skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. All you have to do is look at the chargemaster flat files that have been coming out. There are literally two different columns for insured and non-insured procedure cost and for every hospital I've obtained a chargemaster flatfile for this is the case. Other comments in this thread have backed this up, and have even claimed their hospital's chargemaster had the non-insured pricing column hidden potentially in bad faith.

2. I mean, I have no idea but for-profit insurance companies aren't out there really blaming anyone as they're just a faceless corporate entity. I've only heard hospital staff and normal people blame the uninsured.

3/4... no - poor people don't have insurance. I've grown up around people who were not economically privileged/who were struggling and this is just 100% untrue that poor people can get insurance as you posit. I've had private insurance and it's just not something someone can afford if poor. And, if you're referring to things like "Christian Healthcare Ministries" they're straight-up scams. Outside of that, there is no way American restaurant owners, retail franchises, etc will cover an unskilled laborer's health insurance - that just does not happen here.

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> I still don't *believe our healthcare costs are due to the uninsured.

When it comes to hospital billing - yeah. It is a huge thing that's baked into their SOP. See item #1 above.
Because it is finite and has a cycle much longer than our generations of humans has. We're essentially creating problems instead of planning ahead.

That said, the same can be said for a lot of other thing like natural resources we drain faster than we replace them. Perhaps those can be classified similarly.

Beyond the limited availability of resources in the forms what we can make use of them, there is processing of those resources which has its own set of problems, as well as normal use of processed resources and waste management of used resources.

Example: Aluminium as we know it takes a lot of energy to get to a state where we have a use for it (parts of machines, or foil for example) but once it is in that state and we treat it properly it can be used and re-used and recycled almost infinitely with comparatively minute amounts of energy. Imagine such a process for other resources where we won't have to constantly input new raw materials and energy to get more of the stuff we want.

This is really hard for oil after we have changed it to whatever form we wanted to use it for; turning it back into oil or turning used oil into usable oil isn't exactly a viable process.
> Once again government creates a problem, then people look to government to solve the very problem it created which creates even more problems

What? And your answer is the private sector? Yeah i totally love how Bill Gates is trying to make Indian and African farmers dependent on Monsanto/Bayer's toxic GMO seeds. [1][2]

I don't think that the dichotomy that you allude to, between the government/state and business/companies, makes much sense:

1.) A national government is what creates the laws and maintains the registry of land/resources (land/resources which are owned by companies)

2.) A company is literally a database entry in a government database, the state issues the 'birth certificates' and 'death certificates' (folding a business or bankruptcy) for companies.

3.) When a profit-seeking company builds up knowledge today they want to enclose it by using intellectual property laws (useful for a monopoly).

4.) Competition between nations leads to useless competition, because often the same research and development has to be done twice (or just, every time again for each new country) - wasting resources and labor. The working class pays for all this dearly, since they are not part of the propertied class and are thus completely at the mercy of their whims and with only their labor to sell.

So yeah, the nation state needs the concept of companies, and companies are only possible by having a state. Capitalism and nationalism/patriotism is the name of this game.

Imagine if all of humanity pooled all it's non-scarce resources, removing all knowledge gatekeeping apparatus that blocks the diffusion of innovation by creating artificial scarcity where none need be. Imagine all technology and science open access for the benefit of the working class. What a dream. [3]

[1] https://grain.org/en/article/6511-why-the-bill-gates-global-...

[2] https://grain.org/en/article/5910-under-the-cover-of-philant...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/j...
Several Pacific island nations adopted DST so they could be the first into the year 2000 for tourist purposes. As a result, some countries are only in DST for a month or two out of the year.
This is not a cheap/neglected form of "total shit." They put a lot of man hours into this cartoon.
> The ruling clearly stated that Apple has to allow other payment providers inside the apps

This was widely misreported as true, but is in fact not what the judge ruled. If you read the full ruling rather than just the single page injuction, it seems that the only thing that Apple is being forced to allow is in-app communication about / linking to places outside the App where purchases can be made.

In fact, the Judge goes so far as to say that Apple can still legally use their contracts with developers to require Apps to pay commission on out of app purchases. This case was a far bigger win for Apple than was initially reported.

To fix this, we need new legislation. The courts seem clear so far that they can't reign in this behavior using the existing laws on the books.
A big part of what has changed is that much of the innovation in manufacturing has shifted from the ability to mass produce things at all in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (the US did very well at this) to cost optimization in the twenty-first century (China is doing very well at this).

