skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US medical system is incredibly regulated and constricted by the government and the rules and regulations. It is NOT a free market. An English friend who moved to the Bay area for work at Genentech had a wife who was a doctor from the UK. She could NOT practice as a doctor in California. This is deliberate by design. The AMA restricts the number of doctors to prevent their incomes being reduced.

The third party payment system of medicine is both directly paid for by the government and subsidized by tax writeoffs for the private insurance industry (which is tied to employment).

And meanwhile during a pandemic majority of Americans supported Medicare for all. Yet the corporate politicians are against it. The performative art of the "squad" was at full display when they had a chance to force the "Medicare for all" vote and passed on it.

https://www.opindia.com/2020/12/jimmy-dore-vs-cenk-uygur-dem...

https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-rejects-left-wing-calls-...

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/412545-70-...

We deserve what we vote for.
Re-selling the same digital goods across different platforms is a bit of a scam really.

One day, it might not be a normal business practice.
Has anyone seriously made the argument that it's ok for employers to require but not pay for home internet because you'd use it anyway? It's a cheap move by employers, but being cheap is different from being dishonest about why the policy is as it is. I haven't seen the latter.

Personally I think who pays for internet is not high on the list of most pressing questions for how to adapt to wfh.

Edit: my tech job did not pay for my internet when we went to wfh and it didn't bother me. I think the real place companies are mistreating employees is for things like low paid customer service jobs where they are expecting them to have their own connection, because the cost then is more likely to be material relative to their comp.
Not state in blog post, one of comments mentions a $4 flat fee to use this feature: "On a $35 purchase, that's 11% of the purchase cost spread over one month. Annualized, that's an astounding 250% APY." https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/introducing-...
A cow only costs $100?
like your hip!

“The leader must not fall.”
Hilarious parody of crypto world
Even with 'excellent insurance' (which I think I have as well), you still deal with deductibles, non-covered procedures, inability to choose and shop for prescriptions, limited choice of providers, HSAs, massively inflated prices... the list goes on. To the point of another commenter, just having to reason and think about the costs of necessary healthcare in one of the wealthiest countries in the world is a complete joke. Some people having OK experiences in the US still pales in comparison to the majority having good experiences in most other developed countries.

Edit: Also having your health tied to your employer is also a joke. I've read enough stories about people getting screwed by employers who know they need the insurance and get away with abusing employees.
> Insurance paid UCSF $16,000 after discount.

There you go. The insurance company is actually incentivized to not negotiate a lower price.

What if they refuse a ludicrous price? Their customers will complain -- what, what? go without MRIs?

Worse -- the insurance company gets to keep 20% of the costs as profit. For a $16,000 bill, that's $3,200. For a $3,000 bill, that's just $600.

So why, again, would they fight for a lower bill? No reason. Competition from other companies? Unfortunately, they're all playing the same game, and lower premiums are simply not happening.
Nix is another Linux package manager.

https://nixos.org/
Documenting HTTP Requests with Hurl
Triggers a reminder of another similar thought experiment story I read when I was very young. A very poor individual was accused of stealing for eating plain rice while smelling the delicious smells of a nearby restaurant. In this particular instance the restaurant owner was in the position that it was stealing. The judge ruled that payment to him would be in the sound of money passing from one hand to the other.
The Never-Endemic Story
Should have got the suture kit on Amazon for $20 /s

https://www.amazon.com/Suture-Practice-Kit-Medical-Students/...
I assume you were using C++? I'm not sure what you describe is possible these days due to UB. At the very least just casting bytes received over the wire to a type is UB, so you technically need a memcpy() and hope that the compiler optimises it out.
My wife has declared her intention to buy an SE for her next phone because she hates dealing with the Face ID on her current iPhone
You guys are approaching this from the wrong direction: you've taken NFTs and decided they are valuable, and set about trying to prove you can do useful things with them.

All of the things you've mentioned already exist, with a lot less effort. Copyright law is well established on digital goods. Contract/IP law is well established.

