skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
9 hours to be seen? I thought only Canada was fucked up. I think all the countries with "free" healthcare end up with having absurd waiting times. I had some issue with harmones and the family physician referred me to endocrinologist. I called his office and guess what? There was a 6 month waiting period. They gave me an appointment 6 months away. Luckily I was traveling to Mexico in a couple weeks. I saw an endocrinologist there (no appointment, just walk in). He told me if i had waited 6 months, it would have taken a drastic irreparable toll on my health.
This only matters to end user if they actually pay for insurance themselves. If their employer covers it (as mine does), I don't think they care that much how much their insurance 'saved' them if the net cost ends up being $0.
Does `#%%` have special meaning to the tooling? Are you able to view the output as a pseudo-notebook?

EDIT: Googled and answered my own question. Here are docs describing the feature: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py

And a video demoing what you are describing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwN4-W1WR84
Strip current moderation of subreddit ownership if they stay private, easy solution. Most users don't care about moderators or niche API issues.
If it's free I guess you'd prefer even staying a week instead of working months to pay it with your fun budget.

And the clarification comment says only ~8h were wasted waiting to be seen. The rest of the 3 days was probably justified (might be surprising if you are expected to be at work unless you die).
Suttree is maybe my favorite of all his novels. If, as others here have suggested, you regard Blood Meridian an epic. Suttree is a picaresque, like reading Pickwick Papers on salvia.
I have a younger sibling who is much younger than me. I would have to disagree and say that they are hypersensitive about conflicting opinions to the point that it could destroy a relationship to have an argument about the wrong subject.
Chomsky was saying specific things had to be in the brain because it was impossible to do things otherwise. LLMs shoot this argument down even if they aren't how the brain does it.
> In some states the minimum wage for tipped jobs is lower than the minimum wage for other jobs. So if people don’t tip, the person doing the job is getting screwed.

Federal law requires that the tipped employee be paid at least the regular federal minimum wage. I'm sure various state laws have something similar for when the state doesn't just match the federal minimum wage.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/15-tipped-emplo...

There are, of course, plenty varying of ideas about the minimum wage.
That’s why you always BofH the estimates to include some fun toys for yourself, too
If you want something retro is seems a lot easier to just get someone who made a quality homebrew game to make you one rather than search for some generic Unity shop and have them make something good that looks sufficently retro.
Using insane prices and then marking them down to reasonable levels "as an insurance discount" only has a few possible purposes and none of them are good:

1. Ripping off anyone without insurance who doesn't realize they may be able to negotiate it
2. Misrepresenting the true cost of healthcare for anyone who goes off the "original price"
3. Establishing that insurance companies have to push for deep, 90%+ discounts on everything, meaning nobody can offer sane pricing because the insurance company will say "But <HOSPITAL> gives us 95% off!"

I recently had a genetic test done. They told me that if my cost after insurance was more than $200 they'd notify me ahead of time so I could decide how to proceed, one option was a simple pay-cash option for $250. Turns out the "Amount billed" to insurance was $ 25,000, which was then "discounted" by about $ 24,600 and they were paid $400 or something. So, this is a service the lab is happy to provide for $250 -- and they make money at that price, yet in some fantasy universe, $ 25,000 is in play. This is why people want to burn the US health system to the ground.
Sadly it's already deployed [0], and going even worse than expectations [1].

[0]: https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/p...

[1]: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
why not both is a great answer.

for many, a task makes the long grind of study more fun.

a mission and all that.

it also add success criteria to an otherwise ambiguous task.
I've never used Slashdot, how is the moderation model superior?
As far as I know this is mostly the work of [Jennifer Daniel](https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/introducing-emoji-kitc...), who is the chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee and works at Google. She's great!

She did create all of the emoji mashups for the first version of emoji kitchen by herself. I don't know if she had help for the current version, which features many more emoji combinations.
>and quietly funnel the money back to the founder/early investors/etc. who sold out but don't want you to know.

