skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think that is correct - ending government intervention in health insurance would wither the medical billing industry. To be fair, the medical billing industry is not parasitic - it adds value by navigating health insurance billing, which is notoriously complex and time-consuming. But health insurance billing is only so prevalent because of massive government intervention. For example:

- The federal government is by far the largest health insurer - through Medicare and Medicaid it pays for 38% of healthcare in the US [1].
- The federal government directly subsidizes private health insurance through ACA [2].
- The federal tax exemption for employer-paid health insurance is by far the largest by dollars exempted [3].

All these government interventions increase reliance on health insurance, which increases the complexity of billing, which grows the medical billing industry.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/237043/us-health-care-sp...
[2] https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/subsidized-coverage/
[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/12/04/1664342...
CGMs should disillusion people of this pretty quickly. I really wish more people would try them for a month just to see how they respond to certain foods.
Convertible Notes for Visual Learners
What's the difference between disabling a license to a digital movie and smashing a DVD? Either way, you paid for a movie and now it's unwatchable.
IMO, Liberty Software sounds like a company or a brand, but free/libre are philosophical concepts. I think it's important that free/libre software be noted for it's philosophy, not it's affiliation to a specific organization.
Your behavior before, during, and after the crime are incredibly relevant to your sentencing. The court is trying to determine the best course of action to prevent repeating the behavior and minimize future potential harms, these things must be considered. This is not a "one size fits all" or "strictly by the numbers" question, and we are not benefited as a society by treating it that way.
Ironically enough, the research itself is “quantum”
I've taken cabs all over the world in the pre Uber days (Literally, like 60+ countries on 5 continents). I can count the number of normal or pleasant experiences I had in a cab on one hand, out of HUNDREDS of rides. Not all cab drivers are/were asshole scammers but I have a decent sample size and can confidently say at least 95% or more were. I have zero sympathy for any of them.

The cab industry as it was pre Uber needed to die. These days it's gotten a bit better now that they actually have some competition. But I simply have no tolerance left for anything to do with cab drivers given how bad it was in the late 90s and early 200s.

And yes, I am 100% in agreement that Uber sucks too. But they suck 1000% less than cabs did at least for the riders.
I lived in northern UT for most of my life. I moved away. When I returned just last month, it felt like a dustbowl from Salt Lake down to the valley. It seemed that more of the soil would be picked up by the wind. That soil has a high level of arsenic in it which could make the air quality even worse than it already has been due to the inversions and refineries.
Let's you make Redis queries via the DNS.

Don't make it hard on yourself when you start tinkering. Be sure to use and anticipate TXT (text) explicitly; most DNS tools default to A (IPv4 addresses) instead.

Create a key 'foo' with 'hello' in it, and see if you can retrieve it with

dig foo.get.proxy.redis.example.com TXT <--- specify TXT!
I’ve always thought there’s a psychological effect as well. Baseball players who were old when I was a kid look (way) older than same-aged players today. Like 20 years different, and it can’t be the sun and smoking. I’ve always felt I just knew what they looked like. And what was older then is now “damn near college” for me now. But typing this, maybe it’s just the presence or absence of crows feet at the eyes? The hands certainly show peoples age (still).
What is the mechanism that allows it to apply extraterritorially? How can they make me comply?
Thank you for the correction! You're right, it had only 8.
The Network State – How to Start New Companies, Communities and Currencies
One my friend once had to stay on a diet of only green tea and salo (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo_(food)) with rye bread. According to him, after two weeks of this diet he experienced incedible lightness in the body.
I firmly believe it's the former. More web traffic comes from phones than from computers [1]. More people own smartphones than desktop computers. [2]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/277125/share-of-website-...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/
All colors that are sufficiently distinct from the default that is.
That sounds a little circular. The benefit of alternate compilers is that it makes making alternate compilers easier.

For stability compilers already have a large incentive not to break old programs. For longevity I don't really see how a standard affects it that much. For being more portable you do not need an entirely knew compiler.
Sure, but that's not a great reason to make it easier for them.

If I were running the Amazon of drugs, I'd brush up on which countries don't extradite to the USA.
Giant, meat-eating new dinosaur species discovered in Argentina
Well, Musk is not "most people", and 8.5 billion is a small percentage of Elon Musk's net worth. I'd not be surprised if 8.5 billion is perhaps the daily fluctuation in his net worth!
What happened in 1997?
While I don't disagree with you, it's important to remember that these companies spend billions of dollars to literally make their product addictive.

In school we teach kids how to be responsible with alcohol and drugs. But some still become addicted. The same applies to social media.

