skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been assisting elderly relatives with myriad physical and mental problems, and they also have Kaiser Medicare Advantage plans. For this elderly couple, out of pocket long-term care costs are about twice the US median income and that's sticking to a somewhat modest board and care environment. It's nice that the Kaiser copays and other billings are not significantly adding to that pile.

I can't say every moment has been golden, but I think I will choose the same for myself if the landscape hasn't completely changed by then. I've had to reality-check myself at times, realizing that many of my complaints are about the sad decline of my relatives, rather than any actual problem with Kaiser's care. It can be overwhelming, and you'd wish there was someone to magically fix it. With end-of-life declines, the care outcomes often don't feel very satisfying.

I've seen them through hospitalizations, ER trips, nursing home rehab, and home health visits. The only part that is frustrating is Medicare-induced rules, where they suddenly reach a threshold for transfer or discharge and you have to scramble in a reactive mode. I'm not sure how unique this is to Kaiser, but they can fail to consolidate communications through a care coordinator. So, you get chaotic days where multiple different staff and third party vendors are trying to reach you about the same topic all at once.
i had read this several times before, a long time ago (i've got a couple of his books somewhere), and my immediate response was (as it is for all moderately complex testing frameworks):

"who tests the testers?"

i am all in favour of tests, but this is my problem with all but the simplest of them.
Its kind of interesting though. I'm not sure if this issue is present at-large in other countries outside the US. But its really a hard problem if you think about it. If the average guy is too poor/ugly/unhygenic/aggressive/boring/not-interested-in-a-relationship for the standards of the average girl, then there's pretty much nothing the US government can do in the future encourage birth rates when population starts to fall. Efforts put in place to encourage families like those in Japan or Finland won't help if coupling doesn't happen in the first place!

Fascinating, and pretty dark stuff for most guys I'm afraid.
Have you noticed how few sedans are on the road?

I recently considered switching from a sedan to a cross-over... the sticker shock was upsetting. I make 2x as much as most of my friends and I absolutely refused to buy a cross-over, they all have cross-overs or trucks.

Ended up with a Hundai hatchback for 15k less, and bought a roof rack for 1k. When the 4 of us go snowboarding we use my small car instead of their huge expensive cars because I can fit 4 people + 4 snowboards on the roof, while they have to put a seat down for snowboards.

I don't know whats going on with everyone, a all wheel drive hatchback with a roof box is probably cheaper than the average crossover, fits FAR more luggage considering you can actually reach into the box, and if you buy a lift kit its just as good at off-roading as some random crossover is (IE: better than you think, worse than you expect)
Also, the 2nd author on the NBER paper is David Card [1] a Nobel laureate for his work in empirical labor economics research, for what that's worth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Card
Insurance, registration, property taxes (in some areas).

Not sure if that annual costs includes parking and other things that cost, but aren’t obvious for many people (many of us park for “free”, but we’ve paid for those space through higher rents, mortgages, etc).

For the rest of the money, the average new car costs around $50k today. And the average ownership length is about 8 years. Average loan length is approaching 6 years. So, $8333/year to service principal, plus interest, etc. Then only 2-3 years of only fuel/maintenance before starting over again. Plus the majority of depreciation is during those fist few years. On a $50k car, that’s probably $20k of lost value, if not more.

Yes, not everybody buys new cars. But, lots of people do, and they spend an ungodly amount of money on them.
I kind of predicted this ever since MS bought them out.

Seen how often Azure has problems? That's the future now.
> It's hard to edit stuff well because we're so passionate about what we wrote here, and we probably should do another pass.

No way, I’m dying here. “… and my main weakness is probably that I care too much…”
This isn't always true.

If every single stock investor bought index funds, investing in stocks would be pointless because it would not reward companies that perform better.
But has that improved your hireability or???
I think it's a fairly Bay Area-heavy term, as many startups prefer to pay out in equity over cash. I read an article about the site called Blind, where it is not uncommon to demand "TC or GTFO," or something to that effect.
I’d never seen thebestmotherfucking.website! I appreciate the nuance it adds. I don’t have any nuance of my own to add right now but I do have to share my amusement at the empty list item under contributors. I figured there would be something in the source referencing someone (similar to how some folks on Twitter make special acknowledgments for people not on Twitter), but if this was that it’s a very Inside Baseball reference:

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Or it could be a joke about copypasta in hand-authored HTML. Or just actual copypasta. Who knows! But I enjoyed it.
Deutsche Telekom offers Nextcloud Office to its cloud customers
US Expands Crackdown on China with Export Ban on Inspur, BGI
You're correct to be skeptical.

