skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be, but I don't think it currently is. Maybe an expert will chime in, but my understanding is that Medicare/aid have to pay out if the treatment is "reasonable and necessary". Whether cost/benefit can be considered as part of the "reasonable" distinction is still an open question, as the article notes.

There's also a healthy debate to be had about whether we should be debating cost vs benefit in healthcare. Refusing to treat someone will likely mean they die; should we be stepping into that arena? How do we calculate "benefit"? Is it benefit to that person, or their family, or to society in general?

There are some negative externalities, though.

People who can afford the treatment will pay for it. Inheritances will cease to exist except for those wealthy enough to both pay for treatment and still have money left over. I can't imagine being asked whether I would prefer to keep my sanity and live longer, or be able to give my house to my children, but not both.

The poor just won't be able to afford it. If this drug actually worked, it would make Alzheimer's a disease of the poor. They'll get doubly screwed: not only will they be left to die of Alzheimer's, they'll also be the only group that bears the struggle of taking care of relatives with advanced Alzheimer's.

Once we've established that it is okay to consider cost/benefit, that opens a slippery slope. Do we even try to treat cancer when there's only a 3% chance of it going into remission, and the bill is huge? What about babies that are born with expensive to treat diseases? Why do we even bother with the Americans with Disabilities act?

I don't think doing cost/benefit comparisons is a good thing to do at this point. We're struggling with funding, but not struggling to pay for it. I.e. the money exists, either in other programs or in the economy (which can be seized through taxes). Doing cost/benefit comparisons is, to me, a measure of last resort. If we genuinely cannot afford to treat people, then it makes sense to ration.
Employees are still skipping lunch despite working from home, survey finds
Amplitude Series F – $150M at $4b valuation
Because reporters and papers have biases.

Here’s a simple one: Last year, when anti-asian crimes were on the rise, the NYTimes dutifully reported the crimes.

But repeatedly omitted details like ethnicity or name, until a white attacker made the news.

For those earlier details, the rag the NY Post (conservative and borderline tabloid) was the paper to go to.

Eventually—as in many months after—the NY Times stated covering the full details because the problem was too obvious. Even then the Ny Times uses every opportunity to downplay the issue.

I’m sure conservative journalists are just as biased in their own way.
No 5 year old would understand that.

I'm way past 5yo and I do not understand.
>Assuming your jurisdiction has protections against self-incrimination, and you can convince a judge that your password really does contain such information, they may have to choose between not learning your password, and giving you some sort of immunity deal.

I think it's quite unlikely they'd give immunity, especially when they could just instruct you to unlock the device and hand it over without telling them the password
In what sense? Looking at incoming classes it’s apparent you people are objectively superior to people like me before college than I am several years after. It’s almost definitely innate too, all the more depressing for strivers-turned-failures/underachievers like myself.

The Stanford thing was really the basis for Palantirs competitive advantage in the consulting space over companies like Booz Allen Hamilton etc.
You hear a heck of a lot more about it on HN than happens in reality.

In my industry, and the one my wife works in, if you have a gap year it's a red flag that makes potential employers wonder if you got fired from your last job and just aren't listing it, or did time in prison, or are simply unreliable.

It's great that in the tech bubble people don't think much about gap years. But in the real world, they can doom your chances of getting a new job.

Especially since these days you don't get to explain the gap since your application is vetted, filtered, and ranked by a computer and not a person.
Either that or rasengan is setting everything on fire because he is a sore loser.
Jesus ycombinator we know yer freaked out about ladies, but you've posted this article, like, three times
I wonder why the FCC's fairness doctrine is rarely brought up in articles like this. They used to enforce certain standards whereby news being broadcast on the public airwaves had to be both relevant to the public interest, and presented without overt bias. Then, under Reagan, they just stopped doing that, and to me that's when an already imperfect news industry started to really go off the rails.

It sounds hopelessly naive in 2021, when suggesting that the press can even attempt to be objective marks you as a rube. Yet it seems like enforcing some expectation of fairness would be an improvement over having none at all. It may not be possible to actually be objective, but in the same way that we can't stop people from killing or robbing each other, we still insist on asking them very nicely not to, and holding them to account when we catch them at it. Most would say it's better to have some pretense of civilization than to just give up trying: why have we given up trying?

I'd even suggest that removing the standard of fairness allowed a different set of ethics to fill the vacuum: good journalism is attention-grabbing and serves the ideological base that forms your revenue stream. You could see this happening with the cable news explosion in the 80s, but it went supernova with the internet, and the changing economics of the post-Facebook era.

