skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly depends on what you’re comparing to. I’ve lived up and down the USD east coast, and spent time in London and Reykjavik, and traveled through Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

I was always left with the impression that everything in Europe except for trains and windows (why do Europeans have such nice windows and we do not?!?) is rundown crap.

I’m not saying I’m necessarily objectively correct. But I’m definitely not endorsing your subjective impression, either.
Just so it's clear to everyone, companies much smaller than SAP or Microsoft self insure. In the United States virtually every employer with more than 500 employees is going to self insure.

And while these companies do have access to detailed claim data in theory, in practice access to this data is typically heavily limited a small number of HR or finance employees who are responsible for healthcare accounting and financial management and the data presented is typically restricted to a large claim report within a monthly/quarterly reporting period.
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Multiple lasers across multiple ships performing random amplitude modulation. The missile would have to somehow spot attenuate multiple sources at variable intensities.

At the end of the day, everything with sensors is an arms race. We've actually seen this evolution before with the early spinning mirror IR missiles and those glass disco balls on helicopters.
I know everyone these days likes to run around like chickens with their heads cut off when they see an article about Google or Facebook and data, but please try and calm down.

First of all, Google has already been involved in health, and will continue to do so, as the health market is 3.5 Trillion dollars. Last week they announced plans to develop a search product for electronic health records. If it works, it has the potential to make health care more efficient (as in costing you less and working out better for you). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21508205

Second, lots of companies collect, process, or transmit your health records. Companies you know nothing about, and that you never scrutinize. This is perfectly legal, as HIPAA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_a...) provides wide leeway for companies to handle your data, as long as it is under a chain of business contracts and compliance requirements that originate with your health care provider, insurer, etc. Under the Privacy Rule, you have rights that you can exercise to verify this is all being done properly. (However, complaints will probably be ignored as HHS isn't funded properly to deal with them)

If you want to collect your internet pitchforks and go after someone, please start with the government. The rules in place are okay, but they don't mean anything without effective enforcement.
I've been having this hard to articulate notion that humanity hasn't really begun to fathom the changes that will come with "cheap" launch vehicles.

We have better than half a century where space launch was so expensive, and so rare, that this had an impact on the payloads themselves. Perversely it caused the payloads to become so highly engineered (for a variety of reasons) that they also became ultra-expensive in-line with the launch vehicle and launch opportunity cost.

This also created a negative feedback loop that because the payload was expensive, the launch vehicle had to be extra reliable and thus cost more.

Think of the entire lifetime program expense (R&D, launch, repair, etc.) for the Hubble program, billions upon billions of dollars to basically put a large 1 MP sensor at the end of a tube with a digital radio for communications.

What would happen if this program cost went into hundred of launches, every month, for decades? We could launch not only an equivalent, but technologically improving payload every month? Why not make the device cheaper? Experiment a bit? Who cares if one fails? Maybe launch 2, 3, 4 at a time? Have constellations of Hubbles spread throughout the system? What if Hubble was 300 telescopes with massive 20MP sensors clustered into a distributed virtual telescope the size of the orbit of Mars?

When the launch costs, and cadence drop so low, it doesn't really matter if your satellite doesn't work because you didn't spend 15 years of R&D, and a billion dollars putting up as technologically "perfect" a device as possible, you fab another one, maybe with better parts, and put it up next month instead and write-off the couple hundred thousand as cost of doing business. It's all still cheaper than the alternative.

Smallsats were a kind of way to try to squeeze costs down by simply cutting capability, size, and power. But the cost of a smallsat in orbit was still dominated by the cost of the launch. What if you could launch a fully capable space platform (not a compromised small sat) for less than the cost of a shared-ride smallsat.

With the tonnage going up comes more capability as a by-product. The ISS took over 40 flights to get ultra expensive space hab parts into orbit. A SpaceX Starship might be able to life equivalent mass in 5 launches, at a fraction of the cost. What if, instead of one space station every 20 years, we get two per year?

We have no idea what's about to happen in the next decade.
I thought that for a while too, but then realized that article writers are someone, so it's covered.
On Mac, the oldest supported computers (for High Sierra and Catalina are the only supported OSes) the 2012 vintage (plus older Mac Pros). Older devices (expensive, premium, devices!), which run fine and have specs matching today's cheapest new computers, cannot run a supported Mac OS.

