skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not true at all. Other than ACA mandated well visits and vaccines, insurance forces you to pay for everyday expenses via deductibles and copays until you reach your out of pocket maximum. And then insurance will take over for large expenses.

And by and large, they do pay for the largest expenses, such as medications for anemia and cancer treatment and NICU situation.
It could, but it doesn't
I think it's a pretty reasonable claim. The cards illustrate the idea that the law is applied unequally, and at the whim of the police officer... which I believe is the root of much of the problems with US policing.
> can’t arrest people for something you have evidence they might do if they haven’t done it yet.

If “might do” means actually planning to commit a crime and then taking some material action to further that plan, then they can be charged with attempt.
Right, that's perhaps a glaring omission. Last year's (Ice Lake) i7-10710U was a 6-core, 12-thread part with a TDP of 25W. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/196448/...

But it's entirely missing from this announcement. Seems like a regression.
I feel like this is not a complex problem. You just ensure that someone has `iam:GetDetailedError`. Then you can turn it on for your role/user/whatever and if that doesn't work you can turn it on at the global level temporarily.

After all, if you think about it, if you are unable to determine that you're denying the person for the right reason, you could easily later allow them for the wrong reason.

e.g. A policy that's not meant to be applied to some IAM user is being applied to them but it's documented to be for a different purpose. When that purpose expires, you might remove that policy, and accidentally enable access. If you can get a trace of the denial then you know that it's for the right reasons.
HLS is going to improve, and you can either disregard it and be left behind or you can try to understand where it fits into a design. Your choice.
While I realize this article is about a software 'globe' I think it would be really cool to have a more physical solution--a computer with software on it that displays a globe to a Gakken Worldeye [1] which is controlled by a Spaceball [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcG9O6S6cOU

[2] https://dezignstuff.com/3dconnexion-and-spaceballs/
It's equally confusing from the inside.
Personally I would use my own Nextcloud instance for up to 20-30GBs. Not sure about TBs.

What about using "Firefox Send"? (I never used it so far)

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/send-files-anyone-secur...

I read that the limit is 1-2.5GBs => maybe you could break down the file and upload it in multiple pieces... .

EDIT: oopps, Firefox Send doesn seem to be available anymore - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-s...
Police unions are fundamentally different from other forms of organized labor. No other union is composed of members who hold the legal monopoly on violence.
I agree with you.

I also think that this "standing up" can start right at home.

For example, as my grandparents "number one grandchild," I informed them that the reason why I haven't talked to them for months, and have no intention of being a part of their future, is because they support Trump.

Will this be a good or bad move on my part? I don't know.

But, I do know that these right-wing extremists have no reservation using deadly force. And if ending a relationship with people that effectively raised me just might bring this to an end any sooner, then count me in.
That isn’t true at all. It used to be true because health care plans had lifetime limits to coverage, but the ACA removed those limits.

The ACA also ads out of pocket maximums. They might still be high enough to cause problems for some people, but it’s a lot better than it used to be.

As far as not paying, your chances of them just deciding not to pay are low. It’s definitely not high enough to support your claim that they effectively don’t cover large expenses. Here the ACA also helps because insurers are forced to spend at least 80% of premiums on healthcare costs and quality improvements for customers.
A boat?

That's not meant to be flippant - that would be an alternative, I'm just not sure about the very subjective definition of 'reasonable'.
Clojure is a recurring gravitational pull for me. I haven't had time to properly explore yet but I will before end of year.

It's not a "first" language like JS, Python, Java, C#, Ruby etc. so the community appears to benefit from a higher than average level of skill. In the same way that i imagine Erlang or Elixir might enjoy the benefit of more capable than average users.

The fact that entire paradigms can be implemented as libraries is attractive to me - it suggests to me that the Python 3000 or C++11 problems are unlikely to affect Clojure.

For example, Go is a language I find interesting. The whole CSP concept makes a ton of sense to me in writing enterprise software - mainly from a "keeping the architecture cheap to own and change over time" point of view. I appreciate this isn't where CSP was targeted but it lends itself very well IMO to solving this problem because you could decouple components and grow them independently so effectively.

Go is an entire language but core.async is just a library in Clojure, they didn't have to change the language to implement this which is mind blowing to me.

Another example is types. Only some of the code I write actually benefits from types AND most type systems in "enterprise" languages are pretty anaemic. Typing is also really hard to do well, like really really hard. You had a problem, you adopted typing and now you have two problems is generally my thinking here.

Scala was to be my saviour here but that missed the mark quite spectacularly and the compiler is still ridiculously slow today but then along came TypeScript which is pretty darned awesome IMO.

