skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole point is that $19k is not even close to the cost of doing stitches for a kid. It's a simple procedure that takes half an hour of doctor's work and the same from some assistant; if you need a million-dollar-per-year specialist for that, even then their work costs less than a $1000; double it for overhead/facilities and youŗe at $2k (instead of $19k) for a very conservative estimate (private nonsubsidised facilities in high cost of life parts of Europe would offer to do for much less for uninsured foreign patients and still make a healthy profit on that).

$19k represents a ridiculously inflated markup that's not even in the ballpark of what the costs are, even in USA. Things like liability insurance etc add some extra costs, but not nearly enough so that tenfold increase would make any sense.
> Multitasking is a prime example: I end up using my girlfriends iPad Pro about once a week, and for the past year I have not managed to internalize how to reliably manage split screen modes and the like.

I'm still shocked that they haven't done anything to solve or improve this. I love the idea of side by side apps but it's always so hard to remember the voodoo needed to summon it. There's also the problem that I can never remember which apps don't support it.
Exactly. Medical protestantism: if it feels good, it must be bad for you. This is all over the diet industry.
Too much clarity loses writing voice.

Poor writers with substance can create compelling content.

Sometimes I want the cliff notes and sometimes I want to be enamored with some lovely prose that leads me somewhere and makes me think.
This isn't a free markets issue, this is a prime example of crony capitalism.

To paraphrase Marc Andreessen, with free markets and competition, you now can buy an amazing giant 65" 4K LCD TV with all of the latest greatest features for barely $500. Stuff gets better, cheaper, and more convenient for the consumer, while the companies duke it out to get ahead.

But when things get overly regulated, subsidized, or effective cartels are formed, you end up with situations like monotonically rising US healthcare costs, monotonically rising US housing costs and monotonically rising US college costs.

This isn't an issue of too much free market competition.
There is a middle ground between the two dysfunctional extremes that works well in a lot of countries.
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Dale Carnegie’s wisdom has served as the stepping stone to greatness for several of the most successful people in the world. In the HBO documentary Becoming Warren Buffett, the Berkshire Hattaway Chairman praises the Carnegie courses saying “If I wouldn’t have done that, my whole life would have been different” [2].
The funny part of the story is that Angular is from Google.
Demo-oriented programming makes you better – by Dvir Segal – Nov, 2020
I have to agree. I've had cases where I had to pin data that was on the node already and IPFS just hung the pin for minutes, failed, and then the GC removed the data later on. This is just one of the issues I had, other things include IPFS not being able to discover content on nodes that were already connected to it, IPFS just failing all my queued pins at once for some reason, etc.

I regret ever building a pinning platform on IPFS. The worst thing is that, when I expressed my frustration on Twitter about an IPFS release completely breaking IPNS updates, the founder called me a Karen.
> Ruthlessly purge the App Store Guidelines of anything that prevents the iPad from serving as a development machine. Every kind of development from web to games should be possible on an iPad. And speaking of games—emulators should be allowed, too.

That's soo unlikely to happen.
I'm from the UK, where it's difficult to find price lists, since the patient never sees a bill.

This paper [1] covers "the NHS, child and family costs of falls, poisonings and scalds".

> In total, 344 parents completed resource use questionnaires, with > 95% of children recovering within 2 weeks of injury and almost 99% recovering within 1 month. Mean NHS costs ranged from £2588 to £2989 across injury mechanisms for children admitted for ≥ 2 days, from £719 to £1011 for those admitted for 0–1 days and from £97 to £178 for those attending an ED but not admitted.

All this boy's treatments were on the same day, and he only fell off his bike -- these British figures include accidents like scalding -- so in the UK, he would have been at the lower end, i.e. under £1000.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK447063/
I don't think this is a very charitable reading. "As a European", "As a Canadian", etc. isn't a statement of authority or a value judgement that makes someone better, it's just stating that they come from a cultural context where this isn't the norm, so it seems bizarre.

Including the cultural context you're viewing things from can be useful so that people can understand where you're coming from.
Somehow even so our phones are much better at spying on us than computers, so this security theater is broken.
I worked at a large C++ shop (the kind that maintains a stdlib fork) and never saw them looking down at Python.
The American healthcare industry is large and sprawling. Largely due to the fact that much of it is managed at the state level (as opposed to federal... think of this as the difference between Germany’s healthcare vs what the EU provides).

Deductibles are part of some insurance plans but copays are part of all. Deductibles are generally large but capped by an out of pocket maximum. These are generally on plans that provide a high degrees of network freedom, meaning you can self-refer to a specialist. Because you are not a medical expert, there is added risk to the insurer that you are seeking unnecessary procedures and so they ask you to share the risk by paying a deductible. These are typically the PPO (preferred provider organization).

