skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe my understanding is incorrect but this is what I was referring to when I said the number of beds cannot be increased arbitrarily (have a limited time to post, sorry)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need

>A 2011 study found that CONs "reduce the number of beds at the typical hospital by 12 percent, on average, and the number of hospitals per 100,000 persons by 48 percent.

https://www.ajmc.com/view/ajmc_09oct_hellinger_737to744

>Certificate-of-need laws have reduced the number of hospital beds by about 10% and have reduced healthcare expenditures by almost 2%.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/con-certificate-of-need...
Frankly I think we need to chill the hell out - this has all of the hallmarks of a moral panic. People here are seriously and unironically saying "think of the children" and "we need censorship for society".

Good god, did they all get amnesia a few decades ago to forget their youth, and how much of a dumb panic it was?

There is a 95% chance a retort will be "But this time is different!" despite the fact it never is.
How many people with prior experience at these companies have you worked with or know on a personal level that you're drawing this conclusion from?
Wouldn’t this be extremely easy to find out with a battery tear down/test?
An educated guess, but also a leap of faith. I've been friends with recruiters, so I guess that makes it a little easier. But you can certainly figure that out from looking at job postings.

But the easy answer is $200k/year is what most people should be aiming to make professionally (even if they don't currently). And so every job switch you make should be a jump in salary. If you're making $120k, there should be nothing wrong with saying you want $160k.

The big issue is just getting yourself psyched up to utter what you want to a recruiter. If you've been paid around $80k for five years with 3% annual raises, it's hard to say to a recruiter, "I want $140k". People tend to internalize that their worth is what that paycheck is, not what the market is willing to pay them. In that sense, it's just a leap of faith you need to make on your part.
Animal testing is regulated activity. Do you know why?
I suppose this "Another recalled Chevy Bolt parked indoors catches fire in Georgia" https://www.autoblog.com/2021/09/15/chevy-bolt-garage-fire/ isn't going to help.
The size number of the unbounded tape size is always finite, is that better?
Yes, but an important part of that context is that electric car fires also burn longer and hotter and take significantly more effort to put out. Too little water can actually make the fire worse.

Annecdotally, my recollection from other articles is that electric cars do in fact catch on fire less often. But it also seems like they may be more difficult to deal with. This may change as EV's become more mainstream & fire departments adapt: Graphite may be effective in putting out these fires, and maybe it will become a common tool in fire departments.

For the time being, rare or not, they post a much larger problem to deal with when they do occur.
In the former case there's definitely a person inside the thing that's on fire, and in the latter case there almost definitely isn't a person inside the thing (I guess once in a while somebody sleeps in their car but this isn't recommended) and that seems like a much safer situation.

Houses are replaceable, that's why people have insurance.
Yeah I agree. Though I don't mean morality in a general sense. All I'm saying is, it's important to figure out if someone will contribute to a product that is shown to be harmful. It has nothing to do with an individual's beliefs or feelings, only actions people take in the workplace.
> Are you asserting that everyone who has held assets long-term is "swimming with the sharks" and thus deserves to have sudden unexpected taxes applied to their historical investments?

If they're legitimately long term investments then "sudden unexpected" taxes shouldn't be a problem. And it's not like these people accidentally stumbled into a 100% tax break. They knew what they were doing.

> You'd have to figure out how to deal with illiquid assets. If property values in my neighborhood go up will I be forced to sell or refinance my house to pay the tax bill?

No-one cares whether my generation can afford to own our homes, why should I care whether boomers can afford to own theirs? Maybe if we stopped deferring taxes at the drop of a hat it would bring some sanity to house prices.
Thank you for the sober and measured response.

I must say though, that US fiat has cratered since being pulled off the gold standard around 1971, and the purchasing power is always declining.

