skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the vaccinated are still ending up in hospital in increasing numbers. It's not that simple.
Also, it amazingly continues to remain anecdotal instead of receiving proper media/scientific investigation, but the side effect profile is nowhere near as small as reported. Considering the affected are mostly younger, it is concerning the level of dismissal directed at this, rather instead a trusting statements from the vaccine manufacturers (who have immunity) instead. There needs to be a bit more critical thinking here.
I'm flagging this post. I encourage you to do the same.

It's definitely an advert.
And if it was a review, it's a really bad one. There's way too many adjectives without the context of actual evidence supporting the claim.

> "Rigorous Quality Standards"

Corporate buzzwords with nothing substantiating that claim.
Also, as opposed to what? Other companies not having rigorous quality standards?

> many rave about the way they sound and feel

False consensus effect via argumentum ad populum.

And plenty more...

Money/access/goods has almost certainly changed hands.
I am trying to finish the first draft of my next fiction book so that I can finally move on to the editing phase. I'm so close, but the last few chapters are always the hardest for me, so I'm just forcing myself through it to get the words - any words - down with the full expectation of having to edit the crap out of it later.
The out of pocket costs are high here because of an $8k deductible, it is a choice.
Edit: Here's the interview: https://youtu.be/CZplF4qdwII

Relevant @ 28:49
FEX-Emu is a similar program. Not sure which one is better.
https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
I'm curious to know if and how you would then distinguish between a metro and the national railway, or other types of railway. I suppose one could argue they should all have the same symbol, but I feel that distinction can be helpful to people using the services.
There's no free market in healthcare. Same thing in Singapore (highest free market in the world) would cost 0 due the cheapest healthcare plan is around 16 dollars.
Resolution 2361 (Jan. 27th 2021) [1] urges Member States to:

> 7.3.1 ensure that citizens are informed that the vaccination is not mandatory and that no one is under political, social or other pressure to be vaccinated if they do not wish to do so;

> 7.3.2 ensure that no one is discriminated against for not having been vaccinated, due to possible health risks or not wanting to be vaccinated;

Unfortunately, there is no answer to the parliamentary question yet. Still, I find it important to document and discuss the continuous shift. 10 months ago, discrimination for not having been vaccinated was unthinkable. And now?

[1] https://pace.coe.int/en/files/29004/html
> The service and technology gets better while the price continues to go down.

What did you think the farmer who was charged $6,589.77 for 6 stitches might have to say about that proposition?
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These are some of the reasons why my wife and I moved from the US to France -- she's French, I'm American; but I can't imagine returning to the nightmare complexity of billings and profiteering that the US system has become...

I'm American and live in Norway. I feel the same. My out of pocket here is around $300, after which a lot of things simply become free. I don't have to consider whether or not I can afford to take care of something, and I have trouble explaining how much lower my stress levels are because of it.

My taxes aren't higher than in the US: IN fact, they might be lower than taxes plus insurance premiums - and that doesn't even touch on the deductibles.
Definitely. My friend has a toaster that only toast hotdog sausages and rolls, and he loves it.
The cycle is complete. The Doom is inevitable.

USSR collapsed in 70 years. RF is about 2x smaller, so it should collapse in 35 years -> 2026.
"I wish stitches were done on a fee for service model like shooting lasers into people's eyes is."
I can't, it doesn't work on desktop.
What do you use an NFT for? In another comment, you say it's not the image. So what is it?
Anecdata: I just had a very mild infection a month ago, but it went to my heart so I went to the ER (thinking they'd give me antibiotics and send me on my way). They wanted to monitor me for 2 days so admitted me. I know I have the right to refuse (and very nearly did), but wanted to make sure my heart was all right. Long story short, they gave me nothing more than aspirin for that stint, did an echo and an EKG, and the billed amount is $130k. Completely ridiculous. I don't care if that's not the amount you pay, that's not right. The baby aspirin were $10 each!! Meanwhile they sent me home with an aspirin prescription for 120 (adult) pills that was about $5.
I don’t buy this. If this were true, Texas would have much better health outcomes than most other states, as med mal payments are capped and basically nonexistent relative to other states given the low cap/incentive for lawyers to pursue.

