skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It feels like an agreement, to me, when the practice takes on a patient knowing who their insurer is. I feel like the reimbursement rate that insurer has negotiated, regardless of whether the insurer ultimately covers any procedures, should act as a cap for the fees charged to the patient. It feels a lot like negotiating a contract, except that one party gets to unilaterally change the amount of consideration. How does that fly?

You aren't exactly talking about "balance billing"[1] but you'll be pleased to know the No Surprises Act[2] tries to address this situation with required cost (estimate) disclosures in advance of a procedure and capping the out-of-network amount that can be charged in the event of an emergency where there can't advanced disclosure. The HHS recently promulgated regulations[3] under the Act but the compliance date is January 2022. For some reason I think there is at least one (maybe two?) other proposed rules in the works but I can't recall what they address and I can't seem to find them.

Edit: The other proposed rule is relating to air ambulance services[4]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_billing

[2]https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3630...

[3]https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/07/01/hhs-announces-rule...

[4]https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210913.57633...
And this drives demand for new testing gear. My retirement fund thanks you AEHR!
Yeah that's fine. But repo access is more a convenience upsell, you can always get the source code (or pretty close transpiled code) from the npm distribution.
Subtraction without subtraction. Two's complement and how CPUs subtract
I don't think public pay means you can't negotiate your salary to get paid what you believe you deserve.

Did you ever wonder if maybe your negotiation skills aren't as good as you think? Public pay could be a way of finding out if you are selling yourself short.
Are marginal externalities from eating at MacDonalds higher than from a random other burger place?
Your case of Carmack is illustrative.

To achieve 100x, consider what he was doing:

- writing a first person shooter (Castle Wolfenstein 3d)

- writing a first person shooter (Doom)

- writing a first person shooter (Quake)

... you get the idea.

Now, there was enormous leaps in maximal utilitilization of hardware, but do you notice a pattern? The requirements are basically fixed.

Most 10x I've achieved in a short fashion or observed was due to some similar parameters:

- the requirements were stable

- the basic problem was done before and practiced, and implementaiton was a variation/improvement of the previous

- solo or very small development team where greenfield imposed little barriers
The drug is extremely expensive, it’s a vast waste of money if it doesn’t work and millions are prescribed it.

Running another trial makes sense if “test subjects” are needed but giving the drug general availability when the previous trial failed and was actually stopped because of failure doesn’t make much sense to me.
Quantum supremacy has been achieved by a more complex quantum computer
>What's my left hand going to do with all its hundreds of milliseconds of free time

Mine BTC?
I don't understand why Brave Rewards needs to be enabled, but it seems very normal for the company operating a service to require some kind of account or membership. If you don't trust Brave this is probably not the service for you.
I think the court handed down a half-baked judgement in this case.
Yeah honestly neither of these two have our best interests in mind. Apple wants to keep their walled garden walled, and these game companies want to make it easier to exploit quasi-gambling "loot box" and similar revenue centers without paying Apple. There are also a lot of vendors who want to bypass Apple so they can bypass Apple's privacy protections.

The entire mobile ecosystem is full of user-hostile business models and behavior.
Never take on funding or sell. Both of those will result in the death of your business.
+1

I've been using Posteo for years, and I have also been very happy with their service.
Is there any author of any article who does need to be "contextualized" by your standards? Are there authors out there that exist outside of a context?
Quitting social media is more than unfollowing: it's deleting your accounts on the social media services so you are uncontactable
via them.
Insurance has the worst moral hazard: the winning strategy is to sell a product that pretends to cover your customers but actually doesn't. Your customers give you money for nothing and they will only realize it once in a blue moon. You can probably buy off the few who are capable of causing actual blowback, and if that doesn't work just rebrand.

Until everyone becomes a contract lawyer capable of devoting weeks to insurance shopping every 6 months, the only good insurance market is a heavily regulated one, even though heavy regulation comes with its own gigantic bag of worms.
Nearlyfreespeach.net – The Mffam Policy
McDonalds is probably not a very big cause of the obesity problem in the US. Sugary soft drinks and switching out animal fats like butter and lard with cheap seed oils is a bigger issue.

When Ancel Keys did his 7 countries he discarded results from France and Norway because it didn’t fit his study. They both consume higher natural fats than say the US and UK, French fat paradox.
That's just your team then. Swift is far superior to Objective-C(rap) in terms of both speed and overall productivity.
I guess I was in the minority who loved Objective-C and it's selector syntax. I think my main objection to Swift is that it seems to be written by people who hate Objective-C and made the calling syntax much more complicated. I dearly wish a more mature F-Script had been the next Apple language.

