skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Health economist here.

This matters A LOT. This is a big, big deal in terms of making prices higher.

For all of the sh?t pharma companies get about high drug prices (some of it quite well deserved), we spend _vastly_ more on hospitals - about four times as much. For a good source on specific numbers, see the Kaiser Family Foundation [1].

We spend a lot on healthcare in large part because hospital prices are high. Hospital prices are quite high in the US even though our utilization is lower than many other OECD countries. And let's not get started on our outcomes which (certain cancers excluded) are frequently a lot worse than countries which spend a small fraction of what we spend.

If some of these markets can be made more competitive (no easy feat - this executive order is step 0 at best), that has the potential to make prices meaningfully lower, though note that that would be achieved by an insurer excluding from its network one high-priced hospital in favor of a lower price hospital (or threatening to do so).

For a specific example in a large market, consider the case of the Jefferson health system in Philadelphia, which is now a nearly-20-hospital behemoth - the Philadelphia Inquirer did a nice article covering the release of documents as a result of an FTC lawsuit concerning their acquisition of the Einstein system [2].

It is clear from the unearthed documents that the CEO of the system understands perfectly well what he is trying to do with his acquisitions: "We [Jefferson] have to continue strategically on the path to essentiality and Einstein is the key".

What this means is that he wants his system to be so large and systematically important that every insurer in the market MUST deal with him (and pay his prices).

AFAIK the Biden administration dropped its objection to the acquisition of Einstein by Jefferson. Here their concern was one of the other problems in applied anti-trust law: it might be the case that a firm either gets acquired or exits the market (goes bankrupt). That is (apparently) a concern with Einstein.

Whatever the truth is about the future of Einstein absent a merger, I would expect that hospital prices in Philadelphia will increase at an even higher rate than before in the next few years.

[1] https://www.kff.org/interactive/health-spending-explorer/

[2] https://www.inquirer.com/business/health/jefferson-einstein-...
It's very enforceable, in a practical sense, for the majority of holders. Most people use services to exchange crypto for fiat. If you're in the EU, and use any such services, expect changes.

For the people that it isn't enforceable for, they're stuck either moving countries, hodling eternally, or laundering the cash they get in return for their crypto assets.
Source of such bold claim? You can absolutely pay cash for (almost) anything. Even if you're buying a house, you can pay cash if both sides agree to it, and the solicitors check everything is legit and you can prove where you got the money from - but there is completely nothing in law that would prohibit such transaction from happening.
Interesting take!

The US is a very big place, closer to the European Union than it is generally portrayed. And, within the US, each city is its own complex ecosystem (as all cities are).

In Baltimore, class boundaries and class-related issues are common discussion points. It is often painted in racial terms (especially to outside audiences), but it's pretty widely acknowledged from the inside that the racial issue is primarily a class issue. I think being a majority-black democratic city helps make this frank acknowledgement possible.

Baltimore also has some relatively old (in US terms) institutions that inherit some class politics from "the Old World." There is very much a "Johns Hopkins" subclass with its own rules of aristocracy...along with other institutions founded around the same time like Peabody Conservatory. In part because housing is cheaply available, Baltimore has a thriving arts scene, supported by a number of different colleges and universities, but especially MICA.

"The Wire" is a pretty good investigation of the class system in Baltimore in many respects, although I think it's a bit dated now. In particular, the Port City crowd often gets left out of casual conversation, but it's still a powerful force in the city.

This is very partial list, just trying to give a sense that there's a lot of awareness and acknowledgement of class within the city. The rules of conduct between the various groups are very, very different. More obviously so than in most other places that I've lived.

There is a pretty healthy tech/entrepreneur environment in Baltimore too, that lives sort of at the place where the various class-groups wash into each-other.
Ownership of the plates and ownership of the copyrights are separate issues. Did the bank legally own everything in the shop when the building was about to be torn down? If you could argue they didn't (and a lawyer would) then the sale to mayor would not be valid.
Maximalism and Virtualism
There are a few exceptions who report it all I'm sure. However a good waiter/waitress can make as much as a good software engineer working less hours. Good is key though, most don't have the personality to rake in the tips. It is a pleasure getting good service where the 25% tip is deserved, it is painful having to give a 10% tip for bad service.
Plaintiff and Defendant.

Complainant and Respondent
I watched it a day ago. It's not labelled full self driving, it's labelled full self driving beta "warning, the car may do the worst thing at the worst time, be alert"

What would be useful is to get the debug report, what it thought it was doing, what it was planning to do in the next second, would it have crashed?
How much money did they make with raised wages and no tips? Was the wage still not comparable to other jobs?
The polish way of avoiding terrorism is very simple: just don’t count it as terrorism. Voila, problem solved. Works just as well with COVID tests.
Just the other day I suggested using a yubikey, and someone linked me to the Titan sidechannel where researchers demonstrated that, with persistent access, and a dozen hours of work, they could break the guarantees of a Titan chip[0]. They said "an attacker will just steal it". The researchers, on the other hand, stressed how very fundamentally difficult this was to pull off due to very limited attack surface.

