skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, if you're not going to die in the next 3 hours, don't go to an ER.

Because of the laws surrounding ER care [0] and the fact that most hospitals with ERs are Trauma I & last resort, almost all operate in triage all the time.

The end result is that if you're not critical, you get care once they have enough time. And they never have enough time. Because they never have enough people.

Recommendations: only consider ERs in wealthy suburbs (where they'll be less overloaded with last-resort patients), go to an urgent care center (and expect to be screwed on price), or a walk-in doctor's office (best option).

[0] EMTALA, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_...
I’m ambivalent. Sure, guess I’d like it as an industry practice. It would make my taxes very lengthy to do by having to deal with 40+ 1099 forms every year but for sufficient payment not a big deal.

I do worry this would raise the bar even further though on expectations because now they’re paying for time. They’d take even less chances on who they interview because it’s 2x as expensive as it used to be. And I don’t think it’d become a world of doing “practical” assessments - I think leetcode would still be very common.
Apple ordered by Russia to take down Navalny app
Completely personal opinion, but the Y seems to satisfy a larger family/roominess requirement, and the X does much the same thing while adding HELLO EVERYONE LOOK AT MEEEEEE whenever you open the gull wing doors. :P
Related https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo
I find it pretty toxic tbh, there's always some sort of drama going on but occasionally I find some good things that are worth using twitter for
Wouldn't we not need 3 if they'd install UV air filters?
I thought the same thing. Even in a non-regulated industry, the moment you are paid, you're now consulting which can get tricky contract-wise.
The Chevy Volt (or Opel Ampera in my case, but same thing essentially) keeps track of fuel age somehow and will run the engine to burn fuel if it sits in the tank too long. The other points in that list don’t seem applicable.
Honestly, all of this can be summed up as:

"trying to have your cake and eat it too".

Nothing more than stubborn/incompetent administration of a dying village refusing to let go of the ways of thinking and lifestyle that existed 50 years ago.

That's not to say the lifestyle is bad or obsolete. It may exist again 50, or 100, or 1000 years in the future. But it doesn't exist now, and if you want to actually attract people there and not do pointless virtue signaling, you have to change these conditions. Most of them are terrible disincentives.
> Pre-emptively recalling vehicles for potential problems is a lot different than those problems actually occurring.

In both of the listed recalls hundreds of cars had self-immolated. In the GM one I personally knew a few people who had their homes catch fire from the car catching fire while parked in their garage.
Tesla is very obviously chasing the BMW market with the Model 3 and Model Y, which represent the 3-series sedans and X3 respectively. You can see this when you compare prices and specifications (cabin size, curb height, HP) of similarly-outfitted vehicles. The next level up in BMW’s SUV lineup is the X5, which begins at about $60K and goes up to about $82K fully loaded. Whereas the Tesla Model X begins at $80K and can go $91K or even $100K if you get the options (I’m not even talking about “Plaid”, which is $120K.) So TL;DR the Y is more popular than the X because it’s a much cheaper car (when equivalently optioned), and the X is competing with a much more expensive category of luxury SUVs.
That doesn't scale though. We hired 150 people in one engineering org over the past two years. Assuming we picked from a pool of 500 that'd be quarter to half million in gift cards.

Edit: because my point seemingly isn't clear. It's not about the money, its the fact that you can't hide a quarter of a million dollars in gift cards from the IRS. So for this process to scale, it has to be completely legal and above board.
I like to hand out all the necessary rope to accomplish a self-hanging.

Though yes, clearly there's something not right here.
A benchmark from nearly five years ago means nothing today.
I have noticed similar issues but I don't think you would have "died on the ER waiting room floor": if you were in for dehydration then you were treated as such, i.e. low priority. That's really all there is to it. Sometimes people are misdiagnosed and that's when there really is a problem, but that's independent of the country, and Doctors do everything they can to make sure this does not happen. In most of Europe you go to the hospital to be treated, your comfort is really considered secondary unless you are in very bad health. The stinky guy next to you had the same rights that you do, but the system is such that you both should be treated equally and given proper care. The system is not perfect but it does its best to follow these principles.
That can also be used in court (e.g. “Pretty odd you just happened to turn your phone off for the first time in a decade during the exact timeframe of this crime.”). Ideally, you’d “lose” your phone a few weeks to a month before the crime and then get one afterwards.
I provided the link as context.

