skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Australia it can cost $0, including home visits after hours. The actual cost is between 2% and 3.5% of your taxable income. A person on the average Australian salary of A$90,000/year would pay $A1800/year. For that you get doctors and hospitals (part of a national scheme called Medicare).

An interesting comparison between countries is here:

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international-health-policy...
When interest rates are low, a rational corporation will want to be funded in large part by debt.
I knew someone at Department of Agriculture who tried to organize meatless Mondays for the employee cafeteria. Needless to say special interests had beef with that and shut them down.
It is not as easy as that because supply is heavily constrained. You need a lot more people able and willing to become doctors, nurses, people who change bedpans and clean hospital rooms, so on and so forth. Add in aging populations with fewer proportionate working age people, and the equation does not balance.

That is not something any policy change can fix until far in the future. In the short term, all that is possible is deciding who gets allocated the available healthcare.
It sounds like you're looking for a structured approach to creating new ideas.

There's no need to do that. Turning innovation into a process is exactly what happens at big, stodgy companies. They all are marching to the same drumbeat, innovating in exactly the same ways. It's all bland and boring - the really unique interesting ideas are an exception to the norm.

All those papers in the Stanford CS syllabus, guess who else has read them? Every other CS student that has ever went to Stanford. There are thousands of people who have had the exact same ideas you will have when you read those papers.

Just let your interests drive you. Let yourself fall down Wikipedia and reading holes. Traverse ancient web 1.0 sites with terrible design and a lack of meaning. Find a totally out of date computer science book and read it cover to cover. It's weird how the most dull, ancient history ends up being a wealth of ideas - just because no one has thought to look there yet.
I'll bite, what's the use case for thunderbird these days now that every email service has its own web and mobile apps?
> Is there anything that physically exists that is non-mathematical?

That's basically asking if there's true randomness.
It's a tool. So it's as real as any other tool we have. It helps us bring about our thoughts in to the real world. We can't touch it, in the same way we can't touch language, but it's useful and that makes it real.
There are plenty of ways to use this stuff in everyday life.

I took logic in college, and although the "logic as english statements" stuff was sort of confusing, the symbolic stuff like A&B = !A|!B stuff has helped with computers all my life.

It was only much later in life that I ran back into logic as english statements in a way that made sense as practical.

I read a book where they took apart the statement:

If you loved me, you would take me to the movies.

Most people in relationships will respond to this with:

Well, I just took you to the movies last week! Why do you want to go again tonight, we had other plans! etc...

But the book explained that with "If X, then Y" it was futile to address Y. You must address X:

Wait, do you think I don't love you? Of COURSE I love you!

...just hard to unpack this in the middle of an emotional situation unless you've studied the logic

:)
While I myself still wouldn't ever use DJI because of this reason, no can ever provide any concrete claim. Quite hilarious.
When you say that these businesses are being looted, what you mean is that their owners are being cashed out at an agreed-upon price.
Completely agree. I am fairly conservative in my thinking, and this is a strategy I could get behind.
When does the “for now” stop? When is a brand actually a mark of a certain quality and when is it a facade for a swapped tooling line backed by a dozen products? We might have had reliable brands once, but no longer — now all products have to be evaluated individually.
I've told this story here before. My girlfriend at the time, now wife and I both had pneumonia. Identical symptoms.

We saw the same doctor the same day, back to back. Got prescribed the same antibiotics.

I had "good" health insurance, she had none. My bill AFTER insurance was higher than her bill without insurance.

I'm really not sure the moral but it was frustrating as heck.
Nurse practitioners have been allowed by states to handle more and more services. Telehealth primary care has enabled more scaling - I know because I use such a service for my whole family. I’m much, much more confident in the US to handle an influx of immigrants and aging retirees than Canada or the UK with their rigid services.
For github:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/startups

Like other ppl mentioned most credits are given to funded startups.

If you go through YC startup school curriculum, at the end you get a bunch of perks.
https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching
My point is what the fuck is your point in even responding to me? Nice username. Go gag the goog, bud. Enjoy your 3 days a week in the office, lol.
It's also often cheaper to pay cash for meds vs insurance+copay.
using text to speech on a train is going to make me a lot of friends...
I've been reflecting on how the last few years have been going for me, regarding my tendency to have no structure, no consistency, plenty of burnout, and no job lasting longer than a year and a half, and have consequently been reversing course on what you describe, especially now that I have medication. Long, long before I had an ADHD diagnosis, I struggled with the same pattern of working intensely for whatever amount of time it took to get any arbitrary thing done, and with the impulse to get up and do something else, watch a video, or check the news. Naturally I came across similar suggestions, just embrace the impulses a bit. But there are too many traps and too many addictions that we all just take for granted, and don't take seriously enough.