Thanks to TypeScript and modern Python i had learned that i wanted "optional typing" and i was undecided about type erasure at runtime - i don't immediately see a problem with it, i've written probably thousands of lines of Java with generics then used reflection at runtime without losing sleep, but it fills an awkward space in my head - to invest in types but only benefit at compile time seems like a miss.

In Clojure i can follow the TypeScript model but actually take it further to runtime.

This post is too long already. Long way to say Clojure appears very interesting.
Indonesian insurtech startup PasarPolis gets $54M Series B
What could you possibly vote for on the ballot to fix this.
So the way it works is that the insurance covers X% of something up to some pre-set limit which doubles or triples if you have a family. This is called co-insurance. So if you have a 50% co-insurance then you are responsible for 50% of the cost of treatment up to the yearly limit for your insurance. If your yearly limit is $9,000 then that means you rack up a $9,000 bill from $18,000 of medical treatment. Where it gets complicated is that if you add another person to your insurance then your yearly limit goes from EG $9,000 to $16,000 which can bankrupt most people. And this is for a "high-quality" plan.

And what's worse, because it's a yearly limit it resets in December. This means that if you get sick in December, you can rack up $9,000 of bills from December, then roll over into January and rack up another $9,000 worth of bills. Or $32,000 as a family.

This is strangely still sold as insurance.
Maybe cheating? It would be easier to sneak a peek at your smartphone if one proctor has to cover an acre of students.
This country is the land of contradictions (and I'm saying this as a resident). More than half of the Americans are not happy with the state of the healthcare, but more than half of the Americans are not happy to contribute to a better healthcare system. Go figure!
And? That doesn't go against what I said. I just said that a big problem is that subjects aren't framed in a way that makes them seem useful, regardless of if they are or not.
This entire thread is completely toxic and predictably so, the fact it hasn't been flagged yet is telling
It’s pretty much by design, as the syntax and standard libraries with lispS are intentionally small. In other languages, you see new language syntax or semantics being added, while in a lisp it’s pretty much unheard of to change the syntax, there’s so little to change.

Macros can do a lot of stuff, and as such libraries themselves can add pretty elaborate functionality.

Having said all this, what I do notice with my experience of Clojure is that there are certain “trends” in how you write code. The language itself may not evolve that much, but the styles people write code in it, and how they solve problems, certainly does.
On paper it may seem to insure you against catastrophic loss, that is, if the insurance company can't find a way to deny your claim for one reason or another. You can surely bet they will be trying.
Why would the PRC follow India’s lead in foot shooting when they can simply not and come out better?

It’s like the US which is currently undermining itself in some sort of nonsensical effort to match China in the very things we don’t like about China and ends up hurting China.
ChromeOS has won, in case you haven't been paying attention.
Show HN: Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile – Hacker News Client App
Likes:

- Use the platform for the UI related things

- Shared module acts as a separate backend (business logic) makes it easy to modularise the apps

- Easy to bootstrap, run, and test apps

Dislikes

* Difficult to debug sometimes

* Maintenance might be a problem if the app grows

* Mundane manual tasks like icon setting for apps and other common functionalities

PS: It is a minimal implementation. Did just for learning:)
Been using https://www.dendron.so/ for a total of ... 12h.

It's been mentionned here a couple of days ago actually. It's built on top of Vscode and use pure md files, so can be synced with Git or be built as github page.
if you can cheat a test off a smartphone its probably not a good test
You've definitely used Functors or Semigroups as well, you just didn't realize it.
It's a lock-in nightmare to migrate, and it really needs to be accounted for as a deep cost in choosing Confluence.
It seems to me that the former is a convenient excuse for the latter.
ACA was as close as “conservatives” let the US people get to universal taxpayer funded healthcare.
Which is kind of ironic, because students take classes exactly because they feel 'immature' with respect to that subject.. Honestly, most of my smoothest educational experiences with hard topics assumed some immaturity on my part, and that that was OK
On the topic of noticing performance improvements, I'd definitely say that we've plateaued as far as "general snappyness" in all aspects but one: high-refresh rate, low latency displays.

I recently upgraded my monitor from a Dell U3014 to an OMEN 27i (it's gaudy and "gamer" oriented, but it was the best I could get in an afternoon at a physical store). That's an upgrade from a 60 Hz monitor to a 165 Hz monitor, and a significant (though not numerically measured so far) drop in input delay, some tens-of-milliseconds.

This has been the biggest improvement in "snappyness" that I've experienced since I moved to solid-state storage 10 years ago.
Yeah but that’s barely the tip of the iceberg.

People are afraid of having a major, expensive surgery or treatment and that’s a valid fear but what about the years you spend hitting (or almost hitting) your deductible just trying to find out what’s wrong with you?
I do enjoy this perspective from someone who says "I have no access to production data". Typically that is used as an excuse to not practice any security whatsoever, rather than as a side-note on a security heads-up!

