skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I'm overstating things. Yes, the internet is useful, but consider how the ability to accurately search is the real key to the whole of it. As the original post points out, this hits us in day-to-day matters just as much as in trying to find/discover useful research on a particular topic. The simple fact is this: not only must nearly every link you click be viewed with suspicion, so must every search result you're given by Google, and pretty much every other engine. What is most useful is a presentation of naked results (with functional boolean operators, exclusions that work, a lack of "suggested" terms, etc.), but that doesn't shape and cause more interactions, direct people to the "proper" sites, or improve the bottom line. I remember the internet when it was usable for much more than consumption; it is only marginally so today.
But in this case we're begging them to have it early. We're giving them a pass because we need what they've developed so badly.

The risk was development. Look at all the pharma companies that didn't make it to market.
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Your information is not current as of yesterday evening. Of course the most current information is less reliable as is always the case with emerging information. The vaccines efficacy may be waning for protection from severe covid. Of course all of this is down to definitions and denominators. Are we testing all newly identified cases for variants?
It’s a usability trade off in some ways. Some people will find it confusing that a link opens their web browser. They might ask how to go back to Google Maps. This way there’s a balance. They can quickly preview the link, and if they want to keep it, they can open it intentionally in their browser or share/copy the link with one tap. Users who don’t understand how tabs work won’t find their browsing interrupted by every webpage an app throws their way.

But indeed, that doesn’t prevent an app maker such as Google Maps from making it a preference. Technically if Apple made it a preference it might break the expected UI for apps using the control. And as I noted before, there are advantages to previewing links this way, it encourages users to stay within the app.

There is no technical reason why it doesn’t log history events when loaded. It could send a message to the default browser or keep a log in the background and let the browser know when it next launches, and arguably for consistency Apple should design such a feature.
Ask HN: Should I be worried about healthcare in the US as a SWE
Hello everyone

I'm a software engineer and I'm in the last stages of interviews with few companies based in the US. Now everything looks great in terms of job prospects, income (100-160K ranges) but one thing that worries me is that my partner has a chronic disease and we are worried that in the US it could potentially make us bankrupt and we're better off staying in the UK.

We read horrific stories about healthcare in the US, but I'm wondering if having an income and the privileges that come with a SWE job, would it put us in a more comfortable place?

Can anyone help shed some light on healthcare situations but for SWE/people with equivalent financial situation. Does it make a difference? What things to look for?

Thanks a lot!
By way of compensation however, a few years later PC gamers could enjoy the FM synthesis of the Sound Blaster card or the PCM-based sounds of sound modules like the Roland Sound Canvas. A lot of PC game soundtracks from that era have aged very well and have become classics in their own right.
Slightly off topic but the docs are really well formatted.

[0] Link: https://morloc-project.github.io/docs/

[1] Code: https://github.com/morloc-project/docs/
Just to make this point explicit: Your health care does not cost $300 a month. Your employer is paying for it as well, and as ceejayoz suggested it might be $1-2k a month. Add that in to your calculations.
The titles for these crack me up. Each time I quickly imagine one startup incorporating all the descriptions.
Isn't that in Monkey Island 2?
> I can only assume this is a form of traffic theft because I seriously doubt Google has agreements with all the sites they slurp useful information from.

Yup: https://theoutline.com/post/1399/how-google-ate-celebritynet...
The original commenter said: "Search has been coopted, making the prime thing (past general connectivity) that made the internet so useful now all but worthless."

I agree that Google search has been coopted. It now requires a keener awareness of what is and isn't being artificially promoted. Is it annoying? Yes. Is it something that unsophisticated users fall prey to (by design)? Also sadly yes. But 'all but worthless'? That's a huge overstatement.
StackExchange is a breath of fresh air compared to the rest of the web. I saw a meta post the other day where they were soliciting feedback about how make their mobile site more information dense. Love it!
The methane aspect of cattle production sticks in people's minds, but you’ve highlighted the actual problem with it that doesn’t get covered much: land use change.

And it’s not just the grazing cattle, it’s the mind-boggling number of acres cleared and filled for monoculture animal feed production.

Not only does cattle production contribute directly to greenhouse gases through tilling and methane, it contributed indirectly by moving land out of forest — which sequesters carbon — and into pastures. Regenerative farming practices are many times better than conventional fields — but even that pales in comparison to natural forests. Baring a magical carbon capture device, we need to move a ton of land back into natural forests. That’s because the extreme weather we’re starting to see doesn’t even factor in all of our emissions over the past decade or longer - they lag. We need to sequester and the only practical means we have currently is through plants and trees.

Instead, we’re continuing to emit, and we’re continuing to deforest.
Waiting times do happen, usually end of quarters when the quarterly budget runs out. No issues in so far as these waiting times don't affect emergency procedures.