This is the sort of absolutism that is so pointless.

At the same time, what's equally frustrating to me is defense without a threat model. "We'll randomize this value so it's harder to guess" without asking who's guessing, how often they can guess, how you'll randomize it, how you'll keep it a secret, etc. "Defense in depth" has become a nonsense term.

The use of memory unsafe languages for parsing untrusted input is just wild. I'm glad that I'm working in a time where I can build all of my parsers and attack surface in Rust and just think way, way less about this.

I'll also link this talk[1], for the millionth time. It's Rob Joyce, chief of the NSA's TAO, talking about how to make NSA's TAO's job harder.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/hacke...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDJb8WOJYdA
Yes, and that's because administrative expenditures from healthcare providers (specifically in claims processing, again I do this every day for a living) amortized per capita like it's done in this study is negligible. There's an upfront cost to setting up EHR systems to facilitate claims processing, and there's a variable cost to handling claims disputes, but they're a drop in the bucket compared to the actual patient costs, which we know to be in the tens of thousands of dollars per capita.

There are a bajillion different reasons why raw costs are so high, but admin overhead isn't one of them.
Verizon will adopt Google Messages as the default SMS/RCS app from 2022
Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data
>> It's […] not any specific version of Windows.

> is bullshit.

No, it's not. NTFS is slow, even when it's running under Linux. NTFS has a very pronounced weakness, here.

Performance changing between Windows 7 and Windows 10 means that ON TOP OF NTFS there are other performance problems in Windows 10. It does not mean that it isn't an NTFS problem in the case of Windows 10 -- it means that it isn't ONLY an NTFS problem in the case of Windows 10. It's an NTFS problem in addition to whatever other things Windows 10 is screwing up, when compared to Windows 7.

The difference between Windows 7 and Windows 10 alone? Yes, that's entirely because of Windows 10 and not because of NTFS. There. I never disagreed with that.
I'm saying that you can represent probability distributions of classical objects as a "wave function."
Most credit and debit card tips are paid out to servers with cash from the register at the end of the day. The amount of the tips is recorded, but the recipients are not, and taxes are not assessed against the tips. Technically, servers are supposed to declare the cash they receive as income, but it is accepted practice not to do so.
You just outed yourself as a "power user". ;)
Just wait until either Amazon or Walmart or both block your account for reasons.

No soup for you.
I care about service. It is a pleasure being able to reward good service.
I'm surprised this one even needs to be spelled out. If it turns out WhatsApp/FB have access to message contents, they will be liable. Telegram conveniently (for itself) makes that only the case if a setting is changed.

This wouldn’t matter if people gave up arguing Telegram is secure and agreed that it’s just more convenient, but this in fact is a security-related thread.
theoretically it could work indefinitely. The only requirement is that the specific chosen Archeologist node or pool of nodes be active during the resurrection time. This protocol operates on Eth and AR blockchains so there isn't any duration limitations except the parameters set by the archeologist nodes.
The 10K limit is just there to reduce admin cost. A Blockchain can be datained continuously at almost no cost
It is rude, but it's necessary. Despite its pretensions of civility, Hacker News is not a truly civil place. It has it's fair share of trolls, cranks and sociopaths who will gladly spend hours stonewalling, derailing and sea-lioning you, just to piss you off, or score an endorphine hit from you. Many people aren't here to talk to you, so much as talk at you.

You have to learn when you're talking to one of the rare people who are interested in anyone but themselves or anything but their own point of view. As soon as you realize the other party is acting in bad faith, or you feel like there's little chance of further conversation not becoming hostile or just going in pointless circles, just leave.

That is the only way to stay sane here and avoid futile attempts at conversation degenerating into flamewars.
Shouldn't the assumption at this point be the opposite? Nearly every smart device ever released has either shown ads or tracked your activity and sold that to the highest bidder. Buying a streaming device and expecting the opposite at this point is crazy.
You asked for a scenario in which you need ftp in 2021. You handled my example by switching to another program, such as finder or explorer. That's fine. Do you agree that your user experience decreased by having to switch programs?
Possibly home-care workers, people who look after invalids with the type of arrangement where they drive to several different houses and provide a couple of hours of care at each. It doesn't require any particular qualification, but it's difficult and draining work that is not usually well-paid.
> that just goes to prove the point, that what's being taught and lauded so much as a panacea by some in the western world is potentially dangerous?