So, I've been going in the opposite direction, and prioritizing the things that I feel are important, including finite but not periodic windows of arbitrary entertainment, and a cutoff to my work day; I'm essentially experimenting with aspects of deep work and systems thinking. The phone stays out of sight or completely off unless I'm expecting a call, or it's scheduled downtime, and the rest of most days are spent deliberately on things I get the most value out of.

For things like laundry and basic chores, I just don't consider those distracting, and have been batching them at the beginning or between periods of focus during the day. They're not distracting because they don't necessarily take me out of any state of immersion. I'm still thinking about the code or decision or whatever, whereas an email or text message or internet argument fully put my brain resources somewhere else.

Any videos I need are mostly downloaded for offline viewing beforehand, articles saved to pocket, but realistically I never read them anymore, and most break time during focus periods is an actual book or silence, not for the purpose of productivity, but because I want to read books and the way I've been living hasn't enabled me to have the space to focus on them. One chapter at a time. Any random ideas or searches I try to just note for later. Sometimes I revisit them, sometimes not, it usually doesn't matter.

It's also not worthwhile in my opinion to measure short term progress, so in terms of how these systems work for me, I'll see where I am in a few months or years, assuming the specifics will change gradually.
Think about what it takes to put a military aircraft in the air.

You need:
A fuel Truck
A munitions truck
People

And that's really it. That means you can put an airstrip anywhere that's long enough and relatively smooth. If you have alot of highways, you're good to go, and, in most places, you can land, then park the jet off the highway with a tug (read: ATV with a hitch adapter) and it's trivial to keep it out of sight because even with the best tech available, it's just not possible to have eyes everywhere, all the time.
I am reminded of commentary I have seen about how if we taught baseball like we teach science, no one would play. They would study it in books for years without being allowed to play at all. No one would be excited about it.

When I homeschooling my sons, we went to zoos and museums and did a lot of hands-on stuff.

There was also a lot of reading, but not in place of hands-on learning.
Absolutely love the mock functionality on this app. Has so many more features when compared to Postman.
Went from a Pixel 5a to a Pixel 7 (it's pre-8 bargain season!).

After a week, I do like the Pixel 7. Great camera, snappy interface, solid build.

The battery life so far is disappointing though.
You can rent an apartment in Tokyo on a min wage salary.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/opinion/editorials/tokyo-...

https://resources.realestate.co.jp/rent/tokyo-budget-apartme...

Whats their secret? Sane zoning laws created at the federal level that separate industrial use from residential, but don't segregate humans based on race or class.
> hen my real GP saw it, she said "according to this you're taking a drug only given to pregnant women".

A drug only being given to pregnant women can mean (1) a drug that works but may have been superceded by a new drug that's not tested in pregnant women, but otherwise works for everyone just as well or (2) a drug specifically meant to treat a condition in pregnancy, which I believe is what you're attempting to insinuate without cause.
Interesting take on the 'batch vs. loop' classification.
It's so rare for a company to actually do the research to see if their greenwashing campaign is actually doing anything for the environment. This is great to see
Messages are by definition not end-to-end encrypted if anyone other than the participants can surmise anything about the content of the messages.

So the question does not even make sense as asked.

But I guess we all know the whole point is not about making sense, it's about justifying an agenda.
In case this isn't a joke centered on expectations that this will crater, there are many Intel chipsets with "-Lake" codenames:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_codenames
The point GP is making is that DJI does not indiscriminately upload every video. The moment it has the chance to associate a VIP to a drone, only then the tracking could start. It’s not like you can detect that during random tests on a new unit.
Yes, one of the ways that the limited resource of doctor time will be allocated is to simply have increasing portions of the population see people less qualified than doctors (perhaps not bad from a systems point of view if it is diagnosing conjunctivitis, but from an individual point of view, you can see where this is going.). You pay more, you get people who have met a higher standard of education/experience, e.g. concierge care and direct primary care practices.
Only if they're careless. Also, there are many options for internship and residency that qualify for PSLF, so in the end the total amount may not matter (to them), because it ends up forgiven after 8 +2 years in a non profit or govt hospital.
It’s the same answer to the question: Is it true most college graduates are $100k in the hole? It highly depends on the context of the individual, but OP is right: 4-year college then 4 years medical school, and then after that years of fellowship.

The shocking part isn’t how much they pay, it’s also the opportunity cost of how long they make little to no money. When determining hourly wage, most physicians in training (e.g. residents, fellows) make minimum wage.

