skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other only way a price based system will work is if providers are required to show the bill ahead of time, with full insurance coverage and noncoverage clearly laid out, that is binding to the hospital and the insurance company.

That must be signed off by a conscious capable representative.

Yeah how does that work for emergencies and other situations?

It doesn't! Just like hospitals unable to or refuse to disclose prices.

The system isn't working, it's a steadily sinking ship that the four pigs of medical care: doctors, insurance companies, drug device makers, and trial lawyers feast at while they can.

With political parties in realignment, you'd think that Republicans who are pro working class under trump (allegedly) and Democrats who are pro poor (allegedly) could enact real reform, but I stead the chaos of current politics means corporate even more control

Because corruption is definitely up on both parties since the advent of trumpism.
I was initially going to add some stuff I find a bit... shocking in the 2020s related to what I think are basic database stuff (maybe not specifically 4nf related). Held off, but I'll add one.

A colleague had to argue that an 'address' table should have a synthetic primary key, instead of a natural key. The argument for the initial 'design' held that 'the address itself is unique - there's not 2 '123 west main streets'!". Wasn't my company directly, but the crux of the conversation was shared with me, and ... in 2022, with however many articles, tutorials, books, classes, stackoverflow, etc... having to argue that 'no, someone's entire address should not be the natural key for a table' was ... flummoxing to me.
Here is the fix in action - multiple people look into the “etilqs” files, but without automatically starting from sqlite:

- https://superuser.com/questions/373683/what-is-the-purpose-o...

- https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/8yv2tn/what_ar...

- https://community.wd.com/t/etilqs-files-in-temp-folder-consu...
Keyword is "theoretically". Thanks to certificate transparency, such misissuances would be detected relatively quickly, eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42284202. To my knowledge it hasn't actually happened in practice.
Fun alternative is to get a paid number. You can complain for but it will cost $100 per minute.
Another thing in favor of separate devices, is that for lightweight usecases that benefit from traditional desktop UX (like spreadsheets, as you mentioned) even cheap PCs have been extreme overkill for the better part of two decades at this point — the latest greatest desktop hardware is barely better than a mid-late Core 2 Duo booted off an SSD for productivity.

One could buy a cheap mini-PC and put some flavor of Linux on it and it’d serve office software duty for upwards of 10 years without issue. Even accounting for FOSS aftermarket Android distros, smartphone hardware doesn’t have that kind of longevity.
Making shipping lucrative (which US should) can further increase utilization. Issue with Missippi traffic is existing shipping, i.e. those that operate under Jones, are already crippled by reduced water levels as result of heat/drought/climate change. So it's a water level issue, which translates infra commitment issue... not unlike the green belt. Climate change means you have to invest more just to stand still.

E: Like don't get me wrong, internal waterways is a geographic blessing for US, but it also always required enormous/expensive (army) engineering efforts to keep it viable for modern operations (larger barges etc). It's one of those case where terraforming/technology has outstripped natural capacity, but it's possible to augment geography to facilitate more technology, but right now augmentation efforts are not sufficient, not just to improve through put, but to maintain it, because geography can decline.
Can you explain the tree-cutting rationale ? Wouldn't cutting all the trees have a masse effect that would lead to desertification ? i.e. can you pitch me your project :) ?
Stand alone systems are much advertised on Alibaba eg https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/AC-DC-Solar-Panel-Pow...

Says "100% Off Grid Solar Air Conditioner" I've no idea how good it is.
The irony is that an iPhone is more a Personal Computer than any PC ever was.
> A) You literally cannot have a murder trial without presenting a motive or evidence of reckless negligence/behavior (eg drunk driving).

You literally can, You have to, of course, prove the elements of the offense, but iif the defense wants to introduce evidence whose only legal relevance is proving an element of the crime, the prosecution will be more than happy to stipulate to the legally relevant fact and render the evidence unnecessary. Generally, the defense will not wish to prove the crime, though.

> B) His lawyers will be the best of the best.

That’s an argument agasinst them spending effort proving a key element of the offense.

> C) Jury nullification.

Jury nullification exists, but evidence whose only purpose (given the facts in dispute) is to promote it is, ipso facto, legally irrelevant and will be excluded for that reason.
>A problem with this whole discussion is that "homeless" means people that are sleeping at friends' houses etc, but to the average citizen when they're complaining about quality of life issues caused by the homeless they are referring to the subset of homeless people that are "unsheltered".

This point is addressed in the article:

> The stories and data in this essay show the missing link between homelessness and housing costs: people without money who avoid becoming homeless do so mostly by staying with others, usually their own parents. This happens outside the formal housing market. But parents’ and others’ ability to offer space is limited by what they can afford in the market. Where housing costs are moderate, friends and family have bigger homes. When they are higher, friends and family don’t have space to share, and this is often what puts a vulnerable person onto the streets.
A semi-automatic firearm has a significantly higher rate of fire compared to a single-shot firearm. That's just a fucking fact buddy. Maybe not for every firearm every made, but broadly speaking.
> You can find them in the write up by searching for “Sigstore” (I would direct link them, but I’m on mobile).

