skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are looking at the healthcare coverage problem and you think it’s the only issue. Coverage is a big problem for some but not the biggest problem.

The biggest issue is arguably billing and pricing. You have no idea how much something will cost until it’s done. Medicade is paying over 80% more for prescription drugs than the EU.

> In 2016 the U.S. spent 18% of its GDP on healthcare, whereas the next highest country (Switzerland) devoted 12% of its GDP to healthcare. The average amount spent on healthcare per person in comparable countries ($5,198) is half that of the U.S. ($10,348).

> The average price per coronary bypass surgery in the U.S is 129% more than Switzerland’s next-highest average.

> In 2014, the U.S. performed more MRI exams than most similarly wealthy countries at an average price of $1,119 per MRI. This was 42% more than the average price in the United Kingdom, 122% more than the average price in Switzerland, and 420% more than the average price in Australia.

> While fewer appendectomies are performed on average in the United Kingdom compared to the U.S., the price per surgery in the U.S. is $15,930 – nearly double the price in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, in Australia and Switzerland, where far more appendectomies are performed on average than in comparable countries, the price of each surgery is even less, at only $3,814 in Australia and $6,040 in Switzerland.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/how-do-...
Candy Crush ads in the start menu.
Eh, look at the modern attacks on white males. Mainstream politicians give speeches where they denounce white men and say things like, "women are better than men" (Obama), "women are the primary victims of war" (Clinton), "It's an English jurisprudential culture, a white man's culture. It's got to change" (Biden). They do it because it their base loves it, it plays well to "the mob" (though of course calling it that won't win me any favours here on HN), discrimination and effective banning of white men from being appointed to top positions is widespread behaviour throughout the west at this point, and so on.

There seem like two big differences. One is that - so far at least - the politicians doing this don't call for actual violence against white men. However, it's starting to get close. In places where BLM is active people scrawl on their storefronts that they're black, in an attempt to avoid the violence and damage dished out against any business not perceived as 'allied'. Prominent politicians conspicuously avoid condemning the violently racist behaviour of these rioters.

The other is that Hitler genuinely hated Jews as a race. He didn't have any concept of 'allied' Jews. Modern racial hatred often comes across as not especially genuine because it's full of white men condemning "white men", and people demanding women /blacks/black women be put into powerful positions ... unless they're the wrong kind of minority, i.e. conservative, in which case they are treated in exactly the same way as the "white men". Scott Alexander has written eloquently about the way these labels, which on the surface appear to have clear racial or gender-based definitions, have been effectively adopted and rewritten within certain subcultures to be code words for conservatives. This doesn't seem to precisely parallel what happened in Nazi Germany where, for all you can say about him, Hitler said exactly what he was going to do and then did it. Although Goebbels was well known for his ideas on propaganda, the regimes most famous for screwing with their citizens minds were all communist. Orwell's 1984 was inspired by socialism and not the more obvious and immediate example of Nazi-ism for that reason.
Self-driving cars, computer speech recognition and the collapse of the federal reserve system. Things that are going to perpetually happen next year since the inception of Hacker News.
Smart companies would, and they do. Cross-platform is the worst of all worlds. Looks awful on all platforms.
Note that for an NVIDIA consumer GPU, you can't really use it in the host and VM at the same time practically because they try to restrict that feature to their data center cards. You'll need another GPU to render your Linux environment if you pass through your main GPU, and most gamers are likely using NVIDIA consumer GPUs. If you have a F series Intel CPU or AMD cpu with no onboard graphics then,that means you'll need a free PCIe slot and another gpu (but even something like a GeForce 1030/radeon 570 will do for non-gaming Linux use)
When self driving cars will be consistently more reliable than 99% of human drivers, that will be enough. That is not a lot of nines.
>They have to operate in weather. Rain, snow, dark.

No they don't - a self driving car that knows when it can't drive is perfectly acceptable - not everyone can drive in extreme conditions reliably - doesn't mean they can't drive.
Had the same problem. I just write a blog for myself primarily, with notes on the things I'm working on, code, tools etc. I'm surprised by how often I go back and read my own articles, so I take that as a sign the idea was a success! :)
> why not perfect the art of triage and funnel people without problems appropriately?

The joys of having a quasi-monopoly.
Amazon does't need be be any better - they have all the customers, so merchants have to put up with that if they want access.
More like yet another example of Bitcoin inflicting massive damage with techies being completely blind to its gigantic role.