It seems like some cryptos fill a similar niche gold and silver fills in the physical world. While any individual crypto could be a pump-and-dump , the basket of all cryptos represent a concept that I'm confident enough in to wager will retain utility for our foreseeable lifetimes.
My dad has always tried to park 50 feet away from other cars anyways, for as long as I've known him (he's protective of his car). Since this wouldn't affect his habits, maybe I could get him one from GM on a steep discount now? And yes, I am only joking.
Facebook does not have any regard for human agency, neither the platform nor the corporation, anymore than fentanyl or its producers have.

I agree that the sense of which you speak is a nonsensical perspective; I'm not interested in laying blame on a tool for how the tool is utilized.

The Facebook employee isn't unethical because of their nebulous entanglement in nth-order externalities, whereby bad-person X did bad-thing Y therefore employee Z is guilty by association.

The Facebook employee is unethical because of their direct, active, engagement in developing the actual tools actually utilized by none other than their employer for the explicit purpose of making our world a more user-hostile place.
It’s trivial to find examples of cars bursting into flames.

https://abc7chicago.com/bmw-car-fires-vehicle-what-causes-pe...
Or maybe it's just a coincidence? Please be careful not to get drawn into "doomsday" thinking.
Yeah see you don’t get it :-) one mans waste is another mans gold. Basically you don’t want to accept others value things differently than yourself, right?
On device Web UI adds zero cost, its cheaper than App ecosystem. Its local, no registration, no data exfiltration, no remote logging.
I test drove a M3P six months ago in Melbourne, and the panel gap quality of the two cars in the showroom was absolutely awful. I couldn't believe it. They were the refreshed model with the chrome delete, too.

Then my friend bought one, and it was as good as any other new car I've seen. It looked great.

I found that quite strange. Is it a roll of the dice based on where and when they're made, or would the demo models have come from a pool that were rejected for sale somehow?
I'm doing really well, thanks!
The website gave a misleading title.
It's called "bounce juggling" everywhere else, including on the juggler Kateryna Nikiforova 's own website.
Reuters scribes claim exclusive three years after it came to light
Worst: CDC's NOS/VE on a Cyber mainframe, closely followed by their NOS OS. The naming was a bit like Javascript and Java, NOS/VE was vastly different than NOS, but both were very, very bad in very different ways.

After mainframe OSes, I'd have to say VAX/VMS is the worst I've used. This is partly because of the aggressive "need to know" culture that typically kept the official documentation locked away, but also because the OS just didn't make sense. It was very idiosyncratic, from file naming, to command line flag style, to its process model.
Humans are replaceable, that's why people have insurance.

Just kidding.
The CCP is not trying to convince any East Asian nation that the us is flaky. It is trying to convince a populace that attacking Taiwan is going to be bloodless for an army of it's populaces only children.
https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/News-and-Research/Fire-st...

56 vehicle fires / billion miles driven.

15 vehicle fire deaths / hundred billion miles driven.
Demo models are likely earlier VINs where the manufacturing line was getting into its rhythm. Can’t say for sure of course, only the ground truth visible to me and what I hear from other Tesla owners.

China Gigafactory produced Teslas are typically higher quality than Fremont builds.
They would be upset. 100%. Many of them just don't care about the inner workings of the app.
In my view, your best course of action now would be to apologize, retract your article, and start mending fences.
How is it safer for a car to catch fire in your garage while you're asleep? This is clearly the more dangerous situation.
Author of https://project-memento.com here, this is a disapointing news to see as a NFT creators. NFT aren't shown equally on their website
> Isn't that just "failing to signal a turn"?

You mean "making the turn illegally"? Potato potato.
Based on how you didn't even recognize the acronym, [c|sh]ould you perhaps consider the possibility that there are more things between heaven and earth that you don't know about?
Adobe had it working on mobile... arguably badly. See Flash on Android. Apple said 'no, you're not going to run that on our platform'. With Flash no longer being ubiquitous, it effectively died rather quickly after that.

