skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That’s why a consumer without insurance saves money by having access to a PBM’s network rate, which is lower than the cash price. GoodRx provides a convenient and user-friendly interface for finding these PBM rates. Essentially, GoodRx is a PBM-backed program that passes a portion of rebates and network discounts off list directly to patients at the point of sale.

Having had to deal with this hassle in the past, I'm glad GoodRx exists. I don't know of any other industry that charges a higher cash price than medical insurance price.

Note: Costco pharmacy is slightly more competitive if you want your prescription mailed to you. Like GoodRx, you can compare pricing on Costco's website.
Next time you feel that way just look at Nepal. By far the most unique country flag.
Make It Open Source
From what I gather in the abstract, this seems like baldness as a result of covid, rather than contributing to the risk of contracting covid, is the focus of the study, right?
agree with this ^. Pretty sure the book was written with STEM (but really, comp sci) new grads in mind
So if I understand correctly:

1. You go on an exchange and bet on margin, say 100x

2. The bet is that DAI rises compared to USDt.

3. If, say, you bet $100, then you are wagering $10,000 via margin. So, if tether rises two cents, you lose $20,000 (or $200?). But if tether drops ten cents, you make $100,000.

A couple questions about your bet:

1. I’m assuming people think tether is much more likely to fall than to rise. So would the odds not be asymetric and you would lose much more if something happened to DAI? Such that you might lose $50,000-$100,000 if USDT rose?

2. If tether really blows up it could take down a lot of exchanges. If the exchange failed, what’s your max loss: just the original $100?

3. Supposing you win big but crypto implodes, your winnings are priced in...DAI, ETH or something else? If they aren’t priced in usd the value may be less than 100x if the whole crypto market falls.
I guess my main point is that this article doesn’t do a good job of arguing one way or another for _weather adjusted_ results for energy production. Effectively all of the energy sources in Texas were impacted by this weather event.

The article takes one position (weakly) that renewables weren’t to blame. The Texas governor for instance has taken a very strong position that renewables are to blame. It seems likely that the real answer is between (and on the side of this articles position) these points. But to just arbitrarily judge based on what solar did vs “expectations” compared to what nat gas did, ignores the idea that solar demands more nat gas than other energy sources.

I’m good with the answer “we’d have adopted solar/wind/nat gas mix in the same proportion given the same risk modeling we had for this sort of event in comparison to coal/nat gas/etc”

But that’s not what the article actually argues.
Again, I highly doubt that NYT relies on these dark patterns, but I could be wrong.

If NYT actually relied on these tactics to keep themselves afloat, then I wouldn’t call it “thriving”, simply because these kinds of techniques are not sustainable at all in the long run.
At least for the economist this was not the case last month. I canceled my sub and got a new one for my kid who wants the paper copy (this way I got the intro deal for students) and it was painless. Plus I can still log in online.

So maybe enough people complained, or someone in the subscription department ran across a conscience and tried it on for size.
Texas electric prices have been capped at $9000/MWHr for the last few days. Average is about $35/MWhr. The Texas electric bill is about $10 billion per day right now.
Can you share more info on 'the encryption policy' you're worried about? I'd not heard any cause for concern regarding encryption on starlink and was debating potentially signing up for their service.
If you live in southern California an have a Los Angeles Public Library card, you can view the NY Times by logging in every two days. You do have to register at nytimes.com but it's all free.

Regardless, you should check if your local library has an online subscription.
I'll give you the "Angry" part, but you're going to have to work harder to convince me of "Skillzz." I can imagine a thousand ways to "rig" an inflation index to rationalize money printing. A couple years of latency here, a trimmed mean over there to exclude assets, bingo bango mission accomplished. Money printer goes brrrrr!

