skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't hear it talked about enough, but I think the biggest problem with insurance is that their profits are pinned to how much they spend on medical costs.

https://www.verywellhealth.com/health-insurance-companies-un....

In theory, this sounds like a great way to make sure insurance companies aren't just taking unreasonable profits, and that they are spending money on medical care, not administration, keeping the business lean.

In _practice_, what it means is that profits are constrained by medical costs, so the insurance companies are literally incentivized to pay _more_ for medical services. Originally, insurance companies were supposed to be an intelligent negotiator on behalf of their customers. After all, their experts should know much more than a layperson every will.

But with the poisoned incentive to raise costs, customers are basically held hostage by a bag faith negotiator. Not bad faith as in malicious, but in terms of having an enormous conflict of interest.
I'm a software engineer interested in getting more productive at my job, which namely involves the current React/typescript ecosystem. I have no interest in lower-level programming as a career path.

What benefits would learning Lisp provide me so that I "Need" to learn it?
Should Elon Musk Unblock Nassim Taleb?
I should say that I respect and admire GitLab's pursuit of financial sustainability and not selling themselves too cheap. But the resulting culture, combined with the actual product experience, is offputting.

The issue tracking and labelling system is fine for what it is, but not good enough for planning projects. The Epics and Milestones functionality appears thrown together and isn't useful for much (we tried). Missing features such as persistent links to milestones (links are essentially a text string), lack of workflows ("You can do anything! Just ... use labels"), Milestones lack a change history, lack of nested Epics.

We want to be able to use confidential issues every now and again, which mean that everyone in the org needs a seat license to contribute or even view. If you want nested Epics you have to jump from $240 /seat/year to $1200 /seat/year for every single seat (hence the above linked issue).

Fundamentally they are trying to be the "everything" platform, and their sales material suggets that you can drop subscriptions to all kinds of competitors. Our experience was that the features weren't quite good enough.

I don't necessarily expect things to get worse. I just find that the tools aren't quite good enough to justify the sales talk, and seeing them expand the breadth of feature set without improving core stuff is disappointing.

We're staying with GitLab for code and dev team, because we're already there and we've built CI pipelines etc. But moving to Jira for issue tracking and planning, and so far it's much nicer.

EDIT: Just noticed that they closed the issue [0] with a glib "opportunities to help customers derive more value from GitLab".

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/213185
> criminally under-diagnosed because they tend to effect women

I just can't understand this argument. Women already live 5 years longer than men on average. You mean to tell me if the system didn't discriminate so strongly against their best interest they'd live even longer than men?
The explanation I've heard is that it's rooted in the cultural sanctity of life and how that translates to trying to preserve life at any costs (even when quality of life is no longer present).

To be clear, I'm talking about the absolute twilight of one's life that's reached regardless of levels of preventative care. I think there's potentially an opposite point that could be made: taking care of one's self can prolong this period and make it cost more. Someone who drops dead of a heart attack one afternoon won't have the same end-of-life costs as someone who gradually becomes enfeebled with age.
I know about the Google postmaster tools but I'm coming up blank finding anything about Microsoft and Yahoo. Do you (or anyone else) have links to these?
> If you set everything up right, and choose the host for your mail server carefully, and never change IP, after a fairly short time you won't have much problem with being marked as spam. No more so than with any other email host.

This is untrue. If you are the only person using your email server, your volume will be so low that the big providers (Gmail, Outlook, etc.) won't track your reputation. So, ironically, being a low-volume sender means your email will be constantly classified as spam.

I speak from experience: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/dont-send-email-from-your-own-ser...
> Let's assume that all iPhones that are "repaired" by an Apple Store are actually replaced by the Apple Store. This matches my experience - go in with broken phone, walk out with brand new identical phone.

That used to be very common if not the default (this was my experience too, would always just get a replacement), but these days I believe they actually do a lot of common repairs in stores in a relatively short period of time (screen / back / button / battery replacements), etc.
If they're no longer manufacturing older devices, they're probably not manufacturing parts for them anymore either.

The only new iPhone that Apple is selling that's not on the repair parts website is the iPhone 11 which is a bit peculiar.
Joyride VS Code with Clojure
Actually Clips is probably closer to what they want than iMovie.
Bitcoins not under anyone's control? Good one!
Networks are two things: technological constructs and societal constructs.

Technologically: email still works the way it always has.

Societally: because email as a construct wasn't built to account for spammers, and the after-the-fact patches to address this issue aren't universally rolled out or universally adopted, and there's little incentive for the big incumbents to provide opportunities for new players by shaking up this status quo, email has devolved into a (human)-trust-based network where your mail only gets relayed if the relaying source trusts you as a person, not a pseudonymous node online.

