skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note how few "indemnity" health plans we have anymore in the US--everything is now HMO/PPO.

This was the mechanism. The HMO/PPOs were wildly more profitable--because they picked off the "below average cost" patients leaving the "above average cost" people to the indemnity plans.

Of course, then the indemnity plans collapsed under the weight. And then the HMO/PPO systems created "recission groups" to prevent having to take them on. And then it took until the Affordable Care Act forced the coverage of "preexisting conditions" to unwind the bullshit that the HMO/PPO systems caused in the first place.
Do you know what kind of metal it is? Silver can tarnish and it can be mistaken for rust. But tarnish can be cleaned. There are over-the-counter products like Tarn-X that will work, and some household methods you can try first using things like baking soda.
Or one where pursuing them was still worth it for the lessons in/the pursuit of it.
Thank you! I’m doing it as a little writing project for the year, one short story every week, just to get better at writing, and also to expunge all these probably dumb story ideas from my head (with the hope that there’s now room for better ones).
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Fine US lawmakers should have Congress outlaw scalping. Then victims of the US medical system would have a novel argument to sue goodness into the damn thing.
Hopefully this is the moment we realize that capitalism is really not serving us in any meaningful way. As long as we have enough people brave enough to quit and take to the streets the working class might have a fighting chance at ending their exploitation.
Open-faced sandwiches are sandwiches that have been transformed. You can (in theory) refold an open-faced sandwich back into a sandwich. Just like if you split the bottom of a cupcake in half and make a sandwich[1], you still are eating a cupcake.

The pie thing is probably just a question of what kind of pie you are thinking of. Some pies are trivially to eat neatly in the hand, others are basically impossible (e.g. a cream-pie with a cookie-crumb crust).

Also, I am completely incapable of eating an in-n-out burger at a card-table without getting very messy, but my wife can eat one with a single hand while driving and not spill a single drop of spread. It seems clear that the purpose of the bun is to prevent you from getting the messier inner ingredients on your hand, so I'm okay calling it a sandwich.

1: https://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/article/turn-your-cupcake...
You’re at war. Maybe you don’t realize it because you can still go on with your life as if nothing was happening.

It’s not a trendy thing, it won’t go away because of some random trendy thing.

HNers annoyance couldn’t be more irrelevant. And people are still getting killed because the world has decided that this war , as bad as it is, shouldn’t interfere with business too much.

People are still getting killed because we don’t want our precious little irrelevant easy lives to be disturbed too much.

The world still hasn’t waked up. We should be alarmed and fully supporting freedom. But the world is just annoyed. I thought moral values were important to open source.
Thalidomide isn’t a vaccine so that hardly seems relevant. We have extensive experience with many vaccines across huge populations and no reason to expect these ones to be any more dangerous than the others. Also it seems somewhat unlikely that any possible side effects, if they were to manifest, could possibly be as bad as millions of deaths and tens of millions with long term complications .

The vast majority of people objecting to covid vaccines have no history of vaccine denial, and no good reason to suspect the covid vaccines are particularly dangerous compared to the many vaccines they have accepted previously without a thought or any interest in their history, testing or method of action. It’s politically motivated from start to finish and has nothing to do with the medical facts.
I disagree with your opinion that people should be free to abuse others online without any scrutiny offline. Especially when people claim to be experts and assert authority on subjects.

Also, what is with creating these fictional scenarios about an employer punishing a customer or employee? Even if “he” were a business, he’s free to react to criticism however he chooses.

My local barber chose to respond to negative reviews by chastising every single one. They still somehow have plenty of happy customers.
Health insurance premiums in the US don't raise people rates if they do stupid stuff, with the single exception of smoking. Rates are basically set based on three factors: age, location, and smoking status. You do share costs if there's an accident, but daredevils and school teachers get the same rate at the same age in the same city.
At the very worst (and it's not even at the worst) you can call this guy stupid for building something like that.

But 69k for an xray? That's where the outrage should be directed. That's evil in it's purest form. More then just simple outrage, the person responsible for charging that 69k bill is someone that needs to go to jail.

The sad thing is, the responsibility is distributed among the entire medical industry. It's very similar to the phenomenon of software engineer salaries.
>>People get upset if you try to charge them a monthly fee for a desktop app. Yet they are happy to rent a SaaS solution.

So don't. Set a fair price and sell me a license. I don't want you in my checking account. I don't want you looking over my shoulder. I find the privileges which purveyor's of web/phone apps have arrogated to themselves to be creepy for the most part.