If NFTs have utility, beyond greater fool theory, then surely it will exist beyond having to go replicate all of these web2/tradfi/whatever concepts. Otherwise, what's the point?
Article feels like a bait and switch. They pose the question, ask if WIFI is any different. Never tries to answer the question and instead dives in WFH and compensation. Strangely they pose questions, but never answer any.
Slightly tangential from the main point but I'm in a free rider position now I actually feel slightly bad about. I've moved into a row house and I'm in the middle apartment. My neighbours seem to like to live in an indoor sauna. It's now well into winter and I haven't had to turn the heat on. I've actually got the windows open to keep it around to around the 20 - 21 degrees I prefer. Not great but I don't know how I'd contribute without boiling alive.
It was a poorly designed service, for the client-user, from day one; for the Serverless provider it is more large sized revenues genius.

Running a server or a cluster of servers is elementary, kids. Do not believe the cloud hype. There is no need to spend the cloud dollars when a small fraction of ones' cloud expense gets one exponentially more compute. All you need to do is get over the fear that running a server is difficult. it is not.
Can you install AOSP/Lineage on that phone?
Thanks for the link, here’s a good quick video showing the basic principle of moving objects via balance: https://youtu.be/9NTm2PZ04iA
Yes, amazing piece of software.
The meat is... it isn't made from people. Right?
a helicopter?
It is not uncommon in US going to the hospital and they giving you a list of options and prices. I don't know how to call that but definitely feels like a market.

BTW, I come from from a European country with universal healthcare and have been living in US for almost a decade and the feeling of someone making money of your health is at least weird. If I ever have some severe health issue no doubt I will go to treat myself to my country of origin.

EDIT: Also tired to hear about the problems of universal health care, specially with wait times. It is true that less important treatments could take some extra time but I have never seen a case where a fast intervention was needed and did not happen. I would say that common sense is something that works for universal healthcare. At least where I come from.
Has there been a refresh since it was launched in 2018? Buying a 3+ year old Android model seems quite iffy. From https://www.verizon.com/support/palm-palm-update/ it seems it stopped getting security patches over a year ago.
I was interested until I saw Android 9. That seems to be the common problem with a lot of these older phones: dated software. We have a car with android auto integration that actually finally works well with h android 11 and better with 12. 9 and 10 were the reason we paid for the built in navigation in the infotainment system.
Americans have to watch their health more these days. Companies are now ONLY offering high deductible plans. You HAVE to invest in your HSA for things to be sane.

You cannot afford to be overweight or t2 diabetic in America, not anymore. The biggest money makers are cardiovascular surgery. These are bankruptcy makers.

Get your teeth checked out and clean. Get physicals - keep your cholesterol low. Get the vaccines and booster. Try to get as healthy a weight as possible. Watch your higher risk behaviors. Avoid cigarettes and alcohol.

Even then its a roll of the dice.
> Why should I pay attention to the road if my car will automatically brake for me?

Was literally an argument people made against seat belts.
Wow, never heard of Quadpay
This is a positive externality something long discussed and understood by economists.

https://mises.org/library/what-externality

The author compares the lamp's light to using your neighbour's WiFi. It's not the same thing.

When you use your neighbour's WiFi you're consuming a proportion of the limited bandwidth available on that connection. The neighbour is negatively impacted. You are also interacting with his hardware. It's different to collecting a type of energy that your neighbour is voluntarily releasing out into the world and abandoning.
I’m confused about this. What’s the target here? It’s shady/weird to want to use Zelle, but couldn’t this have been a legit person wanting to use Zelle?
The iPhone “mini” is comparable in size to the 6 also.

It is very noticably bigger than the SE
If it is, then the neighbour is guilty of light pollution, and should be forced to take measures to mitigate their polluting activities.
Two interesting videos about Lying Flat from China Insights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sot1xypiB8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqStHkW2dzU
Interesting. The attack seems to be primarily on people who don't already have Zelle so in the analogous case in Europe wouldn't the attacker just be able to setup the app as the victim and authorize the transfer themselves?
UPDATE: that's it, the registry did take the domain back.

