skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there needs to be some new approach to how medical services are being paid for. My 70yo father fell off a ladder and drove himself to the hospital in Calhoun Georgia (2 hours north of Atlanta, a small town) with a bruised eye and a broken wrist. He got in late afternoon, left the next day, and the bill to insurance (which of course they won't pay) was $69,000... more than per capita income in the US. The system is ridiculous.

In my opinion, healthcare has reached the state where the people who receive the benefit are too far removed from the people who pay for it and given there is no "victim" of price gauging, the prices will just keep going up up and way.

I defer to those wiser than me for the solution. I don't like complaining without being constructive so here is my ignorant pass at it. This will require a few key steps: 1) Yes, we need more supply (by deregulating the profession) 2) I personally think a more effective solution would be to gradually eliminate insurance except for catastrophic risk (like emergency medical care from a car accident). #2 will shift responsibility to the individual and the system will be capped at what they can charge based on the average person's ability to pay for it (which is how it works in many parts of the world).
As much as I love the mustache fox, I struggle with GitLab being at the center of devops. I think source is more powerful to non-devs and hitching everything to devops might present some challenges.

I work with lots of scientists and they don’t care about devops much now and may never need to. But they love GitHub because they collaborate on scripts, manuscripts, demos, small data files, etc. They pay $4/month or whatever and don’t care about devops. There’s lots of people like this.

I think there’s a smaller amount of proper software devs making software that require devops and will pay for devops.

If GitLab is really about devops, then they should be repo agnostic and work with lots of repos. But their core is still source management that they do really well. So their marketing is out of sync with their identity.
Nice work! I also learned about gojq [0] yesterday too. A Go clone of jq that you can also embed in Go code.

[0] https://github.com/itchyny/gojq

Edit: oh unlike jq/gojq your tool doesn't implement the jq language it allows you to script in Go. Cool! And interesting to see your use of the Yaegi interpreter for interpreting the Go.

I'm curious, did you find it faster to interpret with Yaegi vs just writing the Go code to a temp file and build/running that? I imagine at some point for larger datasets the latter approach would be faster?
It's all fun and games until you have explosive diarrhea and your coworkers are making Taco Bell jokes for the next 6 months.
Yes there are hospitals in India that cater to a specific aliment. For instance, eye hospitals, cancer centres, hospitals that cater to pregnancy, childbirth and neonatology etc.

> Like you're saying, the more a heart surgeon specializes, the better they are at it and the cheaper they can do it. Better Outcomes for less money.

Not necessarily.

1. A heart surgeon is going to be doing heart surgery at more or less the same frequency regardless of whether the hospital they're at handles only heart patients or not. Wouldn't they?

2. I doubt if anybody here considers them cheap. Yes it's probably cheaper than in the US, but still it's rather expensive. But then again, since life is priceless, ...
surprised the ocean is that hot
I love it.

- I like little quirks in logos like the infinity here.

- It's much more minimal. The old logo had too many unnecessary lines in my opinion.

- I quickly associate the canine appearance and the color orange as a fox so I'm not sure why people are not identifying as one.

- The subtle borders are chef's kiss.
So you never learned anything from internet resources?
Georgia Tech retention rate for first year CS students is 60% IIRC. Now, many of these will go to other majors and not drop out. But these majors are widely known at the school (e.g. riding the management train). While many of these students will go on to graduate, 12.2% of enrolled first year students are not on graduation rosters 4 years later.
Why shouldn‘t money from law be kept in the hands of lawyers? It‘s a grueling education with an even more grueling exam and even now a lot of law graduates can barely afford to keep a roof over their head
> And yes you could do this off of Web3 but then you'd need an escrow account and a centralised party to hold the funds which isn't as decentralised as I was hoping for

Right. In fact I was already thinking that this was a (rare) situation where a smart contract on a blockchain would make sense, because you want transparency and consensus and low-throughput financial transactions between countries that don't necessarily trust each other (or even have banking connections to each other).

I wouldn't necessarily call that Web3, especially as there wouldn't need to be any web servers involved, but I suppose the system would affect people's webmail, so I can't really object to the label.
“The Curiosity Gap”

The title is written in an intentionally vague way to entice a potential viewer into clicking it.

If the title was: “I Got a CS Degree in 3 Months for Less Than $5000 from WGU”, that’s not clickbait because it tells a more complete story.

