skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The patient and doctor are free to negotiate a deal that avoids third parties such as the insurance company.

The patient chooses to hire an insurance company (better labeled a "managed care organization") to manage their care, because they do not know what they are buying, or how much it should cost.

>They can't always do what's best for the patient, only what the insurance company agrees with.

Because that is what the patient can afford.

Note that when the previous commenter states this:

> everything to do with maximizing insurance based revenue.

They are referring to requirements frequently set forth by the government or their employer. Some of them are called "star ratings", and the government goes to managed care organizations (who also sell health insurance), and task them with implementing standards of care and star ratings and a very complex system that determines who gets paid how much and who is incentivized to do what.

It is very naive and counterproductive to label insurers as the bad guy because "insurers maximizing revenue", because it lets go of the real issue, which is that

A) healthcare is hard, and measuring results even harder
B) supply of healthcare is low relative to demand
C) the limited supply of healthcare has to be allocated in some manner

It is a very complicated subject, that involves many players, incentives, opportunities for corruption, people with good intentions, and no easy answers.
Not mutually exclusive. You can build systems that work well together and are easy to use without lock-in. Users should want to use the product because it is the best, not because they feel trapped.
Except with catching serial killers or pedophiles. Then its pretty fair to call us naïve.
Many IoT devices refuse to work if they're not allowed to "phone home".

Someone recently gifted me an RGB lightbulb which demanded to be added to my WiFi network to set it up. None of the functions would work without the lightbulb being connected to the internet, even after setup (except on/off). The bulb would only take commands from the remote server! Infuriating. They also used some TLS so it wasn't straight-forward to spoof the packet.

It's been collecting dust not being plugged in since then. I feel bad not using it, and didn't tell my friend who gifted it to me. But I'm not going to let that thing run in my network sending usage statistics to the company. Or worse, get exploited. The lightbulb runs a web server, for fucks sake. What a dilemma.
How does this differ from traditional brick and mortar retail? The retailers posed a barrier to selling to consumers at scale and wholesale prices, I think, were closer to 50% of retail markup.

Sure, manufactures could find small retailers and build a following from there, or find ways to market direct to consumers. But it seems like that is still true, if not even easier in the modern age. So what is different. I ask this not rhetorically, clearly there are differences. Is the scale the difference? Was it always wrong and we just didn't see it a clearly? Is the smaller number retailer the major factor?
Yes, no doubt there's been some solutions within Linux distributions that think more outside the box (though I'm not familiar with Nix). There's many home-grown solutions in production environments within orgnisations, too.

As you suggest, these are probably 'pieces' of the puzzle, by no means 100% identical to how containers are used today. But I think we'd have ended up in a different place.
It would be easy to translate any book into any other book (if every language was a one-to-one variant of each other with no differences in slang or metaphor or cultural backdrop that converts simple turns of phrases into a medley of aphorisms each deserving of their own short stories.)

Other than that all you need is a camera, a computer and a dictionary.
As the self-declared benevolent dictator for several trips I've planned, I agree with a lot of what you said.

I've led a couple of great group trips to places I'm passionate about by emailing a group of friends and essentially saying "I'm going to go to X, here's what I think is amazing about X, and here are the proposed dates", and essentially getting folks to opt-in or not. Once the trip is locked in, there's certainly some discussion and folks say "I heard there's Y in X, let's do that!" and there's probably time to for that activity. But yeah, you need one master of the itinerary.

I do disagree somewhat about the cost splitting thing though - I've had several good experiences using SplitWise, although the groups have been relatively small - from 3 to 6 people or so. Maybe if you have more people, or weird family dynamics, or technophobes, it doesn't work out.
I did not use powersehll but recently I was using a CLI program that was outputting in a tabular format but it was not something well defined that I could easily (with my very limited shell experience) parse. Maybe it was the program fault that it did not offer some CSV output format or maybe there is a natural way of handeling it but is hard to google for it.
AVIF should be completely cancelled in favor of JXL. A native designed-for-images codec is so much better than "use video codec for one frame" in countless ways. Indeed progressive being probably the biggest one.

Oh, and Apple might be less hostile to it, because it's not based on an "anti-MPEG" video codec.
This is not a good enough outcome. It's never been about IAP methods. The problem here is that Apple is stopping you from using software on a physical device you own.

Very disappointing ruling.
From what I have seen is that all the good comedians are very good observers and think a lot about how society works and why things are the way they are. It seems the funniness comes second after that. Bad comedians try to be funny but have no depth in their jokes.
I think I'm missing something. Where is the government trying to force vaccines? That's not my understanding of the announcement.
Have you tried xonsh?

It's cross platform, and while the language is Python, it is a modified Python so it's not nearly as verbose. You can write stuff like "cd directory" in your Xonsh script, as well as capture output of commands - No need to import os, shutil, subprocess, etc.

