skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for a startup founder and personally watched him screw advisers out of stock agreements using different tactics, from technicalities in the agreements to outright not honoring the agreements when he knew it was disadvantageous for them to pursue him legally. He gloated about it and would speak very highly of all the ways he could manipulate situations.

In the end, I left and the startup went under, and I told him directly that I didn't trust him (to his surprise). The lesson that I learned was that I'd be a fool to take equity in a startup, given all the ways I could be screwed, and my lack of resources to pursue any legal recourse. Cash only, from now on.
Health care costs are one of the largest year-over-year increasing costs employers have to pay. This eliminates that risk (which could rise to 6% next year) from the cost calculations every business currently has to make.

From https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/benefits/pa...:

>"Health benefit costs are still rising at two times the rate of wage increases and three times general inflation, "making this [cost] trend unaffordable and unsustainable over the long term," Brian Marcotte, NBGH president and CEO, said at an Aug. 7 press conference in Washington, D.C.

Medicare is one of the most efficient ways of delivering healthcare we have in this country. With overheads of 2-5% compared to the 10+% of the private industry[2]

2. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/reports/2...
I got lucky though at 2 startups, and day to day probably a lot more interesting than working as another cog in a big co.

Definitely made more than I would’ve given my level.
>Does emailing the CEO really work.
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Yes it does. It goes to his executive team. Granted, I haven't used that email in almost 2 years. I hear response time is way longer nowadays.

>But I can just hit up Jeff like it's no big deal?

No, you'll get ignored if your issue is not substantial or if you haven't gone through every other possible method of resolution. This is the "supreme court" of Amazon support, akin to the Ombudsman's office.
Lots of places have special teams to respond to the "CEO's emails".
Looks like 1.7m jobs, not 20. I guess some folks make a whole lot more than 50k.
Most apartments I've lived in have their own HVAC system that's separated from any other apartment's system. Though things like central corridors are probably still a problem and need some kind of decontamination system.
Actually it happens. You go to the doctor with some side effect, like headaches or high blood pressure and they nudge you to go to the dietist. Of course you can refuse, but there are a lot of kind and caring professionals and you know it won't cost you money, so it works sometimes.
I think economically it may make sense to hire fresh people for less money, burn them out and then have them leave soon. This may be one reason for ageism .
This makes no sense. What is he going to do instead? Flip burgers? Go to Canada? Go to the UK? Go to Germany?

If he wanted to make the argument that it would discourage people from seeking surgical degrees that is something worth discussing with current students, but that guy's costs are sunk. It's too late to change now.
When does this collapse happen? We've had single payer healthcare up here for 58 years, it looks like Germany's had some form of it for 137 years.

Should I be buying gold to prepare for year 140?
Regular Amazon customer service is not a bot, it is staffed by a large number of people. They aren't necessarily great (or empowered to be great), but they are humans.

If you email the CEO, it goes to a team of people who handle those messages, not just to him personally. It's not guaranteed to work, but it sometimes does.
You absolutely can.
But wouldn't this become an issue between the seller and the buyer, if Amazon is "just adhering" to what is stipulated in the contract?

To me this sounds like Amazon is saying "this is too complicated for us, and we don't see how to deal with it, because we don't know who's telling the truth". Like "If you've got a problem and a case, go to the police; not against us, but against the buyer".
I wonder how well it would fare against first ammendment challenges given legal standards and whatever rationale they can claim. Editorially narrow laws targetting speech are looked upon dimly. Limiting the number of hours minors can work in any film is fair. Limiting it only for say horror movies wouldn't be.
It’s only going to put 20 new cards in your review queue daily if you have a huge backlog of unseen cards, which will only happen if you mass import a whole bunch of pre-made cards, which is not recommended. Actually creating 20 new cards a day would imply a pretty heavy study schedule.
Why frame things in such a pessimistic manner? It seems like it would only be a net benefit to have more people become interested in protein folding as a field of study. Is there really a need for this type of gate keeping here?
It sounds like the feature's enabled across all websites - so it could break security & privacy expectations a user has about existing web pages.

It requires that the attacker has DNS request visibility and expects that a user will visit a vulnerable page - not necessarily huge barriers to entry.

This could be exploited by targeting a user with an advert that appears in the footer of a webpage, for example, and then obtaining DNS logs for that user after-the-fact.

It's a useful feature certainly; the concern is mainly around the fact that this has essentially been self-certified by the development team and rolled out.

With more ISPs looking to monetize DNS logs, and the future of DNS infrastructure looking a little uncertain at the moment, there does seem to be risk here given that it could become widely deployed.
I agree completely. I love SQL just as much. I built a little framework based on SQL and jinja last year.