(But telling the whole story from the title means people won’t click, so that’s why it’s written like that)
Wherever the weather is dry people use evaporative coolers. They cost a fraction of what an A/C would cost. People also use curtains made from a local grass called khus. These are sprinkled with water for evaporative cooling. Its unlikely to be unique to India though.
Drugs, obviously
> "Serious students are largely only found in degree programs that have weeder courses".
I am unconvinced by that logic. Serious students are there to learn from competent teachers- i.e. someone that is proficient in the art of conveying knowledge, not merely possessing knowledge or having successfully brought grant monies to their university. Weed out courses are not for serious students, but are a rite of passage that many times are themselves gamed.
Where do I report a bug? https://app.ignitionrobotics.org/GoogleResearch/fuel/models/... is not the Teapotahedron.
I don't think it was retribution.

Most people had no clue Disney had special privileges. Due to the extra eyes on Disney because of their opposition to the Parental Rights in Education bill and the arrest of some Disney employees on human trafficking charges people learned about the special privileges. Once people learned about the special privileges the lawmakers decided to remove them due to the public support of doing it. Doing what the people want is what politicians are supposed to do.

I think there would have been calls to remove the special privileges regardless of Disney's opposition to the bill.
>DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab

Yeah, just had a call with them and they confirmed that for only VCS its not feasible to use their platform.

What are people migrating to? I am looking at bitbucket again I guess.
I guess what do you mean by “recognize”? I’ve reviewed hundreds of resumes, and never dug into the regional vs national accreditation for a degree. You recognize the big names, and otherwise just generally say “seems they have a CS degree”

Is that different in Europe?
I was reading these tweets today confirming that this is already happening in Mastodon: https://twitter.com/Gravecat/status/1518598015396818944
Show HN: Blarb – Microblogging with a twist
You are very disingenuous. It's not a "Don't say gay" bill, it's a "Parental Rights in Education" bill. The idea that Disney Corp and its employees have special tax exemptions that is enjoyed by nobody else in the nation while advocating that they should be able to teach sexually explicit topics to kindergardeners to 3rd graders - and hide the fact they're doing so from their parents is abhorrent.
I hosted my own email for years and had no real issues. The only reason I stopped was that my main motivation for self-hosting was security, and there are now providers (ProtonMail, FastMail, et al) that are reasonable options to solve for my needs and require no maintenance effort on my part.

My experience has been that all the major providers will deliver mail if it's appropriately signed with DKIM and you have proper SPF records, as long as you aren't originating from an IP that has a low reputation score. The biggest challenge is getting a clean IP, since there is limited IPv4 address space and most IPs have been recycled so much at this point that they all have low reputation scores. The best way to get an IP with a good reputation score is to host on physical hardware, not on VMs, with a smaller provider that has minimal customer churn.
You're focusing way too hard on the example of risky traffic behavior, which has a deterrent far more potent than any fine: potential loss of life (one can even argue that how much you value your life scales with your wealth, partially explaining the findings of that article). What about parking tickets, for example? Wealthy people often park illegally and just eat the fine because it's more convenient than the alternative.
What a better Rust would look like
>Motivations define retaliation.

Disagree. Motivation plays a part, but it is ultimately the action that defines if it was retaliation. The action has to be harmful.
Maybe when the late great JPB passed on? Hurts my ears to listen, burns my eyes to see.
Yes, care rationing is a thing. But in the UK care is rationed due to capacity constraints whereas in the US it's rationed in order to make a profit. These are very, very different things. It means that people's welfare, and death, is being traded for profit.
Poor pay? Judging by the nurses I have talked too in big proper hospitals stress and scheduling are their main concerns, not pay.

Obviously higher pay would increase their abuse tolerance, but I think it is only part of the problem and a short term solution since no amount of pay will offset stress problems.

County level nurses seem to have much better work conditions than hospital nurses.
Green is best, although that orange bar reminds me of Hercules monitors.
i can think of lots of substantive things I've gotten for relatively nothing. the price tag of something doesn't necessarily equal quality.
The site wealthygorilla[.]com alters your history by erasing the current contents and replacing it with more of their articles. It irritated more way more then it should've the one time I went to their site. I went through and found the JS where they implemented that "feature".
Independent Media Stack
Looking to source some more good content. Here is my current roster:

Scott Adams (known best for Dilbert and predicting Trump win, check out his locals.com channel for live daily feed + micro-lessons on persuasion).

Russel Brand (once tabloid fodder for drug use and dating pop star Katy Perry, his youtube channel offers a wise and cogent analysis of current events).

Naval Ravikant (founder of Angel List-- podcast and associated blog are full of wisdom and deep dives into subjects like David Deutsch's work and most recently Ethereum with Vitalik Buterin).

Mike Solana, Matt Taibbi, and Bari Weiss Substacks-- current events from an independent POV.

All-in Podcast for current events and tech from four distinct and often clashing, but always intellectually honest, perspectives.