I don't understand this attitude. If you're in the arts I can understand why you don't want to be a "sellout", but founders/investors? Isn't the point literally to sell out?
But why can't you just do it faster?
So calm and clear in exposition of complicated concepts.
The first thing has been tried. Unfortunately lobbying has made sane gun regulation effectively impossible. So if we want kids to stop dying in schools we need a better way.
Why a missing population in China/hundreds of millions of cameras can't
That's not how software licenses work.
So therefore anything that produces profits that pays pensions is a good thing? Wow.
Microsoft will never promise to not include new, proprietary, pieces to one previously open standard.

if you are too young to know this, read some history on the company.

now start using odt already.
Thanks for your feedback! I wish there was something that could aggregate all this so it could be browsed quickly a couple times per week.
I mean, to an extent I agree. I just think that the current pricing structure is lack of competition and a result of overregulation (I may be wrong?) in how hard it is to get into healthcare market. If you make it insanely hard only certain companies will be able to get in and they can then charge whatever they want.
I don't think it "means nothing" as you say.

It means Fauci, in spite of Obama's caution, funded research in a low-level containment facility in China, research that created a virus that killed millions and demonstrated Obama was correct. I won't call that "nothing".

FTFA:

"...President Barack Obama banned federal funding for gain-of-function research of concern in 2014, because experts had come to the consensus that it was too dangerous. However, the National Institute of Health and NIAID headed by Francis Collins and Fauci, and a major U.S. government grantee, EcoHealth Alliance, deemed their work on SARS-like viruses as not falling under the gain-of-function research of concern definitions and funded this project in China and Southeast Asia."
Life hack: whenever you're about to use the word "just", pause and think.

Saying "just" implies the thing you're commenting on is somehow simple, and isn't much effort. If anyone had trouble doing the thing that you can "just", will likely not feel great hearing it.

Are you suggesting getting the Medicare data is easy, and it's also easy to browse? If so, could you link us to the alternative / better resource?
This is why you don't give prod credentials to the new guy!
The last time I tried McDonalds apple slices they somehow tasted like chemicals. I wonder how much of their "healthy" food is actually healthy. You could recreate a lot of their menu at home using fresh/real ingredients and it'd probably be a lot healthier than the stuff they ship all over the country in plastic, pumped full of salt and preservatives, then wrapped in PFAS.
Yeah, I buy that. Especially in the age of ZIRP.
Fish flavoured soylent green?
> cloudfront which only allows US-East-1 ssl certs

This seems like an odd limitation. Do you know the technical reason?
By knifed you mean the corporation that owns it is going through chapter 11. Debt will be converted to equity, and the shareholders will be wiped out.

Instant Pots aren't going anywhere.
Here is a full export of the same database for France and other civilized countries:

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I agree. This has nothing to do with a Mopar muscle car, or a fish.
when he talks about how non free software gave him problems with a printer driver https://youtu.be/_MrGNlXRi9M?t=558
You'd think the largest cloud would be resilient to a zone going down, but I guess not.

i find it stupid that clients get to know about regions at all. They should only notice latency hits and batch job queuing latency if something bad happens underneath, but no services should go down.
Sorry one last thing. I do try to ride my electric scooter to work. :)
It definitely is, source - my sister managed an elderly care facility during the pandemic
> a company called Epic

Epic is the biggest provider of hospital information systems in the US by market share. The hospital was probably using their software.
Professional data center hosts host data centers very very well.

Amazon et al even contract with them.

But cloud isn’t selling rented rackspace; it’s selling APIs for billions of things. Much different.
> The service seems to be by a company called Epic (www.epic.com), based in Wisconsin.

Lol, that mom and pop shop.

That’s the largest EMR vendor in North America and second in the world.