The difference is that instead of the pusher being some shady character at the back of the school bus, it's a massive company with marketing, public relations, and lobbying teams.
I am surprised I had to scroll this far to find a dBase reference. I am the same vintage as OP, and yeah... back in the day dBase was the key to riches...at least as a contract dev. I remember spending A Lot of Money on the big box of dBase IV when it was released...all the diskettes and manuals. Around that time there was much talk about migrating from dBase databases (those .dbf files) to the magic of "SQL" which at the time meant nothing to me. Needless to say dBase IV cratered, and the industry went elsewhere. Good times!
The crazy thing is no one needs to be forced to get. We already have passports, and they are initially applied for at USPS. All the feds need to do is set up an online verification system with an API to plug into.
It's not always as simple as this.
The Magic Window word processor would display uppercase letters in inverse (black-on-white, instead of white-on-black)
Potatoes are calorie dense. I think the focus on satiation rather than pure calorie counting is a more recent trend.

Also, it sounds like water content is a significant contributor to their capacity to satiate, so things like potato chips probably fail miserably under this lense. Many processed foods made from potatoes have far less water in them than home cooked versions (french fries, hash browns).
only $10m? hahaha they don't care
> if a person has just gotten done working for a candidate or someone in office, they should be barred from private industry until they are politically irrelevant.

Wait why? There's already such little incentive to get into public service. The pay is certainly garbage. Hell, the top position in the US government only pays $400k.

Who is going to want to work in government if we get rid of the ability for them to transition to private industry afterwards?
This. There really is something special about potatoes that just makes them far more filling than they "should be": https://nutritiondata.self.com/topics/fullness-factor
Physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology
"I don't even wind it, being unused preserves collector value".
You're right and wrong. Many obese people have done this and lost weight... and then gained it right back again. Over, and over again.

There is a persistent myth that the obese person lacks some spiritual strength or willpower. I think your comment implies this.

And yet they do have the willpower to lose weight? And something happened in 1980 which turned 30% of adults into weak-willed moral degenerates, and more and more every year? Is that actually plausible in an era with unsurpassed interest in healthy eating, where people voluntarily exercise more than they ever have, with better quality food than we have ever had?

The original researchers who suggested a mass trial of the potato diet over social media aptly said "the study of obesity is the study of mysteries". They're investigating some high-risk hypotheses that chemical contaminants are the cause of skyrocketing obesity. Worth a read.

> People in the 1800s did have diets that were very different from ours. But by conventional wisdom, their diets were worse, not better. They ate more bread and almost four times more butter than we do today. They also consumed more cream, milk, and lard. This seems closely related to observations like the French Paradox — the French eat a lot of fatty cheese and butter, so why aren’t they fatter and sicker?

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p...
Which, unless you're my friend, prompts the questions "what else is in this beer" and "what's in it for you." I believe that to be a deliberate choice in the "free as in beer" analogy.
Hopefully this will slow down development of new Rust features to a reasonable pace. Instead of Rust devs writing code that requires a new compiler every 3 months it'll be more like every year or two. Almost useable.
It sure was an excellent purchase -- one of the most secure services available world-wide, operated in the EU with strong privacy and completely outside US jurisdiction.

You weren't able to collect your emails for a brief 5 minutes, but you'll live.
I have several telescopes and I have dropped things in the mirrors quite often. The decrease in quality from a damaged mirror is almost zero. You only lose a tiny part of the total surface. Is not like hubble that had the wrong shape. A tiny speck in the mirror is likely undetectable. Even a bigger one wont affect that much.
How do you get into your accounts if you are on vacation and you lose the copy of your pwd vault?
Here you go. Reason for the name should be obvious. https://sporeworks.com/Psilocybe-cubensis-Penis-Envy-Spore-S...
Welp at least he doesn’t have any scaling issues. Scaled down to the minimal set.
When I was doing intermittent fasting I would usually have roasted fish and potatoes for lunch, all prepared on the same baking dish[1]. It was very filling, agreeing with your post.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/18/dining/the-minimalist-tak...
Nothing. It's meant to be an absurdist joke meant to leave the person wondering exactly what you were wondering.
CGM ?
Not sure I agree with your experience at AWS. For me, my teammates have been super critical, always trying to raise the bar and looking for ways to make things better. So, all I’ll say is that it is very team specific and you can find good and bad teams at every company.
Superconductivity
An understanding of how to grow food
Self replication
Not aware of anything that collects such statistics, no.
Yeah, the whoomp of a CRT monitor powering up, the sound of a modem handshake at 2am and the flex of 5" floppies.

Good memories of times never to return. But that's just nostalgie.
In 2015 UKIP got 12.6% of the votes, making it the third-largest party in terms of votes cast by quite some margin, and they got just one seat.

