skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are forgetting about all the brokers and all the staff at the insurance companies whose jobs is to negotiate different prices for procedures with different doctors. Most brokers charge 5%. Additionally, this change would cause a loss of some clinical jobs. A lot of the urgent cares would no longer be profitable and would have to get shutdown. Additionally, all these changes would ripple in other ways. Some providers may start offering sub Medicare cash prices to attract business. There is no reason healthcare costs needed to go up 6% per year and the main reason it does is that it can.
Install VCV Rack and watch Omri Cohens videos. Warning: you might fall deep into this magnificen beautiful rabbit hole.
I'd love to read a murder mystery by Milton
If you're happy with what you're getting, are you being exploited?

Personally: I've reached the point where I don't want to know what my colleagues make. I know many of them make significantly more, but that's fine. In some cases I'm outright happy for them.
Google's ecosystem != Windows ecosystem.

There's FLStudio (or Bitwig, or Reaper) to match Apple's Logic, 1Password (or Bitlocker from what I hear) to match Google's passwords.google.com, and Backblaze+others to match Time Machine

Sure 'switching to apple' is a choice, but only one of many. Personally I am tired of using tech designed for and by managers and SWE's gunning for promotion and not personal empowerment or passion for personal computing

Besides, everyone needs to ditch Chrome. Firefox could use the love
It’s a known problem with HN’s don’t edit the headline mantra but that’s where we are. It nips a lot of stuff in the bud so it’s maybe worth the trouble with headlines like this that are multipart.
Replaces implies in-situ substitution (i.e. ads on pages, etc.); in fact this is often what is explicitly stated when the claim "Brave replaces ads" is made (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28619682 for a local example). Brave blocks harmful ads and trackers, and introduced an alternate model to supply missed revenue for creators. Brave Ads (desktop notifications) are off by default in Brave; users must opt-in. So there is no replacement (in-situ) of ads, but there is blocking (of necessity, for security and privacy reasons) of third-party trackers/ads.
Later studies have also shown that Vero cells are probably not a good choice for in vitro Covid tests, due to differences in how the virus infects those cells vs. human lung cells.

This appears to be an innocent mistake; vero cells are very popular with virologists because they’re easy to work with and familiar. But unfortunately they are a very poor proxy for testing Covid cures on, given that they’re actually monkey kidney cells. But it’s a shame we’re still headed down this wrong path publicly.

https://www.qps.com/2020/08/17/vero-cell-studies-misleading-...
Ahh, I think I was mistaken. I think Anbox already used LXC (which was good because it wasn't emulating the whole OS). The key difference that Waydroid brings is that it is written for Wayland. I guess this is an advantage over X because of how Wayland exposes device hardware.
The main corner case that still causes me problems is that if you want to construct a delegate at runtime, this often forces you to go through the reflection APIs to actually grab the method even if you know its full signature, etc. My current project has a JIT compiler for scripts that has this problem (I ended up finding a workaround involving getting LINQ to generate method tokens in an assembly, but .NET Core / .NET 5 deprecated LINQ compilation...)
True. Losing, and learning to take it "like a man" (=like someone who can take it; goes for girls too) builds character. Chess, programming, football ("soccer")... Doesn't really matter what they do; the thing is how they do it.
Yes, the article you're commenting on already makes that point :)