A lot of the other problems is Apple not providing good documentation and making sure sample programs continue to compile. Bringing a new language into the world requires massive amounts of high quality documentation.
I think the point of making the lists public is to provide information that can lead to iterative improvements. I'm not sure it will do that but I'm a bit more confident that it is a necessary first step.
Ask HN: Looking for a stable wireless router
I am working from home (1500 sq. ft.) and I have about 10-20 devices connected to my router. I am looking for stable router, that doesn't need a restart every once a while. Something reliable. I have had bad experience with TP-LINK routers where they have good 5Ghz speed but lose connection on 2.4Ghz. Speed is the second priority for me. Thank you.
I appreciate your answer and agree that in general it's good to keep safe in any we can, including the things you mentioned. I also agree that the discussion is quite polarized, however, at this point I tend to think the vaccine benefits outweigh the cons.

I'm wondering, at what point, if ever, would you decide that the COVID vaccines are safe / worth it? Honest question.

Also, as someone else mentioned here [1], isn't natural immunity plus vaccine-induced immunity considered even better than natural immunity alone? I haven't fact checked this but they said that was also found from one of the Israel studies. Based on this, wouldn't it still make sense to get the vaccine?

You also mentioned the media. Isn't it possible that conservative media is also manipulating the truth for their narrative? 90% of Fox News staff is vaccinated and yet they still cast doubt on the vaccine [2]. Also, Tucker Carlson won't say if he's been vaccinated or not [3], yet he's one of the big proponents telling people not to get vaccinated. I hear this criticism that the media is spreading misinformation, but it seems like if that's the case, we should consider that it could be happening on both sides.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28617742

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/15/fox-news-vacci...

[3] https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-host-alisyn-camerota-calls...
Very likely not a one-stop solve-all. But also very likely part of the tool set.
> The games are a fascinating example of hyperinflation too.

Can you elaborate on what's fascinating?
That's an interesting approach but no the MIT license applies to everything and I don't want to stop anyone from knowing what they're installing and distributing. Github access is more of a convenience perk for sponsors at this early stage.
I loved CDMX when I visited! I stayed in Roma Norte and had a very fun time. How's the safety situation as a long-term resident? Also, that last sentence is very intriguing! How does that work in practice? Does the government simply not monitor this very closely?
I would agree if the subreddit was indiscriminately shitting on people who died of COVID. Instead, it singles out only the people who spent the last months of their lives denying the disease, downplaying it, spreading propaganda, disparaging masks and vaccines and dunking on people doing the right thing--basically singling out people doing everything they can to keep the pandemic going. Sure, it's Schadenfreude, but not hate.

I liken it to the so-called "Darwin Award": Yes it's dark, but it's not simply a way to goof in general on people dying.
i’m not sure how to find the photos but on some old analog computers, the entire patch board is swappable. to run a program, you would choose from your physical library of patch-boards.

kind of like moving an AVR chip from one breadboard to another
https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
Not technically "insurance", these are cost-sharing companies. Often religious due to Obama's brilliance.
The appeal might force Apple to reinstate Epic.
It's cute, but, having used analog computers, it lacks some important things. Analog computers are usually reset to initial conditions, then started. As time goes on, the outputs change. This thing has integrators, so it will generate time-varying outputs. You need some way to watch those time-varying outputs, such as a plotter or an oscilloscope. This needs a graphical display. Something like one of those US$20 digital oscilloscopes available on Alibaba.
> Public pay information doesn’t require equality.

That's absolutely NOT how it works in practice. It is widely studied that there are HUGE differences in programmer productivity. While the theoretical "10x" programmer may not be that common, I see "2x" programmers all the time.

But you hardly ever see 2x differences in salaries, even though this would be the fair thing if you were looking at output. Once pay becomes public, management is basically constrained to keep people in relatively tight bands because it's trivial for anyone on the lower end of a pay scale to complain that Programmer X gets paid more money, even if Programmer X gets shit out the door 2x faster.
You're conflating openness with equality. Public salaries don't mean they have to be the same salary for all, because people are not the same.

It's frequent that the salary of a freelancer working for a company becomes public among its employees. That doesn't mean similar employees will ask the same salary, because they know the freelancer can do something they can't, or they can't do it as well.
You’re probably thinking of “healthcare ministries,” which are not insurance (they’re scams).
They could be running as a "health spending account" where you can spend the money on whatever you want provided it's health-related. You don't technically have "insurance" but you're insured.
I've been planning how to take my pinebook pro and swapping the sbc with a nuc motherboard. With some 3d printed parts it'd only add a couple of inches but lots of room for lipo's. Though I'd prefer an hidpi screen.
In Eve they’re called corporations/alliances, but it actually goes even deeper. More details here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16048674

Also, I can’t seem to find a source for it but there’s also a technique used where screenshots have the logged in user’s ID encoded in the background of the screenshot by using hex colors that effectively look the same.
If you find yourself in a situation like that and want to remedy it then get a competing offer. If you're making 80k and sit down with your manager to talk about the possibility of leaving for a 120k position that you're clearly qualified for then a lot of companies will respond with a counter offer. It sucks but you often need to turn your employment rate into a bidding war.

