skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all well and good for communicating a single, pre-planned operation, but you're going to need to communicate a lot more in order to actually do all that pre-planning for it.
But that is exactly what injection is. But anyway I'm glad you fixed it.
The pharmacy probably doesn't want any liability so it's easier to just blanket-ban 'fad' medicine.

And we make fun of the Chinese using rhino horn for erectile disfunction...
We couldn't even get HTML5 DRM for Gecko-based Brave, never mind a ton of other webcompat problems vs. Chromium/Blink. We did a full spreadsheet and the winner was very clear. This is a reflection of Google's market power, in large part, but it is what it is.
It is not possible to have transparent pricing in the current broken system.

It's like trying to put a bandaid on an arm that met a chainsaw. Not really a good first step and a waste of time. The solution is to go to the OR, and give him a new arm. The more bandaids and time you waste, the worse it is.
What can a phone OS do to an app that a modern browser can't do to a webpage, as it relates to being a frontend to your bank account?
"Why Analog Computation?", oldie but goodie unclassified NSA document.

> An introduction to analog computation containing a brief description of the analog computer and problems in which it can be advantageously applied. Both analog computers and systems combining analog and digital techniques are discussed in order to show why the Agency's interest in this computation area has increased.

https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/decla...
No, this technique works with plain old insurance companies too. It's just that no one does it because they mistakenly give the hospital their insurance info - because, guess why? They ASK.

Also, healthcare sharing ministries are not scams. However they are simply not guaranteeing payment. It sounds like the truth of it is that the "guarantee" of payment is what makes traditional insurance expensive. Is that worth it? I think that's up to each individual.
These are great. Other good weekly deep house radio shows that I code to:
Nora En Pure Purified Radio, https://soundcloud.com/noraenpure/tracks
The Boom Room Selected, https://soundcloud.com/theboomroomofficial
Oliver Heldens Heldeep Radio, https://soundcloud.com/heldeepradio
>Words have semantic range, and this is no less true for "replace" than for any other word.

I agree. Although I'm sure it's clear that I believe "replace" is semantically compatible with "remove advertisements from X, instead serving ads from Y in a different location".

>perhaps the author meant only "Brave blocks Google's ads, and has created its own advertising model in its place."

This was my interpretation.

>Brave Ads replaces Google Ads.

I guess we both agree that "replace" is within the semantic range. Which is why "We never replace ads." didn't sit well.

For what it is worth, I'm neither for nor against Brave. Just surprised about how vigorous Brave employees are being in the thread.

>Google's model is quite the opposite

Don't worry, I'm not on the Google train either.
After the first question to which Gates responded that he regretted the dinners. The interviewer asked what had Gates learned after it became public that Epstein was involved in crime activities, and Gates answered again with “I regret those dinners”.

There is perhaps an investigation going on and Gates cannot say much more, but his answers were extremely cringe.

Edit: Oh boy and the “well he’s dead” reply… jeez. Not even a trace of empathy for the victims either.
one fun factoid in favor of your argument is that Latin American drug cartels have been known to build their own submarines for drug smuggling.

however, most known criminal dev teams are hacker groups in Russia who either operate as part of official espionage activities, or are allowed to operate as long as their victims aren't Russian.

all that being said, though, this "criminal software" idea probably isn't as true as you think. criminal enterprises are inherently risky, and there's so much money to be made in software that anybody good enough to do well in a criminal enterprise could do well normally.

