skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hating people with money is one thing.

Disliking ostentation of wealth is another one.

If you never met anyone that dislikes the latter... well perhaps you live in US.
I don't understand why one would use make in 2022 when there's cmake+ninja which is a much better and faster way to build things
The FDA has already asked doctors if they think advertising is good:

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-consumers-and-patients...

Most physicians agreed that because their patient saw a DTC ad, he or she asked thoughtful questions during the visit.

Many physicians thought that DTC ads made their patients more involved in their health care.

Seventy-eight percent of physicians believe their patients understand the possible benefits of the drug very well or somewhat, compared to 40 percent who believe their patients understand the possible risks, and 65 percent believe DTC ads confuse patients about the relative risks and benefits of prescription drugs.

Eight percent of physicians said they felt very pressured to prescribe the specific brand-name drug when asked.

DTC ads help patients have better discussions with their physicians and provide greater awareness of treatments.

The study demonstrated that when a patient asked about a specific drug, 88 percent of the time they had the condition that the drug treated. And 80 percent of physicians believed their patients understood what condition the advertised drug treats.
OP probably meant governments, not countries, inflation is hardly good for individuals.
The cynic in me was thinking "ok, I've read the article, what product is the article selling? ok, here we go".

Although to be honest, I was nodding as I was reading. It's not only about medical decision, but with most decisions where you want to buy the best X. Maybe medical decisions are less... selfish? I mean - if I want to buy a toaster, I'll look at Which, and won't splurge on the most expensive one, but will look at what other people are finding useful. With health however, you probably don't want to spare expenses, so the decision making process will be a bit different - we trust people from which we're getting health advice.

I'm not in USA, and don't think this sort of thing is confined to USA
That they are not producing old parts is not in itself an indication of bad faith. Manufacturing more after having stopped would be prohibitively expensive. We have to wait until they fail to create enough spares for the current models to support this program in order to draw this conclusion.
Yay, more people not from this country telling us about our business.

All Trump said was “give them hell”, which is the same thing the leftist say when they lose. Anybody that knows the American left knows this is purely political. They’re trying to smear him, charge him with a felony, so he can’t run again. That’s all this is.

Tell me this, had they succeeded in delaying the vote, then what?
I tried SELinux perhaps too early and found that, unless I was right on the happy path, I simply couldn't get anything to run. I recall a feeling of victory after finally being able to multihost some websites. However, I am not a great sysadmin and was pressed into service at the time.

It feels good to know that I was not the only one.
> whatever it takes to keep food, water, and shelter.

There are still economizing responses. When certain foods are expensive, people search for alternatives. When housing is expensive people move in with family or get roomates. With gas people carpool and drive less.

I don't want to suggest those are good outcomes, just that there is a response function.
It's fine, I actually wasn't expecting it to be a hot take or I would have explained my view better.

edit:
I thought you said didn't. My point is that wages are correlated with inflation, and increasing wages does not increase quality of life.
Yes, I should have been more clear what people will pay compared to substitutions available and competition in the marketplace for that good.
Mine is <100W now. Including a big monitor.
We've been implementing CIS hardening standards across our heterogeneous fleet of VMs for the last two years (Thank the maker for Ansible). When it came to evaluating the controls we would implement for L1, my team and our Security team negotiated which controls were appropriate for our environment. The first that I whacked was SELinux, and the Security guys couldn't understand why. In a greenfield environment where I had the time to run it in permissive mode and hopefully catch all the odd permissions it would require, maybe. A small maybe. But our environment has been around for decades, with apps that have transitioned across multiple teams, each time losing institutional knowledge.

Trying to implement SELinux on theses servers would be hugely disruptive, for minimal gain. Once I was able to explain the risk/reward calculation to the Security guys, they understood. Besides, we have so many compensating controls, I have no worries about expanding the attack surface slightly.
IIUC you need a higher temperature source from which to pump heat, so in the winter, where do you get that temperature differential?
If you had a heat pump, it would be more effective to run that for sure.
Doctors are T-shaped [0] - a GP knows a little about a lot and most have an area of interest or two that they're really well-versed in. There's just too much complexity, even within a single system, to be an up-to-date expert on everything.

For instance I have an endocrinologist (at Stanford, not to name drop but to signal this person is really good even among doctors) who only deals with thyroid. I naively figured that an endocrinologist would deal with all kinds of hormone issues but no, she's thyroid and thyroid only -- she has a colleague for testosterone, another for diabetes, etc etc.

