skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Driving a Chevy Volt (with an 18 kWh battery) makes you very aware of the different fuel-costs of different routes -- I very often have a choice of driving "over" or "around" small mountains (~hundreds of feet of elevation change, not ~thousands), and you can easily see the battery drop as you go up, up, up and it doesn't always recover much going down, down, down.
Yeah you seriously have to decline YouTube premium popup basically every session. So its not surprising to get that thing multiple times a day.
Introvert manager here.

Work is hard. Dealing with people is tiring, but I am also skilled at it and it is tremendously fulfilling to help people grow and achieve their personal goals. Some days I really really don't want to have my 1:1s, but that is okay. Being an introvert doesn't mean that I hate interacting with people. It just means that it is somewhat tiring.
You can estimate it from this table NJ publishes:

https://www.nj.gov/dobi/division_insurance/ihcseh/ihcrates20...

Add or subtract 10% based on your cost of living compared to NJ.
I agree that a state (or country, etc.) will nearly always have a certain amount of amorality (or immorality, for that matter). However most legislatures have at least some morality as well. Taxes aren't always used to incentivize/disincentivize, sometimes they are gathered for public works or services, such as roadways, healthcare*, and unemployement benefits. I know that an individual may not always view those things as something the government should be taking a hand in, but I would like to think that, even if someone doesn't agree with the action, they can at least agree with the intention.

*the current state of the US healthcare system notwithstanding.
In California it's about $500-600/mo for a "Gold" level PPO plan for a 20-30s individual through CalChoice Small Business pool. Bronze level plans are usually in the high 200s to low 400s. HMO plans are usually about $100-150 a month cheaper than PPO. Vision and dental are another $20-50/mo. Spouse roughly doubles the cost, and kids add more to it, but I don't remember the exact amounts.

Keep in mind that even with the Gold level plan you are still subject to network restrictions, paying copays, deductibles, and you have an OOP maximum of several thousand dollars.

Big companies can get better rates than individuals or smaller companies and businesses get to write off the expense, whereas individuals (mostly) can't. It's only the governments' fault insofar as they haven't done something about this already. The rules were written to enable corporate profits, not quality, cheap healthcare. Even as a small business owner, trying to offer healthcare was brutal just from the sheer expense of it. It's almost hard to justify unless you have kids or a chronic condition, but you never know when catastrophe will hit, so the market is fairly price-inelastic.
ST4 comes with some support for printing.
OP is likely talking about: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/288?ijkey=01...

Which was originally reported in the popular press as "herd immunity doesn't real". The methodology seems weak to me, both in terms of sampling and how poorly some of the adjustments in the attack rate/seropositivity estimates were justified.

This paper, Buss et al 2021, was cited wrt 67% attack rate and 75%+ seroprevalence in Faria et al 2021: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.12.435194v2

This in turn was cited in eg Dejnirattisai et al 2021, as if it were the original source of the seroprevalence claims/data:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.12.435194v2
Note the lack of a citation for Buss et al 2021.

The error bars in Buss et al 2021 are awfully narrow given how uncertain many of the assumptions made were in correcting the seroprevalence estimates. Further, the idea that P1 seems to "totally avoid natural immunity" (in comparison to vaccine immunity) is not borne out by the experimental data (eg Dejnirattisai et al 2021, linked above, or Tarke et al 2021: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.27.433180v1). Both convalescent and vaccine sera showed reduced neutralization rates for P1; you see similar behavior in other potent VOCs like B1.1.7 (Dejnirattisai et al 2021 bis: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00222-1) and B1.351 (Zhou et al 2021: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349058926_Reduced_N...). And given the lack of transparency in any of these papers regarding how the antibodies sourced from convalescent sera were chosen for use, it's hard to say for certain that there isn't yet another selection issue here.

> There's multiple studies and multiple sets of data from Manaus.

If you are aware of another data set from Manaus from the period prior to P1 emergence which used a different methodology to claim 75%+ seroprevalence, I'd love to take a look at it. Otherwise, it seems like all the claims are ultimately sourced from the estimates of Buss et al 2021.
> Way more money and influence though.

Bingo. 50 million poor people have less lobbying clout, ie dollars, than the medical or pharma industries.

It’s no coincidence that the ACA provided for money for insurance, without actually increasing the supply of actual medical care. Increasing insurance increases demand, provides a way for the existing industries to get paid, and overall raises the cost of care.

Now had they had a lick of sense and simply spent the same amount of money on setting up clinics (ie supply side), you’d see a drop in prices as existing providers would have to compete with a lower cost option.
The problem with minor conditions is, that you still have to pay for them. You pay for dental, but don't get the service.

I pay insurance for my car (it's mandatory here - the mandatory part only covers damages on other peoples cars when you're the guilty one). I also pay (extra) for windshield repair, and when a small rock on the highway breaks my windshield, i go to one of the preaproved service centers (or do the paperwork to do it somewhere else), get the glass replaced, and go home after ~30 minutes.