It’s also possible that many of these mid-level employees may have delayed transitioning out of their roles due to the uncertainty caused by the pandemic, meaning that the boost we’ve seen over the last several months could be the result of more than a year’s worth of pent-up resignations.
I have to agree with you for the most part, as a Canadian, I know our healthcare system is flawed, deep systemic problems, problems I'm not even familiar with. However, we don't have to deal with any of these price lists or copays or pre-approvals or debt (inside the scope of hospitalisation)
I've even heard arguements that many of the pitfalls stem from privatised aspects.
I'm a fairly capitalist person, but there is something awfully and fundamentally wrong about a society that monetizes well-being and health.
How to Stay Productive Using the Inbox0 Strategy
So I couldn’t tell you all of them because I don’t keep track of when I need to disable it and refresh to make a page work (and that’s not that big an inconvenience for me). But I used to have to travel a lot for work with strict travel caps. Working within those, I had perfected a few strategies to really get the lowest fares available. On one specific planning adventure, I found a way to book a business class flight through Air Canada’s website that took me through Europe and back across the US for the price of the standard economy fare for the same trip. Privacy Badger killed the payment flow, and I could never get that rate back. I ended up on over 30 hours of flights in economy, and I’ll never forget the refreshed faces of the business class travelers… But more seriously, that and similar situations were the only really bad ones. Many times it’s just disabling and reloading a page. But for a casual Internet user, identifying that fix might be too much.
This may be true, but being productive doesn't necessarily need to be your goal here. Maybe using social media as entertainment had negative effects on your mental health that playing a video game doesn't.
Except your phone is not backdoored by the FBI.
While I generally don't have much love for Oracle, this is a thing they do well. All the messages are numbered like ORA-123456 and are dead easy to google without mixing in any other results. You also sometimes get an error message containing relevant parameters.

Microsoft does acceptably wel with their 0x80071234, but no parameters, messages like 'installer failed', and googling them gives 10 zillion sites with crap results.
Does the filter ring?
How we got to LiveView
Theres a peer pressure factor.

While i was personally relieved to be back in office. I have also seen a few colleagues able to jump to more lucrative deals without uprooting their lives, which i find a bit intriguing. Im happy where I am at, but I have done a lot of good work (basically recycled our entire infra and migrated to a WFH culture) and havent seen a raise in 3-4 years..

So it has me thinking of putting feelers out when i otherwise probably wouldnt. Doesnt help that I was snubbed for a role that I was ASKED to apply for by one of the hiring comittee members and didnt even get an interview internally. So I know where I stand.
That's a function of there not being penalties. You'd see that change if the laws changed.
The Main Cause of Vee Finance Attack
I'm not sure we disagree. We just allocate the benefit of the doubt differently.

> "Oops we invested badly and have literally no money with which to pay your completely valid claim".

It's 100% possible for this to be a genuine mistake. I'm sure that it happened as a genuine mistake more than once! However, it is also possible to do this on purpose: load up a business vehicle with increasing amounts of risk and extract as much of the premiums as one possibly can before it explodes. If this is done intentionally, it is exactly the same hustle as selling policies that one doesn't intend to make good on, it just uses a different mechanism to shirk the obligation.

Every company that does it on purpose will say that it happened by mistake, of course, and just as I am certain that it has happened multiple times as a genuine mistake, I am certain that it has happened multiple times on purpose.

Undercapitalization is the evolved form of the "sell a trash policy" hustle because it provides almost perfect plausible deniability. It makes sense that the greatest legislative effort would be spent heading it off.
This is an interesting feature idea for HN!

Can someone please build this? Restrictions: You may only use Rust and sparkle some AI on it.
Who? Stupid managers with a desire for control. Want to keep your workers and even get better ones? Raise the f*ing salaries.
s/useless/redundant for all modern online messaging
Looking at the license terms [1] this looks like another case of open-washing to me...

[1] https://www.mapsforeurope.org/licence
E.g. AVFoundation.
You forget that the x-ray is propping up about 50 admin job positions that don't directly generate revenue. The army of compliance, insurance, billing, etc etc etc employees have to get paid somehow.

But hopefully this price transparency helps us ask the question of why does an x-ray have to pay for a ton of positions which have nothing to do with x-rays, and how do we correct this situation.
Automated hiring systems and lack of training named as causes of talent shortage
How Do You Sell Your Code/Architecture to Internal Dev Groups
This question is geared towards Architects, Tech Leads. DevOps Leads etc.