Denver city government has a tremendous amount of waste and city officials and non-profit partners desperately trying to get more funding by presenting programs as rosy as possible. Colorado politics has a long, long history of corruption, but Denver is especially egregious.
While I submitted this article, cause it raises some interesting points, I still do pretty much all of my programming in object oriented style. But for my next project I want to try the procedural approach.

With that said, I've always believed that just a single level of inheritance can be quite useful (e.g. abstract base class and below that the concrete classes). However, adding more levels of concrete classes below this can get confusing. Perhaps there should be some way in programming languages to restrict subclassing to a single level only, perhaps that could be useful.

It's kinda funny that when I started programming, so many years ago, I only did procedural programming (TI-BASIC on the TI-99/4A). But after programming object oriented for so many years, it feels kinda hard to make the switch back to procedural style.

I do find my Lua / LÖVE 2D programs become much harder to reason about as the codebase grows and I am kinda hoping adopting a procedural style can fix this issue. Though I do know part of the issue is that Lua is not static typed.
Yes. I know that hackernews wants to pretend that the source doesn't matter and only the content does, but you really have to consider the source at this point. It's not the 90's anymore; people will flat out lie for their agendas in an organized, well-funded, well-written, way and there's no reasonable way you can pretend they don't. I think the guideline here should be more nuanced.
What is the age distribution of the subjects? I'm reminded of the joke that "human psychology" is actually the psychology of 19-year old psych majors.

Edit: From the article.

Online adult participants. Online adult participants were recruited using Amazon Mechanical Turk...A total of 914 participants completed the task online...Participants had a mean age of 37.6 years (range 19–74 years).

Online adolescent participants.
There were 230 adolescents enroled in the NIMH depression characterization study who were offered to complete tasks for this study. Among these, 129 agreed, a participation rate of 56.1%...They had a mean age of 16.3 years (range 12–19 years). Fifty-six participants (48.2%) had been diagnosed with major depressive disorder...

Mobile app participants.
Gambling behaviour and mood rating data were collected from a mobile app called ‘The Great Brain Experiment’...We used a subset of 26,896 people...These are the bands and number of individuals in each band in the subset of data used in our analysis: 18–24 (6,500), 25–29 (4,522), 30–39 (7,190), 40–49 (4,829), 50–59 (2,403), 60–69 (1,158) and 70+ (294). In total, 13,168 were female (49.0%).
If Apple just pulls iMessage from EU, nothing changes, the competitor already exists, is already dominant, and is a US Silicon Valley social media company.
what's a LoRA?
No, Amazon has shareholders, nonprofits do not.
You don't stay on private insurance after 65 in the US. You go on Medicare.

85K per year is unbelievable and the OP isn't responding.
I'd also argue the potential savings and advantages of e-bikes are undervalued because the bike infrastructure in even the best US cities isn't particularly great. I've spent a fair amount of time in Denver, and while there are some good spots and ongoing improvements, the bike infrastructure in the city is honestly a lot worse than you might expect. Better bike infrastructure would almost certainly increase the e-bike value for people who buy them anyways, but even more importantly make them worth it to a lot more people.
This sounds dangerously close to "yeah but if the only tool you know is a hammer..."
Then that became JDate
LaTeX predates HTML by a decade and supports pictures, charts, quotes and far more, and doesn't force me as an author to make finicky decisions about presentation. I just write the content, and then set the document class to whatever the publisher wants.
> how talking to strangers in public went from common and acceptable to creepy and taboo in the last 15 years

This is strongly linked to class. The kids of rich friends have no problem striking up conversations with strangers, because they’ve been doing it at cocktail parties and restaurants since they were young. My less well-off friends’ kids have more screen time, much less opportunity for spontaneous conversation with unknown adults (they’re not taken out to eat) and spend more public time in unsafe spaces where there is legitimate concern about others’ willingness to hurt them.
If it were a bet that it was overvalued, the minute it reached fair valuation, the ETF should have been dissolved and distributed the funds.

The fact that it still exists means, they are happy to collect fees from gullible people who are pro/anti large-internet-personalities.
I don’t like the idea of private Medicare but this article is populist handwaving. Here is an article from real healthcare researchers with aggregates statistics: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9465897/

Notable:

> Private health insurers in Medicare Advantage must abide by all explicit Medicare coverage determinations including national coverage determinations (NCD) and local coverage determinations (LCDs). In the absence of an NCD, LCD, or other explicit Medicare coverage determination, however, Medicare Advantage insurers can apply additional coverage restrictions if they determine that a service fails to meet the “reasonable and necessary” standard.

It sounds like virtually no claims are denied even under Medicare Advantage:

> Denied services accounted for 1.40% (95% CI 1.39–1.41) of total services (paid and denied services), and denied spending accounted for 0.68% (95% CI 0.67–0.70) of total spending (paid and denied spending).

