skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing too crazy. A kid one year, two minor surgeries in other years. Fortunately no ER visits.

It has indeed been my experience that the cost of a non-HDHP plan is approximately the same when all is said and done, but I’ve considered going back anyway. There’s “loopholes” in the system that you end up falling through.

For example:

- have a kid at the beginning of the year, meet your deductible and out of pocket, drain the HSA to do so, but hey, free medical care for the rest of the year and you can build the HSA up again, right? Nope, your division gets acquired, you’re laid off and rehired, and your “new” health insurance (same carrier and deductible as the old) has a brand new unmet deductible.

- providers demand prepayment. Fairly unusual, but it happens. Say you need a minor surgery. Well, the MD and hospital want prepayment. Both of them see you have 4K left on your deductible and want 4K each upfront. Don’t worry, you’ll be refunded / have a credit on your account by whoever files last whenever they file the insurance claim three or more months from now. Bonus: any doctor you visit in the meantime still sees your deductible unmet because the claims haven’t been processed.

- medical billing is awful. HDHPs expose you to more of it because more of your actual cash is in okay. Providers bill the wrong amounts, fail to realize you have credits on your account, file as out of network instead of in network resulting in a different discounted cash price, etc.

IME, any health problem requiring more than routine doctor visit plus xray or ultrasound is going to be many thousands of dollars. Who knows what the median is, but there’s a reason the total insurance premium for a family HDHP hovers around 20k.

And yeah, I see what you’re saying, but yeah, my cash flow is not sufficient for that. Or at least, it doesn’t seem worth it for a potential payoff decades from now.
"Street address" refers to the address of an individual home or building here in the US. How is being a matter of public record relevant here? Are you suggesting that there is nothing wrong with a company that queries public records across thousands of municipalities to build a unified database? In any case, that something is a matter of public record is irrelevant because there is no reasonable expectation of privacy to begin with. Even if there were no public records to query, anyone could go out and start creating a map of any town, recording specific details of the locations of any structures they believe to be relevant to their map. It is relatively common to do so because of the inaccuracies and missing information in most public records (e.g. people often make unauthorized modifications to properties, fail to file the proper paperwork after otherwise legal work is completed, report incorrect information, etc.) and it is done at national or even global scale.

I do not see how SSIDs are in different in any meaningful way. We are literally talking about building a map -- a map that includes the locations of SSIDs, to be used as a kind of landmark, no different from a map that includes other landmarks (e.g. "the house with the red siding") that could conceivably be used to help a person identify their position on the map. There is zero expectation of privacy for SSIDs, just like there is zero expectation of privacy for the exterior of your home.

Is there any specific objection beyond, "This is happening at a large scale?"
> That's why you have people who are dying of covid but think they aren't very sick, or even think the virus isn't real at all.

Yeah, this is 100 percent not the reason people think covid isn’t real.
There is some limited in vitro evidence for zinc as a treatment.

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

The evidence for vitamin D is much stronger including multiple randomized controlled trials.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
That's how I ended up paying for YouTube premium one time! I clicked on a YouTube (short)link on Twitter or somewhere and YouTube app opened, then a blocking dialog asked about premium membership and the button to get the membership (after trial period) is bolder, so you are more likely to press it accidentally if you are eager to watch the video! I got so angry that I deleted my payment method from my Google account.

They research patterns, and they know how and when to ask you to press a button. Not illegal but unfair IMO. Take this post for example, changing SSID is so inconvenient that the user might not want to go through the whole process.
When you see things side-by-side you realise the React devs foisted XML back onto the world :D
Yeah, from what I understand of flight operations "inability to transmit weather information" via their in-house computer system shouldn't be a showstopper for thousands of flights nationwide. It wasn't so long ago that pilots weather info was just a print out.

I'm not a commercial pilot but would love if someone who is could post a plausible hypothesis how this would ground the whole fleet (short of a simple bureaucratic decision to shut down if everything isn't working exactly normally).
You can buy a long-term short with cash rather than margin. You can hold onto such an option until it expires. Options have a reputation for risk, but this mostly seems to come back to using margin.
They are the people who run the show. I'm sure they know better than us!
Haven't used one since the iOS/iPadOS split, so honestly don't know how much more flexible they've become.

More familiar with iOS on iPhones though, but can't see how I'd do 'serious creative work' - which usually ends up involving large numbers of files that need keeping organised - on an OS that's traditionally tried so hard to hide the underlying file system from the end user.

And I've never tried connecting a camera or video capture device directly to an iOS device, so not sure what is or isn't possible in that area.
If your method documentation is out of date, the problem is not about the doc.

