skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of network charges are only one possible surprise, and it's yet to be seen how the cartels wriggle out of the new regulation.

As far as I am aware, you're still unable to get straightforward answers for questions like "how much will this procedure cost?". Furthermore, this "transparent pricing" revolves around publishing a fake list of inflated prices that nobody actually pays and so is effectively useless.

Meanwhile in every other industry you either get a flat fee ($30 for an oil change), or at the very least an estimate and a contract that fixes the rate (the shop rate is $80/hour, we think this will take 2 hours). Materials are often overcharged (eg $140 for a part that is easily available for $100, because it's delivered from a special supplier) but still within a workable bound, unlike say fraudulent aspirin.

This is a straightforward reform - the reason healthcare doesn't operate like this is they bought laws creating the ability to charge you without needing to establish a contract.
Doesn't solve PoW pollution issues.

Pollution is equal to resource use, which is equal to mining rewards.

Mining rewards are proportional to market price, not # of transactions.

So lightning could help with scale (I dont think it will) but wont help with resource waste
That's kind of the point. We can shape what the competition looks like by changing the zoning laws and not tying schools to housing.

The competition will then move somewhere else, but the somewhere else could be more efficient, i.e. it sends more money to schools or charities or artists rather than inflating a housing bubble and making housing unaffordable.
The diabetes study you cited appears to be junk science. I'm not claiming that COVID-19 absolutely doesn't cause diabetes, just that we won't know one way or another until larger studies are performed with proper methods.

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/does-covid19-cause-d...
Logging is a code-smell. Some logging is needed, naturally. What you want is a good tracing system, like DTrace and the function boundary and user-space static probe providers.

In Java that would be BTrace.
"Germ Casserole" is the term I've heard used for schools from K through College during flu and cold season.
In this particular case I think the main factor is purely where the panels are placed and their rather steep angle. Normal paybacks for rooftop are often half of that, if not better.
Dead wrong that a single bought of COVID is better than 3 vaccine shots. You need repeated exposure. Plus, I’m guessing you’re young-the point was to stop the > million deaths COVID is going to cause in the US alone soon. Nice work.
No, the kids in this study were not specifically recruited from high-risk groups.

There are trials for all sorts of drugs for all ages. Generally they’ll “walk down” the age spectrum, ie start with adults, then teens, then younger kids. Pfizer is running a vaccine study for <6-month olds, too. Covid is less of a risk for little kids, but it’s not zero risk, and I’d rather my kids not be immunologically naïve when they encounter it.
> every profile synchronization service I've ever encountered has had severe failure scenarios. I guess it makes sense when you think of it as a CAP theorem problem

I don't think CAP theorem is particularly relevant in this scenario. Sounds more like they were doing an overly basic "just overwrite with the current state" instead of sending individual commands, e.g. "create this bookmark".

The reason is likely a procurement problem. Anything that's "enterprise" and calls things "endpoints" is off to a bad start in my book.
You could also read what Stross wrote slightly differently:

> SARS1 has 20% mortality among patients, MERS (aka SARS2) is up around 35-40% fatal, SARS-NCoV19, aka SARS3, is down around the 1-4% fatality level.

"Among patients" would make me assume that Stross is talking about case fatality rates, not infection fatality rates.

1-4% is a reasonable range for CFR, even if it's too high for IFR.

(Some quick Googling after the fact also shows that while MERS had a CFR in the 30-40% range, its IFR was estimated at more like 0.3-0.7% -- roughly the same range as COVID. Large numbers of undetected mild cases were cited as the reason for the large difference.)
> I thought the marshmallow test was in the other direction - the millions of people who acquired natural immunity through infection, but "grabbed the marshmallow" in the form of the vaccine. What will the long term effects be? We don't know.

Assuming that natural immunity is still up to date and kicking, then there shouldn't be any issues with this. After all, the body should recognise and then proceed to battle the vaccine.

You may experience symptoms, but at least the way I understood it these are short term, not in the long run.

On the other hand, if the natural immunity has weakened then this is good training.

So really, as far as I can see there is no reason to ever not take a vaccine unless you had an infection just a short while ago
As they say, the plural of anecdote is data.

Many many many people are getting omicron and having relatively mild infections. It is not the same variant. That doesn't mean it's 100% safe, obviously, but it certainly appears to be safeer.
Could unreliability from their power provider be a bigger factor? No one wants to suffer rotating blackouts and have their freezer food spoil or miss meetings when working from home.
If you're willing to dismiss an anecdote then you should also dismiss the first anecdote in this thread. If you're willing to listen to an anecdote, then you should also listen to the second anecdote in this thread.