And no, I don't see a direct link between public health care and wait times. The German issues are mostly caused by a bloated bureaucracy.
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yes! probably only a matter of time until they ramp up the astroturfing (which already happens a fair amount). It seems pretty common for someone to do a Google search for "X product review reddit"
Vietnam and Iraq are counter examples to this, they didn’t fight with tanks, bombers, fighter jets or nukes.
It's in Europe the same way it has always been. UK is no longer in the EU
This is… Strange… Someone slapped an RF ID sticker on the bottom of McDonald’s cup. What happens if you peel it off?

I find this to be dubious, just because it’s so blatant. McDonald’s has the ability to manufacture these inside of the paper. Can’t imagine someone applying these manually. Has anyone else seen this in the wild?
Your examples seem to work for me (the second one only if combined with double quotes). Do you have more?
https://snipboard.io/PYhNHW.jpg
https://snipboard.io/HvRaiE.jpg

It would be cool to find datapoints for a proper bug report for Google :)
Yes it will be a long time until we are able to change this old habits.

But you can put it another way: if someone commit am identity fraud using a picture of your ID, you can defend yourself showing that you were required by many different entities to send a copy of your ID. So there are many parties that could have leaked your ID and a picture of you ID cannot be considered a prove that you authorized or allowed anything.

Case dismissed :)
Germany deliberately set up the authentication ecosystem around private actors it appears pretty much to ensure this would not ever happen. I use my Estonian ID to sign certs from time to time, but my kid has never even bothered to open the envelope with the codes (PUK etc) for his German Ausweis.
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There are two options after losing your job. Cobra or healthcare.gov.

Cobra will allow you to keep your current plan, for my family that would have been ~$800 per month.

Healthcare.gov rates are based on your income, or what it was, or what you expect it to be. Which for me was ~$700.

So there is no way to get affordable insurance to cover the gap in employment in a way that preserves cash reserves.
Do you have more information on how Germany deliberately borked the encryption ecosystem?
people sometimes bemoan stack overflow's rigor and pedantry, but try to ask a technical question on reddit... unless you're in a very well moderated reddit you're getting worse answers or no answers at all
It just has to be a war crime to use these.

A domestic army of robots is really just a foreign army on contract. They have zero loyalty to anyone who doesn't directly control them.
>Maybe, just maybe it also includes the cost of actually administering it by a professional

Nope. That's a separate line item. Appreciate the weird sarcasm though, as if I thought it would be magically administered for free?

>resp tx initial or subsequent qty 33@$318 total $ 10,494 (note: "tx" == therapy)

Also, 3ml takes 5 to 15 minutes to administer. So, even if I'm generous, that respiratory therapist costs $1272/hour.
The alternative could be a $40 textbook and an open source flashcard / srs program.
> They are putting themselves at risk surely, but the risk doesn't really spread to people who have been vaccinated.

They _are_ putting those who have been vaccinated at risk since vaccinated people can still get sick. Also this ignores all of those who wish to, but can't be vaccinated for one reason or another.
It's not so impressive when you realise that South Africa is a non-examining patent issuer - patents are issued as long as all the forms are properly filled out.

https://www.bowmanslaw.com/insights/intellectual-property/so...

A markov-chain based word-generator could just have easily gotten the patent issued, because the patent office does not examine the patent application for patentability, it only checks that the correct procedure is followed.
Another post showing the same: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/dh3yma/m...

"McDonald’s and Starbucks are Planning to Adopt RFID Technology"

https://rfidcard.com/mcdonalds-and-starbucks-are-planning-to...
Is this a copy pasta? I see this exact story repeated in several sites/comment threads.
Verifying you have your environment and search paths setup correctly.

From the man page:

> -w, --where, --path, --location

Don't actually display the manual page, but do print the location of the source nroff file that would be formatted.
My eldest is very emotional, even by five-year-old standards. She has difficulty dealing with even slightly stressful situations.

I remembered a focus group I helped conduct, where gum chewers talked about its stress relieving properties. I taught her to chew gum when she's having a hard time and it worked. She'll get really upset and disappear into her room, coming out a few minutes later with gum in her mouth and a smile on her face.
> Nobody is claiming that any single tool - much less Duolingo - will make you proficient in a language.

Lots seem to have that belief, though. As I said in another comment, it's something you can see quite often in various language learning forums in Reddit (/r/duolingo) and Facebook, as well as on the DL forums themselves.

> If Dolingo is claiming this, that would be false advertisement / scamming.

