skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am no expert on this but can hopefully point you in the right direction based on what I learned recently (here on hn!)

Assuming you are in the USA- they just passed a law where all hospitals will need to publicly publish the list of all the procedures they do and the cost. Until now this,as I understand this was guarded very tightly and the common person would never get it. This information is maintained in what is called a “chargemaster” (charge description master). So I am thinking you can possibly download a few chargemasters abd then process it via queries etc and get a longer list of procedures. Hopefully this set you in the right direction.
If you really think dropping regulations and making it a free for all for multi-billion dollar corporations to fiddle with our health would improve anything, you're simply lying lol

Countries with more regulation and more control by the state have... prices that are a fraction of the US. Surprise. Just like countries with stricter environmental restrictions have fewer clear-cut forests, less polluted water, etc. Unbridled capitalism means more money at the top at the cost of everyone else. There's a balance to be found between making money and having some restraints.
I stopped reading at NFT.
> if a defendant says some magic phrase they fall under the constitution's protection, otherwise they're in trouble

This is not true. Every US citizen is protected by the constitution, all the time, and has the right to a lawyer, no matter what. The "magic" in that phrase is that if you try to exercise your right to a lawyer, and the cops refuse, and in so doing break the law and defy the constitution, saying the magic phrase means that they are more likely to get in trouble for doing so.
Drug companies selling directly?

Brick and Mortor stores selling without dealer discounts?

Or others copying and marking up only 10% or 5%?

I guess nothing but greed stopped this before.
That looks nice! It is similar to what I was describing as an optimization, above. But, I would want it to be on my local machine rather than as a web service, both for privacy and to have permanent ownership of the saved bookmarks/snapshots.

These days, remote-indexing page contents also seems like a technical challenge because of all the javascript and crap in the pages. That may be part of the reason search engines now suck. I guess the browser extension could upload the page contents over the network, but again I'd rather have it local, and that would be a lot faster too.
You can't order corrective lenses online without a prescription. You can order frames, or reading glasses. You need a prescription for both contacts or the lenses themselves.

Contacts would certainly be much cheaper without that hurdle.

And I bring up vision, because it's a common problem and for less well off folk with families it can be a big expense, basically entirely unnecessarily so. Imagine making 20k/year and you have to pay $500-$1000 a year for vision correction for your family. That's 2.5-5% of your pretax compensation

There's no handwaving here. Competitive markets require complete information. Information about costs to the consumer is basically entirely opaque. Over 90% of medical costs are non emergency, so if people could comparison shop, costs would go down. Also requires skin in the game (e.g. marginal cost per visit).

Look at plastic surgery for a good example of how free market/non insurance based medicine can fare. Many procedures are quite cheap, and while many are still expensive, much cheaper than necessary medical care covered by insurance. Also the number of doctors is still limited by the AMA, so even this is not fully competitive. There's an arbitrary cap on number of providers
I was hoping someone would mention Kotlin and Spring! Kotlin is a pleasure to code with. And Spring Boot simplifies Spring tremendously, https://start.spring.io/

Lots of documentation for Java/Spring out there, but somewhat lacking for Kotlin/Spring. Some IDEs help by automatically converting from Java to Kotlin, like IDEA InteliJ.
> I think you mean keys, not hashes.

Next you're going to tell me that the blockchain isn't made of Lego blocks!

> You'd be surprised.