It can be argued that this probably would have happened anyway with Javascipt engine performance improving rapidly and web standards beginning to provide media functionality that had been missing etc. However, it was Apple who stopped them cold and greatly accelerated its demise rather than hanging in there for another decade or more.
I think the key word there was "spontaneous", along with the relative danger and difficulty of dealing with them. An EV fire can take 24 hours to secure. A gasoline car takes about 300 gallons of water.

I'm not saying EV fires are a bigger issue than gasoline cars. I'm saying that you cannot look merely at incident rate to determine the issue.
Yeah, I would agree that the drum bit is misleading here. Maybe bouncing balls to music? Still very impressive juggling.
I don’t think this is true?
E.g. Here is a space flight where no crew members were in the military:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS-09
They’re in orbit! Will be an exciting 3 days for them. For those wanting the back story, there’s an excellent Netflix series on this mission: https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81441273?s=i&trkid=13747225...

Also Scott Manley summarizes it well on YouTube https://youtu.be/ATxOQCDeL3Y
No, publishing research was not the issue, the issue was experimenting on people without their consent.
I’d argue against you here. I’d say that HN represents quite a diverse cross section of people, and to our mutual credit we all manage to keep it fairly cordial and fun. We all come from different backgrounds and experiences and yet find it fun and enjoyable to come here and talk about technology and have a good time. I may disagree with folks here from time to time, but I have no doubt that HN is a home for people from all walks of life and the last thing that comes to my mind, when thinking about HN, is that it’s an echo chamber. Quite the contrary, some of the folks here help me learn to think about things from a different perspective and I enjoy it.
Not really - I used to work with a guy that had touched some COBOL at a previous job (not a bank) but that was it.
I haven't worked a bank so I guess that's why I haven't crossed paths with one.
Hope to see more of this and a higher price.
Hi. I recommend changing the name. The current one has rather unfortunate connotations.
Im about to make the same leap as you and I know it'll be the same. What's your plan?

I think it would be worse to inflate your lifestyle with all the nice things and still have to work at that new big tech place for decades more
Using a public VPN anonymizes your traffic if you assume many other people are using the same VPN server. A MITM can easily see you're using the VPN but not easily what websites you're accessing. If the VPN provider is truthful about not keeping logs, it's hard to prove that you visited a particular website and not someone else using the VPN. A DO droplet does not provide the same thing. You can visit a website, the website can store your IP for months or years, then LE can subpoena DO for the person with that IP at a given time. Plus setting up a DO droplet VPN sounds like a PITA.

As for why to trust Mullvad in particular, you can't trust them completely but they list all their employees and their ownership structure publicly, they have a good track record, they have documentation which seems like it's written by people who know about security and their customers' potential threat models, and they don't have a suspiciously large advertising budget.

However, I wouldn't trust any VPN if you have to withstand targeted scrutiny from governments.
I like the commenter on that page disagree with the stats but I would assert that COBOL is still the best business DSL ever written. the whole language is about doing typical business things. Mostevery other language I have used, looked at, is at the primitives level upon which one has to build the functions to make it equivalent to COBOL for writing a simple accounting program. Add to this it's IO is basically just the 2 fundamentals of record based read write and queues(yes COBOL had queues in 70s). if you have written large business systems with multiple data storage backend, and its distributed, and it needs to manage it's own load balancing, then COBOL was brilliant. Still is.

world (and a lot of HN readers) needs to change mindset away from this lang versus that lang towards a this DSL and its problem space versus others DSL and its problem space.
For me if I had to write a payroll engine I would prefer use COBOL than javascript but would likely turn to java just because of easier to get reference material.

I learned fortran, Pascal, cobol.
then worked in COBOL and assembler.
then RPG and awk.
nowadays mostly python, javascript, some c for projects.

FWIW I aspire to learn and use Ada.
Maybe I'm jaded but I find no "inspiration" in one billionaire sending another one into space.

