skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transporter-1 carried aloft an illustrative cross-section of the space industry
Maven Clinic | New York, Chicago, Remote USA | Full-Time | mavenclinic.com

Maven Clinic is the leading women’s and family healthcare telemedicine company, named #1 Most Innovative Company in Health by Fast Company in 2020, with multiple Fortune 500 clients. We're growing at an incredible speed.

Hiring:

> Mid-to-Staff Backend Engineers

> Senior Android Engineer

> Frontend Engineer

> Engineering Managers

> (And Product!)

Keywords include: Python, React, Kotlin

https://boards.greenhouse.io/mavenclinic

You can reach out to me at e.lewis@mavenclinic.com with questions.
If you don't mind me adding :)

6. Prices are often unknown at time of service.

No amount of research can make up for hospitals that haven't decided how much your surgery will cost until after the fact.

I recently paid a hospital invoice, and received a receipt covered in "PENDING FINAL BILL". I can't tell if the hospital will refund me some excess, or charge an extra $1000.

To extend the metaphor elsewhere in this thread, it's like going into a garage and being told that an oil change will cost between $40 and $400. It depends. We'll let you know.
5% of total revenue is a MASSIVE charge. Most companies in the world have profit margins lower than that. They will absolutely feel that in their financial statements.
Looks interesting, I like that it's packaged as a single binary so it's easier to install. The idea to have default behaviors for different extension types is also cool. I've used entr[1] in the past--did you have a look at that tool? There seems to be some trickiness with things like "-r" to work properly in as many cases as possible. I also had an issue where it was hard to run entr in a Docker container on Mac due to some inotify issues or something. You may need to watch out for that!

Thanks for sharing :)

[1]: http://eradman.com/entrproject/
Real inflation adjusted gains are one thing, protection against inflation is another. Stocks deliver both, though with significant risk. But if you are passively investing, the inflation protection you get is essentially free.

You will still have to fade the risk though. If your portfolio is large and consists of 100% stocks, you need to diversify out. The mostly common alternative asset classes are real estate, commodities, and cash.
I would be happy if Facebook group can support rss. There are many sales opportunities in there groups. But I found it hard to track these posts.
I think the topic is independence, not being a parasite on others who are less well off than you.
It might be a common term but I don't think it's the common term here.
> I doubt it's worth the effort now

It's very much still happening. Metadata is enough for intel purposes, storage is ridiculously cheap and post-quantum breaks of key exchange is forever 20 years away like fusion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/world/europe/russian-pres...

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/th...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/spy-agency-taps-into-undersea-...
The answers for Canada's public health care system differ slightly but aside from the potential monetary issues for people without adequate insurance in the US, the Canadian system depends on capacity if you aren't a) a critical care patient b) high profile i.e. athelete, politician etc

1. Almost impossible to shop around
2. Instead this is a Dr's or a public system policy choice.
3. Dr's incentive is to minimize costs
4. Your ability to aquire healthcare is based on limited availability and your condition. If you are critical you will get immediate care, if you need a MRI - perhaps 6 months, if you need a specialist i.e. liver doc, sleep study, orthopedic surgeon etc, 1+ year
5. You have very little choice. Finding a family doc is very constrained

OBVIOUSLY, this depends on the province as health care is a provincial domain.
Pandemic Promises
Inline caching: quickening
Saying HTMX is a DSL is a bit much. It's a handful of attributes on existing elements.
I'm a big fan of the idea of independently-run proxy servers.

Caddy has a secure forward proxy plugin born out of a research project at Google that does something similar, but works with any clients that let you configure HTTP proxies, and doesn't terminate TLS: instead it tunnels it over TLS. The proxy server itself can also be probe-resistant, i.e. difficult to detect that a website is acting as a proxy.