Been using it for a number of years. Really happy with it.
Error Handling Links
Splitting the Const Generics Features
These two check that something doesn't type check. They don't really check the logic you've coded in your types (and which will type check).

For example, a real-world situation from Turkey (looking at my check from Marks and Specner): goods from category 1 (clothes) have VAT of 8%, from category 2 have VAT of 18 % (plastic bag), and that if a person buys 2 items they get a 15% discount, and if they buy 3 items they get a 25% discount, and there are additional discounts on various goods.

This will type check even if you code it as "if there is 1 item, do a 40% discount, and assign VAT of 2%".
I've been using this the last while and it's shocking. Can't help but think a lot of the trackers would have been considered spyware 15 years or so ago.
I used to think this way, it can be really dangerous to assume level of intelligence from background information.

More to the point, hackers can be very motivated to break things in a way that the average developer is not motivated to secure them.
https://archive.ph/YoRVC
The assignment of fault and it being a desired outcome are rarely mutually exclusive concepts.
My experience from working on the contractor side, and some friends' experience from working on the government side, is that the people on the ground are generally aware of it almost immediately. The real problem is that, oftentimes, rules that legislators have imposed with an ostensible purpose of preventing fraud and waste ironically make it almost impossible for anyone who cares and is close to the problem to do anything about it.

In short, this idea that public servants are ineffective has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. But it's also a meme that is incredibly convenient for legislators and lobbyists, because it's so easy for them to co-opt for their own gain.
Twice weekly: Squat, Press, weighted Pull-ups.

Once weekly: Squat, Press, Deadlift.

This has done wonders for my back, especially my upper back, and my posture.
Next.js Conf: Celebrate 5 Years of Next.js
Have you worked with this sales guy already ? If not, I wouldn't offer equity right away. Let him prove his worth for at least a year and then go from there. Also if/when you do equity, make sure you do vesting.

In a lifestyle/bootstrapped business, be very careful of offering equity. Pay generously if you can but if you give someone equity, now they own a piece and if they are not worth it, you will have a hard time getting rid of them.
How do you prove you have natural immunity? Because it's not always clear whether you have natural immunity, even with bloodwork. Is it antibodies, t-cells, or some other mechanism that's providing immunity? What if we test for one thing and are wrong? The immune system is a complex thing.
"Desktop OS's and software" is an arbitrary definition. Smartphones are just computers that make calls. Steve Jobs even famously said that the iPhone ran "OS X" when it was first launched.
I imagine it would have hurt their case if someone else, say Unity Technologies, sued. I really do think that Epic would have failed on the standing argument and not have even gotten to the fact finding stage of the trial where it could hurt their case.

On the claim that Epic won, the courts finding on standing is already "just barely"

> Thus, although the question is close, the Court finds that Epic Games has standing to bring a UCL claim as a quasi-consumer, not merely as a competitor.
> Most bots aren't marketing bots, they're sort of... Goofs, or utilities, or projects.

In my experience those kinds of boutique/indie bots appear to make up a tiny percentage of total bots. If you have data that shows otherwise, I'd appreciate if you could share it.
She's been on Planet Money and discussed her ideas, where they come from, etc before. I don't think I'd quite do them justice explaining them myself. Apparently she's now a chair of the FTC as well (which I was unaware of).

If you want a raw view of her views on anti-trust: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.p...

In one of the podcasts she dives into the history of anti-trust. She talks about how after Standard Oil we convinced ourselves everything was a monopoly and stifled a lot of innovation, which led to some reforms later and the anti-trust we have today which are demonstrably too permissive. She has picked on Amazon (as a wider corporation) quite a bit, but a lot of it has to do with the practices of their ecommerce division and the extent to which Amazon can compete with it's vendors. Basically, she believes there's a middleground to be found between the two anti-trust time periods and that it's important to be concise in how we do that. You can see some of her specific criticisms in the article above.

A more full bibliography can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Khan

I highly suggest "The Separation of Platforms and Commerce" as that's the one that resonated with me, having worked in the startup world.
this is interesting. IIRC mangroves are by contrast a problem in hawaii where they were brought in, but terrible because they are an invasive species and extremely difficult to eradicate.
I once heard “when talking to senior leadership, say as much as you can in as few words as possible”.

Interestingly, I heard it from some actor being interviewed on the Howard Stern show.
Companies will want it, but I'm not sure users will. Apple does a really good job of warning me, I feel, and centralizing subscription cancellation etc., and that's huge. Like, if I have to go to your app--or worse, your website--to cancel a subscription? I'm gonna just not use your stuff, because I'm going to forget about it until you whack me for another year or whatever.
"Everything is Security Fraud" - Matt Levine (Money Stuff guy)
I think we agree more than we disagree, here :)

I've got no quarrel with anything you've said, except: item 4. In the parent post, your exact criticism was:

user reads info, user checks to see if it's labeled 'Officially A Bot', user does NOT find that label, and then item 4, user trusts info that harms them.