I'm not an expert or even regular meditator but I can understand some of the defensiveness here. There is an analogy I think holds up: Imagine a headline "How I hurt myself exercising", in a world where people are so unfamiliar with the idea of physical exercise they may arrive at the conclusion that exercise is dangerous.

The word meditation these days just means almost any sort of mental exercise. They could be totally different exercises, with totally different goals.

The sort of meditation that is often praised and practiced by the general public is usually something like 15 minute attempts to relax and be undistracted, in a world with constant distractions. The sort of meditation that you see people write about mental breakdowns about are usually 10 day silent retreats where you try to accept the impermanence of all things or achieve ego death or something.

It seems very similar to the dangers of physical exercise. In some types of exercise like weightlifting, technique is important to avoid injury, but you can still get injured with correct technique. Some extreme sports are inherently risky. Even doing light exercise some people may get unlucky and have a heart attack.

But despite all this saying "exercise is risky" is probably too broad a generalization. I think especially the sort of meditation you see commonly talked about and praised in mainstream culture is pretty far off from these intense 10 day retreats that the negative experiences are usually about.
>Very, very useful.

Just to frame it a particular way, biological systems are basically solved nanotechnology, extremely good, self-sustaining, resilient little machines that have spent a long time optimizing to be better and better. But all the designs are preset, if we can crack the code and design our own little machines, then amazing things like more plastic-like cellulose could be made, all sorts of problems are suddenly far easier to solve. But also a lot of new problems emerge that weren't even imaginable before, since the code being cracked is a big chunk of the code of life itself. So, yknow, playing God and all, so there probably will be some negative consequences of this too.
> Webserver access permissions vs. ftp server permissions for example?

What I'm saying is: is there a meaningful difference? Both need to bind to a port that is privileged and read files from the served directory. There is no difference between a ftpserver and a webserver from a permissions/privilege perspective.
Well, first of all the NGO group in its current form wouldn't exist if Israel regulated them, at the very least it wouldn't exist as a state-level equivalent actor.

Second of all if you can't push the costs high enough then it becomes time to limit the cash budget of state level actors. Which is hardly without precedent.

For some reason you seem to only be looking at this as a technology problem, while at the core it is far more political. Sure technology might help, but that's the raison d'etre of technology.
From the bureaucrat's point of view, all of your assets are "yours" contingent only on the goodwill of the relevant regulations. Parable of the scorpion and turtle; expect neither more nor less.
Leiningen is over 10 years old and has tons of pain points. For example, I bet you're not using ClojureScript, which is a mess of plugin debugging in leiningen. The goal of tools.build is to let you code your builds as simple functions that run at the REPL, which is awesome. No more finding misplaced keys in soup like https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/master/sample.... . If leiningen works for you, great, keep using it!
I'd kinda like to see Sats go up about 2 orders of magnitude.. I know its not possible - but a Sat. equal to a penny or 10 sats to a penny would just make the math so easy :-P
Ya, this accords with my thoughts when I first saw this bubble up, I don't understand the benefit over just using lein, which is very easy and straightforward (for my use case). I thought maybe this new approach is needed by people with complicated builds? My own builds have been quite simple so far, but I'm new to Clojure.
Maybe unpopular view, but another way is to just have stronger eminent domain. I don't think market price should be paid when land is assigned to infrastructure. I also think cities should use eminent domain (with nominal compensation) to acquire land before all zoning to be able to fund the urban infrastructure and control housing prices.
In life, people who are unable to successfully form coalitions, partnerships, and alliances tend to be at a disadvantage to those who can.
> It's all a big mistery.

Such is the nature of closed source black box software.
It makes me particularly angry that many like myse!f can't afford to buy a decent home nor a decent motor and have to make do.
I suppose we have two different “it”s happening here
It is nice getting a servant for just an hour to take care of you. Though culture is of course a factor, sometimes you miss the pleasures of home.
If a game gets DMCA’d, can the players who bought it still continue playing?
If anything, they're coming back.

> first, what do you do with the train during the day when nobody wants a bed (regular trains park at a station overnight and are ready to go the next morning).

Most trains are taken (empty) to a depot for cleaning and maintenance — the schedule is generally planned around this. It's also where the drivers turn up for work, and it's easier to cope with illness etc this way.

A few trains will be left near a station to run the first train(s) towards the depot in the morning.

Nevertheless, I imagine there are places where costs have been cut to the bone, and there aren't spare sidings for a night train.