I'm hoping more people can help test the patch to support Caddy v2: https://github.com/caddyserver/forwardproxy/pull/74

(Edit: Disclaimer - Don't use this in situations where your personal safety or freedom could be at risk... not yet. Not until more people with more experience can vet its implementation for bugs, and a very clear threat profile can drawn up. If you have experience with this, we'd love your help.)
> If you had invested in the German or Russian markets decades ago, you wouldn't have made much gains at all.

Is that actually true? I just tried to find out what would have happened if you invested in the German DAX 30 years ago and apparently you would have had an 800% return on investment, approximately 7.5% annualized. Seems pretty good to me.
> technical analysis [...] candle sticks, trend lines, chart patterns

Technical analysis is, for a lack of better words, utter bullshit. There are so many patterns that fit a given chart that you have free choice between any conclusion you want. That property makes technical analysis very similar to astrology, in that any horoscope more or less fits anyone in some way or another.

Basically, any analysis – technical or fundamental – which can be automated and which works reliably, has already been automated by Quant funds with a lot more resources than a single person could ever muster. This is doubly true after the advances in machine learning in recent years.
I think Signal is clearly recognising that nearly sny server or system they create will be blocked, which is why they recommended this being done on an individual layer.

From the article:

> A more discrete approach would be to only send the link via a DM or a non-public message. You can post something like this on your favorite social network:

> * #IRanASignalProxy Reply to this thread if you want the connection details, and follow me so I can DM you the link.*
Or they could just let people host their own server instances. Would be considerably more censorship resistant from the start.
More and more people get into (day)trading on RH and friends during the latest bubbly craze and then stick to it... some because they managed to get a decent chunk of cash to play with (u/DFV should be set for life!), some because they find trading interesting, some because they follow the sunk cost fallacy or worse, try to gamble back their six figures of debt.

And now that the bubble has popped, they're searching for new avenues of investment... and until the next bubble arrives, a decent ETF is a good way to park money.

(for disclosure: holding a couple dozen AMC, NOK and DAX/MSCI World ETFs)
I look at Medium as fundamentally a subscription service that happens to be accessible by Google. The Prags are a big upgrade for anyone interested in programming and it's a lot to include in a $5/month service. If Google and social media links only send you to Medium 1 or 2 times a month then it might not yet be a subscription for you. (Yet, because this isn't the last upgrade). It's not fundamentally anyone's goal to put the Prag books online for free (AFAIK). Those books took a lot of author time to write and a lot of paid work to edit and produce. And without the financial piece, I don't think these books would exist, let alone be online.
it's definitely faster when you listen to r/wsb one week, and then sane people the next.
More connections between FP and OOP:

- Codata in action[0], FP emphasizes thinking about constructors, OOP emphasizes thinking about eliminators

- Existential types[1], having higher-ranked types lets you express dynamic dispatch

- Lenses[2], generalized getters, setters and traversals

[0] https://www.javiercasas.com/articles/codata-in-action/

[1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Existential_type

[2] https://www.schoolofhaskell.com/school/to-infinity-and-beyon...
I think there’s a balance between accruing and exploiting in terms of converting delayed value into realized value [0]. The utility of a dollar goes down as your able to do less with it or have less likelihood of being able to spend it [1]. For example, a family member took a trip right after retirement to Machu Picchu and passed away, not much good his pension and 401k did at that point.

The numbers in the bank account work out, but I’m less convinced that it remains as simple when you add the existential variable into the question.

[0] Spending money

[1] Things like focusing on your kids and inheritance help subvert this a bit.
That is not free speech. That could be called something like "quality speech".

With free speech, as defined now, low quality arguments hit the same bar as high quality ones.

Yes we should strive to emphasise high quality arguments (even though I fear this is a near impossible task programmatically) but this is not what free speech means.

Tldr: according to free speech the dummies and assholes deserve to be heard.
> But buying shares and forgetting about them got the best results. This is the strategy most advisors advise. It saves time, stress, and it works.