Paul Graham Essays (this one is probably on all HN lists).

Milk Road crypto newsletter (short, punchy, often funny coverage of the wild west frontier that is crypto).

What's in your media food pyramid?

Or do you all just graze Twitter?
I just left my dentist because they kept pushing braces on me (invisalign). I am over 60. The old dentist didn't do these things. The new dentist was hard sell. They also wanted to replace a crown that was fine.
I found a dentist with a less invasive approach (and associated with the local dental school).
I think there is a problem with dental care. You have 1 dentist and it's hard to verify what they say.
This comment is kooky. Are you implying that one option for women nurses is marrying a higher-income man and becoming a stay-at-home spouse?

Men making less than the median for their gender (something like $55k in the US) are still marriageable; plenty of women marry men who can’t support families on their salary alone. Even at the median salary, supporting two people — let alone a larger family — could be a struggle, depending on debts and other commitments.

And then there are women who are not married to a man who makes money, either because they remain unmarried or because their husband has lost his job or cannot work for some reason.

Further, even if the cards align, it’s not great to be in a position of dependence on your spouse's salary. Sometimes you have to split up and sometimes your spouse dies without leaving significant insurance or inheritance.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WGU/comments/pjisyd/any_idea_why_mo...

There seems to be some discussion how european country like to have a stronger accreditation, so that is why I am asking what really is the case.
All customer-facing positions have to deal with rude customers. Very few of those positions specifically select for customers with a high correlation to selfish and/or antisocial conspiratorial behavior. Almost all COVID hospitalizations are unvaccinated, and there's a very large (if not majority) portion among that population that chose not to vaccinate for entirely selfish reasons, and another large portion who have been actively consuming media telling them the members of the medical profession are the enemy. You'd be hard pressed to select for a more adversarial customer base.
I don't believe so because it is not nationally accredited. If the college are not nationally accredited, then it is highly likely that universities in Europe will not recognize WGU. Unless the institution have a formal agreement (Articulation Agreement) with WGU to transfer.
My Alexa and Facebook are spookily linked.
That makes sense why opiods and similar drugs would be cut with it, but not why wildly different drugs would be cut with it, no?
> Data also shows that 161,400 Holocaust survivors and victims of antisemitism during that period are currently living in Israel.

So it's 9.6%.

> The survivors' average age is 85.5, with about 31,500 of them over 90 and over 1,000 older than 100.

> Sixty-one percent of the survivors are women, and only 10 percent of the total survivor population are currently married.

Looking at https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html , the death probability in 2019 for people with 85 years was 9.5% for males and 7.3% for females. It would be interesting to do a more accurate calculation, but it looks like the death rate is slightly greater than expected, but not too much. And in 2021 covid-19 increased the death in all groups, specially old people. Sad news anyway.
Trying to help customers get SSO setup is definitely one of the most painful & elaborate chores we have to suffer at $CURRENTJOB.

We flat up wont do 2/3rds of the asks you listed, but just getting it wired up & going, providing some basic debugging to make it go... we really are apes with hammers trying to pound these systems into going, have little idea what we're doing, & are way undertooled. It feels like super complex tech that requires very specific expertise to wrangle.

That said, I think this site is a great & wonderful & moral cause & I support this wall of shame fully. It just needs to be there, as annoying as it is.
Antennae tend to give a multiplication factor to almost any input signal, no matter how low the initial power level might be. As a crude example, a 1 watt input signal might suddenly have an Effective Radiated Power in the hundreds of watts (yes, there are a vast number of variables in such a formula so take this as just a thought experiment).

A bandpass filter has the effect of only allowing a desired sliver of the RF spectrum to be transmitted beyond it (i.e. Block All Except For...). There are cheap, passive, dumb analogue bandpass filters commonly available, and at the higher end of the cost scale there are active, smart digital circuits. Do your homework because not all bandpass filters can provide the sharp shoulder needed to give a clean slice of spectrum. A similar device is a bandstop filter, which blocks a specific slice of the RF spectrum as specified (i.e. Allow All Except For...).
Ask HN: Am I an arrogant or am I surrounded by incompetent people?
I've generally stuck to the mantra in life that "If it smells like shit everywhere you walk, check your shoes". I'm currently a Junior in college - I've had an internship at Amazon last summer and now, for my final summer I have an internship at Google.

I go to a state school not really known for CS, although we have a huge CS undergraduate body. A lot of classes in CS require group work - which for the most part, I think is really helpful since most engineering in industry is done in teams.