I actually have spent considerable time poking through the basket definitions and while I was generally impressed by the effort I saw, the extreme sensitivity to minutiae and extreme incentives to obtain a particular conclusion make me hesitate to bet my portfolio on its integrity. I haven't re-implemented their entire methodology in an economic model and run monte-carlo simulations to evaluate their competence in the face of obvious hypotheticals but I'm pretty sure you haven't either. By comparison, "bet on assets to hedge inflation" requires much less concentrated faith in the continued wellbeing of a convenient scapegoat.
Would Starlink break location based services?
A lot of web app features and services depend on geo-locating the user. For example, I am physically located in South America at the moment. When I access Google sites, they all get customized for my location. Google news shows me local news instead of Atlanta region news which is where I live. A lot of apps adjust the language to Spanish automatically. Event e-commerce store adjust their shipping preferences based on my location. But the worse is, I cannot even access the home depot website. They purposely block it from requests coming from outside the US.
Tether is highly sus and needs to be immediately investigated. Around $30B of Tether exists. Its unknown how much is actually backed by real USD. This could single handedly crash the crypto markets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_(cryptocurrency)
I guess if you take Facebook's point of view: erring on one side of this is a violation of the law, erring on the other is just a piece of content missing. Which should they choose?
I'm sorry but it's not that simple, as you can see clearly right now. Between Feb 9 and Feb 17th wind and solar energy delivery has been a very small fraction of capacity, less than 10%. To do baseload over a period of 8 days with that kind of resource would require roughly a 20x capacity overbuild and some kind of ridiculous battery. It's just not practical. Most realistic scenarios these days have lots of wind and solar and some overnight batteries, and rely on large mostly-idled capacity of gas to get through the black-swan events like this. Though obviously this approach has challenges as well.
For an interesting definition of "most"? I see, what, 3 lines that weren't direct answers to direct questions? One of those was pretty legitimate feedback, which seems sensible when the rep tells you feedback is why they're asking. Another is just asking for a copy of the chatlog.
I saw a marketing video for one company that was deploying a prototype to do this a few days ago. I'm unable to remember the name or find a link.

I think it was somewhere in oceania that they were installing the protoype in. The unit looked sort of like (this)[https://imgur.com/a/ymulbWF] but wider and in hd of course.

By wider I mean it looked more like a catamaran style boat and the one in the imgur link is more like a monohull boat. The one in the video which they deployed maybe 15-30 yards off shore from a beach was where they installed it and it had branding from their company on the side and some bright yellow accents.
> Not sure how the rest of CA is doing.

The parent provided a figure: 16 cents.
Cool. If the OP is affiliated, I'm interested in the hydrogen density of the metal hydride storage (in kg of H2/m^3 of hydride). I'm surveying the latest H2 storage technologies for a new construction project.
The counter to that is missiles have limited fuel. Those shooting them down have a larger fuel budget because the missile is coming to a known target, and forcing the missile off course is as good as destorying it.
Will probably push them to innovate or push OEMs to drive down prices, which is good.
Personally, I can't bring myself to care about chromeOS. It's just another proprietary walled garden run by a tech giant.
Use easily cancelable, on-line only credit cards. For everything. No fuss with unsubscribing, just block the card and you're done. I don't even bother checking the website for the unsubscription process.
The real question is how can Google get away with such poor cultural and managerial practices that would be certain death for any startup or small business. And the answer of course is that they are a monopoly. And I don’t mean this in a “meets the current legal definition in America” sense but in the fuzzy “relatively immune to market forces” / “in equilibrium with a few other incumbents” / “not realistically challenge-able by new small companies” sense. We need new anti trust regulation that is updated for the reality of these giant megacorps. Solving the problem of competition will also help with greater distribution of wealth, but in a meritocratic way. But to get there we need the market to work, and it can’t if you have entities with infinite capital, the ability to starve the market of talent, the profit margin to loss lead, and massive network effects.
>avoid pathological states

These just need to be relatively rare and not dangerous when they happen. If my car slams on its brakes every 100,000 miles for no good reason that's not really a big deal. At least it's not big enough to stop them from being used.