This is about more than denying issues. It's about trying to get the whole picture. Ignoring any anecdotes you don't agree with doesn't help you get the whole picture.
No it isn't.

An orderly shutdown is better, because all the students remain at the same point of their lessons. If you're a calculus teacher currently teaching basic integrals this week... you won't be able to teach "integration by parts" (or other advanced integrals) 1 month from now, because 10% of your students were missing.

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In contrast, a formal shutdown means that _EVERYBODY_ gets held off at this lesson. You cut your losses, formally shutdown school, and start everybody up when times are safer.

You can plan around a formal shutdown. You can't plan around a de-facto shutdown. All the students are going to have bits and pieces of knowledge and are unable to catchup, because they all randomly lost bits of information due to randomly missing class.
Changing your mind because of new evidence is good. Changing your mind because the evidence is pretty much the same, but the previous conclusion has become inconvenient for you, is not good.
Well... not really paper files. As of a few years ago, it was mandated that provides maintain digital records. They could still send paper, but most seem to use disc and myChart stuff. And yes, fax is still prevalent as well (mostly legal compliance reasons in my opinion).
Sources please. Include the ones that get censored.
Vaxed, booted, probably going to get omicron + super immunity before winter ends. What else is there to do.

Lowkey waiting for crop dusters to drop aerosolized vaccine on the regular.
> Most people that die in car crashes are wearing seatbelts

Funny enough, I just recently checked the stats for that. According to the first report I found with a simple googling, 47% of people who died in car crashes were not wearing seat belts.
Getting a hand-picked guy in a wig to sign off on it is just too much effort.
Yep. Sometimes when I air opinions like these, I get the response "but attitudes like that will keep the pandemic and shutdowns going for longer!". It's surprisingly hard to explain that I also don't want my nursery to shutdown if someone merely tests positive for Covid. Personally, I've decided to re-brand "asymptomatic" as "not ill".
Moderna's mRNA vaccine is based on one they tested for SARS-Cov-1 in 2003, and they have done long-term follow-up on those participants. They all turned into alligators after 15 years.
The Japanese system is not a single payer healthcare system and in terms of outcomes vs. cost is one of the best in the world, so I am not so sure that single-payer is the most reasonable solution. Particularly in the US where voters are averse to giving up their private insurance.

Japanese system does have a public option and much tighter price controls, which we are missing here.
I have friends at Lockheed and they all love the flexible schedules. What I find interesting is that a company as large as Lockheed does this, but it hasn't picked up much steam.
wouldnt it be something if we moved away from HTTP to a torrent web, at least for the substantial content of a website, and the HTTP relegated to fetching any HTML landing page with text and magnet links
Nit: "Boostered" is not a word. "Boosted" is [0]. This is similar to when I hear people say "orientate" instead of simply "orient". We don't need to over-Latinize when simpler speech will do.

[0] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/boosted
Why Intel, AMD, and Nvidia will never beat an Apple Silicon Mac
Kinda the point. :)

I quit for a period of several months many times though. Got past the withdrawal and was generally fine without it. It’s easy to let it creep back in and hard to avoid it all the time.

Now I just drink half-caffeine coffee in the morning and cut out soft drinks.
>...[allege] the universities engaged in price fixing and unfairly limited aid by using a shared methodology to calculate applicants’ financial need.

This seems like the optimal way to run things though. In our current world where everything is "racist" and "sexist", how else can these entities shield themselves from lawsuit apart from sharing their methodologies? It seems like these entities were set up to fail from the beginning under these backwards rules.
I was thinking of just having my MTA sit in a daemon process and then messing with firewall rules. Thanks for the idea!
Ask HN: Re-entering the industry with a history of disability
Once upon a time, I earned a degree in software engineering from a major university, and for the next seven years I worked a string of jobs in Silicon Valley. (Not really FAANG companies, but still names you would recognize.) During this time, I experienced episodes of brain fog, and near-constant depression and low energy. I struggled to hold down any developer position for more than a few months. I finally gave up, moved in with family, and started doing odd jobs, mostly IT-related.

Three years ago, I finally got my neurological disorder correctly diagnosed. It’s not cured, but I finally understand my triggers and can manage my symptoms. (I can discuss details in a comment below if people want, but this post is already too long.)

I’m trying to re-enter the software industry now, but I’m feeling a little lost. Providing work references is hard when you haven’t been in the field for five years, and everyone remembers you as the guy who was checked out all the time. I still have recruiters reaching out to me, but they always assume I have 10+ continuous years of experience, which I really do not, and none of those interviews have lead to job offers.

Where do I go from here? What places are likely to be open to a candidate that superficially looks overqualified, but comes with a dozen red flags?