It’s a decade of training or more where income is severely deferred. There isn’t even a guarantee of an astronomical salary because some specialties do not pay well.
Not sure what I’m missing but your link does not appear to support your claim?

“For example is a common phrase used to indicate an example or illustration to support a statement. In writing, it is often abbreviated as e.g. and used to introduce an example or series of examples.” (emphasis added)
I think the tie between Mathematics and the real world is more of a fortunate coincidence than a necessary tie or even causality. Human will still study math (as we know it now) if it real world doesn't exist or it somehow becomes not describable by math, because there's the innate desire for logic and solving puzzles.
I remember having an iPhone 5 and the quality of games were pretty good, albeit pricey. I did pay for a bunch of games at the time because I thought that was fair. Coming back to iOS a decade later and the quality of games is unrecognizable from the era I started in. Even Apple Arcade has a lot of stuff that feels like f2p/p2w stuff that is basically mobile casinos.

I tried to give a bunch of modern games a shot and they're essentially slot machines that gate game progress with pulls. I'm glad console and PC gaming hasn't been completely taken over by this, but it is very close.
Well, Finland has been landing and taking off F-18s on these road bases for almost 30 years now.
Oh yeah, the market’s dead. And what were the popular works before it died? Doorstop literary novels? Ovid in the original Latin? Nah, thin, trashy sci fi books and detective novels. Itty bitty black-hat-white-hat westerns. Plus romance, as ever.

Home video media took most of that market, by being a superior replacement for most of what people were buying and reading, for the purposes they were buying and reading it. Smartphones put the last nail in the coffin. Romance remains, and the rest of popular fiction can’t afford to limit its market if the publisher hopes to make money. You need to appeal to a lot of the remaining market, to make money, these days. These shifts in what gets published haven’t happened for no reason, they’re market-driven.

[edit] and, to head it off—I’ve evidently not done a good enough job of naming all the things I’m not claiming, in this thread, simply not-claiming them apparently being insufficient—no, I’m not especially worried about some crisis of literacy or moral or intellectual decline because of this. My whole point is that reading as an activity isn’t necessarily special or worthy of reverence. Replacing Zane Grey with Bonanza reruns is simply not an indicator of… anything important, really. Hell, even if film and TV are drawing, say, Woolf readers away from their books—what of it? It’s not as if there aren’t some sublime-as-hell, amazing films out there waiting for literature nerds to deep-read the shit out of them. That’s fine too! Reading. Is. Not. Special. Not inherently. And it doesn’t need to be. It can just be reading.
I just opened a tax return document in pdf format and it looked fine but printed garbled text. That’s not what this is, right? The file wasn’t encrypted either.
1000%.

Go to basically any downtown in any city that isn't one of the big ones. All of the buildings, street art, and street grid are frozen in the 70s, 80s, or 90s.

All of the "action" (if you can call it that) is either in a suburban town square (that's mostly an outdoor mall) or spread out throughout neighborhoods in the suburbs. And you can bet your ass you'll need a car to get to them.

Between COVID having decimated downtown small business and the push into the metaverse, things do not look good for town squares in general. I would love to see the resurgence of walkable suburbs that are small and self-supporting, but it seems like the general "we" wants bigger houses, more chains and more isolation.
Cool stuff.

I suspect military communications uses wattage MUCH stronger than what's allowed by regulation in the battle space, correct?
Especially if I just wanted a Viagra perscription, or a Lexapro perscription. Why mess up your insurance?
Yeah, this is the fundamental tension in modern physics: are best theories are not consistent with each other (so we know they’re wrong or partial) and every experiment we do to test them confirms them to within measurement error.

It’s exactly the sort of situation that precedes a paradigm shift and it’s very hard to predict exactly what will trigger one.
Sorry, but have you viewed the linked images accompanying the argument?
Are you thinking of cutting out peoples' brains and then regrowing new ones?
Would those procedures cost "six and seven figures" if it wasn't for health insurance? To put another way, would the costs be so high if it wasn't for the current health insurance system, where the "consumers" are actually the health insurance companies themselves and patients like you and I have basically no power to choose, well, anything.
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I think I gave it 3 seconds.
Pi is no more of a human construct than any of the integers. Pi is inherent in Nature as are the integers, but more mysterious. If you accept the existence of
the integers then infinity exists and therefore pi exists too; it does not need to be constructed.
Vegas really is very well regulated. There are some extremely ugly sides to gambling, but if you're going to have it, vegas is a pretty good starting point for how to try and keep things under control.

There's no casino in town that will "look the other way" for a few 20 year olds who want to gamble, because doing it once could lose that operation it's gaming license.

