skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any direct experience with the medical industry? If not, do you know anyone who has?

It really seems like you are arm-chair quarterbacking your comments based on some quick online searches. I strongly encourage you to talk to folks who have worked in hospital billing pre- and post-ACA and (if possible) actuaries who work in the health insurance industry who will speak to you frankly (rather than toeing the industry line). The misaligned incentives are a complete shit show.

> Why is gross margin relevant?

If you can increase gross margin number while maintaining operation costs at about the same proportional level, then you end up with more absolute profit. So 100 premium, 20 gm and 5 profit can become 150 premium, 30 gm, and 7.5 profit.

> How are sub 5% profit margins feeding at the trough?

The percentage is not the issue. The absolute amount is.

Some examples:

- My premiums pre-ACA to now have almost quintupled. There are some good reasons to explain a small part of that increase (e.g., I’m older), but 4-5x is absurd. Way higher than inflation, and way higher than the quality of care has improved (for me specially, but also in general).

- This link (https://khn.org/news/article/surprise-bill-iv-push-hospital-...) is an example of hospitals feeding at the trough. Imagine this happening hundreds or thousands of times a day at every hospital. It’s absurd. I realize that this is basically a marketing piece by Kaiser, but the article is directionally correct based on folks I know who work in medicine, health insurance, and hospital billing. Their stories are all very consistent.

- There are many other countries with functional healthcare systems that do not charge anywhere near this much (for most people). Japan comes to mind. I have lived there. Premiums are based on a percentage of your salary, and the cost is much less than the US for 95%+ of the population. If you have no salary, it’s about $100 a year. When the US system reforms, I hope that the reformers take lessons from Japan since the transition from our current system to something like theirs will be relatively easier than many/most other options.

> If you are claiming collusion, I would need proof.

This isn’t CSI, and collusion doesn’t have to be explicit, especially with oligopolies.

Once the major players in any market in the US realize that they can take a win-win game theory approach to their pricing, they pretty much do so. They don’t have to have surreptitious back room meetings in order to realize that increasing prices more or less in step is mutually beneficial, especially in health insurance, which has a wide moat.
> Yes seem to be writing sarcastically and I'm not sure why.

Because it's hard to write any other way when people are losing their minds over a storm in a teacup. Literally nothing meaningful has changed about Twitter in the last few months. This is an entirely self-induced panic, based on a couple cases of someone maliciously misinterpreting a tweet here and there and everyone else amplifying it, and fueled by irrational fear and hatred towards Musk. It would be funny to watch, if it were not saturating the media channels 24/7.

Twitter's future wasn't in any way more certain before, nor was the platform any more stable. Adding or removing random features, and screwing third parties over API T&C changes, were pretty much the trademark of Twitter already.
I’ve had this happen in places were multiple languages are spoken.

Hearing something in Language B, but not realizing, so the brain processes it in Language A. Then not being able to understand for a few seconds until the brain realizes that what I heard is actually Language B, and suddenly the first seconds of the speech make sense.
The complaint is that C isn't the only systems language anymore so defining the ABI in terms of executable C code is a pain-in-the-ass for those other languages.

C is also a terrible language to define an ABI because, by design, it's very imprecise in the way that it defines types.
The greatest costs are how much time you spend, your attorney's spend, etc. which are not arbitrary fees that can be increased or decreased by decree. So increase or decreasing fees won't improve accountability much.

The basic problem is patent cases are inherently highly complex and specific to particulars and context, and the legal system is inherently inefficient and unpredictable.

These are worst case legal situations for good actors, but the best case terrain for bad actors that can carefully select the battles they want!

The only "simple" solution I can think of is, that a pattern of patent troll behavior is explicitly made illegal, and judgements and findings against trolls can puncture normal limited liability protections of corporations and business arrangements.

Taking out the serial trolls could then be made profitable and repeatable for legal entrepreneurs, who can assemble the deep pockets, and accept the large risks, required.
"Thing Elon built-or-owns, without Elon" turns out to be an entire market segment.