Does it make sense to try to reset my career by going for a master’s degree? Should I double down on my (zero revenue so far) side projects until I have a respectable portfolio to share? Should I dive into open source contributions in hopes of getting references I can use for job applications? Or should I skip all that and aggressively apply to jobs now?

I still love programming. I believe that I’m good at it, when I’m not fighting other problems at the same time. If I’m going to work a 9-to-5 job, there really isn’t anything else I want to do.
This is a standard feature of every grid tie inverter. Unfortunately it also means you can't power your house when the grid is out unless you also have a battery attached.

Not that you would want to run appliances with the power dipping out randomly anyway. Maybe to charge a laptop/phone or run basic incandescent bulb/electric space heater/toaster type loads.
What sort of test were you able to get to determine that your kids' cases were of the omicron variant?
My whole family had covid last February including my three young children including one under 1. The children had the mildest symptoms. If you are worried about your children getting covid then I hope you never let near a car as they are much more likely to die in a car crash than covid.

If you want to continue locking your self up fine, I don't care. Just don't try to force others to do the same.
Ruby is a strongly OO language, which arguably also has better support for functional programming than Python.
I wonder if participants in clinical trials are "gamed" this way as well to make sure they only get participants they may have learned would respond better to whatever they're trialing?
>Biden didn't really do much after he took office

I'm trying to figure out why it took so long for the emergency OSHA mandate to become an emergency mandate. If it was so important to protect people at work then this mandate should have been figured out 9 months ago and already have been in front of the Supreme Court. One has to have realized that any such mandate would be challenged and have quite a delay before it could be ruled on in the courts and possibly put into effect.
TL;DR: The author is a professor of infectious disease at UCSF and says the virus will probably turn endemic in the next week or two, at which point it will be less risky than the flu for vaccinated people.
Thank you Moxie for all your hard work, commitment and mission driven leadership to get Signal where it is today. I have many friends and family living across the world and I was able to replace WhatsApp with Signal and got out of FB ecosystem and really enjoying the peace of mind that comes with Signal’s privacy and non-tracking for my communication needs. A big thank you indeed.
I quit caffeine when meet an addicted man and watched how the addiction looks like: he consumed 12-15 cups daily.

Have never looked back and recommend you to do the same.
Strange, I'm on Verizon too and its not blocked
Desired Output is what you tagged it as. Function Output is what the model predicted.

We tried to make the lingo developer-friendly. We think of models as functions that transform inputs to outputs. Instead of writing code to do so, as developers usually do, you train the function by providing desired outputs to sample inputs.
Of course people are done with it.

Vaccinations were sold as the solution to the pandemic.

Yet worldwide infections are going up at the same speed if not faster than before vaccinations. But no policy maker acknowledges this. They refer to the lowered death rate, or blame a new variant.

But it means that policy that gave people more freedom because of their vaccination status are not having any significant effect on decreasing the spread of the disease, they might even make it worse by allowing infectious people to mingle.

Therefore it's very unreasonable and authoritarian to not allow travel, shopping and even fire people over their vaccination status, when an individual decision clearly has a minimal effect on the collective.

Yet politicians are not budging but doubling down on vaccination policy, if there was any trust left in the integrity and capability of our leaders...
Neither of those pertains to pyramid schemes. You want to say that Bitcoin is useless so you should say that. Words mean things and Bitcoin is not a pyramid scheme.
You get 500k investment, and you get to participate in the YC accelerator.
Hah. I only contributed to the project for about half it's life.

There's still a lot of work to be done before 5.0 is released, it's just it'll happen through the usual PR and review process rather than a separate one.
Straight from your article:

"It's possible the deer in northeast Ohio contracted it from contaminated water, since the novel coronavirus is shed in human waste. But alternative sources — such as trash, backyard feeders, bait stations and wildlife hospitals — have to be considered, Bowman said."

What does this have to do with masks again? Perhaps you can organize a scientific experiment equipping half the deer with masks, and report back to us with the results.
The other members of the household are already vaccinated for COVID-19 if they want to be. The vaccines are still highly effective at preventing deaths.

RSV isn't really safe for adults either. But we accept the risk.
People said all the same things about the 5 day work week before it was introduced. And the 8 hour day. IMO the economy absolutely can support it, but it may require some wealth distribution to make it work.
This is very cool. Sad that it only works for NPM packages. Would love this for PyPI packages
The risk of covid to healthy 12-34 is minuscule, less than the flu apparently. You can divide this risk by 10 but that will do nothing materially to the risk to this population nor to ICU usage.
You could put your house up for sale at $20 million but if people aren't buying it, then that's not what it's worth. Then value and price don't match. This isn't the case for cryptocurrencies that are traded on liquid markets, price discovery is happening all the time. Maybe it's worth $100 tomorrow or $5000, it doesn't really matter. It's still what it's worth at the time.
Is there a list of private relay addresses used by Apple?
Why would business be closed? The workers just get scheduled less often.

