skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflating the cost of procedures to drive up profits has been around a lot longer than the ACA. My biggest disappointment with the ACA was not fixing that very issue, where insurance companies and hospitals both have an incentive to maximize costs.
"A good example was our board was occupied by members who also held board seats at local [large] hospitals(Baptist / Methodist / Childrens), and vice versa"

Same for municipalities who have hospitals. The local government leaders like mayors or country boards are often connected with groups of doctors, developers and construction companies who make sure they make as much money as possible. Or intentionally mismanage a public hospital to then sell it to their friends for cheap who can then raise prices and rake in the money.
I have seen it happen many times. A lot of developers I've worked with do not understand the basics of a HashMap/HashSet. They just use the IDE to automatically create hashCode functions with mutable attributes or use classes created by other people and do not check if the hashCode implementation is correct.
I don't use K8s either, but we at least use an orchestration tool.

ECS Fargate has been awesome. No reason to add the complexity of K8s/EKS. We're all in on AWS and everything works together.

But this... you guys re-invented the wheel. You're probably going to find it's not round in certain spots too.
In positions we talk about the LD50. When it comes to environmental exposure of things like dust to incidents of lung damage, I'm not sure how we measure said effects. Yea, breathing any significant amount of dusts can be harmful, be we should be very concerned for products where insignificant amounts of material can be harmful.
They don’t need to go after the protocol they can simply put legislation to regulate how exchanges and other services that allow you to trade and easily transfer digital currency operate.
Sorry, looks like this is a bug with Flee that just popped up and it just stalls combat entirely. Trying to fix now.
I've seen it as well.

Usually it takes the form of "I added object x to a HashSet, then while processing things I update a field in object x used in the hashcode. Object x no longer appears in the set".
Sure, using systems built from inside the system. In said theoretical world, they may have different constraints and physics after all. (Only kinda serious)

Practically, the simulator theory may be testable, but probably not. Every religion I’ve run across is pretty clearly not okay to even test.

So that’s progress maybe?
Some of the better-supported pmOS devices are running mainline, such as the OnePlus 6.
So is voting
it's hosted on IPFS and the source code is on GitHub

https://github.com/Uniswap
Deurbanizing the Web
Are you disputing the fact that there are a very large number of people who charge money for instruction, training, retreats, etc. around the concepts of meditation and mindfulness?

Are you suggesting that "sitting for 20 minutes a day paying attention to your own attention processes" will lead to the profound revelations, mental changes, existential crises, etc. described in the article and in comments posted here?
I'm confused at your invocation of that quote. Are you saying the solution to this woman having to work a job she doesn't like is to force low income workers to work jobs they don't like? And the flood of low income workers who have no choice but to work these jobs will alleviate wealth inequality?
Your neighbors might call you "extremist" if your views were known. Perhaps your feeling on national figures is similarly affected by a Gell-Mann Amnesia effect of distance.
There aren't many rocket designs in use right now that have had more than 100 flights _total_. It's hard to properly evaluate the safety of a system when it only gets tested once a month.

As the cost of spaceflight comes down and launch frequency goes up, I suspect we'll start seeing reusable launch systems emerge that have had thousands of launches across dozens of rockets. Once that happens I think spaceflight's safety record will improve significantly.
Those are generally meant for single devices, hence aren't going to be on the kitchen counter. Instead you'd have to have a dedicated plug, circuit, and associated costs with that.
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He actually warned the public in his Farm Bank's sausage commercial with a motto like "Sausage that fits the bill" (in Turkish, fallic innuendo)
Just for my reference, what percentage of known but unfolded proteins (a wild guess is good enough), would you consider to be ab initio? How many don't have parts in any database?
Legally speaking, no you can't.

Where I'm from basically anything above 1000€ you're legally prohibited from using cash and might be f8ned for it.
A crypto wallet doesn’t have a location though. It exists simultaneously on every connected node.
Your cryptographic identity is arguably a secret in addition to whatever the private key is.
Sure, but the Copenhagen interpretation is basically rejected as absurdist and is unnecessary for the exact same reason. It's also trying to give a physical explanation for an artifact of one of the many mathematical representations of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger's Cat is a reductio ad-absurditum to disprove the Copenhagen interpretation!
I'd say there's a slight difference. The food is prepared without your interaction in an automat. You would just walk into the store and open the door for the food you want. Everything is pre-made but replenished only when someone takes it.
the West has its own spiritual traditions, that the type of people who meditation is pitched towards have completely abandoned. Mindfulness and such are spiritual practices stripped of their philosophical roots and repackaged in a consumable form.