Given the aggressive spread of custodial services, I don't think I would be. The average cryptocurrency user (even enthusiasts, true believers, &c.) is not a dyed-in-the-wool Burkean. Less prosaically: easy money comes with loose beliefs.
If you can dictate your own prices without worrying about losing customers/suppliers then yes, that's pretty much what being in a monopoly/monopsony position means?
Everyone should watch this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
As soon as she opened a socket, the NSA captured the whole thing.
In fairness, I believe Costco (and Sams Club) allow you to use the pharmacy without having a membership. Unfortunately for me, no Costcos are close enough to make that worthwhile.
That doesn’t work as well when you work for someone who requires the camera be on during meetings.
You're not alone, I did the exact same thing. I clicked the link trying to figure out what IR was being used for, exactly, at a (public) library. :)

I think a better way to word it would be "Library for sending ..." but none-the-less, I wasn't disappointed on clicking it. I've been thinking about a few things I wanted to do with my home theater setup to be able to hide the components[0] which also allows me to control it via WiFi, as well as its existing remote which I'd further like to alter the commands of -- map one of the 300 buttons so that it triggers something different/sends a different command to the devices than what it received from the remote.

I had something setup that basically did each of these things, in the past, when I had a whole HTPC in the living room. That's gone in favor of Roku/Plex/Xbox (for less noise than my HTPC was putting out, or no noise in the case of Roku) and I've

[0] That's trivial to do on the cheap with off-the-shelf things.
Highly unlikely. To emit 1 ton of CO2, you need to burn something like 111 gallons of gasoline. Average estimate of cost of externalities of CO2 emissions is around $50/tonne. That's less than 50 cents per gallon.
Heroku also supports docker containers if that’s more your style.
> Can you explain the 'thinner spokes are better' bit?

The rim deflects inward as it contacts the ground. This is controlled by the stiffness of the rim. The deflection untensions the spoke. The cycle of tension/untension as the wheel rotates causes fatigue and also if the tension reduces to near zero allows the nipples to unwind. A thinner spoke elongates more for a given tension, so the rim deflection reduces tension proportionally less.

For example, given a thin spoke that elongates 5mm under tension, and a thick spoke that elongates 2mm, a 2mm rim deflection reduces tension 40% on the thin spoke and 100% on the thick spoke. So the thick spoke will fatigue and fail faster.

Ideally use the thinnest spokes that can deliver the desired wheel tension. This is not commonly done in cheap wheels because thin spokes have more windup and more spokes interact when truing so the build takes more time and care.
I apologize if “if you don’t pay NetBSD developers compatibility is cheap(er)” isn’t what you meant; perhaps I misinterpreted.

NetBSD development is not cheap - it’s accomplishments are hard fought design and implementation wins largely performed by talented volunteers. To me “cheap” in this context implies a certain ease, which I don’t think is a fair characterization of what happens with the project.

Then again, maybe I’m just being hypersensitive about respect for the project.
itunes isnt p2p
YC has monopoly of being YC.
This is a cool idea, looks like they're using tether and transacting through Binance. It appears to be a custodial and centralized solution. Afghanistan could block Binance and this approach blows up.
What does this mean? Lighter images?

Does this compete with Ory Kratos in being lightweight?

We run Keycloak but it does feel heavy.
Alternate take: you don't face the problem these tools were designed to solve.

My personal organization/productivity methods mitigate some very real (and common) weaknesses. Most were recommended by a neuropsychologist after some rigorous testing. Categorically dismissing them makes no more sense than assuming they're universally beneficial. Vitamin C supplements remain beneficial to many despite snake oil salesmen posing them as rhinovirus-proof forcefields.
Maybe we'll really luck out, and it'll be the year you get your rejuvenation treatment and go back to work.
I take extensive notes at meetings because I'm terrible at absorbing information from speeches and discussion. I can maintain attention for about 15 minutes, then I zone out. So in order not to start fidgeting and looking out the window, I write notes. I may or may not look at them again... taking them is enough to make most of it "stick". I don't do any better than colleagues who don't take notes. For me it's just a coping mechanism to keep things from going in one ear and out the other.
I still have airgapped windows xp systems with one software package on them to do one job. Left alone Software doesn’t bit rot, it is the never ending stream of updates that cause it to cease working over time.
The classical problem in software and apparently in engineering is that some suit with a big mouth makes promises that can't be kept, and then makes everything difficult for everyone else by trying to make their lie true. Either people sacrifice their health, sanity and families bending over backward trying to cover for them, or some safety problem makes it into the product due to false constraints.