I don't know that I'd say GPs "don't know" when to refer you; GPs are gatekeepers who will try conventional solutions to conventional problems and generally unless you push won't often suggest going deeper with a specialist. It's not that they don't know to refer you, it's that they're Level 1 Tech Support for the body and often times unless you make a stink they won't connect you to Level 2.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills
They are, they are just treated with suspicion.
Oh this is gonna be a fun deep dive, although a lot has changed around autism, even over the last 7 years or so.
I have been struggling with what I have come to understand is a very rare neurological condition, which I've had for over a decade, but which became chronic just over a year ago. I liken my process over this last year to being a general contractor of my health, hiring migrants at the Home Depot parking lot for the day.

I've been through 8 doctors now. I've had 4 specialists in different areas tell me that there was nothing they could do for me, and just leave me hanging, without even giving me an idea of what to look at next. The only reason I've been able to get any help was because my wife just happened to stumble on a couple of doctors (who work together) by researching my symptoms online. Luckily, the last two have identified my problem, confirmed the diagnosis, and one of them just operated on my back a week ago.

During this year, I wasted time, health, and money on a surgery I didn't need, and which the specialist who performed it SHOULD have known wouldn't help. I can't help but think that he saw an opportunity to do a surgery, covered by my full-blown, "Cadillac" insurance plan, that might have helped, and he took it.

Now I've had an experimental surgery (i.e., uncovered by insurance), and two trips to California. I figure I'm running about $30,000 out of pocket on this whole fiasco. The good news is that the surgery seems to have been a success, but I won't know for sure for 3 to 6 months. Maybe even a year.

> I can’t count on doctors _at all_ to move the process forward.

My feelings directly echo this. No one in this process is responsible for my overall HEALTH. I'm old enough to remember that it didn't feel like this. Your PCP would have been the "general contractor" several decades ago. Now, all anyone cares about is selling me a service, and then getting paid. And my PCP is notorious for trying to upsell me (per the FA) and get me to do tests and labs that I don't need.
Failure rates in AWS are probably higher than what you're seeing in your own hardware.
Again, what is your solution then? They stick to their principles this means one less method of dissent is available in that country.
IMO, they should make it clear that you should not try to login with your email-based Apple credentials.
> but I don’t buy the argument that “real” macros are only able in s-exprs

Metaprogamming can be done also semantically in other languages. Elixir for example has also macros and a good part of the core of the language is written with them. When writing a macro you then get an AST in input (represented with tuples in Elixir) and give another AST as output. I think Rust has something similar.

The reason why s-exps are better to write macros is that the AST has the same form has the code you write in the editor. This way textual code and code as data have the same representation, making it easier to reason and manipulate the code.
Most of these companies are not lacking in the amount of data the can collect about you.

I find it hard to believe that listening in on random conversations, collecting the audio stream, processing it, data mining it, accounting for substantial noise - is worth the effort for any of these companies.

Maybe for a smaller startup. When you're already a $1T company - this just doesn't seem like a good or valuable data source. Not to mention, it is an OBVIOUS gigantic hit to your trust.
"Payment by or to a physician or health care institution solely for referral of a patient is fee splitting and is unethical. Physicians may not accept: Any payment of any kind, from any source for referring a patient other than distributions of a health care organization's revenues as permitted by law."

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/fee-splittin...
> controlled by no one

What about market manipulations?

> They have everything to gain and nothing to lose from such an asymmetric bet.

Not sure how you pass the volatility under the rug to conclude that they have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
I worked at Facebook on adjacent projects, and would have predicted a year ago that FB will give up on these audio creator initiatives as soon as Zuck's attention is somewhere else.

The only reason these audio-focused projects were started was that at the start of 2021 people believed it was a "Mark priority", and everyone wanted to ship something by the end of H1 2021 so it would make it into their performance reviews. (This is also the explanation for why so many companies including Twitter, FB and Spotify shipped audio products around May-June 2021. Everybody ran on the same review cycle.)

It's hard to exaggerate how much of FB's flailing is explained by internal beliefs in something being a Mark priority, which then shifts to something else by the next half. It's a downside of being a founder-owned company at this scale – the signals from the top become caricatures of "Great Leader probably wants X now."
The interest rates certainly factor into high home prices, but really it just comes down to supply and demand. We haven't been building enough houses, especially where people want to live.
My dentist also told me to remove wisdom teeth. Its been more than 10 years and it hasn't caused any troubles....

And, the crucial part is the hospital is considered as no 1 hospital in my country.
Well, yuck. I did completely miss that this was just a shitty advert complaining about other shitty adverts.
LabCorp and Quest both have their own products for this, too:

https://www.ondemand.labcorp.com/
https://questdirect.questdiagnostics.com/

Which are just a wrapper for asking one of their in-house doctors to prescribe you the test you requested, without a real review of your need or the actual potential benefit for you in doing so. So it technically meets the letter of the government requirements for medical tests, but not necessarily the intention behind restrictions around tests.
Twitter needs to decentralize or it will die (2010 – Alex Payne)
Why on earth would any country, rich or poor, want a deflationary currency outside its control? "Controlled by no one" is not a feature for governments (or mature financial systems), it's a bug.

