skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to point at physicians and say they're artificially limiting the number of physicians created but they are not. Residency spots are funded by Medicare and that is the limiting factor. The hospitals get paid 150k for each resident, pass 55k on to the resident as salary, and keep the rest. Hospitals could choose to pay for their own residency positions, but they don't because then Medicare wouldn't be willing to subsidise the spots anymore.

You could suggest we replace the high paid physicians with nurse practitioners or physician assistants but that is ignoring the fact that they are paid in the exact same way (and soon to be amount - executive order signed to equalize Medicare payments b/w midlevels and physicians) as physicians! If an NP or PA sees 25 patients in a day, they will bill for the exact same amount as a physician would. Additionally, the midlevels would order more tests and imaging on average than physicians, driving healthcare costs ever higher. There's a reason hospitals love midlevels so much and are helping to push for their independent practice. Each unnecessary test or CT scan is extra $$$ to the hospital.
We're not going to be on the move any time soon, so if there's a good time to build a tower it's now.
Thanks for the feedback.

I will be implementing the 2nd and 3rd in the next release. 1st one I can do after. I can increase the size of the pen color selectors.
As an urbanite: Lol good luck. If you ain’t texting “here” , I ain’t opening the door. What’s a doorbell? :D
As a photographer, I urge all other passionate photographers to get off of Instagram. It's more important now than ever to be the authority of your own content.

I know it's not as fancy but just start by hosting your own simple blog.

I made an effort to build my own Instagram like section on my site just to host my own images. It even has a web assembly lib that scales the images client-side so I don't have to deal with image processing and uploads directly to S3.

https://morphic.pro/snaps

The code is open for others to see how I did it.
https://github.com/MorphicPro/morphic.pro
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I buy always used if I have the option.

I was actually sad when Amazon bough Abebooks.com I think this should not have been allowed due to monopoly rights.
It's quite possible you're right, and I can't deny that my brain is pretty twisted anyways. That said, I feel like there's a clear difference in taste between brands, at least for my own taste buds.

I drink Coca-Cola as my preferred choice. I can't stand Pepsi (and will order a new drink in a restaurant if Pepsi shows up when I ordered Coca-Cola; I can tell, even if it's not labeled). There's a specific sweetness to each, to my tastebuds. I also enjoy RC Cola, but it's also a different flavour from either of the two most well-known brands.

I get pretty specific in my tastes, especially surrounding extra flavourings. I dislike vanilla flavouring added to my colas, though I will still drink it paired with another flavour such as orange or cherry.

I will choose Cherry Coke (classic) over just Coke any day, but will choose just Coke over Cherry-Vanilla Coke. I'm willing to drink Wild Cherry Pepsi (actually quite good), even though regular Pepsi is not a flavour I enjoy.

There's an interesting version of Pepsi called Pepsi Throwback (at least, that's what it's called around here) which I also enjoy greatly. It uses a different sweetener than regular Pepsi.

I can't stand either Diet Coke or Coke Zero (or any Diet soft drinks, really); neither taste right, to me.

Now, I still think New Coke vs Coke was overblown. I don't fault the Coca-Cola company for trying to shake things up a bit, and perhaps the new formula could have appealed better, given time and a better launch. We'll never know, though ...
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> “The fact that they have a [less than] 50 percent market share of smartphones doesn’t mean they don’t have a 100 percent share of the distribution of iPhone apps — which they absolutely do,”

Yes, that's true, but it's not a particularly meaningful or insightful statement. That's defining the market in terms of the answer you want. Any company has a 100% market share if you define the market as "things that only that company can do".

"The fact that they have a [less than] 50 percent market share of operating systems doesn't mean [Microsoft doesn't] have a 100 percent share of Windows -- which they absolutely do", says Captain Obvious.

The question is, has there been a detrimental effect for customers?

Practically, I don't think the answer is as clear-cut as Rifkin wants it to be, because (at least to me), the drawbacks of a single-vendor app store (of which there are a significant quantity) have to be weighed against the benefits of a single-vendor app store (of which there are a significant quantity).
Some are legitimately afraid that AWS will deprive them of the ability to scale during peak times, like holiday shopping seasons. I've heard claims of this happening to more than one retailer.