Yeah, I know they are in sigstore, I just did not know how to find them. Is there an interface for this I missed?

> Hmm, where do you see this? The release history on PyPI doesn’t show any recreations[1].

Then I completely misunderstood what happened. Was this in fact completely made up releases that were not even intended to be triggered? Eg: a bot released .41 without there being an intent of being an actual .41 release? I thought that UltralyticsAssistant was the developer, not the attacker. Do they also control that thing?
Regardless if it's just one piece of information, defence signals;
If fungi are connected to a web of plants, trees with communication transversing bi-directionally then it would be very valid to call it an highway of information.

But fungi do more than that. They transfer energy and life resources along the network too. Just as a highway carries cargo.

It's just a metaphor.
Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage
A semi-automatic firearm has a significantly higher rate of fire compared to a single-shot firearm.
We know for a fact that for humans consciousness only exists in parts of the brain and can be turned off using drugs, sleep and accidents.

It is almost certainly the same for all animals with a brain.

Given the fact that plants have no brain it is a reasonable assumption they have no consciousness. It may be wrong, but given all evidence it is, so far, the best assumption.

We usually call assumptions based on our best current understanding scientific facts.
It does. And you can also use the phone screen as trackpad while in Dex mode. It's actually a pretty good desktop environment for Android.
There's no conspiracy.

For privacy reasons I refuse to say the country apart than saying it was in Europe.

As for the bone, similar. It was a small bone, common for the trauma I received and clearly visible in the xray.

The private doctor immediately said fractured in a fraction of a second when I eventually was able to get the original xray.

Later on I became quite knowledgeable in this specific fracture and it was obvious, though with no displacement.

What I mean to say is the treatment you get is still highly dependent on your "status", how you look, or weather the doctors like you.

And now I have a titanium screw in me inside a joint for life.
The choice is possible here. There are many doctors. Each doctor CAN display there prices. They don't want to. Why? Because there's not enough competition for them to need to.
>People will say that this is necessary to remain competitive, but it just isn't.

In other countries there are private health funds that return all of their profits to their members by simply covering more types of care and lowering premiums, all while still giving their staff very good, very attractive pay. That is clearly a win:win setting without being a government-run entity.

A person doesn't need to earn 100M-200M in a decade of company service. That is an obscene amount of money, and merely opportunistic payment from a system where the foxes are guarding the hen house. Unfortunately the US health system has this pattern repeated through it from insurers, to hospitals and beyond - the money is being funnel to those which can minimise, not optimise, care.
You mean intel that uses TSMC to manufacture their chips, because they can not create top of the line chips themself?
Not my experience at all. I have a 2016 Galaxy S7 in a drawer that would still be fine as a daily driver were it not for the worn-down battery. I have a separate phone from 2020 that I was using as a TikTok device (quite resource-heavy app) and it runs fine even now.
It’s actually generally a point that the prosecution would want to prove, as it is premeditation.
Not experienced this at all. Spare storage space (different from RAM, which is not where data is stored long term) should not impact performance.

Perhaps you have malware installed on your device?
I wonder how well it's working--

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+fix+etilqs
> That's deleting 800 lines a day, each day

50,000/90 = 555 ???
There was a company named "always innovating" around 2008ish which sold a hybrid of phone/tablet/laptop. Funnily enough, the website still exists [1].

[1] https://www.alwaysinnovating.com/products/smartbook.htm
Not currently free here in the UK, not yet at least. But if I VPN into NZ then it does give me access to the free tier.
According to that poll only 65% are happy with their health care coverage (page 8):

https://news.gallup.com/file/poll/654047/2024_12_06%20Health...

On page 5 you can see 79% are dissatisfied with the cost of health care.
Younger. As someone who never could afford a computer as a kid or teen, and not much people around me had one either, while I felt really really attracted to them and to tech in general there was nothing I could do abut it. Other than dreaming about getting one some day.

So now that I can have a few of them, every time I get one I feel like a kid.

Not that I buy them by the dozens or I'm becoming a collector, that's something I can't do nor want to do, but getting something new (old, but new to me) once a year or every couple allows me to discover all that I missed. Since I'm not "re"discovering it, it's all new to me in a sense.
Archive.org has been weirdly broken for weeks. That error can pop up on almost everything when you try to get things one way, but if you try to get the same file another way, it downloads happily. I'm worried.
Your first sentence is already wrong. With employer based insurance the company is the customer. The patient is the product.
You are just thinking iPhone. There are many Android phones on the market that are woefully underpowered for anything beyond store demo mode.
I won't pay for performance, but I will pay for a fresh new battery which as a bonus comes wrapped in a brand new phone!
It's visible. Start at Taklamakan Desert Highway and go along it.