This being CAR (and this being bitcoin), it's more likely a story of using a high tech tool to hide proceeds of low-tech plundering of a poor African nation's abundant natural resources.
IIRC, in the US, all new cars are required to have a backup camera, which means there's going to be a screen in every car already. Just be glad they're not using it to run advertisements (or are they, I have a 2003 truck so some new trends get past my notice).
Walking into a classroom and telling the teacher that you have already passed the final exam, that you are done with the class and will no longer be attending their class ... that is basically highschool fantasy.
Not in competitive markets. Competition forces prices to marginal cost.
Ask HN: What tech companies/industries will do well in a recession?
It's been a while since the last recession. If there was another one, which companies would do well? "Do well" could mean succeed or grow meaningfully, or "do well" as in not be hurt as badly
> Why are dentists so scammy?

Why? Capitalism. And I am serious. It is just the need to make a profit that drives them to these places.
I think everything you typed appears to be wrong? For instance there are no laws keeping prices close to producer price. That task is done by the competitive marketplace in capitalism. In socialism/communism the price is controlled by authoritarianism, which is why those regimes are marked by mass shortages and starvation.
> You get what you pay for.

But you don't... that's the whole problem with the American Healthcare industry!
Counterpoint to your counterpoint: I think it is wonderful and we need more of these!

It may not work for everyone but the important thing is that it may and will work for someone for whom other options are not available or subpar.

I grew up in a small backwater-ish city and school was useless, outside of socializing. By far, the most important thing I did for my education was enrolling into a distance learning physics and technology school managed by one of the nation's top technical universities. You would receive learning materials and exercises several times during the school year by snail mail (yes, I am that old) and send your answers back for grading.

Whatever I am and the life I have started with this.
I'm really excited about these moves. Countries moving from a currency that can be printed by another to a currency with a cap is a major move for independence in those nations.

If your currency can be printed by another, you're a tributary nation.

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

> The currency was pegged to the French franc at 1 XOF = 2 French francs from 1948, becoming 1 XOF = 0.02 FRF after introduction of the new franc at 1 FRF = 100 old francs. In 1994 the currency was devalued by half to 1 XOF = 0.01 FRF. From 1999 it has since been pegged to the euro at €1 = 6.55957 FRF = 655.957 XOF.

Also, I miss when monetary inflation literally meant removing precious or even more expensive commodity metals from coinage. Was a bit more obvious when money printer go brrrr then.

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

> Following the war, rapid inflation caused denominations below 1 franc to be withdrawn from circulation while 10 francs in copper nickel were introduced, followed by reduced size 10-franc coins in aluminium-bronze in 1950, along with 20 and 50-franc coins of the same composition. In 1954, copper-nickel 100 francs were introduced.[citation needed]

> In the 1960s, 1 and 2 (old) franc aluminium coins were still circulating, used as "centimes".[citation needed]
New franc

> In 1960, the new franc (nouveau franc) was introduced,[29] worth 100 old francs. Stainless steel 1 and 5 centimes, aluminium-bronze 10, 20, and 50 centimes, nickel 1 franc and silver 5 francs were introduced. Silver 10-franc coins were introduced in 1965, followed by a new, smaller aluminium-bronze 5-centime and a smaller nickel 1⁄2-franc coin in 1966.[citation needed]
>So as long as your time horizon is 4+ years, it's the best savings technology you could ask for.

My US Hay, Confederated Slaveholdings, and buggy whip stocks were shooting up for a long time, they must still be great investments.
A lot of people anecdotally believe this "they're listening", but I don't, since if it happens offline, it would consume a lot of power of the smart devices, and if it happens on the cloud, then the bandwidth and computing requirements would be gigantic and probably have poor ROI that it's not worth it. But maybe I'm overestimating those requirements.

Then again, I opened Instagram at a carwash once, and a few days later I got ads about car treatment products. I walked by an e-bike store the other day and stopped for about 15 seconds to look at the bikes being displayed, and a few days later Instagram started showing me ads for the brand. I thought Instagram or another Zuck-app was tracking my location, but I just checked and none of the Zuck-apps on my phone have location permission enabled.
You should reword some of your posts then, as it reads as though you’re gleeful.

So they let it take it’s natural course? Or did they force it to stop by using power wielded only by a gov?
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Exactly, it's perfectly fine to not report a bug and pay for a different product instead. The issue starts when we attribute this to not having the needed skills to report a problem, and we defer the work to our friends. Many of us have that acquaintance who is suddenly capable of doing basic things when you stop offering them your time.
Insurance companies in the U.S. are barred, I think universally and definitely broadly, by state law from being too profitable. The outcome you describe would result in returned premiums or other profit sinks.
My one-occupant apartment is currently averaging about 0.15 kWh for the hours when I'm asleep. With my current electricity price, 0.1043 €/kWh, I could perhaps save 11.30 € in a month by completely eliminating that 0.15 kWh draw. Obviously, that's not realistic since I want my fridge to stay cool, I want my Wi-Fi beaming across the apartment, I want my NAS running services and I want my air purifier circulating air, even if I'm concious or even in the apartment.

