skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no reason Medicare should be restricted to those over 65, or why Medicaid is implemented differently (and reimburses providers more poorly than Medicare). Or even Tricare. We have at least 3 different taxpayer funded healthcare programs specifically so not everyone can get access to equal care, but so that various classes of people can get healthcare proportional to their political power (which usually scale with money, but also votes in the case of old people).

Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements are insufficient to support most medical practices. Tricare is for military & their families. Most active duty military are young & extremely healthy compared to the general population.

Medicare/Medicaid combined are the largest single item on the federal budget. More importantly, they are still growing in costs because of an aging population, and are heading towards 30% overall of the federal budget [1]

Tricare operates as an employment perk. Medicare has a cap on benefits, but is effectively mandatory for 65+, and medicaid operates as a payor of last resort, after folks have run out their lifetime benefits on medicare.

However, an argument in favor of your suggestion is that the vast majority of medical resources are spent on the last 2 years of life, often for terminally ill patients with a ton of co-morbidities that are at death's door anyways. Most medical spending happens in the latter part of life [2]

> 25% of Medicare’s annual spending is used by the 5% of patients during the last 12 months of their lives [3]

[1] https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2010...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/

[3] https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/09/28/true-cost-end-life-medi...
I think I agree, they are media providers that publish headlines/news feeds based on user engagement.
Regulating that vast swarms of businesses need to make their own age verification system seems like a waste of economic value. Especially considering how many normal tasks that near everyone does would also benefit from such a government system: Loans, Rentals, Housing, etc.

You would also only need to provide the evidence once to the governing body that gave it to you in the first place, instead of giving it to dozens of companies.
"The Kitchen Knight" has this plot element: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/590413/the-kitchen-k...

In this version it's the Red Knight who is strongest at noon (IIRC).
If it's really long, it means they love the game but burned themselves out and don't want to admit it.
Garbage in - garbage out. If training data are error-prone the AI learns the same errors. I think the most devs do not have to fear unemployment.
Seems like antirez (from Redis fame) doesn't agree with this:

https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1440711992038158336
I'm thankful the concession was made. The lower price of cost-sharing made it possible for my parents to keep eating while providing for the family.
> So I'm not sure who's the real beneficiary for all those shorthands?

Coffee shop and college project app developers who are chasing the cool (be it tricks or frameworks).

That’s not a knock, but that’s who I see using these things.

We were hiring a guy for a Flutter app that had no previous experience in Dart, but turned us down because Dart lacked some whiz bang feature he had too grown accustomed to. I did not see this as a loss.
How would Steam selling an AMD graphics card differ from any other retailer selling an AMD graphics card?
On the east coast you're nobody if you're not rich. On the west coast you're nobody if you're not trying to get rich.
It doesn't? It adblocks ads like uBlock Origin and tracking blocking tech in other browsers (except the shields are not an add-on so they can exceed the Manifest v3 type limits). There are entirely separate channels (toaster popups, start page backgrounds) that they use to deliver their own ads.

I get the crypto stuff is not everyone's cup of tea (certainly isn't mine) but get the basics straight, at least?
How can you distinguish identity-based from topic-based social media? Doesn't your identity influence which topics you're interested in, and don't the topics which interest you form your identity? This forum says in the guidelines to submit "Anything that good hackers would find interesting." That reads to me like an identity-based forum.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I always took this as "you're not a domain expert so you'll get it wrong", with the implied corollary that if you actually _are_ a domain expert, then you know what you're doing. IOW, hire bonafide domain experts rather than trying to cheap out.
Sure. I just did a 12 month stint at £650/day. Assume 220 working days/year = £143K. Now you have a silly dance to minimise your tax.

- Pay yourself minimum wage (0pct rate) ~£9K/year.
- You can probably write off around £10K against tax (lunch, transport)
- Pay 19% corporation tax on the rest
- Pay yourself a dividend up to upper rate, end up paying around 7.5% tax on that
- ...probably some other tricks

Leads to a total tax rate of around 20-25% as long as you can survive on £50K a year. So net income something like £115K after tax. Say £9.5K/month, would require a gross salary of £194K [0].

This is why the government is trying to clamp down on IR35 abuse, but still plenty of contracts outside, at the moment.

[0] https://www.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/lifestyle.php
Yeah the old school joe rogan dot net was pretty cool. He had some funny blog posts as well.
Modernizing an Approach to REST APIs, with PostgreSQL and Cloudflare Workers
Yep, probably an HL7 message. In the case of vertical bars, pretty sure it's HL7v2
I have been told at every job but my current one to not discuss pay.

I have been told this formally only once. Every other time was an informal meeting over dinner or at a bar, or being told some nebulous statement like “that’s not really part of our culture here” when a manager discovered that I would freely discuss pay with coworkers.

