skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here, we propose that a misunderstanding of the second law accounts for the controversy about the role of macronutrient effect on weight loss and we review some aspects of elementary thermodynamics. We use data in the literature to show that thermogenesis is sufficient to predict metabolic advantage. Whereas homeostasis ensures balance under many conditions, as a general principle, "a calorie is a calorie" violates the /second/ law of thermodynamics.
Democrats unveil plan to fund government, suspend debt ceiling as showdown looms
And from a search company, no less.
Also: how much power do they consume? Probably more than a truck if you amortize over multiple packages, since the poor thing has to fight gravity all the time.
Even without it being universal, US prices are grossly more expensive than private healthcare elsewhere, including countries with higher incomes than US.

It's not a problem of 100% coverage, but strictly a supply side problem.
Per year? I think as an employee the most I ever paid for a year of insurance for myself and my family was maybe $2k? On a salary of over 100k, it was pretty tiny.

Insurance to pay the copay makes no sense, insurance is not free money. It's a risk pool to allow you to be able to afford the million dollar surgery only 1/100 people need.

(I now own a business so am on the other side of the coin. I want nothing to do with health care. Why do I have to be involved? It's real dumb).
I have been using the following for the last six (6) months in the USA and it has been "just okay":

- Pepwave Max Transit Duo Cat12
- Poynting 7 in 1 Omnidirectional Antenna

Allows two active cellular connections, but has four (4) sim slots (2 are reserved for hot standby). I have them filled with 2 T-Mobile (100GB/month plan), 1 ATT (50GB/month plan), and 1 Verizon (50GB/month plan).

Along side that, I have a T-Mobile Inseego 5G M2000 Hotspot with a 100GB/month plan). This sometimes gets better performance than the externally mounted antenna and Pepwave Cellular connections. The pep wave does allow the use of Wireless-WAN, so I connect to the hotspot from the Pepwave's WWAN and can then have three active bonded connections.

This is being used in a travel trailer as I tour the country with my family. The result is just okay meaning it doesn't blow me away, but it does work. Everywhere I have been so far, I have been able to get connected, largely without doing a thing, and get to work.
Is this a repost? I seem to remember seeing this a few days ago.
That's definitely on my todo list. <g>
> Meanwhile, when Breitwieser's mother had heard of her son's arrest from Kleinklauss, who had been able to evade authorities, she proceeded to destroy many of the works by cutting or carving them up, leaving the remains of the frames in the trash over a period of several weeks and forcing the shredded paintings down her garbage disposal unit.[1] Other artifacts, such as vases, jewelry, pottery, and statuettes, were simply thrown into the nearby Rhone-Rhine Canal, where some were later recovered through dredging. She claimed that she destroyed the paintings out of anger at her son, but police believe it was to destroy incriminating evidence against him.[7] She apparently had no inkling of the large monetary value of the works she destroyed.[7] Police found nothing besides the cord of the stolen antique bugle when they first searched her home, and she took seven months to admit to destroying the artwork, after some pieces had washed up on the shore of the Rhine. A Swiss police officer said, "[N]ever have so many old masters been destroyed at the same time."[2]

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Breitwieser

In his mind, he 'worked' to get all that art only to have it destroyed, no wonder that he attempted suicide.
Wrong liquidity.
Same here, tried it on out last time out with the travel trailer. Canceled the plan after we got back home as it was terrible, and not to speak that we were in areas where it should have run flawless. Ended up using my main phone's connection for some of the work i had to do.
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This is by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who were contemporaries of Lem.

FWIW by favorite Strugatsky novels were Hard to Be a God, and The Doomed City.
Yeah, I should have guessed it sounds too much for fellow Americans. I'm sorry.

I grew up in Asia. I guess it's one of those cultural differences, like calling people "fatass" or drinking on the street without a shirt is not too inappropriate in some places. So people would have to shrug it off, try to adapt, and try to think those are just jokes without bad intentions. But still, it hurts and it does have life-long negative impacts on many people as far as I can see.