So you can stand up an email server, but the real legwork is in getting a trusted authority to peer with you and route your traffic.
I’m trying to find a tech job after almost a decade of manual labor. After reading this story I thought WGU could be a great, non-traditional fit for me so I started the sign-up process. A few seconds after I filled out the first step of the sign-up (name, phone, email), they called me twice (real people, not automated) and texted me. I’m probably being too selective, but it was an off-putting experience.
Why not just do some play on an infinite loop then?
explaining it now, for business users we would achieve the same if they had access to sharepoint folder with the code + syntax highlighting.

But I also believe its beneficial to educate the user about VCS as side objective.
Heat caused failures also increase with load, as does electromigration, disk stress, power failures...

The GP has a very digital model of computers. It's not really useful for predicting failure.
And, was it?
Boeing looked for flaws in its Dreamliner and couldn’t stop finding them
Kudos for answering, I think the person I was replying to is worried about making a similar response, although it is consistent with their other statements. I disagree that it is harm.

>Put another way, would you really claim that someone put in prison for assaulting someone was not harmed?

How is that the same? In my example, I was removing an exclusive and special benefit. I don't see how putting someone in prison is removing an exclusive and special benefit, unless your view is that the default state is everyone should be imprisoned.
> I tried all existing solutions like the Sound Princess from Japan and other chinese crap on Amazon/Ali but they were not up to the task

Just how loud is your shit? Maybe just ask your coworkers to put on head phones.
Arguably, your prediction is even a feature, not a bug.

The right to peer implies the right to not peer.
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> Don't understand paying more than, say $300-400 for a watch, absolute MAX - I think there's a point up to which you get more reliability/features/functionality, and a point after which you don't.

People spend $3,000 for a watch so that they can show off that they have so much money that they can piss away $3,000 on a device that tells time.

I dunno...maybe I'm just a lot more pragmatic with my money. I can understand a watch being a fashion accessory, but then that's just looks. Knowing the extreme precision going on inside the watch doesn't make it look any nicer from the outside.

My money needs to go to something I can acknowledge with my senses in some way. Watch internals don't do that.
Solving the problem that no one else could solve. Go team Veza!!!
It varies depending on the context of each recession. For the likely upcoming recession, energy/industrial/agriculture/real estate. In other words, hard assets, manufacturing, and commodities.
If you treat progressive jpeg and sequential jpeg as separate image formats, then progressive jpeg is currently the fastest growing image format on the web. If you look at the statistics, the opposite is true of what your feeling is.

One thing that did change is that often the network is fast enough to make it unnecessary to show progressive passes, or if they're still shown, it happens quickly enough to be not really noticeable.
Ah, I thought you you were talking about the urn after the balls had been drawn.

Still, I've been to enough magic shows, been fooled by enough subtly-wrong mathematical proofs, been utterly convinced that my program's behavior was impossible, etc that I side with the bayesian perspective here. I don't think there's a single thing that I'm justified in saying is true with 100% probability.

Or, in essay form: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QGkYCwyC7wTDyt3yT/0-and-1-ar...
Do you get paid more to care like this?
It's not because Medicare offers a "blank check"; after all--the amount of revenue that the hospital can generate will always be hard-capped by the number of beds+/physicians+/resources available.

They go with Medicare because the pay-out rate (i.e. "collect-ability") for billable services is much higher--and much more predictable--than if they attempted to collect/negotiate with non-governmental providers. A LOT of money is lost by hospital systems due to unpaid patient responsibility (e.g. insurance deductibles), which they can minimize by offering only services already guaranteed to be covered by Medicare.
>they closed the breach as swiftly as possible

>Grink updated their bucket security 22 days after we notified them of the breach.

Open S3 bucket, 22 day to fix is "as swiftly as possible"?
Or just wire a sound generator into the lighting circuit.
I took a Stripe marketing email that just landed in my inbox to test this out:

"How to stay competitive by building ecosystems of connected experiences that reward loyalty
The power of localized payment methods to boost global revenue growth
Whether recent crypto growth is sustainable or even warranted"

Kinda amusing how much shorter the final translation is:

"The environment that surrounds the environment?
The status of international funding development
Don't last"
My (somewhat cynical) observation from 10 years in the industry (and 30 years total of coding):

A lot of people are in CS/SWE these days because it's what pays, or because they find technology interesting (i.e. "geek culture").

If you are in the field because you are passionate about the field itself, and/or have an aptitude for it, that puts you in the minority. But your skills will reflect your passion, hence, your experience with differential skill levels thus far.

I've been fortunate to land a few gigs with talented and passionate individuals (one recent gig I worked in the same room as two OSS figures whose work you likely have used).