Personally, I wonder if that isn't an emergent property of a lot of people trying to scale at once.
Google Voice for 2FA. Some companies still have issues with Google Voice SMS (Paypal, I'm looking at you), but it is preferable.
A big hinderance to containing the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014 was all the cancelled flights, since it prevented medical experts from getting to the impacted areas. While it seems counter-intuitive at first, travel bans do little to stop the spread (especially after it's reached other countries), but they do limit our ability to fight the pandemic.

http://www.flanderstoday.eu/politics/white-house-praises-bru...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ttpHvK6yw
I find incredible how similar zero sugar coke is similar to regular coke.
Well, I agree with you that a string of quits would be a powerful signal, perhaps powerful enough to change things. I was just trying to provide questions individual doctors face that are somewhat unique to the medical profession. I definitely do not like the current situation.
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And Japan has a culture of talking quietly which greatly reduces droplet transmission even beyond the practice of wearing masks.

NYC has a culture of yelling.
If you choose a distro based on default GUI, I question your Linux knowledge.
The princess cruise ship study also gave an IFR (for China) of 0.5%, and an early epidemiological modeling study put the symptomatic CFR at 1.4% which would imply 0.7% IFR assuming it's 50% symptomatic.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0822-7

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20031773v...

0.5% to 1% has been the most plausible for at least a month, and this NYC study seems to exactly line up with that.
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And the alternative, if I'm getting AbrahamParangi's point, is to create regulations that only apply to Amazon. That seems arbitrary and unpredictable. I understand that regulations applied equally to every company increase barriers to entry, but making special rules for specific companies weirds me out.
The Gap is running out of money and stopped paying rent
Nice! That does work. Thanks for that.

I'm still a little baffled as to why they don't just allow that on the desktop site, though.
That would fall under the "they can't afford to deliver the orders they have" bucket if they can't find anyone that wants to do the proposed work. If true, Amazon is selling a service that isn't robust or flexible enough for such a season. Will be interesting to see how it shakes out.
> Either my qualia are objectively different from everyone else's

Yes. I mean, not everyone else's, but certainly many.

> What I find incredible is just how similar everything tastes.

Vaguely similar, maybe. Incredibly similar? That's either you ignoring or being biologically unequipped to tell the differences.

> I just find it hard to believe that the difference is so great that people can find one repulsive and the other divine.

They taste different. In some cases radically different. Cokes and Pepsis are reminiscent of each other, but the difference between them on, say, a multidimensional tartness-sweetness-bitterness spectrum is as great as the similarity between them on the cola-hotdog spectrum. It's not difficult at all for me to recognize why people might like the taste of one and not the other.

If they were actually the same, the blind "Pepsi Challenge" wouldn't have worked as well as it did.

Next you'll say that you think Heinz ketchup tastes like Hunts ketchup, something which is just logically untrue, as if the ingredients and their proportions don't matter. Are they both ketchup? Yes. Do they taste the same? No. They don't mix the same ingredients in the same proportions. When two things are different, is it reasonable to form preferences even if those preferences are sometimes circumstantial (A better on X, B better on Y)? Yes.
> As an example, 90% of patients that go on ventilators still die.

That’s in New York, and probably because they only put the really worst cases on ventilators because there weren’t enough ventilators. In Germany, that number of deaths on ventilators is at around 30%. This shows that this quota is entirely useless to make your argument, and that maybe you should curb your intuition a bit when it comes to estimating percentages of potentially saveable people, especially if those estimates are then used to effectively sentence people to certain death.
What we need now is antibody testing, not testing for Covid-19.

All the antibody studies in the US so far are showing that antibodies are present in at least an order of magnitude greater number of people than the official number of people with Covid-19.

This has huge implications for our response. Given this new data, LA is suggesting [1] that ~5% of the population of LA has already developed antibodies, which would mean the fatality rate may be as low as 0.10-0.20%. (For comparison, the seasonal flu is 0.05%-0.10%.)

Knowing if this is really the case for the entire nation would have huge implications for our response.

1. https://www.facebook.com/countyofla/videos/537241533852930/
I take this a step further and don't say anything for the first few seconds if I pick up a call from a number I don't recognize. I used to not pick up those calls at all, but now that spam callers are using local area code caller IDs more and more, that is getting more difficult.
I don't want to downplay the mental aspect of it, but I do want to point out that sugary drinks like soda taste differently if you drink them all the time vs. only once in a while. Once you get used to the overpowering sweetness the other flavors make more of a difference.
If they have a badge and gun demand that they slip the warrant under the door first. Then call the watch commander to verify it.
> IMO, the most fascinating thing about this report is that it exposes a fight between two groups: 1) traditional health insurance companies 2) private equity backed provider groups, both of whom would be opposed to universal single payer healthcare as a right.

As someone who works in a PE backed healthcare provider, I can assure you that we are not opposed to single payer. Some are, but they're mostly in spaces that provide out-of-network coverage or other services that are still "bill what you want and argue about it later" spaces that are rapidly disappearing. OON services are increasingly difficult and are generally covered by single-case-agreements which are negotiated either before service is rendered, or at the very beginning of the treatment process.