On top of that, I find people from better-educated families, or people from many other provinces in the same country don't share the same experience as us. My guess is economic and education status helps. From what I can see, the current generation of kids does receive substantially less abuse than say three decades ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28596207
We had a lab full of IIcis when I was an undergrad. They're still my favourite 68K Mac because they stack, they're easy to work on and disassemble, and they can do a fair bit. Just make sure you get it recapped. My "Lisp machine" is a IIci with a 50MHz Daystar accelerator and a MacIvory.
I regret that so many people regret that other people are not monetizing.
Apple Maps is pretty good these days IMO. I used it ahead of Google Maps by choice
guy doesn't know what he's talking about just spitting out numbers. An MRI doesn't pay $5000 each. More like $300-$400 from Medicare. Maintenance contract from the vendor is like $7000/month. MRI tech makes about 100k per year. Any decent MRI machine is 250k and up.
Kid's being dumb, especially if he was at McGill and is Canadian. e.g. Have fun getting a US work visa to work with all those cool people without finishing your undergrad. The friction from the same degree/visa issue cuts you out of taking jobs in Europe. Any company bigger than a startup that has an actual HR department won't give you P&L responsibility because if something goes wrong they are exposed to the accusation you weren't objectively qualified, and even though it's bullshit, it will keep him out of most management roles, and reduce his bargaining position on every job he does. Even if he fails and uses his tech skills to take a government job, he's going to spend his life working for (and likely antagonizing) the long tail of people who only barely graduated, and that was their high water mark. This isn't 1995 where you can "learn computers" and become a valuable asset. Most of the skills he has, he is - or will - be competing against offshore shops, and even against them, he will be competing globally against people who have mobility between countries (facilitated by degrees) to enter and leave his market as they please, with a lot more talent and leverage. When he wants to go do a quick masters in something he finds interesting, he's also shut out, even if he could probably teach anything he becomes interested in.

Maybe he does a series of startups and one hits. Maybe he's lucky, or brilliant, but the opportunity cost of 4 years in your early 20s is insignificant compared to the same time in your 30s and later. The feeling of this kid's parents isn't sadness or disappointment in foregone dreams, it's awe at how stupid he is being while still managing to dress and feed himself unassisted.

Dear Kid - you're making a staggeringly poor quality decision, go back to school.
To some extent sure but were 2020 and 2021 boom years in terms of productivity, because they were certainly boom years in terms of money printing.
That's a bit like saying watching porn is more for personal development than fun. Perhaps you'll learn something, but it's incidental.

I've learned a lot from HN. But it wouldn't be good to fool myself into thinking that an employer wants to fund my personal development in this regard. Otherwise, they'd pay me to HN all day.

The crux of the issue is that it's impossible to work 8 hours every day. We all invent lies to fill the downtime.
The 2008 election top issue was based on the economy and energy (gas price). Health care and education were #3 and #4, where they often tend to live (per my OP for reasons why)

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2008/08/21/section-3-is...
Why would these links never work for me? “Can’t find a server with the specified host name”
> So many other countries can do this. Why can’t we?

Because 70 years of good life made Americans bad businessmen.

Complete lack of entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, wits, and grit.

"Business education" (the phrase itself is an oxymoron) based on regurgitation, and rote interpolation, without much to cultivate actual ability.

A universal solution to overcoming adverse conditions I keep hearing is: "give up, and divest."

Without somebody tough to do the hard thing competing with those billion dollar hospitals, any attempt to fix the issue by legislation is meaningless.
I think there’s plenty of real reasons people don’t do this economically, but don’t downplay the social parts of it - we have very Balkanized communities in the US. Ask a minority what it’s like going on a road trip sometime - I guarantee there’s many places where they won’t want to stop.