I also pay for dental in my mandatory government insurance (no way to opt-out), and when i see a dark spot on my tooth, i call the government dentist, and they tell me to come in six months, at 11.30am on a tuesday. I could wait that long, but by that time, my tooth could get worse, and a simple drill-drill-fill-fill might end up as an extraction or worse. So basically, I either have to pay for a private dentist to do it (full price, not just the difference in price compared to a government dentist), or wait six months and risk it. Either way, i pay for dental, that I don't get.

Same for eg. dermatologists... find a spreding dark spot on the skin.. wait six months+ (probably more now, due to the plague), or pay 70eur and get it checked out the next day. Wait six months, and a simple burn-off could be cancer.
I graduated from Beach High School about 18 years ago. Without going into detail too much, the public school system failed me, and Beach High School was the stepping stone that allowed me to go to college. I would be living a very different life right now if Beach High School didn't exist.
From the platform providers POV it's not "a simple bug fix". It's "schedule hundreds of hours of testing on this new binary blob the developer sent us".

> That article has a developer literally saying that in the end, their percentage of the profit on the XBox 360 was a negative number

Then maybe they shouldn't have shipped buggy software. Go back a few years and they'd have shipped a CD/DVD/ROM and no patching available.
My thoughts, as a healthcare professional, who has lived in Scotland, Australia and now the US, and has worked for software companies who develop line of business apps for healthcare companies, and health insurance companies:

> Here's personal context: Before the ACA my family's health insurance cost $650 per month. We had excellent coverage, great doctors, good service, low costs, and all was well. We were forced into the ACA. The minute that happened our cost went up to $1,800 per month. Yes, that's over $20K per year for health insurance. Oh, but it doesn't end there. Our deductible went up to $5,000 per person per year. In other words, each of us has to spend $5,000 before any insurance coverage kicks in. There are five of us. Which means we would have to spend $25,000 in a year if all of us need medical attention before the wonderful ACA provides any coverage at all.

Because up until that point, insurers had diligently been kicking people with any pre-existing conditions off insurance, and sharing that information with other insurers so you couldn't get coverage anywhere.

Blame the insurer, not the ACA.

> It is vital to also understand that Medicare has serious issues. In a nutshell, it isn't insurance.

It's as vital to realize that healthcare insurance in the US isn't insurance either. It's amortized and bulk buying discounts for your healthcare. Hence not just deductibles, but copays, coinsurance, maximums, etc. All of these things are in place to ensure that you never become an unrecoupable weight to the insurer. That we have health "insurance", in the US, is one of the biggest cons.

> My wife is a doctor. She and he colleagues should write a book on the horrors of government-driven medicine in the US. Things like doctors having to order piles of unnecessary tests because they fear career-ending malpractice lawsuits.

Doctors contribute to this. They also order piles of unnecessary tests when they, entirely coincidentally, happen to own DI (diagnostic imaging) equipment, facilities. In fact it's such a profitable way to "invest" for medical professionals that DI companies will help you find likeminded doctors to pool up with, will offer you guaranteed ROI, and will finance the purchase of the equipment, walk you through Certificate of Need processes where applicable. And then we wonder why doctors who own such stakes order in the order of two standard deviations more DI for their patients...
Yes, because I trust a company that makes the design decision to glue their batteries into their laptops, to make battery facilities.
> Right, but that means you're still "unordered" across those partitions?

Right, so related messages have an ordering guarantee but unrelated messages may be processed out of order relative to each other, which is usually what you want. (Of course you do have to set the record key correctly).

> I'm not trying to say that ordering is bad or anything, I just feel like it isn't buying me tons.

It's a lot more lightweight than full ACID, but if you get your dataflow right it achieves everything that a traditional database does. Without ordering you wouldn't be able to do anything that requires any kind of consistency.
If I could give you a cookie now, I would.

I don't know why I didn't think of this before lol
I think small teams, one on one collaboration, and interesting projects are key.

It’s hard to get to know folks when sitting on a big zoom call, but I find working one on one works well for developing a bond.

Once you spend many hours over many months working closely with someone, a bond develops and there is plenty of opportunity to get to know them along the way.

In fact, you can do this just over slack - spend enough time hanging in a chat and people’s personalities are bound to come out.

To be fair, you may be less likely to make a very close friend with a remote employee. But a friendly, productive working relationship is certainly easy to develop, and that’s all that’s necessary for most teams to function well.

This strategy probably wouldn’t work with big teams where folks float in and out, or for roles where you have to meet new people all the time.
besides the fact that that requires a lot of technical expertise and voids the warrantee, from my experience hardware that is even compatible with open source firmware like openwrt is much harder to find and can be more expensive.
Can we actually show that nuclear weapons are bad for the environment? Obviously there is a baseline production cost and various detonation costs plus issues of trying to get a scalar judgement from a complex systtem but they could perversely be helpful theoretially by stopping other polluting activities.