However, it sounds like MA plans will deny things that the ordinary Medicare rules by themselves wouldn’t deny.

> On average, Medicare coverage rules accounted for 85% of denied services and 64% of denied spending, with Aetna Medicare Advantage coverage rules accounting for the remainder.
No it doesn’t.

What it does is what you actually cited:

> prohibits instruction "in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards"

I think it’s telling that you made up a fantasy about “kids with gay parents can’t draw their family!” rather than the actual content — which I cited.

This is what I mean by conflating gay rights with inappropriate conduct with children.
Remember the site "Hot or Not," and how everyone labeled it so shallow? Then Tinder came along and suddenly it was okay to quick reduce somebody to only their appearances. I think that's the real problem with dating apps: it makes it too easy to focus on superficial things, and less on things that truly matter in a relationship.
But that's not really the business model of dating sites, is it? If they find matches that are too good, they take people out of their market. They want people to keep paying them to find new potential dates.
Sure, but there were a lot of ways that could have been solved with HTML standards.
very neat. thank you.
Does anyone on HN have any thoughts about how this situation might unfold in the US? The situation really reminds me a lot of what I have heard about the dating situation in Japan and I am really interested in learning more about how this has played out in other countries.
Nobody wants to use apps. They're not an end goal in themselves. People want sex, companionship, a relationship, etc.
This seems like guys going out on dates expecting casual flings with people looking for actual relationships, so the dates are obviously not going to work.

But also super classy on being “interrogated”, and instead of saying “hey I don’t think this is going to work” making up answers you know she’ll hate so you can offload the responsibility on her. Absolutely pathetic behavior.
Has it occurred to you that e-bikes provide greater benefits than just CO2 reduction?

They also reduce congestion by removing car journeys, they reduce amount of road infrastructure that needs to be built, they reduce the cost of maintaining road infrastructure (e-bike cause effectively zero damage to roads), they reduce healthcare costs by improving rider fitness.

In short, for a government getting people on e-bikes can result in huge savings for relatively small investments. I believe for most developed nations you would expect every $1 spent on improving active travel to produce at least $2 of savings over a ten year period.
I like this joke about Sun's management

One of the jokes I make, which is 100% correct, is we had several managers during this time and the higher up managers left, one of them left to run, essentially Nokia, and another one left to run Research in Motion.

And these are managers that made really terrible strategic decisions at Sun, sort of betting the company in terms of the UI strategy in the desktop and in mobile.

And the joke is that we sort of imploded and took with us other companies during that implosion with our bad management decisions.
Your cars must have been pretty old if they're slower than walking!
The amount of public real-estate we dedicate exclusively to enabling peoples usage of their private property in the united states (and to lesser extents all other countries really) is absolutely absurd.

I have considered just walking slowly in random lanes of traffic while in downtown areas recently. On what grounds do you need thousands of acres of space? Speed limits should often be 4-5mph and space usage should be shared.
Rarely do you pay based on actual cost, everything has price discrimination, loss leaders etc.

Look at BMW's heated seat subscription, those who want them are subsidising the cost of fitting the unused parts for those who don't. But if that cost is low enough relative to their income, they don't care.

It would cost Tinder next to nothing to give everyone unlimited super-likes, but they make a lot more money charging for them than they would charging everyone a flat fee (network effect++ / ladies' night for the 21st century).

I'm not sure I like where all this will end up but - GitLab are hardly the worst offenders.
I could only imagine what this saleswoman was like to convince a company to spend tens of thousands a year just for a visit every few months.
> But would you be at that particular restaurant at that moment if that's how they do business?

I am not sure I understand what you as asking. I would voluntarily go to a restaurant that offers service like this because I do go to restaurants like this rather frequently. These are not fast food restaurants either, but local businesses in my city. Greek restaurants, Mexican restaurants, Southern BBQ restaurants, etc.. I honestly prefer it.

I still tip at those restaurants because I do not mind supporting local businesses I enjoy. The difference is I do it out of choice and not out of socially pressured obligation. Most of the places I frequent share tips amongst all their staff as well.

> So why do waitresses still exist at all?*

Antiquity would be my best guess. Clearly, we do not need them from a technological standpoint if I can just tap a tablet touchscreen and have my order.

> I think it's because there's still consumer demand for that sort of dining experience. And if that's what you want, shouldn't you be willing to pay for it?

I go to restaurants for the food. I do not choose to go because of the experience of being waited on. I've never seen a high class restaurant without waiting staff, so I do agree with your point that there is some "experience" aspect, at least for some. But I think it's more for an image than practicality.

> Maybe you pay for it with tips or maybe through higher prices on the menu

Maybe you pay for it with tips AND maybe through higher prices on the menu.