>unlimited training data

Unlimited is not possible, but we can get tens of millions of miles pretty easily. Then many many more as they roll out into production.
They never provided the audit they promised. They lied many times about their banking partners. Its on them to prove that they are not printing money.
I'm not who you're responding to, but you've yet to defend your assertion, that lending for profit is always predatory, and your assertion that "we have known for centuries" by way of bronze age cults (in my opinion) that this is indisputable fact. It isn't indisputable, defend your point.

I'm not calling you stupid or anything like that, but you're showing that you do not quite understand how lending and markets and even investing works. You're ignorant on this topic and I strongly advise you to do a lot of reading on it.
Ever hear about Softbank and WeWork?
I find that the smaller areas tend to have worse politicians as there are less to choose from. I can see it being both ways.

Plus, not many politicians in the US at least really seem to care about the thoughts or even the well-being of their constituents.

If anything, it's the access to information that would result in better education which would thus (hopefully) result in more informed voters. That would be the real win, in my opinion.
Is gold the ultimate greater fool? Sure, it might have "intrinsic value" (eg. industrial use), but the current and historical price far exceeds that of comparable substances. Only about 7.5% of gold mined goes to industrial use, with the rest going to jewelry (48.5%), investment (29.2%), and central banks (14.8%). https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...
Thanks, really helpful information.
Obviously you eat breakfast at your computer. This involves toast. Crumbs fall down between the keys and this is dutifully reported back to the AI that now runs Microsoft which asks the question 'what machine accumulates carbonised bread particles on the bottom tray?' What else could it conclude? Now if it had Lidar.....;)
Texas Railroad Commission has been around since before relevant federal statutes were passed
The Eastern grid isn't out of wack right now, so people in those markets aren't likely to see much of any difference on their electric bills.
Highly recommend subscribing before you look it up, though.
I have been using a starlink beta terminal for 3 months now, ask me whatever you want. Day job is senior network engineer for a regional-sized (4 US states) fiber based ISP.

My most important message to everyone reading this is that it's not intended to compete with properly implemented wireline based services. It's going to absolutely blow away consumer-grade highly oversubscribed, bottom of the barrel ku and ka band geostationary satellite services (hughesnet, viasat in the USA, xplornet in Canada), and any WISP that can't keep up with a 150 Mbps figure.

And eventually for really hard to reach places in the developing world, and much of the same offshore/aviation/maritime industry that right now pays tons of money to Inmarsat.
Presumably solar is not quantified in "most of it" because it is unmeasured.

For example, my own solar doesn't factor into the percentage of power generated in California. No one can tell you the price per kwh.

All PGE knows is that sometimes they send me power, and sometimes I send them power. They have no idea what my internal usage and costs are.
The natural gas infrastructure froze!

Texas lost 28GW of natural gas. It's a catastrophe.
https://twitter.com/JesseJenkins/status/1362160723552579595
> They're famous for patent-trolling and disrupting anyone elses effort's to do anything with the tech

I work in the display industry and have never heard of this. I don't see any data showing this either. Could you show us what you are basing your claims on? Am I missing something?
But no sun or wind gods that we need to worry about?
i’d say a good story is the culmination of various intriguing ingredients (characters, motivations, circumstances, etc), which hopefully blend together into a rich and layered whole. that we can’t hold it all in our heads (like only remembering an idea or mood) but yearn to experience it again could be considered indicative of a good story, and creating that yearning indicative of storytelling mastery.
Breaking Down the Payment for Order Flow Debate
Some did, but at least in Texas the ERCOT planners basically assume ~0 wind for some week-long periods in winter and just expected to rely on their natural gas generators. But then when 30 GW of thermal plants went offline for weather reasons (pipeline freezes, priority to heating customers, a faulty sensor on a nuclear plant, etc.), that's what really brought things offline.
This is exactly the same as a corkscrew [1]

[1] https://www.ikea.com/au/en/images/products/idealisk-corkscre...
BC and Alberta are part of the Western Interconnection [1].