Isn't it perversely possible that the environmental impact of another two more Iraq War scale conflicts plus end of ongoing middle east presence means that ironically Bitcoin and nuclear weapons combined could help the environment net in comparison.

Sort of the logic behind a joke "They say that nuclear weapons kept the cold war cold, they say want peace in the middle east yet when I give Palestine Iran and Palestine nuclear ICBMs suddenly I am now the bad guy here?"
Lol, how do you manage to keep your sanity on HN?
Everyone else thinks that medicine/police/education/judiciary is so special that the free market cannot deal with it.
Subversion of the credentialing system.
Must be their first rodeo for a lot of other folks from what I can tell. Ain't my first. You can't trust shit coming up. The more, "controversial" the more, "it was just a prank bro". Happens every year.
It was a 13 week class and the person minimally contributed by just showing up to meetings such that you couldn't say "he didn't show up." We had to do some D3js visualizations and one time he even sent a photo shreenshot of a chart rather than actual code to embed onto our project site.

One time he gave us a hard time about not being able to meet at any point except his lunch-hour. So we're all on Eastern Time at 3pm during the workday and he's on zoom...eating a sandwich as we spoke. So we gave up, we didnt even include him on any conversations because it was negative value.

In speaking with other students, 5-10% of the graduating class were complete free riders. Some were sponsored (e.g., federal government employees, etc) and were not only free-riders in terms of work, but also in terms of cost. Further, when graded your team got graded based on how many people you had, which many of us spoke up against especially given randomly assigned groups.

That said, some of my randomly assigned teammates were awesome, we're still friends, we formed great bonds and I wouldnt want to miss that experience.
GC bugs are a lot like race conditions, even if everything is in one thread, because it is nondeterministic which action will trigger GC. Disabling GC over a range of code is reminiscent of locking a mutex or disabling interrupts.

When you're developing a run-time with GC, it behooves you to run at least some of your test cases in GC torture mode, which triggers collections often (like before every allocation). Anything that is not properly nailed down over a complex operation gets scavenged. If you make it so that a reclaimed object has a garbage type tag, then the use of a prematurely reclaimed object can be caught quite soon as a type issue.
That is an excellent question, thank you for clarifying.
The article is poorly researched and is not explaining the 14 day thing correctly. I'm sure that the actual email will be leaked at some point but since it is listed as internal only, just know that it isn't what is described in the article.
That hadn't occurred to me and I initially felt foolish upon seeing your comment. But then I thought "What a brilliant way to test public reaction to tentative plans. If they love it, do it. If they hate it, go just kidding."
Is it slow? I mean, Linux itself. Yes, the kernel is bigger these days. But once it's up and running it should be handling system calls as fast as about 20 years ago. Often faster.

So, I'm not sure core things are slower. But libraries have gotten bigger. Much bigger. Open up a web browser and you load several hundred megabytes of libraries. You got Unicode, and data for your vector fonts, and code for special tweaks on rendering everything from Taiwanese vs. Mainland Chinese character forms to obsolete Russian diacritics, libraries for parsing image, audio and video codecs, libraries for 3D rendering, and Javascript and WASM dynamic translation, and parsers for 30 years of crufty non-standard web standards. Oh, and of course everything over the network is encrypted now.

So it's a mix of asking more from the machine - 4K displays involve a lot of pixel-pushing. And associated code size to do those things. Which makes it slower to load, and everything becomes very miserable when you run out of RAM.

Now if you configure a kernel with not much more than the features you would have had in the '90s, use lightweight libraries, stick to the command line, and give it enough RAM? Modern UNIXes actually are still quite snappy on even the most pitiful hardware. I have an old Mac with a 68030 running at 16 MHz. I put NetBSD on it a few years ago, just as a lark. For poking around the file system and using vi, it might as well have been my modern desktop for user response times. (It even runs X11 tolerably... as long as you stick to twm and xterm.)

Of course much of it really is just bloat. Editors should probably not be implemented in Electron.
Yes, coax based connections can be quite fast but in practice the chipsets supporting DOCSIS are quite bad or the (usually closed source) firmware is very buggy or probably both. I should know: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Technico... e.g. just bridging is often prohibited or configured in such a way that slows down some traffic and you can't do anything about it. E.g. Compal modems were limiting any traffic with protocol 41 to ~ 20 Mbps (up and down) on some networks even in bridge mode. (https://www.root.cz/clanky/pomale-ipv6-tunely-s-modemem-comp..., Google translate works kind of ok for that)
And DOCSIS chipsets seem to not be cheap actually, probably because there is a quasi-monopoly on the chipsets unlike for optics. Also coax networks tend to be configured for great asymmetry (often 20:1), which of course isn't the fault of DOCSIS but it is almost always the case on any internet service over coax (cable TV connections). As a consumer or business, I want the best service possible and that usually means having FTTH/ FTTB for all these reasons.

