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This can't be stated strongly enough: You must have the stomach for dealing with a lot more "medical billing B.S." if you're going to purchase a high deductible health insurance plan.

I was on an individual HDHP for nearly 20 years (pre and post-ACA) and it maddening trying to explain to medical professionals that I actually cared about the cost of treatments. (Never mind trying to get cost estimates before treatments-- that's nearly impossible.)

I once found myself nearly begging an ER physician to order a specific lower-cost diagnostic test in lieu of the higher-cost test she wanted to order. She couldn't seem to believe that I had a low 5-figure deductible and that I cared about the cost of treatments. She was incredulous. That's happened multiple times.

(If you have children and you talk to medical professionals about pricing be prepared to be treated like a bad parent who places economic value over their child's well-being.)
Mount the bucket with something like rclone, then write a small script to optimize the images with the cli tool.
GUIDs are extremely useful if you want to move and merge data around without having to worry about primary key collisions.
Canadian lumber has always been a political football for American politicians to kick around whenever they needed to score some points, so we're used to this sort of thing.

Like any resource extraction industry, it goes boom, it goes bust, it recovers.
Server not responding appropriately. Well, technically, for some endpoints, it's just not responding at all. In the client side javascript, you call a function and pass it a callback and the callback is never called because their API never responds. No timeout or anything, just never calls your callback. The method is used for getting permissions for a user so you know what other calls are available to them. The docs for the method show no way to get the status of the call other than the callback passed in. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB...
My bank or creditors don't need to know where I'm shopping or what I'm buying, and they certainly don't need to be selling that information to the highest bidders.
> They can technically exist?

Do you mean in the specific case of ring signatures? Or at all?

There are already threshold-signature-based schemes for doing this with ECDSA (though they're very gas heavy at the moment). But none has emerged for ring signatures yet beyond the paper stage.
True. Strange outrage over some non-controversial issues. So it must be something internally they are super unhappy about.

Found the explanation: https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/n22lmk/whats_...

Double standards.
I've seen more than a few tweets in recent days from those who feel distraught as Rails developers. Perhaps it's silly, but the Rails ecosystem and culture plays a big role in its success.
Spent the first 10 years of my IT career driving towards greater control over the systems we managed, because "the reason the service is down is that someone else (usually a vendor) didn't do their job" was never an excuse. The last 5-10 years I've found myself ceding more and more control to cloud service vendors (like Microsoft). Less work for me ("raise a premium case"). Less stress too ("they're working on it, nothing for us to do"). Now I finding myself hoping I'll be retired before the pendulum swings back again.
On the other hand, an increase in trade gives China (the bigger partner) more leverage to pressure Taiwan using economic measures. Suppose 60% of all campaign political contributions came from China's puppet companies in Taiwan. Or if companies that lobby against China's interests suddenly (or gradually) find themselves cut off from the Chinese market, while large, politically-connected Chinese companies start undercutting them in the Taiwanese market.

You don't need war to invade.
Boosting profit margin with price hikes isn't innovative.
I should have been more clear, but I didn't have coffee yet.

$18/hr being "great" was meant to compare to what I hear people tend to make in that position, not that it is objectively great as a living wage for a family.

My post was a little twist-and-turn - I was thinking about two related things, one being the tactical issue of wages in food service, and the other macro issue about the fact that this country has enough wealth in it for everyone to be well taken care of.
Is there any information about how a story transitions from "submitted" to "pool"?

I assume it's a manual decision, not strictly algorithmic. (Though it probably contains algorithmic elements, the final decision is done by a human.)

If true, then the inexorable outcome of this logic is that the front page isn't really controlled by the community, nor would we want it to be.

If not, then the details of the algorithm would be fascinating to learn about. It's not an easy problem to solve in general, and making a few dozen (hundred?) editorial decisions each day is probably more efficient, and more precise.
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Everything involving Basecamp seems to get death-by-flags pretty quickly, which is disappointing.

The better question is how this post got 120 points while not being on the front page.

EDIT: Looks like dang unflagkilled it.
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Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political discussions
Apple maintains devices for more than five years, the devices themselves keep on working for far longer than that.

It’s got nothing to do with planned obsolescence, new devices get new features because technology makes those features possible.

You get non-serviceable devices because users want smaller, faster, better hardware. Any latches, connectors, or sockets are purely subtracting from battery life as that’s the only part of a phone that can be resized, and even that is subject to constraints.

Repairable/serviceable means by definition more expensive and worse feature set.
I would like to see rate-limiting built into OS's.

Eg. an application is only allowed to touch 100 files per second or 1000 files per hour.

