skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“It does sound wild (to me as well), but then there is evidence of USSR party elites (e.g. Kaganovich) turning from maniacs and terrorists into peaceful bureaucrats overnight upon Stalin's death.”

Same happened in Germany. Nazis turned practically overnight into exemplary democrats.
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Australia has had people living in it for 60,000 years, with basic animal husbandry, fish traps, basic agriculture, a messaging network, a national trading network - we don't know how long each of these aspects existed of these 60,000 years (for wooden evidence doesn't conserve well) but it'll definitely be much, much longer than European institutions
No, the rate per 100k should be much lower if vaccination is working properly. Yes the case numbers would be expected to be higher (a lot of people argue 'base rate fallacy'to support this), but that fails to address that the vaccine should reduce the rate per population, even if raw numbers are expected to be higher due to coverage. The data is not supporting that.
You have a collision if any two schemas share the id, not if a specific schema collides with any
of the others. So it is exactly like the birthday paradox.
You missed this part: "Both the physicians and the hospital are part of companies recently taken over by private-equity investors."
Some people somewhere, with cigars, in $5,000 suits. "Look at all those schmucks! $400 per shot and $1,000 per stitch." The whole healthcare system needs to be regulated by the government end-to-end. All procurement must be transparent. Every cent traced. Pharma mafia dismantled - on a federal level.
On Debian, https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/intel-microcode
Be glad - you are seeing into the future.
Yes, the vaccine does it's job in preventing transmissions,
hospital admissions
and deaths

But sadly not for a 100%
The hospital admins are lying. Doctors will go through a billing agency who can charge whatever they want. The doctor might not know, but would be naive to believe it’s not expensive.
The stitches are expensive mostly because of many regulatory factors that restrict the supply of medical services and drive costs up, with the "free market" component being in how much they can charge the patients. It's the worst of both worlds in the US.
The blockchain equates to the Moon Shares company. Outside of the company/blockchain, the ownership means nothing.
The vaccine does not protect against infection, it only reduces that risk. The pass only says you've had the vaccine, not that you're covid negative.
There's certainly a common attitude with both romantic relationships and businesses, with the expectation among many that if it goes wrong it's the end of the friendship, so people seek out people from other circles so as not to ruin a long friendship (be it from dating apps for romance or working with professional associates / startup incubator neighbours / whatever for business formation)
Squatting while climbing up does not sound fun to me. I think just providing something like geared pulley with 1:20 ratio will work and is much simpler. Just pull down the chain with bit of force and it will lift you up slowly.
Well... if the actual Open Source work you do is in your day job except that instead of committing to the internal codebase you commit in your own packages all day and then update the dependency in the project, I don't think you need to be 10x.
You don't have 80cm between normal floor joists so installation in a regular house could be complex and expensive. If you are designing a multistory new build specifically for the elderly leaving a space for a solution like this to be installed/uninstalled in the future could be added to building standards.
Reminds me of Clojure's transit.
And my moon certificate proves that I own that part of the moon. Control over transfer is not the same as control over other uses.
Doctors are acutely aware of how much which procedures bill for.
Well, the generation who grew up with chats knows exactly why that is. Pick a female handle, and feel showered by the beauty of inspiring conversations with men. :))
> The hospital admin says they're underpaid. The insurance companies say they're barely covering their payouts. So who is lying?

Insurance companies are definitely lying (their execs are paid tens of millions) though it should be noted that the US system greatly limits the ability to spread insurance payments on health populations, so it makes sense that the population using medical services is a larger share of the insured population, and thus has to pay more.

Anyway more generally the administrative overhead of US healthcare is absolutely enormous e.g. as of 2017[0] it was almost 35% of medical expenses, versus 17% in Canada (up from respectively 31 and 16.7 in 2003).

> [Administrative costs per capita in the US versus Canada are] $844 versus $146 on insurers' overhead; $933 versus $196 for hospital administration; $255 versus $123 for nursing home, home care, and hospice administration; and $465 versus $87 for physicians' insurance-related costs.

So the admin overhead in the US (v Canada) is:

- 5.78x on insurance

- 4.76x on hospitals

- 2.07x on nursing homes, home care, and hospices

- 5.34x on physicians

Importantly though you did not list drug companies in there.

Drug costs are completely out of control in the US (some generic and out of patent drugs have seen price increases of 80x in a decade), and AFAIK modern treatment regimens tend to include a lot more different drugs.

At the hospital level, aside from the administrative overhead above, as an other commenter notes there is also the issue that because it's not a single-payer public health system hospitals have to compensate for indigent ER clients by billing more to, well, people who can pay.