But even then, I've met maybe only one or two individuals (both lead developers) whose multithreaded code didn't have obvious (to me) bugs in it. Even talented devs aren't passionate about stuff like that, and thus just don't learn it very deeply before applying it.

Just remember to be patient and humble, people will look to you as a leader.
Depending on if your arch is supported, pipelines on bitbucket is pretty cool.
I would think car accidents would be the leading cause, unless they don't count as random.
DJI Becomes Most Prominent Chinese Firm to Halt Russia Business
I would say that most western countries do have both public and private healthcare. I did have private insurance here in Spain and it's nothing like in the US, as far as I can tell. Service was excelent and I didn't felt everyone was stressed.

In france your public insurance allows you to walk in a private clinic or hospital too, as a relative did and they cover her post-cancer treatment better than in the public hospital (by her account at least).

So yeah, "free market deregulation" may be an oversimplification but you have a problem in the US that's also far more than just being for-profit. We have for-profit over here and it works.

And that includes private & public institution doing medical R&D and selling their products to the national health services and private clinics, like quite a bunch of spanish companies do, for example. I say this becase it weirdly pops as an argument when it's totally unrelated, and it may be only a tiny fraction of the total cost.
Task-runner for automation pipelines defined in YAML – pypyr
An afternoon "shake the after-lunch drowsies" shower is truly a glorious thing.
Torrenting and piracy will do well in part because streaming on Netflix now sucks compared to what it was 10 years ago.

Whether Tesla does well depends on partly why the recession occurs. Persistent high energy costs can cause recessions, but high gasoline costs benefit Tesla.
Ok, we disagree on the definition of harm is all. Our different philosophies flow from our different perspectives of that definition.
Everyone can pay the same percentage so it is equal.
> Pick a decent hosting provider (not the cheapest options around!), make sure you have matching reverse DNS, forward DNS and HELO name (exactly the same is best!) on both v4 and v6 (if you have v6), disable IPv6 privacy addressing for your mail server (again, if you have v6), make sure you set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and keep your server secured. By following these rules, in 15 years I have had only had deliverability issues with AT&T and Deutsche Telekom - both of which were fairly easily resolved.

How did you measure your deliverability? If this is true, then congratz for succeeding, but it's still bad advice to give to other people, as most people will not succeed no matter how many hours they put into that.
Email (SMTP) has no delivery guarantees. It's basically "best effort."

If you want guaranteed delivery with proof and tracability, send a registered letter at the post office, FedEx, etc.
On what grounds would they sue for? Email is not the post; there is no legal right to receive one or to have one routed.

If one wants such legal protections, there is the post.

(Now, should there be such a right? That's an interesting question. But a world in which one exists would raise the bar to starting one's own email server even higher).
"chinese crap"

Uh, I see what you did there OP. How about some modesty there?
Something magical is cooking at Veza! Accel knows about it and took action.
Offer to pay in cash and it is amazing how much better the customer service and general demeanour is from a medical office - it always blows me away. They must REALLY hate dealing all of the insurance BS.

I had not done an eye appointment in years and years because my vision is generally very good - I went in expecting to offer cash, negotiate, and generally play a bit of hardball. I was amazed when the front desk person IMMEDIATELY perked up, looked super happy, and started offering massive discounts before I even threw numbers out. The eye doctors as well were very enthusiastic.
Yeah, I'm not sure about this. After two car accidents one year apart my back was killing me. I went to a year for physio and nothing happened. Then a friend recommended this chiropractor and within 3 months I was fine. To be fair this chiropractor said alot of chiropractic was a bit fluffy, and I insisted we discuss the science behind it and stuff which he was totally literate about.

I'd go to another one again.
> No one wants to be accountable.

That is American corporations in a nutshell. Outsource everything, put layers upon layers, and insulate yourself. Then when fecal matter hits the rotary you can put the blame on others and, at worst, you get fired and there's little to no worry about any sort of legal reprecussion because... well you weren't accountable for the problems in the first place!

It's a massive problem created from little cuts here and there with a few big lawsuits mixed in.
If you're leaving your laptop unattended in a place where random strangers have access to it, the likely outcome is that the machine will be stolen. I'm struggling to come up with a threat model that makes sense for biometrics.
The boat has long sailed on that job, (2016~ was when we evaluated Clouds), but we had reached out to our AM & TAM, in fact, the "sales spooge" guy was our TAM for EMEA based out of France. :)

He came back to visit us in Sweden 3 times because we kept asking for a technical contact to explain things for us.