Clearly, the FCC can't control the global internet, and broadcast television and radio is not much of a factor anymore. So, any modern equivalent to the fairness doctrine would likely have to come from aggregators like Facebook, Google, Reddit, etc., which may seem impossible because it's at odds with their business model. But, I'm hopeful because there is a history of industries adopting their own standards before they have more restrictive ones imposed on them by regulation.
"Only 108kb of ram."

That quote reminded me of my first computer: The ZX81, which had 1kb of RAM!
About 150 bytes of that was used by system variables, and depending on how you use the screen up to 768 bytes are used by the display buffer.

And yet I managed to write code on it as a kid. :)
(Of course nothing like Doom)
Not true at all. It almost immediately took off and transformed economies within a decade. The same can't be said for crypto. Crypto is older than the internet was _after_ the dotcom bubble.
Do you know Okta well? I've been looking for product comparisons but the best I came up with was Okta's "Why Choose Okta vs. ADFS?" [1]

And that's just sales talk. It says ADFS needs multiple servers, which it doesn't. At least it depends on your deployment model. And whether AD running on another server constitutes "multiple servers" (of course just as true for Okta).

It also says Okta runs in the cloud. The implication is that ADFS doesnt. Well, like anything, it does.

The remainder talks about low TCO, deployment speed, simplifying AD complexity, and the cloud. All of which are rather subjective.

I say all of this having done some very complex ADFS deployments - at the extreme using Chip & PIN authN, and authR from client workstations assumed to be compromised.

So given the above I'd love to find a compelling and unbiased comparison. Including featureset.

[1] https://www.okta.com/resources/whitepaper/why-choose-okta-vs...
It is important to understand the different sides. Understanding a side doesn't mean it is on equal ground, or really any ground at all.

A failure to understand allows the underlying causes to remain in place.
Just dangle a string of 50 LED's below each drone. Close enough!
Actually I would say it is. Not because the argument for slavery actually had merit, but because that position did not form in a vacuum and it is important to understand how such ideas came to be and why people might be unwilling to give them up.
Teach the conspiracy!
Look into the history. Rebellions of all kinds have been ruthlessly and brutally suppressed. The aristocracy is not as important as it used to be in Britain, but but it's still a power-centric society where those without have few choices open to them. Despite winning independence from Britain a century ago and having a clearly written constitution, Ireland kept a great deal of the legal and some of the social culture; following independence the informal power just moved towards the catholic church and (as always, everywhere) toward money.
There are Christian (and particularly protestant) cultural influences and vestiges all around us, in many of our attitudes towards things.

The idea that the modern American lifestyle is completely divorced from Christianity is only possible because of the way in which our culture has become naturalized to you.
> Finding documents in Google drive is hard to impossible

This! I can't wrap my head around on how impossible is to search for things in drive.
Probably 70% of the student body was hindu, muslim, or jewish. But they still participated as an american cultural thing, they just didn't do anything church related with it.
Blockchain in Insurance: Sample Use Cases
In this case mailto:// doesn't try to impersonate any app, but if it were to be done (for example) "skype://" I could install another app that overrides the current app protocol, and mislead the user and catch privileged data intended for the original app.

But of course, technically it's the exact same thing, it's just a layer above. So you have a point.
So they can just throw you in jail for up to 5 years under SUSPICION.

Stalin called. He wants his laws back.
Depends on how you learn. Personally I've alway been ultra self taught. Even in university would only show up for lectures if I didnt understand the material in the text book. Else I basically just followed the syllabus and got reasonably good grades.

Some are more hands on though and prefer social learning ("show me how to do it..."). To each their own, but I personally learn faster when left alone than when someone tries to put me through their "course".
You might think so, and I might agree, but the people in charge most definitely do not want to step away from troughs.
Typically the "RE" part does not mean "sit on a beach and do nothing"

For most people FIRE simply means being in a "position of Fuck You", which is very empowering and provides you with more options to seek out income opportunities that make you truly happy with out having to worry about paying the mortgage or putting food on the table
Not to be flippant, but I _still_ don't know what it does. Am I just ignorant of current trends? Does the name provide enough information that folks will immediately know what it is?

Honestly, a short paragraph describing what it does would be really helpful.

Some of your target audience may be the "poke around spend time finding out what it does" type. But another swathe could be of the "tell me what this is before I spend any time looking at it" sort.
> I think that people have a tendency to underestimate the degree of Christian influence on their way of life,

One is not a Christian because Christianity influenced their culture.

> and the vast majority of people who practice xmas are Christian

The vast majority of people on the planet are also Christian. Does that make "humanity" a Christian institution?
>A problem with this from my point of view is that while hardware engineers did an incredible job increasing the processing power of our thinking rocks, us software devs did a tremendous job of squandering 90% of it away.

That works both ways though. The highly qualified software devs did indeed squander some of it away.