The 737 Max was sold on not having to do certain kinds of retraining. "Something wrong with the training" is a divide by zero error here. There was no training. If memory serves this was also tied up in how much and what kind of recertification the FAA would require for a 'new' plane versus a refit of an existing one. Training means newness, and newness means retesting. The lies snowballed into dead passengers.
Viel Feind, viel Ehr!
That's a great sendup, but it looks different when juxtaposed against the alternatives.

- "I haven't created anything I'm proud of, but that's because my nerve cells aren't folding the proteins that do that. I'm not happy with my life, but I can't change the laws of organic chemistry. I'm watching Netflix right now because of, uhh, alleles."

- "I'm smart and I'm great and everything comes naturally to me. It's lame to try hard because only people who aren't gifted have to. That's why we call them 'tryhards.'"

- "I believe one of the above, but I express it in other words because I'm aware of how bad they sound when set right out there."

Among them all, the one you're satirizing is really the hero.
Excuse my useless comment but lol
Imagine one needs to make a life or death, but illegal, purchase like a life saving drug for someone unable to meet hospital prices.

You would trust cash from your bank before Monero because some public sources you read promises banks never log serials?

I do not know what public sources you have read but FWIIW my interactions with financial fraud investigators in private sector and multiple government agencies have convinced me cash transactions and those that make them can be logged in great detail for people of interest if nothing else.

While complex I would recommend Monero or tumbled Bitcoin for people that require high privacy over anything else today. It also avoids the major risks of having to meet in person to transact as with cash.
This was always my favorite exhibit at the Exploratorium.
Meh, to each their own. I’m inclined to agree with 12ft.io on that front
> taking them is enough to make most of it "stick"

This is the only reason I take notes on anything. The act of physically writing something down (typing works only half as well at best) sticks it into my brain. Hand-writing notes and immediately throwing them away is 10x as useful to me as just listening or reading alone.
> Ultimately, however, our decision to switch was driven by our difficulty in hiring new talent for $UNREMARKABLE_LANGUAGE, despite it being taught in dozens of universities

This was an actual pitch point to switch language and stack in a previous company.

At some point the CTO+HR dept made the calculation that it would cost less in the long term to rewrite our services in a new language and bring in cheap/abundant devs, than to bring in more people familiar with the current stack and continue scaling it, as those had an higher average salary on the market.
How is 12ft Ladder any different than this Github repo that does the same thing? This is one of the more popular repos as well at 22k stars.

Genuinely curious, as I've just been using [1] and have had no issues bypassing paywalls. If 12ft has access to more sites, or something, that would be a better use case.

The owner of the repo does not even want donations, just a star, otherwise, I'd contribute!

[1] https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
The point is not what Costco does. Its that they do anything at all. Cuban's company provides almost nothing of value.
I've heard it mused that with Omicron, vaccination may further spread COVID19 in the sense that those vaccinated are less likely to feel sick (so don't stay home from work/avoid other people) but are just as likely to spread the virus.
Yes, it really doesn’t work at all without sticky sessions.
Check out Traction by Gino Wickman. Or Google "EOS".
It has been incredibly depressing seeing "farticles" migrate from scammy affiliate marketers pushing weight loss pills and teeth whitening salves to now being peddled by once semi-reputable publishers just trying to stay afloat. Traditional media (direct display buys, TV, radio, etc.) are hard to measure efficacy at a small scale. Display ads (whether contextual, behavioral or retargeting) have the same problem (contextual is probably the best performing, but the lowest available inventory) as traditional media-- but with a larger sales force having more resources to lead advertisers to believe that the ads are working versus what a traditional publisher had available.

