skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an entire pipeline of billing to extract the tax benefit of insurance.

The real economy has way many more prices than this one - from each store of anything in the country that negotiates from straws to bread. The difference is that these ones happen in a system that has a paper trail from the doctor, to the insurance, and this admin burden is only (apparently) worth it because the vast majority of money in healthcare goes through tax-advantaged insurance.

Cash based payment should suffice for 50~70% of healthcare expenditues and it would have more prices and not have expensive and abusive billing processes.
Why is the phrase “battery electric vehicles” more accurate at conveying the mixed energy sources than “electric vehicles” exactly? How does adding the word “battery” change anything?

EV’s run on electricity. The phrase “Electric Vehicle” has no implication one way or the other how you get said electricity. Adding the word “battery” changes exactly nothing, except maybe winning arbitrary strawman internet points.

> Until society actually builds net-zero carbon electrical generation we haven't done much for carbon footprint.

Ok so if my electricity is provided by a nuclear plant, I still can’t call my car an EV because there exists other sources of electricity out there? Please.
It's cute! Some people will enjoy it, may be brighten their day during some nasty debugging.

I wonder how it does for people with dyslexia. I'm guessing not great.
Tried this on chrome and it's pretty awesome!

Unfortunately it doesn't work on Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04 with an NVIDIA GTX 3090Ti. :(
The most important barriers to competing with the named companies would be network effects and economies of scale, not motivation and a good attitude.
Glad to speak with someone of your experience!

Certainly when I first started teaching 3D, we had to choose between Blinn, Phuongs, Lamberts and suchlike. Different objects would be assigned different shaders. That alone made workflows tricky. This was around ten years ago.

Getting apps to talk to each other was hit and miss. In VFX, two shader results in two different apps that are slightly different in impact may as well be very different.

Though Blender has lots of legacy shaders, I forbid students from using anything but the principled BSDF. This lock-in to one shader makes life a lot easier. Also, the Substance painter to blender to unity consistency is now pretty slick.
Yeah the ? for equals is not better
I've seen that regularly with spot instances and new instance types. I assume spot instance availability is correlated to on demand capacity (why would AWS discount instances at spot prices of they were able to sell at the on demand rate).

Azure has been having capacity problems all year and some new instance types aren't available to customers or you need special usage requests approved
This is unacceptable. Perhaps it meets the letter of the law, but certainly not the spirit. This doesn't begin to make healthcare anything like a "free market". It's dishonest in the same way a restaurant might be forced to release a nutritional analysis of their food, and so they release a molecule-by-molecule description. Despicable.
Is computed just a selector?

Is a signal just a useState hook?

I’m sure the answers are no. But I’m struggling to see it in the provided examples.
I just came back to this being quite a bit more controversial than I intended. I wrote it frustrated by the story and the commenters here who were ignoring the elephant in the room. Please detach it from the story, if it is possible, or otherwise make it so it doesn't cause further harm. Whatever you feel is appropriate.

In my defense, though, while I can see it being inflammatory it is definitely not offtopic. This is directly why CERN is being idled, and the article states it plainly:

"Europe's energy picture remains clouded by the war in Ukraine. Moscow's invasion of its neighbour have triggered sweeping sanctions from the West, led to a cut in energy supplies from Russia and stoked inflation.

On September 2, Russia indefinitely suspended natural gas flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, tightening the squeeze on Europe’s energy supplies. The ongoing economic battle between Moscow and Brussels has raised the prospects of recession and energy rationing in some of the continent’s wealthiest countries."
Peter Straub, Literary Master of the Supernatural, Dies at 79
It appears that Agner Fog's website is down at the moment, so we must conclude that the universe does not want to share this knowledge.
Unless you're into compilers and whatnot, it shouldn't be necessary?
Mostly I find it distracting when you edit them and they magically change back and forth.
If it was visually fine, id rather use ozone to fix it than replace.
Google search for the McKinsey report on US healthcare spending - I think it was around 2009.