I know they took along "guests" but I can't imagine there's any significant science in this.
I think it should. Having a car in front of you means that part of the view of the road is obstructed. IMO the veering car has a moral duty to signal to the next car especially if the veering is unexpected. Now the state law on signaling says "No person shall turn a vehicle..." but I can't find what the definition for "turn" is, so there may be no legal obligation, but I do see a social obligation.
> The thing about morals is that they're written by the individual, and meant to guide the individual.

And in doing so, guide the individual's decisions, which then affect society.
A Python presenter at a Java conference making fun of Java would be “punching up” - and if I was a Java programmer in the audience I might feel some camaraderie over it as you described. Others might think “oooh that’s brave!”

But the situation presented here is different - a Python presenter at a Python conference making fun of Java - that’s just straight tribalism.

Jokes have a lot of purposes but one of them is to enforce in/out groups. And a presenter at language conference X picking on language Y is reinforcing in-group/out-group.

lb
dynamic query string construction

Is this the same as concatenating strings or is there some special PL/pgSQL support for this?
I've worked with at least 10 of them maintaining systems for a big insurance company
This seems kind of silly. Every CEO of every major company has probably sent a similar if not far, far worse email. You really think Sundar Pichai's emails are all sunshine and flowers? Capitalism rewards ruthlessness.
Tesla's approach would limit significant danger to human life & property. I'm going to guess that many Bolt owner may never end up knowing about this issue.

I would vote for Tesla's approach, followed by a partial refund for loss of advertised functionality (or a class action)
> In either case, given the modus operandi of a "tech" company, its an encroachment on free will.

Given the nature of every medium ever includes some focus inherent in what creators make and curators highlight/disseminate, this seems like a bit of an overstatement.

The decisions of a film studio, book author, or magazine editor aren't an encroachment on my free will, I can always tune out and look for something else.

Heck with social media, no matter how it may nudge via the feed. I'm usually free to choose my own walk through individual profiles, groups, and pages on a scale that would have been hard to really understand a half century ago. If there is one thing that is not our problem, it's being nudged/herded into an oversmall number of options.
It's also far more invasive in nearly every case. It's not that Apple doesn't care about Siri, it's just that Apple is working under the unbreakable rule that Siri can't send private info to Apple in order to function and so all processing needs to be done on the device. Amazon hasn't given itself this limitation so it sends data and recordings to itself every time Alexa is invoked.

Apple knows it's in a worse position now but they're betting that it's the better position to be in for the long term.
That would be difficult to pull off in the US because full-time COBOL gigs just don't pay as much as modern software engineering jobs do.

A lot of these big companies with legacy COBOL systems got way too comfy with offshore contractors and now big contracting firms aren't guaranteeing theirlabor pools like they used to because they can make a lot more money placing contractors in Java/Python/AWS/etc roles instead of COBOL.

Training programs like this would have to pay incredibly well to keep people (which is not a bad thing for the workforce generally), but it's clear that some of these companies are used to paying far lower salaries and now they're running out of options while maintaining critical IT infrastructure in some cases.
Yeah, I agree, but why does this need to be a law? Are there people who would accept a job without knowing the salary?
The US must've tappped the CCP communications in the 90s... they must've known this was their endgame. I'm surprised that only in the past few years has the China thing really come to the forefront. This should've been in like 1996 wit the taiwan straight incident.
> For the time being, rare or not, they post a much larger problem to deal with when they do occur.

It seems to me that being harder to put off but occurring less frequently, and most importantly not exploding (leaving significant amount of time for occupants to get out, if they are able) is a pretty good trade off.
The opposite of "contempt culture" is bad too. It's an environment where negative feedback is considered unhelpful by definition, everyone has to be fake-nice, no one ever says what they think and so on.