Then, again I'm pretty sure I've turned into a grumpy old man.
Are you saying that the flow of energy inside a breeder reactor would be there if people didn't intervene?
Interesting,
Is there any requirement what I should understand, before taking on those lectures?
> driven by paid subscription streaming

If you look at the RIAA's revenue figures over time:

https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/

The story they sure seem to tell is that revenues in the music markets over the last 40-50 years are driven as much (or more) by favorable macroeconomic trends than any particular format.

Hence the huge rise in CD sales in the irrational exuberance of the 90s. Was there anything about CDs in particular? Maybe the quality got people to pay more and boost revenues, but that probably wouldn't have happened w/o increased disposable income. CDs prominent heights in that chart are as much a function of when they were introduced (during boom time) as much as anything else. They didn't "drive" revenues themselves.

Streaming is probably pretty similar. There's some particular features: streaming increases convenience when it comes to management/access and dramatically slashes the consumer cost (and artist revenue). But I'm not going to bet it's driving revenue over macroeconomic trends. In fact, I'd be willing to bet it has actually hobbled revenue at some level, since it cannibalized digital retail that was growing pretty handily even during the last recession and piracy options.

Guess we'll need a recession like 2007 to find out. Streaming might be stickier than other formats since cost is capped, but I wouldn't rule out that paid subscriptions suffer.
Newer Versions of Chrome allow Desktop toasts
Offtopic: These people are everywhere, which is why policy guardrails to defend against sociopaths is so important.
You won’t find a satisfactory solution to this under the economic model they operate within
Unfortunately only some of us have realized this, and there is no clear path forward yet. We still have a long, long way to go to achieve meaningful improvements.
I just dropped off a hiring board when we spent more of the planning meeting discussing the importance of diverse candidates, and didn’t leave enough time to discuss what technical skills we want from these applicants. This literally resulted in us scheduling another meeting, and it took an extra week for applications to be reviewed.

I cannot overemphasize how uncomfortable I am with this situation. I hope it ends soon. I worry that it will actually harm the opportunities of everyone involved.
Business Unit and Single Sign On most likely
XNOR is the (only) other binary operator that also works.
Strong start then you lost me by ruling out "toast sandwich".

I eat it and every atom in my body screams "this is a sandwich". I can't get past that.
Go to a doctor and get a memory test done, they know a lot about this stuff. Also you might consider getting tested for ADHD. Also you might have in general high stress levels. Stress inhibits memory formation. A neuropsychological assessment would not be a bad idea.

I can't recall specific conversations either. The brain long term is also designed to forget things that don't make an impact. So one way to make things stick is to add an emotional component (but not too much). A lot of people for a long time remember exactly where they were on 9-11 or some significant event. But also remember that memory is fungible and what people think happened maybe did not. I thought I failed AP calculus and in fact the opposite was true.

You are not wrong about information overload though. I imagine a lot of folks distract themselves from something and then forget to go back to it. Some of that is normal aging. Again since you mentioned high school, get assessed for ADHD. I have to write things down because I will forget them. I have to use a calendar w/ reminders because I will forget about meetings all the time. When I was younger I had no problems.

Introspection is a skill people need to learn. It is related to planning and organization.. so executive function (again ADHD). But you are also demonstrating introspection by examining your own memory.

Also alcohol and substance abuse impairs memory but to the other poster, if you've stopped drinking you will find your memory largely returns. There is probably a cliff in terms of neuronal death but your not likely there due to the fact that you can participate on Hacker News and are otherwise functional.
True. Unity WebGL does not work on mobile. It's possible to compile it to an iOS or Android app though, but I don't plan to currently.
Not off-topic. Strictly on-topic.
You're arguing against a straw man: most existing voucher programs are means-tested already (ie. only available to your "high cost" students) which negates your argument that the low cost students will use vouchers leave the system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_voucher
So then we are back at the start. Supporting 3 Platforms is better than supporting 7
iOS does not allow notifications by default. Apps must display a system pop-up to request permission to display notifications, and the option is there to deny permission.

Whether users have already fallen into the same cycle as cookie consent pop-ups and, more recently, GDPR pop-ups, just clicking "allow" by default because it's the easier option, is a different question.
They should have compared it with a cluster of M1s to the value of $1000-1500 a month.
Really? It seems to me like folk on YouTube generally get upset over folk doing dangerous things without framing them as such. Folk are upset at Alex Choi over his involvement with the recent Tesla jump that resulted in a crash and damaged property. There was a fair deal of outrage at Trevor Jacob within the aviation community over his apparent fake engine failure video, where he did the wrong thing even if the engine had failed. The Thought Emporium had folk wagging their finger at them when they had a video on a guy trying to modify his own genome so they wouldn't be lactose intolerant.