It is explicitly illegal to require employees to not discuss pay. Of course you’re going to find that most people who were instructed to not discuss it felt “discouraged” and can’t point to some paperwork where it was official
We moved all our builds (e.g. 100+) to GH Actions. We've been using GH Actions since it was a daily tar ball drop in a private GH Slack channel in Q3 2019.

Happy to answer any questions.

The biggest challenge has been the many GH Actions service outages/impacts. We're working on moving to self hosted runners to mitigate this.
They've reserved the top 100k Alexa domains on HNS for the original DNS owners. They're actively thwarting ICANN's overreach and centralisation of control by redecentralising the internet again. But sure, everytime HN sees a legitimate use case for a blockchain it's a "scam".
Is there anyone here with practical first hand experience that can comment about their impressions so far?
These are the same stupid points people brought up when Swift was first released. I used to believe it too. Then I actually used the language and integrated it into existing codebases. The jump in quality and performance was notable and immediate. What you state here about both languages doesn't match any experience I've ever had or seen from other teams.
The difference is that in Go you have a defined goal, its static. This is different from writing code or a novel. The goal is not only to write a book or a program, it has to be a entertaining book or a working code that solves MY problem but not any other problem.

AI currently does not understand language well enough, it recognises patterns but does not understand what its doing and why.
Each government already has a complete list of all their citizens (probably multiple duplicated across various departments). Having the government have a service that provides temporary keys associated with an identity isn't much of an add toward security risk.
One story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8612828 - The Salesforce Platform: The Return of the Citizen Programmer - by leephillips, 7 years ago

Three comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27651486 - by patentatt, 3 months ago, on: Why did we ever think a student's first programming language didn't matter?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17384284 - by DonHopkins, 3 years ago, on: Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer (1979) [audio]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16228498 - by dragonsky67, 4 years ago, on: Ted Nelson on What Modern Programmers Can Learn from the Past [video]
Epic just loves to continue to dig themselves into a larger hole and make it worse for themselves.

Apple doesn't care and they shouldn't care given how Epic is behaving like a sore loser after the result of the trial and they still failed to get back on the App Store. Now it will take them years rather than 90 days.

An Epic failure.
There've been a number of earlier HN discusions of this story:

5 days ago, 31 points, 5 comments: The story of An0m Chat, Run by the Police
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28490871 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/11/insid...

3 months ago, 130 points, 62 comments: Why no-one in America was arrested as part of Operation Ironside https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27509550 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/no-one-in-america-arr...

3 months ago, 431 points, 350 comments: Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures using encrypted app https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/fbi-afp-underworld-cr... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27430508

3 months ago, 18 points, 5 comments: Hundreds arrested in global crime sting using messaging app https://www.bbc.com/news/world-57394831 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27435467

Search also under "at0m", "operation ironside", and "operation trojan shield".
Interesting thing about intercepting messages which are encrypted using modern encryption protocols like OTR is deniability. If a police installs MitM on a server, it can't cryptographically prove that messages were originating from criminals, not written themselves.
The Vaccinated Superspread Hypothesis
Hi there Matt - this looks like an amazing library - thanks for posting.

I’m part of the Blink Animations team that work on WAAPI (along with a bunch of folks from other browsers), and wanted to touch base on a few of the issues you raised.

First, I agree that fill behavior[1] is messy, and should probably be considered to be a spec bug. Moving web specifications forward often involves “compromises” to ensure that new functionality works alongside existing work, and this is a good example of that. There’s a discussion on this at github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5394.

You raise a few issues with the current implementation/compliance/interop. Getting compliant and consistent implementations of the spec is critically important, so appreciate your feedback on this. I’m seeing two items that (might) relate to chromium here:
individual transforms[2] - agree that this is important - currently working on it - see crbug.com/696374. Note: You can already get some of this working using composite:add.
.finished Promise[3] - mostly working in chromium AFAIK, with one minor glitch - crbug.com/1141935
If there are other chromium issues we’d love for you to file them (use Blink>Animation component so they land on our triage). Other browsers look for feedback as well - there’s a good guide/walkthrough at https://web.dev/how-to-file-a-good-bug/

On the topic of browser compliance, you cited caniuse.com, which is a good starting point. More detailed tracking can be found at https://wpt.fyi/results/web-animations - might be more detailed than you’re looking for, but this is what our team measures against.

Some of your suggestions relate to the spec. Durations as seconds[4], and Simplifying cubic bezier definitions seem fairly straightforward, while others like cancelling and interrupting might be a little more complicated. In any case you can file issues against the spec if you want to move those forward - https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues, tag with [web-animations-2].