Then of course there's the issue that because all the incentives are fucked under the US system it's being used the least efficient way possible e.g. medical costs are sky-high, so people can't have a GP, so they can't take care of their conditions until those go south, at which point they go to the ER which is the most expensive and least efficient medical service center.

And then the ER's job is to stabilise them, but they still don't have any more money to pay for long-term treatment than they did before having to go to the ER (less, really), so they can't follow through, so they degrade again, and back to the ER.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31905376/
> ”The universal symbol for a city’s Metro system is a big “M.”

Not in London. Or Toronto. Or Hong Kong. Or New York. Or…
you don't? unless they changed something, they also give you cards you can use to unlock your car.
My understanding is that the ER system is especially expensive because paying customers are subsidizing non-paying customers (homeless) who use the ER as primary care.

That said, I don't think this excludes the possibility that the insurance companies and the hospitals are also not telling the full truth.
I don't think the author understands what depression is, or at least what it is like for the majority of sufferers. I feel like the article trivialises depression as something to be worked through and overcome. If you have chronic depression, this article is probably going to irritate you. It's kind of like when people say you have you 'fight' cancer. You can't fight cancer, and those that die of cancer didn't die because they were too weak to put up a good fight.
Ikd about Australia. I should have added: "in the EU".
Having to go through the process of negotiating it down is proof that the system is a failure, because that’s very obviously difficult for the majority of people to do. You simply shouldn’t have to do that in the first place.
This still doesn't explain how this actually proves anything, improves anything or makes the offered Amazon scenario a thing of the past.
Thank you. I have just looked at the table and you seem to be right. The infection rate in the age range 30 to 80 is higher for vaccinated than unvaccinated. For the other groups it is higher in the unvaccinated populations (≤30, 80≥). It seems like vaccinated people in the age range 30 to 80 seems to behave more careless due to the fact that they are vaccinated and happen to catch the virus.

At the same time I have been looking at the other columns as well. The first column shows the rate of infection in people that have just tested positive. The other three columns show how much more dangerous the virus is to people who have not been vaccinated and end up in the hospital. Way more unvaccinated people end up in the hospital than vaccinated people. At the same time, way more cases of unvaccinated people that ended up in the hospital end in death than in cases of vaccinated people. The hospitalisation rates in the unvaccinated populations are from 2 to up to 4 times higher than in vaccinated populations. The death rates even more so show this discrepancy between the cases that end up in death coming from unvaccinated vs. vaccinated people.

Besides that, there are some very important pieces of information missing in this entire story. We do not know how many people have had previous infections. Read the following comment on p24:
> people who have never been vaccinated are more likely to have caught COVID-19 in the weeks or months before the period of the cases covered in the report. This gives them some natural immunity to the virus for a few months which may have contributed to a lower case rate in the past few weeks

With that being said, I give you that, you are right in the fact that there are more infections in the vaccinated population than in the unvaccinated, but at the same time the former seem to have a better time after contracting the virus than the latter (proof are the death rates).

With that being said, I do not think that the right decision is to dump the vaccination certificates/passports, rather I think the right decision would be to further implement the certificate as a requirement alongside periodic testing. It has been proven in other parts of the world that the vaccination certificate is indeed an incentive for people to get the vaccine, which in turn would help the hospitalisation rates fall. Testing is still detrimental.
My daughter here in France had a bike accident two months ago which requires 14 stitches in her foot.

We received 3 follow-up visits from nurses to clean and redress her wounds --

We pay about 100€ a month for supplemental private insurance on top of the public health insurance here --

Total cost for us? about 40€. We would have had to pay about 100€ more for the nurses' visits, but the mutuelle covered it.

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...
$400 still sounds high, to be honest.
I can tell you that you cannot freely open a clinic in Chile, and Doctors have the monopoly on many treatments that are delivered by nurses or other workers in Europe. Becoming a Doctor is not easy, and foreign Doctors must go through difficult tests before working for the public system.

Additionally, I remember that many supplies come from... the United States? So what regulations are you talking about?

Maybe you meant monopolies?
the gaokao has also equity scores, requesting lower results for minorities, foreign nationals, persons with family origin in Taiwan, and children of military casualties
The existence of that exception, the way it is implemented, the way they work with vendors to help them fit into it, and the way they do not require informing users of such secondary processors are all deceptive.