BC Hydro, via Powerex, trades energy within this region [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Interconnection

[2] http://www.caiso.com/Documents/PowerexWillJoinWesternEnergyI...
Hard to say. Nobody really wins, but China seems to be playing a bit nicer which could count long term. Maybe.
> Having an image recognition algorithm identify Africans and South Asians as gorillas doesn't happen because the designers intended it, but because their training data had only light-skinned human faces and dark-skinned primates. But the effect is racist even though this wasn't the intent.

This isn't racism at all. It's just bad PR because humans take the implication that calling black people monkeys is calling them stupid, since that's the implication you would draw if a person did that.

An algorithm doing that is just recognizing that humans and gorillas are both primates:

http://www.aquilaarts.com/bushmonkey.html

And then it's a bug, in the same way that recognizing a black balloon as a balloon but a white balloon as a light bulb is a bug. It has nothing to do with race at all. The algorithm isn't racist against white balloons. The solution is a general increase in the amount of training data, which is what you want in all cases regardless.

> if the decision-makers unconsciously favored whites over blacks, the algorithm could wind up weighing skin color or stereotypically Black or Latino names negatively, meaning that the final model is explicitly racist, just because there is a correlation in the training data.

Except that this is exactly the thing that a paperclip optimizer will smash to bits because it interferes with the goal of making more paperclips.
For the most part, regulated utilities factor in cost spikes into their rates, so they’ll have some reserve built in to cover. They may not make as much profit this quarter, but they won’t go bankrupt. Additionally, keep in mind that a lot of regulated utility companies own their own generating plants. In that case, the cost of power on the open market is basically irrelevant. Heck, they may even be SELLING power into this market.
Nobody knows what pg will do next, even himself.

But more options are open than ever before, and his life's work continues . . .
Even if they did not, they have it for themselves. If this uses any personal data, then GDPR and other regulations may not be getting respected.
Netflix is notoriously generous here. They allegedly auto-cancel accounts that don't use the service for too long!

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/net...
I would not call the federal government “wildly popular”. Most people are (rightly, IMO) laying our pandemic success at the feet of state politicians and realising that the federal level had been ineffective at best.
Stepping Off Shore and into Sea Country
Even if they ain't directly on the hot spot, couldn't they still be close enough to it for there to be a useful temperature differential?
The solution to that is, you never give them your real name, address, number, email, etc. It's never verified and Privacy doesn't seem to check your name matches.
It hurts different parts of America to different degrees.

A strong U.S. dollar is generally good for U.S. consumers and bad for people who work in U.S. export industries. The dollar being the global reserve currency is good for the financial industry and bad for everyone else. So basically Wall Street (and workers in industries where America is dominant anyway, like tech, defense, biotech) should favor a strong dollar, while Main Street should favor a weak dollar. This isn't far off from reality: many of the "U.S. nationalists" represent constituents whose jobs have been eviscerated by foreign competition.
It's an ordinary DIA link, except right now it's in cgnat IP space. There are no restrictions on crypto. You can run whatever VPN or crypto through it you want. I'm doing so right now.
That is the point, that's why I subscribe, regardless of the unsubscribe difficulties.

The value is way higher than some inconvenience.
"Respectfully, you don’t know what you’re talking about."

Update: OK, now read my latest posts (to this thread).

P.S. I'm not siding with the OZ Govt, read my words more carefully
Thanks! It was new to me and I didn't see any posts at a glance. Guess I'll leave it because there's momentum.
Ahh, I feel that you don't believe bitcoin is money. You don't need to 'sell' it for fiat. What matters is the purchasing parity power. It is money already.

I do not agree that it is a zero-sum game. This assumes that it provides no utility outside speculation, and everyone just wants back into USD. As the markets grow, there is less desire to hold depreciating assets like dollars, especially with negative interest rates.
For me it's bspwm. It's closer to i3 in simplicity, but has some dynamic tiling functionality that "cooler" WMs do. It's very modular, the documentation is great and you can get started in just a few minutes.