They might not explicitly claim it, but they certainly imply it in my opinion.
A lot of talk here about the getting the vaccination is a moral imperative for the greater public safety. One parable I can think of is mandatory abortions. At a time where the planets resources are diminishing surely another human is a risk to us all. And who’s to say someone’s child doesn’t end being a deranged, homicidal maniac. Women have an imperative, no are required by law, to abort at the earliest possible moment. And compared to the Varus, there is a 100% chance a child will use up resources, opposed to whatever new kill rate the virus has. There are a lot of our-there defences for anti-vax, the ones that make the most sense are: (1) COVID is not as deadly as the news cycle makes it out, (2) the vaccine is still in trial, (3) there are no repercussions for vaccine producers. Of course, the implications of these points is what turns off the other side. The loudest theory in the room gets noticed, and that happens to be 5G microchips or whatever. When really, it’s just a new tax on everyday people. Politicians have an interest in the companies producing the vaccine so they’ll enforce laws to make them mandatory. The surveillance state loves any excuse to track us more than they are already. Splintering the population along ideological lines further benefits the system in place. So, yes, regarding the implications of points (1), (2) and (3), I believe the system in place would willingly manipulate this non-issue for its own benefit. And, if your argument is vaccination is better for society as a whole see parable above.
Unfortunately no, when people commit identity fraud using your ID, you're the one that needs to prove your innocence. In the US for example it's so easy to commit identity fraud, but really hard to get out of the damage someone else may have done to you.
So what software should do something similar with "Wake Me Up When September"?
I wasn’t aware of that. Is there a minimum age to qualify?

I remember hearing some stories coming out of the 2016 election similar to what you mentioned, the hypocrisy/irony is palpable.
They support zfs send-recv and snapshots:

* https://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html

* https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/snapshots.html

Whether their ZFS implementation supports OpenZFS encryption is something you'll have to e-mail them about. They have an HN account:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rsync

Edit: Yes, it seems that they do:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26506263
Persistence of this pandemic is FUD. If you get vaccinated it's over. Covid was never going to be eradicated, at best it will fade into the endemic background as a weird cold/flu. In countries with on demand access to the vaccines, the pandemic is over.
Interestingly, I think this was correct or at least colloquially correct a few centuries ago. I've seen that spelling used in text from the 1700s and 1800s by educated people. Probably a holdover from before spelling got really standardized.
And yet NKLA still has a $5B market cap despite the entire company being 100% fraud. Amazing.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/nkla
They're going back to mask mandates because the numbers are going back up due to unvaccinated people... I thought this was all clear?
It sounds like you're doing ok. I'm 9 years in and still have similar issues. I have come to hate my job, so I would be careful since you might be on a similar track.

"Since I've started I've been working with several programming languages dependng on customers proposals. I don't like that because I'm not being good at any of them."

My company does this to me all the time. I wish I could focus on one or two things and become a true expert.
AFAICT the photo service is a convenience feature for the user itself. When I use the ID-card desktop utility or the national web service it offers to show me my own photo. It may be used by govt agencies internally (and obv for issuing it) but I have yet to see an actual use case beyond showing it to myself.
> As for Pepe being a far-right meme. It never has been one.

It wasn't originally, but you're kidding yourself if you think that it hasn't become one
> In any case, i'm a believer in free speech, i don't object to him writing on such a topic, im just unconvinced.

He wasn't trying to convince you to do anything except to reconsider the views you absorbed from your culture without conscious thought
Humans have a natural aversion to killing, and yes, during war mentioned atrocities do happen, but the soldiers are not perfect killing machines. Often they miss intentionally and just shoot in the general vicinity of the opponent.

See this reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/history/comments/b6k528/percentage_...

Troops can also desert which is especially prevalent in civil war situations. That's why during war, you need propagandists coming up with constant stories about how horrible and bad the other side is, so that you get people to shoot.

The unit that so brutally killed the tianmen protesters was one of the most brutal ones the Chinese military had. That's why they had to wait for days for it to arrive. Had they deployed different units, they might have fraternized with the protesters and joined them in their protest, making the task even harder for the leadership. Try getting even the most brutal unit to shoot at people in their own uniform.

For military parades, you can't afford 5% of people who intentionally don't march in lock step. That's why usually the troops which participate in such parades are isolated and fed propaganda leading up to the parade.

The human component is a constant variable that needs to be accounted for in military leadership.
I was a math tutor in college, and many of the tutees would come into the tutor lab completely downtrodden, dreading their homework. I found the most helpful thing I could do with them was to focus more on getting them to understand the motivation behind what they had gone over in class that day, and in particular saying things like "now why would we do this" as soon as I could see in their face that it was clicking. Getting them to understand the why (and getting them to feel like they understood the why) was incredibly effective for helping them feel less insecure when going to class.
I read, back in the days, "trackers" were used for electronic music composition. But I don't know if that was the case for game music.
I like how somebody called it "BS" in a tweet reply, but that it occurred was later verified (they were able to cancel it). The tesla fans are a bit overboard.
> That being said AI patents are an issue, but I don’t think they’re quite there yet.