Also for what it's worth chevy just announced a recall for all bolts 2017-2022 (which is every model year they've released) and even the EUV models from 2022 - so the problem appears to be more widespread than initially thought.

https://my.chevrolet.com/how-to-support/safety/boltevrecall
I get that their system may sometimes need manual classification of signals but how is it possible to change the triangulated location? That is the core part of the technology and doesn't require ML to implement. Seems like it's all just Theranos style vapor.
Sure, but don't you think that EVs ought to support minority use cases? After all, they are aiming to replace ICEs wholesale. I don't think most people need longer range to adopt EVs, but I do think that manufacturers should still be looking to build cars with longer range.
Stripe Connect collects SSN/EIN for someone to get paid on Algora. It's basically no-strings-attached contract work within Git repositories.
Many invasive plants are still being sold at garden centers
Algora takes care of 1099s (via Stripe) so you don't have to
Looks like i-MIEV was discontinued just this March. 10kWh and 16kWh models existed, base model was 2.27m($20k) at that point, launch price was 4.6m($45k) in 2010.
> The Families First Coronavirus Response Act ensures that COVID-19 testing is free to anyone in the U.S., including the uninsured.

https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/community-based-testing-site...
You interview at 40+ places every year? If that’s true there is something very wrong with our industry.

How do you have time for that?

One minor note they only have to file a 1099 if you made more than $600 (of course you’re still supposed to report it).
Apparently, Plan9 has failed in this regard. What went wrong?
That `jc` command that converts non-json output to json is neat. But, um, seems slightly kludgy to be obvious. What if the `ifconfig` format changes slightly. I suppose its a stop-gap until all commands have a json output option.
I think you're trying to say you like C but dislike C++'s complexity.

You will enjoy Go.

Go can be understood as an improved, modernized C that doesn't abandon C's simplicity.
I've also spent nights waiting for attention in emergency rooms. Being made to wait in an emergency room is usually a good sign. If you had something that would've killed you in 12h, I believe the doctor on duty would have been more likely to prioritize you.
There are many use cases for hydrogen, the following diagram shows a ladder of competitiveness: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E81j2loXEAYzjo5?format=jpg&name=...
I agree somewhat, but can see the flip side: in large companies where you may go through multiple rounds of interviews, spanning several days overall, you can be made to feel like a resource whose time is disposable.
My personal theory has long been that "technology" is the word people use for things that don't reliably work. It's never clean drinking water from the tap or the seed drill, it's stuff like this or clunky meeting software.
One big reason is because it is highly likely they not only don't have one, but one couldn't even exist in any meaningful way, as their primary implementation is some turing-complete monstrosity where the only "formal" spec is their code as there is nothing "formal" about it: the cost of not using parser generators is essentially the same as the cost of using dynamic typing... it not only means you probably have inconsistency bugs all over the place, even if it made it feel easier to code without having to actually prove your program was correct all the time, but it further tends to lead you to relying on the dynamic typing features in places that make the resulting program not something that fits any known formal type model anymore even if it works perfectly.
BC Ferries used to do this also, but have in the last few years moved to a more modern-looking, responsive layout.

TBH I miss the old-school unstyled text.
I think it's great that people are trying this. But when I'm looking for jobs, this wouldn't influence me much. It might be a useful signal that they respect my time, but also could indicate a relatively mercenary culture.