There are no longer any supported 17" Mac laptops.
Dang, and thanks. Too late to edit the post.
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I hope they find a way to properly anonymize the data and move forward. A minimum price to charge would be to make the results public. Even better would be a way for the public to analyse that data via Deep Mind, like an observatory telescope with public access time. There is likely life saving data to be found here. It would be a shame for privacy concerns to prevent studying it.
I volunteer my time at my local FIRST high school robotics team. There are a lot of teams looking for mentors. https://chiefdelphi.com can be a good resource to find a team.

I find it extremely fulfilling teaching programming and controls to students. It's helped me grow professionally too.
Drying cold, wet sheets with body heat is a standard monk thing that even a non meditator like me has heard of:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2002/04/meditation-ch...
I dig the WRX, but I would love if the engine were quieter. IMO a quieter engine is always desirable - akin to how I always want my computers to have quieter fans for any given level of performance.
You would if you held views or had elements of your personal life exposed that were contrary to mainstream thought. Complete data about a person is all that's needed to create the most pervasive fascist society that the world has ever seen. And all it takes is us saying we value the convenience of having our data shared.

Sure Google has mostly benign reasons for wanting this data, but putting it in a big warehouse means it's a juicy target for anyone who wants to oppress you for any reason. There's a reason the secret police in the USSR had records about everyone. Because the only way to really effectively guarantee compliance is to ensure that you know exactly what the subject is doing at all hours of the day, even when they think they're in private.

The shitty thing about this is there's effectively no way to opt out. Just being alive in this time is enough for these companies to gather an unbelievably creepy amount of information about you.
Surprising in what way? That the US military is patrolling the border of the US, as opposed to the border of a country on the other side of the planet?

I assume you’re referring to Posse Comitatus, which is a seriously misunderstood law. Patrolling the border and ensuring territorial sovereignty is well within the purview of the US Military.
I wasn't trying to start a gun control debate. I just found the contrast between the defense of personal rights and restricting the rights of others interesting in this case.
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Please cite one game—a single one—from last year which is 32-bit only and "requires heavy GPU usage".

One will do. I'm sure this won't take you long. Even if you can cite one, all that will prove is that the developer was so incredibly stupid that they ignored a full decade of warnings about how 32-bit software would be deprecated soon.
does Go's compiler emit SIMD instructions? it'd be cool to see the disassembly for the final, column order version since that loop would vectorize well. the same question goes for the speed-of-light benchmark -- there may be room to push even further there if it's doing a single multiply at a time.
After about two seconds of video the page turns all white. Not sure what's up with the page, maybe they're triggering my ad blocker (Firefox Tracking Protection + uBlock Origin)?
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It should be stated that the flip side of not giving up is incurring the massive opportunity cost of years of lost compensation. That can easily be over a million dollars for a good software engineer.

If you're a genius, then sure, not giving up makes a lot of sense. But if you're just pretty smart, you better think two, three, or four times before committing to do a startup. It's really easy to end up over thirty and broke.
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Well, one potential use of this checklist is when project management insists that you "break your work down into estimatable tasks" you can dazzle them with a lot of this bullshit to get them off your back while you focus on actually getting some work done.
> Can't wait to see every Tesla become a wifi hotspot hooked up to Starlink.

The Starlink receiver is the size of a pizza box (and cannot get smaller, since that is the size of the necessary antenna) - and doesn't work while moving.

So it's impractical to use on cars.

What Tesla probably could do is put a receiver at every Supercharger and broadcast wifi there. It would be especially useful at the more rural locations.
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Is this another record? The first individual spacecraft launched into space despite prior knowledge of the fact that it was inoperable?
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Are you suggesting to ban human players from drinking water during the match?
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Modern systems are Focal Plane Array which is aerospace speak for a typical camera.
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The MP3000 (Multiprise 3000) is the smallest mainframe IBM ever made, weighing in at only about 300 lbs. Using the vanilla Hercules, it can be MIPS limited to act mostly like a MP3000 System/390 machine and run the same OSes.
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I ran into that problem, so I refreshed it worked through the whole video.
I mean key word “generally”?

I’m not suggesting that there’s a team of employees watching you every time you pick up a prescription, but of course they could access an individual claim if there was a legitimate reason to. Not sure why it’s so unbelievable to think that an insurer would be legally barred from doing so if they are literally taking on the risk themselves, even if it is to audit the TPA to make sure they aren’t stealing from them.

If you are an extremely ill employee and you’re using a lot of healthcare your employer will know without you needing to inform them.
Some tautologies work. I think giving up is a more common failure mode than dying of old age while constantly trying to build a startup but never succeeding. Obviously it’s more reasonable to give up at some point, but that point is going to be later than most people emotionally assume it to be. I don’t think many people will try and follow pg’s advice and be constantly repivoting their startup for 40-60 years of their life.
Until quite recently (five years ago) they didn't charge you for it. It's only a few pence though.
>> Surviving gives you infinitely better odds

It's a false dichotomy. It's like comparing the chances of you living to the age of 60 given that a brick had fallen on your head yesterday to someone who didn't get that lucky yet (rephrasing as "what are the chances you are dead if you're already dead?").

