skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before coming to any conclusions on this topic, I highly suggest reading this extremely in-depth analysis on cross-country healthcare spending.[1]

The simple answer is that Americans really do consume significantly more healthcare than Europeans. The most straightforward signature of this is the fact that a much higher proportion of Americans work in the healthcare industry than any other large country. The US also tends to consistently lead on the highest utilization of cutting-edge technology (such as ICDs, insulin infusion pumps, linear accelerators, and small bowel transplant) at any given time.

Cost per inpatient discharge is exactly in line with a regression of European countries against average household disposable income. (The US having nearly double the household disposable income as Western Europe.) Rather than being some signature of American dysfunction, globally we observe hospital bills rising super-linearly with income levels. This strongly suggests that hospital costs primarily rise because of higher intensity of care per encounter.

The strongest counterpoint to this is that despite America's high healthcare consumption, that health outcomes are significantly worse than Europe. In particular in terms of life expectancy. But healthcare economists have known for decades that medicine, on the margin, has virtually zero impact on health.[2] The US is an extremely unhealthy country, especially because of obesity. No level of healthcare would ever be able to counteract that.

But again this disjointed relation between medicine and health is not an American-specific phenomenon. The ratio of healthcare spending between Norway and Spain is about the same as between the US and Norway. Yet Spaniards enjoys significantly longer life expectancies than their Norwegian counterparts.

[1]https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-o...

[2]https://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/09/10/robin-hanson/cut-med...
I don't think there is a valid alternative to YouTube, but I've found bookmarking creators instead of subscribing with an account to be a fine way to enjoy some content without having it tied to your Google account. It's not perfect though. Perhaps Patreon can partly fill that niche instead?
That's probably the effective interest rate after fees.
This is my first time reading about Tulpa, so perhaps this observation is old news, but it sounds an awful lots like how many around me communicate with Jesus day to day. In that sense, perhaps it’s actually historically uncommon for people to have no imaginary friends.
> (the latter two have long waits for essential surgeries compared to the U.S.)

References?
There are local overpopulation problems, but globally overpopulation isn’t a problem. https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/12/12/16766872/overpop...
where are you getting "mad science" from?
My main problem there is content.

The way I 'de-youtubed' is by having a youtube-dl setup where I send channels or single video id's to, and it downloads it without using my home or work infra so google things it's just some random visitor. This downloaded video material is added to a plex server specifically for this and that's the way I consume it.

Was hoping to see some alternatives in those blogposts, but looks like everyone runs into the same problem: most content is simply @ youtube :(
I surely don't want to enter into this discussion, it seems baseless and meritless. Talking about sheep in a farm being tended to while disregarding upsides, without leaving room to discuss different models of social contracts and trade-offs. And worse, while you conceal what is your vision of a good model for society.

There is a lot to unpack here and I surely don't want to keep going when the rhetorics is so loaded, calling others sheep and misusing terms won't lead to a healthy discussion.
While JS doesn’t have native support I do this with while (true) and a break clause. It’s very useful at times.
I need to point out the obvious map solution that hasn't been mentioned yet: OpenStreetMap.
The US Gov is already kidnapping citizens in unmarked vans and snooping on all our data so I’m not even sure we’re really getting the freedom part.

I wonder what number of COVID deaths stops being acceptable losses for our amazing liberty? After sandy hook I’m guessing there is no limit
Transparent pricing enabling the comparison of pricing between different sellers is only one piece of a functioning marketplace. You also need multiple informed sellers and multiple informed buyers.
Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rust using Apache Arrow
HardenedBSD 2020/12 Status Report
Isn’t PCI compliance handled by Stripe?
Yes, you are a jerk. Why? To quote / paraphrase nobel laurate
Richard P. Feynman - you do not understand what you cannot build yourself. No better way to learn than to build your own proxy or you name it. See https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x
I do like phones are building in these keys, it makes them way more accessible to the general population, and generally not a pain to use. And then those of us with physical keys get better support too :)
I can't speak for the rest but factory "machines" are built to last in most cases and have long warranties and easily swappable components. Most of what's there can be machined in a pinch. I went to a glass factory one that had some machines that were 70+ years old. When something broke, which was pretty rare, they simply machined a new one. On a tangential note I expect my Lodge cast iron cooking set to last at least one lifetime :D
> There's a lot more to scientific computing than wrangling tabular data.

Also a point that gets ignored way too often. My original post differentiated between time spent writing models and time spent data wrangling.

I would never even attempt to write a symplectic integrator in base R (OK maybe Rcpp would be fine but that's not really "R"). Julia, by design, is better at that. But the R ecosystem is so good that I can use the best practical implementation of a symplectic integrator to solve common modeling problems via RStan.

