skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Doctors are also at the mercy of their employer who must provide favorable references when they switch jobs.
> Medical practitioners in my experience are extremely motivated to provide as many services as the insurer will pay for regardless of how medically useful they are.

The shitty ones, maybe. I know many physicians who acknowledge that unnecessary tests lead to unnecessary interventions, which is proven to reduce quality of life and decrease outcomes.
If anyone wants to see how triple product performance relates to Q for DT MCF machines:

https://twitter.com/jb_fusion/status/1506964692627034118
Genuinely do not follow this logic
I've gotten much quicker with chargebacks in this situation. Companies that go out of their way to insulate themselves from their customers leave you little other alternative.

Dropbox is acting no different than any other scammer here, and there's a limit to how much time I'm going to waste on being polite. Somehow it is always a "mistake", and somehow those "mistakes" always involve money flows in the same direction.
Relevant news: Microsoft has patented it afterwards [0]

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/17/microsoft_ans_patent/
Was the account given warning? I agree there are lots of throwaway comments but there are also some incredibly great ones.

While I understand the time-value for any effort on this is questionable, it would be a pity to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
> Now with the internet feeling like it's just Reddit, Facebook, Google, Discord, LinkedIn, and Pintrest a lot of the fun inside jokes have gone to die, and the groups are so large that no-one even looks at a username.

I've found that niche subreddits are the exception to this rule.
fwiw, I've also experienced this on windows if I allowed msvc to use 8/8 threads. the cursor wouldn't even move smoothly. the solution at the time was to lower the compilation thread priority below whatever the default was.
When I was interviewing I always hated IQ tests but liked doing interesting coding questions.
strlen() was a major component of the slowdown. Yes, the JSON file was large and strlen() was indirectly caused by sscanf() being used. But it's not accurate to say it's a clickbait title when a bulk of the slowdown was caused by constantly recalculating the length of the C string. The article shows in detail how he created a monkey-patched strlen() that cached the length to avoid recalculating it over and over which was attributed to the speedup.

The speedup gains were not caused by reducing the size of the JSON file or doing any exceptionally better JSON parsing. The speedups were a direct result of simply not calling strlen() over and over in an O(N^2) fashion.
The consumer wants everything for free. Get back to me when you're willing to work for free - I'd love to "hire" you! :)
That's incredibly naive. I can already shop for health plans in the us, and it's a shitty result. The rest of the wealthy western world has national health insurance and it works really well. The US is the broken system with declining health of its citizens, even before COVID.
It gets even better. One of the big Software Systems at Fraport has a „Flight“ class, which exposes the method „isTrain“…
On another german airport the same class was extended by a „isTruck“ method for parcel trucks…
Canada has substantially the same health outcomes, or better, than the US. This is simply not true. I'm also Canadian, and have lived under both systems.

My father fell off a ladder and had a pretty severe head injury, and had both an MRI and a CT scan within a half hour, at no cost. Yes, lower-priority conditions may have to wait, but it's also by definition because they're lower priority - and they'll have to wait in America too.

The idea that the Canadian healthcare system is somehow leaving people to wait and die in a way the American system is not, is a falsehood propagated by major American insurers and their lobbying group AHIP. Here's a Cigna executive apologizing for doing just that. [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/06/27/884307565/after-pushing-lies-...
I never had any issue with Mailgun before. I'm now using Postmark as a backup service and it works very well.

It's very easy to set up with Laravel (PHP): MAIL_MAILER=failover
Ironically, 'The Answer'[1] was written two years before the 'Last Question'. Equally ironically, the 'The Answer' is shorter (and in my opinion better) than the the 'Question'.

(1) https://www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html
I'm disappointed that NNTP servers and clients didn't get wider use outside of Usenet.

Most public forums back in the day would have been vastly improved if they had been done as an NNTP server with each sub-forum as a newsgroup rather than doing them with something like phpBBB on an HTTP server.

Heck, most forums today would have better threading and post organization with NNTP than they do with the popular web forum systems.

Same goes for non-chat communication within companies. Newsgroups on an internal NNTP server would be better in most ways than mailing lists for topics in which people actually need to discuss things as a group.
> Bill English who was the, "director" of the demo who sometimes doesn't get enough credit.

Yes, as Doug Engelbart said when talking about the demo: “but anyway it worked, and the main reason it worked is because Bill English is a genius”.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24064902
But do they have to delete the flagged account directly?

Also, can't they distinguish a spam account from a legit account based on the account history? I can't see why this is a difficult problem to solve.
Yes, you can find information that they will add that to the price, but the prices they list to drive you into that funnel don't include that charge, which is a deceptive pricing practice.