The problem is that someone on your team drastically changes existing methods behavior instead of writing new ones, and by doing that, is changing the behavior every historical caller expected.

I really think that if your changes are so important that they need the doc to be updated, it’s probably that you should write a brand new method. Changes in an already called method should only concern implementation details.
fair!

> "Only for about 30% of bankruptcies did the debtor actually say medical bills were a reason for the bankruptcy."

That would still be a lot!

> "“Based on our estimate of 4 percent of bankruptcy filings per year"

...but 4% is a much smaller number than 30%. Is it actually more like 4%? I guess statistics aren't simple....

> "An enormous share of households have some amount of medical debt, so any survey of individuals will report a high share of them have medical debt but this does not imply that the debt caused them to file for bankruptcy

I guess I'd be interested in the average medical debt numbers among those filing for bankruptcy vs the average medical debt numbers among those not filing for bankruptcy? To have a sense of what role medical debt may play?

I feel safe in continuing to think that medical debt is a significant burden for many people in the USA (and therefore that "most people can afford that bill by going into debt" is a terrible solution), but that's a much more vague statement, i respect your point about being accurate with statistics.
>it’s actually possible Buddhism has some roots in western philosophy.

I think the OP was implying it was the other way around. I.e., Cynicism (and thus Stoicism) draw from Buddhism. It seems like Siddhartha Gautama predates Antisthenes by nearly 150 years. (Granted, that doesn’t mean that ideas between them weren’t shared later, it just indicates which was started first)
This is very cool and fun. My only issue is it's hard to know if a move is going to make a tile reach threshold, or even if a tile is already at threshold.
Why are method names priveleged over comments? They're both text read for human understanding. Why must the full documentation/definition for a function fit into the length of a method? These are silly restrictions, and lead to worse code.
undergrad was Arizona State. Yes, having a college education requires knowing basic stuff like how to write a college essay or how to find the area under a curve. At that time, it was grouped by Numeracy or Literacy Requirements, so calculus met the N1 requirement and you could satisfy your L1 with English 101. Of course you could take more advanced classes as well if you wanted, but there was no credit for taking high school math classes to satisfy the university Numeracy requirements. So no trig or pre-calc would cut it. There were also social studies requirements, etc. The idea is that a "liberal arts education" requires these. And of course virtually all math majors would already have tested out of them, even in big state schools.
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Lots of truth here. Below certain economic lines, mental health is often a pipeline to lifetime dependency on big pharma. It's really heartbreaking trying to explain to someone recovering from addiction that they've traded street drugs for new, state-approved meds.
They were using the darksky api too? Kidding of course, but still sour grapes at Apple.
Absolutely. I worked a codebase that was littered with ticket numbers for a few years; many members of the team religiously added them but never read them. How do we know? Self hosted issue system and access logs. New starts would read a couple and that was it.

A ticket is a really opaque way of showing something. If you click the issue you're now going through several tangentially related comments and a few MR back and forths just to work out if its even useful to you. People will stop bothering to even open the link unless they are really stuck.

Whack a summary comment and then by all means include the link, but the comment is what most people will use.
So it's a bunch of links to YouTube videos and it forces you to sign up/login to add more?

Am I missing something, this seems laughable, the linked content don't even seem that great, there's so few of them. Doing an AwesomeXYZ repo on GitHub would have been just as easy and more approachable.

Sorry, but just get yourself a book or go to Khan Academy, this isn't the curration I was hoping for.
This is inaccurate for VAT.
Interesting, where do retirement savings go? I don't know much about the European context beyond the S = I identity from my intro macro courses back in the day.
Thanks for the feedback. What device are you on - mobile, tablet, desktop? I am wondering if the animation is taking longer on devices with less processing power.

I could also add an option in the settings to disable animations, for those who like to play fast.
The Windows Terminal is just awful! Slow! Bad UI, feels like a touch-based UWP app. Has absolutely no concept of Windowing, everything just feels awful because they follow the UWP design guidelines!

And extremely buggy as well!
I didn’t act as if one couldn’t opt out. That’s actually in line with my point. The behavior was opt-out, and from what I remember hearing you actually had to pay in order to do so.

My point is that it used to be well-accepted that one’s home address and telephone number were explicitly public and indexed for easy access by anyone (at least anyone within the regional phone book’s coverage area). Now we get spooked that someone could obtain a home address using a fairly convoluted, difficult to target, and presumably expensive method involving the target’s smartphone attempting to connect to a wireless network and a large commercial database of wireless network locations.