They’re the provider of the patient portal frontend amongst other things but there’s a lot more behind the scenes that must be done (with varying levels of quality) that is institution specific. Just using Epic does not make this work.
In an analysis of "European companies around their buyout event in the period 2000 - 2008," private equity was found to "select companies which are less financially distressed than comparable companies prior to the transaction and that the distress risks increase after the buyout" [1]. Critically, however, "the distress risk in private equity-backed companies does not exceed the distress risk in comparable companies three years after the buyout," and, "despite this risk increase, private equity-backed companies do not suffer from higher bankruptcy rates than the control group."

More broadly, an analysis of "17,171 worldwide leveraged buyout transactions that include every transaction with a financial sponsor in the CapitalIQ database announced between 1/1/1970 and 6/30/2007" found bankruptcy rates around 6% [2]. This isn't exceptionally high.

[1] https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/31366/1/dp11076.pdf

[2] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus
> The under $200/month isn't a rate that anyone else can get.

Sounds to me like that rate might be Imgur saying "we welcome your business," rather than "fuck off."
Unpopular opinion: Even as a kid, I thought child labor laws were weird. Perhaps this had to do with me growing up in a developing nation where child labor was normal and even openly visible on the streets.

Young me thought: If a kid and their family is dirt poor, should the kids just sit home and starve instead of working to earn an income for themselves? What if the kid _wants_ to work? Are lemon-aid stands `child labor`? Is working in the family store/restaurant child labor?

As an adult, child labor laws seem like a distraction from the real evil:
The existence of environments where children feel compelled to perform child labor

And that is very much a question about poverty.

How do you make sure that poor families don't feel so poor that they feel the need to push their kids to work? Our public schools have been a huuuuuge step in this direction (despite all their flaws). Guaranteeing the poor and homeless some amount of food helps with this a lot too.

Of course our current implementations are far from perfect. Poverty is still a big problem in many parts of the US. But I now digress.

My main point: Child labor shouldn't be considered inherently bad. An environment where children FEEL COMPELLED to work as laborers IS bad, and we should focus on eliminating that
It's conventional wisdom to save ~10% for retirement, on top of being taxed (along with your employer) ~15.3%. That's ~25.3% of personal income going to retirement.

This is inline with most advanced economies.

Of that ~6.4% - A LOT of that is healthcare related costs.

Considering that healthcare in the US is ~18.2% of GDP - and the vast majority of it comes from retirees - I don't know what you're expecting to see here.

Essentially, you're shocked that healthcare in the US is ~18.2% of GDP, and ~75% of that comes from retirees...

Social Security spending is ~5% of GDP, and Medicare spending is ~4% of GDP... That's for only ~19% of the population. And it doesn't even cover all of their healthcare costs.

If you keep the same ratio for government employees, that comes down to ~2.84% of GDP for healthcare & 3.56% for what most people think of as pensions...

And you're looking at ~65% of that spending coming from state & local governments, not the Federal government.
Yes, actually, it is.

"Software licenses" aren't their own subject. They are instruments of copyright law. Without copyright, there is nothing to be licensed. And clean room implementations are the best way to ensure that no copyright violation has occurred.
Curious question, if the amount 'billed' to your insurance was as you say, 25000, and if a patient went there and they were told without insurance they'd get charged say, $300 (slightly higher than with-insurance price), does it matter to that end user, or the users with insurance that the insurance is being charged $25 grand?