The original point is that if you include that cost, then their prices for many drugs are no longer the cheapest.
That's what I mean, the list price in the big box is just the mfg, markup and labor. You have to add on $5 to the 'Transparent Pricing' that they put in the giant box in the center of the page, you only see that there is an additional shipping fee if you click thru the little slider or submit an order.
I've thought of using older Pixel phones for something like this. One annoying downside is that the Pixel devices do not tend to have an easy way to enable hdmi out.
> Usenet (IRC channels too) had a sense of _place_

Not sure what you mean by this, but they sure were not fully clad with ads and tricks to get you to pay for some virtual gifts or pro-accounts.
What is the benefit compared to a rooted android tablet?
Maybe we could have some crowdfunding to remunerate authors and then have everyone enjoy the creation.
>Of course I pointed and laughed at you, you were (and still are) acting very poorly towards others.

A non-confrontational mention that a tone marker would have helped, which you turned into an attack somehow (?), then you took pedantry to a new level (not uncommon on HN, but lol), and then after other insults on the OPs intelligence you say that they are acting poorly? What a laugh.
- If the font is part of a brand identity that the user trusts (there’s a reason Times New Roman has Times in it).

- If the font has associations with a particular place or time that you want to imbue your system with.

- If you give the user themselves the ability to select a font that works best for them (for example a font focused on the dyslexia reading experience in an ereader).
I'm pretty sure you're free to compete with them if you think it's profitable.

In reality I'd expect that 15% to be necessary if they want the company to survive after some years. There are tons of not so visible overheads and costs, and it (apparently) has taken a billionaire to be able to start such a company (disclaimer: I have no idea what GoodRx is).
Been an interviewer and interviewee recently, so being on both sides of the track has given me some perspective.

This is the current process that I think is fair and holistic:

1. meeting with the candidate, our manager, and some devs talking about their past exp., our company, our team, and their wants

2. Take home coding task based on our day to day work: This is linear with direct instructions for inputs and outputs; there is an optional part at the end for testing more tricky concepts. They are instructed to write clean and clear, no stress if they don’t finish, take their time with a week to do it (it’s a few hours work).

3. Interview with them walking through their code on their machine and describing their thought process, field questions from them if any are left.

Then we decide by a team discussion afterwards.

Gives them their space to think, reduced pressure for candidates who are socially pressured.

Thoughts?

I personally detest leet code as a recruiting tool.
Some of startups are founded by people with limited technical experience who, as a crutch, just cargo-cult technology trends from bigco's. IME you're better off going full "cowboy" than trying to crib bigco practices.
Too much Chrome tabs?
You can't and won't because the truth of the matter is that police very frequently wait outside during anything even remotely resembling a hostage crisis, and a gunman holding a gun to your face inside your house isn't even ambiguously a hostage situation. The street cops who respond to this won't have any interest in running into the building to get shot, and they'll use concern for you as their excuse not to do it. They'll wait outside and call a hostage negotiator if you're lucky, or just yell at the building with loudspeakers until the gunman gets bored and gives up or shoots you in your face. If you're very lucky, an hour or two later a SWAT team might show up, but there is a good chance they'll stall for time too.
> Medical practitioners in my experience are extremely motivated to provide as many services as the insurer will pay for regardless of how medically useful they are.

I've personally found this particularly common and suspect within the Dental industry.

https://health.sunnybrook.ca/navigator/too-many-dental-x-ray...
Don't get me wrong, I think claiming the NHS has been "weaponized by the left" is idiotic, but I don't see how PC expenditures support or refute that point?
They're a deal site, basically

You need <drug> in <area>

They search pharmacy prices in <area> for <drug> + <generic versions of drug>

You get back a list of where it is cheapest to have <drug> fulfilled by a pharmacy in <area>
This may help to quench your nostalgia https://github.com/mrusme/superhighway84
A copy of your data that can be easily modified (whether through bugs, malice, or even just you mistakenly deleting a file and Dropbox happily deleting it everywhere for you) is not a backup. It’s definitely way better than nothing, but people relying on Dropbox as the only “backup” will be in for nasty surprises occasionally.
Why would the Yankees, who own the YES Network, want to give up carriage revenue from that TV network? And it's not just the Yankees -- a surprising number of teams are tied up with regional sports networks, and they're more interested in maximizing that revenue than providing a good online product. And sports fandom is generally localized to the team's location ("we'll root, root, root for the home team/if they don't win its a shame"), so that local cable deal is generally one of the biggest sources of revenue (generally on par with ticket sales).

The only reason why the MLB has a good app is because they can capture the thin slice of revenue teams miss out on from out-of-market fans with that app; there's generally not enough of those fans to drive a per-team standalone subscription service (although the MLB does offer one, it's not price-competitive with the full league option), so the league does it as a whole.
I've been using Dropbox for at least a decade and have no intention to jump ship (though summary execution of accounts does give me pause). The reason why I do so is...

