skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had the misfortune to be knocked off a motorbike in the UK, when my knee just .. burst apart on impact, and also knocked off an e-bike in the US. I drive a car now :)

Both were pretty much the same in terms of treatment. The UK had a harder job patching me back up because I was more broken, but they did it very well indeed, and the after-care/rehab was far more in-depth - because it was more needed, of course, I only broke an arm in the US.

A few things stick out as memorable.

- Running around checking insurance for all the post-event stuff (I had bruising on a significant chunk of my body, there was a lot of "fixing" that to do) and making sure various doctors were in-network was a major frigging hassle in the US. Not particularly what I wanted to be focussing on...

- The (probably overworked) Dr in ER asked me if I was allergic to anything while he cut my clothes off, and I replied "cars, apparently" - thinking that it might be useful to show I wasn't dazed and could still think properly. No, that was a mistake - I got a 5-10 minute lecture on how this wasn't funny, this place was a hospital etc. etc. I just shut up, we all have bad days - I wasn't having a great one myself that day.

But the quality of actual medical care was pretty much the same, maybe with the slight edge to the UK because of how well they fixed up the mess that was my knee - sufficiently so that it doesn't even "ache in the rain", and cycling was something I could do without thinking twice..

The experience though - that was much nicer in the UK. No worries about anything... Need an ambulance when I couldn't walk ? No problem, one was sent. Have a nurse pop around to do some physio for the months afterwards when I was out of the wheelchair ? Great, we'll do that. And of course, no paperwork, or chasing/arguing with people whose job it is to prevent you getting care, because that costs money.

So, no, the service is not "abysmal". The service is fucking excellent. The US could learn a thing or two...
No Adderall works via a completely different pathway.
You can get these wholesale from China from "reputable" gray-market wholesalers who get the chemicals made at contract manufacturing facilities. Independent purity tests via HPLC are available for <$100 if you don't fully trust your supply chain. Semaglutide is very, very cheap in the gray market. It's somewhat less effective than Tirzepatide and has slightly more side effects if you ramp up the dosage too quickly.

If an annual amount is purchased on the gray market, this brings the monthly cost down to:

- Tirzepatide: $60/month

- Semaglutide: $10/month

- Liraglutide: $87/month

Note that in the USA, it is legal to import certain amounts of FDA-approved drugs if you have a prescription for them. However, just because something is the exact same chemical as an FDA-approved drug does not make it an FDA-approved drug. It must be manufactured in an FDA certified facility and be the same brand/manufacturer/packaging/labeling/etc as the approved drug.

e.g. importing generic Sildenafil/Viagra is legal if you can find the Teva(tm) brand generic sildenafil in, say, Mexico or Canada for a better price. But it must be the pills manufactured by Teva in the appropriate facility with NDC #0093-5342-56[0]. If you import generic sildenafil "Cenforce" from the (very legitimate but not FDA-approved) Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer "Centurion Laboratories"...

...that would still be potentially criminal smuggling. Even if the pills you import show via laboratory test that they precisely match your medical prescription, they are not "FDA approved" and therefore not legal to import.

A lot of people do though!

0: https://ndclist.com/ndc/0093-5342/package/0093-5342-56
These reports are not regular to be honest...

"Think of it this way: There are many thousands of paintings with blue backgrounds, but fewer with blue backgrounds and yellow flowers, and fewer still with blue backgrounds, yellow flowers, and a mounted knight in the foreground. When a forensic analyst compares alleles at 13 locations—the standard for most labs—the odds of two unrelated people matching at all of them are less than one in 1 billion." 1

In the past, there were issues with not getting these 13 sites sufficiently covered and losing statistical power. Today, to get around issues of certain markers dropping out for different reasons and to continue to ensure high statistical power, the FBI uses 20 markers now and samples must have a sufficient number of markers covered to be considered. 2

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/a-reaso...

2. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/12/nist-research-...
Yes, Elasticsearch is an option, but many (most?) instances haven't installed it, including mine.

And even when it is installed, it doesn't do what I want.

In addition to my own posts, I want to index the public posts of those I follow, and I want to organize by topics that aren't found in the text of the post, and I want to "follow" search terms similar to how the latest Masto allows following hashtags.

None of this is available with Elasticsearch even if it was enabled on my instance.
The terminology makes this so much harder to distinguish. My bank does have different consumer protections for different cards issued through them (debit cards require you to report fraud within 7 days, credit cards require you to report within 30). I didn't realize that the payment network used was not coupled to these mechanisms.

I wonder if financial marketing understands this? Associating credit with less risk, less requirements, in naming of the networks themselves? Even though settlement can occur on each network
> The Little _________ books themselves are strange,

I didn't know this, because I didn't read them lol. How was I supposed to know that?
Maybe so, but please don't fulminate or call names on HN. You may not owe tech nutcases better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Tragic. Absolutely tragic.
And don’t forget sometimes the price changes depending on time of day! Definitely biggest culture shock of my time living there.
I have two cynical thoughts after reading this:

- Imagine a world where the value add people got together and horse traded our managers around.