Oh - just FYI - be prepared to jump ship if you do this. Some people are manipulative assholes that react strongly and quickly to any employees standing up for themselves - and other companies are legitimately failing and can't afford the pay bump. In either case you're better off at the new shop. Having an actual job offer to another shop should give you the confidence to risk your current position.
That's not intended at all - which page were you on when you tried to go back? What did you use to go back (back button/key shortcut)? I can't imagine what is doing it but will fix.

Another poster has pointed out the play button in examples (which reloads the sandbox iframes) is pushing pages to the browser history. I'll take a look.
I didn't say Mozilla fired Eich. The reality is, per your own source, is that Eich was going to be CEO, and he was no longer given that role, so he left. Given that he was already CTO before this debacle, the board trying to get him to stay in another C-suite role is effectively a demotion.

You also don't acknowledge that half of Mozilla's board resigned immediately after his appointment to CEO and one board member cited his appointment as explicitly being the reason.

No one is going to stay under those circumstances. So his choices were basically stay at Mozilla, whose very own employees were protesting his appointment, or leave. I'm going to stick with "forced out." I find it amusing that Mozilla in your source insists that he wasn't forced out, when their own recounting of the events only leads one to believe he resigned to due the intense organized protests surrounding his appointment. Ultimately you'd have to ask Eich privately to know for sure. All I'll say is that when someone is demoted, they're going to leave. Whether that's CEO or Senior Software Engineer.

I don't even agree with Eich's own (former) positions on same-sex marriage, but let's call it what it is, yes? Now, whether or not his forcing out was good, or just, is another matter, and discussion entirely.
Epic lost their case, but is trying to continue the fight by appealing.

Apple has no reason to do them any favors.
Mostly agree, but I think there's a companion reason for the triggering of discomfort. The idea that pay is completely merit-based -- as you say "in terms of ability, experience, performance" -- is a comforting lie that we tell ourselves, in my experience. No company has truly objective decisions for salary. There is always a large handful of historical accident and personal relationships stirred in. (If nothing else, in tech a person's salary is partly determined by their previous salary at other companies!)

Discussing the raw numbers of pay exposes that fact as well.
> Nothing I said was racist. Many developing countries have a higher birth rate than the US, no one disputes this.

The trope that folks in "developing" countries universally pop out huge numbers of kids sufficient to "more than offset your decision not to have kids" is just that, a trope, based on, generously, a paternalistic western view of the rest of the world that lacks any kind of nuance.

For example, China's birthrate is below replacement rate. Is China a "developing" nation in your mind?

What about India? Birthrates have also been dropping consistently, averaging around 2.5 children per couple, which is just a bit above replacement rate (2.1), and in many communities birth rates are actually below replacement:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/fertility-rate-bel...

Sub-Saharan African birthrates are on average much higher but they've been plummeting for years and the trend is likely to continue:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...

All of this reflects a global crash in fertility rates:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53409521

> Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation showed the global fertility rate nearly halved to 2.4 in 2017 - and their study, published in the Lancet, projects it will fall below 1.7 by 2100.

Frankly, you might want to reflect on why you hold on to these outdated beliefs about the "developing" world.
There's another great example of this in maps, where it will refuse to let you favourite your home or work address if it's not in the right format. It won't even tell you that it failed - it doesn't do it and the interface doesn't make it obvious that it didn't do it. So you're out of luck if you want to figure out _why_ it isn't working.

In my case I had a country name accidentally put in a region field, but it didn't look out of place because field labels are missing when filled in. Frustratingly, your contact card with that address will show a map preview that when tapped opens maps with a pin in the right place, so there's clearly some logic to "fix" incorrect addresses somewhere.
True, but some apps don't have the ability to show all these variations and may leave them out (simplify to just a face icon) when copying/pasting. Unicode interpretation is a really complex bundle of quirks these days so I'm pretty sure things will start going wrong.
I’m usually on HN when I’m away from home on a 2G connection (~100kps). Most linked pages take about 20-30 minutes to load (if at all) but HN loads up just fine and I can converse about interesting things.
Then I guess you "can't" be bothered to keep working at that company. Pity.
education is free(yep) in Denmark. You even get paid to study (about 1000$/month for living expenses).