There's no casino that's going to on purpose risk going above the 25% max hold, because again, you could lose the ENTIRE OPERATION.

The rules are rock solid (sorta....simplifying) and heavily enforced, and while at the end of the day all the machines give worse odds than the ATM, there's caps on what you can and can't do.

Somewhat ironically, I'm not sure if it's changed, but if a slot machine shows you a "pick 1 of 3" choice, it's never a real choice. The decision was made before you picked. Every "pull" of the lever determines your payout basically instantly, ALL the shenanigans after that (including free auto play games i believe) are just placebo/different ways of doing a jackpot.
The $220k also does not account for the opportunity cost of income for a person smart enough to become a doctor in the first place. Had that person gone into software development or finance, they might have easily earned $400k+ over 4 years, and with a better quality of life to boot. And that does not account for the slavery during residency.

I would estimate a doctor has to earn at least $1M if not $2M extra during their working years to offset giving up their alternative life in the prime of their life.
Health insurance is a coupon code you subscribe and pay for every month.
Yes the reality is harsh. But much better than waiting 12 months to get in cancer care and then dying while you wait.
I think the Lion King movie was made in Unity
There's absolutely no reason for a casino to cheat - they don't need to, they already have the house edge.
His game was clearly inspired by an extremely good Japanese indie game (Cave Story), which makes his quote about all Japanese games being bad a strange thing to say. Funny enough the Wikipedia page for Fez hasn't noticed the inspiration either.
> The solution is to have universal catastrophic insurance for all citizens automatically

> It is not as easy as that because supply is heavily constrained

I don't think this argument works when the data shows 90%+ of the population has health insurance.
Delivered through a rootkit mechanism. DRM solutions are always invasive by necessity, but this was on a whole other level.
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Vouched as it seems like a legit problem.

I've not been in quite in your situation, but have had points in my life, where either failure / accident and illness, forced a hard look at what I was really capable of and a change to the direction I was heading. (I though am a bit boneheaded and in hindsight I should have sincerely given serious thought to where I was headed in my younger years - opportunities in life don't generally wait, I still kick my 25 old self when I considered myself too old to spend four years getting qualifications in a completely different fields.)

You say you may set yourself a year to find your way, if you do though, don't be surprised if it's more. You've know you have certain talents and I would guess you'd actually be happy to work in a position where the job matches your particular skill set. Dreams and aspirations are nice, and many people feel like they have failed if they don't achieve some defining level ... beating that feeling of failure can take years, but working in an area where you can feel at ease and content, so long as the job pays well, is really an accomplishment.
Amid Evil is awesome but I enjoyed DUSK (also published by New Blood) a bit more!
Choosing what? Insurers are already required to accept anyone as their insured.

The only thing that involving employers in the health insurance business via the tax code is it gives them more control over their employees, since it makes people more hesitant to change employers.
What concrete claim are you looking for? Is it not enough that Huawei was banned by the US? Do you know the reason why it was banned? The same reason could broadly apply to every Chinese company. TikTok is the software counterpart that isn’t allowed on any government phone.

DJI does not produce infrastructure pieces so it hasn’t reached the same urgency to the US, so it’s still allowed.
Using an HSA can be a pain in the ass. On multiple occasions I’ve had to go back and forth with the provider and HSA to get an acceptable receipt. I ended up just giving up in one case because it was a small amount and not worth fighting phone reps and automated systems.
Happening this month here in Hong Kong: https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/20840...
Based on the Amazon reviews, this doesn’t look like a very good book.

“A Lot of Non-math Digressions”

“Way too wordy and discursive. Boring format.”

“It's hard to imagine that someone would write a book ostensibly about math that has so much personal, political, social, and just plain silly off-subject commentary.
This book is so interspersed with that kind of commentary that it is difficult to focus on the math.”

“The book has some helpful insights regarding teaching elementary students basic mathematical operations. However, it is filled with so many abrupt political digressions, often incoherent, and ironically, occasionally illogical, that the entire work is barely readable.”
You also broke the site guidelines repeatedly and egregiously in this thread. As you can see, we ban accounts that do that. I'm not going to ban you because it doesn't look like you've been making a habit of it, but I did notice your account breaking the site guidelines recently in other threads, and that's bad:

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Please stop doing this.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, we'd appreciate it. Commenters here need to stick to the rules regardless of how badly other commenters are behaving or it feels like they are.
Costco virtual healthcare is not going to cover your cancer treatment, angioplasty or terminal care. We have to all pay a lot of insurance because a small minority of people (along with the very old) consume a vast majority of our health care spend.