I work in the industry as well and it’s one of the few reports that actually breaks down the spending in a logical way.

They basically adjust US spending by GDP (high GDP countries spend more generally) then compare each category to the OECD average (also adjust by GDP), on a price and volume measure.

The answer is - yes, higher price are a factor, but volume is also a major factor. In hospital spending is actually in line with other countries. Drugs costs more but it doesn’t contribute that much to total spending. In terms of durables (equipment) the US spends less.

The biggest driver? Out patient procedures. Not just price, but Americans get way more out patient procedures done compared to other countries and it accounts for like half of the “excess spend” of the US compared to other countries.
There are hundreds of regional networks across the Country. Heck how many Blue Cross Blue Shields are there?
Energy storage can be challenging. It is far from impossible.

And of course, all energy conversions involve losses.

Most generally, excess electrical generation can be stored as fuels. The round-trip efficiency is low (~15--20%), but the storage time is proved to multi-hundred-million-year duration.

I've looked into the literature on one variant of this which dates to the early 1960s:

<https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28nqoz/electri...>

Your other assertions are ... similarly flawed. Again, yes, challenges, but not outright impossibilities, and there are a number of other alternatives (flow batteries, molten-salt and other batteries, pumped-hydro, CAES) which you fail to consider at all. Several of those are already implemented at grid scale, others ... are at least technically possible, and may well prove viable.
Currently running Spotify + VSCode + Chrome + Slack on 8GB. That's 4 browsers, and it's totally fine.
ah, that was a mistake on my part, will get it fixed. Was just supposed to link to the article itself but somehow the rest of the path got lost.

*contacted admis to attempt to change the url, if/while it isn't, this is the url in question: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/09/06/everyones-mad-at-cloudfl...
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I think this is very much a double-edged sword, and no one is truly a night owl.

> If you are a night owl can you unlock your full potential when the sun is up or does your brain only start to fully function when it's dark outside?

I have an interesting personal story to share about this.

I'm fully remote, and my main interfaces are in vastly different timezones (PST/EST). I'm in Singapore (UTC+8), so I'm always 12-15 hours ahead of most of my team.

Which means that:

- Most of my meetings/syncs etc. are in PST (early morning for them, late night for me; sometimes 3am for me, and sometimes early morning for me, evening/night for them)

- I typically follow a graveyard schedule so I'm available in their timezones

- I am usually most productive during night hours

- (see my username)

I have been doing this for 5+ years, and yes, anecdotally - I feel like I'm "myself" when there is no sunlight.

However, I've come to realize that this is unhealthy for me. I barely have any energy to run daytime errands and appointments: literally nobody in my social circle is awake after 10pm, no doctor's clinic is open in the middle of the night, I can't head out and buy a pair of shoes, etc., but at least I have my basic amenities available (10-15mins walk away from two 24/7 supermarket, 7-11's, etc.)

The bit about social circle affects me the most: I've given up a lot in terms of networking opportunities and/or dinner & drinks with buddies just so I could attend meetings at 10pm, 1am, ...

So as much of a night owl as I am - I feel that being a night owl is great for my brain juices to flow, with the side effect of neglecting pretty much everything else in my life.

Not sure where I'm going with this; it may not make any sense, but your question just struck a chord with me :-)
By allowing them to settle they've ipso facto legalized any laws they were breaking for the wealthy companies.
It’s unlikely that blockchain / NFT’s will become widely adopted. History proves that human’s like a central authority, just not one that actively works against them.
Neither of those files reliably represents the actual dep graph of your program.
Another plausible explanation is that `100 Gigabytes of RAM` is more catchy than `100 Megabytes of RAM`
TIL Blue Cross is a "non-profit"
I used to explain it to clients as the difference between having your files nicely organized in cabinets or on shelves, and having the contents of several different files strewn over the desk. For people who like to keep a tidy desk this metaphor made immediate sense.
> Interesting! ESA has been using a custom SPARC V8 rad hard architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON

While LEON isn't going away any time soon (especially given the recent release of the new LEON-5), I very much get the impression that the long-term plan is to replace it with RISC-V based solutions such as NOEL-V. Nobody can throw out working systems, but if you are starting something brand new, does it really make sense to base it on an ISA which the rest of the industry has essentially abandoned? Even its originator (or successor thereto) has basically walked away from it. Aerospace stuff is as expensive enough as it is already, getting stuck on a niche legacy ISA seems like a recipe to only make it even more expensive.
Social insurance is covered by AHV/SVA/IV (funded by salary deductions and cover congenital defects, invalidity, some rehabilitation therapies and other non profitable coverage) and of course healthcare is not fully privatized as you say: private insurances are private, offering highly regulated compulsory insurance and can offer less regulated additional insurance. Some hospitals/clinics/health and elderly centers (cantonal) are kept with public debt & public donations even if deficitary because private clinics would be unprofitable otherwise.

I don't know if you legitimately do not know that.

I did not talk about federal/cantonal to avoid writing a thesis in a comment. I never said it was centralized.
sell house boats as the sea level rises and go full aqua world.

ie shovels during the gold rush
Onions. People devalue onions, but they add a deeper taste and texture to pretty much every single stir fry or stew.

There are very few dishes that can't be enhanced by adding just a little bit of diced onion (even many sweet or salty dishes), and many dishes benefit from adding fresh onion as well. There are also so many different varieties of onions, and each has its own subtly different taste. Learning which kind of onion is the right kind to use for which dish is a fun and rewarding pastime. Not to mention that they can be caramelized in a non-stick pan without adding oil, which is pretty useful.

In 20 years, people will no longer be sleeping on this, and as a result onions will be much more expensive than they are today. I've started going out at night and burying onions in the front yard of my apartment complex so that I'll be able to cash out when this happens.
Admin access is fine, you only need to block the USB ports and secure your network and domain policies heavily enough. The alternative to desktop PCs are VMs in the company's data center accessed either remotely or from local thin clients via remote desktop.
I think Apache 2.0 is fantastic Open Source License indeed if "Open Source" is indeed the primary goal
It was probably possible with ultra-high end servers/mainframe like systems even in 1999: https://shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/E10000/spec....
I don't think I've ever heard anyone confuse ram and mass storage by saying "ram".

All I think I've ever seen is anyone who says "ram" knows what ram is, and people who are fuzzy on it call it all "memory".
cool. too many single-pixel gaps to be usable. the diff btw c and o shoudln't be a single pixel
Weight loss pills.
You're proving the parent's point. Electricity is fungible so it will be easier to replace natural gas used for electricity than the millions of homes heated by it.
Even better!
Kudos to the team. A viable alternative to 1Password and others. I agree there are open source alternatives available, but I prefer to pay for the premium version, which works across all devices. Good stuff.
I have 64G of RAM in my framework laptop with room for 64G more. It's not all bad. (The state of mobile phone storage (not to mention removable batteries) has gotten significantly worse over time. Heck, they even dropped the 3.5mm headphone jack which is honestly fucking insane.)
Or practice restoring too many times
because as a language it's quite complicated, except in simple cases, the syntax is completely arbitrary and randomly injects keywords willy-nilly in an absurd attempt at being "english-readable"

because it lacks composability, making dynamic query generation a massive pain in the ass, as well as manual edits of queries.

because watching DBA's flailing strings about, smashing them together like apes with stones, just so they can struggle to feed it into an EXEC SQL call is perhaps one of the greatest tragedies of our programmatic times.

because it's not at all portable, with every database arbitrarily extending the SQL standard left-and-right, and even basic conveniences and functions end up breaking your portability goals; the ANSI SQL standard defines less a standard and more of an aesthetic mold for each dialect to try to match against.