I chose my very boring and traditional local bank to trade stocks. Their online trading platform is sluggish, dated and ugly. This basically encourages a buy + forget strategy. I follow it just to avoid the horrible user experience of that site.
Or just use Element/Matrix which already lets you do that.
The submitter isn't the one who upvotes it to the front page, so what does it matter who submits what from where?
is there been an analysis on choosing ETFs vs SPY? For example I believe cannabis will definitely explode as it's eventually legalized in the rest of the states, as will biotech with the introduction of mrna vaccines and what not.

I wonder if a basket of ETFs based on "trendy" things outperforms SPY.
This also betrays a lack of understanding of testing by the doctor.

If each test has a 1% chance of returning a false positive (and false positives are possible in most tests), there's a significant chance that one of the 20 will return a false positive, which will then prompt unnecessary treatments, further tests, etc.

The general medical guidance is to only test when there's a legitimate suspicion that a patient has the illness. In this case, these patients wouldn't have been tested for a wide range of respiratory issues anyway, and given the pandemic it's much more likely that they've got coronavirus, so they really shouldn't be tested for the other things, especially if asymptomatic.
I like this project a lot. It makes me wonder if I put one of those Apple AirTags on her for the HomePods to sense, if I can then say, "Hey, Siri, where is the cat?"

It would be nice to get a response like, "She's in the litter box" so I know to use a different bathroom to wash my hands.
Ooooo.

Going on the same theme, what's an absolutely terrible example of technique?
Being a software "consultant" and a management consultant are pretty different things.
Locally, that's a drawback.

Globally, the unsexyness of passive index investing is the best thing about it. A huge percentage of the angel / seed / FFF capital in the world comes from bored people who don't want to talk about their Vanguard Target Retirement 2050 investment and so put 10% of their portfolio into crazy startups that will sound impressive to their friends.

Consequently, for the posters on this site, the boringness of passive investing is a huge creator of jobs and opportunities for us!
> Fantastic work to all the postgres committers, cheers all around.

Not to forget the postgres contributors: only a portion of the people who write code for postgres are 'committers'. I do agree that the committers do amazing work and play an essential role in postgres' overall ecosystem, but we should not forget that a not insignificant part of postgres' code, code reviews and bugfixes is provided by non-committers.
Use Chrome's REAL debugger when `console.log` is not enough
Getting in the zone and having fun while programming
It's s-shaped insofar as "it's expensive to be poor"[1], but the solution to that isn't to gamble, it's to save.

[1] eg. buying a 4-pack of toilet paper rolls every week rather than buying 2x 48 packs when it's on discount.
I use Huginn to consume and email me RSS feeds too.
For asymptomatic patients, doing those tests could easily cause net harm from follow-up to false positives. So, even if the tests had been free, it's probably unethical.

This is why organizations like the United States Preventative Services Task Force exist. They review studies and recommend best practices for medical screening. They do recommend against asymptomatic screening for a lot of tests.
Just an aside: the first scenario you suggest, in which you have a 1% chance to 1000x your money and a 99% chance to lose it all, has an expected value of 10. It is absolutely rational to make that bet if you have enough capital to withstand a drawdown of let's say, 5x your initial bet.

For example, suppose you model this as a game with the following rules:

- you start with $1,000,000

- each turn you may bet $10,000

- if you bet, you roll a d100

- if you roll a 1, you earn 1000x your bet, if you roll anything else you lose your entire bet

- the game ends after 1000 turns or you lose all your money, whichever happens first

If you bet every turn, on average you'll end the game with approximately $60,000,000.

EDIT: Did you edit your comment to be 100x or did I misread? Oh well, leaving this here for posterity. If the win outcome is 100x, the EV is still 1.
Powerpaste, a hydrogen technology for small vehicles
You're welcome to either use such a decentralised service or fork signal and add decentralisation / federation. Centralised services get more users by having a lower threshold of adoption.
Any laws introduced would only tangle the mess called Healthcare even further. Government doesn't know how to administer healthcare (at least in the US) so it defers it to the private sector. Putting caps in place was already done, the issue is pricing transparency is not a thing. The insurance company pill just pay it and amortize it on the claimants group (or however they account for losses).