In 1983 the Conservatives had 1.5% fewer votes compared to the previous 1979 election, but ended up with 7.7% mote seats resulting in the largest majority in decades.

I think it's a real missed opportunity that the Blair government didn't change anything when they had a large majority in the 90s/00s. They said they would, but it fell by the wayside. The problem is that Labour always thinks this time it will be different and this time they will come out on top. And for a while they will, right up to the point they don't.
> It's incoherent even as a concept: to prevent infections, get infected?

What's confusing? Get infected once, avoid tens of infections. If your immune system "forgets" the immunity after 6 months (which is the case for COVID), then every 4 months get exposed, you won't get actively sick since you still have some immunity, and you'll keep your immunity high.
has a pharyngeal pouch been excluded?
I made the move to become a solo developer building my own apps in Apr 2022. Here are the steps I took:

- Started building my own project on weekends while working full-time last year.

- Personal project got some traction at end of the year (organic growth and good reviews).

- Saw story on LinkedIn of some people quitting their jobs and becoming indie dev and got inspired.

- Added ads in my app and started generating revenue ($1 a day).

- Quit job at end of March. I had saved up about 3-6 years of runway (counting my average daily expenses).

- Joined an incubator by chance, hoping to find a co-founder, but didn't succeed.

- Registered a business (sole proprietorship) at end of May. Only cost around $200.

- Added in-app purchase in the app in June.

- Ran ad campaigns of $500 budget and generated $220 in revenue in June. $140 from in-app purchase, $80 from ads.

- Currently building and planning to launch next project in Aug.

My background is a senior frontend engineer in a big tech company.

Previous job was mostly about managing contractors, interns and some internal experimental projects.
David Mitchell is a delight to read. He picks his words the way an anime martial arts master picks the right spot to punch a rock so that it explodes into a thousand pieces.
Is Society Finally Ready for Male Birth Control?
Which guerilla? Russia is mostly taking part of Ukraine with low support for the federal government. It’s not to the point of Crimea which had been trying to be independent since 1991 but they definitely have a good chance of actually annexing the parts they are occupying without to much resistance from the inside.
I wouldn't judge quickly. For several decades, fat was considered bad in all forms. Now views are changing..
Princess Rust has no proper throne on the kingdom of binary libraries.
{supabase founder}

We're fortunate to have started at a time when VCs were incredibly irrational (read: good for founders), and even more fortunate to have found a lead investor that's patient.

We've been able to build Supabase our own way: hire the right people (mostly international), focus on what developers want (even though they don't pay much), and build open source (collaborating rather than competing). None of these are controversial until you have a profit-maximising VC breathing down your neck.

> They're in a "long game" (according to their founder)

I stand by this. It's a decade-long endeavour to build credibility as a database company and that's not something we can hurry.
Or however many leads to 1g of protein per pound of lean body mass. No point losing weight if its lean body mass. (Protein has a muscle sparing effect during diets)
FX is a shared or "distributed" market between the institutions that trade, such as big international banks and other market participants. They would use a shared electronic market (reporting) to determine the price. It's not exchange (as in NYSE) based. The exchange rate is set by what the market participants are willing to trade at. Banks can hold numerous currencies by having banking licences in the respective countries.

See here for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market
One of the inventors of Scheme literally wrote the book on Lisp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_the_Language
I agree, sometimes it is just a gut feeling, but a lot of times expertise means knowing where the gut feeling comes from and being able to explain it.

If nothing else, management will be more trusting in those situations if you give good and accurate estimates the rest of the time and are able to justify them.
Reading every commit seems like the best short term way to maintain code quality and keep the whole project in your head?
Personally, I don't find this disrespectful at all. It's good for stakeholders to understand what you're doing, why you're doing it that way, and what the alternatives are.
"Taters? What's taters, precious?"

"You don't know what taters are? Po-tat-oes? Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew?"
There are a few things you can do to improve the conversation and relationship:

- Get support from top management on the client-side. Provide quality metrics quarterly (number of bugs reported, releases, etc.) and show positive trends.

- Iterate faster - like every week, and show what has been delivered. Prioritize what has actual value for your clients., and let them provide feedback.

- Make your clients have skin in the game. The problem with folks challenging estimates is that they are not involved in the process, e.g., they are not contributing to the product. Without being involved, they can only provide feedback such as "I don't understand...". It would help if you found a way of having them contribute to the product, and the conversation will change from estimates to the product's actual value. Ask them to review features, prioritize, read release notes, suggest improvements, share their experience with other clients, etc. If you have ways to open your product and processes, it should help.
The tech that lets 911 operators know what floor you're calling from
The idea is that the disorders may not actually be autoimmune, but reactions to certain foods.
> It looks like you made this story up

I understand that it is not in the ST archives, and because of that, you do not believe it. That's a perfectly reasonable position for you to take. I did not make it up, though. But I'll still withdraw it pending finding citable evidence.

