skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Hardly anybody is going to actually try to keep a patient sick, but there are many other ways to get the same result.

Does this patient have good insurance? Run lots of tests. All the tests. Do expensive procedures that might help regardless of their cost benefit ratio. Spending a quarter of a million dollars for something that has a 2% better result than an alternative that costs $20 is perfect, because the incremental improvement is real. It's just not worth a quarter of a million bucks. But the patient doesn't care about that when it's the insurance paying.
> suddenly the correctness of the test becomes dependent on the order tests are run in preventing you from running subsets

I once write a test library where you could annotate tests with TestA requires TestB which in turn requires TestC, and it automatically runs all the requirements for each test.

This seemed to work quite nicely.

> tests need to be as maintainable as the code itself.

Yes, if not more so. Tests that are a hassle to use won't get used, and so are useless.
The bus that goes from west Seattle to SeaTac also goes to downtown Bellevue (via Renton), it still might actually be faster than the east link. It’s one of those weird routes I’ve had to rely on since my aunt has lived near the junction since the late 80s (though the 560 started in the 00s) and I stayed at hotels in Bellevue when working for Microsoft.
How? V1 is based on many factors. Or is it just a fun thing you do? Because I do the same.
You want the long form? Fine… Writing something like: “Shanghai is highly livable.” means you consider adult citizenship without proper voting rights to be acceptable. This is an endorsement of tyranny. How “livable” is Shanghai to its residents when they ask for an end to one-party rule?
I had surgery and actually had a good experience. My hospital would provide a cost estimate prior by actually contacting my insurance. The estimate was pretty close.

But I’m kind of surprised that hospitals don’t try and get ahead of it. If I had two options for hospitals and one provided financial management (say guaranteed a final cost) and the other was like “fuck off, call your insurance”, I’d opt for the former easily.
Havent you been reading all the threads here? There is no market for trustless/noncustodial transactions solely because you could do peer to peer transactions in an Oracle™ database with geographically distant replicas that you or anybody else put up, but fortunately only after you ask them nicely and apply for the API key if your use case gets approved after filling out all the routine cybersecurity forms, and its so much faster anyway so surely there is no value for a permissionless system at all. /s
The EU Taxonomy specifies which activites are green, which are transitional and those that are enablers for green activites.

Thus, it does describe activities that are not green, but are helping to move towards pure green.

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Activities that in and of themselves contribute substantially to one of the six environmental objectives

Transition activities: These are activities for which there are no technologically and economically feasible low-carbon alternatives, but that support the transition to a climate-neutral economy in a manner that is consistent with a pathway to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, for example by phasing out greenhouse gas emissions

Enabling activities: activities that enable other activities to make a substantial contribution to one or more of the objectives, and where that activity:
The phenomenon is called Death by GPS. Explained very well in this article : https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/death-by-gps/
It's more that on systems with a circuit switched network there are typically fewer outgoing/incoming lines at a location then there were telephones, so you can get in a situation where a choke point in circuits can mean that you can't make a call because they're all busy. FO will force hang up other calls to make sure yours can go through. That's very likely to hang up other, unrelated calls in order to get through, rather than the person you're calling (it will hang up their call too if they're currently on a call though).
That is absolutely a myth; what we tell ourselves so we can sleep at night. At worst, they don’t know what they want; they asked for a faster horse, and we’re content to keep selling horses and feed.

Watch a normal user use a computer sometime to do work without interjecting. They all do stupid repetitive tasks that take hours and should be easily automated.

Look how far people get with Excel with no programming knowledge. I have seen absolutely incredible spreadsheets that do remarkable things. The will is there, but we’ve kneecap them with awful tools, and then keep repeating but lie that they liked it.

I have a friend with zero background in programming who completely automated his “job” with Autohotkey. His entire work for the day ran in minutes and he just messed around the rest of the day, that underutilization is emblematic of the problem.
> Where's the basic pilotage here?

> How you get to this level of incompetence flying a 777 is far beyond my understanding.

Well, training that emphasizes automation rather than manual flying and thinking (an even bigger issue in Eastern countries, see Asiana on SFO) but that carries over to the top levels.

People that train on the subject because it "pays well" or because of fame rather than because they like it.

People that have some other favourable attributes to flying Emirates.

Lack of CRM on the cockpit.

But anyway, these are contributing factors. You could argue that checklist are an automation step and those guys missed it. Apparently 4 people were fired, and I really can't disagree with this.
Two finger swipe up changed the angle for me.
Happily the most important group is turning away from nuclear. Its investors. We all know that if big investors and countries will turn away from certain tech then it will simply and slowly (or hopefully as fast as possible) die. And more and more countries are shutting down plants instead of opening ones. They cost tons of money more than predicted and the benefit is negligable (see example of france). Thats according to newest research and statistics (see germany which went full ahead renewables, closing down atomic AND coal). Paying 750 billions, was supposed to cost 250 billions euro (atomic plant in france). Plus many many billions for fixing up and upkeep of existing ones. It just doesn't calculate. And unless we build a new one every week it won't help with green house effect. We all are aware that atomic plants dont get opened up with speed of mushrooms growing after rain. So no. Atomic is no lt future.