- How realistic even is the “programmer celebrity” anymore? It seems like the “this is the guy” (e.g. one of the best browser guys) happens less anymore. Are there people out there now that are the crème de la crème of k8s configurators? Top class QUIC implementers? Number one ad-tech hackers? It just seems that the things we used to lionize our star developers for were a lot easier to get excited about. It was like we were making a better new world. Now I just feel like a paving stone in a surveillance economy.
BenKuhn.net just wrote an encouraging post on starting to write. Here is the link: https://www.benkuhn.net/writing/
I got flooded in a 1st floor apartment once. After that my apartments were alway 2nd floor and up. At least until i became a home owner and then I made sure my house was on well drained gentle sloping area. My real estate agent thought I was being overly picky, but fool me once...
I just got an $80 check in the mail over a class action regarding the dishwasher (appliance) I had a few years back that broke long before what should have been it’s usable life. Roughly $1000 to replace it. $80 class action settlement.

Class actions are a crappy way of extracting the actual cost or damages done by a corporation and then getting those damages into tha hands of people that were on the shit side of the stick in the transactions.

But no, I have no grand answer for how to do it any better either.
We solved it by dehumanizing the homeless.
I'm working on a free and opensource Rails 7 starter kit currently that comes with

- User authentication & authorization
- Background worker & scheduler
- Roles & permissions management
- Pre built UI layouts and themes

https://github.com/tarunvelli/rails-tabler-starter
Do you mind sharing these links here?
http://insideairbnb.com/reports/platform-failures-how-short-...

This is an interesting read about the market effects Airbnb has caused. They’re definitely moving prices and removing units from the market.
> For a twice larger "spin resistor", then, the equilibrium torque would be twice as large, and intuitively, the chain speed would be half as fast.

For the twice-larger resistor, the torque is the same, and the speed is half as fast. Can you explain why you think the torque is twice as large?

To move the 2x resistor at the same speed as the 1x resistor, you need twice the torque.
So the market looks like this:

- Tier1: Unique large scale workload: think about moving money around. This is ~$10-20Bln market mostly dominated by Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. All next gen scale systems kind of forced to play in this market. Deals are large by sales cycles are long.

- Fleets of tier2 apps. Each enterprise now has a fleet of every major database offering to power lots of apps. To win this market you need to be a top 3 database in the enterprise. Most money is made by SQL Server, but Postgres has a real shot here. This market is driven by developers and SQL Server takes most $$ closely followed by AWS. This is Neon’s bet. That after getting a wedge in a low $$ SMB/hobbyist market Neon takes mid market and then moves to enterprise. The size of this market is also $10-20 Bln.

- OEMs. This is another $5-10 Bln. Neon only cares about dbaas but happily embed in everything cloud.

Everything else is cats and dogs.
A foreign adversary hacks the ancestry database and creates individually targeted genetic attacks.
Electrons are described as fluids when there is superconductivity.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity :

> Unlike an ordinary metallic conductor, whose resistance decreases gradually as its temperature is lowered even down to near absolute zero, a superconductor has a characteristic critical temperature below which the resistance drops abruptly to zero. [1][2] An electric current through a loop of superconducting wire can persist indefinitely with no power source.

FWIU, an electric current pattern described as EM hertz waves (e.g. as sinusoids) is practically persisted at Lagrangian points and in nonterminal, non-intersecting Lorentz curve paths at least?

IRL electronic components waste energy as heat like steaming, over-pressurized water towers. And erasing bits releases heat instead of dropping the 1 onto the negative or ground "return path"

I agree that Spintronics is a great game for mechanical circuits, which are in certain sufficient ways like electronic circuits, which can't persist qubits for any reasonable unit of time.
My first floor flooded on NYE. I'm not looking forward to Wednesday -- will likely flood again. Going to be a lot of $$$ to repair and fix the drainage.
Create Tailwind CSS color families
50+% of parents are bad? I don’t believe that.
I think the costs involved in financial services are often more nuanced than given credit for. The nature of the services provided aren't simply a communications protocol, not that banks treat communication protocols as rounding to free. (Chase can call up Bank of America at any time and frequently will do so, up and down the banks' operations, every banking day of the year. Those calls aren't free, even if the direct cost of the call time rounds to zero. There is a substantial human and technological overhead to permit the calls to go through and be useful to both sides.)