Yes, Stan is a standalone framework that can be accessed from Julia as well. But the following workflow can be done in R much easier:

1) Read in badly formatted CSV data
2) Wrangle the data into a useable form
3) Do some basic exploratory analysis (including plots)
4) Write several models in brms/raw Stan (via rstan)
5) Simulate from the priors and reset them to more sensible values
6) Run the model over the data to generate the posterior
7) Plot/run posterior predictive checks, counterfactual analysis, outlier analysis (PSIS or WAIC), etc.

Again, the above represents my common use case. I fully appreciate that people use Julia to do awesome stuff like "the exploration of chaos and nonlinear dynamics." [0]. I understand that the modern R ecosystem isn't really built for this.

[0] https://juliadynamics.github.io/DynamicalSystems.jl/latest/
There's Miracast, but it only does screen mirroring.
> Clients are initialised with Key & ID - We advocate for keys to not be hardcoded

They're public facing (used by clients), so it doesn't really matter if they're hardcoded or not. I can rip them out of the dom/api calls/whatever.

For the second part, https covers you alone.

Auth tokens may start to pick at the puzzle, but at that point it's not obvious what I'm gaining if I have to bake custom authorization and authentication somewhere in any case?

You have a tough battle here - the security risk is huge. I don't personally see a value add yet, especially with Twilio/Stripe who have some of the lowest cost integration in the industry.

Not impossible to succeed in the arena, but the level of abstraction doesn't feel like the right fit yet
It is - I made it that way because that also discounts the price for whoever signs up. Maybe a better deal? If that’s problematic for people, I can edit it to Fastmail’s homepage. (Sorry, I am very new to blogging. This post was written for my friends and family, and on a whim I submitted it to HN.)
>Texas lawmakers recognized the existence of a possible foster-care-to-prison pipeline several years ago.

The 'foster-care-to-prison pipeline' metaphor is such a misnomer and completely unfair. Nobody is moving these kids into the prison system. Traditional parenting can provide personalized rearing and still have that child end-up in prison. We also know that a single-parent household, even with a dedicated loving parent, will have challenges rearing children. How is the state supposed to do it? Worse, the kids who end up in foster-care, more often than not, will already have significant trauma and behaviour or mental issues.

So to summarize, you have the State dealing with two major issues that individually create an immense challenge, but together make it even harder:

1) The state can never scale resources to match typical parental rearing.

2) The state has to deal with a population of kids who are already suffering from behavioral or mental issues, drugs, or trauma. An affluent two-parent household with dedicated support workers would have trouble raising kids like that. How is the State supposed to do this?

I'm not sure what the right approach is here but it's clear as day that there is no easy answer here.
For air-breathing vehicles like cars, you assume the oxygen comes for free. For rocket fuel, you have to include the oxygen tanks in the energy density calculation.
I've got a paper about colored nets as well :)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02762
Timed nets is in the works ^_^
When people say that to me, I ask them for their phone so that I can give it to a passing member of the public to have a look through. That usually shuts them up.
Unlike many other tools, I find Deepl.com much better than Google translator for all my translations.
ZFS Topology FAQ – What Is Zpool? What Is VDEV?
Its a Nintendo DS Game that has grown a cult following ever since the first game was released. A visual novel style game.
Police and fire are paid for by local or state taxes, with some federal outlays via matching grant programs. Cities and states are free to start their own local and state tax funded programs. The only thing getting in the way is the enormous cost!

Because the US does provide for tax funded healthcare for the old (Medicare) and the pregnant/poor/disabled (Medicaid). The [cost of these programs](https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/the-facts-on-medica...) is greater than US military spending.
Good for Vietnam, it is a nice country, hopefully they become more open to business by foreigners.
Adding couple space related yet quite plausible anime/manga series:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Girls
- basically space flight marketing for highschoolers created in cooperation with JAXA
- has a pretty good description of using a biosuit

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Brothers_(manga)
- a near future "so you want to be an astronaut, eh? " story
- very realistic description of what you need to do before actually going to space (38 volumes/99 anime episodes)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Operators
- a space opera that has quite minimal super science and a lot of hard physics
- lasers vs overheating, detection/stealth in space (and the lack thereof), signal propagation issues, how to turn big ships quickly enough to use thrusters/fire axial weapons, using neutrino detectors to spot enemy warships based on neutrinos from their nuclear reactors

Various UC Gundam series
- pretty accurate description of O'Neil Island 3 space colonies, mass drivers, orbital infrastructure in general
- zero g only ships & stations
Upvoted. I have same noob questions. Appreciate the many good replies. I'll get my shot(s) asap. Am also trying to persuade family members who are more reluctant.
Looks interesting. How is this different than test claim submissions available from Eligible, Waystar, PokitDoc, etc?