From the hiring side, I'd also have concerns. At a previous company we paid for a lot of user testing subjects and there were some people who were trying to make a living out of it. They'd say absolutely anything up front to try to get in and get the money. And that was just for $30-$50. If we're talking $200-800, that's a lot of incentive for goofs to lie their way into an interview.
So much advertising opportunity lost :)

But a very no-nonsense site that doesn't get in your way, I'm a fan.
A lot of legal departments have a mental image of AGPL (and GPL) as a bogeyman that will steal all the company's code if allowed anywhere near the building. I've sat through a presentation one time that tried to paint these licenses as something only basement dwellers use for personal projects. I spoke to the presenter afterwards and told them about projects like Linux and Mongo, and how even AGPL is not as scary as they thought.

The lawyer seemed genuinely surprised and said they would read up on it. I'm pretty sure my bringing this up in a friendly manner caused them to question their assumptions. Had I picked a fight during the presentation I'd just be labeled a basement dweller.

However, this lawyer also told me something interesting. To some extent it doesn't matter whether I was able to change his mind. As long as other lawyers in the field have this bogeyman concept in mind, the use of GPL will get flagged in due diligence, etc. and it's easier to simply not use a component with strong copyleft when developing a product (unless it's as irreplaceable as Linux).

This is a long-winded way of saying that selling exceptions will likely scare off potential purchasers long before they are in a position to consider the purchase. Most shops have a blanket "no GPL ever" policy and a dev won't even bother with the component even for a prototype.
In this market multiple rounds of interviews are a competitive disadvantage, good devs don't stay on the market long enough to schedule that second on-site.
Show HN: Where I get the last word
Tired of dealing with other people's opinions. Now you can only react to my thoughts with 4 emojis chosen by me. Gag project
As a CEO, I would love to see the enforcement of these laws. Increasing competition will greatly help our free market. People have lost faith in capitalism because of crony capitalism.
Show HN: Course finder search engine using ES, Py, React and Redux, K8
You can also find Washington State Ferries data in OneBusAway, which is free, open source, and has just been rewritten in Swift: https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-ios

(and is also looking for volunteer developers and localizers.)
Because exceptions don’t form habits? I don’t get my kids presents constantly, but I will on Christmas. There is also a pretty clear difference between watching miracle on 34th street vs whatever schlock happens to be on.
I would second this. Framework seems to be intent on creating a laptop that is easy to repair and upgrade. It has some unique features, too, like extension cards. Depending on what one needs it is possible to have, say, 4 USB-A ports or 4 HDMA ones. The only fly in the ointment as I see it is the lack of Coreboot support although they promise to work on it.
Ask HN: Shared Hosting Recommendations
I'm looking for an old school reliable, low cost, shared hosting provider for simple projects and websites. (with WordPress supporting, ie LAMP, LEMP) There's so many companies out there, and I have my own biases and experiences with many of them... I'm wondering what the crowd here recommends.

No, I'm not looking for a $5 VPS, I don't want to bother with managing and maintaining a server, I'd rather just have a turnkey solution where I can set up domains or subdomains as needed without having to maintain a server myself.
He's intentionally mixing woodlands with commercial/working forests. The EU does want to increase forestry but it's almost entirely for timber production.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/105/the-e...
12-year-old me wants that. Way cooler than cheap plastic kit I had. 57-yr-old me can afford it, but can live without.
The restrictions you've mentioned are pretty significant. How many people are taking advantage of this program?
You can self report that via other means, you don’t necessarily have to receive a 1099
Do you mean the login screen with a list of accounts, used from the browser? Or Android's multiple accounts ability?

That doesn't mean more than one account per person is OK though. Just the reality than more than one person may share a device.
It may surprise you to learn this, but there's a fast charger in Grass Valley. [1]

It's really pretty stunning how many fast chargers are popping up in rural locations.

They are usually 50kW chargers, but still, that will get you to where you need to go in an hour or 2 (if you need to).

On the other hand, if you are spending a weekend there, you can often slow charge at wherever you are staying. A weekend is more than enough time to get a full battery, even at 120V.