To reduce the challenges of adopting the new API, there’s a published polyfill that you seem to be using already. You noted that there’s some inconsistency with keyframing across browsers - perhaps you could file an issue against the polyfill?

Cheers!

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/web-animations-1/#fill-behavior
[2] https://motion.dev/guides/waapi-improvements#individual-tran...
[3] https://motion.dev/guides/waapi-improvements#finished-promis...
[4] https://motion.dev/guides/waapi-improvements#durations-as-se... - this might already be addressed through CSSOM?
[5] https://github.com/web-animations/web-animations-js
[6] https://github.com/web-animations/web-animations-js/issues
What really diminished since WWII is real ethnical cleansing. And I mean by the definition of "forced removal of ethnic, racial, and religious groups from a given area". What China did was move in their people, and what Israel did is curve out the areas with low existing population and called them their own.

This, together with the democratic nature of the western world has led to a place where annexation of an area becomes infeasible for a place with a large opposing population (which is why Israel is not officially annexing the west bank).
Bollocks. I chain-vaped (juice which contained only propylene glycol, glycerol and nicotine) as much as I chain-smoked. Perhaps more, as vapour wasn't as hard to my lungs as actual smoke.

MAOI just make the addiction stronger, but are not the addiction themselves.
Did they edit their comment after your reply? I'm not seeing aspects you refer to (esp the time/skill point)
> The fact that the general public as well as journalists think this data is accurate in anyway is really funny. This an exercise of futility that only increases the overall cost and provides job security for me :)

People are literally dying out here from administrative bloat and you're joking about job security. Your comment comes across as cavalier and even a bit callous.

With that said, I respect the systemic and historical complexity of the problem and don't mean to suggest that you personally are the problem. I understand that you're pointing out the Kafkaesque futility from within the trenches; I think I get where you're coming from.

May I suggest that you rephrase your critique next time in a way that would communicate empathy so that we might in turn empathize with your situation? If these spreadsheets are feel-good window dressing (not that I agree), then state your case and let's stop wasting time on them. What do you think should be done instead?

Let us improve things together.
> The Librem 5 is a phone built on PureOS, a fully free, ethical and open-source operating system that is not based on Android or iOS.

And physical hardware kill switches? This almost seems too good to be true.
I stopped using GitHub Copilot. Not because of the accuracy of its predictions (or potential lack thereof), but because the cognitive overhead / distraction of getting inline suggestions made using Copilot not strictly a net positive in productivity.

And this is before GitHub will start charging for it.
Or you know, most people just click on the "Chrome" icon on Windows, see it looks the same as on macOS and happily carry on.

The "everything is a web/Electron app" trend has pretty much ensured that your "productivity" effect is pretty much only in your head now.
I am willing to take some time and build a publicly available API of this. I care so much about this issue that I would build this db at my own cost and hope it truly helps people. if anyone wants to join forces, feel free to send any suggestions.
> I'd argue these are actually the majority rather than the minority of cases.

For well-insured middle-class people. Poor working people only get emergency care
You can definitely convince McDonald's to sell you a hamburger on a plate without bread. A hamburger isn't a sandwich, but it is commonly served on a bun in sandwich form. Like how spaghetti is common served with sauce, and if you see that dish you just call it spaghetti, but if you see a plate of just the pasta it's still spaghetti.
I enjoy social media and use it to exchange information, observe trends in culture, and as a communication channel when convenient.
Why not both? Encrypt your message with your home grown encryption, then send it through standard TLS. Both would have to fail for the message to be revealed.

Sometimes when I'm wearing my tinfoil hat I wonder if the advice to avoid rolling your own crypto is a conspiracy. The powers that be want to maintain their backdoors, maybe? Probably not. Of course, it's definitely true that there are more attack vectors out there than an amateur can be aware of.
They're presenting a bit of a false dichotomy. You can use social media and still be sane, you just have to have some amount of self awareness so the troubling aspects don't affect you as much.
> professors provide the real value that students retain over time - so admissions fees should pretty much all be funneled to them

I wouldn't so quickly ignore the additional tuition revenue athletics departments bring in at non-Tier 1 schools.

University athletics are a weird thing. But if the pay bothers you, think of it as a commission. Going cheap on that will likely cost more than it saves.
Drop a small Wall-E with solar powered laser sinter few days before big landing.

On a general note - a Dr. Evil can make Moon much less accessible just by kicking some amount of dust into low Moon orbit. One can imagine future fight tactic in an environment like this.
What social media needs to learn from traditional media
I've been eyeing this for a while. My biggest hangup is that CI/CD is a major attack (e.g. supply chain) vector. If you use CI/CD for deploys, then a lot of highly privileged creds are in play.