Just look at the Librem 5. That CPU needs a blob to even boot (to train the RAM). Normally that would just be embedded into the bootloader. But that would make it evident in the build process for their boot stack that there is a blob involved, and they can't certify that as "Respects your Freedom". So instead they worked with the manufacturer, and came up with this contrived interpretation of the "secondary processor" rule where, as long as the firmware in the "secondary processor" is at least two steps removed from the main CPU and never handled "directly" by it, it's okay. Then they had the manufacturer put the blob in a Flash ROM (Flash, so updatable, remember? just not that easily), and then they had them write a little loader code that runs on another secondary CPU. So the main CPU (running free software) boots a secondary CPU (running free software) that loads a blob from Flash and then boots a third CPU, which now runs proprietary software. According to the FSF, all this pointless obfuscation and extra levels of indirection makes the device magically compliant with their criteria. And so it got certified.

It is completely evident that absolutely none of this helps end-users' freedom in any way, shape, or form vs. just having the blob in the normal bootloader where it can be more easily inspected and analyzed (and also lets users ensure that it hasn't been tampered with). It's just adding obfuscation so users won't find the blob, and therefore will feel better believing they aren't running any blobs.

By this interpretation of the rule, I could ship an x86 PC with an Nvidia GPU that runs its proprietary driver on one of the CPU cores (isolated from the main OS), loaded by the UEFI firmware through ME or something, which communicates with the rest of the cores via VirtualGL or some other RPC, and that would make this PC eligible for RYF certification. Tell me that's not a farce.
FB especially was not designed for this scale. Sadly it has also killed most of the small local moderated forums where people were hanging out, such as the local D&D site.

It has also successfully acquired user base that was never really acquainted with netiquette of such moderated spaces. Namely the generation of my parents.
exactly. and people promoting closed source security updates should print this risk out in most clear fashion. if we want to hold GNU to account for security then we should definitely do so with closed source vendors too
Sorry I mean more in terms of attitudes towards protesting against increasing government authority. As in 'oh sure I suppose the government could use those powers in an authoritarian manner, but as if they would, so protesting is unnecessary.'
Probably the best thread to ask this on:

Being paranoid, I want to install some extensions (and their updates, etc.), but I am afraid of originally malicious extensions, and of malicious-takeovers (as was very common, and still happens, for Chrome and Firefox extensions).

Developers and their machines are, in general, more lucrative targets for bad actors than your average Web person.

How do you protect your setup with minimal cost to usefulness and productivity?
That’s what I am thinking. It doesn’t even have to be MAGA only. I bet wokeness could also turn into a dictatorship with the right leader. That’s why rohe current US political climate where people think that the other side is evil and can’t be negotiated with is so dangerous. The right leader can make a case that there is a dangerous crisis and that laws have to be suspended to deal with the threat and voila you have a dictatorship that’s supported by half the population.
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Typically whta is done is that n upper / lower bits of the tokens ID is ignored which allows you to mint 2^n duplicates of a skin.

>And what if I want that skin in League, rather than GTA?

Too bad. Most games are not going to put in work to support other game's cosmetics.
That's nice! But since it's also for Windows, I was surprised not to see binary releases, just the source. Most Windows users won't bother compiling from source.

Edit: Found on the project page: https://kristall.random-projects.net/
But someone's weight doesn't pose a risk to the ones surrounding them. And i've yet to hear how hospitals get filled with obese people and doctors are struggling with waves after waves of obese people that need to be bedded and taken care of. These are simple things, but you need to have some bare minimum amount of neurons to realize this. And somehow you lost yours. What happened - an accident or is it congenital?
FYI, the drug is (trade name) Glybera (generic) alipogene tiparvovec. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alipogene_tiparvovec

From the submitted article:

"...The first drug ever approved that can fix a faulty gene.

It's called Glybera, and it can treat a painful and potentially deadly genetic disorder with a single dose — a genuine made-in-Canada medical breakthrough..."
The American insurance system has inherent efficiency problems.

Hospitals are for profit corporations. Doctors are reviewed on how much revenue they generate per patient - usually by asking for more diagnosis and treatments - which is what patients want too.

Too much admin, too little doctors. Someone should get the admin to doctor ratios at hospitals, it is nuts. A lot of admin is there to handle the insane documentation requirements, software, machinery and dealing with insurance providers.

Insurance providers have their own army of admins, talking everyday to hospital admins.

On top of this, supplies providers know that insurance is going to foot any bill. So they charge more. Insurance tries to negotiate it down but there's only so much they can do - unless they buy stuff directly from China or somewhere else.

To add, each of these institutions has their own management ladder with fatter paychecks than the doctors themselves. These folks are nothing but leeches who just need the corporate ladder to exist.

