skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trick question...
- Some policies have a cap on benefits. So, your max out-of-pocket might be $10,000/person, but there's also a max benefit of $2,000,000 (made up numbers). This type of plan language was mostly banned with the ACA (Obamacare), but there are some grandfathered plans.

- Balance billing - there is no guarantee that the insurance provider will actually pay what the hospital bills. Insurance companies usually have negotiated rates with some providers. So, if you end up at an ER that's out of network (no negotiated rates), your insurance might pay what they think is reasonable and the hospital bills you the excess. Several California-based hospitals are notorious for this. It also happens with helicopter ambulance transport - frequently, they'll bill $50,000 for a ride, insurance covers $25,000, and the patient is stuck with a $25,000 balance (again, made up numbers).
There's US MINT, then there is Canadian MINT, then there is China MINT, ... Bitcoin is fully autonomous system serving all layers (from settlement to Lightning payments) without thousands of expensive shiny buildings and state armies to protect it.
“Latinx” is lexical imperialism
No vaccine has ever had its efficacy measured in terms of infection detectable by PCR test.
I agree that I don't know how much is enough, and that nobody really can know how much is enough. But that doesn't mean it's impossible to overspend on security.

Bitcoin's model for how much to spend is basically just "pick a number". Right now it's 37.5 BTC per hour. In 2024 it will be halved. Is it way too much now? (I suspect so, but I don't know so). Will it be too little after the halving? (Probably not). The next halving, or the one after that? Who knows.
We're way into conjecture territory at this point, so I don't mean any of this as fact.

What confuses me about theories like that is that self-reported mental health issues were up in 2020 [1]. I would have thought if it was increased closeness to roommates/family or home cooking or recreational activities then people would report higher life satisfaction and lower rates of mental health issues.

That CDC report even indicates a 4.4% rate of suicidal ideation, which is higher than normal.

It might be something we never know, but it does make me curious and skeptical. If the data really is correct, there might be advances in mental health treatment hidden here somewhere, which would be great.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6932a1.htm
So with a custom dns server you are fine?

Edit: woodruffs above provided docs
Proposal: switch to a four day work week, but everyone has to do community service of their choice once a month on the 5th day. Thoughts?
I haven't quite quit caffeine, but I have quit drinking hot coffee. It was necessary. In the end I was bringing two cups of coffee into meeting rooms for meetings lasting 30 minutes. It was bad.

Instead I binge on sugar free caffeinated fizzy drinks. I consume a lot less caffeine. I tried many times to quit but I just can't. Writing this I admit that I do have a problem, that I shamefully should do something about - but I am weak, and powerless - might be linked to my slight depression because of my current job situation. But then again, there is always an excuse.
Why are we still debating this bullsh1t? This current global crisis has stopped being a healthcare one for a year now [I frankly would say almost 2 years now because until ~april-may 2020 any statement about the virus would have been hard to verify].
> The democratic party has hung their hat on how bad covid is and how important it is to get vaccinated and to state at this point, NVM lets just get back to normal would be a loss of face.

During the recent recall attempt for Gov. Gavin Newsom, the ads supporting him essentially said, "The Republican candidate will remove the mask mandate and kill your grandma. Vote to keep Newsom, he'll keep grandma alive with mask mandates." so yeah I figure it's gonna be a while before California Democrats, at least, can support easing up on the masks.
Are you asking because you work in a gain of function lab :D? It's going to be hard for a virus to come from nature that can spread like the Flu and be as deadly as Ebola. The biggest societal threat besides a meteor or nuclear war is gain of function.
It’s a very common term.

Technical specification goes in. Developed software goes out.

It usually doesn’t work but that’s the premise.
In my opinion, there is no expectation for someone to accept your requests or PRs. It's definitely not the norm, but I reserve the right to not do anything that I don't want to do. You don't know someone's life situation or current goals; that library or tool may work fine in their use case or they don't have the time/desire to implement a fix or review a PR.