[1] https://www.plugshare.com/directory/us/california/grass-vall...
Oh, that's great. That means they can drive on 99% of roads in all weather conditions except blizzards, hurricanes and wildfires?

Yeah, didn't think so.
The hirer is the one filing out the 1099, and interviewing 40+ candidates a year is easy. That said, you should only need to file a 1099 when the pay is $600+.
Furthermore, it would allow me to turn off my ad-block for certain creators, without making me suffer through ads on videos made by creators I'm not willing to support in that way.
I wish more sites offered simple, fast, "lite" versions.

For example, https://lite.cnn.com
Cope (noun, slang) is any thought used as a coping mechanism against an emotional stressor or perceived shortcoming.

For example:

Alice: I may be ugly, but at least I’m not superficial.

Bob: Cope
I don't understand why the leak rate from H2 pipes wouldn't be as bad as CH4. In fact, shipping hydrogen is generally much harder, since it requires such deeply cryogenic temperatures to stay liquid, unlike liquid natural gas which can be accomplished with just pressure.
While my stance on forensics is not as negative as the parent comment, I don't see how you are drawing such a sharp distinction between the "science" and the "interpretation". They are not separate things.

When a scientist proposes a new test, they include measurement techniques as well as a method of interpretation. If a medical test is used in a way that is frequently prone to misinterpretation, it would be fair to call that entire test useless.
In this case the primary subject is your child so it's more socially acceptable but I can still see it making some other parents uncomfortable.
If it's on site and you have to commute e.g 1h (so 2)

and spend at least 1h on interview itself, then it's basically half of workday and e.g I, personally would have to take a day off to be able to participate.

I don't see it as not reasonable if somebody does not ACE every interview and has to attend a few of them.

And we're still pretty optimistic here, there are multi rounds interview.
> Solution? Get rid of income taxes, make medical schools optional to practice, just make exams open to any participant, affordable education channels will pop up by themselves. Don't regulate medical malpractice, practicians should rather have their lives ruined instead, it's actually a stronger incentive to proper practice than having a big insurer paying the millions in settlement cases.

All those make society worse. Alternatively:
- subsidize or cap education fees so that students don’t go into crushing debt
- reduce inefficiencies resulting from a for profit insurance system by switching to a single payer social insurance system
- cap malpractice claims and put in better controls against frivolous lawsuits
- doing all this also lower doctors wages
>... doesn't correct anything.

Except that, ya know, it's a correction, so it does correct something. Once again you are intentionally inaccurately or poorly describing something in an effort to drive home your point. I am not going to be engaging with you any further.
I had a similar thought when I stopped for gas at a rest stop a few months back and saw every Tesla super charger there in use
You only have to do a 1099 if you get paid more than $600. Assuming $100/hr you'd need 7 hours for an interview to need a 1099. 40+ * 7 = 280+ hours of interviews to hit that level, which seems like an outlier to me.
New Birmingham shop allows customers to borrow instead of buy
Software engineering is one of the most lucrative and high paying jobs out there and y’all want an extra few hundred for doing interviews?? Come on now.

I understand the point being made in the article but that amount of money just isn’t the best incentive
I would be surprised if those armored vehicles could be easily turned on by turning a key. Can the talibans just hop in and drive them?
Thanks.

That's rather unclear and nonstandard, in my view.
It sounds like if that's the model, you're externalizing your costs to those unfortunate 500 people's time.

That's pretty unethical. Maybe don't waste so many people's time if you're very unlikely to hire them?

Those I interview, I ask to complete a small task that I pay for. It's the only way I can do it and feel okay about rejecting them if I choose to.

It feels pretty bad to work on something, get rejected, and have no compensation for your time and effort.
> I've used -P 32 to make day-long jobs take an hour! You can't do that with a for loop.

for file in *; do
command_using_file &
done
wait

?

I use variations on this all the time; pause while load is high, pause while 'x' or more things are running, sleep between invocations, etc.

It may not be as convenient for some cases, but "can't do that..." is not quite correct either.