TBH, I would like to know how much water it take to grow trees around the highway through middle of desert, but that is for another topic.
For what’s its worth, this conversation has been a treat to read. Not sure who I agree with.
Given his behavior it seems unlikely he's a contract killer. I wouldn't expect him to taunt the police with writing on shell casings or Monopoly money in backpacks. It seems like he's just not a complete idiot that has no plan and gets caught right away.
The scientific consensus is that, given that plants don’t have a nervous system, that they can’t process sensory input that is integrated and that produces some experience, coupled with the lack of subjective experience and the chemistry-based explanations for observed behaviors (such as following light etc), under the current definition of “consciousness”, plants are not conscious.
Right, but intelligence/smarts and consciousness are not the same.
I didn't know about the Jones Act

"""
It requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried on ships that have been constructed in the United States and that fly the U.S. flag, are owned by U.S. citizens, and are crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents
"""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920
How doesn't this article mention the Atrix?

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/motorola-atrix-4g-att

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/03/motorola-atrix-the-u...

This was precisely the target of the Motorola Atrix. They sold a netbook-like "shell" with a monitor and keyboard, and when you plugged the Atrix smartphone in it became an Ubuntu webtop device.
> Wait, what am I going to be saved from, you say? Oh, what sky-daddy will do to me if I DON'T love, honor, obey, and tithe him, etc.

You need to take a look at the HN guidelines because you have very clearly not read them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The insurance still paid the $3700 or so, the rebate coupon is to remove the obstacle for the patient so that the larger payment gets made.
Or has a backdoor in all China-built hardware.
It's a deliberate act to include this string in the website. Very different.
What do you mean with hiding? There is a whole submenu for history, with multiple different interfaces for navigating the history. For me it's right under bookmarks in the app-menu/burger-menu, or in the sidebar.
The Redmagic gaming phones fit that description. You can kinda see it here: https://gsmarena.com/nubia_red_magic_10_pro-review-2771p2.ph...
And that would be a trademark.
minor inefficiencies
Works on my S21U. I use it a lot because I have some weird thing where I'll get really tense typing on a touchscreen keyboard, so if I have to type long messages in android-only apps its going on the docking station.
ESBuild package gone from NPM registry
Having the same issue over here in Germany.
The problem is that the proposed solution made no sense. If the surgery is taking longer than expected, that is not something driven by the anesthesiologist. And yet the proposal would be complicating the billing/payment relationship of the anesthesiologist & the patient. Meanwhile the actual surgeon is not at all affected.
That’s a really important point. All the incentives are to increase cost.
Yes, kinship theory is a real understanding of behavior, but the animals don't choose compassion over selfishness, they merely make an instinctive survival cost-benefit analysis in the moment. So it's not even a kind of thinking, as we human beings have a conscience and mind capable of abstract conceptual thought that allows us to weigh the morality of what we are considering, and then decide.

Of course, having free will means that we can ignore our unique capabilities and behave as our built-in mammalian, pack-centric, dominance-seeking, body plans provide us out-of-the-box.

The only thinking I have seen in the animal world involve primates and birds using tools, and dolphins using impressive hunting techniques, where the younger generations learn them from the older. Regardless, if they are thinking, they are very primitive.
The deep south was infamous for simply not convicting white men for killing black men that had "raped" white women.

No matter the evidence.
I don't understand why the insurance company is the one to decide when and how to cap the costs. If a doctor says I need X drug or Y procedure the insurance company shouldn't be allowed to just deny paying for it simply because they want to pad their margins. I have had doctors prescribe a certain drug for me, insurance denies it, then they switch me to something else which they say is inferior because it might cause other issues/side effects but that's what I have to do if the first option won't be covered. If someone smashes into the passenger door of my car can my car insurance company just say they don't feel like paying for it because I can still get into the car through the driver side?

Sure premiums will go up, but the conversation should then shift to why does a 15 min ambulance ride cost $5,000 instead of fighting about whether or not an insurance company is going to cover it.
This is the real question. One that I would love to know the answer to.

If it's a Chinese run spider that flags websites that contain banned terms, does this mean that we can effectively block certain websites from China as a form of denial attack?

There are many sites which allow user submissions without a strong administrative overview. E.g. Could Booking.com be blocked to the Chinese audience by a listing including certain keywords on their page or in imagery.
That doesn't help, because it doesn't tell you what insurance will or will not cover
What about all the Dreamers? Have you heard??