Anecdotally, most folks I know in the market for electric vehicles are avoiding Tesla so they don't have to think about a _specific_ billionaire each time they get into their car. Elon's especially visible right now, but generally, folks want their stuff to be theirs, not defined by someone else.

FWIW most of the people I'm thinking of skew technical and progressive.
I've been looking at the "Russian meddling" not as an attack on the plebs, to get the masses to substantially change their votes, but as a psyop against the rulers, enraging them by being seen meddling with their subjects. It's been highly effective though I have no way of knowing if things worked out this way by intent or chance
Just today I paid for a domain name in name.com. As part of the package, they sold me a hosted & managed WordPress installation for $60 USD a year. I was positively impressed (last time I setup a WP server I paid $5 a month for DigitalOcean, which makes it $60 for something I have to manage).

Companies like name.com, godaddy and whatnot should offer that kind of option. Or even AWS should have a "managed mastodon" server maybe. At the end of the day, most companies nowadays have their infrastructure in one of the 4-6 main cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCS, Oracle, ...).
> Can you give some specifics about what that means in your case?

react-query has a default behavior to cancel a fetch when the component unmounts (AFAIK), eg. the user changes to another view and the data of the previous view aren't needed anymore. I prefer to only have those fetches pending which are actually needed and seem likely to succeed, as otherwise my SPAs would just add unnecessary load on the API gateway. I specifically had such a case when the backend team was in transition to a microservice architecture, hence the timeouts.

But thanks, will join the discord then after I created a repo to play around.
It's "email me at gmail.com". The article is about replacing a company's usage of Facebook and Twitter with Mastodon. They then link to their Mastodon instance, as if that's where we can find all sorts of external communication, the kind they'd usually have on Facebook. Nope.

As a nontechnical user, I am immediately confused and closed the page without learning anything. The idea that a company could "reach millions of users" with Mastodon is ridiculous.
That's really cool. Do you have any further more detailed examples of writing such a parser using generators? It's very coincidental because I've been learning about this topic recently.
Palmer Luckey builds VR headset that kills people who die in-game
Airline tickets and hotels, too. You likely paid a different amount for your ticket than either of the people sitting (or staying) next to you.
The Hyundai EVs like the Ioniq look pretty good too.
So much of this. A lot of us underestimate how powerful modern propoganda is and how easy it is to manipulate people. A lot of research been done on human behavior and phychology in recent decades and opressive regimes makes good use of it. It takes time, but unfortunately it's still possible to turn a lot of normal people into zombies on Nazi Germany level.

With internet and social networks spreading all kind of manipulative information became so much easier. If someone thinks that living in democracy alone makes you immune to propoganda that just not the case.

So yeah "Divide and Rule" still work in modern age and it's crucial to keep political discussion alive even if society is really polarized. Otherwise one day we'll all wake up in another version of China, Russia or something even worse.

Disclaimer: I am Russia citizen who been in opposition for decade, immigrated immediately once war began and I financially supporting Ukraine armed forces. So I well aware what I am talking about.
The directors and officers are often quite wealthy. Insurance isn’t a cap on liability.
Microsoft COM? It’s the foundation for a lot of the Windows API and was explicitly designed to be usable from non-C languages.
Lack of an alternative, lack of marketing, laziness? Convenience of others being there, network effects?

They don't seem like good answers, just happen-stance ones.

The idea of decentralising isn't bad IMO, maybe that'll be the next main topic.
flex everything, it behaves much smoother
While I'm a die-hard LED bulb consumer for its obvious longevity and efficiency advantages, I always wonder whether their seemingly invisible flickering messes up more with my well-being than the lack of light temperature and light brightness controls would. Would be nice to see some research on this.
How/what are you using to monitor your smart meter?
My hardline 1TB per month up/down data cap says no to that entire idea. Can't selfhost when 1 person requesting a lot means you are out hundreds of dollars.

But I do wish selfhosting was just easy. It shouldn't be this hard.
Look we were all just following orders.
I believe for internal communication, Twitter style social networks are a net bad.