> Third, how will you maintain the track if there are trains running on it

You plan the night train with sufficient slack in the schedule to take an alternative route. This can also help with the second point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25420455 from 7 months ago, etc.
I'll pass on Bari Weiss but Courtland did an Indie Hackers episode with two OnlyFans creators.

https://pca.st/a4elqfcm
More anecdata: my wife is a veterinarian and deals with endless angry customers who think she’s trying to rip them off or waste their time or is just plain wrong. I don’t know if there are more, but there are a lot.

But, she has an out fast food workers don’t. She tells the worst offenders, “If you’re not happy with the care you’re receiving, we’d be happy to give you Fido’s records so you can take him somewhere else.”

They shut up when you remind them you don’t have to fix their sick dog.
No, but my point is about complexity.

If all iMessage allowed were ASCII text strings, do you think it would have nearly the same attack surface as it does now, allowing all the various things it supports (including, if I recall properly, some tap based patterns that end up on the watch)?

In a very real sense, complexity (which is what features are) is at odds with security. You increase the attack surface, and you increase the number of pieces you can put together into weird ways that were never intended, but still work and get the attacker something they want.

If there were some toggle to disable parsing everything but ASCII text and images in iMessage, I'd turn it on in a heartbeat.
I agree. It’s a simple matter of supply and demand. Want more supply? Raise the price!
No, the point was you want don't get a warning and it will silently wrap. You can scroll up if you've forgotten.

And it is false. My default configuration C++ project created in Clion shows it very clearly, and even pesters to use int32/int64 over int/long.

But as usual the default fallback when you're wrong about C++ is "uh yeah but lotta footguns amirite"

As if there aren't enough that we need to start making them up...
What about generating your own wallet? Are EU citizens required to report that when they do?
That rule along with the rule mandating healthcare benefits for all full-time employees seem like the most obviously and clearly short-sighted policy blunders, only a government could make them.
At least for the author, it worked because he wanted it to work. "Seek and you shall find" is another spiritual principle. i.e. His faith in the process is what produced the results:

I began meditating in search for a decrease in stress and anxiety. I got that...

I've always found the "empty your mind" meditation quite hokey. Number one because I find that exercise is naturally meditative, and also healthy to boot. And second, in Christian prayer you are focused on something - whether God or Jesus or your cares or thankfulness, etc, and the point is the reverse - to fill your mind with what is good and holy. God has no interest in creating empty-minded self-focused people, he wants them full of thoughts of love, compassion, mercy, and others-focused on the good deeds that flow from that.
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I think it all reflects badly in how unsophisticated society still is with handling the most natural thing in the world--sex. The ridiculous morals of yesteryear still carry the day.
Quite the contrary. Books from 01997 or 01977 are not worth any less than books from 02017. Neither are web pages from 01997 (for example, http://canonical.org/~kragen/x-pretty.html). In fact, those web pages tell us things that are especially difficult to find out: they tell us what 01997 was like.

If you want to know what 02017 was like, you can ask pretty much anybody; most of them will remember pretty well. You may remember yourself. But if you want to know what 01997 was like, well, most people have pretty much forgotten. Did you know they didn't check your ID at the airport in 01997? People would resell non-refundable airline tickets in newspaper classified ads. Airlines wanted to stop this practice, but competition prevented them from instituting mandatory ID checks. Until 02001, when the US entered a permanent state of war on abstract concepts.

It's true that there are a lot of things that are true today that weren't true in 01997. But most of those things are not worth knowing, because they won't be true in 02045 either. In fact, a lot of them won't be true in 02022.

So, losing access to a web page from 02020 is bad, but losing access to one of the few remaining web pages from 01997 is much worse.

Why are there people who think otherwise? Because they never learned to think of the World Wide Web as the greatest library in human history, probably because they don't value libraries or learning; instead they think of it as a way to dunk on their political opponents and consume up-to-date memes from Instagram or Netflix.
Man, i feel like i'd miss so many interesting topics. Do you think this same goal might work if you limited it to, say, 10 bookmarks?

Survival of the fittest, you always compare it to the rest and if it's good enough, it goes in and something else comes out?
There seems to be an exemption for crypto transfers up to 1K Euro. Source: https://ec.europa.eu/finance/docs/law/210720-proposal-funds-...
Uh taking drugs and then meditating is probably going to lead you straight to the demon that disposed you to taking drugs to start with.
I really wonder if this is a real issue or not or is some edge cases being hyped up and being projected as a grave crisis?

For example while in earth shadow these satellites would be dark and not visible. Only in cases where observer on dark side earth surface while satellite is at elevation still able catch the sun, would these satellite be visible?

Somewhere I read that there are two kinds of arguments or dialogue that can be made: scientific (or rational) and poetic. One must be very careful of those who insidiously offer a poetic argument in the guise of a scientific argument. I fear that's what might be happening with the arguments on this subject.