There is another type of organization, an HMO (health maintenance organization) whereby you must get referred by your primary care physician, thus serving as a check on the risk. In HMOs, there is generally no deductible. There are still copays though, but they are generally small. For example, I just broke my finger and needed surgery to set the fracture. It was $20k surgery. My HMO negotiated it down to $8k and I paid a $30 copay. Had it been a PPO, I’d have paid well over $2000.

As for why there are copays... they actually are there to dissuade hypochondriacs and drug seeking (aka moral hazards). This is a delicate market price though that needs to be high enough to prevent the hazard but not high enough to dissuade against necessary procedures.
> Parts of the US Governments unlawful massive domestic surveillance apparatus were described in the open in IETF drafs and patent documents for years.

References?
Ex-Wall Street guy here. High speed trading has no societal value and relies on a large number of bad-faith bids and offers - these people are parasites.

Creating liquidity has some value - though not as much as bankers tell themselves.

But HFT does not add liquidity. No one needs subsecond liquidity, but even more important, HFT traders vanish like a fart in a windstorm the moment liquidity is actually challenged.

Market makers are the ones who provide consistent liquidity, because they have to keep inventory of the stocks.

Now look at what HFT does - they flood the wires with hugely out-of-the-money bids and asks, all of which are in bad faith, because they know they won't even get hit or lifted.

So everyone else pays for this, and they get to shake absolutely everyone down for a few pennies, a trillion times a year.

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It would be trivial to stop them without changing the markets in the least. Even just charging a dollar for every "bad faith" bid or offer made that expires without being within, say, 10% of the actual price, would put a big dent in them. Punitive taxes on trades where the trader doesn't keep the position for more than a few seconds would also be very effective.
As in US house of representives. Cheri Busto to be exact in case someone works with her.
You don't have to be an expert in git to use these properly, especially re-base. If you find yourself arguing with Git most of the time, I recommend doing this:

1. Get a good night's sleep and wake up early, pour yourself a nice cup of coffee or your favorite beverage.

2. Open a copy of ProGit (free here: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2) and read it cover to cover, while using something like Learn Git Branching (https://learngitbranching.js.org/) to try out what you're learning to get a better understanding.

3. Take a few walks and do your best to read the book cover to cover in a day.

4. Get a good night's sleep to cement the information in.

Git is not simple, but it's very powerful. But I also believe it doesn't take much to become an "expert" (if you already know how to edit text files and know basic command line usage + syntax). I don't think it's a lot to ask to block out a day or two to learn how it really works (at the very least chapter 10 in ProGit, Internals).

I see too many engineers arguing against git from a lack of understanding what commands actually do. Like it or not it's a corner stone of modern software development, and for some good reasons too.
I don’t know about USA, but many many Germans went there to work in rising automotive sector. The growth opportunities are insane while building future without internal combustion engines.
> FrontPage wasn't exactly easy to use and needed special hosting

And WordPress is easy to use and doesn't need special hosting? If I remember correctly, FrontPage-generated sites (not using server extensions) could be just uploaded by FTP to any server.
Did people miss how Apple has already said they've removed all the logs retroactively for this and they're adding a feature to opt-out of this?
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That's right, nothing can replace trying the guitars in the store, aka "showrooming." You have to sort through a lot of Strats to find the right one.
I'm not sure if you are joking. Can you glue wounds with like whatever superglue?
I'm sorry to read that but just because that system sucked it doesn't mean the US system doesn't also suck. Other countries have better healthcare systems both in terms of cost and actual quality of service. America should be modelling themselves after the best in the world rather than comparing themselves against the worst and saying "at least we're not that bad"
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Remember when an american friend visited Copenhagen and collapsed due to the heat.

He got so scared of the potential bill that he fled the hospital and took with him a machine that gave him oxygen.

The staff later found him and the machine, and kindly laughed at the incident because the system is free here.

The american was stoked about the whole thing and could hardly believe he didn't have to pay a cent.

Funny guy this one
Wouldn't the central planning committee include a great leap forward in the next five year plan? This is capitalism, after all, and it's far superior to the socialism of open source software where it's survival of the fittest in a dog-eat-dog world.
I am actually genuinely curious of what is the use case for doing coding or advanced video editing on an ipad rather than a laptop. Like why do you need that level of mobility? To edit a movie on the toilet seat of a plane? I get the hacker toying mentality of "it would be cool if I could run Doom on my washing machine's LCD". But is there really a market for it?
Have you tried GitLab community edition?
Tons of things are subsidized to push down the price; oil & fuel, farmed goods, electric cars, everything you can buy on on Amazon, inkjet printers, groceries (discounts, coupons, promotions), games (Steam sale, G4A), etc. Discounts / subsidies / whatever you want to call them are an established and accepted sales tactic, because people realized volume trumps everything else, and more recently, recurring payments trump single purchases.
You are right. Metropolitan area makes more sense. There are administrative reasons for a metropolitan area to be subdivided in cities or towns but effectively it acts as just one city.