Single payer is welcomes by a wide swath of PE back healthcare because it would reduce our costs DRAMATICALLY and provide predictability that currently we do not have. It used to be there were small changes in what insurers would cover from year to year, but now the changes are potentially HUGE and we have to adjust much more quickly.

We pay gobs of money to departments filled with people who have to manually verify patient benefits, validity of insurance, continually monitor the patient progress to make sure we're fulfilling the various metrics each insurer sets that varies according to the patient's plan, audit each bill to make sure everything is coded correctly to avoid a typo getting an entire claim rejected (which then we have to resubmit), then once we bill it to the insurer there's the game of nagging them to pay claims they approved weeks ago.

Single payer would eliminate almost all of that. We'd know everyone was covered. We'd know what is reimbursable and not. We'd have one set of rules for all patients, one set of metrics to adhere to. One source to bill, and one source to track payments from. Literally 20% of my company's staff is just for those things. Not to mention how much time our medical staff would save by having a single set of rules to work under.

PE firms are in healthcare to try to leverage economies of scale to make the money side more efficient, and thus increase margins. A stable environment is good for any business. We work hard to make things as efficient as we can, and reducing the massive overhead attached to just making money would be a great efficiency. Single payer would be great news for the industry.
Thanks for the report, I'll look into it soon.

I'm surprised as I and other users can run the app smoothly on Chrome.
There's a difference between "good" and "illegal".
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I also do know a bit of super linux knowledgeable people who dont need to tweak their system and use ubuntu. Sure they used to run super tweaked systems but by now they use lts ubuntu, manually tweaking g their desktop gets old fast. (That said, they do tune the embedded file system they build on that distro and that they are responsible of.) Or developers that work on their interesting problem which is not tweaking a linux desktop.
Google is the big pusher for PWAs and WebAssembly, though.
Really, the wiki is one of the worst features. Markdown based docs are far better and actually part of the repository
I work in this industry as well. That said - private label is a small (but growing) area in the US markets, so it's hard to make a generalized statement of how much someone does or does not participate.

Many retailers are beginning tie production of private labeled products in with being the captain of a category - which begins to create incentive for companies to start to pursue these private label opportunities.

K-C and P&G are two examples of companies who largely resist the private label trends in the US - you could counter with ConAgra and Treehouse.

A lot of that has to do with the product and what-not, of course.

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https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/

> We will not access or use Your Content except as necessary to maintain or provide the Service Offerings, or as necessary to comply with the law or a binding order of a governmental body.

The CFAA uses wording like "exceeds authorized access", which Amazon would absolutely be guilty of if they went into your database to spy on your product listings.

If they could go after Aaron Swartz for using authorized access in an unauthorized way, it seems likely it could be applied here.
I'm sheltering in place and in the past 3 hours, I've coded in like 3 areas of my house. I also need to move when my partner is working and is on a call.
I have read that S. Korea's disease control center has not approved antibody tests because antibody tests are not accurate enough.

Multiple S. Korean companies submitted test kits for coronavirus for approval, and not all were approved because of insufficient accuracy.

Mainly antibody tests.
Because a world in which people are unwilling to answer their doors is depressing, and answering the door is only going to cost you like 30 seconds of your time.
I see it as a tab at the top
Economic hardship affects middle aged and old people too.
I can't wait for the tailscale app for Android.

If I die from covid before I get it I'll be very upset.
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Just did a tracert to their website. After hitting b-h-photo-v.ear1.newark1.level3.net it goes through a couple routers on an IP block they own before hitting their IP.

Safe to say they are not on Azure.
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This app also has the feature to automatically erase your drawings on the screen. Check Preferences. However, it doesn't have the fade animation. Will add it soon.

And, thanks a lot for the compliment :)
It's possible that a less interventionist approach by the government would also have the exact opposite effect by reducing public confidence in the response, and in the safety of going outside, since nothing is being enforced.

As Joseph Stiglitz said the other day "In those circumstances it won’t be the government enforcing the lockdown, it will be fear. The concern is that people are not going to be spending on anything other than food and that’s the definition of a Great Depression."
> It's also lower than the 3% that was predicted that people used to justify the shutdown and closer inline with the swine flu or rotovirus.

The shutdown wasn't, and isn't, based on the fatality rate under current conditions as much as the shape of the curve of various medical resources being required (total hospital beds, ICU beds, ventilators, PPE for healthcare workers, etc.), the anticipated speed of being able to bring more online, and the likely impact of exceeding available supply on death rates and other health outcomes, both for COVID-19 victims and patients with other health conditions. (A potential problem which was significantly realized in Italy, where things like ventilators were for a while allocated based on other factors besides medical need, since the number with need exceeded the supply.)