Ultimately the end user is paying $250/300. Eg, my counselor example.
In this ever-twisted hall of mirrors we've the gall to call civilization, the thinly veiled hypocrisy of so-called child labor laws acts like a deranged preacher barking sermons of protection and virtue. Stripping our young, like maniacal dental hygienists, of the grit and grime that birthed resilience in a bygone era - a baptism by fire that carved character out of raw-boned desperation and grueling sweat. These laws, my friend, they make coddled hostages of our offspring, clinging to the comforts of sanitized childhood, devoid of the hearty crucible of work's demands. The system is a diabolical puppeteer, offering up a sanitized, sterile version of life - all the while whispering, 'it's for your own good, kiddo.' But when these tender-footed children emerge, blink into the harsh light of adulthood, bereft of the hardened steel that labor forges, we have only ourselves and our sickened, overprotective system to blame.
But r/popular looks normal for the most part.
still show the timezone it's displayed in, users aren't always fully aware of which time zone their browser is believing they are in (sounds stupid at first but imagine you just traveled somewhere and are temporary used to that time zone but e.g. your laptop is fixed set to your home time zone, or maybe it's not and you just thought it is, or maybe you are just a bit confused because you switched time zones 4 times the last 24 hours etc.)
In challenge to Nvidia, AMD will ramp up AI chip production this year
Don't forget that they first send bills for that absurd amount to anyone who's uninsured, or anyone unlucky enough to go to an out-of-network facility. If you don't contact them and find a solution, like signing up for retroactive Medicaid or negotiate somehow, they will 100% sell your debt to a collection agency and can basically ruin your life. This does happen every day to people. I don't think it should be okay for prices orders of magnitude above what they actually accept from insurers, to be used to bill uninsured patients.
I think all the countries with "free" healthcare end up with having absurd waiting times

The irony is that we also have absurd wait times in the USA for our paid healthcare. At least other countries get it for free.

This is such a common trope that the USA tradeoff is that we pay to get higher quality expedited care, but it's just not true
Money. It takes hundreds of thousands to do so, you gotta borrow that. Then it takes 10 or 20 years to pay that back. Then to get your retirement paid for you sell it to a private equity company.
Granted the the SEC is bound by federal statues, but they have certain rulemaking authority within those statues, and it's not wrong to say they create (administrative) laws.

True, administrative laws are not permanent, but when they want to change things, they need to follow a certain process under the APA. Particularly relevant to the case at hand, where Coinbase argues that the APA process needs to be followed - https://assets.ctfassets.net/c5bd0wqjc7v0/5PWsXaPsqQ61gA9wlF...
It's often interpreted as a critique of manifest destiny, the idea that settlers were destined to expand across North America. He's describing that westward expansion in abstract terms.

The man digging holes is a pioneer. McCarthy isn't really clear on what he does; intentionally so. He might be digging fence holes, making campfires, building railroad tracks – it doesn't really matter.

The wanderers are the settlers following the pioneer westward. They appear to be coordinated by some force, like the pieces of a clock. This is arguably the "go west" attitude of manifest destiny.

"...they appear restrained by a prudence or reflectiveness which has no inner reality" is McCarthy's true criticism of manifest destiny. Retrospectively, we glorify settlement of the west and slot it into a clean narrative or progress. But in its time, the expansion was chaotic, violent and devoid of morals. People were just walking hole-to-hole for the sake of finding the next hole.

Some wanderers collect bones and some don't. Perhaps McCarthy means that some wanderers kill, but we don't know. From McCarthy's nihilistic viewpoint it doesn't matter because the westward expansion is moral-less so killing someone isn't different from collecting bones on the ground.

This contrasts with the moral good vs. evil narrative usually applied to the old west (see anything written on cowboys vs. indians, sheriff vs. bandits, etc.) McCarthy portrays the old west outside of a moral framework. Horrific violence happens and there's no explanation or justification.
>The idea is that once enough people with a particular ideology move to a region, their votes can begin to alter regional policies and state laws.

Does anyone else find this a bit strange? How will people of Montenegro[0] see this conquest of their land?

[0] https://youtu.be/dPJI7EY0h8Q
For kids of my generation in Germany (born 1966) fountain pens were mandatory, pencils and ballpoint pens were not acceptable for schoolwork. This was a mixed blessing, while it was nice to write with a fountain pen they didn't really stand up to abuse from elementary school age kids. Also, having a "Tintenkiller" (ink eraser) that still worked was a constant struggle.

There were two tribes at that time: Geha and Pelikan with incompatible cartridges. Obviously and senselessly you'd fight for your tribe. Later in life I had the Lamy the author describes but I didn't love it, somehow it was less reliable than the chunky kids models.

