skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a contribution drafted, but lost it all. In summary:

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One reason they may not want to give you an estimate is because depending on what happens during your visit/procedure, the codes that get billed could change quite a bit. Because of this their initial estimate could be wildly different.

This is a common excuse given by industry. Its also BS. I want to put it out there so people know. Would you accept if an airline tried to charge you extra if because of weather they served you extra food? Or took you to a different airport ? No.
https://surgerycenterok.com/ has a price on every procedure. It never changes. How? Because they know that price changes are related to a problem doctor. You can reliably predict a problem doctor due to (a) surprise coding and (b) complications. Good doctors (and pilots) know their cases and plan accordingly.

>>>>>> Another reason they may not want to give you an estimate is because they have no idea.

This is true. They don't know because no one has bothered to translate a scheduled case into specific CPTs and/or looked up rates rates with insurer. So someone dropped the ball.

>>>>>>>>>I often see comments on hackernews along the lines of "it's just a fee schedule, how hard is it to put it in a database.

Actually, you are misinformed here. The vast majority of contracts for independent providers are simple affairs that are % of medicare rates. The only excuse they have for not putting those % rates in the open is that they have no incentive to do so. But its lazy. They could say to patients "our contract with X payor is % of medicare" and then even the patient could figure it out. They don't even do that. And patients suffer as a result. ASC and Hospitals have no excuse. Even with complex contracts, they have massive staff that can do the work.

>>>>>>>>..Another reason they may not want to give you an estimate is because it's not straightforward to verify your insurance.It may have bad data on what is covered vs not covered, what your deductible, coinsurance, etc are so given all this data is kind of unreliable then giving an estimate becomes pretty unreliable.

In my experience, some of the data fields are reliably accurate. For the rest, we are actually working on a solution. But let's not make perfect the enemy of the good. Its not hard to caveat a response like:

"Assuming all your procedures are covered by your plan, based on your remaining deductible of X and coinsurance of Y, your patient responsibility for this procedure is Z"
Its not rocket science. I do it all the time myself.
I guess Matt Levine was on to something, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-10/web3-t...
I am referring to moral duties that exist independent of the project they are in. An individual project's Code of Conduct may recognize pre-existing moral requirements, and may apply additional moral goals that the project upholds, but it can neither supplant nor disclaim moral requirements that pre-date it. If an update to a project adds a keylogger and exfiltrates your login information, that project has failed in its moral duty, even if not explicitly stated in the project's CoC.
Show HN: Copper – A Go framework for your projects
Hey HN! I've been working with Go for the last 5+ years at large-ish companies building products that many of you may use regularly.

A ton of people say that Go's standard library is really powerful and usually enough to get by without external dependencies. I think that's true for companies that have the resources to build and maintain packages to reduce code duplication. For everyone else, we're left to finding the right set of packages to build our projects.
So, I built Copper - a toolkit that helps you get your project off the ground with minimal dependencies. It covers everything from routing, html, storage to tooling and more.

Check it out, star it, and feel free to ask questions!

P.S.
I also have a video demo building an HN clone in the docs

[1] https://gocopper.dev/
Sure, there's a chemical reaction at play, but I think it's a strong assumption that they can't taste the vinegar. Sure the garlic now tastes different, but vinegar is also a strong taste that plenty of people, including me, will notice.

I'm quite sensitive to vinegar, and really don't like having it in my minced garlic unless it fits the sourness of the dish. Most of the times I use an oil based one as the flavour is more neutral.

I can't even enjoy poached eggs in most places, since most taste like vinegar to me. I discovered later that it's a common trick to add vinegar to more easily poach eggs, but for me it normally overpowers the flavour of the egg.
I've shipped safety critical motor control embedded software that runs flawlessly on thousands of cars using only fixed point math without it being ugly, buggy or underpowered, precisely because everything was computed only in fixed point fractional math.