As for playgrounds:

https://www.facesoflawsuitabuse.org/2018/06/lawsuits-take-sc...

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/09/25/elementary-st...
Someone on this forum recommended Peter Zeihan's The End of the World is Just the Beginning, a book about the unraveling of (American-led) Globalism. This seems to me like the next inch towards that reality.
I have to say A380 is probably the most comfortable plane I've ever been into. The takeoff and landing were so smooth I barely noticed them. Only the other fancy new planes like 787 and A350 are somewhat comparable. The downside is that you get spoiled and every flight with a 737 or A330 just feels miserable when you know it could be so much better.
That's one of the things that kills me about present day distribution. There is such a massive hole in not getting to hear from the creators the way you could with DVDs. Shows like The Simpsons, etc. have offered a massive amount of information presented through commentary, that wouldn't otherwise be known.
Back during the great depression polls showed 25-35% of Americans would opt for Communism. It never happened and the support for Communism collapsed by the fifties.

Seems the grass is always greener across the street. These same Americans when asked can't even name the three branches of American government.
I've used FreeIPA with great success in the past. It really took care of the client onboarding and replication and hid all the ugly complexity behind it. UI was also pretty dang good.
link to github model instructions: https://github.com/deepmind/physical_concepts
This is why I install cfw on all my playstation whenever I get the chance. I got mad that the PSX games they sold dont even work properly because they are running it emulator mode.

I just downloaded a massive dump of every playstation 1, 2, and 3 and play it on sd card on the original hardware.

Only if a game is interesting/or i like I end up purchasing.
I prefer to go jogging honestly and do exercise. Every fat-thin cycle makes you lose muscular mass so you should combine diets with exercise instead of getting unhealthy eating habits.
These are interesting not because you're solving for a game, but because you're potentially partially solving a category of problem.
Satiety is a mental construct. I've been underweight, normal weight, and overweight in my life. What your brain tells you to put in your stomach is almost entirely divorced from nutritional requirements for thriving and surviving.

The only way to be exceptionally healthy and thin is to ignore the urge to overeat, and this urge is extremely dynamic on a per human basis. As a result, some people out there will eat a case of potatoes and still feel very hungry and unsatisfied.
I like how the English write. Maybe it's because it was originally their language and so they teach it well in their schools.

As an American, I rarely see young people able to write like this anymore.

On the topic: are they trying to kill their startups? Because this is how you drive startups out of the UK.
One is an agreement ending where the other is your physical property being damaged. It's a lot less violent of a way to do it.
Continuous Glucose Monitor.

Related topic: Glycogen storage in the liver and muscles and glycogen depletion
The Glycemic Index (GI) looks bad, even look at the chart in the article. However the GI for potatoes changes depending on how you eat them. Cold potatoes have a much lower GI than hot freshly served.
You can pick one of the usual Native American crop patterns and get a solid set of vitamins. Potatoes + beans + squash or something like that, maybe with some corn. Cf. Mann's 1491. If you're going for a minimal veggie ingredient diet these new-world combos work well as a base, in part because potatoes are pretty much a superfood.
What window do you eat during? I've seen lots of focus on eating only in the morning, but much of my life I naturally had low appetite in the mornings and mostly only ate dinner. That also coincided with being young and having an insane metabolism. I haven't actually intentionally implemented intermittent fasting, but I've considered it, and I'm strongly biased towards favoring a "dinner only" window from that experience.
The main difference is that in case of a physical purchase, your continued access doesn't depend on any entities other than yourself. In case of a digital purchase, it does. The upside of physical media is that not only the seller forfeits all and any control of it at the moment of sale, but that you can also resell it once you no longer want it.
There’s no such thing as real language. Language is loseless compression of perception to allow collaboration of agents. NNs also do loseless compression (from already compressed data - words). I think with more raw “senses” their compression will get better. Only missing thing is some memory trick. I would even bet that most humans use heuristic thinking and “logic” is just a way of validating legitimacy of these heuristic proposed patters. Once someone replicates this in AI it will get scary. Already things like “Let’s think step by step” are going in this direction. Hierarchical generation of actions might also help (and model understanding that these actions could be used to cause effects). I agree NNs aren’t enough for RL agents but it’s great bootstrap for world model component of agents that probably somewhere between cat-humanity level
just seems more antiweb from Apple. they love to ruin the web and make it harder to avoid their walled app garden....it's a money ploy to fight web apps and make their little devices even less useful.