The best way to ensure proper cabling in the last mile would be to have pipes for cables straight into each home. That way, you could change most data-carrying cables without digging or without digging much. This seems to be the approach with fibre in some countries.
Yamaha also makes routers for SMBs that has top shares in Japan. It's loved because it's very stable and they provide firmware and support info without contract.
Several answers, first an article about a system, and concurrence about opinion of PDP assembly: https://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/12819-experie...

Article references a PDP emulator box that runs using a Rasp Pi: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11

That article mentions how they emulate the PDP-11 and other systems: http://simh.trailing-edge.com/
Let me be more frank, it is a scam and nothing more than prepayment for cleanings and X-rays in the vast majority of cases. The only time I have not paid with cash is when I was on Medicaid.
So she's just an all around terrible, toxic person. Doesn't surprise me she's been apparently banned from Stripe, CPAC and probably a bunch of other places.
Yes, this is the trend. With lower cost of launches, I would like to see more remote observatories at the stable lagrange points where they are immune from most man made interference and the inherent stability does not burn consumables to any degree - one assumes solar will suffice for energy.
> Last I heard, it currently doesn’t even send a packet to any servers when you click it.

Just tested. It makes a post to

/youtubei/v1/comment/perform_comment_action

with a parameter ?key and a payload containing "actions" both of which are long alphanumeric strings.
Yeah it's mainly to discourage dislike trains.
Plus, they try their best to deny any expensive care which your doctor prescribes. It’s really a perverse system. There wouldn’t be nearly so many people advocating for public healthcare if the private system had any hint of respectability. Every provider is terrible value, has poor customer service, and goes their best to screw your over.

The incentives are totally wrong. The incentive for an insurance company is “let me extract as much money as possible from my clients”. That’s completely at odds with providing quality care.
How much do you want to bet the Biden admin made this request of Google because many of his speeches had more dislikes than likes?

They've deleted a bunch of his dislikes in the past.
I'm more concerned about the slippery slop sliding the other way, people thinking they can do what they want with no regard to how it might impact their community.
If you like the videos of Nippon Wandering, he states which equipment he uses for each video. In his last one he used DJI Osmo Pocket.
It's not true. The article is not correctly describing the policy. I don't know if the journalist just didn't get the entire email from their source or if they put this out too fast but what is written in the article isn't correct.
Well, they might as well remove the like button too cause the rating system will be useless now.
I've held that opinion and I was wrong.
It's much easier to just target ARM only at this point.
Fortunately, ESR specifically says it's a backronym.

> “Scram” was in origin a backronym for “Safety Cut Rope Axe Man” coined by Enrico Fermi himself.
> there's been a pretty clear and consistent (if poorly defined) goal of human-like intelligence.

You don't think performing arithmetic and playing chess could ever have been thought of as requiring human-like intelligence?

See https://www.leanix.net/en/blog/what-is-the-difference-betwee...

Excerpts:

Artificial intelligence has been around for ages, with it even being used in the Greek mythology to express human like machines which copied man’s behaviour. At the beginning, even early computers were considered logical machines as they were able to reproduce “intelligent” capabilities such a arithmetics and memory… Engineers of that era saw it as an attempt to create mechanical brains.

Nowadays, something as “trivial” as a calculator function, does not go hand in hand with our current concept of Artificial Intelligence.
I wonder if the spectre/meltdown mitigations have anything to do with it. Or stack smashing protection perhaps. A LOT of security mitigations over the years probably will make considerably slower code on older processors.
Even if this is true (I think it's absurd because drivers eat meat too), it doesn't account for the fact that bicycles are slower than cars, so people who commute by bike will travel (much) fewer miles per day than the average car commuter.
> And if government got out of the business of healthcare --other than ensuring a fair and safe market-- these people would not have to make that choice.

I don't follow. As far as the people I'm talking about are concerned, the government is not in the dentistry business, so what business are you imagining them getting out of? And how would said getting-out make dental treatment affordable for these people?

In fact, dentistry seems to be managed more or less on the same basis as vision in this country, i.e. the ceiling on cost is relatively constrained and either you pay for it yourself or you have insurance that's separate from any standard health insurance you may or may not have. With regard to your LASIK example, as far as I can tell, lots of things in dentistry—e.g. orthodontic treatment—have gotten easier and cheaper and more effective, but they haven't invented an automated dentist-bot yet, and I am very skeptical of your (apparent) implicit claim that government meddling in the dentistry industry is to blame for that. It seems a lot more likely that different problems are different, and some are less amenable to technological breakthroughs and automation than others.