Edit: Judging from the responses, "blind to" may have been overly charitable.
Node.js simple inverted index search engine implementation
Javascript object based inverted index project in 200 line code!
How to SAML federate your Azure account with G Suite
Why Woke History Is Not the Answer
I can probably find it on youtube
When startups go into the garage (or sometimes the living room)
The Green New Deal Can't Break the Laws of Physics
Interesting dicussions. I would pay more for a native version of Figma.
This looks really cool, but I can't get it to work. Clicking the Dropbox button when it says "Click Dropbox button to load content" doesn't do anything. Nothing printed to web console, or anything happening in the UI.
It's 99% a cognitive bias called Baader–Meinhof phenomenon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ...
I don't think I've seen 1990? You could make a case for 1991 or 1992, but I don't see how anyone could have been using the web in 1990 when it hadn't been even initially implemented yet?

For example, see "The Original HTTP as defined in 1991": https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html
Case in point – in '94 I was in fourth grade at a school that made a big deal of their computer department, and how they were hooked up to the web. When geocities launched ('95?) we were making homepages as school assignments. So many "under construction" images – it was glorious!

It may not have been ubiquitous as it is today, but the web was definitely not out of reach for normal people back in '94.
> Having to log into a few different services to browse content is a small price to pay for banishing the middlemen.

Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and even HBO are middlemen. Even much of their “original” content is produced by other production companies and licensed.

Are you expecting each production company to have their own service some day?
But phones aren’t commodities. Different models do different things.
> charger that comes in its own packaging. Net new waste.

I think the point is that the charger itself is the waste being avoided. Not the charger packaging.

Surely Apple have done some analysis into what portion of their customers will not require an additional charger with each phone purchase.
There's also the JX research operating system, which used Java.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JX_(operating_system)
Is "Linux on the Desktop next year" still a thing?
OK, fair enough about the specific/technical errors, but on the other hand it's a mistake to dismiss someone's entire argument over specific technical details when the overall argument may still be "directionally" true/valid.

"If I wrote an essay riddled with technical errors staking a position about technology" - this is not really an apt comparison, because politics is something that everyone is meant to be qualified to comment on, by virtue of the fact that every adult is considered to be informed enough about politics to vote. So it's the directionality of the argument that matters, not every fine detail. And given that the real topic of the essay seems not to be politics but leadership, as a successful company founder the author is very qualified to comment on that, and his mistaken beliefs about political details are not central to the argument.

In the case of the particular error you point out, sure it's technically incorrect of him to refer to "the city and county of San Francisco she controls", but as a Democratic Party congressperson representing that area, she could easily influence policy to improve the running of that city/county. So he's not completely off target with that critique.

"The belief that everyone is equally bad/corrupt is wrong and it just makes you a mark"

I don't think that's what he's saying, and it's not what I said or what I believe.

As for “pretending to be wise”; he doesn’t seem to be offering a neutral position and by virtue of writing a very long, reputation-risking post on the topic, he’s not avoiding investing resources, so that post doesn’t seem to be relevant.

But this notion that is morally incumbent for everyone to endorse and vote for a major party candidate is, in my observation, usually an attempt to guilt/shame people into supporting the proponent's preferred party.

How is it not acceptable for an educated person to adopt such a view as: "this whole circus is a stupid game orchestrated by media behemoths, financial institutions, military contractors and other cronies and rent-seekers, and it serves mostly to divide and exploit ordinary individuals and families in order that a small number of elite insiders can profit, and I choose not to play a role in perpetuating it"?

I'm not saying you have to believe that; clearly you don't, and nor do I, completely. But I know of people, educated, objectively intelligent people, not just fringe conspiracy-theorists, who hold this kind of position very sincerely, and whether it's completely valid or not, I don't see how it's an unquestionably wrong or immoral position to hold.
I like Tcl for its sandboxing capabilities: "Tcl added sandboxed subinterpreters in a bid to become a safe web scripting language. The plan didn't work out but it is a killer feature for untrusted input."

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23145448
Iris: A decentralized social networking application
A social networking application that stores everything on its users' browsers and can synchronize over different transports (currently websocket & multicast, webRTC upcoming). You can write public posts, follow users and send private/group messages. No ads, no signup, no moderators. MIT license.
Sadly this is no guarantee as the news is replete with stories of people finding medical records in trash or abandoned in close facilities.

However since no system is perfect laws have to exist to prevent the information from being used by others except as how authorized by the law; examples would be preventing prospective employers from using it to filter candidates, housing agencies would be similar restricted. The same law would put in place a means to force it to be removed from any site hosting the information.

The key take away is we cannot guarantee full protection but we minimize the damage caused
If your blind like me the advantage is that Hoppscotch actually makes an effort to be accessible [1] while Postman does not. [2]
[1] https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/issues/1106
[2] https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/31...
Overall, the benefits from more transparency are huge, and far outweigh the drawbacks.
Well yes, having a basic and fundamental liberty restricted without harming others is a tremendous disincentive.
I am the 1%
Are we losing our ability to remember?
Au contraire, I think my proposed solution solves pricing as well. As I wrote, it aligns interests between consumers (patients) and producers (doctors), and removes one step between them - patients will be much more directly impacted by their choice of insurer (now this is handled by their companies, consumers have no real choice), so they'll be shopping around for the optimal price/performance provider.