Nuclear-power-a-false-solution-to-climate-change-44206

https://www.sortirdunucleaire.org/Nuclear-power-a-false-solu...

https://www.nirs.org/nuclear-doesnt-help-with-climate-or-pla...
I can really only speak to conservation to Congo. One thing I've noticed is that conservation organizations in DRC take on a lot more responsibilities than just wildlife conservation. In Virunga National Park, for example, the park has built and operates a power utility to provide an alternative to charcoal. This is made up of four run-of-the-river hydroelectric plants, hundreds of kilometers of distribution lines (high and medium tension), and smart meters to connect customers. You can check out virunga.org to learn more!
You last paragraph is exactly the problem. All the massive mark ups, etc are negotiations between hospital and insurer.

The problem is that patients are being pulled into BS that normally they wouldn’t with other insurance.

When my car got damaged, I just brought it to a garage and gave them my insurance details. If they didn’t get paid it wasn’t on me.
I'm really excited to see how China's 150 new reactor plan in the next 15 years[1] works out:

> China says its plans could prevent about 1.5 billion tons of annual carbon emissions, more than what’s generated by the U.K., Spain, France and Germany combined

Even if this is an overly-optimistic estimate it's still a colossal step forward!

1 - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli...
> 1. Get financially literate. Before any "hobby projects" make sure your money is working for you.

How?
>Pretty much no businesses have that percentage fixed by legislation.

Setting a minimum medical loss ratio is not setting a minimum profit margin.

>The way this works is that the lower cost insurer denies coverage for medically unnecessary procedures and the higher cost one doesn't. Then medical providers find someone who got denied and bring the story to the press that Discount Medical Insurance Co is intentionally murdering people by denying their health insurance claims! They must be stopped!

>Then the bad PR loses them more customers than the lower price gained them, and the higher price makes them more money anyway. This continues until nobody is offering the lower price anymore.

That is not how it works at all. MCOs do not have a team of doctors and pharmacists scheming to approve medically unnecessary procedures. The business is extremely competitive and much of the denial/approval criteria is in the hands of the payer, for example Medicaid/Medicare/Tricare/CMS.
This makes me realize that "Crash Override" was probably a riff on "Flash Override" which I somehow never connected before.
It's labelled as Transitional, not green.

That's what the EU Taxonomy does: it labels activities and specifies precise criteria.
You are not correct about coinsurance when using in-network hospital and providers. There is a contracted rate with the insurer and your out of pocket is usually 20%+ of that up to your out of pocket limits. The hospital does have arbitrary made up prices called a chargemaster which is just essentially numbers pulled out of a hat but when you are using an in-network provider there is a fixed rate for every covered code.
Pretty cool!

How are you handling spam or other kinds of content moderation? Is it easier because users don’t upload a regular text/image and need to create something custom?
reading the description of the conflict and paraphrasing Upton Sinclair I would say it is hard for someone to admit a conflict, if their continuing access to funding is dependent on keeping it hidden.
Writing something like: “Shanghai is highly livable.” means one considers adult citizenship without proper voting rights to be acceptable. This is an endorsement of tyranny. How “livable” is Shanghai to its residents when they ask for an end to one-party rule?
> How do you secure the infrastructure that hurls the moon rocks?

You don't, although mobile launchers are not out of the question. A rock catapult is far easier to construct than a nuclear missile launchpad (given available materials). Notably the munitions are fashioned anywhere on the moon and the munition needs no guidance, other than the initial launch window timing.
> They put you through hell to get the job

I'd gladly do this for long-term, stable employment that comes with an outstanding salary.
Web3 is centralized
That's less than half of what I pay in Germany, are you sure that figure includes taxes and other fees levied on the end consumer? It sounds extremely cheap. The only other reference I have is the Netherlands which is a bit cheaper but not much.

Just the pure kWh cost here is like upper 20s eurocents per kWh, plus about 10 euros per month fixed fee for metering and stuff (average household will consume a few hundred kWh per month, let's say 200, so ten euros adds about 20% to the price). Total cost per kWh for me personally is .33€/kWh or, to put it in comparable units, 3.3 NOK.
I may be wrong but we just don’t forget how to drive or how to code after a vacation? It just takes some time to get used to work again, but that lasts for few days. And we opened back months ago. That was a weird statement to read for me.
Considering the current political climate between US and china, supporting a non-lab origin is slowly becoming the contrarian idea.