Google has consolidated the market and added more and more levels of opaqueness through their ploys against header bidding[1], intentionally slowing non-AMP pages[2] as well as making the Google Ads platform more and more optimized against advertisers being able to control what they're purchasing while optimizing fill rates. Google has successfully ran competing ad platforms out of the market and pretty obviously capture any ROI that advertisers have had-- it isn't like an unhappy advertiser can just up and switch ad platforms when over 70% of web display inventory[3] goes through DoubleClick.

[1] https://adage.com/article/digital/how-header-bidding-wars-le...

[2] https://searchengineland.com/google-throttled-amp-page-speed...

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-googles-advertising-dominan...
It is not overly difficult to find both Maus and Maus II on the net. Read them today for the first time… IMO the Tennessee ban is a sin. Powerful story and absolutely appropriate for the curriculum.
There are checks in place to make difficult to buy an SSL certificate for the official domain of a bank.

At least Chrome tracks malicious websites.

By comparison, there seem to be no checks in place to prevent writing an ethereym contract that drains a victim’s wallet.
I don’t get the architecture behind the site. Why do the request need to come from this service? How are the paywalls actually being bypassed?

Edit: derp. Just read the now section. So if a copy of the cache is just being downloaded why couldn’t this type of thing all be done locally?
It existed since November. It is not only possible but I did such a search (and found one such transaction, from a developer at Etherscan, who had seemingly noticed something awkward but not realized it was broken). Search my post-morten for "etherscan" and it should come up!
I hope they are able to bring back the American Chestnut too.

That tree isn't completely dead -- some stumps and shoots remain -- but adult trees never survive, due to a fungus that didn't used to exist in North America.

There are now two programs to bring it back. One, by hybridizing with Japanese Chestnut and breeding to (hopefully) keep not much more than the Japanese tree's blight resistance. And another -- more controversially but maybe actually better -- that adds to the American Chestnut genome a single gene, from wheat, that confers resistance to the fungus. These latter trees would be even more like the originals.

The hybrid program has some test sites now in the wild. The GMO version has not been approved, but I hope it will be.
There have been plenty of companies that have followed this pattern - GoodRx, SingleCare, ScriptRelief, etc.

As others have pointed out, Cuban is basically running a lead gen operation that then services customers drug needs via a white labeled site/fulfillment operation run by TruePill.

Any idea who is funding TruePill?

One of the largest PBMs in the industry - https://www.optumventures.com/portfolio/

Many ways to make money in pharma!
Dot-com commercials during Super Bowl XXXIV
Deer meat (venison) is delicious. Not sure what you're on about there.
I replied this in another comment, but here is a look into an opensource version that you can compile. It will give you a good idea of how it works behind the scenes [1].

[1] https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Walmart lowers some prices / raises others based on demand/competition historical prices and are regional. Things are not always cheaper. Everything is part of a huge system trying to extract the most profits.

Here is a tip for killing a product at a walmart store:

Buy a product out for 2/3 months. Inventory will raise. Stop buying the product. Walmart will delist. Do this at a few stores and get it delisted regionally. Do this to a few regions to kill it nationally. It could be a product that walmart carried for years.. they will still delist.
One sheep rancher I knew back in college was a huge fan of wolf reintroduction. According to him, the wolves killed a few sheep and almost all the coyotes, which meant he wasn't losing any sheep to coyotes. Which worked out to a major net decrease in "sheep lost to predators". That was twenty years ago, so maybe things have changed in intervening decades.
I've spent years building an open-source framework for building CRUD apps [0]

I made it because I was tired of spending months designing beautiful interfaces, only to realize I was only 30% done with building a full app -- it was exhausting.

So I thought of a simpler way to create a dynamic app: treat HTML as a data structure.

---

Here's how to use it:

Tag your HTML elements as editable and/or containing data.