* It works on absolutely everything. I have one foot in every major tech ecosystem and that immediately excludes anything platform-specific like iCloud. I also used to daily-drive Linux, which has no official OneDrive client, and the Google Drive client is notoriously bad on that platform.

* Mobile photo upload was extremely convenient when I first discovered it and it still works very well. If I need to take a picture of something I can use my phone and then grab the file on my desktop or laptop.

* The option to store everything locally still exists and is the default. If I get banned from Dropbox I will still have my entire Dropbox folder contents as they were present on my desktop's massive hard drive array. Backing up Google Drive in this way can be done, but only if you aren't using anything like Docs or Sheets, which can't be stored locally without a manual file export. Dropbox even tried to replicate this with Paper and I never touched it for exactly this reason.
But the point was that they're doing things that either are unneeded or not effective.

If either of those are true, their lives do not depend on those procedures.
Iran, Russia, China Hold Joint Naval Drill Amid Growing Ties
I started writing rust ~6mo ago and while I agree with your sentiment, the issue I've run into is that so many packages I need to use, because there isn't an alternative and I don't want to build it myself, already uses async. I then have to either heavily wall off that part of my code or at a certain threshold realize I may have to adopt async myself because keeping two concurrency models going is really a lot of overhead.

It's hard to wind down that existing momentum.
Saw this live and assumed MS had just changed their mind on how important tpm is
HumanNeRF: Turn a YouTube video of a moving person into a 3D model
The FAQ question I was hoping to see, but did not, was "How is this different from GoodRX?"
Google really destroyed that archive, there's posts from the 80s and 90s I know used to be in deja and in early google that just can't be found any more.
Yup. Max Howell, creator of Homebrew. A bit more information here https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin... (link to Quora, uggh, but that's where he wrote it). HN discussion of that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15981338. Howell's earlier tweet after getting turned down by Google: https://nitter.net/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en. "Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off."
Indeed, but I was just listing them as "two major illegal things that binaries newsgroups are used for", not tie them together or relate them in a jejune "four horsemen of the infocalypse" kind of way.
I'd argue that piracy is beneficial to society. Copyright (and most of IP-law) is a scam at this point. 10y is enough on any IP-thingy (to have a head start on the rest of the market); but that's just my opinion.

Yeah looking at you Mickey Mouse.
> If for-profit companies keep doing all these awful things, why people keep paying them money?

Healthcare privacy laws make it extremely difficult to evaluate the value proposition of care providers. You can't just, like, look up a list of their previous patients' medical histories.
>you'd be surprised of the results

I wouldn't because my company has been burned before by hiring people who would otherwise have been filtered by your test. I'd say your test is the kind of responsible, yet reasonable test I'd like to see every company adopt some form of.
For Linux zswap (lz4+z3fold) works quite well as a tier between RAM and direct swapping to disk. When RAM use hits a threshold it compresses pages and stores them back in memory (as opposed to writing them to disk). I've had pretty good performance with it provided there is enough CPU capacity for the compression and decompression. At the very least the slowdown when you begin swapping is much more gradual, especially on low memory machines.
I doubt you can communicate to their customer service bots.
I’ll take the liberty to re-post what I wrote in a similar thread:

It can be quite difficult to find online oases […]. HN is quite unique.
Have you considered starting your own Slack, invite interesting people and build a new oasis? (Or Matrix channel.) It would take some work to get people to join, but it’s not impossible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31582270
>Others, like 409 Conflict have such a narrow use-case that I’ve never seen it used in practice.

I use 409 when users of the API try to create a resource that already exists.
This is a Kotaku article, and given the quality of the reporting there, for all I know every developer save 1 on Fallout 76 loved working on it, and it was the project that drew engineers to Bethesda!

I don't trust this source. It sounds like something close to accurate based on previous game industry insights, but again, I don't trust Kotaku for telling me if it is currently raining while we're standing outside.
I think a lot of people were expecting them to because this WWDC marks 2 years since transition to Apple silicon and two years ago they said the transition would be complete in 2 years. So it begs the question, is the transition to Apple silicon "complete" since there isn't a Mac Pro with Apple silicon? Or, will Apple kill Mac Pro and the studio will be the new "Mac Pro?"
It seems to have worked out for him.
I'm developing a markup language that compiles to HTML and (among other things) allows easily inserting LaTeX equations. Currently they're rendered using KaTeX, which requires custom fonts. Is there a way to make it work without a CDN? I don't want to sacrifice the convenience of being able to quickly write down some math and having it compiled into a single HTML file, so requiring the user to put the fonts somewhere and link them separately is unfortunately not an option.
I went to a private game academy in Berlin and stoped after a year.

I got more insight into game dev and I think that I'm good but you only need a handful of things which are really interesting.