With ATMs as a concrete example, you don't just need a rest API connecting the ATM to the issuing bank. The transaction also involves multiple risk transfers, mandated-by-regulation accountability if something goes wrong (including SLAs for resolution with effectively mechanical penalties for breach, in many cases), 24/7 staffed customer support that answers questions like "I am in New Orleans and a machine just ate my card heeeeeeeeelp!", etc.

Now we, as a society, could decide "You know I like a US- or Japan-style penetration of ATMs in society placed by a combination of banks and independent entrepreneurs, but I hate that they actually cost money to end consumers. We should shift the cost of them to... OK I care about the specific payer far less, actually. Let's write a law to do that." Some societies have chosen that.
>anyhow, i told him we were not building a browser and that to my knowledge we were not systematically going after the safari team in particular. and that we should talk about various opportunities.
i also said i would follow up and check on our recruiting strategies wrt apple and safari. he seemed soothed.

This reminded me of the scene in "The Pirates of Silicon Valley" where Bill Gates reassured Steve that he was not building an operating system and Steve was soothed, only to be extremely enraged later when he found out it was all a lie.
It is JavaScript.

I'd say less learning curve the better adoption.

What do you suggest as a good language to use here?
In this case can’t they just lie then?
I really wish the Spintronics chain was compatible with Lego Technic chain and gears.
Not to pile on trashing the Windows 11 UI, but my first experience with it was actually watching a not-very-technical person attempt to restore a mistakenly deleted file by opening the trash can. The Windows Explorer app showed them a very large, obvious trash can icon, which they proceeded to click to open. It failed to open, so they clicked again...and again...not realizing that each time they clicked it, they were actually deleting an item they had selected. To add insult to injury, I don't believe the icon had a tooltip.

Bravo, Microsoft.
Lower income people of 2036 and beyond will have a magical medicine for probably 30 bucks a month.
It's funny that marijuana advocates wasted decades pleading their case under the guise of personal freedom, social equity, compassionate use, and the like.

Turns out all it took to convince the right was showing them the money.
Those are mostly temporary by definition so I don’t see that as a source of the longer term shortages at the macro level unless it is shown that the size of the student and temporary worker pool is growing significantly every year? Sure, many of those eventually go onto permanent residency but that’s still included in the 400k annual figure is it not?

The number of asylum claimants is overstated in my opinion. Even if 100% are granted, which is unlikely, it is a very small number in terms of population growth.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
Google's leading here at the moment. Check out their work on SayCan[0], RT-1[1], and Language Table[2,3]

[0]https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/08/towards-helpful-robots-gro...

[1]https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/12/rt-1-robotics-transformer-...

[2]https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/12/talking-to-robots-in-real-...

[3]https://github.com/google-research/language-table
Do we actually know if weight loss from these medications is associated with improved health outcomes in non-diabetic people? Like does it fix joints, does it fix heart disease, blood pressure, etc?
This works by matching to your relatives and assuming you have the same last name, not to you.
The Book of Numbers
There might be a good idea here, though the post certainly triggered several responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34186349#34188011

> a Raspberry Pi last Christmas and loaded one thing; a python shell "PlayOS" that I wrote to make everything a three or four letter command
How much money it takes to be considered middle class in 20 major U.S. cities
> What was unlawful about your demotion? Most US employees...

The commenter is probably employed in a jurisdiction that is not the US.

A quick examination of their post history yields a description [1] of employment in a jurisdiction that is not the US.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34099858
Yes - lawsuits have tremendous overhead, and class actions average out everything.

In this case, it would have been hard to recover more overall as a class in a finite period of time - the values were calculated based on each individuals wages and expected earnings lost at various levels or something like that (it's been a while, sorry).

The judge initially rejected the first settlement (which was 320 million i believe), and considered the final one to be much more reasonable (450 million or something).

This was in front of Judge Koh, who is no slouch and has dealt with lots of complex tech litigation. She is also not viewed as "industry-friendly" in any way, shape, or form (look at the fight over her appointment to the 9th circuit for more details)

If they fought it out in front of a jury, taken it through appeals, etc it would have taken 7-10 years to finalize it, for a max expected improvement of probably 3-5x.

That probably would not be worth it to most people, so settlement seems reasonable.

A particularly injured person may have been able to make out better in arbitration or something, but as a class, no.

This kind of very large, complex case is also just incredibly expensive to litigate.

Instead of looking at the plaintiff side, i'll look at the defendant side (since you don't have to deal with arguing about what reasonable profit margins are). This is just the cost of litigation itself.

The average litigation cost for "major companies" - 50 of the fortune 200's, was 150 million a year each in 2010. It was doubling every 5 years or less before that (it was 60 million in 2005).

It's at least doubled since then. This isn't just tech companies.

On average, "major" (again, fortune X00) corporations in the US spend 0.3% of their revenue on litigation costs. So your 100 billion revenue a year tech company is probably spending 300+ million in litigation costs.

A suit like this is a very large portion of those costs.