But I'm a rather bad dev that writes really inefficient code (because it's not my primary concern, I'm not a programmer, I just need custom software that does the things I need done that can't be done by software other people write).

All this overpowered hardware allows my code to work very well.

I've been in situations where I could pick between "learn to program properly and optimize my code" or "throw more hardware at it" and throwing more hardware at it was definitely the faster and more efficient approach in my case.
Broad generalization: I've seen friends burn out due to overwork at Amazon and Netflix, but it seems less common at Facebook, Apple, and Google.

Would be interesting to see actual data.
Stripe is 0.9% of their holdings so they are of limited value of you sell exposure to Stripe specifically.
Interesting. I was just looking for a way to route my domain email to Gmail. I then went down the rabbit hole of G Suite and discovered G Suite grandfathered accounts from back when G Suite was free for anyone with a Gmail account, I guess? Somehow I missed that period of time. My GMail accounts predate G Suite but are not on any G Suite plan.

In any case, I wasn't going to pay Google $72 a year just to get a trickle of email. I signed up for the Zoho free plan and I'm starting to wonder why I stuck with Gmail so long. It's making Gmail look like it's from 2004. Granted, the free plan you can only use their web app or mobile app. But it's like $12 to step up to a full plan with POP/IMAP I think.
Making $10k in a weekend selling emoji email addresses [audio]
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EDF seeks data review on report of possible China radiation leak
A pivotal moment in the Koran is known as "The Battle of the Trench."
Interesting. Where exactly was this?

I grew up in a major Jewish population center in the United States, most jews did not celebrate christmas outside of the ceremonial going out for chinese food.

Muslim students also did not celebrate xmas.

This is an urban center on the east coast.
5B records from previous data breaches leaked by cybersecurity company
Completely false.

#postgresql IRC has by far the most insanely helpful and in depth discussions of even the most trickiest of issues.
Doesn't matter. Industry management will hear about it and start cracking on their remote worker. FUD is out either way.

If it is serious, he/she should have keep it private. That's why we can't have nice things.
Google libraries and tools for fully homomorphic encryption operations
Agreed, but irrespective of Librem/PinePhone, companies in general can build much better products when they focus on doing few things good than many things bad.
Super simple way to sell digital products
My name is Shadrack Apollo, I am the founder of aircart. So I have been building this web application with two of my friends for the past 4 months. Our idea was to create a super simple way for anyone to sell anything digital on the internet without having to set up a storefront/marketplace.
We provide quick smart links tied to your paypal account.The most interesting bit about this is you do not have to sign up at all. The idea was a simple merger between WeTransfer and Gumroad. If you have any critic or feedback it would be really golden.
Unfortunately, ETH, while definitely better, still makes the same deflationary mistake. The ETH money supply growth is still effectively a negative interest rate since economies grow much much faster than their ever-shrinking coin generation.

It is the reason gas prices are choking Ethereum economic activity.
Is Stripe’s backend still Ruby?

And how is the development process?
Here in the US I try to get the majority of my news from NPR and PBS, both of whom are heavily reliant on AP. Your mileage may vary...
Better yet, try to find the corresponding ints (or maybe more realistically shorts or chars) from usual #include headers, and use the #define or const mnemonics for all numbers.

Bonus points for finding them all in the same header file, or with like names, so as to give appearance of them actually meaning something in the context of the prank.
I want our dams here in the PNW shit canned. Our salmon and steelhead populations are dying due to the dams, which is going to take its toll on the rest of the ecosystem when they’re gone.
Meanwhile on the freenode.net front page:

> The future for freenode and FOSS communications, indeed, looks bright and exciting. Stay tuned for many great things to come!
Yep, but workspace is not free. Or good for that matter. It’s maybe cheap, but with so many asterisks that I, and lot of other, starts to be unwilling to commit to anything Google
fascist turn of the Republican party

This is just projection from the Left that is working so hard to cancel anyone who steps politically out of line. They think that calling a group "Antifa" makes it anti-fascist, despite their tactics of violently terrorizing anyone with whom they politically disagree - even to the extent of their attacking journalists who simply document their activities. But somehow Republicans are fascists.

Now Republicans live in a mostly imagined political reality.