When it reaches those limits, it gets paused and a popup asks the user if this application really should be doing X.

Then at least ransomware can't run through stuff too quickly.
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This is usually how I fall asleep.
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I really hope more companies declare their workplaces to be politics free. I am completely tired of the long march through the institutions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_march_through_the_ins...) that has culminated in corporations being weaponized for one-sided progressive political agendas. These departures really just give away the biases of the tech industry at large.

As for Basecamp's leaders - I think they did the right thing in making their blog posts and sticking to their principles. However, they should not have offered a buyout incentive, which can expose a small organization like themselves to destabilization. They also tuned the buyout offer incorrectly - it basically provides free money, which will be tempting to even those who would be fine working there. Really that's the only part they got wrong. I hope they're able to hire quickly and make it through this period - if they do, this will have been the right decision in the long-term, since there's no point in retaining employees who have such a mismatched set of values.
there have been flywheel (only) powered vehicles made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus
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> We build that fab equipment in Europe.

Europe builds _1_ component for one fab stage (the EUV litho machines). For the other stages, there are other manufacturers in other countries.

https://archive.ph/HEI2z

Japan is still the dominate supplier of the chemicals used in silicon fabs.

The majority of the process is still DUV layers (less advance than EUV), and Japan's Nikon/Canon are the leaders in DUV.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4412366-asml-not-dominant-w...

Secondly, TSMC and Samsung use EUV for only a few chip layers, and use DUV immersion for the rest, so both types of systems are needed at and below 7nm. The number of mask layers increases as nodes decrease.

A 28nm IC has up to 50 layers, a 14nm/10nm has 60 layers,

A 7nm IC has 80 layers, and

A 5nm IC has 100, depending on manufacturer.

TSMC uses EUV for just 12 layers at 7nm vs. 68 DUV layers. TSMC uses EUV for 22 layers at 5nm vs 78 DUV layers. Immersion DUV is critical to make these chips, and ASML is losing share to Nikon.
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I think we may agree that, when Apple and Google do not subject their own services to the standards they use for the competition, thus giving themselves a certain advantage, such competition may be hurt and, eventually, it may also disappear. That would not be the first time, either.

Then you may argue if it is in the public interest to let companies compete at all or not.
Any race or high power engine, especially those that rev quite high will need rebuild - not just in bottom end but often with piston rings and valves as well.

You don't really hear about those other engines much because their buyers understand that a race engine needs more maintenance than any other road car.

Also, not beating on the engine until oil has warmed up to temp will elongate the bearing lifespan quite a bit. I have a friend with E60 6mt S85 that has factory bearings at 110k mi and has perfect oil analysis results.
> I made an assumption that I'm confident would apply to most people commenting on this story

Great, well, I'm not most people commenting on this story. If you've ever jailbroken an iOS device, there is a very high probability your device subsequently ran code that I wrote. I have distributed apps and tweaks to literally hundreds of thousands of users through the repos I've run. Don't make assumptions when you don't need to.

> You've misunderstood.

No, I think you've misunderstood. I did not say building hardware, an operating system, and an app store is easy. I said building an app store is easy. Let me quote myself:

> People keep saying "but you wouldn't have devices to distribute your app to without Apple" and while that is true, Apple is already capturing the value for that part of the deal – they're selling the devices to customers.

Look, I get it – you're holding on to the idea that Apple built the ecosystem, so they're allowed to do with it as they please. And in general I'm sympathetic to the idea that if you build something, you get to control it. The only problem is that it is not only Apple's ecosystem... the devices themselves belong to the people they sold them to, and Apple should not be able to unilaterally prevent those participants from using the devices they purchased as they wish in an anti-competitive way. This is precisely why we have anti-trust laws.
I am under the impression that the change to PEX was good? It sure was adopted fast.

Do you mean it was a significant change?
If two thirds were willing to stay even with such a good severance package, it sounds like most agree with the decision...
Or, for Youtube (I guess you could use the same device for Netflix, Plex client, etc.), you could get the best of both worlds: Chromecast-like controls for YouTube and an ad blocker (the info from that link can be adapted for a desktop): https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/04/how-to-cast-youtube-vi...
Previous discussion in January 2020 https://github.com/0x4447/0x4447_product_s3_email
It is one less house people can buy.
Url changed from https://kottke.org/21/04/labor-shortage-or-terrible-jobs, which points to this.
RISC-V is not only looking interesting but promising.
But are still EXTREMELY expensive relative to most of the US, not because of materials costs.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998127

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998018
You can already buy some replacement parts, like screens and backs. It doesn't seem like you can replace the motherboard, so that would be a fair point. I wouldn't objecting to coding this into law, but I'm not sure why your comment is implying this is not currently possible.
I am particularly concerned by the eWaste implications of this kind of decision. At a time of a global semiconductor shortage (likely for 6+ months), it looks like consumers will be left to deal with the fallout of these kinds of deals.