That's why forking exists.

That's the risk of pulling in external libraries from random developers. Unless you're willing to put money where your mouth is, then all you reasonably can do is politely request a fix or for them to merge your PR.
Why do you think such a strident and unnuanced statement is going to be convincing to someone that’s already implied he has direct experience in the subject?

Don’t you have any real questions for someone that lived it, instead of the same party line all the time?
It was a reasonable precaution to take in March of 2020. But enough studies have been done by now to show that it's no longer a reasonable precaution in general. We may never know how it got to that base, and even if we find out that it was via surface contamination, that doesn't invalidate everything else we know now.
It’s time we start moving on with our lives. We’re going to figure out what it takes to live with a new disease, so we may as well do it now. The damage done to the to the general mental health due to the breakdown of personal human networks will exceed the loss of life due to infection with poor physical health.

I, for one, will not go on living in fear like this.
In many countries in Asia it was already considered polite to wear a mask if you got sick. Got a cold and coughing everywhere? Wear a mask so your not spewing droplets all over your coworkers and people at the store.

I am hoping that trend continues in the western world but who really knows
I found this discussion between 3 MDs to be one of the more enlightened ones on the subject:

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-19-current-state-omicron/

One of the big takeaways for me, personally, was that the push for boosters may be, in part, due to measuring the wrong thing, namely circulating antibodies as a measure of resistance to infection. Even when antibody levels dropped weeks/months later, it seems people still maintained B-cell and T-cell immunity.

From the link:

"A Johns Hopkins study in pre-print shows the importance of T-cell immunity in protection from COVID

-This is an under recognized part of the immune system and absent from much COVID discussion

-T cell immunity is solid against Omicron as it is for Delta"

P.S. - Here's my chance at one of my favorite dad jokes: Why have scientists been researching ants to battle COVID? Because they all have ant-y bodies... :-)
I would not dismiss Dell so quickly. Screens in their 7000 series of the same era were much better. Keyboards were trash.
Ask HN: What's the expiration date for safe boot?
I have no idea how safe boot actually works, but if my industry lessons with cryptography is worth anything... there's an expiration date somewhere. At what point will safe boot just stop working?
The Starbucks decaf espresso is pretty strong. It can be hard to find though.
Back in 2020 when everyone was unvaccinated the CDC issued this statement: “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”

https://acdis.org/articles/news-94-patients-who-died-covid-1...

Fortunately the vaccines and other improved therapies are now pretty effective at preventing deaths even among high risk patients.
> I just hope that moxie's replacement is someone with as strong a reputation for fighting for the principles at stake and the ability to defend them

Yes, and who has a better reputation for fighting for principles than Brian Acton, one of the guys who made Whatsapp and subsequently sold it to the most morally correct company in the world: Facebook.
This virus is so weird. It's just at the limit between dangerous and tolerable. It just doesn't kill enough people to add more restrictions.

It's odd how humans of today will not agree to change their habits when the punishment is mild.
A single letter is chosen randomly? Huh? Why would you do that?
"The virus is still very dangerous to the unvaccinated" Absolutely, I very much agree with this but at this point in time everyone has access to the data and there is not much ore that can be done to make people choose to get vaccinated. Forcing people to choose to be vaccinated or lose their jobs when the primary person the vaccinated are endangering is themselves is not a good policy. People should be allowed to make their own choices at this point. No matter what we do the virus is here to stay.

"The vaccine does indeed reduce your propensity to spread the virus, although it doesn't eliminate the risk." agreed, but at this point Omicron is so incredibly transmissible that I think everyone is going to get it and it is impossible to eliminate all the potential infection vectors. I have to come down on the side of bodily autonomy at this point. If the virus was as deadly as ebola I would likely change my mind but at this point with the severity of omicron, I have landed here.