I think I'm currently on pace to save about 2 kWh/day with my new computer though, so that's something at least.
They're not raising prices to make more profit. It's just to try to tame inflation. They're intentionally trying to cause hardship to make people more desperate for fiat so that they work harder for less money.

But IMO it's not going to work because it's well-off corporate employees who are causing most of the inflation. Those corporate employees won't be feeling the squeeze so it's misdirected. I predict that inflation will keep increasing and big corporations are going to squeeze the productive working class harder and harder... A recipe for a revolution.
and have been telling each other that the dollar is going to collapse any year now every since.

Now now, there was that one time in '86, where they thought the dollar would hold up.

I was there, we had tea.
Tough market, limited potential customer base for such a specialized tool, some product/release planning issues with Riak 2.0, and ownership structure that didn’t make anything easy at the end (but I’m far from an expert on this topic, especially the last one, just parroting distant memories).

Engineering was very talented, and the customer support team was truly top notch. Such a shame, best job I’ve ever had.
And you're trying to prevent illegal activity that is discussed in board meetings and communicated to shareholders ?
Must wasn't a billionaire when he started his rocket company. He had in the ballpark of 100 million. There are thousands and thousands of people that could start a rocket company. And he did it when no private entity had ever even reached orbit with a liquid fuel rocket.
Stock is up today.

I've seen a crude comment on reddit summarizing the shorts thesis after twitter purchase by Elon.

"Musical acts need not to own the stadium they play in. If it flies, floats or....it's better to rent it."

As a perma Tesla long, I of course think they are wrong (as they have been wrong since 2013).

First and foremost Elon is not a musical act, he's the most accomplished entrepreneur in history.

(Twitter + Tesla + SpaceX + Boring Company + Neuralink) = X-Holdings

Just think of the immense possibilities and synergies of such a conglomerate with Elon at the helm.

If you thought Bershire Hathaway was something then X-Holdings would wipe that notion away, it's gonna be ginormus with a marketcap of at least 10x times what Berkshire has. It's going to make Elon a trillionaire overnight basically.

Complete destruction of the shortsellers and it would finally put Elon at the helm of a company big enough to take on the SEC and even the Biden admin. if they refuse to play ball and allow free speach across the board. Also the ability to put pressure on regulators to destroy the scam that it Blue Origin as they are trying to rob taxpayers of their hard earned money, whereas Elon would do it on schedule and under budget.

Elon Musk is the man who sees infinite.
Syncing a Transcript with Audio in React
Yeah I think you're right here? Maybe my loss leader presumption is wrong and it's some combination of:

- We can build Echos/etc. cheaply and make a profit

- We're working on speech recognition/AI anyway, so we have the data centers

- We can subsidize this work by selling ad data
Well browsers essentially started phasing out support for non SSL pages with password fields, which forced sites to get SSL and drive down the cost. Not sure if there is similar united front for SSO.
Central African Republic factoids from Wiki:

> Civil war since 2012. The civil war perpetuated the country's poor human rights record.

> Among the ten poorest countries in the world, with the lowest GDP per capita at purchasing power parity in the world as of 2017.

> The second-lowest level of human development (only ahead of Niger), ranking 188 out of 189 countries.

> The lowest inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), ranking 150th out of 150 countries.

> The unhealthiest country as well as the worst country in which to be young.
Definitions are being stretched all around for this.

Vampire/phantom power was a specific problem where devices that were turned off by the user would still consume 5-10w. The only way to remove that power use was to completely cut the electricity to the device. From testing I did a while ago, devices made after around 2010 don't have this problem.

Deciding not to turn off a device can certainly be a problem. But it's a relatively new one.
I've heard Chernobyl being termed a 'thermal event' as well.
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Thank you. I'm broadly left-wing but I'm tired of how much economic illiteracy is common coin nowadays among the left. That argument reminds me of the exasperating "climate change is caused by the rich because most carbon emissions come from big companies" argument.
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All 5 building blocks of DNA, RNA found in meteorites from Canada, U.S., Aus
> and is controlled by no one

If China or the US really wanted to control Bitcoin, how long do you think it would really take them to do so just by investing in Bitcoin mining?

The US has literally spent trillions of dollars making and keeping the US dollar the reserve currency of the world. If Bitcoin ever rose to the level where it was a serious threat for US control, I have no doubt that they could easily crash Bitcoin as a viable currency.