I'd really prefer if GH made and managed the K8s operator (e.g. the most popular infra provisioning tool) themselves.
Come on, micro usb isn't that thick either
I think he's missing the point. The issue was never if some of the info on the laptop was correct/validated. It was:

1. Was the laptop/information stolen, and then "laundered" through the repair shop.

2. Was true information mixed with false--a classic misinformation technique.

3. If either 1. or 2. was true, was it through the intelligence efforts of Russia or the like.
"But the speed limit isn't lower than it should because we didn't use to catch every fast driver."

That's actually how they set some limits. They know that people go over the limit by a specific amount when doing traffic studies and will adjust the speed limit below the safe speed they want. They just dropped a 50mph zone to 40mph because they had too many people doing 60mph in it, which was associated with more accidents at one intersection. Now everyone does 50mph in the 40mph zone. This area did not have pedestrian or cyclist safety incidents driving this change. Getting hit at 40mph vs 50mph isnt going to make much difference to them.

"It's a _limit_, not the speed at which you have to go. Just go 5 MPH under the limit and you'll be fine."

I agree, but the topic is about enforcement. This example is a perfect illustration of how lackadaisical enforcement can influence society's views on the subject and lead to perverse system design, compliance, and enforcement.
There's a video of Peter Thiel from last year where he states that Satoshi attended the Financial Cryptography conference in Anguilla in Feb. 2000. This possibly points to Ian Grigg. I'm inclined to think Thiel has better intel than most people but who knows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufm85wHJk5A&t=2720s
Drugs typically have a pretty in elastic demand. Whether it costs $16000 or $0.05 for a pill, the end user - whether a doctor or a patient - will simply figure out a way to pay for it to alleviate the pain, symptoms, and perhaps to avoid dying.

Seems like 340B (I hadn’t heard of this before, thanks!) may have been created with recognition of this inelasticity.

If we can limit prices this way, all it would take are a few more laws to put more price limits in place.
Why I walked away from millions of dollars to found a startup
Same. I like it for the funny memes, learning news, seeing what my friends are up to. I don't see it as particularly sinister or anything. I certainly don't think of it as an escape from a "mediocre" life.
Are you and GP talking about the same thing?

The obj-c drivers from next/OpenStep were replaced with a restricted subset of C++ (not objective-C++) IOKit system. I'm not sure what system GP is referring to based off Obj-C++ but I assume it's not the drivers?
You can more accurately ascertain the true market value of your work by knowing the salaries of your peers. It has nothing to do with equality.

Also, even in companies that don't post their salaries have pay grades and bands.
> But the price list is a text file delimited by pipes (vertical bars... |) which just seems unnecessary. They also do nothing to define the variables or column names they use...so that's nice.

They likely just exported the prices as HL7 from their EHR system and used Excel's built-in delimiter support, then called it a day
>The cow—a symbol both of religious reverence and communal vigilantism— whose value in a modern economy, irrespective of the politics around it, one would assume should decline as increasing numbers adopt urban lifestyles far removed from an agrarian culture, is finding itself the fount of a new form of business.

Sounds like Christmas.
>We've proven we have limited capacity for that.

Currently.

In a system where resources are allocated not to cover the needs of all, but instead to ensure that the victor gets their spoils, this is true.

But IF a civilization makes it to a point where self-sustaining planet settlement is even a real possibility, I think you just have to assume they are post-scarcity and post-currency. Economic return isn't really a thing, if everyone can get what they want whenever they want it.

Therefore, any species with a natural propensity to exploration and curiosity as an individual is going to necessarily seek out new places as a whole. The individual will drive the societal, I guess is what I mean there. Because I want to see something new, and there is no scarcity of resources, society as a whole gets to see something new.

>I question whether interplanetary trade will ever move beyond intellectual property.

Honestly, I don't think so. Because, again, I'm of the firm belief that once a society is able to establish off-world colonies successfully, economics stops meaning anything at all, really.
It's decentralising the root zone, not just a single TLD.
> talking about pay almost always leads to interpersonal friction, resentment, conflict, lower work productivity, and slower progress of our company toward an IPO

Try this one with your SO:

"Talking about chores almost always leads to interpersonal friction, resentment, conflict, lower work productivity, and slower progress of our relationship towards marriage"
Totally.

To add to this: when looking for third party libraries (Swift/Objective-C or Kotlin/Android Java), aside from those from large organizations (Square, Airbnb, etc.), I've found the selection and quality of those available for iOS to be better, on average.
Here's a nice anecdotal example of an exploit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28619499

Hospitals can easily exploit the insured but not uninsured.
What about the OSX runners? Those run in MacStadium, not Azure.