"The reason for lockdowns is not to make the virus "go away". It is to control the impact on the healthcare system." This is a very good point but there is no way to practically implement this in the current political environment. If we implemented a lockdown, we would still be telling the poorest among us, those we call essential that they still have to go to work to support the rest of us. In addition, there is just no way that states like Texas or Florida are going to agree to a lockdown. Are we willing to risk armed conflict over this? Personally I am not.
The impossibility of this is embedded in your opening paragraph.

> during unpredictable situations

Unpredictable: adjective - "not able to be predicted"

> it makes it MORE important to be consistent in communication

Consistent: adjective - "unchanging in nature, standard, or effect over time"

If you wish to deliver a message that is accurate during a time that cannot be predicted and actively changes, you cannot do so and remain consistent without starting to misrepresent the truth.

If you wish to deliver a message that is consistent during a time that cannot be predicted and actively changes, you cannot do so and deliver current/accurate information.

In essence, your options are:

1. Be accurate/informative, but the message will change as the situation changes.

2. Be consistent, but the message either a) cannot contain any meaningful guidance or b) will be wrong
What is the demographic difference between Florida and all of Australia? When I visit Florida it seems like half the population is at least 80 years old, but maybe that's just my impression.
If you block the domains that private relay uses, it won't work. Those are `mask.icloud.com` and `mask-h2.icloud.com`. Then it'll display a message informing you that it doesn't work. I imagine the carrier restriction just shows up in the carrier panel because there isn't a way to access the Internet on cellular via private relay if it's disabled.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/support/prepare-your-network-for...
Ha. My parents had a Bradford Pear which split in half due to an ice storm, and was replaced with a Cleveland Pear.
Drop it. Even if they say "no, keep going here's some money" do not take it.

The fact that the other two shareholders have nothing to offer but setting up the money and business side have allowed it to be setup so badly at this point says it all.

But hey, you can hedge your bet. Just say, "ok guys, it's done, here's the demo. I hope we can succeed with this. Excited to hear updates"

Then simply move on to getting a job or other paying work. If they come back with any success and you're available then you can say you need a monthly wage to continue. Do not do anything at all with it unless you get that. If you get any "come on, I just need X to close the investor" just say "sorry, I'm not an angel like you.. I need to do this other work to pay my rent.

It doesn't matter if that is literally true or not, you do NOT have to be completely honest in this context. They sure haven't been honest with you.
Hard to believe someone compares proprietary centralised silo service like Signal to an open federated protocol.
Obviously you can't be sure he's sincere, but he's on record as saying he regrets that sale.
For hue he noticed the correct trend but misattributed the reason. The reason for the color shift in sunlit shadows is that outdoors the fill light is blue-toned due to Raleigh scattering while the direct light is from the sun and is closer to yellow.
Who makes the decision that covid is over and no one has to wear masks any more? There's no central authority here. Business and government offices are closed not because of any mandate, but because people don't feel safe going there. Rightly or wrongly.

You're acting like there's someone who can just declare a national preoccupation to be over. As always, your problem isn't the government. It's that the majority of your fellow citizens do not agree with you.
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick would be proud.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike

The whole "we're highly paid, ruggedly individualistic engineer" schtick buys into what the companies want. Sure, you may make 400k total comp as a SWE, but what if it were 500k had your employer was not been actively plotting ways to distort the labor market through collusion with competing companies. If activist shareholders understand that they need large blocks of shares to drive change, why wouldn't workers organize into blocks to drive change in their own favor?

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-others-settle-anti-po...
I always wonder how the hell I would think or solve even simple problems without language. It seems extremely foreign.
Alphatype shared their proprietary firmware and hardware specs with Knuth, and he did even discuss a few questions about it with some of their engineers, I believe. It was all under a non-disclosure agreement, carefully adhered to; I never saw the documents, even in his office.