Instead of any kind of dramatic increase in patient results, this system instead protected truly terrible doctors like the murderer Dr. Christopher Duntsch.
But you seem to be asking for the implementation of the passport, which takes away specifically the rights of others to freely associate. And, if you are vaccinated what is to be afraid of the unvaccinated for? They do not automatically have covid, likely more for them to fear from not knowing which vaccinated person happens to have covid instead.
Do you have numbers for that? Even the comfortably insured in the US have to pay a fee when they visit a doctor, typically around $35 for GP and $100 or more for a specialist.
Like....what? If the games are by the same publisher then that's trivial to do anyway. If they are not from the same publisher....then what kind of "resource" can you transfer? And why would NFT make it any easier?
Good points. OTOH they don't allow attachments and text can be compressed pretty well, plus I somehow doubt most people are sending new messages daily or even monthly. The friends I use it with all write one or two emails to each recipient to be delivered in x years, where recipients won't even know about the existence thereof until x years later. We then tend to reply to each of those messages once after receiving. I personally try to write 3 messages to myself for delivery in 1, 3, and 5 years... the longer the delay, the greater the level of retrospective silliness. Overall I think there isn't a lot of traffic and it's such an obscure service, every person I've mentioned it to has never even heard of it.

It sure would be interesting to see some stats though! :)
Imaging is used as a revenue center. Many states restrict CT and MRI machines based on the broken thought process that restricting capital spending will lead to lower overall prices. Of course in reality you also restrict investment and competition.
> treating it like a real thing

Oracular devices are a real thing - you have dimes for a coin toss. Decision making algorithms of scarce transparency do exist. It (the contextual object) is a real thing: AI as an oracular device is a real thing.

> desire AI as an agent with independence

The point is that we do not desire that. It is an agent when entrusted, and it is independent when unchecked, which the black-box nature of some AI technologies can facilitate.

The issue is not with a misunderstanding of the term AI - which we have used for 65 years effortlessly, exactly «that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. [...] how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves» (McCarthy 1955) -, but with its real instances and very real potential adopters.
The issue is why it costs $6.5K to get the stitches rather than who pays for it.

I mean, it's clear that it's not sustainable to have a healthcare system in which stitches cost this much. Things are not made any better or less outrageous if these costs are transferred to someone else or if they are paid out of pocket.
I'm only aware of one "Hochbahn" and that's just the name of the company operating the U-Bahn.
It struck me this summer (can’t get up, weak muscle, no motivation, “mind tremor”). My doctor suggested the following steps: morning exercise, make a plan for a day/week and mostly stick to it, do everything you have to do, get regular and good sleep. No-medicine mode. I didn’t feel instantly fine ofc, and getting out of it is not the point I’m writing this comment. That state was so motivating that now I somehow miss it. For a week or two I turned into a man who can do everything because of the inner force of rigid determination which you build up at the morning and then sculpt your day around it, never missing a task, never delaying a call, never questioning a decision, never fearing an interaction. It just had to be done. It was like living under 3x gravity which would crush you once you lay down without a purpose. The most surprising part was that I can do that, can just go and do whatever was planned under the depression, and not get anxious, lazy, tired or questioning why. Now it’s all gone, and I’m back to “why would I do that, it’s fine enough already” mode. Human minds are bullshit.
> Tying a copyright license (at least non exclusive) to the NFT transfer sounds not that far fetched.

It's indeed what some artists and some of the NFT marketplaces do.
GP is talking about:

> any healthcare procedure that is not typically covered by insurance

Which I (not American) assume stitches in the emergency room are.
I actually dread what will happen when this would be come as easy as using a 3D printer you can already buy lab equipment on eBay for a fraction of the costs, order CRISP-R kits online and a lot of really weird supervillain stuff like ordering viruses with a “customized payload”.

Right now you still need a pretty substantial lab and knowledge to pull it off but at some point you might be reading on hack-a-day “How I hacked my food synthesizer to produce Ebola..”

I only hope that our ability to defense against such pathogens would advance at least as fast as we commoditizing the ability to play with proteins and amino acids on a molecular level…
> this is quite something else

In what way, specifically?

From your original comment: "imagine something like steam profile avatars/pictures etc. tied to your identity that you can use on any page that implements it."

That sounds 100% like Gravatar. We already have exactly that, without any of the problematic aspects of being tied to NFTs or blockchain.
I assume that's more a "statement of principles" kind of thing, but "Principles" have been deemed outmoded and are a hindrance to the Narrative, so it's just embarrassingly gauche to mention them.
Owners, private equity firms, VC's ... whoever is the ultimate lever in this arena. It's not hard.
Pablo is a small, open-source JavaScript library for SVG
Well, I think then you'd agree with that we need the right regulation so the right incentives are put in place, and that at best would be better not to have the industry dictate the regulation, that in this case sounds absurd.

I was very surprised the first time I watched an open-tv US Channel seeing thousand of ads for prescription medicine. Which I believe are forbidden the countries I have lived in (CL, ES, DE)
That was still a FFS model. The difference is whether the procedure is typically covered by insurance.
Horrible landing page, poorly sized and video controls are bad.

Doesn't pass the BLUF test. If I can't figure the product out in five seconds, I'm leaving.

Shame.