It's important to remember that the fatality rate of a disease isn't a constant, and changes to conditions (like, we can no longer provide ventilators to everyone who needs one) can change that rate.
> No, but it’s a trap. If someone answers an obviously rhetorical question, they’re inadvertently demonstrating a predilection for engaging the construction, not the substance, of a statement, and almost certainly missing the ironic subtext.

That's a pretty self-aggrandizing analysis of the situation.

From my perspective, I got you to make the statement, "People don’t inwardly digest the mistakes of others", which sounds a lot more absurd when you actually say what you mean plainly instead of hiding it in rhetoric.

Maybe some people go through life that way, but that's a pretty poor life strategy and I personally make a pretty big effort to learn from other peoples' mistakes. Maybe I haven't been successful always, but I can point to lots of examples of where I have.
youtube is offering a convenient service subsidized by googles big pockets, they are not some arbiter of truth (but are entitled to their opinions). there are already plenty of podcasts in their archives that directly contradicted WHO guidelines at the time they were made. I don't even think they are a major source of hoaxes/conspiracies. this is actually a bad look for youtube.
Also this is one of the big reasons I really hope activity pub takes off and people start to incorp it directly into their own sites.
Some people say the WHO denied human to human transmission, and denied that masks work.

Do these people think the following two statements are equivalent:

1. There's no clear evidence of God

2. God does not exist
That doesn't explain the system dialogs. Microsoft's development style is to just accrete more stuff; that's how you get two Settings dialogs for example.
For those who are curious, you can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity
I am not sure how the payment thing would work on homebrew. I will have to look at this.
Additionally, we need to find out how long antibodies confer immunity for.
Yes. To see if someone has an active infection, you want an antigen test. To see if someone had an active infection in the past, you want an antibody test. More info at https://www.cnet.com/how-to/coronavirus-testing-what-to-know...
I genuinely want to understand the point you are presumably making here, but I’m honestly having a tough time with understanding what it is.
Please write a blog post!
I'm currently installing it and it really was as easy as running the two scripts. I haven't gotten to GPU passthrough yet, though.
As an asymptotic* person, I resent your hyperbola.

(Sorry, couldn't resist).
Would be nice if all those platforms would adhere to the principles of freedom of speech. It is proven again and again that the founding fathers of the US were pretty smart implementing this idea, any other alternative is worst and in some cases like this, can danger people lives.
I could tell the difference easily. New Coke tasted just like Pepsi, and Pepsi is too sweet. I can drink a whole Coke and feel refreshed, but if I do that with Pepsi I feel slightly queasy. It's like chugging maple syrup. In a blind taste test sweeter always wins, but less sweet is preferable to me (and apparently to a lot of people) in a full serving.
> By sticking to Intel or even x86 in general, there is ample evidence Apple is leaving a lot of performance on the table.

That isn't necessarily true. Having competitive performance at lower power isn't always the same thing as having better performance, even assuming these benchmarks are representative.

Processors designed specifically for low-power make different design trade offs. One of those is to exchange maximum clock speed for IPC (because higher clocks burn watts). The A13 maxes out at 2.65GHz, the i7 8086k hits 5GHz. Chances are you can't just give the A13 a 95W power budget and see it hit 5GHz, it would have to be redesigned and the kinds of changes necessary to get there would generally lower IPC.

Apple is also riding the same advantage as AMD -- they're using TSMC's 7nm process which is better than what Intel is currently stuck with. Even AMD is still using an older process for the I/O die. We don't know what that's going to look like a year or two from now.

Meanwhile the renewed competition between Intel and AMD makes this kind of a bad time to move away. They're both going to be working hard to take the performance crown from each other and Apple would have to beat both of them to claim an advantage. And continue to do so, or they'd have a lot of pissed off customers and developers after forcing a transition to a new architecture only to have it fall behind right after the transition is over.
It's actually very unlikely for this to be the case for the three SSDs. If what is presented in the video is actually happening, there would be no reason for the fraudster to pay for 3 SSDs with a stolen card and send them to the customer, because a higher transaction amount could pop off some alerts at the stolen card's bank, which is a pointless risk.

You also have to take into account honest people which would try to notify the fraudulent seller or possibly the platform through which the item was bought, which is another unnecessary risk for a fraudster.
this is a slippery slope. sure, it may seem reasonable now. But, once Youtube and facebook start deciding what you can and can't see, we're going down what could become a very dangerous path.
I've had this happen. When the fraud department for my credit card company called and I said I wanted to call them back to verify, they gave me a code to enter after I called to go straight back to the agent. It was great.