The key issue was that their firmware insisted on loading proprietary font outline info from the included 5.25" floppy drives, while we needed to be able to have individual characters downloaded dynamically for caching in the machine's 64K (or less?) of RAM, intermixed with the per-line display list info, such that once you started the stepper motor that controlled the horizontal worm-screw that moved the lens over the paper, everything would be ready as it moved along; having to stop and restart a line would inevitably lead to jitter among the characters, as mechanical systems are subject to hysteresis -- you can never get back to exactly where you (thought you) were. I vaguely recall Knuth grousing that the standard firmware couldn't even be proved to be able to handle an arbitrarily complex line of text, and thus his full rewrite.

Ultimately, the output was not completely satisfactory. Tall parenthesis and integral signs are made up of multiple pieces (as that's how TeX and Metafont handle them), and because of the alignment issues mentioned above, plus the fact that the individual pieces were "flashed" onto photographic paper separately, so where they met there was a bit of multi-exposure that lead to some "spread" of the blackness. You can see this if you look closely at integrals in ACP Vol 2, 2nd Ed.; they're a little chubby right along the centerline.

I mention all this as it's yet another case of throwing away a prototype, this time software plus hardware. The Alphatype was replaced by an Autologic APS Micro-5, which didn't use a moving lens, and was generally more digital, and thus had no problem with characters made up from pieces. And no firmware needed replacing, though we did have to run it in a completely unintended mode where each character was sent in run-length format each time it was typeset (meant for occasional one-off logos); this was wildly inefficient and slow, but as the APS used long rolls of photographic paper rather than single large sheets like the Alphatype, it could run unattended for hours to produce many dozen pages at a go. At least Knuth didn't have to rewrite any firmware for it (nor software; I handled it, and avoided telling him how grossly inefficient it was, as I thought it would bother his soul).
From Apple's developer docs for Private Relay: they're probably displaying that message if either of the well-known endpoints returns NXDOMAIN[1].

They explicitly identify school and enterprise networks as legitimate cases where Private Relay needs to be blocked, so that's probably how carriers are doing it as well.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/support/prepare-your-network-for...
For my 80k+ bookmarks I use buku.
Everything goes in there. It`s just a sqlite database (and buku is also a library for python). Good resources are saved in archivebox.io and are searchable via `rga`.

In order to access my bookmarks i either need a local copy or have access to where my stuff is stored.
To open any bookmark i search with `fzf` outside the browser. so i can work browser independently. (Can be integrated in rofi or dmenu.)

And in the near future I`ll upload resources in a webarchive format to ipfs node to preserve some of the current internet (and to not get involved with rate limiting when I update my buku metadata. Sorry HN, I'm not spamming, just updating meta data for my bookmark archive.)

https://github.com/jarun/Buku

https://archivebox.io/

https://github.com/oduwsdl/ipwb

[edited1 for formatting]
[edited2 forgot to relate to the linked article]
> look at data for iceland, 92% of the adult population and spread is mainly among the double vaccinated.

If getting vaccinated reduced your odds of spreading the virus by 90%, and 92% of the population were double-vaccinated, then the majority of the spread would be...

Among, and by the double-vaccinated. (8.28% vs 8%)

Most people that die in car crashes are wearing seatbelts, but you'd be a fool to not wear one. Just like you'd be foolish to not get vaccinated.
I never have withdrawal symptoms just cravings, usually after lunch. But I strictly drink maximum 1 cup per day, 2 if I didn't sleep so well, and when I feel my tolerance going up, I take a week or two of caffeine break to reset the tolerance. Cafeeine is a tool to me.
The point being the things I listed are pre-capitalist sociological and economic structures.
I moved to gRPC and protobufs for this exact reason. It’s so nice to work with.
Apple allows networks to block Private Relay:

"Network settings

Some organizations might be required to audit all network traffic by policy. To
comply with such a requirement, these networks can block access to Private
Relay. Users will be alerted that they need to either disable Private Relay for the
network or choose another network.
The fastest and most reliable way to do this is to return a negative answer from
the network’s DNS resolver, preventing DNS resolution for the mask.icloud.com
and mask-h2.icloud.com hostnames necessary for Private Relay traffic."

