skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's straight greed on every level... Providers and hospitals will bill the absolute maximum allowed for each item and they track everything extensively. Insurance companies do their hardest to find literally any excuse to not cover claims, while also barely fulfilling their contractual obligations to members.

Unfortunately, hospitals will never be able to consolidate or pass-thru bills from all providers, because admins would want a cut of the amount paid, plus they would know what everyone is charging and use that info strategically. So no provider in their right mind would go for it. Sending bills directly cuts out any middleman and increase their margins.
Same here, got some stuff that is years and years old (jumpers and hoodies that i have since 15 years). Stopped flying too :) I think much more people are starting to think like that (especially young ones) so we have a chance :)
Are you meaning it is or is not a frequent occurrence? Because the way you've phrased it here it seems that you agree with the OP but I suspect you meant the opposite.
So what are the facts actually? I’m not following covid news 24/7 but at least I’ve heard that developers of such vaccines refuse to release data on its effectiveness
It's politics. France has nuclear and Germany has a huge pipe to buy natural gas from Putin.
I’ve made this comment before:

If anyone wants to start eating wild mushrooms and doesn't want to poison themselves I recommend this approach:
1. Choose one edible mushroom species that is often found in your region and is difficult to mis-identify (ceps, giant puffballs, beefsteak, field mushrooms etc)
2. Get to know this species inside out and learn which species look similar to it, especially any poisonous species. Learn the visual differences.
3.Learn the diagnostic tests (spore prints, smell tests, color changes on bruising).
4. Go mushroom picking!
5. Don't eat anything until you've picked this species so many times that you have become expert in identifying it.
6. Start learning about a new species and repeat
Apologies. Should be there now. I can reach out also.
The same Dell intern that wrote their ACPI implementation?
What's the best solution for a semi-anon scenario?

The best solution I've seen are Reddit AMAs where mods verify a semi-anon's credentials (e.g. "Mod has confirmed that ___ is an employee at the NIH.")
Man updates a tandem bike to make it more interesting
That confirms my suspicion that the business of present-day medicine is milking insurance companies and patients for every dollar that can be billed. The incentive is to keep patients sick, but alive, for as long as possible, hopefully managing to time the patient's death with the exhaustion of benefits/assets.

I'm not saying that doctors have this goal. I am saying that this is what the system incentives are, and we all know how systems respond to incentives.
Mapbox has done so much work in the recent past. Much respect to the team.
Hmm that's interesting because there are plenty of white mushrooms that are very edible and easy to identify. I think the truth is there's no real universal rules to mushroom hunting. The types of mushrooms you'll find in your locale can vary drastically and there are really solid rules to follow that are only relevant to that area alone

That being said, you should never think you're 100% on an LBM (little brown mushroom)
It’s beyond naive and crossing the line to be actual malicious to believe China is telling the whole story
> It's almost taboo to feel bad for her! I think she committed a crime - but compare to the coverage to, for example, Madoff, it certainly seems rather different.

Yes, she's gotten massively more sympathetic coverage than Madoff.
Pediatric COVID cases are a thing. COVID reinfections are a thing. None of these things are up for discussion.
While one codepoint per grapheme would be nice, it still wouldn't solve text. There are also problems like RTL and LTR writing systems that need to be combined into the same text.

And, many of the examples I gave earlier will not go away. The problem of similar URLs using different characters would be smaller, but not gone - microsoft.com and mícrosoft.com still look too similar. Text search should still support alternate spellings (color and colour). People's names would still have multiple legally identical spellings.
Thank you for engaging me.

My first comment was carefully worded to try to avoid drama and isn't a full expression of my thinking.

A more accurate statement would be that I think you likely wouldn't have seen a company that was nothing but hot air reach a valuation of $10 billion with a man in charge. Someone would have gone "Hold up. Where is the evidence?" a lot sooner.

My second comment was me expressing my concerns about public opinion and how it gets shaped. It wasn't characterizing how she ran the company at all.

A lot of stuff gets understood as subtext or due to context. I expressed my feelings and fears and there was strong pushback against that which seems also rather rooted in bias to me. A woman feeling like "God, this looks really bad and I fear how it will impact general perception of women in business." really shouldn't be any kind of drama at all. Yet it was.

Edit: Excerpt from a blog post I wrote at the time expanding on my thoughts on my first comment:

I feel this is a very widespread issue and a very serious issue. For most women, like me, it holds us back and we struggle to get anywhere. The lack of constructive friction means we just cannot get traction at all. For Ms. Holmes, a confluence of events caused that lack of friction to grow a pipe dream, a fantasy, to incredible proportions due to a lack of brakes in the system. There was a lack of genuine checks and balances. Now, reality is finally intruding and it is a debacle.