I'm sorry, I have a darker view of all this. The whole point is to push info (whether it's secret paid product promotion, political propaganda, or literal advocacy of genocide) into normalized social discussions and past any initial network of bots, and the whole point is that it's unreasonably effective on social networks where strangers can seem like 'friends'.

Obvious bots vs. surreptitious or human-controlled 'bots' is an almost meaningless distinction here. Also, you're correct in that 'agent' can be like a corporate 'registered agent' but also can imply 'secret agent', as in hostile foreign spy who doesn't have your best interests at heart. An intelligent operative trying to hurt you, not simply a 'robot' with no interests at all.

We're talking about and agreeing on all the same things. I'm saying the real key to managing the damage of this is not 'label things a bot', the real key is to broadly communicate the idea, 'this whole platform is trying to maximize social contagion and make you feel like large numbers of strangers are your trusted personal friends'.

And they're not, they're really, really not.
Ask HN: Intermediate Coding for Kids
What do people on here think are the best "intermediate-level" tools for teaching kids to code?

There are some great beginner-level apps like Box Island, Lightbox and programmable robots. My son loved those, but outgrew them.

After that, Swift Playground does a great introduction to coding with actual text. My son loved it, but there isn't much to do once you've finished the Learn to Code activities.

There is also Scratch, but my son tended to just diddle around with the games rather than learn anything.

Then when you get really advanced, you can solve puzzles in Leetcode, and do various coding tutorials that assume you can code pretty well. My son isn't ready for that stuff yet.

So what is the right stuff for a kid who has outgrown the Learn to Code 1&2 tutorials in Swift Playground, but isn't ready for Leetcode? He's a kid, so he needs structured exercises he can complete, or otherwise he'll just diddle around. And he needs something visual so it's entertaining.
Yes, the address is clearly chosen to lend credibility, as if the ”owners” were already well off, in no need of making someone else part with their money…
"We violate rights therefore it is fine to violate rights"

The whole idea of rights is that they cannot be violated, period. There's no reason to even have for example a UN Declaration on Human Rights if they can just be violated for Good Reasons™. Rights are absolute or they don't exist.
Warframe, one of the most active userbase game on Steam, literally has a dedicated page just to purchase a platinum coin in their own website [1]

[1]:https://www.warframe.com/buyplatinum
Then high street margins for physical games would really surprise you...
You are very confused.
Courts don't make calls as to whether companies are monopolist in general. The judge doesn't even try to do that (though someone is trying to make it seem like they have).

They make a call about whether a company has monopoly power in a specific market defined in a specific case.

In this case, the court does not believe Apple is a monopolist in a specifically defined digital gaming market.

That has no bearing or relevance on whether they are a monopolist in some other defined market (or even on a different day in the same market!)
I don't know what is about swipes but those are underused I agree. Does Tinder have some kind of patent on swiping decisions?

What you describe here is in my opinion more interesting. Because that would be more like choosing which "all inclusive" most of people want. If typing is cut to minimum and as you mention there are mostly pretty pictures that one has to swipe left or right it might work.
Define your use of charlatan, would you?
There are 2 types of technologies: the ones that people complain about and the ones that nobody uses.
> The thing is no customer wants to use any company's half-assed bug-riddled purchase or subscription system. Every iOS and macOS user will prefer to use the Apple system.

the apple developer ecosystem (with regards to subscriptions and app purchases) in my experience has been quite awful for a multi trillion dollar company. really bad API docs, really poor experience around understanding what is even happening in their black box. i'm honestly astonished at how "unfinished" the whole experience feels. something like Stripe is on another level
I returned two copies of Pirates! thinking the disk was not working until I realized you had to boot from the game disk and not DOS.
Yes, if you're learning arbitrary lists of items such foreign language vocabulary, or a medical student memorizing the Latin naming for all the various bones of a human body then spaced repetition is what to use. I've just never had an analogous situation in programming.

That's the easiest and most known use case of anki, but hardly the only things suitable.

In any case, memorization is always made easier if you understand a concept, and yes you can ask conceptual questions in anki.

For example of a conceptual question: Q: What is the purpose of an aileron? A: To control the roll of an aircraft.

Then you ask the question: Q: The roll of an airplane is on what axis? A: longitudinal axis.

Or maybe this prompt? Q: What component controls the roll of an aircraft? A: The aileron.