I was thinking about Paris (city 2 million, metro 12.5 million) or Barcelona (city 1.6 million, metro 5.5 million). Similar to your example.
Not working on mobile after repeated attempts. No output at all.
At least until 82 I (have to try if it still works), I used:

about:config xpinstall.signatures.required -> false

zip -0 mywebext.xpi manifest.json *.js *.png *.html

about:addons -> install xpi
I would assume that while a broken chin would get reasonably fixed in UK, it would not involve "at one point there were 8 folks in the room.". I'm not a doctor so I can't be certain, but it seems plausible that in UK they would get adequate care but in USA they would eagerly "overprovide" services that are nice but carry a hefty extra cost.
WebFlow is something like this. It's basically a Photoshop quality UI on top of the CSS specification with one click static site generation and CMS features.
Wow, very cool!

Off topic, but it made me flash on something I spent many, many hours on probably 20 years ago, that I can't quite recollect. Does anyone remember the flash experience where you created little creatures out of lines and springs and they kind of hobbled around? I believe "soda" was in the name. That thing really got me into computers and the web!
> "People don't want faster cars , or they'd buy them"

Firstly they do, most cars go 3 - 5 times above the speed limit. Never saw a car that can't exceed the speed limit and is not in a museum.

Secondly, flying cars are not about speed, they are about freedom of movement and lack of congestion.

>"Airlines didn't want faster or bigger planes, they wanted cheaper airports."

What are you referrring to or comparing to, planes from 1920's, or the past few decades? Becauae we've made great strides in efficiency of said planes in the past few decades.

Also its the travelers that want this or that, Airlines don't want anything.
145mm is only the machine cost. Then there is people, raw materials, IP, design, technology, software, maintenance, repair, upgrade, integrating, licensing, power, much more.

I'm guessing the split here is 20/80. 145mm is the machine cost, and then it takes 800mm or more over the lifetime. That's a billion dollars right there. A billion dollars revenue is unicorn level. But here we're talking just about putting aside a billion in operational expense just for the chip. Then there is the cost of building the actual product on top of this.

Then there is the useful life of the machine. No product wants to be on the same chip for 5 years. So they have to recoup the 1 billion fast.

The only way would be to generate extra revenue out of the machine by sharing it with other companies. Ah but now you have to cater to their demands as well. Better have a profitable model around this. But well, that's what TSMC is...
As a native scandinavian I am happy for you. I really am. Good for you and your family.
Bytes are bytes. We’re not debating whether it’s easier to write a UTF-8 decoder; I’m asserting that (almost?) any data can be represented as a sequence of bytes and UTF-8 is not special in that regard.
I don't think 20% of that number seems normal, either. It's still ~$4K, for what sounds like stitches and local anesthesia (unsure, as the link does not seem to open the article for me, only gives a list of other NPR articles). That's over one month of pre-tax salary (edit: for the median US worker), which does not equate with the length, complexity or risk of the treatment.

So, what I am saying is that I fail to see what attempts at limiting the price has to do with the price being too high in the first place.
"A selfdriving car To drive him to the end of his life"

lmao
Consider making your web app offline-first
Something is very wrong with this type of health care, the root costing in crazy. For baselining, Nevada has ~3.09M people, making it roughly 1/4th the population of Ontario (Canada). Sure, there are other (single payer) concerns at play - but the cost difference is crazy.

Let's assume this was a >10cm (the largest cateorgy) gash on the face or neck. The provider bills $417 (1). Assuming this is a nighttime emergency, and that the doctor traveled for this (and only this) event, the billing cost is $136.70 (2). Assuming the doctor needed an assistant, for an hour to complete this (extremely unlikely) there is a further billed cost of $60.04 (3). The cost of an overnight bed in Ontario is ~$320-500 (4). Finally, the cost of the ambulance (the only thing one would pay for) is $45 (5). This ignores costs such as gas reimburrsal, parking, etc; they can occur, but are rather low.

If one is Canadian, the total cost is $45, the cost of the ambulance co-pay. Visitors to Canada would pay an SUBSIDIZED maximum of $646.70, outside of the cost of the ambulance. For fun, let's inflate these five times - just in case all of the billing codes are wrong, that's still under half (prior to currency conversion) of the cost in the theoretically more efficient / for profit system.