You're just making up FUD.
It is. Other sites do exist for renting clothing like hurr and by rotation.
I'm not sure what your point is other than to elaborate constraints upon my examples. I never said it was "safe", "well defined", or even a "good idea". Only "available" and that this is an important distinction from "actually used". Even Rust has an "unsafe" construct available. I don't really think anything of what I am saying should be contentious.

Being "weakly supported" also does not imply "strictly unavailable". You can cobble together "unstructured" jumps on top of the structured exception system as in pygoto. [1] Yes, there may be logical wiggle room in some pedantic definition of "goto" or "unstructured" or "available" exactly matching what you think this article said. It is true enough for the general question of "code clarity guidance purposes" which is, in my view, the general topic both of the article and these comments. One can still meaningfully say, "Please don't use pygoto!" even though "goto" is not, exactly, "in" the language.

Many aspects of what is clear/confusing/easy/hard are not what is "strictly possible", but what a prog.lang or even its social community shepherd users to do, often through stdlibs. [2] Exceptions were originally sold as "structured error handling". Many people seem to dislike exceptions for their remaining non-local properties. In a lot of ways exceptions are often "optional", but if a stdlib uses them heavily then opting out becomes as impractical as replacing the stdlb.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/pygoto/

[2] nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/03/its-not-what-programming-languages-do.html
I'm not sure if you're looking at some crazy marked up amazon price, but my local grocery sells it for less than 1/3 of the price you mention: https://www.heb.com/product-detail/h-e-b-ultra-sunscreen-spf...
Integral to Open Source too, I believe. Anything else would just be Source Available or something. If I can't modify and share, it's not very open.
I'm am a huge proponent for paying for good software to support developers and creators.

HOWEVER, I think you sentiment is wrong here. You _should_ support creators that are doing things you like so that they keep doing those things you like. But it doesn't make sense to pay creators that are doing think you don't like. The fact that you start paying them is taken as confirmation that you are enjoying the product.

Imagine if we all hated Feedly's product but banded together to have everyone subscribe to Feedly to support them. They would see that userbase as confirmation to keep doing what they are doing, building shitty software. They aren't going to about face their product strategy because you are paying them $6 a month now.

So instead what we should all do is find creators that are doing RSS readers justice and support THOSE creators. For example, I switched from Feedly to Feedbin. I was a free user at Feedly and never wanted to upgrade because, like the author of the article said, it was bloated and unejoyable and the premium features weren't things I needed. So instead I found a tool that is everything I wanted, which happened to be FeedBin. I supported them and am paying them $5 per month for them to continue their efforts because they are building the software the way I want RSS Readers to be. So I would like to see them survive and thats what my paid subscription provides.

Let's encourage good products. No reason to throw good money at bad products. Find the good ones and support those.
I find that they are like a medicine, that if I use them for every ache pain or sniffle, they don't work as well when I truly need them. When I use an expletive I want people to understand I have exited my normal range of emotional intensity.
That does not mean it is obscured intentionally. quite the contrary -- if you read my comments I've explained my views in many different ways. I've put the effort in.
Humans are hard wired to respect positions of high social status (ie, ones that influence what other people do with varying degrees of indirectness).
Also a link to the original complaint filed by ShotSpotter, which someone else posted here but has been flagged dead:

https://shotspottercomplaint.com/gallery/20211011%20ShotSpot...

This provides some interesting background on the company (obviously biased)
> My colleagues said but nothing negative about my work.

I can read this either as "my colleagues said nothing but negative about my work" (what most others seem to be reading) or "but my colleagues said nothing negative about my work" - are we right in assuming the first?

> Edit:

Keep at it :)
I take a stoic approach. Everything has to be in line with natural law, otherwise what you create is an abomination. To give an example: if I'm not physically or mentally capable of programming, I won't do it. Some people just do it anyway regardless of circumstance, but end up creating buggy half-baked pieces of crap, and deem their work a masterpiece, but when peer reviewed, it's not all that great. It also won't stand the test of time, since it's code that is high maintenance and subject to tech debt. So get yourself right and everything else will follow.
> Once you reached 20, your life expectancy was a bit lower than today, but it was common for people to reach 60.