And are you licensing out cpt codes from the ama? IMHO the AMA and their copyright of CPT codes is the biggest setback to progressive change, transparency, and adaptive change in tech... Payers and well funded companies can afford licensing, otherwise they will strangle you with lock down...
Always good to see people open minded to change, alternatives and privacy conscious.

Personally, I find this list the best of the bunch when it comes to De-googling

https://degoogle.jmoore.dev/
As an app for browsing content exclusively available on YouTube, I use NewPipe on a FOSS build of Android and am fairly happy with it. It does subscriptions (channel bookmarks, basically) without requiring a login, and that's plenty good enough for me.

As far as a video sharing platform, I don't think there's anything with quite the flood of content, since YouTube is such a household name. I'm looking into running a PeerTube instance as an alternative to stuff I want to publish, so I'm not at risk of Google pulling my plug randomly, but I'm also not looking to make money with any of my videos. My limited personal utility will be easily met by a far inferior platform.
It's not so fundamentally different up here in Canada. It's just different scope and scale. Our foster kids are also in a pipeline to poverty and criminality, and it's rife with abuse. Our poverty and criminality are just a bit milder on average, perhaps? The broken families at the core of it all are just as painful.
I disagree with argument that any integration platform that requests your Stripe keys is a "ruse to harvest api secrets." At Pipedream, our Stripe integration requires the user to authenticate using their keys as well - https://pipedream.com/apps/stripe
Buddy - instead of having to update your email from @gmail to @fastmap or @hey everywhere, get your own custom domain name! You keep the domain forever, and get gmail or fast mail or hey (feature coming soon to hey) to send and receive messages on behalf of your domain. Never update all those websites & friends again. Keep your same email address forever.
Yup, lol :D
https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm
Roku is an option. Supports both Chromecast and AirPlay.
Very cool! We've been working an app that is looking for this exact type of data. Do you have an API or plans for making an API for this?
Teambuilding should not be directly company related - Ever

Personally that marshmallow challenge sounds kind of interesting (as some one coming from a mechanical background)
doesn't google employ the elite of world programming? how can such stuff even happen? honest question.
Did you switch to getting it without insurance?
I mean, I guess... since among the things I've shipped are, uhm, WEBSITES, yes?

Because there are more browsers than any person could conceivably have time to rigorously, thoroughly test. Yes, things like Browserstack exist.

But why do I have to test my Web Extension differently from my website. Should Safari start blocking websites whose TLS certificate lacks a "issued-to-a-mac" extension?
It's hard to call this two consciousness occupying the same brain. It's more likely that brain is flexible enough that each half works independently, creating a consciousness in each of what are now two separate (half sized) brains.
I honestly don't know how to make friends anymore. I am in early 30s, program for a living, I don't like bars or loud places for reasons that would make sense if I explained them but don't want to go into full details here, and generally like sarcastic people who can have a discussion about topics and not just repeat what they have been told by headlines or what social media tells them to believe.

I mean, yes, they can have the same opinions of course, but they should be able to at least say why they believe those things.

Also, doesn't help I moved around a lot as an only child, so its almost like I missed out on "education" of keeping long term friendships.

I've tried seeking therapy for it, but can't seem to get anyone to really help me with this, since I guess they see someone who can hold a normal conversation with them, a job, and other stuff and don't get what the issue is.

I guess the odd thing is I can hold down conversations with people at work and if I get to know someone no problem. Problem is getting to know people and making connections with people who I like. Just can't really relate to many people it feels like, probably due to my unique upbringing as a child.

I have a girlfriend as well, but it just feels like we don't connect for the above reasons. Sort of wish I had a gilfriend that was goal oriented, sarcastic, and had similar interest as me. But, frankly, never seen anyone out there like that. Probably will end up marrying her and wondering if I eventually get a divorce down the line.

Feel like I would make more connections with people in a higher educated part of the country, probably near some ivy league schools or something. Although I know that sounds stuck up as hell to say, but I just would love to talk with people who can actually think for themselves, be sarcastic, and be interesting enough to bounce conversations off of.

Don't know how to solve my issues and I guess nor do therapists. Don't know why I am even posting this here I guess. Maybe on the off chance someone reads it and is able to help somehow.
Your experience is atypical: most people will encounter bad managers in their careers, and more so in this industry, which deifies youth (twentysomethings managing people is a poor idea, period, as are teams comprising only twentysomethings).