Yours may differ but my experience is that this (the opposite of "contempt culture") is a much more common situation.
SpaceX Live Updates: The Inspiration4 Crew Embarks on a 3-Day Mission to Orbit
It's somewhat remarkable how much we've lowered the health requirements for people going to space. That's cool.
> That's an extraordinary claim. Source?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3c_D0s391Q&list=PLMZWHcTgQ3...
Given gas cans often need a flame arrestor to keep the same happening from gas stored in garages, and that often wasn't included in cheap versions but was in commercial versions for many decades, my guess is that it happened and might still happen.
Petri nets are interesting, and used e.g. in biology to model some cell regulatory processes.

However, it's really hard to infer properties from them in a static manner using model checking or abstract interpretation.

How are we going to infer properties about petri nets or the models Wolfram is proposing? Geometry or differential equations have been so successful because they are amenable to algebraic and analytic approaches.
But the refresh didn't change the panel layout, right? I did wonder whether the demos were from Fremont, I believe my friend's M3 came from Shanghai.

Edit: Ah, I see your edit. But if that's what's happening, it's not a line maturity thing. The new factory is the one making the good models.
If I had a Bolt, I would have (grudgingly) been ok with parking it outside since I could just park it in the driveway. But I can't park it 50 feet away from another car, since 50 feet from my garage (where my other car is parked) is the street, and I can't prevent anyone else from parking near the car on the street.

I'd be pushing for a buyback at this point.
You are too jaded.

Isaacman could have taken 3 fishing buddies along and just made it a joyride. Instead he put all this work into promoting this mission as a fundraiser for St. Jude's.
I just spent the day making an azure app and taking packet dumps so I can prove it is their fault. Traffic to one of our vendors goes into a black hole, but only from the US South East region.
NK is a wildcard that China doesn't have a great way to get out of. They're just as likely to annoy China for more aid as they are to annoy other countries to remove sanctions.

All of the pathways to a rational NK have outcomes that China would not like including both collapse of the North Korean state, hostility between China and NK or variations on unification between SK and NK. The only stable option is to work with NK too slowly migrate towards a modern Chinese communism approach over the span of decades through the use of aid money, advisors, economic exchange, and educational programs. This only risks periodic regression via purges within North Korea.
>And states across the country are reporting an uptick in poison control calls for people that ingested Ivermectin, almost all from animal drugs, not prescriptions.

You're spreading FUD man. These "upticks" you speak of are, in the case of one state, from 1 instance per year to 9. I guess its statistically a huge uptick, but, lets keep some perspective ey?
I own a Bolt. I loathe GM's software. With a flaming passion. Like, I will never buy another GM vehicle.

The infotainment system crashes about once a week. It will come back in 10 minutes or so, but nothing I've done has ever managed to make it decide to reboot faster than that.

The radio turns on. All the time. Over and over again. I literally never want the radio on. I only want CarPlay to ever play audio. GM seems to think any time anything changes in the car's state "oh look, now seems like a good opportunity to turn on the radio!". When the radio turns on, its volume is 10-20 notches louder than it was when playing CarPlay audio, so not only does it do a thing I don't want dozens of times a week, it does it much too loud.

It would be truly sweet if I could sell it back, but I doubt the buyback option is actually a particularly good deal financially.

The "it's an EV and it drives like a car with great range" part is really nice, though.
The Mona Lisa is probably the worst example. The Louve is full of thousands of other masterworks you can view up close without horrible crowds.
Darknet Diaries podcast host and Talk to me in Python Podcast host sound like the exact same person(they are not), its wild
I dread the appearance of generics. It's not just that they lead to longer compile times for very little benefit, it's that everybody wants every thing to be generic, just in case. Like the C++ dogmas around how many of which type of constructor you need, generics encourage fast-spreading, deleterious memes.
I would much rather my car catch on fire when I am not in it.

Well I’d really prefer it not catch on fire at all but you get the idea…
The only confident bet I feel like I can make about the future is that most of my bets about the future would be wrong. I don’t think this is an uncommon feeling amongst humans, and perhaps indicates why prediction markets haven’t caught on beyond a core niche.