At Facebook we used a facebook-esque product called Workplace for this sort of thing.
I believe it harmed the culture because people would chase clout and visibility on the social network instead of doing real work. Social networks encourage that kind of behavior.

I think slack, discord, or similarly un-networked products are a better fit for company communication.
Anything that shows "follower counts" is probably not good for companies.
Wouldn't being the topic du jour exactly the right time to lean into promoting it?
I mean Elon raised a massive PR storm for Twitter and alternatives. Mastodon have been trying to become mainstream since forever. Fowler believes it to be a good thing also, so he uses his media clout (blog readership) to lean in and push this message.
Why is that a problem?
Do millennial and gen-z Indians have a similarly skeptical view towards capitalism held by so many young people in NA and the EU?

I had a friend tell me the other day that I couldn't be anti-racist if I wasn't anti-capitalist, because capitalism is by inherently racist. Ever since 2018 or so it seems as if anti-capitalism has become part of the mainstream progressive Western viewpoint, while I don't remember that being the case in the 2000s. Are these views held around the world, or do I just have a very well-selected sample?
It's older but considered one of the great classics of sci-fi.
Such an awesome accomplishment.

Also, it’s interestingly a huge black eye to the CCP: news of this Indian accomplishment will be censored in China, because it proves that nations can progress without forced-sterilization/-abortion/-1-child-policy/authoritarianism/ etc.
It looks like I will just have to bite the bullet and actually read the rust book back to front. I find static particularly confusing because of the seemingly contradictory meanings that are all jumbled up in my head. The English meaning of immutable, the Java meaning of instance agnostic, and this Rust meaning of immortal lifetime.
It's still relevant to the core conflict. Some may not like it being stated out loud - that still doesn't make it any less relevant or true.
It’s not only about insurance. The directors got personal liability waivers.
I mean - one could argue they should render word and ppt documents as well. What are the trade-offs should be the question, dont you think?
> Heck, they could automatically enroll everybody subscribed to Disney+.

God, please, fuck no.
Only after they gave up a planned economy.
What's stored on the computer is a number that gives access to a wallet. You could also store a number that gives access to a Swiss bank account on a piece of paper in the 18th century. I wouldn't call the technology advanced.
Suspicion: this is because a positive integer is a linked list. Every integer is defined by a unary root element and then a series of successors until its cardinality matches the corresponding symbol (counting is correspondence).

> find the count of subsets that sum to a particular number without actually enumerating them all.

Would the generating formula for partition numbers[0] work, or am I misunderstanding this problem?

(I think actually generating the subsets is necessarily a dynamic programming problem...)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_(number_theory)#:~:t...
Laying off staff of a company that has barely added any new features during the last 10 years and has always been operating at a loss is not necessarily a bad thing for the future of the platform.

You are right about the chaotic way things are added/removed right now, but I personally prefer it to what Twitter was before Musk: Force login on the main page and unfair ideological censorship.

We'll see what happens in the long run.
These are not independent issues. Domestic media can and has reported on stories/narratives seeded by Russian misinformation campaigns.
>And we all immediately understood those accounts were parody

Maybe. The problem is that unless it's made explicit, I am going to assume that someone WILL get confused.

>Absolute means Absolute

Absolutely. But not using my name. It's your speech, not mine.
I started a company to pursue circadian lighting (called Twist) and sadly pivoted away from it as a core value proposition because of weak reception from the market.

I feel we were 20 years too early (we shut down about 5 years ago).

Our tech enabled smart circadian lighting (we called it adaptive lighting) without configuration, an app, or wifi. The lightbulbs worked without any smart gadgetry necessary.

Every time the switch turned on the light made a 20 ms computation based on the time it stored (via a low power clock and a super cap) and turned to the right brightness and color temperature automatically. This was protected by a patent but also could not find a buyer for the tech despite how differentiated it was

Now I have an entire home with hue downlights + bulbs that does circadian lighting (with HASS as well) and while its not nearly as elegant of a solution as Twist (aforementioned startup), it is pretty great and a huge life changer to me and my fiancè.