If SE Asian companies were selling the Lord's Prayer as a quick de-stressing technique for busy atheist office workers, I'd say they were missing the point too.
> The bill also decriminalizes substance analysis tools

What does this mean, it was illegal to test our drugs in California?

Or does it mean that research facilities don't have to operate in fear at least from California authorities
Yeah the wording is confusing. But they are definitely using “docker run” rather than say “docker pull” then somehow extracting the image and executing the contents. That would be totally bonkers.
It really was a challenge. While oftentimes the dispatch information we get can be vague or inconsistent with reality (the number of times we go on structure fire calls that are really burn barrels, or a roof steaming in the sun, or a sunset reflecting in a window...), but with something like this, 911 is getting hundreds of calls and you know it's "real".

There's a lot of adrenaline. I think even the most seasoned, salty veteran would be lying if they said they responded to that call all cool, calm and collected.

But you go back to training. Which is instilled into you as "don't train until you get it right, train until you can't get it wrong".

Scene safety. For yourself, crew, bystanders, the involved.

Resource needs. More ambulances? Cranes?

Then setting up for a mass casualty incident - usually broken down into triage, treatment, and transport - assigning resources to those.

You're right though, it's hard - you want to not be bored, to have something to do, but you don't want someone to have a horrible day. There's a mental balancing act going on.

I remember one of my EMT students, on her first ride along, was for a bad trauma (felled tree bounced and hit someone in the back, causing significant spinal damage and chest injuries). We rendezvoused with a helicopter, intubated, did needle decompressions of the chest, and off they went. My student was a little 'off' afterwards. I asked if she was okay. "I feel so guilty!". I completely misread her, told her nothing was her fault, and said it was okay that she didn't participate as much as possible in patient care versus assisting. "No, I feel so guilty because that guy is so sick, but that was f-ing awesome to see!"

So yeah...
The simulation argument is exploring the likelihood that post-humans would simulate humans. Both post-humans and humans inhabit a universe with the same laws, so this isn't a fictitious universe created by a deity.

> Also, why the assumption that post-humans are running the simulations (as in the paper)? Couldn't it be any ultra-advanced civilization that's playing with an evolutionary simulation?

Sure, potentially. The paper makes no assumptions about the existence of other life forms, it instead extrapolates the likelihood of a simulation given the only intelligent life we know to exist: us.

Therefore you can see the simulation argument from that paper as a lower bound on the probability we live in a simulation. Positing the existence of other life forms that run random simulations can only increase the probability we're living in a simulation, assuming one of the other outcomes isn't more likely.
Ask HN: Is a device that will help detect skin cancer at home interesting?
Where is the bloat? There are default behaviours for equals and hashCode, so you never need to define them if they're not useful for your Object.
Anecdotally I've seen "counter service" restaurants and fast-casual eats popping up more and it definitely helps without sacrificing all of the human element. I'm sure it helps drive down personnel costs allowing you to have a single front of house and just runners for the food
The location is where the secret key is stored. Wallet data is distributed but wallet holders are not.

In any case this kind of thing will be implemented by mandating it at the exchanges where crypto is converted to/from traditional currencies, making it impossible to actually use crypto (legally) without complying.
"if even Liberal Bastion California could only pass this with a 57% majority, it likely doesn't stand much chance of being passed anywhere else."

Not right away, but never say never.

Having lived through the nightmare prohibition of the 80's and 90's, I am constantly amazed that cannabis is effectively legal (not just for medical purposes but recreationally) in so many places around the US today. I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.

Now psychedelics are on their way to being legalized in some places, and Oregon has decriminalized all drugs.

MDMA therapy is very close to being available on a prescription basis (if it isn't already), and that alone has the potential to signal a sea-change in the way the US and the rest of the world sees currently illegal drugs -- especially psychedelics.

Psilocybin is next, and once the mainstream culture starts seeing seriously broken people start functioning again after undergoing psychedelic therapy when the traditional medical establishment has so often failed them, they're going to start changing their minds about these substances, just as they have about cannabis.
Spotnet, a distributed Usenet indexer does exactly that.
In this case you're trading out your effort for the cash. I'm happy to trade my money, which I earn much more efficiently at my job than I can save by cooking, for the food so I don't have to put in effort and can enjoy my evening out with friends. I'm also more than happy to pay a couple of dollar premium to eat fast food than try to recreate it on my own while I'm running to work.
"This is why I'm interested why so many people are obsessed with the idea that we need to completely burn down our system and start anew to improve it."

I don't see how the current system can be reformed realistically. There are way too many well funded groups who benefit from the current situation and will fight any kind of change tooth and nail.

In my view Medicare for All is the only realistic path. It works already and could be tweaked to accept more people. Unfortunately Biden doesn't want it so that opportunity is gone for the next decades probably.
Yeah ok I did not know that, but compared to software it’s still practical to test the design for all known inputs.
This is, as stated, again classical correlation. Where have you used the fact that the observation of one marble affects the observation of the other?