As I expected, they took domain for themselves... Whois says:

This name is reserved by the Registry in accordance with ICANN Policy.
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2021-11-20T13:42:39Z <<<

:(
This looks pretty good. As long as there were a child nearby to do the screen typing for me and read what my eyes cannot see, it would be perfect for me!

Seriously, this could be a great backup phone for traveling. I didn't know it existed... maybe they need more marketing?
Our office is "open" but no one goes in and no one is required to. I suppose that means they can say we already pay for internet, it's at the office?
Not sure how exact you're looking for but I believe this company Unicomp[1] bought the rights and manufacturing equipment for the model M keyboards after IBM and Lexmark stopped making them. I don't have one but allegedly they're still made in USA to the same standards as the old IBM ones.

[1]https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/UNI041A
Those greedy doctors trying to protect their livelihoods from a bill that gives insurers an easy path to drive down their reimbursement when an alternate method of doing the same thing (New York's law on surprise billing) exists that does not have that same feature. I for one know that software engineers would certainly support bills that would reduce their pay for the greater good! Physicians are the only group that everyone expects to work for less and less money. It may surprise you, but most software engineers will have an easy time outearning the majority of physicians. It's not the 80s anymore. Doctors aren't super rich. Doctors aren't the ones who made you sick, but they are the ones who trained for 7+ years to take care of the problem. Shame on them for wanting to earn a living.
Basically what I said in my last paragraph?!?
Why do you feel bad about it? Sounds like you're reducing overall CO2 emissions. I understand that you are the "reader" in this article, but if you did start heating your own apartment then demonstrably everyone would be worse off (except your neighbors, who might need marginally less heating)
“Human minds are bullshit” - true that!
The mind will conjure up all the philosophy and logic in the world once it wants something. For many of us, the thing can be laziness - which can hold us back in the long term.
What do you mean, "parody"?
To be fair, the regular iPhone 12/13 isn't that bigger than the iPhone 12/13 mini. Compared to what's left of the classic iPhone form factor (6s/7/8/SE), the minis are a bit smaller and the regular ones a bit larger. They're thicker, though, and don't slip as easily into a pocket.
If I remember one of my undergraduate lectures correctly, stealing, at least in the UK requires depriving the owner of the use. So in an extreme example if you take your neighbors car to drive your pregnant wife to the hospital, but return it before they notice, it's not stealing. It might be other things, (I'm thinking mainly of consumables and wear) but it's not stealing.

At the time of the lecture the law didn't have an opinion on "stealing WiFi", (this was at a time when unsecured WiFi was reasonably common) but likely required the owner to be deprived of service.
I think we can all agree the US healthcare system is broken. The above describes exactly why it can't just be "fixed"; only after taking those steps would moving to a universal solution make sense. No one, including healthcare workers, wants to be downsized or get a pay cut.
Do you have any evidence to support the idea that this is a cultural meme that originated with Christianity, and not an innate cognitive tendency that Christianity merely appropriated? "Paganism" doesn't really refer to anything coherent.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but you'll forgive me if I don't - ahem - take it as Gospel.
I’m sure there will be rotation in the leader place.

I’m just glad there are now other brands matching the performance of Teslas. Their marketing and brand image, so popular with many people, are total anathema to me. I’m not in the market now but can’t see myself getting a Tesla.
I think the difference between the allegoric neighbour/reader and employee/employer is that the employer is paying the employee.

As a remote worker, I signed my contract knowing that I would need to have a functioning home office (provide light) to do my job. I saw how much I was being paid and decided it was a good deal.

The neighbour and reader are both knowing and willing participants in the situation. That changes things.