I looked it up on YouTube, it's an interesting concept. I feel that direct vertical is probably more of a pain to renovate and maintain than a staircase in traditional housing. Curious to see what happens.
Sounds like Google's flatbuffers [0], which indexes directly into a byte buffer using the field size prefix.

[0] https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/
If you're looking for somebody that's walking away with fat bags of cash, you aren't going to find them on payrolls.
>more or less the logic that led to the development and proliferation of nuclear weapons

Sure. One country threw a ton of resources into a program, and as a result the technology spread to numerous other countries leading to something like seven countries capable of destroying the world.

Maybe the end result is inevitable. Racing towards it so we can kill others before they can kill us isn't smart.
It was a complicated MRI that was actually 5-6 MRIs in one and involved radiocontrast.

Their standard lower back MRI was $400.

Price competition can be fierce in MRIs since the startup costs aren’t high and you can pull patients from everywhere.
Which results in very painful inconsistencies when you’re dealing with the same schema on different platforms.
>That said, the annoying thing here is that it's expensive to try keys

You can get switch tester kits off Aliexpress, I see there are $15-ish options that let you test 16-30 types of switches.
>What’s the difference?

The difference is that one is completely optional and you can spend as much time as you want comparing options, while the other you're forced to do on a whim at whatever place is closest. You can't shop around when you're bleeding out, as in the article. And such emergency health care constitutes most of these surprise bill situations.
Cool story.

So what you're saying is there is an horrendous creeping bueaucracy cost here.

Funny, because that's exactly what free market proponents argue is the cause of inefficiency in publicly managed healthcare systems, and the reason to move towards models based on the US system.

Someone is lying.
I actually just did my first production serverless project and didn’t find the first point to be an issue. I banged out some nodejs, can run it locally for dev or at lambda for prod. It’s a small one-endpoint service, but it works great imo.
Does the Samsung Z Flip3 count?

Folded it is 86.4x72.2x17 mm.
We mostly need to sue the hell out of companies that don’t identify correctly their customers when making important changes to their account (like transfering a phone number)!
"Democratize formal software verification [...] perfect software."

Okay.

I like Forth too, but that's laying it on a tad thick, imo.
The certificate of need business seems bizarre. I live in London, and the place is so crowded with clinics offering cheap MRIs it's ridiculous, despite the fact you'll get them covered in the NHS I'd you actually need them (literally the very first ad I found for MRIs offered them for 200 pounds).
I suffered a really bad motorcycle accident on Dec 2020 with fractures on both wrists, one arm, one shoulder and L4 vertebrae. Had to get arm and backbone stabilization surgeries and almost two months hospitalization plus rehabilitation. Total cost: zero. I later paid just a few dozen € to get the full medical documentation, tests results, etc. plus all the DVDs with the imaging, but that was my choice. I have neither insurance nor a job; if it wasn't for our healthcare, I really don't know what would have happened to me.

Actually I paid for it in advance with my taxes during my past jobs, and that's the whole point of universal healthcare: it's an investment for those who one day will need it, and a form of contribution for everyone else. Frankly I have never understood those who oppose it; are they so anally retentive wrt their money that they can't renounce to a fraction of their income to help others, and potentially themselves too?
What do you mean ladies.
This paragraph made my head spin:

>The Smarter Balanced test only provided “modest incremental value” beyond high school grades in predicting a student’s first-year UC performance while “reflecting and reproducing inequality” in educational opportunities for underserved students, committee co-chair Mary Gauvain, a UC Riverside professor, told regents on Thursday. Using the state exam in admissions decisions could benefit some underrepresented students who test well but have lower grades, the committee report found, but would disproportionately favor Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and could reduce admission rates of Black, Latino and low-income applicants.

Every study I've ever seen has shown that high school grades by themselves are a good predictor of 1st year college success; high school grades + standardized test scores are an even better predictor. As noted, the use of standardized tests further benefits some underrepresented students who may have had challenges in high school. So what is the problem here? The only issue listed is that it might benefit Asian applicants more than Black and Latino applicants. Is this really where we are?
Yes you can negotiate the prices with insurance, but that means there's always a risk that insurance doesn't cover as much as you hoped for. This means every emergency becomes a risk assessment of estimated cost / probability of negotiation / network coverage / hassle. This is so broken.

When I'm headed to the ER, I'm looking for immediate medical attention. I don't want to be shopping around for hidden hospital price estimates, verifying network coverage and deciding if I should Uber, ambulance or drive while I'm half dead. After all that we still got slapped with a $30k bill for half an hour. Cleared the HDHP deductible real fast. Thanks WEC Hospital for the wonderful hours long wait to pay you jacked up prices.