Your above experiment could be done with just a simple bag and two marbles without the need to contort yourself around looking or not looking.

Here's an attempt to fix your example:

You and your friend each take a marble out of the bag, go very far away from each other and make an agreement to look at the marble at a given time in the future and not before or after. If you look at the marble before or after the agreed upon time, the result will be random. If you both look at it at the exact same time, the marbles will be equal.

Maybe you have many bags of marbles so you can do this experiment many times over. You decide to fudge some results by looking at some marbles before or after the agreed up time. You and your friend will see the same marble color for all marbles seen at the agreed upon time and potentially different marble colors for ones that were opened at different times.

How do you tell if your friend fudged the result? How does your friend tell if you fudged the result? The marbles have a 50-50 distribution of being red and blue, and the extra probability of it flipping to one color or no if it's fudged is lost in that noise.

If you then reconvene and compare notes on what you observed, you can see a very clear correlation of which experiments were fudged and which weren't but now you've done the work of getting in close proximity and destroyed any chance of faster than light communication.

I'm not a physicist and I don't have a deep knowledge of this stuff. This is a toy example and may or may not be a valid reduction of quantum entanglement. The above explanation is my current understanding, which could be wrong.
I would not agree. You can disagree and push back and be professional. As a servant, your job is to say yes.
Oregon already decriminalized Psilocybin, LSD, and IIRC MDMA as well.
I think rings are kept to a minimum as evenly punching twenty holes in twenty sheets of paper at once would be difficult.
Fine, you got me: the assertion that is obviously true, but goes further in that it invalidates the need for any of this discussion. If your goal was to engage me in a thought-measuring contest, sure, you win: you've spent more time thinking about this utterly ridiculous nonsense than I have. Congrats?
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> Most people don't have that drive. Most people just want a paycheck and a low-risk life.

If I look at the size of the median house, the price of the median car, that doesn't seem true. If most people would be satisfied with a basic income scheme and nothing more, why aren't most middle class people trying to save half their paycheck and retire before 50?
Hey, it does not claim to be headless. Headless Recorder is the name we picked trying to sound as generic as possible in terms of tools (Puppeteer, Playwright or whatever came up in the future). Headless stands for the code that is being generated and not for the tool
Straw men are not helpful. I never suggested removing a language used by millions of people. Let me be more specific: Pruning support for old formats and protocols is a feature, not a bug.

Let's pick something else from this golden age of "browsing HTML pages via the FTP protocol" that people on this thread keep professing: XBM images, the very first image format ever supported by browsers, and used when Marc Andreessen literally invented the IMG tag [0].

XBM is a crazy simple image format [1]. Yet, because it is essentially C code that defines a buffer size and then gives you a char array, caused security bugs over and over [2] in all major browsers. Since virtually no one was using XBM images, the browsers all removed support for it [3].

The browsers removed code that was already written, and abandoned functionality that had already existed, because it reduced attack surface supporting something that virtually no website was using. Exactly like FTP support.

0 - https://eager.io/blog/to-what-extent-did-marc-andreessen-inv...

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_BitMap

2- https://www.cvedetails.com/google-search-results.php?q=xbm+i...

3- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_BitMap#Support
absolutely, or just shell to python if you want to use something from a python lib
> If raising the prices drives away customers, you have now lost a notable value if you try to sell. Brand perception is (almost) everything. Unless you offer something truly unique or exceptional, you're replaceable in just about every market.

Agreed in general terms, but who is going to buy a business that cant even cover its costs? It sounds like this business has a negative expected value without raising prices.
The chart very likely has the correct direction, and the numbers are probably completely wrong. From another point of view, the literal phase division there is nonsensical, but the idea it communicates isn't.

But that's not relevant. What's relevant is that this is not how you do research. You can't just assume that. Yeah, there are plenty of examples of high-cost production failures. There are plenty of examples of low-cost production failures too, and plenty of examples of projects that failed because people spent all their time fixing the same few issues. If you want to state it as a fact, you have to count all of those and see how they compare.
Genuine Q: is $25 a lot for a burger in a restaurant (including tax, like in Australia)? I ask because I see burgers in mid range restaurants for $14-$20 here in NYC, and then there's the 8.825% tax. 25 AUD is ~ $18 USD, which seems about right.
> And to the shareholders. Who may choose to build casinos in the desert with that money.

There's a reason SpaceX isn't public, and it's precisely that. Starlink was, since its conception, and still is, a way to fund the R&D for opening access to Mars.
There's no actual web site?
If you win it is checkmate right
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Whether $10M is a lot of money to the NSA or not is also only part of the story. The remaining part is how much they value the outcome they will achieve from the attack.