I'd say that it's feasible to have mass manufacturing return to the US, but not a mass of manufacturing jobs in the short to medium term. Manufacturing with automation that is cheaper than the world's cheapest labor is feasible in the US. But, until the US standard of living converges with parts of the world that have large, organized sources of cheap labor (today that mostly means Asia), the cost of US labor will not allow competitive prices on manufactured goods.

There are partial exceptions to this. For example, it can make sense to do final assembly of cars in the US. This has many reasons... parts can be sourced from all over the world, there has long been investment in automation around auto assembly so the cost of labor is a smaller fraction of the consumer price, shipping cars across oceans is expensive, etc. Even in this example, far less US labor is used in the end to end production of a US assembled car than was the case decades ago.
Sort of. Some things were - and still are a lot better. I've been in companies where all software is assumed to spend 6 months in test after it is finished - the customers would then do 3 months of extensive lab testing and only if it passed would they buy it so perfection was needed.
It might recruit FOMO sheep but this article doesn't make a good argument.

Some of the first HDR blu-rays looked worse than SDR blu-rays because people didn't do a good job of mastering them.

HDR video is great, but it takes serious skill and investment for it to be an addition rather than a subtraction.
I don't know man, I find it pretty useful.
> If any sort of majority of our prison population had committed violent crimes

This is more or less a myth, depending on how you define "violent" and how you define "prison population." No matter how you define those terms, "a significant percentage of the prison population is there for a serious non-drug crime" should be uncontroversial.

Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html

Memes about mass incarceration have been almost too successful, so that people now have the wrong idea in the other direction. According to Wikipedia, "15 percent of state prisoners at year-end 2015 had been convicted of a drug offense as their most serious infraction." That is enough of a scandal on its own terms, but people have sort of inflated the claims beyond what's really supported by the evidence. It's 15%, not "most" and not a majority, etc. In fact most prisoners are there for serious non-drug offenses.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
To be fair the arstechnica article clearly calls out that devices with wireless charging won't be covered by the current regulation, though they may be regulated in the future.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/european-union-annou...
PCB design. Sorry what is sysops?
The main thing that's kept me from using Alpine in my serious projects is that it doesn't work with a strict CSP.
Does anybody know another Z3 online version or another SMT solver that can be used online? Rise4fun is gone for good :-( https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3/issues/5472
Not in IT, though.
Tokenomics – Three things Creators need to know before making a Social Token
Mumbai Indians vs. Kolkata Knight Riders, Match 34, Indian Premier League
A lot. Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html

If you look specifically at people serving at least 1 year in a state prison (which is where most of the convicted prisoners are, as the link above shows), then it's a majority:

"However, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that, as of the end of 2015, 54% of state prisoners sentenced to more than 1 year were serving time for a violent offense. 15 percent of state prisoners at year-end 2015 had been convicted of a drug offense as their most serious infraction."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
Heh, nobody is ever ready for that response.
The payoff is huge. Assuming that your connector will be allowed to charge royalties, you can make the money on the fact that literally every phone will be using it once you lobby to update the standard.

Besides that, whichever organization is behind USB is the obvious candidate. A new standard that's backwards compatible with the old one (because that's what consumers are likely after) except for the connector is best made by the org that developed the previous version of it.
Does this show up in Google Takeout export?
blame whoever made the downvote button. we're just using the site as intended.
Pirates! and Railroads! were both loads of fun.

Railway Empire has a lot of the same mechanics as Railroads! but with much better graphics a little added complexity. I don't that many video games these days, but Railway Empire is one I find myself going back to play again and again.

Would be nice to see someone do the same for Pirates!
> full-bore Nazis and don't even realize it.

> organized HNers that works to bury anything that runs contrary to their nascent religion.

I downvote posts that can't resist aggressive parting shots like this. Honestly, just leave this kind of bullshit at the door. It will make your comment much stronger. I disagree with some of your points but you're still contributing to the discussion here if you would leave out these remarks.
There has got to be a better way of achieving reactive templates than what is described in this project though.
> but I still need to burn media, backups and images!

crazy, I haven't used any optical media directly since 2009
I wonder if it's to get that fancy header at the top of purchase emails.
What you're describing is a mainstream political position. Our last president talked about it constantly. Googling "big tech censorship" brings up tons of articles from mainstream media. Just a random sample:

WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-tech-twitter-facebook-googl...

EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-shou...
Well duh. They have to comply with anti-money laundering regulation.
If in doubt, just click on all squares in response to "Mark all enemies of state"
Disagree. Adding 100 files on an FTP site is nowhere near as complicated as adding 100 boxes of frozen yogurt in a grocery store. Physical goods occupy space, need (sometimes) specific storage conditions, packaging, etc. We need to re-evaluate these concepts for digital-only goods. I'm not denying that running a store has costs, but grabbing 30% of sales for a digital-only good is immoral IMHO.
Not surprised to see all the criticism of the website, as of course this is HN. But for me it loaded instantly and I absolutely loved the experience.