"power users" or people who are willing to get their feet wet with code can check out XMonad (Haskell), AwesomeWM(Lua), and Qtile(Python) as well. DWM (C) is a popular choice too nowadays and is rather nice, but I can't bring myself to care about terribly documented software that justifies it by saying "we'd like our user base to be small and elitist."
It is not intended as a competitor for Comcast. A well built, engineered and maintained DOCSIS3 system with channel bonding can easily support 600Mbps+ down per user (not all at once simultaneously, the standard metrics of oversubscription apply), and 20-25 Mbps up. Starlink is intended for more fringe or impossible to reach areas.
Hawaii is actually pretty worse case for tidal power. You want a narrow estuary with a high tidal swing. Think fjords and similar formations.
There's plenty of red tape and broken
processes at Google if you know where to look. I've waited months for a small log schema change to be approved for a yet-unused log topic. CI presubmit runs for tools I worked on routinely took several hours and needed to be manually restarted due to flakes, whereas at Square people would complain if a CI run took more than 10 minutes. The tool for releasing Android Studio SDKs was a broken mess of Python that nobody understood, so they spent 2 years writing a replacement that never came rather than fixing it. I could go on. These things definitely affect your happiness and productivity while working and the pace sure didn't seem fast.
Having only skimmed the article, this reads like a profound take on a simple disagreement of semantics. I don't really see much insight here - all of this is pretty much expected.

If you're a "startup" within another company, you're still within another company. Of course there's a leash, what did you expect?

If you're simply receiving money from the company, then they're an investor, nothing more.

This is like saying "There's no such thing as a free meal" when of course the argument is more about the semantics of the word "free", not about the concept of a no-cost meal. To the person in a soup kitchen, the meal is certainly free - as in, no money is exchanged. There are associated costs, of course - but the patron need not pay those.
Typical in rural areas is $100 for 5mbps or even less. This is less than a mile outside of a town with a university and decent cable connection — they just don’t lay cable out into the country, and the phone lines can’t (or won’t) handle higher speeds
At least in places where it doesn't snow.
Here’s geared pruning loppers, only a couple of teeth, no 360 rotation.

https://www.fiskars.com/en-us/gardening-and-yard-care/produc...

Geared hinges
https://www.select-hinges.com/products/geared-continuous/con...
That's really not justifiable unless you assume nuclear construction costs in the out-of-practice west apply everywhere, always and forever. To think this is to completely disregard the amazing nuclear builds in China (see Hualong One), the UAE (3 APR-1400s build by the Koreans), Russia (lots of VVERs), etc. At the costs they're delivering, current low-carbon 24/7 nuclear is a rock-solid choice.

Solar photovoltaic and wind are much older technologies than nuclear, to be fair on the "modern" quip.
>What defines a gear?

Intermeshing teeth I would think. What else are you going to call it? gear-like mechanics maybe.
If you're actually interested in up and coming artists, Tik Tok is probably the place to go. Their algorithm really does bring good stuff up.
I could have definitely phrased the title better. The point being that they are out of limited Beta and rolling our first come first serve by region.
Would you like to find out the answers to these questions and post them here?
How Labor haven't turned that into a win is beyond me. The Libs are lying sacks of burning, corrupt garbage, and Labor are, seemingly, totally politically inept.

Australia's two choices.
I blame over reliance on CGI. The Glut of modern Hollywood movies are terribly fake, as fake as the news, and so insincere and brain dead. I recently watched Monty Python, and the gags were all simple smoke and mirror make belief, yet more fun then the most realistic CGI.
> My Paperwhite from 2015 is pretty identical to ones sold now

Yes, you're right if you're looking at update time of the display, which I have. There's pretty much no improvement. That's due to the physics of pigment particles. I don't see a way for them to improve that. They have improved contrast ratios. The whites of their carter displays are much better than the previous gen pearl and vizplex before that.