If you were a man. If you were a woman, there was still the high risk of maternal mortality. Add to that the large number of births, and a significant amount of women died during pregnancy/birth/post-birth.
I have never heard this in my life. Either people treat words as magic or they don't.

There's a difference between "you'll never hear me say that word, just all other words" and trying to censor.

I won't say the n word, but I'll watch a Tarantino movie.
Yes, at least that was the reason I was told it was very expensive. I'm not sure if it's a country wide ban or EU wide ban.
The US is too deep into this shit to go back now.
I thought this was about VICE, the Versatile Commodore Emulator.
I pay for Feedly, and have since the beginning, but I don’t love it. Their search function has severe usability issues, which I’ve emailed them, and their enhanced features are stupid and useless.

I don’t like Feedly, and use Unread on the iPhone to read the feeds. They are like the Evernote of today. Every year I think I’ll dump them and probably will. It’s just been laziness so far.

I pay, they feed my RSS feeds, so in that regard, it works. But yeah, I feel OP.
Lol. Because it is a shit implementation.

In sweden, even garage sales etc have been cashless since at least 5 years back. People just send each other money with an app. Even small vendors accept payment that way. Larger stores accept cash, but everyone uses nfc/card.
Map Tunnelling Tool: Tunnel to the Other Side of the Earth
SIPC won't help you get your money (what's left of it) in a timely manner if your money market fund breaks the buck.
> Families could be offered “multi-generational” 50-year mortgages allowing parents to pass on outstanding debt to their children, under plans being considered by Downing Street.

This is a but misleading. By the sound of it, the inheritors are choosing to take on the asset and debt at the time of issuance. The deceased cannot choose to just saddle their inheritors with their debt without their signature on the loan.
so leetcode grinding doesn’t work and maybe experience is more important then, after all?
Reducing cash burn means spending less money which lowers inflation.
Several issues with this:

* Lots can go wrong during meiosis; many gametes have severe genetic abnormalities (e.g. aneuploidy). Due to these abnormalities, upwards of 20% of conceptions result in spontaneous abortion (often before the mother even knows she’s pregnant).

* Normal stem cell lines already have a proclivity to undergo cancer-like selection when being cultured, acquiring growth-enhancing mutations.

* Haploid cell lines are genetically unstable and have a proclivity to revert back to a diploid state (or quickly acquire chromosomal abnormalities in the process of trying to revert to a diploid state).

* Haploid cell lines that manage to remain haploid can select for cancerous mutations much more quickly than their diploid counterparts.

This doesn’t even touch on issues with polygenic scores, or that optimizing for a genome with the most alleles contributing to a PGS for a given trait has no guarantee of actually maximizing that trait, since many alleles are epistatic—their effects are dependent on the presence or absence of a specific set of other alleles, which is not captured by the simple linear mixed models used to compute a PGS. Analogously, throwing together all the most commonly used spices across all 3 Michelin star restaurants would result in a horrible dish, even though each spice on its own would contribute highly to a “polyspice dish score.”

Even if we had some magic way of solving all the aforementioned problems, we still have no way of knowing that optimizing for a certain set of alleles that definitively results in some desirable traits would not also inadvertently result in some other horrible traits, which we would have no way of knowing from population statistics because they’ve been selected out of the population.
There was this Roman poet, Trilussa, which created a good description of why averages are bad, which is known in Italy as "Trilussa's Chicken"

Roughly translated, it goes as follows:

"Following the current statistics, it turns out you're expected to be able to eat one chicken per year, and, if you can't afford it, it goes into the average anyway, because there's someone else out there eating two".
Umm, others already mentioned behavior changes involving more vacation and more tanning, but people also changed their diets. Most diets focus on high carb and low fat, which is unfortunate for cancer. Cancer feeds on sugars and many simpler carbs break down to glucose. Additionally, many processed foods contain quite high levels of sugar. When humans were eating less sugar, cancer cells grew more slowly. As others mentioned, cancer tends to be the thing that kills you most slowly, but it still could be delayed a bit.