You have to compare the odds before the fact.
Still, more work needs to be done for this to be "front of HN" quality.
It's probably due to this script tag:

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> My broader assertion here is that we're in a narrow period where most people aren't using Mac computers, even for creative work

Apple has been the underdog in the numbers game since 1980. Macs have always had a smaller percentage of worldwide computer users, compared to Windows, but higher than Linux etc.

But that number has always been increasing. There are over a 100 million Mac users, and many of them doing creative work. Isn't it the second most-used desktop OS?

If someone is going to casually dismiss even a million people, I don't know what to say to them.
GP may have been doing some strange one-upsmanship, but Russia sure did have a worse time than the U.S. in WWII. I also think that extant Russian culture still suffers from PTSD over the trauma of the entire 20th century.

Suicide rates and alcoholism are high over there. If you act cheerful, many Russians think you must be stupid. Not a happy place to be.
I don't follow. An image compressor is guaranteed not to be given Base64 input.

A general-purpose compression scheme can easily detect when its input is Base64, so I don't see why Base64 should be particularly hard to compress, in principle at least.
New fossil pushes back physical evidence of insect pollination to 99M years ago
I don't know how practical or useful this idea is, but I wonder how useful a camera on the back of the Starlink satellites would be, looking up.
What's the point of such internet? I can already buy low-cap 4G cheaply.
A million styles of bad bread in comparison to any one of the cheap loaves available in a German market. In many major US supermarkets, the freshly baked product is worse than the stale packaged product. Try it at your local albertsons or walmart. It's acceptable if you eat it warm and after that you can use it as a sponge to soak up spills. The $7 artisan whatever quarter of a loaf at Whole Foods is maybe in the same ballpark as what you find in Germany and you still have to be lucky enough to get it fresh. The normal packaged rectangular bread loaves people buy in the US are what we called "toaster bread" in Europe (bread to only be eaten toasted).

What would you consider objectively lower quality anyway? Is use of preservatives and corn syrup lower quality, or is that a preference for shelf life and sweets? Is a McDonalds burger low quality or is that just preference? I can take you to a generic bakery in my old rural small town in Germany where the 25-cent pretzel would blow the socks off any pretzel you can find for any price in any store in the US, but maybe you'd call that preference.
That's not what's happening, though. The same number of developers can release their applications. The only difference would be that some applications will say that they come from a source that's known to distribute reliable software.

You can still release apps without notarizing them. You just can't get around the warning message that the application hasn't been verified because, well... it won't have been verified. You can still release it and users can still run it.
This looks surprisingly neat, honestly. I've never used Perl, let alone Perl 6, but I think I see why people cared about it.
Not to enthusiasts, who are driving for the experience of driving, including the feel, sound, etc
Will this still be true when the versions with inter-satellite laser links are launched next year? I heard that, at least initially, the links may require hardware that will not fully burn up.
No, the health care situation in US is just perfect. Don't you try to do anything there big bad tech. companies. All they are going to spend their budget on is to personally identify people with sensitive health issues (eg. erectile dsyfunction) and serve them more ads. Sad! /s
You clearly don't understand. If they are selling units to the military for more than COTS, that's illegal.

Let me provide the real facts, instead of your baseless speculations:

Microsoft and Magic Leap were competing on a Army contract. Microsoft won. The contract is $480 million for 100k units. That's $4800 per unit. 4 figures, not 5. The Hololens 1 costed $5000/unit COTS.

Magic Leap's cost proposal couldn't have been far off.
Hm I was looking for some more practical advice on avoiding death.
Exactly.

The complaint sounds too much like someone building a sand castle on the beach and then complaining when the tide has washed it away.
I don't especially want a sunroof, as they inevitably leak, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to get a car at anything other other than the base trim level without sunroof - and when combined with other requirements I have (e.g. sat radio) presence of a sunroof is one of the first things I'll compromise on.
Ah, so you need to pay $100/year to provide your users with security patches and bugfixes for an open source app.
I agree with you. Since WW2, the trend in military weaponry and intelligence is precision.

- Instead of blowing up a submarine, why not disable the one critical crew member needed for it to launch?

- Instead of leveling a city to stop arms production, why not just infect the control systems of the factories so only plows can be manufactured and not swords?