I wish we could fix this broken system. The only way to fix it now is open-heart surgery while driving.
DD is done before investing, for both longs and shorts. I don’t get your point.
He also taught Tom to play The Royal Game of Ur [1], a Middle-Eastern precursor to Backgammon that was the Chess of that era in terms of popularity. Irving was the one to decipher the rules from a cuneiform tablet.

1. https://youtu.be/WZskjLq040I
But if it goes up as measured by a debased currency, are you really ahead?
After many years of not having them ;) I'll be very glad to be able to retire this well-used gripe.
Too bad, the Signal devs love centralization. One day people will realize Signal is just not the right solution for what they actually need.
Or it's a sign of regulatory capture and the VC-financial industrial complex.
There was a discussion on the experiments by Stanley Milgram about obedience to authority, and it applies here.

When a consultant gets hired for advise or to "get stuff done", and the result of this is massive profits with a secondary effect of death and destruction, then the consultant is (i.m.o.) morally responsible for that second part as well. And, it seems, legally as well (but let me guess nobody goes to jail).

The consultant may have been hired only for the first part, "get stuff done", and the pay may have not been much, but that has nothing to do with responsibility. The minute you understand the possible consequences of the things that you contribute to, you become partly responsible for it.

As the Stanley Milgram experiments show, most people will do horrible things to others when they can tell themselves that someone else is responsible. And, I may add, at the McKinsey level, consultants may even get hired to take on the authority role, to excuse financial crimes, or worse.
There's a petition to Parliament asking for a state funeral for this chap. I've signed it. He deserves the best send off. 300k signed up today.
It's also funny that people can simultaneously say that McKinsey is self-serving and does no real work for their clients, and also that they caused the opioid crisis with their involvement with Purdue. Which one is it?
That's the trick isn't it: having an entire population know something an oppressive government doesn't.

Even if you teach everyone how to deploy their own servers, then that's the knowledge the government will start targeting. You can make blocks expensive, i.e. blocking other major, useful services that would disrupt society too much for them to want to deal with, but this of course has its own costs.

It's censorship and surveillance all the way down.
> People don't complain about things they have not used

Whew can I get on the version of the internet you're on? Sounds nice.
Thanks for the details.

The sort of thing I was thinking about was something similar to how post production workflows are setup in film vfx.

You have teams of artists working on 2d and 3d software packages locally. They then save their project, which produces a file that can be rendered on the render farm.

In this rss news equivalent, teams could mash together RSS feeds. Then send their local project export to a backend infrastructure, that would do something with the export, maybe generate a static site, or something more complex .
I don't understand why insurance companies pay ridiculous bills like this but will fight tooth and nail to avoid paying for obviously necessary procedures.
My ancient account (long since migrated to some guy's site called Pinboard) shows a blank there as well.
Basically the problem is that governments and central banks are following policies that are generally used to stave off inflation. If you have massive inflation what you should invest into is domestic production capacity. Excess production causes prices to fall.

If you want to reliably drive inflation then you must do the opposite. Put dollars into people's hands. Consumer demand must outpace domestic production capacity. Most cases of (hyper)inflation are basically episodes of excessive government spending without the necessary investment in production capacity to back that spending up.
Have you tried developing a doctors appointment website with React (or any SPA frameworks) say Django or Flask? It's a pain in the ass. Usually, you throwaway all the cool things about Django and turn it into a stupid JSON API and then you build a bunch of cruddy shit with npm tooling and cry yourself to javascript dependency hell. Then you need another server to serve up this bundle.js and a barebones index.html file. Great if you're building a Google Docs competitor. 99.999% of the people aren't.