It’s worth mentioning that some doctors I’ve met have started advocating low-meat keto for their cancer patients, so while I am completely an amateur with health topics, I feel I am on somewhat firm footing here.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/health/swearing-benefits-well...

Why swearing is a sign of intelligence, helps manage pain and more

Although, I must admit, it's a creative (mis)use of ligatures.
They are entitled like you and I, and everyone, is entitled to good products and not being angry when using them.

Sure, if you're paying for it. If not, prepare for all the ways a company is going to try to make the service profitable, starting with ads and come-ons to paid tiers.

Don't want that? Pay, or self-host something. It's absolutely entitled to make an indignant post about why you're changing away from a service you've used for nine years that amounts to the bastards want to make money off me.
Debugging embedded software or even low level software or examining malware is much better at assembly level.
I don't know, the community in general tend to use macros that are well written. I keep seeing core.async being used (`go`) in Clojure projects, and also various macros for writing HTTP servers (compojure being a popular one which main code interface is a macro `defroutes`).

ClojureScript projects also routinely add support for making asynchronous code look synchronous (like `async/await` in vanilla JavaScript) via macros. shadow-cljs's `js-await` being one of the well-written ones: https://github.com/thheller/shadow-cljs/blob/49fb078b834e64f...

Usage:

(defn my-async-fn [foo]
(js-await [the-result (promise-producing-call foo)]
(doing-something-with-the-result the-result)
(catch failure
(prn [:oh-oh failure])))

I'd say if adding a macro makes things harder to understand, you probably need to re-evaluate if you really should have a macro here, or the interface of the macro.
No, it wasn't. Merriam Webster includes shitake as a less common but valid spelling.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shitake
I’d be particularly interested in something along these lines in a 1U form factor if anybody is familiar with such a thing. Obviously the actual fan-less-ness is less important in that use case but I have a hard time justifying high wattage hardware for my home server operation, and racking provides a lot of convenience.
"Fucking" is the only English "infix" that I know of, where it can be inserted inside of words like "abso-fucking-lutely". The only other is "freaking", which is a just euphemism for the former.

Edit: American English, I should say. The Brits have "bloody".
Thermal cycling such as is typical in a gaming PC is far more damaging than constant temperatures.

Underclock/volting cards to get a consistent higher net yield is standard practice in crypto mining, just as ovectclicking/volting is standard practice in enthusiast gamer circles. The latter being way more damaging for the GPU. Those that obtain the electricity illegally, or incredibly cheaply would not be the ones selling cards now.

As for fans, the things that reduce the fan's lifetime the most is dust buildup and high positive pressure configurations. Both of these are typical for bedroom gamer setups. Miner cards run in cleaner environments and open frames.

I would definetly buy a GPU from a miner over one from a gamer.
don't leave Pyramid out of the picture, it powers key infrastructure pypi.
“N word” isn’t a swear word. N◼◼◼◼◼ is
that's funny because it's actually kind of true. most erc-20 tokens are just contrived scams, same for bsc.
EA Roasted for Dunking on Single-Player Games After Everything It’s Done
It censors puss for some reason. What a sourpuss.
You can save so much time and effort using the Google colab notebooks rather than setting up python on your own machine (as is recommended in this guide)
Fireworks are out, drone shows are in this Fourth of July
Can't speak for the parent commentator, but I gave zerotier a try and ended up dumping it mostly because it was unusably slow on single core Linux VMs, making it not a viable option for connecting lower tier cloud VM options. I believe this is on the list of things they're fixing with their next major version, but that version has been very slow in coming out.
Thank you - I've only ever used Firefox and forks thereof, but I ignore all the new bells and whistles that come with releases (since v2). This is one to which I should have paid attention!