Edit: for context we use Philips Hue downlight retrofits + bulbs in other fixtures, all white ambiance, and Lutron Aurora dimmers, connected to HASS on a RBPI, running adaptive lighting from HACS
Advertising is not inherently or automatically bad.

Spam is bad. Being overrun by low quality ads is bad.

I don't mind ads when its GOOD advertising.
Tax patents as "property" whose maximum damages are proportional to the taxes paid? Give the owner of the patent a "grace period" and have the taxation schedule ramp up over the life-time of the patent. So, for instance: .1%, .5%, 1%, 3%, 5%, ...
For sure not the crazy buying spree,… and it’s not yet winter. Prepare for the worst hope for the best, damn the gas prices. Health is priceless, confort is subjective.
"There are red lines that you can't cross, and open conflict with a nuclear adversary is one of the latter."

This is true for NATO powers as well. I can't believe Russia blew it up, it doesn't make sense.

But which NATO Country would blow up pipelines and risk a conflict with a nuclear adversary?
That’s what they should do.

The quadrigacx (Canadian crypto exchange) bankruptcy trustee didn’t move the little they found into a wallet they controlled.

Lucky for them, it seems like nobody else had/acted on having the private keys.
> Sorry this is rambling a bit

Nice write up! I'm happy with the answer, but I'd not mind if you decide to expand it. Anyway, I think it would be more useful if you reply to other questions in this thread, but you already have been doing that. I'll upvote your comment, but this is one of the ocasiones when I'd like a x2 upvote.

Edit: If you don't mind a question: What do you [1] do with the people with big K that want to be blood donors? Ask them not to donate[2]? Do you tell them? Label the blood as big K and be more careful?

[1] "You" as the impersonal "you". I could have written "the system" or something more accurate.

[2] I guess they can donate. Otherwise they will be extremely unhappy.
Electricity usage in the UK is low compared to last year.

Https://grid.iamkate.com

If you look at past year demand it's currently 28.1gw weekly average v 31.6gw last year so that's a roughly 10% drop.
I have recessed lighting in my home with non-serviceable LEDs.

I would love to find a replacement that supports multiple color temperatures.

Suggestions solicited!
It's not hard, really, given that you will need to make only $1.90 per day to automatically become declassified as poor [1]. If anything, capitalism makes this harder to do achieve [2] which probably explains why the limit is set so low.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/international-poverty-l...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X2...
Yeah, it's a shame most planning is done by managers/PMs with very limited technical knowledge. They enforce top-down project strategies with basically no understanding of their employees psychology or motivation
RocketMan bad.
In the first week Musk has already shown that his Twitter will erratically push out poorly thought out policy changes on a whim. Definitely not giving "reliable" vibes.
People who only learned programming with managed code have a general disdain for anything different.
>Thing Elon built

Are we really going to act like Elon built Twitter now?
Here's their public feed, linked from that page.

https://toot.thoughtworks.com/public
I did not mention art :)

Ok, sure so 'quality' here is literally just the technical implementation of this pointer to a thing. Good to know, thanks.
I think your data is suspect here. Tesla[6] made 343,000 vehicles in the third quarter of 2022, so thinking they are only able to make 366,000 per year is incorrect. Year to date, from their quarterly reports, Tesla has manufactured 908,573 vehicles so far in 2022. With the recent updates at the Shanghai Gigafactory and the spin up of the Austin Tx Gigafactory, they're on track to be able to make (if it ran at this speed a full year) two million vehicles per year.

One of the ultimate "business metric" for auto manufacturers is the gross margin aka "how much profit does the company make as a percentage of the cost of the vehicle"

Before Tesla, Toyota[1] generally held the crown as the highest with just under 18% over the past five years. Ford[2] averages around 14%. Tesla[3], is industry leading with an average of 20.61%. GM[4] has always sort of been a laggard with the average at 11.26%. The German manufacturers, known for their efficiency, also do very well with VW[5] at 18.75% (this includes Porsche, which significantly tips the scales upwards for Volkswagen) and Mercedes[6] at 19.66%.