Part of the 4 day workweek idea is that we're not actually realizing the benefits of technological advances, instead of having the same output but working less were working more and outputting more.

Self employed contractors like plumbers are free to do what ever they want
You don’t have to have proof of vaccination to ride the subway.
The question is of degree. Is "covid overwhelmed" meaningfully the same as "yearly flu season overwhelmed"? Based on Government actions, it seems like covid is much worse.

(I wish I had the epidemiological understanding to look at data and understand that conclusion, but I don't.)
This post, and how it explains that there's 30 people working there now, made me realize that if I care about signal continuing (and I do, since I really like it, especially that it has a dedicated desktop client), that I should see how it makes money and whether that's sustainable. Turns out it's donations, and now I'm a donor through monthly charges through the mobile app. I actually opted for that specifically because their web site noted that they can't give you a badge in the app if you donate online, and I thought showing the badge would be a good way for other people to see and inquire about, and hopefully realize they can donate too if they care to.
We Built an LSP-Powered VS Code Extension with Rust, WASM, and TypeScript
Adding MobileCoin to Signal really changed my perceptions about just how principled the Signal foundation really is. I have a lot of respect for much of Moxie’s work, but the MobileCoin thing is still a head-scratcher.
An overboost would have been catastrophic for the mission.

JWST has thrusters on only one side, and to correct for an excess of velocity it would have had to rotate such that its instruments faced the sun, ruining them instantly.

As such, the mission design called for a deliberate underboost, to be made up for by JWST's own precise thrusters. But a more precise launch vehicle means that the error bars are smaller, and they can use a much smaller underboost than would be required from a less precise launch vehicle.
It's my impression that for a near illiterate user, they won't be able to notice the differences unless they cannot open the document at all. Those differences crop up once you know enough Word features to notice the difference. Near illiterate users don't use almost any features of Word beyond the bare basics.

As an aside, before we moved entirely to Google docs in my job, I used LibreOffice to edit Word documents without major problems.
Already done in the US

https://www.usfhealthonline.com/resources/health-informatics...
And we aren’t shutting society down because of the risk of C19 to small children either. The risk to children is part of that, but the risk to the adults who care for them is another reason. Additionally, staffing levels are impacted because the adults who have it.

Also, generically, when we have a super spreadable disease, we want to minimize transmission. This is done as a precaution against mutation (the more infections mean more mutations!) and because we don’t have a good idea what the long term effects are.

If you only look at the daycare closures in isolation, you’re not doing the calculus for the system. If there is one thing we’re learning during Covid, it’s how interconnected we all are.

Finally, is the acceptance of RSV a result of a good public health decision? Or have we, as a society, just massively underindexed on ignoring public health?
I fear you're committing the baseline fallacy. If 92% of the population is vaccinated then the virus can easily spread mainly among the vaccinated while still spreading among that population at a far lower rate than among the unvaccinated.

Think of it this way: assume that an unvaccinated person, on average, spreads COVID to 10 people and a fully vaccinated person spreads it to only 1. Then put 92 fully vaccinated people and 8 unvaccinated people (I.e., vaccination in proportion to the Icelandic population.) into a room full of people. The 8 unvaccinated people will infect 80 additional people, while the fully vaccinated will infect 92. Thus, "most" of the transmission was from vaccinated people, even though the vaccine reduced transmission by 10x.

And this is probably obvious, but its worth emphasizing that vaccinating those last 8 (percent of the) people would still have a hugely beneficial effect. If they were all vaccinated, then, in the toy example, they would infect a total of only 8 people instead of 80, leading to only 100 total cases, rather than 172.

Of course, even setting this aside, the bigger issue is that your casual parsing of one country's aggregate statistics is just no substitute for the actual scientific research that GP cited.
We give other vaccines to children that young [0]. As far as I know, there are really only two differences vs adult vaccines.

Regulatory - The FDA et al. have a higher standard for what they'll approve in young children, given their developmental stages and substantial post-vaccine expected lifespan.

Biological - Early childhood immune systems work differently than adults', in that they have substantially boosted innate/naive defenses, but much poorer adaptive defenses. Consequently, whether and at what dosage a vaccine will be effective changes.

(Welcome corrections if the above summary is inaccurate)

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...
I very much agree with this. The FDA seems to have decided that there is zero urgency with regards to under-5s and that they will continue to be belatedly reactive like they have for every other question during the pandemic.