(unless we count normal companies which get away with breaking the law in the course of normal business as criminal organizations — e.g., Amazon and Tesla for union-busting — in which case, there are probably a lot of people reading this who technically belong to criminal organizations, although some percentage of them would intend otherwise.)
Because the original iPhone was so stripped down that it could run on that thinly little slow cpu. It took Apple years and years to add features back into iOS frameworks. Every one very considered and every attempt to not destroy the battery of the iPhone. Multi tasking only around in iOS 4 right? Like on iPhoneOS 1 every app was closed when you hit that home button.
That it worked so smoothly was the result of extremely focused UX.
I found this bit very interesting

> I realised that my life while using Apple products is
> controlled by Product Managers/Owners who want to get a
> raise, rather than by technology people who share the same
> passion as me

Mainly because I feel exactly the opposite. I don’t find Windows, Linux or x86 technologically exiting anymore.Apple makes (IMO of course) the most technologically exciting CPUs, their GPUs are a breath of fresh air, I love their approach to UI, APIs and OS security.
Would a local news outlet publicise this?
> However, we don't have to deal with any of these price lists or copays or pre-approvals or debt (inside the scope of hospitalisation) I've even heard arguements that many of the pitfalls stem from privatised aspects

Many of the current US medical problems (bureaucratization of medicine) actually evolved out of massive government regulation with debatable value. EMRs, ICD/coding, the bureacracu that eats up 25% of your doctor's day? It is mainly for insurance companies and Medicare/Medicaid.

https://healthncare.info/history-healthcare-insurance-united...

> I'm a fairly capitalist person, but there is something awfully and fundamentally wrong about a society that monetizes well-being and health

All the medical providers (doctors/nurses/therapists/techs/PAs/etc) do not work for free, and there is a significant logistics and technology tail in providing medical services at huge scale.

If you really want to go after waste in medicine ask the following questions:

(1) How much are the nonclinical hospital mgmt & insurance executives paid?

(2) What is the ratio of clinical to non-clinical personnel?

(3) Why is the US subsidizing the vast majority of the medical research, and drug profits for the entire world?

These are serious questions because, as my nearby regional hospital group was firing hundreds of nurses during COVID, their CEO was collecting millions.
Hey Chris, excellent work. Very excited about 1.6 and LiveView. If you update your Programming Phoenix, I would certainly pay again.
"Better" is a subjective measure.
I haven't used Github Copilot but from what I understand it generates a completion from the text already in your file. Since OpenAI Codex can "understand" natural language instructions, I've found putting code into a prompt with extra context in natural language on what needs to be achieved can give decent results. e.g to generate a docstring, you might use a Markdown-ish prompt like

# Writing a good docstring

This is an example of writing a really good docstring that follows a best practice for the given language. Attention is paid to detailing things like
* parameter and return types (if applicable)
* any errors that might be raised or returned, depending on the language