I work for a US company now that's on AWS, the experience is very different from that.
I completely agree, but people complain about anti-racism being "forced" onto them. While it's annoying when it's disingenuous and superficial as it usually is, it's still most likely better than having the establishment pushing for racism or openly accepting it.
"Ineffective communicators" is a real weird selector for the people providing your educational credentials.
As someone who's living in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, the heat is unbearable during the day time despite it being a hilly city. It feels like June even though it's April. I am hearing from those living in rural areas that the temperature is even worse there. I cannot imagine what May and June will bring. The only hope is the annual monsoon rains.
> If you live in a climate where it's too cold for heat pumps to function

Year round? So you mean the polar regions? Because they can work even at -10F. Efficiency is reduced, but they can work. Crappy ones will cutoff earlier though. If you are not in one of the planet's poles, we have seasons so it's better to use LEDs for at least 3/4 of the time (maybe more as even northern latitudes only have a few really severe winter days).

Modern LED lamps are tiny and use very little material. Incandescent bulbs are no longer considered 'exotic' because of how old the tech is, but tungsten was a very exotic material at some point.
Kdenlive for Linux
> 1) swap out the broken displays, mainboards, etc. to produce a working "Refurbished" unit. Who does Apple sell these to? I don't see refurbished phones for sale on their website. Maybe to T-Mobile/etc who do sell some refurbished iPhones.

available through Apple at https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/iphone. I think availability changes frequently, only see iPhone 11 Pro currently but have seen others in the past.
I'm sure this is the top comment b/c we as developers have basically lost our professional agency to do do nothings roles like project manager/project owner/"business people". It's frustrating. I've been in the game a long time. It was way more fun when the web was still new and for the most part didn't care a whole lot about tech.
It's a legitimate concern if you're a Tesla investor: how is one person supposed to lead 5 companies at once effectively? It seems strange that corporate boards even allow this. When I sign an employment agreement with a company, that agreement almost always includes a clause preventing me to work for someone else, at least without permission.
Hehe. Nice detective work. OP did say they moved to the office a couple of years ago, and his idea came about 13 months ago, so perhaps he jumped the gun on creating the project then withdrew it?

Love a good "caught red-handed" internet moment, but this one might be Occam's Razor.
And for some reason using that is a pretty weird experience. I've been so conditioned not to expect it that I actually turn it off to make it feel "natural"
> Relaxing music doesn't mask the noises enough

Try listening to "The Great Mighty Poo" : https://youtu.be/Vdd4rBlsj2o
That's not how they're describing it. The "paper" emits sound whether or not it's applied to a wall.

"The hand-sized loudspeaker the team demonstrated ... can generate high-quality sound no matter what surface the film is bonded to."

It is, as I understand it from the article, a bunch of 3-4nm sized piezoelectric elements in an array, all powered concurrently.

"... their design relies on tiny domes on a thin layer of piezoelectric material which each vibrate individually. These domes, each only a few hair-widths across, are surrounded by spacer layers on the top and bottom of the film that protect them from the mounting surface while still enabling them to vibrate freely."

If the vibrating elements are decoupled from the surface, the surface won't act as a resonator for it (at least, not as the primary resonator, as it would with a transducer). The vibrating elements are moving the air directly.
I think CGI is a good high level way of think about AWS Lambda and other Serverless compute platforms. I think the key innovations are the integrations with cloud services, and the scaling/economic model. Videos like the one linked below really demonstrate the level of optimizations implemented to make this work on the "cloud" scale. I think Serverless Compute platforms are going to become a really meaningful part of the software development ecosystem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-7j0QlGwFk&ab_channel=Insid...
The core part of j2k was always royalty-free, actually.
In the current paradigm, the opposing choices are the rates of employment and interest.

Are you saying high unemployment and low interest would be better?

There's a cliché to the effect: higher prices will make you mad, being unemployed will take away your hope.
Out of wanting to research more, which countries accept folks at that income level?
> We’re facing some massive generational crises at this point, and it feels like the only solution is to wait for the current leadership to die off, and hope the gen x’ers fix it.

oh man, I choose to laugh so I don't start crying hahaha.

I want to turn this into an argument of why age-reversal and other longevity research is such a bad idea (personally, I think it's kind of evil; but maybe I've seen too many villanous cartoon characters throwing everything under the bus so the can live forever).
containerization is less about security these days, and is being used to work around the broken package/dependency management situation on linux which is caused by the wild west of libraries that make little effort to assure any kind of forward/backwards compatibility. Given the fact that distro package maintainers cant maintain 30x different versions of any given package to satisfy all the applications stuck on a particular library version, means that larger applications which can't be constantly churning their code bases to replace foo(x,y) with foo_bar(y,x) are stuck shipping their own pinned version of a library.

So, I don't think anyone seriously thought that containers provided significantly more security than simply running an application and trusting the kernel syscall and filesystem permissions were bulletproof. More software layers are unlikely to improve security.
Pffft. Big deal. You can buy one online for $100 without ANY classes. You got ripped off.