I go back and forth on this all the time - easier access to production means faster development, but requires more discipline. Being able to reproduce production issues without production data takes a lot of engineering - which can be hard to justify when you're a tiny shop - when I was DevOps for 100 engineers it was certainly a much simpler time justification...
I feel like this is one of the shortfalls of the HSA, if individuals are going to be exposed to this, there should be tax benefits until you can get up to the max out of pocket for your family, not a <4k limit a year.
Most health insurance comes with a % copayment. Paying 10-20% of the bill is not uncommon, and generally considered pretty good health insurance.

Add to that a high deductible -- some families have to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket before health insurance will even start to cover you.

If you have a major medical event, you might be on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars.
For those unfamiliar, this was the last bill introduced.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/112...
Come back to me when they've arrested the cops who killed breonna taylor. Until then, it's as close to 0 as makes no difference.
Not sure how much factual basis I have to back this up, but from my observations, the insurance system the US has was created by accident, but is absolutely maintained on purpose. Keeping health insurance tied to employment was a nice benefit for when insurance wasn't universal in many other countries, and healthcare wasn't nearly as expensive (as it wasn't as good as it is now). Now, keeping it tied to employment keeps people working, in service to large corporations that can afford insurance and less likely to take risks like working at upstart companies that could challenge established market players, or protest and try to make change in a broken political system. It's all pretty nefarious.
I was laid off, I've got a $500/mo prescription that keeps me out of a dark pit and gives me the ability to even work, I either pay that or pay $850/mo for COBRA to extend my healthcare. Or, what, medicaid? I'll probably be employed by the time that goes through. Six week wait to see a $250/hr cash-only psych.

Telehealth "loosened" red tape for everyone BUT people with mood disorders. I still need to go in person for an appointment to get the medication I need.

This is bad. I'm super privileged even being unemployed right now. I have savings. I feel for the people who can't afford any of this right now who are going through serious things.

If I come down with COVID I'll be bankrupted forever I'd imagine.
That has been law since Jan 1, 2014. It is part of the ACA[0].

It is not surprising that some people do not know this, as the president has recently said he would sign an EO mandating this, even though it is already law[1]. It’s unclear if he is unaware that the ACA already includes this mandate or if it is a deliberate misinformation campaign.

[0] https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/pre-existing-co...

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/08/trum...
It kind of feels like cheating to make this argument by using Scala.
The insurance system is completely broken, but the bankruptcy protection system isn't!
@dang, I collected 5000 exit points of what seems to be sources of Kremlinbot activity here: https://gist.github.com/mikhailian/5d65694fdaaf0ccbab4c6cf39... watch out these are IPv4 and IPv6 formatted lists of subnets as exported from ipset.

There are some specifics to my use case, take this with a grain of sault. Hope this helps sorting genuine Putin-lovers from Kremlin bots.
If an idea isn't triggering action, does it really matter how popular it is?
> I do not want my health insurance provided by the people that gave us the VA.

I mean, those same folks give us Medicare, which is both quite popular with the public and gets better marks on results, cost, and efficiency than private healthcare.

I see no evidence my insurance company cares about me any more than the VA cares about its patients. Does the VA have problems? Absolutely. Is "give up and give it to for-profit corporations" likely to fix that? Nope.
I used to vaguely know this illegal alien sushi chef who had two kids. Nice enough guy, made good sushi, liked life in California; probably still works in the same place in Mountain View. I was always confused as to how he afforded two kids living in Mountain View. Well, it turns out, in California, the state apparently pays for it. I mean, he was a nice guy, and family formation should be a priority for any sane government, but the idea that you get subsidized if you break the rules and penalized if you don't kind of rankles.
It's easy to return Crimea back: Russian army goes out, Ukrainian army goes in. What the problem?
Redux is still a very valid choice. If you don't like the setup boilerplate, you can use the official toolkit which has very sane defaults.

https://redux-toolkit.js.org/
It's not about resistance, it's about compatibility and use case scope.
In 3d a lot of assumptions about the shape of earth and location above ground become non-trivial very quickly. When it comes to precisions required in surveying, local systems are usually prefered, because you can ignore the whole thing of shifting global datums due to plate tectonics.

