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   by dfsnow 4mo ago

   DataSF (City & County of San Francisco) | Senior Data Engineer | Hybrid (in San Francisco) | Full-time | $156k-$196k DataSF is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help us build out the city's central Snowflake platform, which wil
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   by dfsnow 7mo ago

   I was being a bit glib/imprecise before, but I'm specifically talking about the Northwestern Memorial campus downtown Chicago [0]. That location qualifies for 340B as a Rural Referral Center (RRC), and got itself reclassified by C
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   by dfsnow 7mo ago

   Thanks! Good to see other health policy wonks on HN
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   by dfsnow 7mo ago

   Hi, I wrote this article and largely agree with you. 340B is important and without it many hospitals likely wouldn't survive. However, it's pretty evident at this point that 340B has expanded beyond its original intent. For exampl
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   How much does childbirth cost in the US? A lot, depending on where you live(pricepoints.health)

   4 points by dfsnow 1y ago|0 comments
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   by dfsnow 2y ago

   I actually tried a couple different engines before landing on OSRM. I started with R5 (since it can also do public transit) then switched to Valhalla. The main limiting factor was speed. Basically all routing engines except for OSRM are too
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   by dfsnow 2y ago

   These are great suggestions, thank you! I played around with a single static colormap for all scales but couldn't find one that worked well/looked good. Perhaps I'll add a slider that lets you manually select the values of th
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   by dfsnow 2y ago

   Thanks! I hadn't seen anyone do it this way before with a very large, partitioned dataset, but it works shockingly well as long as you're not trying to `SELECT *` the entire table. Props to the DuckDB folks. Eventually I plan to a
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   by dfsnow 2y ago

   Good point, will do!
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    by dfsnow 2y ago

    It's just using OpenStreetMap tags for routing, so if a bridge is impassible by foot/bike according to OSM, then it won't be able to route there. See the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York as an example.
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    by dfsnow 2y ago

    In the next year or so maybe. The biggest obstacles to adding public transit are: - Collecting all the necessary scheduling data (e.g. GTFS feeds) for every transit system in the county. Not insurmountable since there are services that do t
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    Show HN: OpenTimes – Free travel times between U.S. Census geographies(opentimes.org)

    207 points by dfsnow 2y ago|50 comments