That reminds me somehow of an old expression: If you like apples, you might pay a dollar for one, and if you really like apples you might pay $10 for one, but there's one price you'll never pay, no matter how much you like them, and that's two apples.
From this image it looks like they'll be visible pretty high in the sky so it'll be an issue over a significant portion of the sky. If you've ever looked at the ISS that orbits below the Starlink constellation so it's more in the Earth's shadow than the Starlink constellation will be and it's visible all over the night sky.
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Stupid question: how do you know your isolation is correct?
> The problem is that state-level actors don't just have a lot of money; they (and their decision makers) also put a much much lower value on their money than you do.

They also have something else most people don't have: time. Nation-states and actors at that level of sophistication can devote years to their goals. This is reflected in the acronym APT, or Advanced Persistent Threat. It's not that just once they have hacked you they'll stick around until they are detected or have everything they need, it's also that they'll keep trying, playing the long game, waiting for their target to get tired or make a mistake, and fail to keep up with advancing sophistication?

In your example, you spend $1M on your home network, but do you keep spending the money, month after month, year after year, to prevent bitrot? Equifax failed to update Struts to address a known vulnerability, not just because of cost but also time. It's cost around $2billion so far, and the final cost might never really be known.
> Bitcoin isn't a company and you don't need to ask companies to transfer crypto assets

You don't need to ask a company to commit a crime you're still going to get punished.....

The vast majority of EU citizen are using some kind of exchange as an onramp and offramp. Those exchanges will do KYC and happily turn over any addresses they send/receive crypto too.
I do too. I'm just more turned off when there's too much back and forth argument that is not useful to anyone else. It's not to hard to scroll away, but with too much of it, it becomes an annoying distraction.
China can do this because their technocrats have no issue demolishing the homes of half a million rural folks to help the urban elites. There are trade offs in a democracy, it is designed to be slow because as a feature everyone has a voice.

We don’t get shiny trains, but we might have a more stable form of government?
I'm skeptical that you can build a profitable competitor by reselling amazon/walmart.
Very true. I think generally all big companies are bad for the economy in the long run and large company size should be discouraged.
Combining the two links, it looks like this:

> I'll try to describe it in a different way. In the link that I provided, the US pays (on average) $8,021 per capita on non-admin costs, while peer countries pay $3,602 per capita on non-admin costs. Even accounting for the fact that 25% of a hospital's revenue is administrative, it 1) is not at all the case that admin costs are in the same ballpark as the difference between the two ($4,500 per person), 2) doesn't do much to bridge the non-admin gap, which forms the lion's share of the cost difference, since if you zero out the admin costs, even the costs that provider offices pay (25% of their total revenue), you're still left with the fact that the US pays over 2x peer countries.

Isn't a useful analysis.

The admin costs in the US are roughly $937 + ($8,021 * 0.25) = $2942.25—and possibly worse, depending on how much of the stuff from other categories might fall under "hospital budget", though that may be evened out by the difference between budget and revenue (which is the biggest unknown factor here, trying to combine the info from the two links).

Hospital admin costs in comparable states seems to be 20% in the worst case plus that $201 of non-hospital admin costs. Worst case, $201 + ($3,602 * 0.20) = $921.40

How is that not a very large part of the difference in costs? It looks like ~40% of the difference in total per capita spending, in fact. I'm sure that's a little off, but where am I going wrong that allows it to become negligible in your analysis?
Are you a semi-large American company?

Then you are an actual target for state level actors.
The problem stated is that instead of being able to find widely cited or good papers, any amount of research involves trudging through hundreds of bad, off topic, outdated, unrelated, or otherwise useless papers, just to get an idea of what is being talked about in the field. And even when getting there, what you find may be completely non-practically relevant in the end.

Just saying "yeah thats how things work in academia" Doesn't help anything; this article is pointing out a very real problem: the state of things now is a mess.
Comparative study of field of view algorithms for 2D grid based worlds
Not seeing a huge difference. The hardware lighting up the fiber will go through the same obsolescence curve, and the airwaves are even more permanent than that fiber will be.
the Soto style of zazen meditation is about emptying the mind though.

I think the parent misunderstands meditation though - it's not an empty practice for the self-absorbed; it's only been repackaged that way as mindfulness.
Teens around the world are lonelier than a decade ago
Why would you buy Thai mushrooms?

I grew up in rural Scotland, and in Autumn mushrooms were everywhere. Seriously, in any park, field of grass, or area given over to wilderness. We'd forage for only an hour or so, and come back laden with hundreds of them. I understood from friends down south that it was the same situation there.
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