Things are further exacerbated by the reality that SV has above-average people in the technical sphere, but way below average people in the people-management sphere. Management in SV is all about people-management, and managers' decisions affect people much more than in other industries. Another factor that contributes to this state of affairs is the high growth rate of companies: people become managers by default, and high growth is difficult to navigate without prior experience. Even when managers have prior experience, when the inevitable fall from high growth occurs, is is very difficult to manage people who turn disillusioned and demotivated. In all this, HR usually are a team that plays only for themselves: they prevent rapid hiring and firing of people who do not perform, causing problems, and they also prevent rank-and-file grievances from being heard by squashing them at the earliest opportunity. This is common in many industries, not just technology. HR is mostly staffed by underachievers with a mean streak --- high-achievers usually opt for engineering and finance, if they have spent time acquiring the specific skills that are needed for these functions, or sales if they have the personality and the drive to persuade customers. The rotten apples end up with HR (marketing comes a close second, but since sales performance directly affects marketing budgets, HR is the best place for these types to last).
The most ancient supermassive black hole is bafflingly big
Why? (Seriously - you seem to be assuming the answer here.)

Would the same statement be true for food and shelter (also necessary for life)? Should the government be the provider for all food and shelter in order to avoid additional steps?
Chargemaster prices (the non-negotiated price) are ridiculously high in the US. They’re so high that some hospitals will give uninsured patients a break of “half off” without even negotiating.

The reason for this is that chargemaster price is a fake dollar price resulting from a broken incentive structure and process. Here’s a setup:

A hospital is working out a negotiated rate for aggregate services with an insurance company. The insurance company wants to pay less, and they’re willing to put the hospital “in network” and bring their block of customers with them by doing it. But the negotiators on both sides aren’t going to sit and figure out the “right” price of every procedure. That would take forever (and there’s dinner at a Michelin starred restaurant to go to after this deal is done), so they agree that they will just pay some percentage of the chargemaster price, say, 50%.

Over time, the hospital administrators say “we need more money for this” and realize they have a lever. 95% of their customers are paying negotiated rates that are a percentage of the chargemaster price. The percentage is locked in stone, but the chargemaster rate? Yeah. They can change that.

The insurance company cries foul at their Michelin two-star dinner the next month, and the hospital agrees to lower the percentage a little in the next contract. Now the insurer is feeling flush, and the hospital is making about what they were doing before from that 95%. The remaining 5% who were uninsured are hanging upside down and getting shaken for loose change.

The cycle continues, and, eventually, the negotiated percentage drops to something comical, like 12%, but the chargemaster rates have soared. In the end, a pair of Advil “costs” $68 and uninsured patients have nosebleeds from being hung upside down for so long.

But there’s a new restaurant to try out, and someone else’s personal bankruptcy is a small price to pay for no-fuss managed care...

(Note: Marketing and administration accounts for more than a third of health care costs in the US, which is to say that health care bloat and weight due to a multi-player adversarial privatized system accounts for more than 5% of our GDP, so the chargemaster isn’t the only reason for sky high healthcare costs in America.)
By its nature if an authoritarian gov wants a thing done it happens to some extent, how much you hear about failures is also likely to be limited at that point.

They have the possibility of doing things quickly, but also by its nature they aren't subject to much transparency, review, criticism, or accurately reporting results.... thus they really don't even have to be very good or fair about it ...
if apple is not a problem for you, their appletv hardware is pretty awesome. I have one connected to every tv.
Yeah, in essence it helps start ups integrate stripe without building their own backend

Startups would put in their restricted key - a secret key with only the access that is necessary.

In terms of pricing, a request is an api call. I can see your point with $5 to send 250 text messages. It does sound steep. The first 5000 requests are at $20 which should adequate for most startups. Majority of our customers don't use more than 750 right now.

If we find customers maxing out the limits too quickly we will definitely adjust our pricing
No, I don't seem to be able to download the latest Deskreen-1.0.0 version from your web site, because your web site is just a blank white page.
People seem to forget how devastating drugs are to communities. We see it right now with meth and poor whites. It was (is?) true about African Americans and crack cocaine. There is no “legalize it” solution with these drugs. If you want to rehab low level offenders, fine. But high level offenders, the people running the operations, deserve their sentences.
So it's a step towards a complete policy. What is the complete policy? Granted we might not see it enacted now, but it would at least clarify where the administration was headed.
“In my opinion, the two most evil companies on the planet with a blatant disregard for privacy because it is so fundamental to their business model are: Facebook (and by extension, WhatsApp and Instagram) and Google.“

Hear, hear! It is my most sincere hope that these companies can be assailed by some small upstarts because it is clear the government is not going to do jack shit about their highly unethical business practices.
> Does anyone really appreciate searching on Google for a vacuum cleaner and then seeing photos of vacuum cleaners follow them around all over the web for months afterwards?

Is this really google selling this information?

I assumed that the people selling this information gathered it from the referrer links after you click on the search result. Any of those pages can have JavaScript running that picks out your google search term from the referral link.

The reason the distinction matters is they can get the same referral string from your DuckDuckGo searches if they want to bother.