Now, for work contracts that began as in-office and were forced into remote, one could say the situation is different. I don't agree though. I think that every day one has to look at the employment contract they are in and ask themselves if this is a fair deal. If the changes don't make it a fair deal, ask for a new deal- or turn off the light.
I believe they had to find a good one-size-fits-all while keeping the price low enough to attract buyers. The target audience is the owners of T-60 laptops who are willing to pay more than what a new Thinkpad costs to make their current laptops better.

I understand people get attached to these computers and I’ve paid more for old computers than it’d cost to get new (and more practical) ones, but it’s a different thing.
Hence the free market would have excluded any teenager who doesn't have rich parents from higher education. Hardly a good thing.
My wife’s last ambulance ride was $1200 to take her to the hospital 4 miles away. They didn’t even do anything for her, just drover her there. I wish she had called an Uber — something like this makes me not want to call an ambulance ever again.
Are the traces gold plated?
The author says they are less interesting, not less funny.
Dentistry is paid for by insurance and is relatively cheap either way. Healthcare in the US is expensive for several reasons. Excessive paperwork and bureaucracy, unpaid bills, required service, 24/7/365 services, complex diagnosis, lawsuits, medical school, regulatory capture, etc etc.

Changing any one of them isn’t going to fix pricing. We really need to change several pieces at the same time and the industry really doesn’t want lower prices as that reduces their income.
I took it less as "build to create a unicorn and get rich" vs "building as intimate act of interdependence" that brings people closer in a rich way, just as any kind of interactive play will do. I'm trying to migrate some work friends into personal friends, and this constructive / collaborative interaction is a thing I'm hungry to keep once work no longer provides it to us for free.
Sucks that Windows forcibly pairs your local account and Microsoft account every once in a while with no opt-out.
Are you referring to different language implementations/runtimes? I don't follow your point about inconsistencies.
> A lot of them just feel like "Oh, you just gave some money to people, removed the usual checks and balances that exist in filming, and told them to deliver a movie ASAP."

Describes Red Notice by Netflix
Texas electrical grid: gas producers opted out of winterization
Love it! I made something similar a while back: https://initialcornoffering.com/

EDIT: And of course I’m fixing a small CSS bug I just noticed I have now crashed the entire app :(

EDIT 2: And now we’re back up! Thank you all for going on this journey with me.
And android 11! Feels like a winner to me. Crazy that it's $300 (assuming we're both talking about the Titan Pocket). Feels like a potential winner to me.
The Spam Is Back (2017)
Unlikely, but if he does it’s because he’s the “owner of a plumbing business” not just a plumber.
Your graphics book is great!
My anectdata shows that urgent care centers do very little and get to charge whatever they want.

There's a reason they've popped up like weeds.
Why are we so worried about climate change?
Since the Radiative Forcing of CO2 is a Logarithmic Function of Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations, i don't see why climate change is such a big deal.
That means higher taxes, which are undesirable for some.
Maybe it's not a good bank if you can't get a hold of them in a reasonable timeframe
Show HN: U8G2 (Monochrone Display Driver) HAL for Kendryte K210 MCUs
> They don’t exist. They’re the imagined scapegoat for what is actually just a much harder to comprehend creeping bureaucracy cost.

> The whole insurance system we have is an impractical mess designed to fail.

You shifted the boogeyman from corporate suits to politicians in the space of a few comments. If nobody has malicious intent then nothing was "designed to fail". It just doesn't work as expected or wanted by anyone involved.
Similar-ish story

I'm in the US.

* I paid $20 K out of pocket for a surgery that my insurance would not cover.

* A few weeks after surgery, I developed a complication that left me in HORRIFIC pain several hours / day.

* Almost immediately after development of complication, I got ANOTHER $20 K bill from the hospital.

* I read the fine print on my contract, "HOLY SHIT. THEY CAN DO THIS????"

* Meanwhile, horrific pain persists, day after day.

* Wife says, "You need to go to ER."

* Me: "NO WAY. You wanna get hit with ANOTHER $20K bill because I developed a complication due to a procedure that the insurance refused to cover from the get-go? I'll ride this out."