I received the following code:

```{{{language}}}
{{{snippet}}}
```

The code with a really good docstring added is below:

```{{{language}}}

If you wanted a docstring in a particular format, you could add some specific examples as context to your prompt to get even better results.
Eh, technically yes, but that's not really what I'm talking about. The way we use the word "cost" varies depending on the context, and I'm responding to a specific usage of that word. I'm not making a broad claim that drugs need to be sold at cost, I'm making a claim that drug costs are not so highly variable that coming up with a consumer price needs to take days of research after a procedure.

jonathan-adly is making the argument that the inherent "cost" of drugs is itself highly variable for hospitals, and that means it's normal and expected that hospitals should not be able to tell patients the price of procedure before it happens. I'm arguing that the "cost" of the drugs is not actually that variable, that hospitals are just downstream of another part of the industry that is engaged in the same price-hiding behavior that hospitals are engaged in.

Of course, under Capitalism "cost" doesn't determine price, the market determines price. But I would also point out that under Capitalism, signing a contract usually involves the terms of that contract being made upfront. Pretty much every other industry in America has figured out how to put a price tag on the products they sell, and I'm not sympathetic towards the medical industry just because up until now it's never needed to learn how. Apple sources its components from manufactures, those manufacturers could change their prices someday. But Apple still puts a price tag on iPhones, and because it needs to put a price tag on iPhones it's incentivized to form long-term contracts with suppliers and to demand a level of consistency in the prices its suppliers offer.

Hospitals haven't needed to do that in a long time.

Price transparency is an important part of most industries under Capitalism, and the medical industry hiding behind variable "cost" as an excuse to avoid pricing their products shouldn't be something we tolerate.

Martin Shrekili's practices (as abhorrent as they might be) are a different conversation. I think that price limits and price transparency are two very different issues.
Rules changes and investment banks cannot do prop trading now. Though I hear they changed again, quietly, and now they sort of can.

The point is, this is some analyst writing it. I’m sure it doesn’t go against the business and trading positions of GS, but it is some minor part of a big picture.

Overall, public analyst recommendation are pretty much uncorrelated with future returns.
>Having been given a solid diagnosis once for that initial $150 charge, instead of relatively-inexpensive maintenance of health that could be done without doctor intervention, we require doctors to re-see and re-prescribe when a patient has a chronic condition.

>There is some wisdom in that

It's pretty convenient for the doctors as well. $150 to write some shit on a pad and sign it. Good work if you can get it.
Big Social Media Has a Major Say over User IP Rights
I think it helps that C and C++ just work on iOS, so you can easily use or wrap existing code in those languages.

Unless things have changed a lot recently, C/C++ sort-of-works on Android but it’s a pain to use and the tooling support is very weak.
I lived in China for a year and vouch for this type of behaviour. It’s just considered normal in China. The really odd thing is that when you call them out on it, they are super polite. Eg they will always try to give foreigners fake money but after a while you can spot the fakes “zhe shi jia de!!”, you say (This is fake!) and they apologise and give you a real one. At the same time, you earn respect from them. It’s just all very odd but you get used to it. Whilst I enjoyed living in China, I don’t want to ever go back.
I think the Helium project is a fascinating experiment, and I’ve had a lot of fun participating in it. I’ve been tracking my experience for a while (with pictures): [0]

It’s certainly a weird project, and watching the corporation contort itself into something coordinated enough to drive partnerships like this but decentralized enough to qualify as a cryptocurrency is a sight to behold.

The governance of this project isn’t “decentralized” in any strict sense of the word, but the separation of the dewi alliance from the main corporate entity is interesting.

The self-imposed technical constraints are equally fun to observe. The scaling issues (gossiping blockchain data across 100k+ raspberry pi devices with no broker) are insane, and the incentive mechanism for “validators” is an interesting incremental solution. Specifically, people ”stake” $200k on cheap cloud servers, which might earn money for a few hrs a week when elected to a “consensus group.” This made sense historically (on distributed raspberry pi devices) but is now really strange compared to most other blockchains where validators earn consistently.

Every one of these issues is a bottomless pit of learning opportunities as worlds collide (economics, telecom incentives, cryptocurrency price swings, hobbyist antennas, etc…).

I’m no maximalist (I’ve sold lots of coins), but there is something deeply fun about watching _anybody_ try to do something novel to compete against the old guard. That’s why I was up at 6am today to fiddle with an antenna on a friend’s roof.

0: https://gazzini.com/projects/posts/helium/