So Tesla makes approximately 6% more profit per vehicle sold at the low end (GM) and almost exactly 1% more than Mercedes on the higher end. Mercedes has ~173,000 employees and (per your own comment) Tesla has ~110,000 employees. So doing "less with more" is a pretty nice way to say they're more efficient, is it not?

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/TM/gross_profit_margin

[2] https://ycharts.com/companies/F/gross_profit_margin

[3] https://ycharts.com/companies/TSLA/gross_profit_margin

[4] https://ycharts.com/companies/GM/gross_profit_margin

[5] https://ycharts.com/companies/VWAPY/gross_profit_margin

[6] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/02/tesla-tsla-q3-2022-vehicle-d...
>There was a massive drop in living standards

that tends to happen when the government runs resources down to near-zero, forcing the new system to start from scratch.

had the conversion occurred earlier, when the USSR was still a reasonably successful state, I suspect it would have gone nicer.
He doesn't want to work on mold as part of Google or another large company like that because then Google would take ownership of the whole program; he wants to maintain ownership of it. It's mentioned in a tweet of his
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When was the last time there was a major shift away from backwards compatibility in HTML/CSS? I don't think there has been... has there?

Yes; in the early 2000’s, the W3C created XHTML 2.0 [1], a strict XML-based re-implementation of HTML. Because it dropped backwards compatibility to HTML4, it created a lot of backlash that (eventually) resulted in the browser vendors forming their own standards organization (WHATWG) which lead to the creation of HTML5.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML#XHTML_2.0
We'll IF Trump is so "friendly" to Russia and he is Russia's pocket why wouldn't Putin invade when Trump (Putins ally according to the left) is controlling the US military.

Why would Putin invade when a Democrat is president. It makes zero sense.
From that article:

“In older vehicles, the wiring and batteries start to break down, putting them more at risk of catching fire in an accident. Since most electric vehicles aren’t yet at the advanced age of older gas vehicles, there currently isn’t any data showing if they will be at a higher risk of battery and electric explosions as they age.”

So this is not yet corrected for age of the vehicle.
Interesting that Mastodon's [Back] button triggers a javascript:back event, so it takes me back to this forum. I don't know if in 2022 that is the expected behaviour haha.
Indeed. The network effect. I got onto Mastodon in May just to check it out. It was pretty sleepy in that there weren't a lot of people I was following on twitter on mastodon. In the last couple of weeks that's begun to change rapidly. I think we're nearing a tipping point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstoppable_(2010_film)
This is the solution. It doesn't even need to be parseable subset of C -- it could be anything. It just needs to be able to describe an ABI. And from that, you generate C headers or bindings for other languages.

I don't think this idea is in any way controversial -- it would just be a lot of work to do across a large number of systems.
Let's assume that Elon decides to burn 44 billion instead of running a mostly successful business like he's generally done in the past with his other businesses. What exactly are the dangers of using Twitter if it might stop existing say 3 years from now?
Someone actually has to implement the web browser / "tech stack". Web assembly, despite it's name, is an interpreted language. It is not magic. Interpreted languages need an interpreter (written in C).
The "Twitter issues" that people are discussing currently come down to just wanting more censorship (they perceive that Elon's Twitter won't silence all the conservative voices as well as pre-Elon Twitter did). A federated solution isn't right a great fix for this, as a single instance that doesn't moderate the way you want can still show up in your federated timeline.
I think somewhere along the lines of 20, 50, and 80 percentile would work.
Reminds me of the looking glass [0] demo from sun for the app itself there is sadly not much to see yet. closed beta.

[0] https://youtu.be/JXv8VlpoK_g
It is also passing the buck. We're representative countries, which means the individual always plays a role. Requiring a national fix means garnering national support. That of individuals. Which is exactly what I'm trying to do here.