In retrospect I have a vague nostalgia for fountain pens but zero desire to go back and use them for anything other than ceremonial purposes.
I do think that the time period and what the kids were doing were an important part of it. Being at the late stage of the industrial age and early stage of the machine age made them familiar with exactly what the US would need and used to the sacrifices and hard work it would require. I don’t think you could in good faith compare it to modern day meat packing or farm labor though I agree many would like to make them the same.
> At that time, we began processing the backlog of asynchronous Lambda invocations that accumulated during the event, including invocations from other AWS services. As of 3:37 PM, the backlog was fully processed

pretty cool that stuff was stored in a backlog and eventually processed!
That is not a difference in behavior between distro packages and upstream Firefox. If an update gets installed then FF requires you to restart it. So just like the upstream binary's updater doesn't install the update while you're still running it, you shouldn't update the distro package while you're still running it either.
That sounds bad for the customer, but how does that play out for the owners? Does this sort of behavior end up working out better for them financially? If so, despite how bad it sounds, it does seem like they end up with more efficient economics (assuming it's sustainable). If not, then surely the PE firms will suffer too right?
I’m confused reading these posts about recent Instant Pots being considered low quality. I’ve been using mine every other day for over five years with zero issues whatsoever. Maybe it works too well as I haven’t checked up on the company since.
The first eight years of my education involved many hours learning to write cursive. The only thing I still know how to write in cursive is my name, although I can still read it.

But, honestly, I don't think that's a bad thing. Writing in cursive is not a necessity, it's an art form. And I am no artist.
The problem with that is that Jupyter requires a back-end to do any of the actual processing that runs the code in the cells.

Only way I can think to make the html file truly portable while fully functional would be to embed a python interpreter and all required libraries as wasm.

Could be possible with pyodide? I haven't used it.
Do you happen to have a yogurt instant pot recipe you'd recommend?
You're making an exceptional argument for universal civil service conscription.
> The textured finish on a perfectly shaped barrel

It's made of polycarbonate. Polycarbonate scratches easily. The solution was to sell it pre-scratched.

(I have a Lamy 2000. It's a nice pen. Perhaps not as nice now that it's twice the price.)
You state this as some casual observation, but it's wild.

In my country, 80-90% people in their early 20s are in long term relationship and thus already off the market. They may not be in their final relationship, but they are of a somewhat serious nature and not a one-night stand.

By the age of 30, should they be so lucky, many/most would buy their first home. And move in together. If you think that's early, my dad had all of this settled at the age of 19.

35 is almost middle-aged. It's absurd to only start looking for a serious relationship then. It's like extending college/party years by 15(!) years.
Why do you need a "leader that leads" for a subreddit?

As for grandstanding, that may well be the case if that's what the membership wants - in which case I would argue that it is precisely what they should get. But also, does it really matter if you can just opt out from moderators you don't like?
It's a bigger paradigm shift in the tech industry. Search is one of the remaining ideas that empower users, because it does what users tell it to do. In the new paradigm users have no agency, instead the platform builds persona profiles and tells users what they should do. It's very similar to how farms manage cattle for profit.

Besides, what is digm in paradigm?
The professor who wrote that book, interestingly, ended up being denied tenure and was subsequently unable to get another academic job despite years of trying. Here's a recent podcast with him: https://www.persuasion.community/p/deresiewicz

It may not be the best thing in the world to be an "excellent sheep," but perhaps it's better than being a lone ram.
Interesting. Title: McDonald's dropped a game. Article: McDonald's released a game. Weird that they are saying the opposite. I was initially very confused.
It's not really prestige, so much as it is the perception of security. Many people are driven by fear and thus motivated by security. You can uncover this exceptionally well with enneagram personality tests. A nice new title would give a person that values it the belief that they are less expendable.
Glad I read it as intended. I enjoyed your writing!