- Cause a single screw to fall out of a piece of artillery so that it can no longer fire on target?

- Better yet, cause a fire in the iron mine so that gun can't even be manufactured.

To be effective, the affected parties wouldn't even know they were being targeted. They wouldn't even know they were at war. The lowest friction conduit your enemy civilization can proceed on is the one you want them to, and over time that's the one they'll inevitably settle into after becoming frustrated with their inability to make meaningful war on you.

In a perfect scenario, you might not even know you're attacking them either.

The series "The Golden Oecumene" explores this concept. In the story, the entire world's military might has reduced to a single sophisticated computer A.I. and a single man, who is usually cryogenically frozen and only brought out under extreme circumstances for specific operations that might include severing a single synaptic connection in a target using an x-ray laser stationed in orbit -- in order to change the target's mind.
Definitely. And it sounds like this is exactly what's happening.
Occam's Razor says otherwise.

If Goldman is doing this, they would have been caught by now with real data, not some entitled asshole whining about how his wife isn't getting the same exact credit limit as he is. Someone would be citing apples-to-apples comparisons by now. Yet nobody has. Hmm. Gee. I wonder why?
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GP said that they as a user disliked using macOS because they "had less and less freedoms to manipulate the system." If GP wants more freedoms on their machine, GP should go ahead and grant their own wish.

Regular software shouldn't run into SIP. It will run into Gatekeeper if the developer doesn't explicitly notarize/sign it, but I don't think it's irresponsible to tell users how to bypass Gatekeeper.
Trademarks need to be limited to being consumer protection: A company can only own a word or design or color scheme to the extent it prevents bad actors from fooling customers with deceptively similar names and trade dress. This has the positive side-effect of preventing those same bad actors from harming the company which owns the trademark, but that should be seen as a side-effect, and not as the primary purpose of trademarks.
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> Produce is colorful, plentiful, and delicious thanks to American embrace of GMO's and subsidies for farmers.

There are two problems with this statement. One is that the availability of plentiful and colorful produce is very much dependent on where you are in the US, and there are a large number of people who really don't have convenient access to it.

The other is that while produce is generally inexpensive, it is hardly generally delicious. Perfect looking tasteless hothouse tomatoes and peppers etc. are the rule, not the exception in a typical grocery store. Lot's of 'convenience' packaging (e.g. "baby spring mix" boxes), mountains of last years apples, not so much flavor.

If you have the means and live in the right places, you can buy very good produce from farmers markets and specialty stores, but it is expensive; the baseline is often pretty mediocre. And if you don't have the location and time and money to use these alternative sources, that's often what you are stuck with.

The silver lining on all this is that the industrial food system in the US has proven to work well as a very large scale optimization algorithm; unfortunately it's been optimizing on thing like shelf-stability, appearance, shipping convenience and food-science inputs while mostly ignoring flavor and nutritional content (see also why there are so many Holstien cows and so little decent butter). If the consumer demand is there for better food though, it should respond to that also.
Are you comparing this to the US or some other country, or just broadly speaking? I have had better breads than Germany in other countries, and I've had bad supermarket breads in Germany, so I can agree there, but when comparing to the US it's like comparing apples to sawdust.
Well fill a table with a few million rows, and compare the results. If they both come back with the same rough times then you've learned they're both equally good :)

Sometimes its good to ask people "Is this true of XX?", but but if you're curious it almost takes less time to expore and test than wait for somebody to give you an answer - an answer that might actually be wrong. (Some things change across DB-releases, as I've learned to my cost. If I'm ever unsure of whether one approach is faster than the other IN MY SPECIFIC SITUATION I would test. Random benchmarks are often not as useful as real-world tests.)
I don't doubt the brilliance of this guy, but sounds like he was (ab)using amphetamines, honestly.
Wut? The fairings are $6 million. Highly unlikely they spent even that much to develop a little engine and a boat with a net.
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His quora account is a treasure cove of knowledge and experience.

As a twenty-something born and raised in Croatia I can say that reading his answers gave me an insight into war and my country's history in a way that makes all the other stories from the front that I ever heard totally inane. The picture he paints of a soldier's mind made me for the first time understand the psychologically damaged people who walk around my country today but are still stuck in the war that's been over for 25 years.

I've re read his accounts of the battle of Mostar a dozen times and I get chills every time.

In short, the guy is legit, but I'm sure that anyone who will read him will figure that out for himself from the thick morbid reality that seeps from his writing.
A developer who doesn't want to pay $100/year and spend countless hours going through Apple's arbitrary approval and notarization process, you mean.
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