I’m not even making judgements about this. I’m truly fascinated at how privacy threat models can vary so much from person to person and over time.
Is Anti-Semitism Generic?
You say that, but as someone from bright red Louisiana, you will find that the loudest anti-welfare ranters are the same people who are first in line for every government handout after a natural disaster.
Pure speculation: perhaps the FAA requirements on weather updates has changed since paper weather reports were standard?

edit: s/FFA/FAA/
This is very good. Any way I can play 2 player against my wife?
Next up: Dr. Fauci's thoughts on process scheduling algorithms.
I wonder if I left in the next year or so with valid rabies shots, if the dog could travel with me.
The name of the site is "Hacker News", this is news.
The US has worker protections and social mobility, so you're flat-out wrong on two of your points. And actually the US has free access to health care via a variety of programs, it's just not universal, but I'll concede that's being pedantic.

Every country is going to have inequality, corruption, antiquated infrastructure, and persecution of journalists, so those are meaningless unless you provide some sort of comparison point.

"High" incarceration is at least attempting to articulate a comparison but only because I actually know the numbers there.
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Most doctors I’ve met agreed with this.

Also certain diets could have other deficiencies, like in my case I almost never eat fish so I add omega3 (DHA).
Sorry, I'm aware of that in general. I was wondering in this case. I suppose that's possible for people who don't fall sick (I assume that's why low viral load means you can get exposed and not get sick?) but OP was quite sick.
Influenza is rare? Maybe rare for you if you habitually get the flu shot twice a year, but even then the efficacy of the flu shot can be as low as 50%. Influenza is very common, most people have experienced it.
The antibody tests do occasionally come up negative for patients who had confirmed infections. You might want to get the Adaptive Biotechnologies T-Detect COVID test which assays memory T cells.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
It's really strange to me that there's so much antipathy for UX designers on HN when their job is literally the opposite of "liking what THEY like." Undeniably some people employed in the field disregard designing for accessibility and usability, but in that case you're not referring to UX designers, you're referring to bad UX designers.
Flashback to dial up era. Love it.
As someone who returned from Shanghai in mid-November with a light cough that worsened into a diagnosed "upper-respiratory viral infection" for ~3 weeks of misery on the couch... I wish I could confirm one way or the other!
you know what makes people work hard harder than ""culture""?

poverty

>a less relaxing lifestyle and AMBITIOUS people.

all I see is `""hackers"" sitting 10h a day working while believing they're saving world`
> I don't think one can make the general statement that "when you publish a website, you intend for it to be aggregated." People have attempted to sue Google for exactly that sort of aggregation. And there are plenty of sites that disallow crawling via their robots.txt (for obvious reasons, we don't see them as often as they aren't reachable via search engines).

I know, I run such website myself (it’s where I upload family photos to share with other family members. Basically the good bits of Facebook but without having to deal with Facebook).

However your point is that my generalisation was unsound and thus far you’ve just listed edge cases. Edge cases I acknowledge, sure. But edge cases are allowed to exist when one uses generalisations because the purpose of a generalisation is saying “in general” (ie most of the time) and not “all of the time”.

So while your points are valid, they’re not a rebuttal.

> And certainly in the era when search engines were being developed (in the early '90s, when robots.txt came into existence), there was no such aggregation expectation because the technology wasn't there to do such aggregation yet

Aggregated index sites still existed back then. The difference between then and now was that they were curated by humans.

My first website was published in 1994 so I do remember the early web pretty well :)

> On the flip side, Google operates under the general assumption that in the absence of reasons to the contrary, there is nothing wrong with info aggregation. "Aggregation is okay" is their default stance. Organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible are tent-poles in their mission statement.

I’m well aware of Google’s original mission. I don’t think it’s fair to say this remains their current mission (maybe one of their missions but they’re a much larger organisation now and each department will have their own goals and measurements).

However the point of this discussion wasn’t what Google’s past nor present mission was/is, it’s whether it’s ethically sound in the very specific context of SSID aggregation.
Im in my late 30s and I have never had the flu. Ive had multiple terrible colds, but no flu.

The flus not hard to avoid, and might have gone extinct with the lockdowns

EDIT: i dont take the flu vaccine
This is a hilarious view on European work culture, and this is coming from a guy that is randomly out of the office (vacation) for months at a time.
Sorry to hear, but that is a rough set of circumstances to be in the current US healthcare system. The first situation is why employers should have been barred from offering any compensation other than money and time off.
Can you not just use a bunch of .txt files in a directory and whatever your usual editor of choice is at that point?
I think these kinds of Cybersecurity issues will be used opportunistically to justify regulations that infringe on privacy and give more access to governments. I'm reminded of how the lead up and aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks were used to justify the PATRIOT Act.
Say people with the skills and incentives to build these systems all go to faangs where they can make 500k/yr and have the budget to build the system since that system is the revenue generator.