Yeah so, all the brown people that arrived in the United States as children when their parents "illegally" immigrated but have lived their entire adult lives here, have families here, have their jobs here and their cultural identity can literally only be American - also those "immigrants" (whose fate was also decided when I was is high school btw) we apparently are planning on the full scale removal of them from our society.

I've had people tell me "their kids won't save them anymore either" bc you kno, all the anchor babies. Literally happy about families being torn apart. That's a line the American people have crossed, not just our government.

Forced mass removal of minority population - where do you think they will end up if anything goes wrong between their arrest and deportation to somewhere that has no reason to claim them? I don't know how people can't see just how problematic this planning is.

Does this sound American? How high a horse will we ride after the bus loads of people whose lives we've upended for nothing?

We have a population replacement problem, er - well the world does really. People are exponentially valuable - the very definition of invaluable even. People provide for practically limitless potential with time and future generations considered. Money spent on immigrants is money very well spent if making money is the goal. Our goal is a color tho - well, more like a shade or an absence of color...

We have problems also. Our problems do not justify theirs and neither do their justify ours, that's not what I'm saying. We are all fucked up.

Rn tho - we should prolly just focus on our own stuff and thangs for the foreseeable future.

America 1st and whatnot.

Sry, I kno you didn't mean to overlook our issues with minorities rn and you were correct even but far too many people have shed tears to me about Ukraine and Israel and everywhere but here so much so that I just can't anymore.
The WSJ pays it journalists. It's not free. It needs money. Bezos' interference may have left a bit of a bad taste, it's still a reputable paper that doesn't need exposure here.
Not sure why they can't return a more appropriate HTTP code.
'Just' too was simple at the beginning [1], but with time and usage things always become more complex that some script you do for your own specific use-case.

[1]: https://github.com/casey/just/tree/v0.2.23
>That's actually kind of brilliant - akin to putting "David Mayer" into your documents to poison them for OpenAI [0].

Or more relatedly, the "Tiananmen Square" copypasta.

https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-tiana...
Nope. Strong no from me - camera is the reason I upgrade (beyond dead battery).

I agree the lens bulges are a pain in the arse, but I want a good camera.

You can buy low-end phones with minimal bump from the likes of Motorola and Nokia if cameras are not important to you. But I want my higher-end (not necessarily premium, but in that direction) phones to keep coming with better and better cameras please, and if that means a bit of a bulge then fine.
The health industry is what's wrong with a captured market and few players. Every party is trying to extract maximum value for minimum input.

That leads hospitals to 1000x every treatment price so when insurance companies come to negotiate they can negotiate down to 100x. It causes hospitals to understaff because is cheaper to pay for legal staff to handle malpractice claims than it is to not work your nurses and doctors to death.

It causes drug companies consolidate and then charge through the nose for drugs that cost them pennies to manufacturer (for example, penicillin or insulin) drugs that, everyone should be aware, all of the R&D and FDA approval has been done. The most expensive part of drug development is done.

There are solutions. It's regulations. Hospitals regulated to minimal coverage. Drug/hospitals hit with anti price gouging regulations. Insurance companies hit with coverage regulations.

That's all something doable and probably with enough political will to be done.

An even better idea is simply nationalizing medicine, top to bottom. That's unlikely to happen, but would result in the biggest drop in healthcare costs.
Unless that better performance was at the cost of overclocking older designs, making it run hotter and less efficient. I think Intel got into this groove with a lot of their models for a few years doing this. I get what you're saying, and if its clocked lower than its designed for, power savings are incredible (I've gotten 10 hours on an older laptop that did this from the factory)
Ultimately, the lesson learned was big tech isn't your ally nor is the data you lend to them yours. Act accordingly. If they decide you no longer deserve access to the data, they can and will cut you off.

Personally, I pay for a service (email, data, password manager, etc). I also backup my data in multiple locations. It's a lot of work, but I don't really see an alternative at the moment.
I didn't know you had Internet access up in the mountain, Mr Grinch.
I'm type 1 diabetic, so I have a lot of medical costs. I'm legitimately traumatized by decades of navigating the US healthcare system, and one of the biggest problems is never having a real idea what things are going to cost, what will be covered, or when my insurance will randomly stop covering one of my medications, or take one of my doctors out of network.
Antivirus products are worse than viruses. Change my mind.

(AV hogs CPU, RAM, disk, and network resources. AV comes with their own exploitable vulnerabilities, often running in kernel mode. AV has their own zero-days and zero-click exploits.)
As long as apps are kept up to date, I'm not sure that OS-level security updates make much of a difference. Most breaches happen due to malicious apps. I haven't heard of any cases where somebody cracked the OS security and accessed user data.

Most of the world is not using the latest version of Android, and you don't really hear about viruses/malware like we used to with Windows machines in the '90s and '00s.
Donate some to a local homeless shelter or food bank