How do you communicate new recommendations or framework changes effectively to developer groups that need to adopt it? I was having a discussion with upper management recently and I came to the realization that the group I am in, doesn't perform HumanOps very well. We don't sell our code to our customers, the development teams within our company, we want to deal with new tech, bleeding edge changes not with the nitty gritty of framework adoption.

We don't just jump on bandwagons, but we do leverage technology that becomes available. We try to be within 1 stable release of current versions. The problem is not all developers are like that. A lot of times we create a mostly turn key solution to solve problems, but the developer groups are slow to adopt.

We luck the sales pitch, or marketing slogan internally. How do we do that better? How do we communicate what's coming soon? How to adopt the frameworks that make their lives easier?
AI writes code like a bad intern: pasting in "likely" blocks of code with no understanding of the intent. The difference is the AI pastes in "likely" blocks from github examples where bad interns paste from SO.
There is debate about healthcare nationalization.

As always, that which lends itself to regulation via market should be private and that which does not should be nationalized. So which one is medicine?

Medical care that is needed suddenly and urgently must be nationalized because the consumer of this care doesn’t shop the market and therefore the market is not capable of regulating its participants in that case.

Medical care that planned ahead of time, not urgently needed or otherwise allows people to shop the market should be private.

But this is not the issue. Whether or not medicine of one kind or another is private or public doesn’t matter as long as the medical establishment is corrupt and inefficient. Corruption and inefficiency are possible in both scenarios. Too few people in the public appreciate that it is the massive corruption and inefficiency of the medical establishment that is the cause of America’s healthcare problem. Doctors are in hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt by the time they wear a stethoscope. Hospitals are charging ten dollars for an aspirin. Patients can sue and cause material damage to medical practitioners even if the medical practitioner did nothing wrong. The system is broken. It doesn’t cost 300k to train a fucking doctor. It never did in the past and it doesn’t now either.
With respect, I think you're missing the point.

What is the author's main critique? The author is stating that the CIA, the "liberal-wing of the corporate media", and Big Tech companies conspired to suppress and censor information that was politically damaging to their preferred candidate. Even if that information was verified to be correct.

According to the article, the authenticity of the laptop's information was verifiable.

> "From the start, the evidence of authenticity was overwhelming. The Post published obviously genuine photos of Hunter that were taken from the laptop. Investigations from media outlets found people who had received the emails in real-time and they compared the emails in their possession to the ones in the Post's archive, and they matched word-for-word."

The counter point would be that the "intelligence community" declared it a Russian disinformation campaign. But, as the author notes, they did so without evidence.

> "in their words — “we do not know if the emails are genuine or not,” and also admitted that “we do not have evidence of Russian involvement.”"

You don't have to take the author's word for it. You can read the statement issued by former intelligence officials which is linked in the source.

> "We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement -- just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case."

The assertion or "concern" that the laptop is Russian disinformation has never had any evidence to support it. And yet that was sufficient to completely censor the story on facebook and twitter.

So with all the said, let's recap your points.

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

There is no evidence for this.

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

There is no evidence for this.

> 3. If either 1. or 2. was true, was it through the intelligence efforts of Russia or the like.

Again, no evidence. So why was it censored?
You claim something is "hipster" without having any clue whats it about. May I say the word hipster means nothing. It could mean popular: but Elm is not popular.

Maybe time to study some of that "hipster stuff".

I'd say Elm was very interesting to learn. I gained some programming wisdom from writing stuff in Elm (and in a previous experiment, Haskell).
FATA - federally administered tribal areas, aka no rights zone, aka Pakistan's own Pakistan.

It used to be a special zone in place of what is the current Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, in the north of the country, bordering Afghanistan.
Not just borderline. Most of the ones that can feasibly run a game for example are basically real malware.
>You're making the reasonable-sounding (but incorrect) assumption that the cost to the hospital of a drugs is the same for every patient.