Shameless plug: https://github.com/socialpoint-labs/sqlbucket

Just changed job though, and the data engineering team I just joined is literally banning raw SQL and enforcing scala instead... I'm a bit sad.
Read the article. Look at prior art. Stop spreading FUD.
> To address concerns, Ethos agreed Friday to limit price hikes to an average of 10% per year for eight years

$ echo 1.1^8 | bc
2.1

Nice concession.
More people will get the care they need than currently. Right now, there's a real dis-incentive to going to the doctor or to hospital for non-critical care/injuries.
Oh sure, I suppose my family could have lived digging through landfills like the wretchedly poor do in Ethiopia and Indonesia and elsewhere. And perhaps I wouldn’t have died, just been left permanently physically and mentally stunted by malnutrition, certainly not coming out of the ordeal in any state to perform the fairly high-level job that I have today. The income taxes that I pay with the large-ish salary that I was able to get because my brain was not stunted by malnutrition as a child have already paid for the food stamps that the government invested in my well-being many times over, by the way. That is what welfare does: it works, and in the long run it pays off in spades.
But those other things can increase supply if people start demanding more. The amount of land is fixed.
Hi, I’m still in the area but am not sure about the meetups in a long time. There are a bunch of other local meetups on meetup.com, but haven’t been to any in several years because I have an almost 3 year old.
Wells Fargo to pay $3B to settle investigations into unauthorized account
Does good old:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"NoAutoUpdate"=dword:00000001

...not work anymore on Windows 10 Pro? It works on 1807 LTSC.
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Yes, this does work sometimes. It’s a pretty commonly cited measure of last resort among Amazon sellers.
Does Amazon not have a "New, open box" option?
>>Just say, "sorry this happened to you, that sucks" or say nothing.

Umm, I had you until that line...

That line of unquestioning sympathy may be polite, but it leads us to nowhere. Or more precisely, to insular groups of internally self-validating comments with no sanity check or objective truth.

Tone, hey, sure, maybe OP could've been a bit more reserved.

But I will defend vehemently against attempts to sanction people with questions and wanting to know details before committing their moral outrage one way or another.
I am rich enough but running out of money every year to pay for Insurance Companies profits. So yea.
The x86 architecture is a mess and it matters.

The reason it matters is because a disproportionate amount of energy is spent in the instruction decode system.

And that affects your battery life.
Ultimately when you mail something there is no way to prove what you mailed. You can mail a brick and say it was a camera or you can mail a camera and the buyer can say it was a brick. There’s an opportunity here for companies with big real estate footprints like UPS store or Office Depot to offer verified shipping and/or receiving, where you hand them the items and they pack them up and ship them with a certification of what’s inside.
I've been posting here for 8 years, and have never noticed moderation until one of the moderators points it out like the top of this thread.

Further, I have been posting on /. and other forums since the 90's and have never been banned.

If you are on your 51st account here, perhaps the problem is you and not with the people running the show.
Is Amazon even supposed to be a reasonable place for small scale sellers to try to operate? The entire mechanism of credit cards and large scale markets is based on the idea that you reduce user friction in order to get more sales en aggregate. Can you imagine Best Buy caring "Visa let a fraudster keep the refrigerator they purchased from us and even refunded them $3000"? Something like that probably happens every week. If you care about every individual sale you need entirely different sales apparatus and pipeline than something like Amazon, for whom we have also heard stories recently here on HN of them shipping multiple items to someone and just telling the customer not to bother returning it as it will be more trouble for everyone than it is really worth it to them.
Do you think they'll give me free health insurance as a 23 year old who lives with a parent? I don't have any interest paying a dime for health insurance because I could use that money to eat healthily instead and try to stay out of trouble. Otherwise, I'd starve or sacrifice my diet in order to afford the health insurance. It has never made sense to me.
Can confirm I love Kaiser but both the best and worst parts for me are the bureaucracy -> time/$ savers. Great when it's fast and cheap, can email Dr to get meds/treatment, get meds mailed 3 for 2 price - but frustrating when wait to see a specialist is more than a month or being rushed through in person visits like cattle. And I feel well taken care proactively with multi-DR/NP team.

Plus they actually did a good job reimbursing me for costs when I had to get care in a non-kaiser state no hassle or haggling.
Strictly speaking, you don't need to keep up with any fixed review schedule. Anki understands when you're remembering a card that was part of a backlog, and gives you some "extra credit" for the added time interval that you've incurred as a result. This means that these cards will soon be scheduled with very long recall intervals, which in practice helps you clear the backlog fairly quickly.