Imagined, like that Putin had a video of Trump being peed on by hookers and that Trump was a cat's paw of Russia? That Russia was paying a bounty to have American's assassinated in Afghanistan with Trump's full knowledge? That the BLM protests last year that injured and killed so many were "peaceful"? That an attack on the White House, necessitating Trump's evacuation to a bunker was funny and peaceful, but that there was an "armed insurrection" on the Capitol on 1/6 where no guns were confiscated and the only person killed was an unarmed protester climbing a barricade? That it was a conspiracy to speculate that the corona virus probably came out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology? That Hunter Biden's laptop showing how the Biden family used its political influence for their financial gain was Russian disinformation?
Correct, no single interface does what the UNIX pipe did for command-line text-based IO-stream processing programs. In FOAM, we have about 20 standard interfaces, which correspond to your different glue types. Things like DAO (Data Access Object), Model, View, Factory, Parser, Adapter, Authenticator, Outputter, Validator, ... and as long as everything that does a certain thing, implements the corresponding interface, then everything can be piped together. Again, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4LbUv5FsGQ or the longer more complete version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsFLlgrzn2E

To continue your analogy, if 95% of your house were made of glue, and 85% of the cost of your house was to buy glue, then that would be some cause for concern. That is pretty close to the truth for software.
The Bologna alignment in Germany created a lot of weird situations. The old Diplom degree varied a lot and could be counted as a bachelors or masters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplom#International_compariso...) leading to some Germans to go back to get a firm masters. Also if it was more than 10 years ago, some Germans I know did their first degree, then their conscripted service, then their second, which caused a 1-2 year gap.
If I read something and it's just super-intense wow how can you doubt me you scumbag, I immediately attempt to find evidence disproving it. Generally, I look for something that will contradict the stance, and the more intense the stance, the more I will look.

If I find a source has been manipulative in the past, I lower the faith I have in them to be objective in the future.

If someone makes some kind of desperate reach or strawman to "win," I wonder what else they are reaching about.

The shorter the quote, the longer the original source text I want to find from which it was drawn, because so much gets taken out of context.

Similarly, Twitter is too short to allow for nuanced commentary.

If I can find notable hypocrisy from someone, well ... their worth goes to about zero.
The sticky tack increases spin, but the changes to the ball act as a multiplier. Bigger seams make the increased spin more effective; reduce coefficient of restitution makes a mistake less costly (so pitchers can take more strategic risks).

TLDR, it's a multiplier on the spin rate issue.
Templates to aid your product development process
It's not so much the particular dollar amount, but that it sounds like your process for evaluating whether a tool is "essential" is basically "whatever the boss feels like in any given moment" instead of having a transparent evaluation process that weighs, say, $10/yr/employee vs the potential for risk for malware/ransomware or even simply lost productivity from intrusive ads. Is there ANYTHING an employee should be able to spend money on without your direct approval? Is there a process for evaluating what is an essential business expense, per position? How small a business is yours?

It's the lack of agency and trust in your people, rather than the specific dollar amount, that bothers me. If it was a $10,000 or even $1,000 purchase (such as buying that ad blocker for the whole company), yes, of course it should merit more evaluation, but is there really a need to micromanage every single transaction instead of having an expense account of some sort and a procedure for small purchases and reimbursements?

Not arguing that all your employees should be able to arbitrarily spend company funds willy nilly, just that they deserve some say in how they do their jobs, and the tools they need for it, instead of being simply being told "no, because if we scaled that $10 up to all the X employees it would be too expensive..." Did all the X employees even ask for that..?
I didn't know anything about this guy but now I'm not a fan. I quit freenode and I cancelled my Private Internet Access subscription too. Neat.
Yes, I agree that Stripe's policy makes sense here. But your original comment was misleading, in that it implied the information contained on your ID card was deleted after 48 hours. (It looks like you may have since edited it to clarify that you were talking about biometric signals? Maybe you haven't edited it, but it was definitely unclear enough that I, like the other responders, was confused.)
> Specifically for Stripe, I trust them. So if I see that a new start-up is using them rather than rolling their own solution, that increases my trust

Note that Stripe allows their customers access to the "captured images of the ID document, selfies, extracted data from the ID document, keyed-in information"[1]. So you still have to trust any company using Stripe not to download, store, and later leak your personal information, and you also have to trust them not to let their Stripe API token be compromised and exploited by identity thieves.

[1] https://support.stripe.com/questions/managing-your-id-verifi...
Off-topic mostly, but is this sort of "single line" function/macro typical for Rust crates? This seems like something I would expect from a Node library, not a serious programming language community that cares about robust software.
Hacker News, a place for hackers to read about interesting topics and discuss things like political echo chambers while ignoring the political echo chamber that is venture capitalism. Ahh this site sucks now.
yo don't have stored procedures. everything is done in the code. so you only have 2 things to worry about (the db schema and the code). you still have the problem of the schema versioning but you only have to worry about 2 things
Thanks, that looks awesome (and funny), definitely something I need. Any chance to make it work with anything other than SMS? Whatsapp/Telegram?

I know «whatsapp bad», but let's not discuss it for now (many older people use it and I have to talk to them sometimes).