Everywhere else it is 150k-200k a year with the bare number headcount and you are a cost center and treated like one.

So not surprising to me that every company in the world that has a large physical plant, so already has large single points of failure, doesn’t have redundant data centers or cloud based systems.

Given the number of hacks anything online literally can’t be secured, so they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

One answer is to go back to analog systems, which ain’t happening!
I just saw you and nickb’s posts from 2007 searching for something, good to see you again old timer. You still got your hair?
>Why did they do it? Because news website were heavy, slow, bad experiences compared to Facebook Instant news and Apple News etc. and so they those proprietary options were winning. AMP was designed to allow web sites compete with that.

They could have prioritized websites with fewer tracking/ads/scripts.

I don't believe that Google cares at all about whats good for the web. They simply want to exploit it and pocket the money (as opposed to re-invest any major portion back in the infra/community) - in that sense, they're no different than any other nameless/faceless corporation.
This is it. I'm a huge fan of Impractical Jokers for this same reason: they really make you feel you're part of them, they let you into the inside jokes, etc.

It's really just a group of people making funny content. They feel genuine and that draws people in.
Maybe one day the designers will think of a way to automatically pin all your programs in a logical order. And what if you could access them by quickly and imprecisely moving your mouse to a corner, clicking only once and navigating through a tree of folders. Maybe programs could even specify subfolders if necessary. Perhaps it could be integrated with Explorer. Oh wait! I'm thinking of the Start Menu!

By the way, let's further destroy any remaining metaphors. The Start Menu shouldn't be connected to the Start button. There should be no indication whether clicking a button does something or surfaces more actions. And let's also force the user to assume the boundaries of a scroll page and make them scroll for no reason.

That's my rant, and here's an opinion of mine:

It's true some programmers don't care about UI but it's also true that some do. They are the ones most qualified to be designing these sorts of interfaces as there are typically parallels between abstractions in the code and abstractions in the UI. What I see over and over these days, at multiple companies, is a designer/etc. type gets involved, thinks about a concept in a very local context, and comes up with something that looks good there. If they don't trim the fat I'm convinced we're witnessing the death of Windows. But what will replace it?
The loudest "anti" voices tend to be those who engage in the very thing they advocate against. It's so common there must be a term in psychology for it.
I rarely login to comment on hackernews, but is this just a simple html page with links to youtube videos?
The documentation of Delphi was pretty good. We received Delphi (1.0) on a Friday. I took the manuals home for the weekend to study. I started developing on Monday. On Wednesday we had an application with about 10 screens with access to a database and a working interface to a smartcard reader. Though Delphi certainly had its flaws, I still miss it for developing GUI programs.
I’m what you might call an Apple fanboy but man did that tick me off. We’d been integrated with dark sky for so many years and had to migrate to the NWS(?) API. It’s free, but so much more painful to use than darksky. We lost so much functionality in the process. Boo, Apple.
Thank you for this positivity! I'll try to remember this next time I am frustrated.
There are a myriad of reasons why people think covid isn't real. But for the segment of that population who think it isn't real when they are dying of it, the perceived severity of their experienced symptoms is a big part of it.
>What packages do you use for email?

As I said, VM (<https://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/>); 8.2.0b is recommended. Personality Crisis comes with it. Mairix (<https://github.com/vandry/mairix>) is separate and does not require VM.
I guess that means that since my father was in the military, I owe everything to the military. Right?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27466374 (753 points | 4 days ago | 619 comments)
Looks amazing, I will definitely check it out, any information in supporting other forms of styling, like CSS modules or styled components?
Hope they recover quickly. Southwest, in my experience, is the local (US) airline with the best customer service by far. And one of the best in the world.
According to the Wikipedia entry, unlike cows, "Australian kangaroos live natural lives, eat organic food, and are killed humanely."
I've only ever been accused of cheating once[1]; which is perhaps surprising given my poor study habits and high test scores. It probably helps that I tend towards a fairly deliberate pace on my tests so I was rarely done super-early.

1: That one time was not even in school; when I graduated I applied to OCS, and the recruiter told me point-blank that his superiors thought I cheated on the test. It was apparently the highest score anyone at this particular recruiting site had ever seen, and my grades were mediocre (see above about poor study habits).
This is wacky.

It's like you are about to have surgery and the surgeon insists on performing an animal sacrifice to ensure the success of the surgery.

I would not see such a surgeon and I will not see a psychologist who wants to involve imperceptible deities in my treatment.

Whatever his beliefs are he should not involve his patients in it.