The syntax for this is simple:

<div object key:page-title="@innerText" edit:page-title>I am an editable page title</div>

This gets converted into:

{ "pageTitle": "I am an editable page title" }

---

Based on just some HTML templates marked up in this way, you'll get a full application with user accounts baked in -- where each user can edit their own copy of the HTML templates you made, filling it with their own data.

It's a super-fast way of building an application with multiple users, when all you have is some HTML and CSS. And it only requires learning ~8 custom attributes to build some pretty powerful apps [1]

---

Here's how it works behind the scenes:

1. The framework scans through the page, converting nested HTML into nested JSON data

2. The framework saves this JSON data to the current user's account

Pretty simple, right? I've spent years improving the syntax and behavior to make it really easy to use. I'd love your feedback.

I even made a client-side-only version, so you can test it out without installing anything [2]

---

[0] https://remaketheweb.com/

[1] https://recipes.remaketheweb.com/

[2] https://codepen.io/panphora/pen/rNMVYZz
Most people think they're writing for other people when they're just talking to themselves, from lack of practice, lack of concern, or a mixture of both.
Taking a high-velocity ride in a cage of aluminum? I don't want to engage with that at all. I am so surprised that safety measures such as airbags and seat belts are discussed. Obviously cars are too dangerous to exist.
Yes, I remember the endless LDL and HDL cholesterol public health debates in the 1980s, especially arounds chicken eggs. When I was older, I learned that the Japanese consume a phenomenal amount of eggs per capita -- over 300 per year(!). (Raw egg over rice is a common breakfast dish.) Yet, the Japanese have much lower incidence of heart disease (per capita) than the United States. The reasons are multi-factor -- not all of which are understood.
Sure. But it's not a peer-reviewed Lancet paper. It's just one (well-qualified) person's opinion who disagrees with the current prevailing view held by other well-qualified people.
Not true. DragonRuby is a relatively new game dev engine/runtime:

http://dragonruby.org/
I've used Hasura before with react-admin to build a back-office CRUD with great success. Hasura is awesome.
Struggling to understand whether this comment is serious or sarcastic. Maybe that was the point.
We're talking about the efficacy of vaccination in preventing infection. I assume you're talking about ending mask mandates, which seems like a bit of a silly thing to bring up.
When you side with the devil expect to get burned. Total war sucks and one should be careful siding with the perpetrators.
I wouldn't give up on dev but I would consider looking for a job at a dev role at another company. The market is hot right now and you can land a remote job with companies all over the country and potentially score a 20% salary bump.
If you're not interested in dong that at all, consider that a switch to any new field, even blue collar work might mean starting from scratch and making less money for a while.
Agreed 100%. The fact that this doesn't exist is one of Microsoft's biggest missed opportunities, in my opinion.
I don’t see a bio on his website. Is he anonymous?
It's disingenuous to tease content that is behind a paywall.
> it's got to be the biggest, most massive security hole I've ever seen brushed off.

Well said. This goes hand-in-hand with the victim blaming that goes on in cryptocurrency circles. Any time a story like this appears, defenders come out of the woodwork to insist that it's the victim's fault for doing something or not doing something else. Even the linked Twitter thread is full of replies from people suggesting that the author was "asking for it".

Crypto seems to appeal to people who like to think that they are smarter than the average person and therefore will succeed by self-managing their finances right down to the private keys. Adding smart contracts to the mix basically opens up a can of worms that makes it unrealistic to actually control every detail of your money unless you strictly limit each contract to a separate wallet and only transfer funds into that wallet before activating the contract. That's honestly a good strategy if you're sitting on $100mm+ in cryptocurrency and the transaction fees are negligible (as was the case with the Twitter user). However, when transaction fees are $10/each or more, the average crypto user isn't actually doing anything of the sort. They're clicking the buttons and hoping for the best.
onomatopoeic all.
I had a Motorola Atrix (gen1), which I miss dearly. It was amazing to have a full Ubuntu installation along with Android all on one device. I really bought into the ecosystem: had their lapdock, media dock, etc.