Living in a place with no amenities, an extremely regressive/borderline extreme social climate and a lack of economic opportunity for people who don’t have remote tech jobs and it gets depressing really fast. Also when you try to buy healthy food from a dollar general.
> Accounting for taxes, Americans pay less for healthcare than in the UK.

Where are you getting this information from?

Taxes in the UK are not much higher than taxes in the US (although of course you can’t really compare to “the US” at all because of interstate variation).

In any case, the US has higher per capita government spending on healthcare, so even excluding health insurance payments, Americans on average are paying more in taxes towards healthcare than Brits.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/283221/per-capita-health...
Same here especially given the topic and the sardonic tone. I wonder if the biochemist takes some inspiration from his near-namesake.
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That may be so but there is a tremendous difference in quality and capacity to absorb fluctuations between the various interconnected national grids. At the physical level they are still very much separate.
They make it about as hard as legally allowed to get the source code, and I don’t know what exactly you get when you ask them for the software, but Philips has open source firmware for at least some of its televisions.

For an example, https://www.p4c.philips.com/files/4/40pfk6300_12/40pfk6300_1... says

This television contains open source software. TP Vision Europe B.V. hereby offers to deliver, upon request, a copy of the complete corresponding source code for the copyrighted open source software packages used in this product for which such offer is requested by the respective licences.

This offer is valid up to three years after product purchase to anyone in receipt of this information.

To obtain the source code, please write in English to . . .

Intellectual Property Dept. TP Vision Europe B.V. Prins

Bernhardplein 200 1097 JB Amsterdam

The Netherlands

That television uses FFMpeg, SQLite, zlib, and other libraries.
It's not like profit motive is a great allocation method either though. There are massive perverse incentives to favor expensive ongoing treatments over cures or prevention.
> Insurance to pay the copay makes no sense

Why not I can pay a small sum to eliminate any potential copay on my car insurance?

Guaranteed to pay a small amount vs possibly going to have to pay a larger amount - that's the whole idea of insurance.
Which then leads to the dual income trap.
The point of the article is that this is not true.

Chemically, a calorie is a calorie. But one calorie of fat is metabolically different from the equivalent caloric value of protein, because food is not processed by the body the same way that a calorie is measured.
I'm sorry, CarPlay is awful. I'm forced to use it and the UX is TERRIBLE. I'm actually somewhat surprised that they've left it in the state it's in.
To be fair, it is not unusual for native English speakers to conflate the two words as well.
The problem is it's very poorly understood, even by medical professionals.

I had this very argument with an MD who was trying to tell me that if you operate at a sustained caloric deficit you'll eventually stop losing weight.

On some level, CICO must be true. Famine is a thing. If you consume a very small but still nonzero amount of calories you will eventually die. So it's not correct to say that "CICO is BS" or anything similar.

Whether CICO is an effective way of sustainable weight loss is another conversation.
Same experience for me. However, I started to be more diligent on tagging each Confluence page whenever I see them lacking and that definitely helps with the searches.
Just make sure you paste the link into your URL bar instead of clicking it, lest the HN referrer lead your browser astray.

Funny thing is, I knew about that trap when I posted the link, and actually included this warning – but when I tested it, the site loaded fine, so I edited my comment to remove the warning. Some sneaky tricks being played!
Yep. I graduated in the top ten of my high school, had a full scholarship to the state university, and already had about a year's worth of college credits from AP classes. I made it one semester. Too much instant freedom discovering drugs and parties. I should not have lived in the dorms. After a ten year gap year and years of professional experience I am now finishing up my degree.
2% single direction days are still outliers in mature markets at the index level.
Show HN: Making your standups more joyful with Zest
Hi HN! Justin here, creator of CrowdParty. I was previously a Team Lead at a tech company and we'd do silly things at the end of our standups so that the team can share a few laughs together. It was a great way to start the day off on a happy note.