The 1981 ZX81 Chess program that ran in 1kiB of RAM would have astonished a 19th century observer and would have qualified as "artificial intelligence" from their point of view. What's currently called "AI" is not that much different from that program. Claiming it has somehow any kind of personhood is just nonsensical, and probably a publicity stunt. Why not list SPICE or your favorite finite elements solver in your patent application as a contributor?
I strongly stand by "idiot".

A vaccinated person is doing the bare minimum to avoid serious complications and the vaccine is extraordinarily good at that. S/he is not an idiot. An unvaccinated person is practically inviting illness. They're idiots, through and through.
Just noting that ~60% of all US hospitals are non-profit hospitals (although you wouldn't know it from the bills). What this means is that people who have no insurance pay significantly reduced prices via payment plans, or pay nothing at all.

To be clear, it's not like the hospital won't attempt to collect payment from them; they will. And some are downright assholes about it and will resort to scare tactics (usually farming the work out to a 3rd party). But, to maintain their tax breaks as a non-profit, etc. they are required to work with - and even forgive - patients who cannot pay.

Note: some hospitals are also assholes with the services they provide. They can't let someone die because they can't pay, but once "stable", then can boot you out.

Below this point is possible misinformation. It's my current understanding, but if someone with more direct knowledge can weigh in, I'd be very appreciative.

The above is where a large chunk of the costs for everyone else comes from. Basically, those who can pay are expected to pay for those who can't.

Where it really hurts is for those people who are - what I'll call - barely middle class. They probably make ~$50k / year and if they have health insurance, it's probably not a great plan: very high deductible and/or max out of pocket. Since they are insured, they will get a much higher bill (initially sent to the insurance company) designed to compensate for everyone else who is getting cheap/free treatment. And, because they insured, legally the hospital doesn't have to reduce the cost or forgive the debt.
While stainless steel is “dishwasher safe”, dishwasher detergent is still overly harsh, can cause discoloration, and will prematurely wear the pan surface.
First time I heard about this book I was young and thought I was good at maths and (naturally) dismissive of it because of its title. Surprised it is quite good! Never used it for serious study though.
But in a way, they actively host the content. The fact that their server periodically retrieves new content from a different backend makes no difference. The page sits on their hard drives and is server by their servers when I visit that domain. It's always been a very, very thin argument and it has gotten even thinner with the likes of Cloudflare Pages and Workers.

Cloudflare is just a huge company actively ignoring abuse complaints and somehow they are getting away with it. It even helps their PR to a certain market segment.

They even still host kiwifarms, a board that is primarily known for its vicous harassment of people and is known to have driven multiple innocent people to suicide.

I consider CloudFlare a bad actor at this point and I wish the other big names around them would too. They are subsidizing crime with VC money.
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It's downvoted because the issue at hand here is NOT "parity" between left and right conspiracy theories.

The issue at hand is that there's a problem with resurgent "alt-right" (or whatever you want to call them) extremist groups that have demonstrated a potential for violence as well as infiltration into trusted organizations like the police. They have taken up new aesthetics, symbologies and memes. It's important for people to recognize these new appearances and what they actually signify.
That doesn’t preclude acknowledging the history of the tool.
Most PC games from this era supported the Ad Lib, Roland MT-32, Soundblaster, etc.

Here is the game from the post running on DOS with various sound cards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr-84mjV3CI
Considering the quality of current examinations in the approval process, I don't see how AI can do any worse.
Basically now instead of doing a proper technical analysis and search over already approved patents, seems they just approve and "let the courts handle it".

I understand a proper type of technical patent analysis in the approval process is extremely hard and resource consuming, but the way it's handled now is killing anyone not having a legal firm on their speed dial and cash to burn.
For Solaris 11 and for Illumos based distros, snapshotting the entire root is normal. That way, with an OS update and application update, the logs are associated with that particular root file system. You can always look into earlier snapshots to learn of what the logs contained for that earlier root file system.

With Boot Environments (I don't know if Linux based Distros let one do this) on Solaris and Illumos, we have multiple active root file systems to switch between and can mark snapshots for each of them.

Certainly, for Belenix (KDE based opensolaris distro), we snapshotted the entire root file system.
Google makes an annualized $71 billion in profit after paying tens of thousands of software engineers.

I’m not saying I think they should win outright but they should at least be holding their own if they are giving it their all.
You go to the emergency room and let the bill go to collections. Just make sure you have a different phone number for medical stuff so bill collectors don't bother you while you are working.
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