Why shouldn't it be? How hard is it for a hospital to project their annual aspirin/paracetamol/? usage and budget for it?
MS Exchange Autodiscover Leak
I guess it comes down to, why bother when the simplest solution works?

Make no mistake: As and when they get caught out doing such things, the sophistication of their implementation is bound to increase, in response to it. Money is no object for state-actors and mega-corps.
American politics is polarized everyone knows this. It's polarized for a reason, it's polarized on very specific mutually agreed topics - specifically tailored to divide and rule. They are not "both sides", they are the same side.

What is surprising is that people buy into this WWF scripted fight of democrats vs republicans as the good and evil fight, not realizing the whole govt is evil no matter who is in power, it's not a false equivalence of both sides.

There are only 2 sides, the people vs the govt. No matter who you gets into power you will be screwed over. Be it healthcare, education, opioid crisis..

Richest country in the world, can't afford healthcare or free quality education.

As an individual if your govt can't do these things, what is it doing? It's definitely not a problem of means, it literally has unlimited money.. it's a problem of priority.

I have verry little hope of being able to get through to you, but, my 2 cents. Politics will destroy your mind, it will make you hateful, sad and waste your time and life. Wish you well and be happy. You're in America, people are literally dying to be there, enjoy yourself and don't stress too much. Cheers!
A hypotheses that isn't wildly discussed: Maybe some people hold off their career decision for the better part of 2020. After all, "safe" seemed reasonable choice back then. Now, the wave is coming and people start switching jobs.
Coinbase’s Choi Calls for ‘Common Sense’ in Crypto Regulation
I'm not stupid: I'm not going to discard my judgement based on careful examination of independent parties in favour of how you want me to judge it. (Even if I hadn't seen that you are not trustworthy and will aggressively attack people for speaking the truth.)

> If you don't believe me, then there's no point in talking.

Ok, something we can agree upon!
Of course I agree with your point that there are many options when it comes to switching. I tried, but clearly failed, to imply this very point. For me, after consideration of my requirements and tolerances, Apple seemed like the best fit, but I wouldn’t suggest that it has any kind of broader implication for the state of various software ecosystems.

Suffice to say I think all of the software in your list is pretty great and I chose what I chose for reasons that are wholly mine!
Love to search for the error code and find the decade old MSDN thread exactly describing the problem with a "will not fix" response.
I'm glad you like Firefox, I spent a lot of years on it, and on Mozilla, Gecko, SpiderMonkey, and the XUL platform before it. But Mozilla is currently beholden to Google and this has left them with year over year market share losses against Chrome. I don't see how they've "undermined" Google. If they switch to Bing as scooped by TechCrunch, they may start.
yes, that's true, but it's a great story and today most people don't care about the various social satires in it. Just like Dante placed lots of his political and social opponents in Hell, but it goes over the heads of most readers, who in any case are more interested in the timeless qualities of the story than the bickering about long forgotten debates.
A lot of management consulting is exactly that - the answer is simple when you look at it this way, but they need to back it up. That's why they quantify it and don't just say "fix it".

They studies thousands of companies to come up with the above - you could make it up on the spot but that study gives them way more credence. It's like when science is done on something we consider obvious - it's still valuable to have the data.

THey also guide on examples of what sorts of things to look into. Most companies have serious noise to signal ratios with their data - this tells people what data to actually look at.
Yeah, it should be pretty easy to add an LTE modem. Configuring the networking failover might take some hands on work; it would be a huge boon if either or both projects eventually took care of that for you too. I've had enough experiences where out of band management would be well worth the cost of the cell service that this is something I could see having wide appeal.
I didn't downvote you and in fact, I agreed with the fact that a significant portion of the exorbitant healthcare prices in the US can be traced back to administrative bloat, MBAs who are in the management and to a degree, the significantly-higher-than-OECD-average salaries of the doctors in the US.