Sure, it's not optimal to miss a scheduled recall because then you might forget the card, which is quite bad. But most of the time you'll be doing OK, so it's always worth trying more cards.
IOS devices have never been your own. Apple justified this in the early days on the grounds that they were protecting mobile phone networks from hackers, but that argument fell through when the iPod touch (an iPhone without phone functionality) was equally locked down. The only thing Apple is protecting with this policy is their revenue stream.
To me, the idea of consistently working more than 50 hours/week is only something I would do if I desperately needed the money and couldn't find a better way to support myself. I hope to never be in that situation.

I understand working like crazy for things like starting a company/grad school/career change, but those things all last a limited time and come to an end.
it's not really like a deductible. it's a small fixed cost you pay every time you see a doctor or fill a prescription. it creates a small amount of friction, presumably to prevent frivolous use of resources.
Healthcare is not and cannot ever be a free market. You cannot have price transparency when a buyer may be unconscious at the time of "purchase". You cannot have price competition when buyers are frequently forced to immediately purchase a good or service if they don't want to die. Hospitals are chosen by proximity, not price. These are the consequences of being mortal human beings. If we were all immortal, and "healthcare" was nothing more than voluntary cosmetic surgery, a free market might make sense.
Single payer creates an unnecessary monopoly. One of the best health care systems (Switzerland) is both private and not single payer - but purchase is compulsory.

Obamacare and especially Trumpcare simply can not work when people delay purchasing insurance until it's too late. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Furthermore, insurance plans should not be tied to employment/employers. It's a bad incentive structure.
You can't bomb your way to democracy. Let's say that a foreign country bombed your farm/business and killed all of your family. Are you going to thank them for it or are you going to swear vengeance?

Are you aware of the reports that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were multi-trillion dollar failures?

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
Twenty to eighteen year olds are the ones being kept out under the bill - which seems dubious even with all of the other "legally an adult but discriminatory law" standards already in place.
Coming soon, DOX your favorite model for only $25: FOIA.gov
A seller can absorb fraud when they’re doing hundreds or thousands of transactions. If each person is doing one transaction the people hit will have life altering consequences for some items.
Censorship is a small subset of the techniques for shutting down discussion, and tone policing isn't in that subset at all. A diminutive doesn't help here.
Have you ever gone to a busy urban ER? It is absolutely full to the brim 24/7 with people visiting with chronic ailments that don’t have health insurance, which is literally the most expensive possible way to treat something like asthma or chronic emphysema.
Most political leaders both dems and reps are in bed with the insurance companies who are heavily lobbying to keep things as they are. But why not, they're cashing in big and the system is so convoluted that you cannot point any fingers.
May be it doesn't. So should we just accept the Status quo ? I personally cannot and this issue is very important to me.
I did not get that prompt. I even tried disabling my ad blocker and did not get that prompt.

EDIT: Also, I think "outright evil" is a bit strong. A dark pattern for sure, but not quite evil.
I don't know if I could say I "liked" my insurance company, but I can say with a great deal of certainty that my interactions with my insurance company are orders of magnitude more frustration free (enjoyable seemed like too much of a stretch) than any of my mandatory interactions with State/Federal government.

My worst interaction with an insurance company in my entire adult life was being billed in an annoying fashion and having to sit on hold for half an hour to get it fixed. Compared to just my last trip to the DMV the insurance company is already pretty far ahead.

For completeness sake, I'm actually not particularly opposed to re-working the healthcare system. While I lean strongly libertarian, I'm pragmatic enough to understand the current half commie, half free market health care system is entirely untenable, and I seriously doubt it will be acceptable to move in the free market direction anytime soon.
Transportation is not the only thing that threatens the environment. In fact, the clothing industry and farming are harming the environment more than driving our cars is as far as I know.
Will someone please think of the billionaires?
This is literally the argument that Liz Warren and Bernie have been making, not to mention other Democrats.
The worst thing for me is if you go, for example, to the emergency room, the hospital charges you something like $200 and you think that is the end of it, but about a month later, other bills start coming in: $300 for xray, $350 for doctor X, etc... health insurance in the US sucks.
Plastic keeps it from going negative?
No one is moving the goalposts. TypeScript's raison d'etre is to add static typing to JS. Reason's is to fix the syntax.

(Yes, TS adds new grammatical constructs, but grammatical constructs are about grammar, not syntax, contra Reason).
Yeah that could definitely be made clearer. I bounced when I couldn’t quickly see if this was a browser extension or a library or something else.
> those who want a public option or single-payer--willfully ignore the evidence.

What you say is true about the public option, because it incentivizes insurance companies to dump expensive patients onto the public dole, while charging ever increasing premiums for those who either don’t need healthcare or are self-rationing because of things like co-pays or high-deductibles. Obamacare and Medicaid in tandem also don’t work for the same reason.