In essence:a patchwork of local references frames per plate is prefereable to a single global one, when having to work with measurements over the time of decades. Which happen to also work reasonably well in 2D when projected.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/StephaneP/diary/390290
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20460596
This claims they are announcing and not actually launching. No dates or prices:

https://semiaccurate.com/2020/09/02/intel-doesnt-actually-la...
Not really, predicted grades have exam taking ability built in. The predicted grade is the assessment of how the student will perform in the exam. Coursework that was completed was already marked and the component of that set normally.
When Children’s Covid-19 Symptoms Won’t Go Away
Health insurance in the United States' for-profit healthcare complex is a nightmare. Besides the fact the premiums are onerous, it is the health insurance carriers that evaluate if and how much insurance will cover an expenditure, usually after a copay and possibly coinsurance has been paid. To say nothing of ever-growing deductible limits. On top of that, the Trump Administration is working overtime to purge what little insurance benefits are provided via Obamacare (in it's quest to eliminate any legacy of the Obama Administration). Unfortunately, the GOP is woefully short on replacement ideas. One does get the idea--in the true spirit of the Republican Party--the replacement will consist of costly, high-deductible health insurance that will include many exclusions from its coverage.

All this begs the question: quality of life in the US, especially for the middle class, is crashing compared to our friends in other industrialized nations. Why middle class especially? Because the middle class is most likely to have an employer-sponsored plan that has deductibles and exclusions. In fact, most of those carrying employer sponsored health insurance never really know how much of the bill insurance will cover. Poor and indigent people, in many states, can still obtain health care without insurance and many states have funds just for this so the bill is paid by the tax payers in one form or another.

And since the healthcare complex is an aggressive lobby in Washington, this situation is not likely to change. Not under Biden, certainly not under Trump. And to those Democrats who say millions of people who have employer-sponsored health insurance love their coverage and don't want to give it up, I say poppycock! I don't know anyone, outside of public union members, who really like their coverage, employer-furnished or not. Year-to-year premium increases with less coverage over time effects this group more than any other.
There’s absolutely no transparency, which makes it hard for an informed consumer to make decisions based on price. And frankly picking a health care provider based on price feels scary: do you really want the cheapest LASIK procedure around, e.g.
There is a chilling effect in the other direction as well. I'm not too keen on decorating my car to support various things I do support (candidate/BLM/etc) because I know the cops might treat me worse with that on my car... fun times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly

Walmart has competitors in every market I've seen. Small towns seem to be more likely to have chain dollar stores than a Walmart.

In my small city of 50k, Walmart doesn't exclusively cover any category other than maybe toys. There are other grocery stores, other automotive stores, other clothes stores, jewelry, drugs, blah blah. You go to Walmart because it's cheap, not because it's the only option.
That was my first thought as well, that analog media are generally reversible, but if I understand the parent post it isn’t really what he’s talking about - rather that the image from a camera is enough to render the scene from the perspective of the lamp that lit the initial image. That’s very different from a projector, or say the way a mic and speaker are essentially the same thing.
Having my health insurance tied to my employer terrifies me. Fortunately i have good insurance through my employer but what if i lose my job? I still can't fathom how having a universal healthcare is a political issue. It should be a basic human right. Even poorer developing nations have started recognizing it and making healthcare free.
Safe speed varies with weather, time of day, and even the flow of traffic. There's no one number that's going to apply to a given stretch of road all the time.
You can buy platinum level health insurance that covers 90% of your expected healthcare costs and has out of pocket maximums of a couple thousand dollars.

Most people just can’t afford the monthly premiums for it. It’s just a simple result of the actual healthcare itself costing a ton more in the US than in other countries, since all up and down the healthcare business a lot more people make a lot more money than in other countries.
This summer my gallbladder started acting up and after going to the emergency room twice I finally got it removed last month.

I have insurance but there is a deductable and a copay and the insurance company will decide not to cover things. I have gotten bills from the hospital, the radiologist, the surgeon, and the anesthesiologist even though they were all in the hospital. One of them has been sending me notices saying that - again even though they were in the hospital - the insurance company won't accept their billing so the insurance company will apparently at some point send me a check then I am supposed to send it to them and they will tell me how much I owe. My insurance company says so far I have been charged over $200,000 even though I have only had to pay around $4000 so far. But most of that $200,000 is fake because hospitals have a price they charge the insurance and then the insurance says "no, we're only paying this much" and the hospitals will say "Ok."

I got a bill for $1600 three weeks ago and there were no details on what it was for except for the date of when this started back in May. My insurance company didn't have anything that corresponded to that date so I called the hospital billing department. They were like, "Ok. we will refile it." and I haven't heard anything since.

I've also gotten bills in the mail for like $36. I go to the bill pay website and they say I don't own anything.

The actual surgery was 5 weeks ago tomorrow and I haven't had any bills about that at all.
You wouldn't have to deal with a "police tax" if you didn't do things that made you get stopped. Admittedly that's easier said than done in america where the police are told how to use a gun and let lose on the public, but as a rule of thumb, not breaking the law is an advisable course of action.
> Do that many people exist that really vote against it? Please don't point at ACA, that was nothing close to it.

During the debate surrounding ACA, single-payer healthcare was not deliberated in congress. Nobody really got the chance to vote for or against it, or express much in the way of pleasure or displeasure with representatives in support or opposition.