Title is a bit off.
They want to force all electronic devices that have a charging port to have this charging port adhere the usb-c standard.
There's a specific exception for e-readers and ... wireless charging.

So what Apple (and others) can (and probably will) do is continue with the port(s) they have now, just dont have that port be a charging port, and charge wireless.
> Calling the investigatory and experiential evidence of thousands of highly-trained doctors (some of whom pioneered the standard of care for covid) as "weak evidence" is something that only somebody carrying water for large pharmaceutical companies would say.

Keep in mind that bleeding with leeches was once the standard of care-- based on clinical intuition and observational evidence.

People-- even very smart, well-educated people-- are easily fooled. There is a reason why the RCT is the gold standard.
Or if you want to do any form of app development.
"People's Daily newspaper" is a pretty big counterexample that everyone is conveniently ignoring.
Doesn’t :)
Brave Talk does work in all major browsers. Initiating a call requires Brave, but participation in a call does not.
So what were those other things, then?
Yes, but that was application capabilities, not platform capabilities: back with Netscape Communicator there was no insanely-capable JavaScript features like WebUSB, WebRTC, TypedArray buffers, and so on. This is what we're referring to when we say web-browsers are like operating-systems: because of the capabilities afforded to JavaScript programs, not because the browser is bundled with a built-in mail client (like Emacs...) or because of non-web-platform feature bloat like Seamonkey.

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I imagine eventually Thunderbird will come back as a 100% JS application (no more XUL?) in a normal Firefox (or Chrome, or Edge, or Safari, but not iOS Safari, because reasons) window - making use of a hypothetical-but-easily-imaginable WebIMAP, WebPOP, or just after raw TCP sockets become a thing in JS: https://wicg.github.io/raw-sockets/docs/explainer.html
Also good points, I suppose the printing mechanism couldn't use the type's implementation of toString() and would instead have to use an implementation built into the runtime. Still, even being able to see just the raw bytes would be better than nothing in a lot of cases.
>[...] have it inevitably RCE my machine due to some "cute" feature, plus consume 100% of my CPU [...]

>I am, of course, deeply aware of the bi-weekly Chrome vulns, along with its ability to consume all RAM and CPU [...]

This doesn't sense. The latter statement negates the former.

>but on the whole I trust Chromium developers a lot more than randos with g++ and a dream

Why? Unless you're familiar with Chrome developers then they are indeed a bunch of "randos" to you. They also work for a company with a solid history of dark patterns, shoddy software, and abuse of trust. I don't see how that group of developers is somehow more trustworthy than any other software developer you don't know.

>with g++ and a dream

What does this even mean?
In many cases, "animations on the web" has become Lottie animations. Or, at least, Lottie raises the bar for animation expectations.

I'd love to see two things:

- A decent free or one-time payment editor for Lottie (don't make me use AfterEffects)

- Perhaps a Lottie implementation using Web Animations API, if that is even possible.
On Life, Liberty, and Stock Markets
In the past people used to trade their freedom for shiny objects. Be careful.
This would make a great short blog post.
My experience so far is that any side project that I've worked on seriously for 18 months has brought something in.
no idea how i grew up in an indian household and didn't know about this
Not an iOS user, and all in favor of standardizing everything (within reason...) on USB-C, but couldn't Apple just say "look, we make a USB-C to Lightning cable already"[1] and only ship USB-C chargers to comply?

1: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205807
If your reasoning about uncertainty tells you there's a 99% chance something is false while it's true, what good is it? All the math in the world won't save you from the specious premises in this no-seafarers argument.
AirPods die within a few years and then get tossed in the trash. Modern MacBooks aren't built like they used to be. I don't see any reason you couldn't use the Framework Laptop for that long. Just replace anything that wears down over time.
I prefer Swift on balance, but there’s still a lot I miss from Obj-C.

For one thing, Obj-C compiles much faster. Swift compilation is ludicrously slow.
Taxis are not mass transit, but they are public transport per the definition.

Obviously this will not be comparable in capacity to a metro, but it can conceivably be comparable in capacity to bus lines which tend to operate at very low load factors in US cities, by virtue of being much faster to complete the same journey.
The author of that article who kept looking for reasons to be offended bluntly dismisses the Church's endorsement of slavery because it was standard practice at the time while also basically calling Twain a bigot because of his southern American-based view of Catholicism, which was also standard practice at the time.