If we normalise "deprecate that hardware as it lacks some logical software feature", that's bad for the environment, and bad for society in general. That's currently normalised though, so we have a long way to go to get this put right.

It's a shame we're nearly full circle - we had fully programmable computers, now we need to add hardware codecs to them, in order to prevent those general purpose programmable computers from lasting too long (!)
Evil landlord owns an apartment, he jacks up prices to the maximum possible that people can afford. Fed happens and the value of the apartment goes up. The landlord jacks up prices to maintain a stable price to rent ratio. Yet nobody can afford to rent the apartment.

It's not really inflation, it's something different. The cost of financing has gone down. If financing dries up, real estate prices will go up again.
OCaml solves this elegantly by making the equality functions parameters to the constructor of the collection type.
You can see a recent CCP parody of the "Great Wave", with dumping of the Fukushima nuclear waste into the ocean:

https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1386635238986510341

(The Chinese government is not happy with waste being dumped into the S. China Sea, or any interference into their ghost fishing fleet.)
Has Basecamp lost ~30% of its team?
It's more than that, slightly. A "serverless" application doesn't have a specific piece of hardware supporting it except in the context of a single operation. The hardware is all abstracted away and allocated from a pool on demand. I suppose it comes from "serverless architecture", where there are just other distributed services (not specific servers, virtual or otherwise) executing your code.

I agree it's not a term well suited to its popular use, but such is life. Commercial interests are constantly mucking up the language to suit their own ends. E.g. Discord is abusing the term "server" to mean a virtual meeting space. "Organic" w.r.t. food has a really contrived official criteria, unlike in chemistry. Regular people muck up the language in frustrating ways, too. See "literally".
https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1388212468510380034
While you only have to update your build process once, you now have a noticeable delay for every single release build, and worse, a few times per year, your build will break because you haven’t signed Apple’s latest contract.

And for what? There is no way Apple can make it impossible to get malware notarized.
The aero belly of his 1968 Camaro was interesting. The SBC-powered Indy car (probably the last of home-garage built vehicles for that race), the time he drove a NASCAR car back from an impound without the gas tank, etc.

Not to say that cheating didn't happen elsewhere. Check out the front-end sheet metal of the Trans-Am Boss 302s. Use of the headlight holes for brake ducting. The inline Autolite carb. There were some good minds at Holman-Moody, Kar Kraft, Bud Moore, etc.
For 2 you could look at meteor, which does a similar thing with mongo. It's not relational, but with supabasr you also don't really get the advantages of a relational db, since the update events are about single tables.
Volume matters too, especially for lower stages. There's a reason for the lack of success of hydrolox 1st stages.
Tesla already uses aluminum for power cabling because it’s cheap and lighter weight. Tesla Model S were induction motors (at first at least) with no rare earths, and Tesla is partnering with CATL for lithium iron phosphate batteries in lower cost versions of, if I believe, Model 3 and Y.
Maybe the next ten days after that are the ten worst days.
Cloudflare appears to be an option.
Parking brakes for disc brakes are usually in the center of the disc rotor (like a mini drum) with shoes. Some others like Chryslers have implemented hybrid brake cylinders
I believe that if you submit a URL and it already exists, and it's within some time limit of the original posting, that acts like an upvote. Or at least it used to work like that.
Can I buy this or would like to make one in partnership with someone!
What's an example of a bug you've had to bisect for recently? Forgive me, it just seems like such a last resort thing.
Is this really true? All it takes is for someone to set up a new exchange without a blacklist, and in the first few days all those blacklisted coins will be converted into other currencies and the blacklisted coins will end up in the wallets of other innocent users.
Can someone please list the existing "Heroku" on K8s PAAS (I know about a dozen on top of my mind) and compare with them one by one?
This conversation shows up on pretty much every HN story that ends up discussing racism. This fear of "dilution" is a textbook "no true Scotsman" fallacy.
> Your interpretation is quite misleading.

That's really hard to say: in its dueling email to its customers, Youtube TV says it was offering to continue the service under the old terms but Roku declined. These "carrier" disagreements generate more smoke and heat than light - with both sides blaming the other with carefully crafted PR messages that are technically true when you squint really hard: I don't doubt both statements by both Roku and Youtube TV are misleading in one way or the other (or have glaring omissions) - remember neither of them is under oath, they are just trying to sway public opinion. Don't put too much stock on what's basically corporate trash-talk on the side-lines of negotiations.
Seconded. I'm one of the strongest "no politics at work" guys you'll find, and unless there's substantial missing context, even I would consider leaving Basecamp over this. A widely circulated list to make fun of people's names is pretty egregious, and demands a lot more introspection on company culture than it sounds like the founders were willing to do.
Somewhat off-topic, but I like the idea of announcing a major change in a project like this through video. It really provides the context and some background of what’s going on and why the change is happening.