It is too late to help Ms. Holmes. She just has to pay the piper now. She may never be taken seriously. But I wish this disaster would foster more constructive discussion about the very real problems female founders face.
Then you've heard wrong. /r/covid19 has torrents of papers by researchers from all over the globe showing the effectiveness of vaccines.
Spotting the gills in a cross-section can be less clear than in that shared picture, as well - here are a few more subtle examples:

http://americanmushrooms.com/taxa/Amanita_virosa_-_button_01...

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-otGjxeikhB4/W8dIKrnNyBI/AAAAAAAAE...

http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com/mushrooms/Amanitaceae.h...

Which is not to say never go mushroom-hunting; I and many thousands of other people forage regularly without dying, but the very most important thing is to know what all the deadly mushrooms in your area look like and be able to rule out them out anytime you plan to eat a foraged mushroom.
Cool stuff! I'm curious if you considered Julia when choosing the language to work in, & if so, what were the pro's/con's vs Go.
Type: A Directed Typing Experiment
Ask HN: Which programming language do you plan to learn in 2022?
Maybe a good year resolution, or a long time wish, or a requirement for school or work, either way, do you plan to learn a new PL in 2022?
> Hope your dad is well

He is two months older than Betty White! Sadly, he passed at 93. I sorely miss him. But thanks for the kind thoughts, I appreciate them.
Since you mentioned that before me, I'm going to link:

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

It may not be very good as science fiction, but it's an interesting historical/social phenomenon.
> I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. NRC is a US government.

I thought it was perhaps appropriate, if we're quantifying US Navy occupational exposure to a US citizen, to compare to US civilian reactor exposure limits. It doesn't seem appropriate to call me "wrong" in this context.

> For DOE 50 mSv is regulatory limit and 20mSv is administrative control level.

Sure: one needs controls well short of the regulatory limit to keep pretty much everyone short of the limit. Most nuclear medicine workers and reactor workers are well under 2mSv/year in the US. A few outliers end up with lifetime doses of a few hundred mSv.

P.S. Something went wrong here:

> 100mSv is a 0.55% increase in risk. So 50mSv is a 0.055% increase risk

In that you halved the dosage but divided the risk by 10, when saying you were evaluating it under LNT.
I know, there's a smiliar experiment in states. But you're providing wrong data, from wrong years and for insiginificant amounts of radiation, nothing compare to fallout from atomic accident.

The original statistical data for each set from 1 to 6 (GUS 2011; RAP 2005; AGP 1995; MRP 1995);

the accident was in 1986. and you wont find any data on it because russians who in reality ruled poland then didnt care.
See also https://twitter.com/qualmist/status/1477415225271808001
I have a desire to punish the people whose ignorance stress hospital systems all over the world, have made working in healthcare a living hell for the past two years, and who willfully expose themselves to the long-term risks of the disease and leave the rest of us to pick up the pieces.
Hindu Extremist Devs Are Auctioning Muslim Women in India
It's probably a subsidiary unit of the nursing facility. Most of these have the room/apartment rental, the skilled care, the unskilled services, and the facility administrators all employed by separate legal entities. Be prepared for a notice of eviction for your relative if the bill is not paid.
My first day commuting on the Tokyo subway the train stopped two stations short of my destination. Everyone got off the train and it was clearly being taken out of service so I also got off. I didn't know why the train was out of service so I went to the map to see what my options were. By the time I figured out that my line ended and I needed to transfer to the train across the platform it was pulling away. I was the only one left on a platform that seconds earlier had what seemed like a thousand people. A few minutes later I caught the next train but it was a briefly terrifying experience.

...and now I want to go back to Japan.
GC, manual malloc/free, or lifetimes and macros: choose one. Rust would be miserable to use without macros. There's so much ceremony and friction to ensure memory safety that you need a powerful macro system to cut through it sometimes.

If you don't like the macros then you can always use a managed GC language that gives the same safety guarantees at a performance cost.
Complacency creeps in alongside experience, which holders of fake licenses tend not to have...
Journey into and through a Reissner-Nordström black hole
> We've just shifted from "quiet, persistent threat" to "hacker announces to the world that he's in". Changing javascript on a prod website is going to trigger alarms.

While I'd like that to be true, it really isn't. There have been loads of card skimming operations injected into production sites which weren't noticed for sometimes months.[0][1][2][3]

[0]: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/hacking-2/2020/03/criminals-ha...