You and the author both act both bigoted and ignorant towards Twain and call him childish in response to perceived bigotry. Twain was also not an atheist, he was a deist who attended church regularly. Someone can be of a religion and also criticize religion, it doesn't mean they're an atheist because as we all know, religions aren't perfect. But at least to the author's credit, he took a bit higher road than you and didn't go as far as calling Twain "childish".
This is a delta of only $10 from their previous forecast, but the headline makes it sound like a huge shift.
What you're describing certainly doesn't describe my experience of the last ten years or so with Linux. Sure, there are some things that won't work with Linux by choice of the manufacturer/developer, but external monitors, audio, and Bluetooth generally just work with a Dell laptop. I've been using Dell laptops in a variety of scenarios for years and that sort of stuff doesn't even cross my mind any longer.
Don’t discount how rare 20% price drops in housing are historically - a nationwide 20% price decline has only happened once since 1951 (where I could find statistics start) and even then would only have applied for purchases in a 1 year window. House prices are historically high across almost any metric you choose right now, so we could see another incident of that, but it’s also possible we could see real house prices depreciate with inflation while holding nominal value.
So, commercial travel was banned. Instead of being able to fly normally, he had to take a private jet -- because the islands said commercial flights from the US weren't okay. How else would you describe this, if not circumventing restrictions? That's like saying people who fly on private jets aren't circumventing TSA security, because TSA isn't required for private jets.

This also doesn't justify his behavior once in the Bahamas, which included no social distancing or masking.
Reasonable doubt? I’m surprised. I watched part of the proceedings and it actually restored my faith in the legal system. Not because of the outcome, but because of the process. Interesting how different people’s perceptions can be. Would you mind explaining your points if doubt?
I just meant for the aftermarket parts market in general since the top level comment was referring to them generally. I guess my point was just in many markets OEM parts are not the best available parts, and if that's the case for electronics it's probably because they make it hard for legit companies to legally make the parts leaving only the shady ones.
At this point, news articles should include a bar chart for health interventions, including a three year projection of vendor revenue, tax costs, quality-adjusted life years, societal collateral damage, and risks based on prior usage.

When one option has billions of revenue at stake, investors will pay for more/focused studies vs an option to reuse low-cost generics. Unfortunately, or fortunately, desperate humans have skipped trials of both vaccines and early treatments, so there is data on both.
How Fast Do Algorithms Improve? [pdf]
If you accept Medicare, you cannot legally charge anyone less than the Medicare price.

I won’t say always, but Medicare price is usually marginal but not profitable. I.e. if you’ve got an empty bed, Medicare is better than nothing, but you wouldn’t actively try to fill beds at sub-Medicare rates even without the hassle of dealing with insurance companies
Not saying this happening to you :) but it's too late for you or that person.

Meaning that person most likely has been suggesting fixes/complaining (to you 1-1) about 'X' which you have control or 'Y' which you do not.

If it's 'X' (you can control), then it's your fault for not stepping up and fixing it. Expecting someone to summarize everything they've been saying to you for a year (just read your 1-1 notes) is not cool.

If it's Y, then there's nothing you can do or say, to convince the person to stay.

It's mostly correct IMHO, that people leave companies because of managers and their inability to listen or write notes in their 1-1.
Great article, as usual from the Flipper team.
Problem Statement Framing
To be fair Lo-Fi is often more Hi-Fi because it's not ruined with horrible mastering which actually destroys the audio quality of most things it touches.
And Tor exit nodes.
As Carl Sagan might have said, "To build a platform from scratch, you must first create the universe."
Except that, post Volcker, banks are prohibited from proprietary trading; and also except that there exist strong mandatory separations ("Chinese walls") between investment research and the investment banking and trading parts of banks.
That's a failure to negotiate, information asymmetry, and a "Human Resources departments will never, ever pay or suggest a higher price than you stipulate, and spend a copious amounts of time pre-filtering candidates for a job title to the going rate at another company" problem.

Nobody goes "let's knock 18 cents an hour off because they have 2 X chromosomes". If they do, they hide it so well I haven't managed to figure out where they sneak that in as a nosy arse hiring manager.
Pricing in general for any non commodity is the same kind of statistical joke.

That said, these price lists are an attempt to turn healthcare service delivery into commodities. Transparency, yes, but the lie is that healthcare is a market.

The alternative is nationalized care where all sorts of financial flows that now are optimized for profits, are so optimized no longer.

Most people living under and working for a nationalized system tend to like it. Most who live under or work for a commodity system tend not to, except for those positioned to receive profit flows.