It’s not true for single payer systems, who across the world pay less than what we pay in the US. Without special pleading, you have to explain why they’re able to do it and we cannot, otherwise it seems that you’re ignoring the evidence. State-level examples don’t really count here either, because their underlying costs are being determined by prices pressures in the entire US market.

(Also, CAP takes money from pharma, the insurance industry, and hospital conglomerates, so they’re not a reliable source on any of this).
That sounds like a reason to complain to the management of that organization and see if they can work something out or pick a different tool, not write a blog post ranting about how much you dislike this company.
Ask HN: Tips for getting into tech from Fortune 100
I'm trying to make the jump and my imposter syndrome is kicking in. I've been a manager at a Fortune 100 company for the last 5 years. First, leading a software development team. Then, leading our analytics team. I have a list of accomplishments under my belt and feel confident about my management ability.

However, having not done a job search in awhile, it seems that most managers are expected to be hands-on at a number of these tech firms. They're also looking for experience in newer tech that my current organization is just starting to investigate. I'm worried that my outdated technical background will be a liability. I'm also concerned that I don't have enough experience at the scale a tech firm operates.

So you're probably asking, why aim for a tech firm? Part of it is that it's sexy, part of it is the money, but the big driver is that at a Fortune 100 company, I'm a cost center. I want to be part of a profit driving organization where my team can have a real impact on the bottom line.

Has anyone made this jump? I'd appreciate any advice on how to approach this.
If reading this story makes your blood boil, and you need some catharsis, there’s a story online that I can’t find right now about a guy who went to the address of the fraudster and beat him with a piece of rebar giving him a permanent limp.
IIRC the top income tax rate is 13.3%. I think sales tax is 9% but not sure how much that varies between locales.
That's an interesting point and I completely agree, but wouldn't America's already real lack of "supply" buffer this a bit? I have to wait several weeks to get into my personal family doctor, and it took over 4 hours to be admitted during our last visit to the ER (we went in because of a suspected ectopic pregnancy, which it turned out to be).

It seems like the physician shortage will only continue to worsen.
https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/press-releases/new-findin...

Edit: Basically, I think a lot of people will still be left without adequate health care in minor cases, but at least the most urgent cases will be taken care of without leaving people bankrupt.
This is simply not a compelling argument against reform. It is a sad story and surely there will be people like this abusing any system, but making people face down bankrupts and death of loved ones is not the correct incentive against abuse of socially funded systems in my book.
The price, at least in the US is as much as they could ask for. If they could get from you $1,000,000 on aspirin they would, trust me. It's called free market. They say that the market will fix any problem. But in reality it's not really free market.

The manufacture price is insignificant but the bulk of the price is pinned on other things like R&D and other costs the pharmaceuticals claim. There are costs but there's also a huuuuuuuge profit to be made.
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with the name, first thing I was looking was for a jar file but there was none, confusing it seems.
I spend tens of thousands of dollars on Amazon every year, buying everything from electronics to groceries to paper towels, and have never had any issues that were not resolved to my satisfaction.
No, but government has strong incentives to deny claims to control costs. At least at the state level, governments have gotten extremely aggressive about money collection. E.g. $50 administrative fee for not paying a $4.00 toll.
Sucks as a buyer though, if the item turns out to have issues (or it was stolen).
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Tell your neighbor he is already been taken for a ride by insurance companies. It may actually be better for him once private insurance does not have a say in EVERYTHING he does as a doctor. He may even be able to make more money. Ask him is he really free today when seeing patients ? The answer is No. He has to listen to everything the insurance company approves.
FCC forced by court to ask the public again for feedback on net neutrality
There’s an entire team at Amazon to deal with jeff@amazon mails. It’s not emailing the CEO, it’s another customer support channel that may or may not solve your problem.
Probably worth reading, then.
The CPU contains essentially no hardware that is there only to support real mode, which is simply an documented combination of configurations of various protected mode relevant mechanism plus changed behavior of exactly one microarchitectural operation, which involves replacing bunch of nontrivial microcoded logic with simple 4 bit left shift.
The costs are already in the trillions!

I absolutely see your point, though, this idea that we can give everyone in the United States access to health care is revolutionary! Exciting, compassionate, and revolutionary!

We have the opportunity to clear some of the institutional sclerosis that weighs at our society and economy. I really hope it happens.
ER visit as a foreigner in Switzerland. Saw a dr. Saw a neurologist. Had a full bank of blood tests. Had an MRI of my head and neck. In and out in five hours. I was billed $400.
Hmm, my first thought is: contacting a buyer outside of Amazon is against Amazon's TOS.

But if the author isn't interested in using Amazon after this incident, Amazon's TOS don't matter much.

I'd be interested to hear from someone with a bit more legal knowledge how this might go. It's a good thought for sure.