Sources

1. https://www.dr-bill.ca/ohip_billing_codes/66/integumentary-s...

2. https://www.dr-bill.ca/blog/ohip/anaesthesia-ohip-billing-co...

3. https://www.dr-bill.ca/blog/ohip/anaesthesia-ohip-billing-co...

4. https://www.grhosp.on.ca/care/visitors/billing/room-options

5. http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/public/publications/ohip/amb....
IANAL. Statistics sound like a compilation of facts. Facts are not copyrightable by themselves. Compilations are, but compilation were not authored by players, but by someone else. I really hope they will lose. Also, paywall.
>This is the kind of thing that really leads me to distrust everything Coinbase is saying. Reading between the lines, I imagine that the complaints workers claim to have filed were ignored by management at some level of the process, or not filed on the right paperwork or something.

You're too kind. I suspect what usually happens: the employee was fired by management soon after hearing some loud rumblings, then the employee filed an official complaint. Filing an official complaint while employed is extremely difficult, you not only have to weigh whether you have a justified complaint, but also expect some tension and possible conflict with your employer. I don't like how Coinbase tried to play off official complaints from fired employees.
> It's a bit like complaining that a drill should have a flat back so you can also use it as a hammer. Sure, it might be technically possible, but not only will it never be as good as just using a hammer for the job, it would make the drilling functionality worse.

You might want to rethink your example!

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Squarespace is a monthly fee, forever. I would love to buy a tool that lets me generate the static html that squarespace does and then add that into my $20/year for as many web sites as I want to host hoster.

I kind of long for Frontpage because as nasty as it was, you could at least host wherever you want, archive for decades, and was much cheaper in the long run.
I've witnessed internal confluence pages with Facebook likes.
I'm not sure about C but at least in C++ having const on the prototype is meaningless as you can still have the arguments as non-const in the actual definition. Considering that C is usally less strict with these things I'd expect that to be the case there too.
I’m laughing so hard at this. I had a single exposure to SCO, and it was in exactly that configuration: a clothing factory that had a ton of dumb terminals slung onto it with serial-to-Ethernet concentrators. The whole factory setup seemed a little janky, but the client was very very happy with it, and it seemed rock solid in daily use.
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> Having safe guards against people misconfiguring things are always helpful

No, the problem is people can have their domains snatched even without misconfiguring things. You keep saying it's the users' fault, when the same could happen when users follow whatever you consider best practices.
There are only two payment networks (when you go all the way down), namely the one backed by Visa and the one backed by Mastercard. These two companies are fundamentally creditcard companies, which are a predatory instruments meant to lure people into spending more than they can really afford.

Even if you want to put predatory lending practices that are at the very heart of those networks aside (why would you, but hypothetically) you are left with networks that disproportionately disadvantage certain classes of people: a good example is sex workers, it being the case that these networks are managed inside the US they are fundamentally puritanical. Usually these arguments are couched in environmental euphemisms such as "there is higher risk". These measures are proxied into networks that run on top of the lowest network, but they are positively stimulated to keep them that way.

If those things don't bother you, you may be swayed by the fact that they're both based inside the US. Broadly speaking, we don't need to get into why that is an entity that tends to spread suffering around.
In the UK you would never have a top surgon and 8 doctors and nurses dropping by to makes sure everything was OK for something as trivial as stitches. You'd have one person who would get you in and out as quickly and efficiently as they could. Whether that qualifies as 'lesser' is up for debate.
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Companies only take things seriously when it gets expensive for them. Gotta admire the work of crackers that make it expensive for them to not care.
I guess it depends on your use case. We're a small company: it has all the features we need and we're on the free plan.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted for what seems like a generally curious question. I'll try and give some answer from the point of view of a Swede who is a serious "USPhile" in many ways (and someone who in his younger days wanted to move there).

- Parental Leave: When I got my first child it's hard to understate how much being able to be off work for 8 months with ~80% of my full pay. I'm now going off for 6 months with my second child in February. And I can save up parental leave for a long time meaning I can take longer vacations to spend summers with them as well.

- Healthcare: Again once you have experienced the true value of universal healthcare you will not want to go back. My second son go a bad infection and had to spend 2 weeks in the hospital with his mother. Cost (excluding what we paid in taxes of course...): 20-30 bucks for buying candy (i.e it could have been 0 ;)).

- Education: All higher education is of course free for all EU citizens. It used to be free for everyone in the world but the unfortunately removed that a few years ago.

- The everymans right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam#Sweden

There's of course a lot more one could point out (like for example high speed internet access pretty much everywhere, good mobile connection speed pretty much everywhere).

Of course this comes with a cost of paying more in taxes (happy to do it!). I'm not the biggest fan of snow as well.
Overthinking at its best
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