Having said that, your belief that many hospitals are non-profit might not be as simple as it looks from the outside. I recently read an insider writing something about it on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/SelfAwarewolves/comments/pruk4x/the...

Hope that gives you an additional viewpoint regarding the "non-profit" label of the hospitals.
I would argue you're missing the point since he's arguing that the media never tried to confirm the story. It took the narrative that this was "Russian disinformation" and made it seem that that's probably what it is, without actually doing the work that is expected of journalists. Obviously had this laptop belonged to Don Jr., they would have certainly done the due diligence to dig through it and confirm its contents. The issue is Joe Biden is part of the "system" and is therefore protected, unlike those that don't come from it.
Yes, this only holds for some definition of errors. Run time program errors due to type mismatch, nulls and exceptions are non-existant.

Pretty cool!
Can Chrome books run Android apps?
Helium CBRS will be the largest neutral host carrier of 5g by 2023 :)
Lots of people grumping about Copilot, has anyone actually used it?
For a personal project writing a transpiler from an old language (LambdaMOO) to JS, I've actually found it quite helpful. I can write code like:

convertList(node: MooASTNode): List {

And then it just spits out:

const entries: ASTNode[] = node.children.map((child) => {
return this.convertNode(child);
});
return new List(entries, this.sourceLocation(node));
}

This isn't exactly difficult to write or reason about, but it did save me quite a bit of time to just dash out the code that converts the parse tree to an intermediate tree in an hour or so and then just quickly look over and make a couple corrections.

It also helped making the ASTNodes, for instance:

export class If extends ASTNode {

resulted in:

constructor(
public condition: Compare,
public then: ASTNode,
public elseDo?: ASTNode,
public override loc: SourceLocation | null = null
) {
super();
condition.parent = this;
then.parent = this;
if (elseDo) {
elseDo.parent = this;
}
}

@logCall
toEstree() {
return builders.ifStatement(
this.condition.toEstree(),
this.then.toEstree(),
this.elseDo?.toEstree()
);
}

}

Again, this code is not gonna win any prizes, but it sure did save me a good chunk of time.
Why so much hate for the tool?
Please explain how one uses blockchain to solve a zooko.

> I have nothing against blockchain when used where it’s actually useful (I.e. for solving double-spend or zooko).
I think that's the wrong lesson here.

An0m created two vulnerabilities to its users:

- It was specifically marketed to criminal entities. That is, it sharply reduced the search space. In a 33 bit world, An0m is 14 bits.

- It was specifically back-doored.

"Roll your own" avoids the 2nd case but not the first. By definition, rolling your own already reduces search space to the domain of interest. (Other means of evidence gathering may be needed, but should be reasonably viablle.)

Instead, what you want is:

- Blend in with the crowd.

- Utilise widely-shared communications protocols, implementations, and tools.

- Ensure that these have secure cryptographic methods and implementations.

- Audit the hell out of these and offer bounties for any vulnerabilities which can be demonstrated.

If at all possible, see to it that widely-used, generally-available communications tools themselves offer secure cryptographic methods and implemntations. And school your minions in their proper and effective use and limits.
Sure, I use Samaritan Ministries. I've tried other health sharing groups but Samaritan has been the best experience. They also have the best tech platform with the best user experience that I've seen. Samaritan is for christians but there are other health sharing groups that don't have that requirement.
I generally agree with what you're saying, but it's often more simple than that. The greatest leverage in a salary negotiation comes from the freedom to actually quit, a freedom, especially in the United States, that many do not have (and never "earn"). While, on the other hand, the privileged are born with this freedom.
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Not really, I am talking about NeXTSTEP and DriverKit.

Ironically I think IO Kit userspace replacement, DriverKit, got its name as homage to the Objective-C one in NeXTSTEP.
Samsung is in South Korea, which is just one generation behind TSMC.
yeah, but that doesn't mean they're fast or don't make a mess of the gc heap