That said, it seems most of the sites I touch do not have a 'reader mode' option. Perhaps I should and will visit those sites less!

Who else reads lots of the internet in source, to avoid responsivity and cetera? Try reader view, it's rad!
My comment history has none of that, and I agree with the parent comment. Would you agree with the comment if I had wrote it instead?
Well, it (accurately?) conveys that they're deader than the dodo.
I disagree, but I do think that if swear words weren’t verboten, you wouldn’t think that.
Ah yes, the "u r dum" retort.

Wait, are we still allowed to say "dum"? Is this even visible?

It's doubly hard to predict what will be censored these days given that so often the censored words lists are themselves secret and, well, censored from view. To combat spammers no doubt.

Funny how "secret" and "censored" overlap.
Don't forget Retro Hour podcast of the guys who did Broken Sword and Beneath Steel Sky: https://theretrohour.com/beneath-a-steel-sky-revolution-soft...
The Wikipedia page doesn't mention the annual production of the mine - but a linked website suggests around 5.5t/annum.

If you do the maths on that it is an absurdly small volume by the way. You could hide it under a blanket.
Judging by the name of the blog (FAANG FIRE) I suspect this person is plenty well compensated in some sort of prestigious tech job, and if that's the case, then this number doesn't surprise me at all. There are lots of trendy athleisure and technical wear companies that will sell you the equivalent of a sweatshirt for $80, that can add up quick.
I once did a whirlwind trip from TN to NM, UT, CO, and back to TN. 5,000+ miles in 5 days. Average speed over 40MPH with some sleep and some meetings included. Idiocy, indeed.
> The world is too interesting and too nuanced to waste time trying to decipher a worldview obscured with wordplay.

Ah, yes, classic self defense when one feels threatened. Interesting that you use wordplay to criticize wordplay. I've done it too. Everyone has. But it isn't really getting us anywhere. It is a good way to protect one's ego though.

I'm sorry you don't understand it. I'm sorry if you perceived my quip as an insult. I was trying to make the point that if you ask overly simplistic questions and demand overly simplistic answers you aren't going to learn very much. If you take that personally then I'm sorry. My intent is for more people here to broaden their perspective. I see very strong signals have people been anchored in computer science but not philosophy or ethics or history. I see common tendencies for people to dig in. It is easier to defend oneself than to learn.
"My entire wardrobe is worth around $150, and that's 70% socks."

that doesn't seem possible. If you get a pair of pants, a shirt and shoes it's very likely you are already above $150. Never mind jackets, underwear and other stuff.
Yea and people get super angry when that happens. You often see the exact comments Gilbert got there too.
"Indeed, I’ve probably already spent more time on the historical backstory of Broken Sword here than it deserves..."

Not at all. What a great review of a beloved sub-genre. Sometimes I think about re-reading Foucault's Pendulum out of sheer joy at the memory. But then I usually get by with just recommending it to someone else who foolishly brings up anything in the Dan Brown/Indiana Jones space.
The problem with starch is that it's empty energy for a human.

Zero micronutrients, only carbs.

Humans need micronutrients, fats and some protein to live.

Carbs are optional.

Since starch is pure carbs this means that a diet high in artificial starch will just fatten you up while making you nutrient deficient.

It's only use if for extreme hunger prevention.

But humans raised on that kind of a diet will be deficient.
Wow zero self-awareness

These will be one of those cases where the person will be surprised they landed in jail
Another shoutout for Inoreader. Been using it for years. The free tier is great, but the paid tier is seriously one of the best investments I've ever made
I think that's what I'm going to get. I've been reading up on em and the 3090/ti's are either overkill (more than what I'd use) or diminishing returns vs. price. I'm not a graphics heavy creator/machine learning person. My monitor for example is almost 4K but not 4K so that's waste of graphic computing. It's tough because I want the best "just because". But it's a losing battle.
QuiteRSS. It even runs on OS/2.