Then you can continue to ask question like what forces limit the speed of an airplane, or what makes it fall, or what control surface do you need to use if you want to increase elevation of an airplane, and so forth.
I started using Privacy.com recently for this purpose, and it’s pretty great. I can create a throwaway credit card for a single merchant, and input a fake name and address when checking out. I can even set limits or cancel them whenever, so impossible to cancel subscriptions can’t get me.

Its also a better concept than Apple Pay since I can use it anywhere credit cards are accepted. Idk if they can send you a physical one to swipe at scanner though.

Only crappy part is that they seem to be overzealous with their antifraud systems, so I was locked out after my first purchase. Customer support cleared it up quickly, but thats a pretty awful onboarding experience.
> To think otherwise is an exercise in wishful thinking on your part, or not really understanding how money works.

I think you are missing that, with USD, there's actually no distinction between a dollar and a dollar created by fractional reserve banking. They can be used for exactly the same things. With BTC, it's fundamentally impossible for that to be true.

You are comparing fractional reserve dollars generated by a bank to a fractional reserve BTC created by an exchange but it's not an apt analogy. The bank has a charter from the government to essentially create real dollars.

I'm certainly not claiming that it's impossible for a BTC exchange to be insolvent, but doing so is likely illegal and, although it may appear to, does not add net new BTC into the system. Fractional reserve banking adds net new dollars into the system which can be redeposited into a different bank (or the same bank) to once again generate new dollars. Won't work with Bitcoin.

Let's take existing exchanges and brokerages: Coinbase, Robinhood, and PayPal all keep full reserves or lie about it.
>Is it because they die sooner and more suddenly?

Fun fact, obese people actually have lower lifetime healthcare costs than healthy people.
Most of the apps that Apple sells are already in highly competitive markets like music, video streaming, cloud storage, etc.

I really don’t feel bad if some developer selling a leveler app for 99¢ goes out of business because Apple pre-installs a free leveling app on the iPhone.
There’s some plan for a common bootstrap and firmware interface. Personally though I think they should standardize on IEEE 1275 Open Firmware. It’s a standard, there are multiple good open source implementations with reasonable licenses, it’s lightweight, and it’s extremely flexible. Who needs the complexity of UEFI?
The background noise machine installed when my office switched to an open plan drove me absolutely nuts. Some engineers used to turn it off every morning, until management put the switch behind lock and key.

I eventually just started wearing noise cancelling headphones every day.

I went back to the office recently after being away for over a year. It was almost completely empty since everyone has transitioned to working from home. Still that damned white noise machine was on full volume...

I understand a lot of people aren't bothered by white noise, but some people really are, which is another example of why open offices are a bad idea.
Oh I agree with you. I think 30% is highway robbery and that opinion hasn't changed since day one.

But also just take a look at the number of subscriptions we all have these days - Entertainment stuff (Spotify/Music, Netflix/streaming, HBO, Xbox Live), Donations (Charity, Github Sponsors), Software (Password managers, backup solutions, Jetbrains, Adobe), Membership (Prime/equivalent, internet, mobile), ... yada yada yada. It's a huge unwieldy list.

I have tried my best to keep at least all the app ones in iTunes/Apple (in my case - weather app, dating apps, productivity apps). My alternative is I just won't subscribe. I'm sick of the subscription economy as it is. This would be the last straw. If Bumble tells me I have to give them my cc info and have to call them to cancel (like NYT does), I just won't subscribe.

Essentially I'm subscribed to some of these apps because I'm not being forced against my will to stay subscribed using terms and conditions that are outrageous (looking at Adobe with its annual contract).
Looking back on 30 years of Linux history with Red Hat's Richard Jones
Fungible Slices of Non-Fungible Tokens
Forget Robinhood. Syndr will bring meme stocks to the global masses
KDE Announcement that Plasma will be retired
Apple is probably going to make a list of "allowed" payment partners. This decision doesn't seem to disallow them to have a say in that.
While I don’t have time to do that right now, I will make a point to do so. I’m curious now, and haven’t enumerated all of the resolutions before.

I have read a ton of contemporary writings by the various politicians who signed Arkansas’s OoS, and with a couple of exceptions the vast majority claimed at the time to have supported secession in response to the military actions of the Union. There were relatively few slaveholders in the state at the time, and they were largely concentrated in the Delta, along the border with Mississippi.
What does not allowing alternative browsers (only skins) on their best-selling platform have to do with that?
I'm sure this exists in some form somewhere but something I really want is a way to pull up my command history numbered with a shortcut and then punch that number to run the last command than mindlessly hitting the up arrow for several seconds (why do we do this?). If anyone knows anything that has this functionality please share, thanks.
Who is we? I imagine app makers want this, but as a user I do not care to enter my credit card details just so they can save on their cut to Apple. It’s understandable from their POV, but not my problem.