It’s effectively impossible for anyone with visual impairment that use a screen-reader to use Discord. I could go into (/very/) great length into this, but that’s the gist. What makes this even better is that there’s no getting around this limitation: third-party clients or client modifications are disallowed in the TOS and will cause your account to be banned.
Ah yes, this might be the change I was thinking of, in 2013:

pre-2013:
9.3% marginal rate from $49k to $500k, then to 10.3% over $500k.

post-2013:
additional 1 percentage point at the $250-300k, another 1 percentage 300k-1m, and then a 3rd additional 1 percentage point over $1m.

So the top rate is 13.3% up from 10.3%; with a tiered increase in the 9.3% rate to 10.3 and 11.3% depending on income.

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Why have so many of our recent viruses come from bats?
> In modern times, you can see this very same concept used at craigslist wherein CL maps your email address to a random craigslist email address, allowing you and another party to have painless email back-and-forth without leaking identity

CL implementation is flawed and only gives perception of privacy. I forget the header/tech name for it, but if you hit reply and your email account is set to “First Last <email@domain.com>” it will pass along that entire string to the recipient in the body of the email. The obfuscation is only in the actual email address the message goes through
It's not so much that they'd be directly taught in a CS program, but more that I'm surprised you'd never have bothered to pick up that skill set, even accidentally during a four year degree.
Amazon is awful for sellers. Buyers can return items used, including underwear and single-use items as well. There are no question asked. A person could live their life buying toilet paper from Amazon, using it, and then literally returning it and Amazon would never stop this behavior. The same goes with clothing or anything else you can use within the return window provided by Amazon.
It's too bad ... I remember setting that email account up for him (he was uid = 3), and for a long time, it really did actually remain as his own personal email.