* Horrific pain persists. I cancel a lot of my work.

* A few weeks later, I have a follow-up visit with surgical group.

* I tell surgical group, "I got this $20 K bill ON TOP of the $20K I already paid."

* Surgical group: "Oh. That's a billing error."

* I explain very s-l-o-w-l-y that I did not deal with my horrific pain for WEEKS as a direct result of receiving an erroneous bill and that there may be a lawsuit coming someone's way.

* 15 minutes after leaving my follow-up visit, I got 3 phone calls from hospital admins and surgeon expressing profound regret for the error and assurances that the bill was "gone."

If I could leave the US, I would for this simple reason.
Can you provide a thesis so I know what I'm looking for of I chose to do the research you've laid out for me? What is Toyota's goal, if not profit?
These puff pieces by journalists always feel the need to include some adversity story - whether real or contrive or perceived does not matter. It sells more copy.

Contrast that with the recently deceased female Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields medal, and her accomplishments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani

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Speaking of building bridges in Mathematics Paul Erdos came to mind. There is a great book on him called "The Man Who Only Loved Numbers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Loved_Only_Numbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
Holy moly, it's like COBOL was one of the original PaaS , with lock-in as a feature
The EV6 has a lot of things equivalent Teslas don’t offer - cooled seats, 360 view cameras, Apple Carplay/Android Auto and it offers similar performance.
Legally, I think there's not a problem with even the strictest interpretation of "you need this, but we aren't paying for it". In many small business manufacturing settings, the typical arrangement is that operators buy their own toolboxes without reimbursement (i.e. wrenches, screwdrivers, even endmills). Strikes me as a dumb way to scare away potential workers, but alas I don't make the rules.
I know it dodges the dilemma, but the neighbour didn't pay for the light.
He paid for the oil.
So it's questionable what was stolen and where.

The light seems to have left the property of the neighbour.

You may even call it light pollution, because of its environmental impact, which may be of greater importance in the long run.

https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution/wildlife/

Imagine the reader has a bee hive, that is disturbed by the light and reduces its honey production.

But since the reader approved and even used the situation to its own advantage, he also could be considered responsible.

So in the best of all possible worlds both should be charged with minor misdemeanor.
And punished accordingly with a semester of Kantian moral philosophy, held in a Platonic cave without lighting.
I'd love to see a quantitative analysis of screen content, ads and screen size over time
American emergency care is the exact opposite of a "free market". In a free market, you get to shop around, compare prices and most importantly, there is a supply and demand curve where if prices rise too much, you can choose not to consume the product. Works great with potato chips, not so much with bleeding wounds.

If I'm 'forced' to go to the nearest hospital because I may die if I don't, then that hospital should be 'forced' to bill me a fair rate. You can't have free market billing but captured service demand. They do the same with utility pricing - the power company can't decide to 10x the cost of a KW (sorry Texas), so the same should be for medical bills (especially emergency care).

We've 'socialized' firefighting, policing and the defense of our country. Why haven't we done the same with health care? I dunno, maybe not enough Americans have visited Europe or Canada and seen the liberating power of free health care.
I'm always interested in projects like this, since my Iron Arachne project dynamically builds several types of image with SVG and I currently rely on xmlbuilder2 as my primary method of creation.

To see the results, here are two pieces of the site that use SVG:

https://ironarachne.com/#/starsystem - the planet and star images are SVG

https://ironarachne.com/#/heraldry - the coat of arms is SVG

It's kind of painful to work with xmlbuilder2 for these things, though. I've been considering moving away from SVG and just using pure WebGL for all generated images.

Pablo looks like it's meant as an animation library more than anything else; the commentary about Flash drives home that point for me. I don't think it would help me, at least not at a glance.
I had friends do the Appalachian Trail and much of the decisioning was on how to start it after the winter but complete it before the next winter. I can see how the trail becomes nX more difficult during winter.

Doing three in a year is remarkable for this reason, I think the almost mandates you done some through the winter.