People need to earn a living, and I get that. It's just odd that the US and Canada are one of the only countries with this culture.

I've yet to see a comment any time this topic is discussed where someone from Europe, Asia, or Africa chimes in saying something like, "I wish we had tipping culture in our country." It's always quite the opposite.
News Radio - Negotiation https://youtu.be/y-yGUSRdNG4
Probably 3
Neither of those has ever been a real way to meet long term partners.

Historically (and by that I mean before dating apps), people mostly found significant others at work, at church, through family introductions, friend-of-friend connections, or even professional matchmakers. Encounters at bars were always meant for random hookups. And everything else (like spilling your drink on someone in the elevator and eventually getting married to them) is a hollywood storyline, not something that actually happened to a large number of people.
>There is a dark edge to this whinging which ends up in the "the government should enforce wifes for men" area whic his really messed up.

Arranged marriage is a cultural approximate and almost all of my co-workers' marriages were born of this method; they don't seem unhappy and miserable.

I'm not saying "Western culture should bring back arranged marriage", which, when it did exist, was largely an aristocratic thing, however I am wondering whether successful marriage is as conditioned on a checklist of expectations (which is undefined here, so who knows what that means) as it seems, and I am wondering whether its really the case the vast majority of males are toxic man-children; I don't think anyone's done the work to actually prove that.

Certainly not this article being cited which is simply relaying a state of affairs then presuming the causes where the study it cites strictly suggests there's something wrong with individualistic societies in toto
I don't think the issues in modern relationships are isolated to only one sex, it's both that have some soul searching to do if they wish to "have the kind of relationship their parents had."
Then you should get informed about what the law actually does — rather than incorrect hypotheticals. Let’s save outrage for what actually happens, not our fantasies.

And yes — Disney publicly condemned a law protecting children from inappropriate conduct; ie, Disney publicly came out in favor of sexual discussions with children.

That’s what led to consequences.

- - - - -

Your first example is about a teacher who was fired before this for reasons related to not following the curriculum.

But it correctly describes this law:

> Officially titled the Parental Rights in Education bill, the legislation bans teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity “in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”

What about that do you specifically object to?
“Schwa is never stressed” is FALSE
It's hilarious to me that anyone would overlook 25 years of registration fees, considering that Californians literally overthrew their government because of registration fees. Maybe in their jurisdiction it's not that costly.
Evil genius
Do you drive without insurance or tags? Those are some major costs.
Letters like K for kingdom are generally avoided in codes, since this way a change of constitution to the Republic of Great Britain and Northern Ireland doesn't require a new code.
Lucrative professions have their own ways of hijacking the need for cognition. For example, programming can be an extremely rewarding activity when pursued for its own sake, but in the corporate world it is often reduced to tedium and drudgery.

Financial reward isn't the only way to make someone's life objectively better. A sense of autonomy, freedom to explore and create, and high satisfaction with one's output are just as important, if not more so. Sometimes pursuing a lucrative career is at odds with these other goals.
Consider that age discrimination is prevalent in the workplace. It's often a lot easier to find jobs line that when you're young and wet behind the ears because many employers see young people as easily exploitable and malleable, think you'll work longer and harder than older people, and because they have various biases and preconceptions about older folk.
> Ageism is too much of a thing in tech.

> These young frontend js developers can't even...

I hope you can see the irony in your post.
Western Canada has something similar to that too. Southern Saskatchewan (where most people live) is divided into a 1-mile grid. One of the things that still amazes me is that this mapping was started in 1871 using chains, compasses, and a couple other instruments... and as it turns out it was exceptionally accurate!
Surely two thirds, and rising, of young men being socially disenfranchised is a societal problem that should be addressed above the individual level, no? In the 2000's there was a lot of public outreach about men's unrealistic standards for women, but we never had the same discussion about women's unrealistic standards for men.
If you downgraded to an Android device without first telling iMessage that your phone number was no longer on the iMessage network, then it would fail. This is unrelated to SMS fallback on an iPhone sending iMessages.
It's kind of incredible, looking back, how fear after fear just compounded themselves after 2001, until we ended up being afraid of everything.
Polymath was always an idea that appealed, mainly due to Leonardo da Vinci (check out his drawings of turbulent water).

I think the problem is career paths, as though a working life must optimise for linearity to achieve success, when instead those individuals who explore breadth and depth and fun are both most productive and creative.

Anyone who can see a problem and potential solution through more than one prism of learning is nearly always better able to communicate their insight and share their joy of thought. They tend to be more patient of failure, happier to be corrected, and fresher when returning to the problem again.

Also, more money demonstrating multi-disciplinary competence when moving jobs is definitely a thing. Good managers are rare