I wonder if the authors discuss the evolution of the virus since it was first leaked/mutated. For example , eventhough it is believed, as the authors say, furin cleavage is a key to the virus' transmissibility, a computational study of the Omicron variant suggests the furin cleavage site has evolved for less efficient replication of the virus[1] (but still more transmissible due to immunity escape).

beyond the flashy politics, the lab leak hypothesis is terrifying as it means that someone can create a worldwide crisis by doing relatively well understood modifications to existing viruses, and the world is clearly not prepared for such biodefense attacks. We should be talking about the day-after covid and what measures we need to prevent such rapid worldwide spread of pathogens.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.14.472704v1....
It’s more a question of Emirates being a relative newcomer with no strong unionization, and therefore not having to align with the absurdly high salaries the legacy carriers are saddled with. Compared with other new airlines (EasyJet, Ryanair etc) Emirates pay quite well
Daszak is already getting lynched, at least mediatically. Do a search in his name on ddg, see what the top result is. I'd say it's a crackpot website but in fact it seems it was all written by a covid19 victim. I'd probably move to an Antarctic research station until people forget, as opposed to confortably living in a country where every crackpot and their neighbour has access to firearms.
> Setting a minimum medical loss ratios is not setting a minimum profit margin.

It's setting a maximum profit margin.

We don't have problems with businesses trying to minimize their own profit margin.

> MCOs do not have a team of doctors and pharmacists scheming to approve medically unnecessary procedures.

All their competitors have to do is convince one of their patients that one of the procedures they're denying is medically necessary and they still get the bad press.
Isn't the complexity of the hash challenge designed to match whatever production of computing gears in value?
I’m curious how/why being a “flaming liberal” would ever lead to “excusing the CCP’s behavior”?
For now we are using Azure Custom Vision and have a working demo that achieves solid results. This seems sufficient for now. This will fit into a web app that uses React and Django.
Its a Boeing and a major airline. Thats what matters for media.
Weird, I’ll keep that in mind. I almost never need to go to Bellevue anymore and when I do I just drive.

When I worked over there my office was in Mercer Slough so it was easy to drive. Maybe next week I will take the bus over there and have lunch at one of the old favorites.
<foreignObject> is a required part of SVG; but specific foreign namespaces like HTML, well, they’re not part of the spec at all; it just so happens that browsers all implement the same obvious but unspecified behaviour. In fact, the spec’s quite silly on the point of HTML in SVG, because you should be able to do something like this to use HTML in renderers that support that and fall back to SVG text otherwise:

<switch>
<foreignObject requiredExtensions="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">…</div>
</foreignObject>
<text>…</text>
</switch>

… except that no values for requiredExtensions were ever specified, so including this attribute will make some HTML-capable renderers use the fallback, and omitting it will cause all correct SVG renderers to use the <foreignObject> (rendering nothing if they don’t support the HTML namespace) and ignore the <text>. Quite why they preemptively didn’t declare XML namespaces valid extensions, I don’t know; not doing so rendered the entire feature uselessly broken for its main intended use case! (I dunno, maybe all browsers implement requiredExtensions="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" now; the thread at https://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2053 talks of Amaya emitting it and Firefox not liking it back in 2008, and https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/138 talks of Firefox accepting it in 2016. I haven’t tested anything.)

—⁂—

To do manual word wrapping, you have two main choices:

(a) If it’s acceptable to use HTML at conversion time, Range does all you need, with Range.getClientRects on a range spanning an element returning more than one value if wrapping has occurred, and then you can do something like binary search on the process to find the point of line break, or you can get cleverer if you like to speed it up.

(b) If not, you’ll need to embed at least an OpenType font loader and shaper. HarfBuzz is a good choice for this, with a WASM version readily available (among other options); https://harfbuzz.github.io/harfbuzzjs/ demonstrates it. There are at least three pretty decent options in Rust, too (in alphabetical order: Allsorts, RustyBuzz, Swash), and a few immature libraries covering more to do with rich text formatting (including wrapping) rather than just stopping at shaping.

I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of at least one full HTML-to-SVG renderer that ran in the browser, too, used in such places as filing bug reports to take a “screenshot” of the page. HTML → PDF → SVG is very probably a more practical path for this in your case.
> If you include the deaths that nuclear waste will cause during the tens of thousands of years it remains radioactive it wouldn't be so positive.

isn't that a common misconception though? Relatively the waste amount by volume is incredibly miniscule. I'm sure by 3022 we can figure out how to shoot it into space or something - that's a very very long time.
Thank you for the clarification! Perhaps a better example would have been Apache Avro (still has a schema, though):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Avro

This looks like a very ambitious project, and I can see that you've put a lot of thought, time, and effort into it! You clearly have a lot of interesting ideas (the graph idea is really cool) and significant experience with data formats.