because it lacks any portable ability to extend the language, with nearly every function added not as a stdlib function but instead as part of the language itself, often with custom keywords to go with it; there's a reason you find imports for anything in python, and next to nothing for rdbms's. Nearly any extension/package implemented is hooked into the DB internals, and not portable.

because the editor tooling is basically stuck in the 80's, with universally useless error messages, absurd limitations like select-clause ordering requirements (e.g. you can't use a select alias in the where clause, because the where clause gets evaluated first; this is exactly equivalent to C requiring forward declarations), select-before-from breaking autocomplete, and only advanced editors bother to even forward data-type mapping from schema definitions to your autocomplete because of the open-world assumption (the schema could change under your feet); hell, even SQL formatters have largely given up on trying to format anything but the most rudimentary constructs, because of the ridiculous amount of language they need to support.

because the language stuffs a trinary logic (true,false,null) into a binary logic system and grants you access to all of the benefits of both false positive results and false negatives.

because the relational algebra is elegant, in all the ways the SQL language is not.

But we'll stay with it, because at the end of the day, no one gives a shit about SQL. The SQL language is just the interface to the Glory of Codd, the relational algebra, the RDBMS, and in this we find all true value. But we can still dream of a better world. A world where RDBMS's support more than one query language.
> As others have noted, heat pumps are only good down to 20F. If it gets colder than that,

Others said no such thing. Did you leave out the minus sign?
I don't think that's a sync vs async difference in the API. peek() is related to reading the value without creating a subscription on it:
https://preactjs.com/guide/v10/signals#reading-signals-witho...

In general signals looks like a synchronous but lazy system. I don't see anything that's actually async in there?
> This is great!

Why? What is a promise like that supposed to be worth? Even if the people making it are completely honest when saying this (which I now doubt), once leadership changes this will go out the window quick.

This is in line with "Keeping our users happy is our main priority" and other quotes from the infinite pool of empty PR speak.
If only there were some way to turn money today into a guarantee of onions at some time in the future.
I've thought of the same idea. The rough workflow for creation would be (1) create a checklist, (2) publish it to the world as a template, (3) let others fork it, send PRs, etc. Then the usage workflow is (1) search for a template, (2) instantiate your own copy, (3) use it. As you say, you'd want the list and the checkbox states available offline, and maybe synced elsewhere.

Throw in collaboration features like sharing a single checklist ("are we bringing everything we need for the roadtrip? mark items that you've packed" "someone please buy milk, or else I will if it's still on the list when I stop at the grocery store tonight," "has everyone grabbed a task for the next sprint?"), or delegating items to other people ("for tomorrow's presentation, make sure someone has set up the projector"), and it could add the magic that I felt back in 2009 when I realized how amazing git became once GitHub was layered on top of it.

The reusable-list idea works for me when I'm traveling. I have a list of stuff I need to do when I leave the house -- turn off the thermostat, make sure the plants are watered, etc. -- and I find it annoying to have to uncheck the old list's items in Google Keep. I'd rather keep the old checked lists and instantiate new ones. The list itself evolves over time, so having the old completed (or not-quite-completed) lists is interesting.

Also see this recent item https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32552782 proposing a spec for to-do lists.
> Business users get: laptops, mostly.

That's far from universal. The business users I've worked with recently almost all have desktops. A few (mostly management) have laptops for work. I'm sure a lot of that has to do with whether the business is remote-work-friendly. There are still quite a few businesses who are decidedly NOT.
See: https://preactjs.com/blog/introducing-signals/#signals-to-th...

EDIT: scroll up to "The global state struggle" first to get more background/comparison to useEffect if it isn't clear.
Maybe I’m thick, but I don’t see what makes this (or solid, or svelte) different from Knockout or RxJS. Does this somehow avoid the tangled dependency chains and complex push-based reactivity issues that I deal with in RxJS/Angular?

To me the brilliance of React is the VDOM, which allows you to treat your components like a render loop in a game.