The alternative solution often proposed, Medicaid/Medicare for all (socialized medicine), actually has no solution to this problem (except sweeping it under the rug even more, then it will be the government overpaying for medicine so people will care even less).
Adobe apps also get featured and they are not on the App Store.
It definitely played a role, but so what? The ability to transfer money outside the control of the state is a good thing, and the fact that some people abuse that doesn't make it bad. Same as gun ownership.
Indeed! Merge onto the highway, relinquish control, program the exit you want to take and lean back.
> if you don't have your head in the sand cash and bitcoin mean the same

Not when it comes to blackmailing someone safely from another country.

There's a reason ransomware asks for Bitcoin and not cash, credit, Venmo, etc. It's the only non-reversible payment method on your list.
More like yet another example of people seeking money inflicting massive damage with normies being completely blind to its gigantic role.
> go back that amount of time and see how far the OS has come.

How much did it though? Strictly speaking, an OS is an abstraction on top of hardware that applications are written against. That's it. OSes of 2007 did a good job of abstracting the hardware away from applications. They also weren't as user-hostile as the modern ones, so one could argue that they were better. Operating systems had been feature-complete for quite a while. Those yearly updates serve no practical purpose.
I think that the new Google Docs icon is confusing but I like the rest. Overall, I think the rebranded GSuite as Google Workspace is a good product. Even though I also pay for ProtonMail and FastMail, Google Workspace is my driver at home (largely because of how useful I find Cloud Search), and at work.
The excitement comes from not having to manage "stuff". Don't need to store/manage/catalogue/find anything physical. Don't need to store/manage/backup/catalogue anything digital either, just search for what you want in the app and play.

If collecting is part of the fun for you then go for it, but there's a whole lot of people for whom the collecting stuff isn't fun it's just unnecessary work.
Extreme long-term A/B testing :-)
So... Guess you're friend must enjoy the prospect of rotting in hell.
Show HN: Notioned – Custom Avatars for Notion Landing Pages
I see the same behavior on an external display connected MacBook with Safari. Split second day mode before dark mode.

Same for videos from YouTube in Safari when they go full screen.

I use Windows 10 for work and Mac OS for personal use and both have their share of quirkiness and bugs. Mac OS is way more mouse based UI and interestingly no one complains about it.
Another good reason to not go to Catholic confession or store your cash in the Panama paper's islands or go to a scientology session or store your credit information with equifax. Secrets have to exist somewhere.

Socially ostracizing people for leaked mental help information is like laughing at fat people who had their gym treadmill data leaked. That's where you go to solve your problems, data leak or not.
I usually look at this in the form of “layers”. If you have a lot of duplicated logic, its a lot nicer to abstract those concerns into a “layer” of functions / classes.

Whats important is to not have leaky abstractions though. The moment you need to start reading into those functions is the moment you realize you would have been better off leaving the code as is.

Its very hard (at least for me) to come up with those layers and requires a ton of iteration. Thats why I also prefer the top example - you need to work with the lower level code first, and go through enough of it before you can start spotting patterns and creating layers, otherwise you’re bound to mess things quite a bit.
> How many nines of reliability do self driving cars need before they're safe?

That depends on your perspective. I think most of us just wants it to be more reliable than a human driver that's not drunk or sleep deprived. But the liability challenges could mean you'll want more "perfect" reliability.

> They have to operate in weather. Rain, snow, dark. They have to adapt to novel conditions.

Seems like the solutions out there are already getting pretty good at handling the kind of rain, snow and darkness you'd see in most urban/suburban areas. Maybe you'll "never" be able to drive autonomously to your cabin in the woods, but so what?

> I don't think we'll see these things for another decade, and when that next decade arrives we'll be saying the same. Another decade.

What exactly do you mean by "seeing these things"? By some measures they're already here. The ones that are truly self driving are slow, and mostly on static routes. The ones that drive on highways need to be monitored by a human, but they're doing pretty well. I think you'll see these different solutions just slowly become better and better. I'd be very surprised if you couldn't hail a fully autonomous robotaxi in many urban areas in a decade. Maybe it can't drive it anywhere, maybe you can't use it in a snowstorm, but it'll be a case of "good enough".
> Right now I see three pull requests: one that adds an echo statement to a build script, another that deletes a file they claim is not needed and one that renames a directory and changes some paths in the README.

Sure, some people aim at low hanging fruit. But remember that this challenge was just announced. Actual quality contributions take time.