In the next couple of weeks, we'll be launching the beta for Zest, an app that makes your team's daily syncs a lot more joyful with curated and scheduled bite-sized fun!

What do you think? Feedback is greatly appreciated!

Much love,
Justin
You know that, I dont
Well, the thing is I didn't go looking, The new company contacted me with a very compelling initial speech, and I decided to go along to just see what I can get :).

I've been in the company for a year and 2 months now. I'm not trying to portray the current company as the bad guy, neither I think of myself as a victim. I never asked for a raise (only been there for a year ). I think the salary they provide is the norm (a year ago it was 30% more than my old salary) it's just that I'm now able to get a better offer, and the manager (very nice guy) was very candid and told me directly that it would be easier for him to ask for matching the offer to higher management if It comes with more responsibility (or in other word, a promotion), and much harder without.

Personally I would prefer for them to match it, but with keeping the same job title. since I was always planning to switch companies at some point but after I finish (or reach a point that I'm satisfied with) the projects I'm working on right now.
This is the American approach right here:

"You have to closing all the time. Be aggressive, learn how to push. And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. Either you sell the client some stock, or he sells you on a reason he can't. Either way, a sale is made. Now be relentless." -Boiler Room https://youtu.be/2frX1E0deb0?t=113
The vaccine was "on the radar" from the get go - they didn't have one yet, but there was broad awareness that one would have to be made to solve the problem. The initial lockdowns and the (belated) masking mandates were explicitly described as stopgap measures to hold the line.

"Linking participation to social life and freedoms" has been around for decades in form of school vaccine mandates. Mandatory masking had a clear precedent in 1918. If you're surprised by any of this, I don't even know what to say.
.. but you can just run coredumpctl gdb or coredumpctl dump <the dump> > /tmo/YOLO.dump
Hydrogen, molten salt to drive ex-coal plants, redox-flow, …
The term you want to look for is "investment properties", or in some cases "foreign investment".
I'd be careful about that generalization. This software seems to be going more by mentions than by recommendations - e.g. the top reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16323808 ("Ask HN: Which are the most damaging books you've read?") is being counted as a recommendation.

Sentiment analysis is hard. In fact I've never seen it work yet.
Right. Some people would use it. Other's, typically rural Americans, have a deep distrust of the medical profession. They aren't going to go in for a yearly checkup, free or not free. It's very complicated.
Can’t believe more people aren’t talking about this - it’s huge for cross-platform games that can run at much higher performance, and the best part - no 30% fees from the walled garden App Store when you deliver via a webpage!
> On a bike, you get to smell the air. High on my list is riding behind a lemon truck. You get to feel the environment. It's hot. It's cold. It's wet. Ride through the desert and feel the temperature change as you drop down in to a wash, even if just for a few hundred feet before you rise back up in the heat.

I've described it like this before, but it feels less like driving than like running really quickly.
I’m not completely sure, but you seem to be confusing copay with the insurance premiums? Copay is the residual part of the cost of any given treatment that you have to pay after your insurance has (hopefully) paid for most of it.

As the sibling says, there is nothing inherently nonsensical about insuring against copay.
Then why not just use that extension? What's different?
From my perspective as an open-source consumer, that doesn't matter much. The license tells me what I can legally get away with. But what I care about pragmatically is whether that project will keep existing and improving such that it will meet my needs down the road. And what I care about morally is maintaining positive-sum relationships with my community and society.
And cancer is even more common. Think about heart disease too. Yet, we joke all the time about shit giving us a heart attack or references to something being cancerous - etc.

You are seriously digging deep into the "NO JOKES!" stance. Just because you did a joke that didn't go over well doesn't mean you can't make any jokes anymore.

And to be clear - because this is the internet and everyone on HN wants to be a pedantic andy - I'm not saying you go make "Dark humor is like a child with cancer. It never gets old." type of jokes to parents who had children die of leukemia or some shit.
> I bought my motorcycle around 1995 for ~$800
[…]
> I've looked around at a lot of used motorcycles and I've see other 1984 Honda's that are asking $2500-$3000 The average price seems to be $4k-$5k for 20 year old bikes!