What’s the piece that I’m missing that separates Signals from RxJS observables?
I read over the React integration here, and it seems like an unsafe approach to React 18+ by monkey-patching React internals state transitions, as well as mutating refs during rendering which can break during concurrent updates.

Some abuse of the internals may be "safe" because React Devtools relies on this stuff, but I would be very nervous betting production correctness on this strategy long-term. Maybe it's worth it? Really hard call.

Here's the details: https://github.com/preactjs/signals/blob/main/packages/react...
Solid uses a custom Babel transform. Interestingly performance and simple build process aren't mutually exclusive, you can get both, the transform provides (arguably) convenience features mainly.
I regularly work on servers with 768 GB of ECC RAM.
These aren't very common but they do exist.
I am trying to upgrade to a terabyte of ECC RAM.

On Amazon, they sell a 32x32GB package of ECC RAM for about $10k.

https://www.amazon.com/Adamanta-32x32GB-Upgrade-PC4-17000-Re...
Devin Finzer and Alex Atallah got into YC with an idea centered around sharing wifi bandwidth using blockchain.

They saw the rise of Crypto Kitties, and how people were buying and selling them online. They pivoted mid YC batch into building an NFT marketplace called Opensea.
privacy and ad blocking, fully synthetic vaccines, 3G mobile.
I guess I might be now that the directors of our little company have sold it, but I assure you I am substantially more mad about that sale than I am about the Bitwarden one.
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Requests a New Trial
I used to tie an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.
Spotify crossplatform-client streams music using YouTube and no Spotify premium
A lightweight free Spotify headphones crossplatform-client desktop_computeriphone which handles playback manually, streams music using Youtube & no Spotify premium account is needed scream
Working on Firefox 104.0.2 under Windows 11.
Onions are already used heavily in almost all cuisine though? It might just be America/Europe who use them a bit less than the rest of the world, but they're still used a lot.
Its basic psychopathic behavior. The lack of care for causing others work is just beyond my comprehension.
Train commutes are usually unpleasant and inflexible unless the infrastructure is overbuilt (like roads) or unless you live close by (expensive in areas where huge companies operate.) Distributed clusters of workers in mixed use is a better policy aim if good commutes is the goal.
Another hyperbolic geometry game and previous discussion here [1]. The different areas in the game help with a grasp of different interesting properties of the non-euclidean geometry.

[1]: HyperRogue – a non-Euclidean roguelike https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17432974
In D you can opt into specific float algorithms locally rather than a compiler flag.

Use of fast math can really really really bite you sometimes, so just being able to opt into using fma and nothing else is awesome.
Oh, you are totally right. I read that in the GitLab issue tracking their version of the problem and totally forgot that’s where they landed.
A quick search suggests this device uses a new target (`ipq807x`) not yet in owrt official builds.

This post details a community firmware with images: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/gl-inet-ax1800-new-router-openwr...

That community repo is a fork of the GL.iNet build infrastructure repo, just with less definitions that allow compilation to succeed.

My understanding is that infrastructure fetches the official owrt sources and applies the patches listed in the yaml files, but I didn't audit the entire build system in 15 minutes :P
_Disclaimer: I'm the founder of a project behind a new IPFS implementation_

I have a fair amount of experience with the kubo (go-IPFS) codebase, and can confirm the broad strokes of what you've posted here, including the part where bittorrent is straight-up better at scaling, both in terms of protocol design choices & having robust implementations.

The chattiness of the protocol is a very real problem. It used to be _much_ worse. Further order-of-magnitude drops will require rethinking numerous aspects of the protocol. The implied-start topology of the network needs more thought. What remains to be understood is if those pile of changes can bring IPFS into the same league as bittorrent in terms of network efficiency, while also having the "single-swarm property" that provides fine-grained content routing.

A bunch of us are committed to building this. Hopefuly a HN post in a few years time will point to this one as a reference for just how far we've come
I don't either, never did, never will.