Unfortunately, the only capitalist solution out of this is to allow massive production of doctors (blocked by AMA), allow doctors to unite and form their own hospitals
willy nilly (harder than you think because legal requirements are burdensome) and for insurance providers to compete in open market - as they do for cars. No more open enrollment.
Washington Hospital in the Bay Area charged me $2,010 for a COVID test when I went to their ER. Later I was told I was stupid for having gone to the ER to do the test there. I just never suspected they would charge that much.
> A star for his gravestone is too great a luxury, but still, he should have at least seen the hills of the next village over.

I found this very poetic.
A license to download some content that is otherwise publicly accessible? At any rate, copyright licenses cannot be enforced with smart contracts, because smart contracts cannot stop members of the public from making unauthorised copies. Copyright licenses can only be enforced by entities that have coercive power over individuals, e.g. courts of justice, but then the whole NFT becomes redundant because owning the NFT doesn't do anything, because in order to enforce your license you would need to have the proper paperwork and file a suit against the offending party.
I've had doctors in the ER bill directly out of their own practice several times. Out of network, but I've had no choice in the matter except to receive treatment or refuse treatment for life-threatening conditions.

The law here has changed since then to prohibit this kind of thing, though.
And then ghost so all you've done is scam a scammer.
From personal experience, many states dont require workers compensation for independent contractors. Now there are protections still, but it isn't as robust as employee protections, and even then in some states (like Texas), the company doesn't have to have workers compensation insurance at all, but instead can use mediation and arbitration to "take care of" injured workers.

My sister is an orderly at a nursing home in Texas, and was attacked by a patient, she was was scraped up and had to get stitches, but they wouldn't allow her to fill out a work place injury form or reimburse her for medical expenses, and instead the onsite RN stitched her up at the request of management. The company (pretty large nursing home management company) does not carry workers compensation insurance and instead uses 3rd party arbitration to handle injury "disputes"... so if you are TRULY injured, you have no real recourse than to wait days and days without treatment waiting for this third party to say they will reimburse you.
My even change 1 bit? Just create a new NFT with the same exact image. Nothing is stopping you.
As someone who would enforce vaccination certificates, I would kick such people out of the healthcare system or make them pay more for living obese unhealthy lives.
Trail runner here and I wholeheartedly agree. Life is defined by experience, not achievement.

But some people never reach this realization. I live surrounded by very accomplished retirees, and some, on first meeting, give me a rundown of the highlights of their illustrious career.
Exactly. What the US lacks is actually more liberal market in health. Less regulations and more competition.

When talking about regulations people usually mean regulating pricing and/or service quality but what actually needs to be tackled are the factors that limit competition, like:
- process for opening new clinics/hospitals should have little to none restrictions
- requirements for doctors (no doctors from outside can work in the US unless they complete $400k degree)
- Drugs from outside countries should be allowed to be imported without FDA's approval

and so on
Regulation working as intended?
Yes, and it would be even more expensive in Germany. But in both countries the insurance covers normally 50% of it, wherever you go. If not all. (Other sickness are covered normally 80% if not entirely whatever insurance you have)
> If you just use pip & co, nix will be unaware of it and won't care one way or another. It will basically treat your pip-installed stuff like it'd treat your sourcefiles or pdfs.

Also if you run pip as root (to install for all users at once)?
I'm in my mid 30s and have left fixing up some damaged teeth and my large wisdom teeth impacted for 17 years too long, this Monday I'm going to get them removed under general anaesthetic at a private hospital.

The Australian government covers hardly any dental unless your teeth have completely rotted through and are chasing other issues.

So far my costs are:

- $4500 in fillings and general dental.

- $1800 for a crown (gold).

- $350 consultation with surgeon (via zoom).

- $1100 for 30-40 minutes (max) of a theatre room for the initial operation.

- $4000 for the surgeon for 30-40 minutes.

- $450 for the anaesthetist.

- $0 for X-rays (covered under Medicare).

- $150 transport.

- $YTD medication post surgery.

- $YTD follow up dental work.

- $YTD additional surgery to cavities from the top teeth into the sinuses - this is only a maybe, it's a risk.

Total so far in the last 3 months has been over $12,000

What stand out for me is how can the surgeon charge $4000 for 30-40mins of active work, and I'm assuming a little paperwork.

Having said all that, I admitted myself to the ER earlier this year and spent the day there having a bunch of tests, didn't cost anything at all and no insurance required.

While healthcare in Australia is generally pretty decent,dental is significantly lagging behind and expensive.
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> It what sense does a Moon share give you any ownership over any part of the moon? If someone else goes up to the Moon and builds a lunar base on "your" piece of the Moon, does your Moon share give you any way to stop them?

In what sense does a Token give you any ownership over any part of the image? If someone does a copy&paste operation and starts selling "your" image on a t-shirt, does your NFT give you any way to stop them?