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Over...
True, but I think most of course correction delta-v budget is due to velocity rather than direction changes, especially with that deliberate underboost. Additionally direction is controlled during burn which is several minutes long, while velocity depends on precise timing of shutting down relatively big thruster.
"User begins blocking T-Mobile from future consideration."

I'm not using an ISP that prevents me from accessing perfectly legal Internet services. No matter how they want to brand themselves, today's telcos are ISPs, no more, no less.

When shopping for cell phone providers, our considerations are 1) complete Internet access, 2) coverage, and 3) cost. T-mobile could charge $5 a month for unlimited usage, but if they can't satisfy requirements #1 and #2, then #3 is moot.
You can't. It's literally a conflict of interest.
I think that over time, the Overton window of what's acceptable will slowly shrink to 4 hours a week. But it'll be the optionality of work, like the 4-hour-work week, rather than a work-to-survive model we currently live in
My most used laptop is still my 2015 MBP, the last generation with that stupid touchbar. It does Docker great, which is mostly what I need. The fan whirls almost constantly when I do a docker start, but so far, no issues. I have a newer 27" iMac and work gave me a 2018 MBP, but that 2015 is still my preferred portable.

This last summer, I traveled to South America. Worried about potential theft and travel load, I loaded Kali Linux to my first gen MacBook Air (2012) for shits and giggles. I wanted something that can do the standard email/web, review and backup photos from SD cards, and VPN/SSH into work in case of absolute emergencies. It went great. Some people warn how Kali isn't the best machine for bare metal, every day use, but I had zero problems with it for my use case.
> I need a quick fix. I make a Nespresso. It's good enough. I'll make a french press after this cup wakes me up.

Sounds like you approach caffeine like an addict. Coffee is actually good for you though:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/coffee-be...
I'm working on getting the documentation written for it, but Atom feeds per category are recently live!
https://bugalert.org/feeds/software-frameworks-libraries-and...
https://bugalert.org/feeds/test.atom.xml
etc

Category list is found at: https://github.com/BugAlertDotOrg/bugalert#category

Again, working on getting this all up on the site soon if you'd prefer to just check back later.
I quit caffeine for a few years, but I went back to it during the pandemic. It was kind of a substitute for commuting as a trigger that it’s time for work.
> Binary search in particular is surprisingly tricky, which is precisely what makes it useful for telling if someone knows how to program.

That's the problem. There are many other ways to do that without risking false negatives and annoying potential candidates (e.g. I would not reapply to places that have rejected me due to skepticism about my programming abilities and using tests blatantly irrelevant to day-to-day work because it's a bad indication of the engineering culture).

Even FizzBuzz is better at accomplishing that task.
Firefox already has built-in tracking protection that blocks social media trackers, cross-site cookies and more. On the "Enhanced Tracking Protection" section on the "Privacy & Security" preferences page, select the "Strict" setting. (They don't make this the default because they want people to be aware that it could break certain sites.) There's a "Learn more" link there with more information:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...

I confirmed that the Strict mode blocks connections to connect.facebook.net, googletagservices.com and others.
Does this also apply to those on salary/exempt?
Jitsi can do it, but it's not as popular, unfortunately.
Are the children in this trial part of high risk groups?

I guess I am quite surprised to hear that there are drug trials for healthy children that young.

In this case, the risk/reward seems very imbalanced almost to the point being unethical.
Also, let’s define “very dangerous”. Every recovery chart I’ve seen shows a 98 percent or higher recovery rate: similar to a bad flu season.
I like Finseth's 1980 thesis better than the 1991 book

Theory and practice of text editors, or, A cookbook for an Emacs

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/15905
I'm wondering if the recent "adding crypto transfers to Signal" stuff had anything to do with this...