If this is a security-oriented application, then with cyclic data structures there is the risk of blowing out your server's memory using something like a fork bomb when processing untrusted user input (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb).

There are some systems like DHall that guarantee termination by putting upper bounds on computation: https://dhall-lang.org/

I'm also a bit concerned with how the different features can interact, for example it's not super clear how to distinguish between UTC offset (-130, or do these always have to be 4 digits?) and global coordinates (-130/-172). An attacker could specify a comment inside the media type (eg: application/* which would require special logic to filter out).

My concern is that the parser will become extremely complicated and require a lot of special-case logic and validation (eg: there must be at least one digit on each side of a radix point) which is more prone to errors and unexpected behaviors.

Rather than using slash delimiters, I'd recommend splitting the time formats into subfields, eg:
{ date: "2022-01-01"
time: "21:14:10"
offset_is_negative: true
offset: "10:30" }

This does make the text format more verbose, but it reduces ambiguity and makes the parsing faster as well since you don't need to descend into branches and backtrack when they don't match, and also might permit more code/logic reuse.

It's also not clear how easy it is to add new data types to the grammar. Based on the project description, it seems like you're using ANTLDR parser.

Since you seem to be quite interested in parsing, you might also be interested in parser combinators which are a somewhat different approach with different tradeoffs:
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3386...
- https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/understanding-parser...
funny. was thinking about autovon today and was wondering if adding notions of priority/qos are basically the bedrock of building reliable systems...
It wasn't quite perfectly functioning. The pitot tubes had frozen, depriving the crew of reliable airspeed information.
My sources are friends who work in radiology and cancer wards who are tired of COVID inducing totally preventable deaths. I just canceled my flight to visit one of them because the circulation of Omicron is too high to risk it, as they're being asked to quarantine just 5 days as there's not enough staff around, an unprecedented situation.

It is an enormously, totally different thing. How the hell are people still denying it at this point?
Hopefully oriolid's comment was, too?
>It's setting a maximum profit margin.

Is this a problem? As demonstrated by audited financial reports, there are many competing MCOs with many years of very small profit margins. These businesses clearly do not have pricing power, and are not businesses you get into to pocket lots of profit.

>All their competitors have to do is convince one of their patients that one of the procedures they're denying is medically necessary and they still get the bad press.

There is bad press about every single MCO out there, and they are processing millions of claims per day. I would need evidence to see that the bad press even means anything. Majority or at least plurality of people do not even get to choose their MCO.
>Vaccines make you less likely to become infected

complete nonsense based on some small studies while real world data contradict this, vaccinated makes same or higher proportion of infected than it's actual vaccination rate in many countries

same with viral load especially now with Omicron

vaccines were sold as effective against infection and transmission, them narrative moved to effective against mild symptoms, them narrative moved to effective against serious symptoms

but I understand you I would have also buyer's remorse if I fell for this, trying to make everyone make same mistake add you did doesn't change a thing though
Yes that’s me!!
“I’m very, very happy with where Reddit has gone.”

Said no-one, ever.
Even with perfect space bombardment, USA/Russia/China/UK all have SLBMs waiting on submarines all around the world. No first strike could be sufficient.
Why do some people place such importance on humans continuing beyond Earth? Is it not just the ultimate hubris to think that we know that doing so is even a good idea?
We could just train more MDs and/or make that training process more efficient like Germany. Also, medical training and residency need not infringe on the health and safety of pregnant women and the unborn for no purpose whatsoever with 24 hour shifts and other complete nonsense for internist trainees. As some budding doctors would like to have 5 or 6 children in their twenties.

Edit: we could also generally waste less human potential and train more people by you know, having college kids go to school 48 weeks a year instead of 36, like real adults who enlist in the military or trades.
Since you mention both Python and webdev, check out https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder (100% free and interactive Python course for beginners)

From an interview (https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2021/12/13/pydev-of-the-w...) with Alex Hall:

>A challenge I'm struggling with is making the site look good...I'm struggling to find people to help me build futurecoder further
Ya, there isn’t really a lot of demand for a bus between west Seattle and Bellevue, which makes the route so strange, probably just one of coincidence (both Bellevue and west Seattle need airport routes, and combining them makes for a nice half circle).
There was an interesting session with Joe Rogan and Paul Stamets, an amazing mycologist [1]. During that interview Stamets said that talking about Portabello mushrooms could put his life in jeopardy. Further research suggests that Portabello (among other mushrooms) contain hydrazine, a carcinogenic [2].

[1]https://raypeatforum.com/community/threads/paul-stamets-says...

[2]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2132000/