The post is starting to feel like a hammer/nail argument, IMO.
I'm not too familiar with the situation in the US, but aren't there areas with HOAs that pose similarly strict laws on the exterior of your house? Like length of grass etc. Doesn't seem to be too different.

Germany, for what it's worth, has a lot of the same laws protecting old buildings, where it is very hard to impossible to legally modify the front.
1. Be a company whose mission is to "Create, share & reward paid coding tasks".

2. Make an article with a self-serving title encouring paid coding tasks.

3. Provide no justification.

4. Cover up the lack of justification with a graph of a normal distribution. Mention standard deviations for additional perception of credibility.

5. Share this with people who would like to be paid for things they would do anyway. (The CEO of the company posted this on HN)

6. Profit?
In the present case, replication didn't fail because of statistics but because the experiment was impossible to reproduce.

If it fails to replicate certain statistical outcomes, things are more complicated.
H2 is not a greenhouse gas. The leak of H2 does not contribute to global warming.
OP responds here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266767
Ammonia has potential safety issues, but you should be aware that there are already ammonia ports and ammonia ships. Not using it as a fuel, but transporting it.

So while ammonia needs to be handled safely if it's being used as a fuel, there already is a big ammonia industry today that has plenty of experience in handling it.
From anywhere to anywhere is also an unnecessarily lofty goal. Bringing me to the front of a store in a strip mall is nice, but dropping me off at the street is good enough. Even doing enough streets in a city to pickup/dropoff within 1/4 mile would be revolutionary.
You don't know it's 30 and you don't know it's going to stay so even if it is.
"I think that there is a much better chance that PHEVs are the road to mass adoption than pure electric in the short term (ie. 10-15 years)."

I think you are correct - you just missed that the 10-15 years was 2010-2025. It has already happened.

We are on the verge of a hockey stick of adoption of purely electric cars.

The frustrating recalcitrance of incumbents (like Volvo and BMW) was their attempt to recoup billions in investments in the last 1-2 generations of vehicles - costs that had already been sunk.

That is why after 10 years of concept cars and "e-initiatives" and weird tron-cars we finally have actual electric cars coming out of Audi/BMW/Volvo.

They were just stalling...
It may very well be the case that a version of fire analysis that is scientifically rigorous can be done, but this would have nothing to do with how it is typically practiced.
Skio (YC S20) is hiring founding engineers
Sounds like they do keep track and will invoke special modes if the gas is gonna go “stale”:
https://www.cartalk.com/blogs/dear-car-talk/can-gasoline-go-...
> To What, though?

That's not the right way to think of this. The point is to send a strong message to Apple that this is not cool. Just as people didn't buy MacBooks without Esc keys, or bad butterfly mechanisms.

The MacBook itself got popular because the most technically knowledgeable people used them, got their families to use them, and was seen using them.

As Apple sees their numbers, they will put 1+1 together and decide that it's not worth it for them--they're a company out to make profits. It doesn't matter how much people complain if they keep buying. This makes a better Apple, and we can then again purchase the Apple products that live up to our standards. If we say, it sucks but it's better than the other one, this is a downward slope with no recovery.
I agree with the conclusion, and my startups always use a 1-2 week paid "microinternship" before final hiring decisions (unless I've worked with the person before).

That being said, this article makes no sense. The justification it gives sounds like it was autogenerated by a bad markov chain.

First it claims without justification that market salary equals "mean productivity", which already isn't true. But suppose that we believe that.

Then it says that there is a large productivity difference between good and bad engineers. Ok.

Finally it says (paraphrasing), "because good engineers are so much more productive, it's rational to pay them for interviewing." But that's just a restatement of the title of the article, not an argument.

For single day interviews, I think the opposite is true because of adverse selection. Good engineers aren't looking for 1 day of pay, they are looking for a job. The people who value your 1 day paid interview the most are people who are not looking for a job.
Sure, but programming languages are also tools. Why bother having this discussion at all, if you don't care about tools?
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...