That said, the technology seems suspect. Carbon nanotubes are just as hard to use today as they were twenty years ago.
"We're organizing the world's information and making it searchable [so that we can show you ads]."
Worse, the stores are feeding them this info in easy to digest packets:

https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/reference
> The Waverider used the same fuel, and fuel-cooling, and reached Mach 5.1.

Not so much as coolant, but as a thermal mass reservoir, and only for a few minutes.
I already run my own DNS server; is there some way to fetch the pihole DNS blacklist so I can use it myself? A brief look at their github account didn't turn up anything that looked obviously like "this is the blacklist repo".
> What this comes down to is an argument over money, and what percentage apple should get of that money

A lot of things have been litigated in this dispute, this is not one of them. What this comes down to is questions about control over iPhones and contents of apps, questions the court was asked to answer were things along the lines of:

- Whether Apple can restrict iPhones to only installing software received via Apple.

- Whether Apple can control how software installed through their platform collects in app payments.

- Whether Apple can control how software installed through their platform informs users about not-in-app ways to pay.

...

Not "what cut is appropriate". That wasn't the legal or moral point.
Him being rich and powerful lord of the Metaverse idealogy, IMO.
If you don't pay for the product then YOU are the product.
This was my first thought too. But it seems like any purchase, even if Google isn't involved, is logged.
Hugged to death and I’m afraid there is no wayback archive right now.
Yes, from the toot, all of this data is visible on a Google Takeout export.
I think the biggest benefit is that you won't need a charger if basically every train/plane/hotel/school etc can have charging bases for all phones. Just like we don't need to carry a power plug adapter wherever we go
Welcome to 2021. In a few years, Chase Coleman will pick up large stake in this company, take it public and financially engineer it enough to stuff it into the S&P at a $500bn valuation.
One can find plenty of conservative content on Reddit, too. /r/Conservative/ for example. And there is healthy debate in /r/politics as well.
Very unlikely that they keep the record indefinitely after you delete the email. Instead, it's likely that the systems that store the derived information are not transactionally connected to the email database. Deletions would be reflected eventually, but only according to the periodicity with which the two systems are synchronized.
fscrypt support for btrfs is apparently under development; see the most recent comments at https://github.com/btrfs/btrfs-todo/issues/25
Perhaps the American Right is incompatible with a healthy society.

Which is why some of the most extreme ones are booted off of platforms - because they consistently break the rules that every user agreed to follow.
Conceptually, yes. Big vendors in this space have teams to detect malicious activity in their advertising network, but any team that claims to detect 100% is merely detecting 100% of what they know of.

Browsers have gotten better and updates have gotten much faster, so less of that is drive by virus infections by exploiting the browser, but there's still cases of "Pick some users that you think are (a) real users and (b) naive enough" and serve them a exe download that contains a virus.
This isn't unthinkable - in Switzerland, whenever you buy a an electric device (not just electronics!), a part of your purchase cost will be the pre-purchase of the associated recycling cost.

This enables the workflow where anyone can simply walk up to a retailer and hand them their old white goods free of charge - and they legally have to collect it, even if they didn't originally sell that item.
Well but that TV requires power lines to operate, and fiber to get its content. Insofar as the neighborhood (or whoever) paid for those, they deserve a cut too.
> Wow. It's not even just everything you buy from Google--from the post it seems like they actively compile and organize the data from every purchaser transaction that touches your GMail account.

IIRC, that's why Amazon purchase emails are utterly useless now. They realized Google was getting their precious customer data via Gmail, so they cut off the flow years ago.

It's another example of how the modern economy has many consumer-hostile incentives that have actually led to regressions rather than improvements.
this is the weirdest flagellation i have ever seen. do you also believe that alcohol producers must daily consume alcohol? candy manufacturers daily consume candy? how about pharma? the list goes on.
Why convert methanol to gasoline when you can directly convert it into electricity using a reformer and HT-PEM fuelcell?

https://www.advent.energy/advent-power-stacks/
Nothing is being blocked. They have a default exclusion list which works very well for the overwhelming majority of users. It prevents people spending forever backing up large downloads that they can just get newer versions of.