But folk generally aren't mad with about things the Mythbusters' did, even though they could have been dangerous, because they were presented as dangerous. Folk have gotten into competitions to fill their backyards with the most foam they can -- which can be dangerous. But it's generally presented as that and they talk about the heat generated and such. Those sorts of things are generally presented as entertaining not a way to get around an expensive medical system or good idea.
It is not that simple, and I am not merely referring to Klinefelter syndrome. There are a myriad nuances.
This is the reason why communities like r/antiwork are so massive. The sad fact is that working class people who don't possess rarer skills are frequently mistreated this severely. In other words it's much easier for a sociopath to exploit unskilled labor than skilled labor. This in my opinion is part of the responsibility of the government which they've been largely failing at lately, it's supposed to balance businesses so they don't just throw humans into the furnace to keep the wheels turning.
Who cares. They are there to defend "their" country with molotov cocktails against rockets and tanks.
Human rights are rights only when we say so.
These sturdy leather bags look really good, but aren't they heavy? I had a regular Samsonite backpack (made out of plastic, not leather) that lasted for over 10 years of almost-daily use - actually it's still in Ok shape, but I don't use it anymore.
As I said in my root comment, this article seems to be vaguely waving in the direction of saying that his speed-at-any-cost contraption is THE ULTIMATE EVOLUTION OF THE BICYCLE!!!, and I am noting that there are a lot of fitness criteria for a bicycle that this ignores.
This is JS, so you should use de-structuring to swap in one easy-to-follow step [1]:

let a = 5;
let b = 10;

[a,b] = [b,a];
console.log(a,b) // 10, 5

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
That's why a lot of project based channels lean more on sponsorships, patreon and youtube members for a regular income.

For example, thought emporium (my favourite science youtuber) puts out videos very rarely but they're always big innovative projects and he makes enough to have bought a new lab recently.
He should be fired for not suggesting 7-dimentional plot.
In the 'Once and Future King', the boy who will be King Arthur looses an arrow into the air, just for the joy of it. A crow comes out of nowhere and grabs the arrow. Art's foster brother believes the crow was actually a witch (Morgan le Fay?).

I'm just saying - keep an eye out for witches ;)

"Just as [the arrow] had spent its force, just as its ambition had been dimmed by destiny and it was preparing to faint, to turn over, to pour back into the bosom of its mother earth, a portent happened. A gore-crow came flapping wearily before the approaching night. It came, it did not waver, it took the arrow. It flew away, heavy and hoisting, with the arrow in its beak."
I would encourage you to read the article I posted, because it barely has anything to do with Klinefelter syndrome. There are a myriad other nuances.
Content moderation should not trample free speech (2018)
All Roads Lead to “Philosophy”
I pay for Youtube Premium (Music) and Apple Music.

I don't really want to, but I listen to a variety of music, but a lot of sleep sounds & ambient music, and I keep that on Youtube. I listen to everything else on Apple Music, otherwise all my recommendations become Ambient heavy. My "ambient" moods and my "anything else" moods don't really overlap.
Store it in a battery?
I agree. I have no critique of Mozilla for charging, but it's pretty infuriating that big tech calls the shots, contributes so little, and thus puts the rest of us in a position where we have to pay for the privilege of access to documentation of APIs that they define (and churn[0]). These companies really are the pits.

[0] Of course, my other bugbear here is that this constant churn adds non-trivial quantities of non-value-adding effort to my roadmap and backlogs. Again, individuals and smaller companies pay the price for big tech's high-handedness. Not cool.
My opinion is that I'm screwed no matter what
God a one hour drive without traffic is like a inhumanely long commute

Interesting thought though
> But with USB C, the data lines are used for configuration negotiation (including PD)

PD negotiation takes place over the CC pins, not over the USB data pins.

This, and much more, is explained in TI's document "A primer on USB Type-C and USB Power Delivery Applications and Requirements":

https://www.ti.com/lit/wp/slyy109a/slyy109a.pdf
I think security is extremely important (as is BLM), my issue in this example is that the person brought up security as questions where it was not relevant. I think that actually hurts security as it made people tune out because it wasn’t relevant. So it was like the boy who cried wolf in that when security was important it wasn’t paid attention to.

I’m not saying that security reviews shouldn’t be performed. They should. Security should be part of design and code review. But it’s not a relevant question in every single situation.
I'm not a doctor but you might also consider therapy/cognitive behavioral therapy.