The plaintiff lawyers in this particular case were also very good, well regarded complex antitrust lawsuit lawyers. Not the typical "file a thousand class action lawsuits against everything" type firms that you see.
These kinds of people will tell you that anybody who invented anything and made money is a "wage thief". Everyone, watch out for that terminology.
Use an additional email testing tool, e.g. MailTester: https://www.mail-tester.com/

There are others too, many have a free quota that you can use a few times a day. With MailTester you can retest the same email after changing things as well.

Perhaps Postmaster missed something.
Part of the reason why I went with Lutron Caseta, only to learn their hubs do not include telnet access on the basic model to allow private management of the switches. Still some workarounds for it, but the need to register a cloud account initially remains unimpressed.

The cloud is always someone else's computer, the cloud always costs someone $, and over time, there will be less incentive to provide it.
Regarding separation of storage and compute, do those DBs you mention enable merging the application backend code and db compute node to a single process? Meaning I would deploy my application to the DB compute node and use its runtime, or have the compute node present as a component I can import to my backend code as a library. I think this is one powerful thing about Datomic (and maybe XTDB?).
Could you please stop posting ideological battle comments to HN? They're tedious and not what this site is for, regardless of which flavor you favor.

This is not a comment on the topic at hand—I'm just noticing that you've been posting a lot like this lately, and it's been a problem for a long while as well. You're clearly using HN primarily for ideological battle, and are way over the line at which we ban accounts—see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for past explanations. I don't want to ban you, because you've also posted good things, but if you keep doing this we're going to have to.

Curious conversation and ideological battle are incompatible. Therefore we have to pick one. We pick curious conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
isn't it part of the deal to get microbes to make this delicious confection for you that they get the lactose?
If your BMI is over 35 (around 1 in 6 adults IIRC) it can make it hard to exercise. A little push in the right direction may be indicated.
Here's one from this past summer with photos of dolphins. Unbelievable (in a good way)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/11/science/dolphins-new-york...
Possibly related: Insulin resistance is impacted by muscle protein.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14667430
> It's less about price and more about Apple changing their strategy if they conclude that a company they think is a partner has designs on competing directly with one of their key application offerings.

Interesting that this pivots from an antitrust problem related to employers to an antitrust problem related to the browser market. Artificially binding negotiations of one market to another to prevent competition is bad too.
It will be too little too late for many by then
If a regime wants to make up a crime and arrest some targets, what difference does it make if there's a genealogy database?
No; its not like blockchains. The data isn't with everyone. Its just on your devices.

Think about email. Your emails aren't on everyone's devices. They're just on your devices. If you go offline, you can still read and reply to emails. But the emails you send won't actually get sent until you go online again. Its like that; but instead of sending messages back and forth, you can edit things and the changes you make get synced while you're online.
That doesn’t sound automated then, which was my point. I’m talking about bringing the cost of basic food items to near zero so people don’t have to exchange for it.

Wouldn’t that be a great “mission” for a large-scale NASA-like project?
That's a long way of saying: yes, he's a bully.
I think you're missing 4). the obsessed, which can be broken down into

4).A: are building keyboards from kits and programming custom layouts
4).B: are spending hundreds on ebay for prior-era keyboards, or, on modern rebuilds of them
There was a case a couple years ago in Santa Clara county where the DNA of a hopeless drunk that a paramedic treated ended up under the fingernails of a murder victim that the paramedic also treated a couple hours later.
What is the value of

let myFunction = ...

which can replace that whole construct so that the program remains the same? Or is this not functional?
I don't think everyone should be forced to buy - I think that the tax code should be changed in order to not favor buying so heavily over renting.

A few ideas to start

1) Get rid of the mortgage interest deduction

2) Tax imputed rent same way that rent payments are taxed (so you would have to pay tax on the money you would have paid to rent from yourself)

3) Get rid of capital gains exemption ($250K per person, 500K for married couples)

or the more extreme version

Land Value Tax.

In Switzerland, 58% of the population are renters. Notably, the tax advantages of owning above are missing in Switzerland, making renting a more attractive proposition. That's what should be fixed. Don't push everyone to buy a home, but don't keep shoveling money in regressive transfers to those who do.

(I didn't even mention prop 13 in California here which locks in your property tax - that is a complete abomination and should never have been passed. It's a regressive giveaway to homeowners)
> the time and effort that goes into video editing isn't fun

I’ve seen YouTubers comment that they got in to it just because they loved video editing. Not planning to make money, just to share content and work worth the tools to create it.
Originally I had them in random order and then I sorted them to try to make it easier for people to guess the status code from the colloquial description :)
If you’re regularly doing something unhealthy (like smoking or eating lead paint chips), stopping that is both good for you and a shortcut.
Instant Autocomplete: How we fixed search performance