Granted, tentacrul seems like an established YouTuber, and this was probably the natural way for him to announce this, but I do hope more people/projects adopt this approach.
Super interesting, thank you. I forsee these topics distracting me well into old age.

This idea of adding the structure of AND, OR, NOT over a field of NAND gates, without losing information sounds like the the beginnings of where Categories become more meaningful than graphs. The analogy would be that AND would be like a functor category, where again, it is represented as an 'arrow' but it's really it's more like a lossless abstraction, in a strict information or logical sense.

This circuit that is a just wad of NANDs is not unlike a generalized universal intermediate representation of a program, or even an esolang program like BF, because while they aren't efficient for human reasoning or computation at all, they are consistent universal forms for symbolic representation.

The problem in code is always, "this would just be compute/work problem if only this thing were made of <consistent-data>," and what attracted me to the idea of CT was that it seemed to be a tool for reasoning 'different' things into compositions of their consistent abstractions.
I still think that's true, but now have a better sense of why.

I will revisit the short course that led me here as well (https://applied-compositional-thinking.engineering/lectures/)
> Money needs to be invested or spent to be useful. Stockpiling hordes of cash is not benefiting anyone. Wealthy individuals will invest that money into other companies and endeavors which drives more economic activity.

Most of the cash is used to further buy shares of existing companies. These shares are purchased on the open market so the money does not actually go to the companies in question, but rather to a shareholder that wishes to cash in.

A company only makes money in the stock market during their IPO: the shares go from being "inside" the company to the "outside". No matter how many times shares are traded after that initial exchange, the company does not get a penny. (Unless they do another share offering.)

So if a company distributes dividends, cash leaves the company to share holders, and then collects in accounts. And if you have a lot of shares (in one company, or in many companies), you probably can only spend only so much of it, so a large portion may simply sitting around. So the rich often decide to use that "spare" to buy more stocks—because why not?

On the other hand, people that are less rich will tend not to have a bunch of "spare" cash sitting around. Most people use up all the cash that they get from (e.g.) dividends to (say) fund their life in retirement. Further, they may not have enough from just dividends to meet their expenses and so they also liquidate capital. And the buyers of the not-rich's shares would probably be the rich.

So the rich use their large holdings to gain a lot of "spare" cash which they can't manage to completely spend, and so they use that spare cash to build even larger holdings.

So what's the point of giving more money to those who probably already have 'too much' when all they're really doing with it is snowballing their holdings?

If you give it to people who do not have a lot they will probably spend it (completely). At the grocery store, at the clothing store, perhaps at the car dealership to get a more reliable automobile, perhaps do some home improvement to fix a drafty house.

This spending by one group will become income for another. Whereas the rich will simply re-consolidate things to themselves without much economic activity.
The response from NXP is just incredible. Heck of a job their "certified security test labs" are doing, if this has just been sitting out there for years waiting for some curious end-users to find it.

What's the point of those certified labs, then? To think inside the box and tell their client only what they want to hear?
Yes, I think it's important to distinguish between the technology & its current use case. The technology is promising (though in bitcoin, stagnant). The primary use case right now seems to be financial speculation. That would have to change in order for any crypto currency to really gain any sort of mainstream traction as an alternative to traditional cash or credit (banks).
These problems are not in spite of SF's success, they are largely due to SF's success. Anywhere else in the US which experiences the same level of success would end up having to deal with mostly the same problems. Henry George predicted this 142 years ago.

> If there is less deep poverty in San Francisco than in New York, is it not because San Francisco is yet behind new York in all that both cities are striving for? When San Francisco reaches the point where New York now is, who can doubt that there will also be ragged and barefooted children on her streets?

In our current system, poverty advances alongside progress. Landlords are the only beneficiaries in a system without Land Value Tax, everyone else is at best doomed to face the trade-offs of going to less productive cities.
Man that would be amazing. I don't see that ever happening, but it would be great to not be stuck with hardware that is unusable or near unusable because the manufacturer abandoned it or went under. Though it would be important that all functionality be able to remain intact if they hand over the tools. In the most technical sense the hardware is still usable even if you have to write new firmware from scratch, but practically it's useless without having something to work from and enhance/bugfix.
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