That feeling of depression you get when trying to do the bare minimum to help your memory sounds similar to myself w/ note taking. You may also consider getting a buddy/mentor that can help encourage you and make you feel less bad about making progress on yourself.

The more you talk about this the more similar it sounds to my own issues, so all I can say is don't beat yourself up. I have a hard time establishing new routines and holding myself accountable to things like personal maintenance work (like re-reading notes), but I do keep trying, and so should you :)

Also sometimes I just decide, nah, if I can't keep it in working memory it's not important and move on. I've definitely lost friends because of this, but what's the point of maintaining that relationship if I literally can't.

As a slight tangent, I'm curious if you feel a strong aversion to recording your own voice/recording a scripted video of yourself? I recently found out that I get paralyzed with dread when I have to record myself - it's quite hard for me to speak when not speaking to an audience and from my stream of consciousness. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The effect of vaccinations is huge here, especially if we focus on deaths and hospitalisations in elderly people. There are of course issues with using data that only observed and not part of a strict randomized and blinded trial. But the difference observed in many different studies between unvaccinated and fully vaccinated is simply so enormous that it doesn't really leave any room for doubt.

The effect of the vaccines is so huge that you only have to look at a Kaplan-Meier plot and will immediately see the huge difference. And we don't have a single study here, we have a lot of different ones that all indicate that the vaccines are very effective and safe.
J has an IDE written in Qt. It's nice.
The title should be "An email urging lower wages for new employees due to higher gas prices sparks walkout at Lawrence Applebee’s", per HN guidelines.

The user-created title is also incorrect, because it was not an Applebee's exec, it was the director of operations for a company that franchises Applebees who wrote the email.

I also find it interesting that the author of the email doesn't even get a smidgen of credit for his parting paragraph:

> "Your employees that live check to check are impacted more than the people reading this email. Be conscious of that. Many will need to work more hours or get a second job. Do things to make sure you are the employer of choice. Get schedules completed early so they can plan their other jobs around yours. Most importantly, have the culture and environment that will attract people"

I don't think the author is a bad person. He was just caught treating a certain business expense like one treats other business expenses, except in this case it is the wages of the employees and so looks wrong. Many people are of the mind that businesses aren't charities, have no need to pay their employees anything more than the employees accept, and through free association, if you accept an offer, that means you agree with the terms of the offer.

In my mind: If you don't like the wages Applebees will pay, then don't accept a position at Applebees. Maybe there are huge structural problems with society forcing your hand, or maybe you're just a skill-less deadbeat, or maybe Applebees is shooting itself in the foot by not offering high enough wages, but regardless, that is not Applebee's responsibility to pay you more than what they view your labor as worth.
Yes, because in this case the value of the energy spent is zero- it would have simply been burned off into the atmosphere.

Similar concept as mining next to underutilized hydroelectric dams.
My house sits at near tree-top level, Steller's jays are frequent visitors. Like other corvids they're intelligent but also cranky, often contentious critters. The jays absolutely adore peanuts. Fun to watch their peanut selection procedure. They'll pick up a peanut then put it down, pick up another one put it down, maybe go back to first one. We're convinced they're hefting peanuts to select the heaviest. Then there's the occasional very vocal "argument" that breaks out. Bears astonishingly close resemblance to shrill overwrought political "discussions" we've heard, it's hilarious. Without doubt the jays are comedians in the avian community.

Curiously crows (abundant around here too) have displayed little interest in the peanuts on offer. OTOH there have been "wars" between the crows and jays, not sure what "issues" precipitated highly vocal confrontations. I assume it was territorial. Significantly there was never any evidence of killed or wounded black or blue participants.

Strikes me as sad and shameful that these corvid cousins know more about resolving differences than we humans ever seem to learn.
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One-liner: We turn online news into machine-readable data
AWT before Swing, too, and it worked really well back when there were green threads (comparable it seems to the return of userspace threads in Project Loom?).
An excerpt from node-ipc's license:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
I'll not argue with anything in your post and accept the issues with CSP as per the status quo, but hot water needn't be a micro, single household scale. I've benefited from a CHP plant powered district heating system and it more than halved my energy use. There's definitely nothing wrong with big centralised heat generation and storage schemes. It also helps address baseload.
Capitalism punishes this behavior, as it did here. The market worked as we would expect and hope.
I grew up in a forestland environment. Most of the adult ravens I saw along the roadside out-of-town (usually not bothered by cars driving by) were about the size of a chicken. Crows, as a rule ... were a lot smaller.
UK police arrest 7 people in connection with Lapsus$ hacks