[1]: https://www.wired.com/story/british-airways-hack-details/

[2]: https://www.riskiq.com/blog/external-threat-management/magec...

[3]: https://sansec.io/research/svg-malware
Yeah, that one. I was too lazy to look it up. Thanks!
In Seattle it helps to tell your bus driver you need to make a connection so they can honk at the bus in front of you to tell them not to pull away.
I’ve heard this is pretty hard to do and might take a few tries to get a good result. I’ve also heard the best way to smoke it is to use a battery powered cannabis oil vaporizer.
This is absolute garbage.

There are extensive, long-term trials, with results being published every day, on vaccine effectiveness for every vaccine and every variant from all sorts of public and private institutions all over the world.

Do you even "do your own research"? There's new papers coming out that you can read on /r/covid19, easily summarized and explained, and they all points towards similar conclusions over and over again.

This idea that "there are huge issues" seems to be a repeated meme without any epidemiological basis.
Oh they have other things: no white space is a big one. Depending on what they’re allowing they may be able to stop handling character escapes, etc

But actual allocation ends up being killer in the JSC parser. I even tried using structure caching to speed up object creation, but it simply did not seem to matter: either there’s too little data to amortize allocations for the necessary data structures, or you’re parsing enough that simple allocations and GC start to happen (and code in c++ can’t optimize the allocations as much as the JIT can)
>human operator is paying attention

Think of how silly this is though. You offload driving to a car, then...demand passenger give absolute attention every second that car operates itself. For one, this is a pointless tool if you have to monitor it all the time. For another, it is impossible that humans will be able to focus their attentions fully when they aren't really doing anything to drive the car. The better self-driving gets (say, safe and effective 99.999% or any incremental level higher), the less the human monitor will actually be watching. Thus the more likely any error will be catastrophic.
If your wife's dentist in-network? Because if s/he is, then what you're describing is a "contractual write-off" - that's the amount the doctor or dentist has to give up because they contractually agreed to a negotiated rate with the insurance company. You may or may not see it on your final bill.

I just happened to have paid a bill with that! Here it is, right out of the trash:

https://imgur.com/a/NDFSeeF

These guys wanted a $708 "emergency room" payment for an urgent care visit (it was not an ER! We saw a physician's assistant, not even a real doctor!) plus $157 for a lab test. The insurance gave them $140, the remaining $690 is considered a contractual write-off.
> Every euro spen[t] on a "transitional" does not go towards the truly sustainable technologies.

We won't have many euros left if we need to fight climate change effects while we wait for new technologies. We need to use the technology we already have. In addition to that, in parallel, we also need to find enough land owners that are willing to have a wind turbine in their proverbial back yard. And in parallel install solar panels on available surfaces. And introduce (pumped, battery, etc.) energy storage. We need all of it.

Renewables don't have a money problem, it's a political and humanitarian problem. It literally costs money to have money (ask your bank), so the big money owners want to invest it. It's well known that solar panels and wind turbines pay for itself easily and are very low risk (lower even than an index fund if you operate more than a single device).

Nuclear isn't so simple, but has unique advantages. We don't have the luxury to play politics around whether nuclear is renewable or not, it's low on greenhouse gases and doesn't require a lot of land per MWh. No point delaying further while we debate for another five years about whether we should really fund this not-truly-renewable technology.

For gas, I mostly agree with you because that's an ongoing emission source with much higher greenhouse gas emissions. Building new gas plants isn't going to get us very far (even if its merits vs. alternatives need to be weighed on a case-by-case basis).

But nuclear is different from gas: it's a calculable emission source for the initial construction, and over its lifetime will be orders of magnitude lower, in the same ballpark as wind and hydro.

I'd love to go with only truly renewable sources (not that "renewables" like wind and solar have renewable or long-lived hardware, but it's a good start). I just don't see that as an option in densely populated western Europe. I'm happy that the EU looks at merits here rather than ideologies.
I live in West Seattle so the light rail rarely works for me, even to the airport. Recently I met some friends in the U District and the train was actually a viable option. I was floored by how convenient it was. I can't wait for the network to expand further. Would be nice if the SoDo station had any kind of weather shelter...
Many doctors refuse Medicaid patients.
It's called "Flash Override" but I feel like a better name would have been "Fall Out."
> Like why the hell would a scientist not disclose that?

Because they are trying to avoid getting lynched?
How long did they have to keep the used car that was destroyed?
What is a Serrato? I've not heard of this kind of car. If it's a typo or something, apologies, I don't know what it could be. I'm not trying to be snarky, just genuinely curious what it is?
This is garbage reasoning.
This may be a cute picture but the real picture of the situation is rather bleak.