To be devils advocate here, that’s a one-time capital cost that you may well be able to make money on once you sell again, assuming the price trend continues. It seems to me that price is also way cheaper than a comparable* car. If it were me, I’d be enjoying fun driving, cheap operating costs and easy parking long after the sting of not getting the bike for $800 had worn off.

*for some definition of “comparable”
The important part of a degree as a Canadian is TN. Makes a heck of a lot easier to get into the USA.
I'll admit I haven't seen the NT source but from a user perspective NT's UI (widgets, progman, etc) looked and functioned near identically to Windows 3 so I've always thought those bits were ported over. I'm aware most everything under that was replaced. To my eye that was one step in a well-executed evolution up from legacy Windows towards the eventual convergence in XP.
Home prices are a function of monthly costs. As much as people want to compare the value of a home from year to year, in every instance, I've seen values reflect to monthly spending power.

I would love to see some estimate that takes more into account like household income, tax breaks, and interest rates. If I have a interest deduction, my relative taxes are lower. If I have children, my taxes are lower. If I have historic property, my taxes are lower. If I have solar, my monthly bill is lower. All these things make owning a home easier and allows people to buy more home.

Education is another example, prices largely mirror federal subsidized loan values. I'm not arguing that government should get out of housing, people should realize that the value of something is relative to the demand especially when the supply is largely fixed or has linear growth.
I changed jobs last Spring. My last day of work was on the 25th, and my plan covered me through the end of the month. The plan at my new job didn't kick in until the next calendar month, so being healthy in general, I risked going without coverage. Extending my previous plan via Cobra would have cost about $800.

When the month rolled over, I crashed my bike, and was obviously in need of stitches. Not knowing what this would cost me (thinking about all of those stories where someone got a five-figure bill for a standard outpatient visit to the ER), I called two local urgent cares, who said their billing office was not open on weekends, so they couldn't tell me. Not even an upper-bound estimate on closing a wound with centuries old technology.

Faced with the uncertainty about whether the bill would be in the hundreds or the thousands, I opted for bandages and superglue.

Even as someone who left a good job with a good health plan for another one, I was briefly exposed to the choices many Americans face when they need basic care. I can't imagine how many people choose to avoid the financial over the personal risk and end up in the red on that equation. In my case somewhat literally.

It's a crime what our lawmakers have done to preserve the costliest system in the world per capita, ensuring that administrators are guaranteed profits without any meaningful accountability to improving public outcomes over time. All they guaranteed was that more people had no choice to opt out of a terrible system and that the people who like it this way will keep getting paid.
Right before that there is a huge difference.
Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life by Gisele Bündchen, the top model, is probably the most out of place recommendation :)
None of the comments is about the book obviously, they just mention the word "Lessons".

https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/15/all-...
I sit all day in front of a pc or computer. If I don't work out, 400c calories is my weight gain threshold. You can even get away with guestimating calorie intake but what most people miss is when they think everyone burns 2500 cal/day just being idle. I wish I could eat even a 1000 ! Also, for weight gain/loss, idle burn means nothing, what you do with the surplus or deficient calories is what matters.
Tons of empty houses in the Appalachian region.

The vacancy rate may be at a low, but it is still about 10%. Sure, we still need to build more houses, but the point here is that distribution is important to both. If you build houses in a HCOL area, the cost will be higher. We should be looking at redistributing to areas with the highest rates of vacancy an LCOL.

Part of why prices are going up is inflation and cost of materials and labor. Prices in rural america are up, but I wouldn't say skyrocketing. There might be places that are skyrocketing, but I'm guessing they are in commute distance of the cities.
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> Even if he fails and uses his tech skills to take a government job

Governments are some of the most picky about credentials.