Like the game engine or the ai part or whatever.

Those people are just better than I am due to just being smarter etc.

So do I want to be a normal paid tool developer or dialog system biluilder or do I want a proper carrier and earn money?

I earn a good amount of money and I do not work in game dev.

I don't regret it and can imagine doing full time private game development when I'm 50 and stoped working.
> Google ended up acquiring and eating Usenet, becoming Google Groups.

That is false and nonsensical. Usenet is a federated network of NNTP servers; Google just joined that with their own implementation having an awful web front end, which they proceeded to revise in even worse directions.
That happened right in the middle of a decline that was happening, driven by ISPs shutting down their NNTP servers. So it might have looked like Usenet is somehow transitioning to Google. Google did also acquire a Usenet archive, and then make it impossible to use.

Anhyway, Usenet is alive and (sort of) well. There are new posts daily in newsgroups like comp.unix.programmer, comp.lang.c. Even comp.lang.lisp sees some action.

See you there!

--

Hey look, comp.lang.awk has a new post, from the somewhat kooky, but topical, KPop 2GM

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I'm currently using the news.eternal-september.org NNTP server.

Note: there is spam, but not nearly as much as you see through the Google Groups interface, and that's the interface that offers no filtering features.

You need a newsreader with killfile processing. I use the terminal-based slrn (S-Lang Read News). It has a score feature for assigning scores to articles based on matches on arbitrary fields. If you give something a -9999 score, it disappears. The fields have a lot of information. You can kill based on what server someone is coming from, or what client they are supposedly using, if you want.
Multimillion dollar UN sustainable housing scandal
> It's substantially less, and declarative

There are declarative ways to manage bare metal machines, such as terraform, nix and puppet.

> And AWS is way better at keeping S3 running at scale and maintaining this stuff over time than your average IT / DevOps employee

Yeah no, the outages we faced _because_ of AWS were way, way worse than what we faced with our average IT/DevOps employees at my old jobs. This keeps getting repeated and it's going to keep being wrong.
While you're correct, it's too little too late. You should assume that everyone effectively don't have a web cache. It's like the effect of Spectre and Meltdown: JS timers are no longer accurate to compensate for them.
Nothing will launch its debut smartphone on July 12th
Well that paper is above my pay grade so I'll have to trust you on it.

I will push back on your second paragraph though. The presentation I linked was from two years before the founding of CFS. It seems likely to me that Whyte founded CFS because he believed in the physics he presented, rather than the reverse.

I see this sort of causation reversal and associated accusations all the time in internet discussions. For example, yesterday someone told me that Musk only likes electric cars because he owns lithium mining rights. Tesla bought those rights in 2020, because they produce lithium batteries.
Although a bit different rather sad seeing Take Two/Rockstar attempt to censor other fan projects through DMCA or lawsuits.
Ryanair Afrikaans test: Airline stands by South African language quiz
yep, and yet we get clutched pearls over investing in domestic energy production.
Um, what?

In theory, free market healthcare should improve alignment.

Insurance companies pay procedures and make money when people are less sick. Hospitals make money when they perform procedures. Insurance companies are therefore incentivised to only pay procedures from competent hospitals, the ones that won’t result in more follow-up costs.

The problem is, of course, it’s not a free market - neither on the hospital side (prices are not public) nor on the insurance side (it’s much more affordable through employment)
So instead of having to buy a charger (which they don’t, all phones come with one) for $10. They have to buy a $300 phone that causes more waste?
It's not news or anything but Strides has probably given me the greatest quality of life boost this year. It's a pretty simple app where you list habits you want to foster and you then mark them off each day (or are reminded to do so when you don't). Keeping up streaks of certain good habits has done me a lot of good the past few months :-)
As someone living in a country with first-world healthcare I think it's insane that you have to pay out of your own pocket for medicines, and doubly so that it takes a private company run by someone trying to make *less* money off people to do the job the government should be doing.
Just stop watching video altogether.
> People frequently die, or get sicker, as they wait their turn in months long queues or lack of supply due to government quotas.

There are often months long waits for here too, try getting a dermatology appointment, we just also have the privilege of paying for it out of pocket as preventative skin care checks are not actually classified as preventative medicine so it counts towards your deductible meaning you have to pay the first $2000.
I'd like to hear someone play that music!
> Heck Rogers and Bell even have stakes in professional sports!

Rogers and Bell own two of the most popular (if not the two most popular) teams in Canada -- Rogers owns the Leafs, Bell owns the Canadiens.
Obesity in Wales: Energy drinks ban for children proposed
Your single payer system would end up as yet another bloated inefficient government bureaucracy that never goes away. NHS would pale in comparison. No thanks.
Silicon Valley braces for the good times to end
> You can just switch it all off in UEFI? What's the problem?

Until you can't...