All wireless systems need power amplifier (PA) and most of real-world PA has much less than 50% efficiency. In any system that incorporates power amplifier, the power consumption of the PA is usually more than 50% of the overall system power consumption. If the antenna is further up the line, roof or tower, then the actual power it deliver at the antenna is probably less than 10% of the original power supplied to the PA due to impedance mismatched, etc [1]. As of now, a single Starlink setup and installation requires about 180 watts of power and assuming the PA uses about the half the power consumption then it probably operating at 100 watts. I believe using the current setup most of the power is gone to waste, and only a few watts is actually being used for the transmitting and receiving the wireless signals.

Since now wireless systems are so pervasive due to popularity of 4G/5G cellular, WiFi and satellites perhaps it's good idea to estimate the amount of power wasted and fully being used for wireless transmission and reception globally. Recently, there is an article this year on HN that tells the story of remote radio station operator in Ontario Canada that has gone mostly off-grid by using solar because the cost of solar and battery storage systems have both decreased by approximately 90 per cent since 2010. However, it cannot goes fully off-grid due to the excessive power requirement of the wireless radio station's tower transmitter [2].

[1]How to Make a Digital Predistortion Solution Practical and Relevant:

https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/articles/how-to-ma...

[2] Facing sky-high connection fees, rural Ontarians go off the grid:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997995
There are new developments in the hydrogen field relevant to transporting it by converting the hydrogen to ammonia, which is routinely transported safely.

Perhaps it will be competitive with batteries or synthetic or carbon neutral hydrocarbon fuels.
I think this is already implemented with HTTPS but very rarely used.
> who in my opinion looks like a Chinese double-agent, or someone bribed by China to be their mouth-piece.

Are you an authority on the subject or are you making an unfalsifiable claim?
The primary flaw isn't BASIC AUTH. It's the password itself. Brute force attacks are easy. The only good way of securing anything is through an Authenticator app.
Yeah, I reached the same conclusion myself, a long time ago.

Most of the New Deal was gutted by the courts in the 1930s and 1940s and everything else that remains from it just has never been challenged, mostly from a lack of inspiration, lack of awareness, or distraction by other causes.

I would be skeptical of anything we’ve just assumed is American that came about from the New Deal.

I’ve got a couple full agencies in my crosshairs, and I’m excited about that.

Sure, its going to be a disaster, and I’m empathic about people losing other civil rights they have gotten used to that this court is going to re-evaluate, but I’m glad I can leave and that my particular causes will give me the openings I want.
I have never been to Swiss, is every transfer the same difficulty? Having all transfer being exactly the same doesn't make sense to me.

In Japan there is a predefined minimum transfer time between each lines, so the timetable use that to coordinate departure (and if incoming train is late, then the designated connecting train will wait that predefined time for connecting passenger)
Yes and as with Tesla "FSD", supposedly the driver is to devote full attention to monitoring the car whenever activated. But this is silly because as these tools get better, the driver will inevitably monitor less. But it won't any time soon (ever?) avoid random errors every now and then. But now these will be catastrophic failures.
and what happens with concrete when the ground trembles...? it breaks. apart of that concrete is still damaged by radiation and such wholes and concrete needs to be redone after some years (there's already second one i chernobyl). and then after some years you have a lot of contaminated cement, which you need to cover again... and again... and again... it'll need to be redone even after both you and I die (assuming I don't get to my dream of changing all organs for new ones and living to 500 ;))
"How much does it cost?"

"How much you got?"

Mobsters.
It takes too long and would achieve little. Flight turnaround times are very tight. The process for updating software on aircraft is, understandably, tightly controlled and only takes place via physical access. Pilots wouldn't know how.
Possibly of interest to some - NYC actually has an official live map in beta. https://map.mta.info/

I don't like some of the UI decisions with where it's currently at, primarily not showing the trains and their directions very prominently (the trains are there if you zoom in, but they're just unlabeled rectangles moving on the lines), but it's a start.

It does do a pretty decent job at showing what services are actually operating right now and what stops they're serving, though.
Can I make it worse?

Of course I can! Obamacare requires that at least 80% of money must go to medical costs. Profits and administration come out of the rest. So the only way to keep profits rising for insurance companies is to arrange for payments to rise at a predictable rate. And therefore insurance companies are happy to be complicit in rising medical costs, so long as it is predictable and other insurance companies wind up with comparable rates.
Totally this!
Do you have a source for this? Interested to read about how they measure curiosity / love of learning