The result is that a lot of people are well educated. If you haven’t completed an education in Denmark, you might not have a lot of options but to accept 22$ an hour
Please provide an example or two.
If you can get your hands on a set of Eeros I can warmly recommend them.
Health care consumers are absolutely free to pay providers directly even if they carry insurance coverage.
Why not both? There's at least a factor of 3x difference between the volume of the most prolific programmers I know and the least. If John Carmack ships the product in 1/10th the time of Average Joe, I would call him a 10x engineer regardless of whether he picked a smarter design or if he simply implemented the dumb design 10x faster (or anything in between, obviously).
Sweeney's out here fighting for the right of the little guy to groom young gambling addicts.
Conspiracy theorists mistake Boss Metal Zone schematic for “5G chip” in vaccine
Are you by any chance ex Google, ex Facebook, multi millionaire tech lead?
Do you eat food? Do you breathe air?

Somehow coffee is completely different.

Somehow coffee is on the same tier as tobacco or cocaine.

It's not.

Relax.

Enjoy a cocoa.
They are required to have some shared religious belief to be exempt from the ACA.
Technically all phones today have parts sourced or designed in the US. I do not understand how and why HN has such a hate boner for China.

What China does today has been done ad nauseum by the US. China is merely following its footsteps.
So it is just Jitsi with a shitcoin scam attached?
If I am not mistaken, when an employer let people go they should also pay what 3 months of full paycheck? It is easier to let people go, but also expensive.
In this case there is a video of them placing the LEDs by hand. At least they didn't have to solder them individually! (They used reflow soldering.)
I thought the lists were a red herring for the problems with privatized healthcare - i.e. look at how complicated pricing is, not how it is being complicated by for-profit middlemen.
FYI - I have Two of these for my machine: https://i.imgur.com/NiHzTzx.jpg

They are super light and all three fit in my backpack really easily....

I HIGHLY recommend.
It is funny/depressing to think how different our country would be today if Bernie had been the 2016 dem nominee.
Haha :-) My home address has been listed in WHOIS for years and it’s never been a problem for me, I give my phone number out to any company that interacts with me and asks for it. When I grew up we always got paper phone books and you could look up anyone’s number, it wasn’t a problem.

Bank account PIN… That actually needs to be secure, but it goes over HTTPS, I don’t need a VPN on top of it. If the Govt wants the cash in my bank they’ll just tell the bank and take it all, without my PIN anyway.
Raspberry Pi KVMs Compared: TinyPilot and Pi-KVM v3
It's not insurance. They're "fixed indemnity plans." Sidecar Health is the one I'm familiar with.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/usc-brookings-schaeffer-on-he... (Fixed indemnity health coverage is a problematic form of “junk insurance”)
Any ambitious and smart enough American who wants to make a high income in exchange for working hard at prep has a choice of jobs they can go into. Many people who go into medicine are not necessarily the most passionate about medicine, but want a high paying, prestigious job.

So yes, it does effect the supply of future and even current psychologists and doctors. Supply is dictated partly by cost of that supply vs the demand in dollars for it, and the cost and barriers to med school and licensing is a big factor of supply costs.
It's easy to contact salary services to know what the market rate is for your position. If anything, people with better "negotiation skills" do this proactively, while other people wander and complain without realizing much of this information is already publicly available.
This is a neutered philosophy.

You surrender you're ability to actually know things outside the purview of large pharma corps.

Hey, I guess my view is never gonna get approved: Eat healthy meat, exercise, and get plenty of sunlight.

Since that's never gonna get a big Pfizer RCT, you should wait. Don't exercise. Don't get sunlight.

Just wait until a big pharmacorp tells you what is healthy.
That's the thing about claiming the root: anyone can try. There is no title to the root, of course, as you well know.

You can certainly try to do it with anything you like, Sealand included. The real work is getting others to agree or care. Handshake has some preliminary support, and more, it seems, than any other project in recent memory.

Alternic once tried, as did Namecoin. IIRC there was also an alternative PKI root that some hackers tried to get going, but no browser ever incorporated into the trust store.
This looks really nice!

2 bits of feedback:

- hitting 'play' on your site's demo animations is adding pageviews to my history, which made getting back here to leave feedback unusually tough :)

- for some reason, even the basic demo animations on your site have BIG delays/stutter -- every one of them, every time I play them. For context, I'm running Chrome 93.0.4577.63 (Official Build) (x86_64) on macOS Mojave 10.14.6 on a 2018 MBP, and have ~60 tabs open.