When we had our first kid, we had to repeatedly call the hospital and insurance to make sure it's within network and that the midwives were going to be covered. Then we got slapped with a $15k bill because one of the nurses is outsourced and not within network. After 5 separate hour long conversations on the phone with Aetna we finally managed to get the clinic to lower the bill to $3000 which Aetna then covered. And then 10 days later I received a $15k bill payment reminder.

I think the whole healthcare discussion in the US seems way too distracted with figuring out how to refactor a code base written by clowns, instead of just building a new system ground up. With 50 different states to pander to, I guess that's the logical result.

Pretty glad I left the US, my mind is now cleared of lots of unnecessary baggage.
Is it stealing to read by the light of your neighbour’s lamp?
I also could not justify the expense, it's just a poor price/performance ratio. You can get a sub $500 nuc with one of these in it instead, if you want a hotrod, why pay above the odds for one that's going to lose a race?

I expect the reason for the part choice is that supplies of the 12th gen chips are wholesale restricted to larger vendors such as lenovo, hp etc - but this is merely a suspicion and not something I have proof of.
As someone who used to work for a company trying to get insurance to pay for medical technology, the US was typically the easiest and fastest country to get coverage in for both private and public insurance.
Idk man, use your imagination. It could literally be anything. NFT just stands for non-fungible-token. It's like a unique ticket sitting on the public blockchain that can be tied to any digital asset sitting on IPFS. Any game or software can verify that you own the NFT without a third centralized party. I don't even play or like video games so this isn't my domain of expertise. Im more interested in seeing NFTs replace ticketing systems and financial systems, where they would represent things like claims to some financial asset.
Meanwhile, Congress passed a bill that's supposed to help with surprise billing. The Biden administration has started to implement it, but doctors and their representatives (Democrats and Republicans alike) claim the administration is not implementing the bill as intended and they are favoring insurance companies over medical providers by trying to keep costs down.

> “The Administration’s recently proposed regulation to begin implementing the law does not uphold Congressional intent and could incentivize insurance companies to set artificially low payment rates, which would narrow provider networks and potentially force small practices to close thus limiting patients access to care,” Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.), who is a doctor and helped spearhead a letter of complaint this month, said in a statement to KHN.

https://khn.org/news/article/surprise-medical-bills-policy-c...

This shit makes my blood boil. Various vested interests, but mostly doctors, have stymied virtually all legislation (the ACA, Medicare and Medicaid being the notable exceptions) for a century.

https://pnhp.org/a-brief-history-universal-health-care-effor...
I don't see that mapping at all. If you own a rare work by a skilled artist, you are in possession of a unique physical item. If you own an NFT, you are not. All you "own" is proof that you paid some money to someone.
Shrinkpdf: Shrink PDF Files with Ghostscript
Very useful shell script to conveniently resize needlessly overdimensioned PDF files.
Might be a bit too aggressive for embedded images but since this is a script it can be tweaked accordingly.
Web page also has a link pointing to a functionally similar Windows variant.
The actual transaction then has another 2fa, seperate from the logging in. In one of my banks this is approving the sum of the transfer in an app after logging in with a password(you can't transfer the app to another device easily), in another it's approving by using an authenticator-like app + a seperate pin, in a bank before that it included a whole seperate device for me to put my debit card in. In neither case would simply logging in or getting my account password be enough.
Who maintains this and why should I trust them.
> it's hard to give a non-political answer because it's really about money and who gets it. on average, men make more money than women. a lot of people (especially women) consider this to be unfair.

I doubt women are significantly more inclined to think this arrangement is unfair. I believe social progressives think it’s unfair, and the media would have us believe that women and racial minorities are largely socially progressive when in fact they aren’t (consider that only a small minority of blacks support defunding the police and women’s and men’s views on abortion are very similar).

In any case, not all compensation is monetary, and it’s widely understood that women prioritize flexibility and other perks over money directly, while men optimize for monetary compensation. Further, much of the money made by men is spent by women anyway—in married households, women spend the majority of the money.
MMFlow is an open-source optical flow toolbox based on @PyTorch. With flexible and modular design, it supports plenty of algorithms in a unified framework.
Try it at https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmflow
Monotty Desktopio: Text-based desktop environment inside your terminal
For smaller applications you likely won't experience much complexity, but building larger apps involving multiple related cloud services, configuration and the need for debugging can increase (dramatically).
It is listed / breaker out as such or is it a percentage coming from Total Tax?
Non-tech people don't know that a phone might not work to unlock a car in and underground garage.

Tech people would assume Tesla built this thing to work without network availability. Maybe via Bluetooth with some key exchanges?

This assumption by coder and companies that services are always available is a nightmare. How many sites completely stopped working last time Facebook login went down? I am not saying build for every possible situation but don't assume the service you are relying on is always available.
The ER has all the pricing power when you need medical care and can’t go anywhere else. The customer has all the pricing power when the medical care has already been provided and the ER hasn’t been paid.