Removing these exclusions is very easy and obvious.
It is very self-serving of Epic to offer Apple a legal interpretation of the court's decision free of charge, that delivers Epic all benefits it failed to receive in the court decision. Apple is, however, free to disregard Epic's input on interpretation, no matter how plausible Epic's phrasing may sound to others. Apple is not forced to comply with Epic's interpretation of the court order — Apple is forced to comply with Apple's interpretation of the court order, and has another ~10 weeks to decide how they will choose to comply with the order, assuming that it isn't suspended during the appeals process. If a court later decides that Apple has not complied, then Apple will be answerable to the court, not to Epic, for their interpretations.
I'm not sure battery replacement falls under the category of repair, more like required maintenance.

If you run linux, sooner or later you're going to want compile software from sources. Building software on linux is hardly if any different than building software on any other *NIX platform. Developers and package managers have made the process easy. So whatever your pleasure, please indulge.
CIA is foreign, NSA is foreign and domestic.
I go network -> bind -> root so I get pihole blocking and my local dns
> Here's metadata from my takeout showing …

Apparently. Haven't tested myself yet.
I found this article written by the CEO in a journal outlining some technical details.
https://www.cell.com/joule/pdf/S2542-4351(20)30002-7.pdf

His breakthrough technology is supposed to be the carbon nanotube membrane as explained here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240

But, the two papers he cited in the Joule article don't go as far as actually separating water and ethanol. It's questionable whether this is possible or has been done successfully yet.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-0068/25/04/4...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1700938
Do they? They’re not the ones actually moving the money in this scenario. Generally KYC and AML laws apply to the actual banks or money transmitter, which sometimes is Google if you use their payment services, but not if it’s just their email.
https://archive.is/WkEu1
I suppose GP meant "portless", assuming that iPhone may drop lightning port without replacement and only rely on the wireless charging.
They are slaves though. What is not letting somebody leave, taking their passports while not paying them if not slavery?
I had a friend who made one, he lovingly coined it "the farm"
And what makes you think this is the case? Or is it speculation?
We've thought a lot about this issue. We have a page in our docs written up about it: https://www.ethicalads.io/surveillance-advertising/ -- there's definitely a small but growing movement of folks building a better advertising industry. It's a long road though..
Of course they do. Gmail's logs of essentially your entire economic activity (travel, flights, driving directions, online orders, food delivery, etc), tied to your identity, is the most valuable thing Google has as an advertiser. (They even buy purchase logs from retailers, tied to phone numbers; recall that you can't get a Google Account without a phone number.) This is why Amazon started somewhat redacting the transactional emails they send out when you buy stuff.

Only a fool would use Gmail.
Why is it "very unlikely?" Does Google have a good track record of removing information voluntarily?
A web app includes code that runs on the client and code that runs on the server. For example, code that manipulates the view runs on the client and code that accesses the database runs on the server.

This lets you write a function where some of the code runs on the client, some of the code runs on the server, and the compiler figures out which and emits the network RPC calls for you.
> aren't you forgetting that governments hand out and enforce patents/monopolies/IP?

In general, "handing out and enforcing monopolies" is a bug in democratic governments, not a feature. So by way of your own analogy, this legislation would be another bug.

> also it's hard for small groups to compete with giants when those giants have plundered the commons and more and more scientific and technological research is locked up behind their corporate firewalls.

I'm already sold on the idea that corporations have too much power and corporations often abuse it. We probably agree here, but I don't think that has anything to do with this case in particular--all of the mainstream connector/power protocols are already open. We're not talking about smaller tech companies being unable to manufacture and sell Lightning chargers (or whatever the tech is called, I've already forgotten).
I know for Tensorflow, ROCm keeps their own docker image you can pull against.

Though iirc ROCm isn't supported on recent consume level cards which I find incredulous that wasn't a goal to have working from launch.
It's widely used in politics, most famously by Rahm Emanuel in 2008, but I have seen it in other contexts as well. The Winston Churchill attribution seems false though. If you think those guys are "ridiculous" and unserious, then ok, you do you.

I'm aware of that medical usage, though if you think it's the only relevant one you're not using google very well. Not being able to generalise seems to be your thing.
I wish - for large appliances - where the material weight of the appliance is more than say 95% of the total weight/volume as compared to the electronics PCB, there should be dumb mode feature (either as a brand differentiation marketing feature or a legislated required feature). Note: I actually believe in free markets and believe this could be a huge selling point feature that consumers would pay extra for if marketed correctly as more sustainable.

By dumb mode, I mean just a basic non internet connected, 1980's style refrigerator/washer/garage door opener/microwave mode. So you have a smart mode that works until Samsung stops providing smartMicrowave 3.0 updates at which point you can flip a DIP switch on the back and just use it as a plain ol' microwave.
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