I think VueJS is excellent and surprising to see React's popularity. Vue can be used just like jQuery without any nodejs tooling. Just like every discussion about this topic, React fanboys will respond with "But, technically, you can do that with React too" [1], yeah... It sucks at doing that. Without JSX, you can't interweave for example Jinja2 templates + React. Nor can you interweave JSX + Jinja2. With VueJS? It's just HTML with a few v- attributes. Even if React worked well with direct script tags in HTML, it still sucks at it because it's mainly designed for SPAs in mind. There is a lot of existing discussion on this topic [1].

I absolutely abhor the tooling/npm/babel/nodejs/webpack all this nonsense that Javascript frameworks need. They should be sort of like jQuery - no prebuilding steps - just drop and play. A doctors appointment website doesn't need to be an SPA. VueJS is the only framework that allows you to progressively enhance something like a Flask based website in the most natural jQuery-like way.

Oh btw, Svelte is yet another one - of course its SPA framework (Good luck trying to make it work on an MPA website). I am completely underwhelmed by Svelte, and ofcourse the JS peeps are flocking to it. :|

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24520116
And you'd also have to ignore all the insane amounts of noise coming from regular neutrinos wizzing about in the universe.
Average age has been ticking up for a while, at least in the US.

https://www.bts.gov/content/average-age-automobiles-and-truc...

I feel like the disposability angle comes from having relatively expensive parts/repair costs with low value older vehicles, which results in them being retired because of the economics of having someone else repair them.
when your consultancy keeps doing terrible things over and over, it isn't "unfortunate". "unfortunate" implies that there was bad luck, which isn't the case.

all of these actions were fully intentional because that's mckinsey's business model: providing third-party and elite-friendly approval for the unpalatable or unethical.

you mention "internal strife and change" after the latest trouble. i can tell from your attempt at dissimulation that you don't even believe what you're writing. a few years from now, we'll have a handful of other stories about newly revealed terrible things mckinsey did. you will bear some responsibility for these things, and you will probably brush it off.

in the meantime, you're up and down this thread, trying to make excuses for the inexcusable by parroting the company line. it's an easy mistake to make when your paycheck depends on it.

you are part of the problem, especially if you don't think you are.
Still waiting on my favorite jetbrains feature—show type of selected expression. Probably the single most used IDE feature in my toolbox when I used scala.
I mentioned in another comment that I think HN's comments on front end type topics tends towards 'back end focused folks talking about front end'.

That doesn't make them wrong when they say "hey this super simple site doesn't need to be in react" but at the same time it also misses the use case(s) for react and other frameworks when they rant on the topic more generally.
Fintech Devcon
Michael Sandel: Meritocracy and inequality[audio]
Modernizing Regulatory Review
> Is there any overhead with using these bindings

Not the author, but yes. Go calling C is expensive, and that's precisely how this works. Whether or not that matters for your use case is another topic.
>I wonder if a basket of ETFs based on "trendy" things outperforms SPY.

over the long term or the short term? eg. during the dot-com bubble an etf of internet companies would have performed better returns than SPY, but you'd get slaughtered once the bubble poped.
The Quantum Gambit
It likely helps to be a bit remote. That’s why Australia is free of other viruses like rabies.
10x is a fair estimate of cost vs regular armored fiber cable.

Source: I've laid subsea cable.
Mastodon and Pleroma are home to many communities filled with people like this! One of my favorite instances, Merveilles[1], is probably among the highest quality in terms of the people themselves and the projects they work on, but there are dozens of others with similar energy. Make an account somewhere[2][3] and see for yourself!

Oh, and if you're willing to leave the Web, there's also Gemini[4]. Here are some proxied links to aggregators, CAPCOM[5] and Spacewalk[6], where you can find all sorts of people writing about their intimate personal projects, technological and otherwise (although mostly technological).

[1]https://merveilles.town/public

[2]https://joinmastodon.org/

[3]https://pleroma.social/

[4]https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

[5]https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/cap...

[6]https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/rawtext.club:1965/~sloum/spa...