I've had 3 classes where the majority of the grade is made up by projects, and many classes where we do many projects. In each class, I've had to carry the bulk (~90%?) of the workload - half the groups don't know how to code (mostly webapps), and the other half don't care to try.

I've tried many approaches - I find that if I recommend tech stacks that I'm comfortable with, most people won't care enough to learn them, but when I let others select, the project ends up as a steaming pile of garbage that doesn't work, and requires a rewrite the week before it's due.

School Groups that are lacking are not the exception, they're the rule - I haven't had a group be able to get anything that's runnable without almost taking over.

I thought that when I got to Amazon, things would be different: highly motivated people working on exceptional software. But the webapp I was working on (internal) was poorly held together, and the frontend had literally no tests and no way to get mock data locally - i.e. the engineers working on it were just guessing about the shapes of the DTO's, pushing to their personal deployment of the app, and then testing in the cloud before pushing to production. The feedback loop was brutal.

I really try my hardest to do the best with what I have - I've never lost my cool and always try to have a cheery attitude. But when I sat down and git pulled what our group had been working on, and there were compile time errors in the main branch, sometimes I wonder if I'm just holding my peers to standards that are too high? Is it too much to expect tests? Is it too much to expect to be able to test full stack locally?

I'm beginning to think that I just need a reality check on what standards to hold others to - but at the same time, I can't help but wonder how some of my peers are passing classes or getting hired.

EDIT: Thanks HN for all the helpful advice - I've read each comment many times and will probably come back to this post many, many times over the course of my career. Some of these comments have shifted my perspective on some things.

I can't reasonably reply to all comments thoughtfully, but they are all appreciated - thank you.
Sure, but that's like blaming "humanity" for all the woes of the health care system. It's humans who produced the health care system in the US after all.

You have to be more precise as there are clearly aspects of capitalism that have resulted in tremendous improvements in quality of life (look at North Korea vs. South Korea).

Regulatory capture is one of the issues & revolving door politics. Especially a big problem in the healthcare & finance industries (the current head of the SEC spent his career at Goldman Sachs for ex.)
I view the commit message first, of course, and only if it's not enough, I go to the issue tracker.

>That place used JIRA where the typical ticket ID was around 10 characters. That wasted a lot of prime real estate

Interesting, just for the sake of it, I measured how much screen space the issue ID takes up on my monitor with my current font settings - around 5% (of monitor width, of course). Never been a problem for me.
The choice of registrar is under my control, though.

Also, little-known fact: if you register a UK company (probably more practical if you already have one, but the effort is not actually that big), you can register .uk domains directly with Nominet, the UK registry, by setting yourself up as a self-managed registrar. It doesn't cost anything (beyond the cost of the domain name) and is very easy. I'd love to know if there are any other registries that allow something similar.
> This misses the whole picture which is about both supply and demand, and mining is only one side of the equation.

Of course, I just pointed out that price action has historically gone in four-years waves driven by halving cycles. This is clear in the charts. That's why the 200WMA is particularly meaningful in the Bitcoin world.

> is debatable to say the least. Is there any legal niche group that would use it for at least 50% of their transactions? News articles about the experiment in El Salvador seem to indicate that people still prefer to use cash (USD).

No question, I would be surprised if anyone is using Bitcoin for much of anything but remittences in El Salvador (right now). It will probably be a while yet before we shift into the medium of exchange phase.

> Not sure how this is relevant

I think it's relevant because network effects generally means money wants to be a monopoly good. Money is more useful if more people use it. Gold, guilder, pound, dollar; the world trends toward one monetary standard, one unit of account. Unlike the fiat reserve currencies since gold, Bitcoin has no counter party risk. Unless something BREAKS the network effects of Bitcoin somehow, I don't see anything stopping it from becoming the dominant monetary good at some point in the future.

What do you think will break the network effects of Bitcoin?

> If you look at the past 7 years, it doesn't look like it has gone down

No, I will admit I'm operating on my gut here. Bitcoin is like the reserve asset of the cryptocurrency world. The crypto market is very much the Wild West still. Crypto trading happens on insane leverage, and is highly correlated with tech stocks and such. But small countries and institutions are just finally starting to get involved. They're not going to be degenerate traders, they're going to be holders. As the institutions and sovereign wealth funds start to pile into crypto, they're going to want to choose the most secure and stable good in the space to hold for the long term, which is Bitcoin.

It only makes sense to me that volatility will decrease with time.
That was my first thought! The concept works fine for a bathroom with multiple people if they're all trying to go at once. But if you're using this at home, the best place for it is actually outside the single-user bathroom.
> ... ~$49 margin for the Store or AASP for a display replacement, a healthy reimbursement of labor and time.

How long does it take to replace a display?