It'll be interesting to check again in a month or so, and see what has been committed.
I guess it's kind of the reverse of the "perfect being the enemy of the good" adage. "Just barely works on a good day being the enemy of the good enough" maybe?
I meant this as a parody but that you take this at face value is just the point I wanted to make.
I will never integrate a new Google service into anything ever again.

I am only interested in disintegration.

Google has failed my trust.
I'm reminded of the poor Canadian lady who was unable to transit the US to go on a cruise because she'd been treated for depression https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-woman-refuse...
"Amazon said they didn't count because they were more than a year old."

According to the seller that was Amazon's issue with the receipts. According to Amazon the issue was the receipts provided were either illegible or didn't match records from the manufacturers. In other words they appeared to be faked receipts.
IMHO using separate computer not connected to any network, locked in cabinet, should be safe enough.
I’ve used amp and non amp links. Even though folks could make non amp faster it simply isn’t. The difference is night and day. The amp hate on HN is mostly non user driven I think - amp is NOTICEABLY faster / lighter and few users care about their URL bar - chrome is already simplifying that as well for all sites
STEM is not a classical term. Don't go thinking that because we don't follow ancient Greek philosophy or medieval education philosophy that are somehow perverted.

FWIW, I strongly dislike "STEM" as a term because it makes no sense to me in an educational or philosophical sense. I see it more as an attempt to lower the cost of hiring engineers and scientists by increasing the supply. For example, compare the funding going into getting more programmers and EEs, vs. marine biologists and paleontologists, even though all of them are STEM.

To clarify "no sense to me", I despise Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" because of its insistence on a clean division between romantic and classical views. I view "STEM"'s treatment of the rest of the liberal arts as being similarly incorrect in its dichotomous classification. Eg, mathematics is important for the humanities too.

But it's clear what _def is talking about by "STEM", and there's no need to suggest we or modern culture are following along with a perversion because the conversation isn't aligned with your personal views.
Almost as if it's made to drive clicks to AdSense paying customers
This raises the question what counts as counting (sorry). It could be that the cat interprets two actions not as the multiple of one (thus counting 1 → 2), but as a single event with that exact pattern of sounds (thus interpreting "no event" → "event").
Creator of pointNG here, hi :)

I'm not a lawyer, but the idea of pointNG is that whatever the legislation says currently or tomorrow, we provide a solution that gives developers a possibility to build products without overthinking about the privacy legislation. For example, to create a location-based content personalization should not require developers to pass data to 3rd parties.

Many articles describe GDPR, CCPA etc. legislations' view on location data, but here's an example:

"Opinion 13/2011 sets out the regulator's view that a device is usually intimately linked to a specific individual and that location data will, therefore, be regarded as "personal data". Indeed, the definition of "personal data" in the GDPR, specifically includes location data as one of the elements by reference to which a person can be identified. The Opinion comments that the providers of geolocation based services gain "an intimate overview of habits and patterns of the owner of such a device and build extensive profiles."

Furthermore, in certain contexts, location data could be linked to special category personal data (sensitive personal data). For example, location data may reveal visits to hospitals or places of worship or presence at political demonstrations."
https://www.foxwilliams.com/2018/10/19/the-use-of-location-d...

Anyways, I think it's wise to be transparent and describe how your services use data and whom it sends it to in privacy policy. The bigger the company, the harder it is usually to change its privacy policies.
This post has minimal relation to the scientific consensus on how economics works. It’s a lot like climate change denial posts saying that actually burning coal is good because of cloud albedos. Technically true, just very selectively so, in a manner that does not accurately reflect the bigger picture.
SARS-CoV-2 spike D614G variant confers enhanced replication and transmissibility
Rajat Gupta Is Unrepentant for His Crimes (2019)
Multi-tier is different compared to say hex or clean, in that depedencies for edges of the system depend on interfaces in the "Core".

Tradtional mulit-tier the UI depends on Business Logic, Buinsess Logic depends on persistence etc

The idea is protect the core, and persistence or UI concerns adapt to how the core wants to interact with the world.
"It's the only non-reversible payment method "

Cash is non reversible.
Continuous Allocation Profiling for the Java Virtual Machine
So I made a cry recognition App
The plan was simple. Get a notification when the baby is crying, so I know when I need to get things done.

I wrote an AI that can identify baby cries with a 98% accuracy rate. Maybe some of you guys can benefit from my app as well. I just put it on the app store for free.

You need to pair at least two phones. As I said, the entire AI, Notification part is for free. If you want to support me, you can unlock the voice communication features.

Leave me some feedback and please be nice. I'm just one guy.
Cheers

App: Baby Monitor - Cry Recognition
"could care less" is sarcasm.
They said they're on good terms now, LOL.