skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having patients come to the doctor allows the doctor to see more patients in a day, because the travel time to bring the doctor and any given patient together can be overlapped with the doctor seeing another patient.

When the doctor goes to the patient, travel time is serialize with seeing patient time.
I call it the start of the decline, as it was the first version of Windows which featured on-line activation, legitimising the practice in the wider industry.
We've had to call a "code gridlock" several times since COVID started... (For those not in the field, that means the ER is full, and any unused beds on wards have to become immediately available for them to use)

On top of that, even before COVID, "code zeros" (no available ambulances) were an almost monthly occurance.
> Or in other words, you (usually) can’t solve cultural problems with technical solutions.

Yes, though technical solutions go a long way towards making cultural solutions work and stick.

Eg running your tests automatically when someone makes a Pull Request is much more robust, even in a cultural sense, than asking developers to manually run the tests.

Technical solutions can help make the culturally favoured approach also be the path-of-least resistance.

Of course, you still have to write the tests. (Though even there, you can make your technical tools check for eg test coverage. That can be gamed, but that's more effort than when you can just ignore it; and even gamed coverage is better than no coverage.)
As per the linked website:
" If the airplane reaches a peak speed of only 10 knots beyond V 1, the brakes must now dissipate 20 percent more energy than had the abort been initiated at V 1.
Beyond the fact that there is no certification requirement for the brakes to be able to absorb any energy beyond that existing at the highest weight and V 1 combination demonstrated, there also is no performance data to know how much runway would be needed even if the brakes are able to handle the extra energy. Adding to the chaos, one brake must now absorb all the energy of the aircraft, as the blown tire’s brake has been rendered useless."

Basically you'd be unlikely to get the airplane to stop before the end of the runway because brakes are not designed to handle breaking at such speed (keep in mind that an airplane lands at a slower speed than it takes off thanks to the flaps).
Leetcode, meaning here to switch jobs?

A little ironic, because Leetcode interviews arguably send the message that the org is about nonsense hoop-jumping and politics.
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I'm happy you have a functioning government in Germany!
I'm confused. Why a collapse versus finding new process and iterating on existing ones until we find a system that other models can transition to? A collapse is catastrophic, and with the amount of money and knowledge the US has, I feel this can be avoided.
I'm not sure you have any idea how unbelievably expensive healthcare in the US is. I have pretty good insurance, but for my family I pay $7500 per year in premiums, the company kicks in another $22k. A lot of other models look more attractive when faced with this insanity.
This is a rather stupid idea, at least on the surface.

So, here's a really, really good somebody. How does it matter? He at least has to deliver his greatness to somebody else - and that's already a question, since that somebody else could be subjective, not competent, not interested etc. So our somebody, let's call him A, has to deliver to somebody special, let's call her B. Then what? Suppose that B is impressed - does it matter for other people? It might - but then again that requires certain conditions, which further constrain B and also put some constraints to those other people, C. Or A should be specifically great so that there are enough of B's who can, each independently, realize A's greatness. In addition to constraints on C, there are additional constraints on A - for example, A's abilities should be (e.g.) public.

I'd assume there are cases when there are truly great people - more than we usually think - which are almost completely ignored by others as a whole, because to be great enough at something public enough is a rather tall order. In addition there are less-great A's, who, even if well known, aren't considered good enough to often enough be not ignored.

So, it's like an advice from a billionaire about how to become a millionaire, from his perspective. In practice, the advice is both rather trivial and rather useless. I wonder if Steve Martin had a deeper thought at the moment.
I meant for me, I should have been clear.
My fiancee has ADHD and sends me memes and videos and such about it. And I'm always like, these videos are dumb, doesn't everyone do those things? I've been wondering about this for a while, but I've tended to write it off due to me having pretty different symptoms/behaviors from her - but I guess it can manifest in different ways.

What intervention(s) have you found the most helpful? Or are there any resources you can point me to? Thanks.
Last year I had the misfortune of having to visit doctors for non-hospital related condition. It is a miserable experience. I got charged a lot for simple (scheduled for 15-30m, but ended early) follow up appointments, finding a specialist who had an appointment in a reasonable amount of time (<3 months). A specialist who had an appointment wasn't in-network, so I had to spend out of pocket, because, out-of-network has a different deductible, expensive prescriptions.

I was lucky that I had a good insurance plan, but still, trying to navigate the system when I wasn't unable to was the absolute worst experience.
I'm a semi-occasional smoker, and I never litter the butts, there's usually a bin nearby or I keep it in my pocket and look for one ASAP because they stink awful.
Additive-free tobacco smells a lot less though.

You can see other smokers doing it right when there's a bin nearby too, I've questioned them and never get an answer.

I think many people just live so thoughtlessly and carelessly, the rest of the city is dirty so why should they bother? It's really not much of an effort though.
or cloud-init

boot the clean base image and configure it on boot with packages, ssh keys, custom commands, etc.
I'd actually never really consciously noticed that legislators can be trolls too, in their own way!
negative can still be linear
I'm so glad to see this license become more popular. It's the best way to protect your product from getting SaaSS-ified and having all of your revenue stolen by the FAANGs, and without making it non-free.
Have they fixed conversation threading, or does it not matter vs twitter since twitter's threading is horribly broken as well?
> But sometimes you’re working in a codebase which will probably outlive you.

This is so rare, it's not worth thinking about. Code lasts a decade or two before it's been completely rewritten or replaced. After 30 years, the oldest code that I ever touched exists in very few places (2 that I know of).

> Spending effort making tending the garden delightful will almost always pay off given enough time.

What constitutes "good practice" is ever-changing and it doesn't add business value. You work within the constraints of the time and move on. The people who do this find themselves in the best position, career-wise. Paying some small attention to maintenance helps you move up and on to bigger projects and responsibility. Like all things, pursue a middle ground of philosophy. ie You can fiddle with code forever trying to make it "better". More extensible, more maintainable, more clear, more more more.

Arguing over future cases (premature planning) is the most common sin. Planning for everything to be reused is not being efficient. Regardless, you have biases that inform what you think is "better" and how software will be used, which future you (and other developers) will note share.
Ah, I haven't used buildout in years (I remember using it a lot when working with Plone).

I used it for a personal project but gave up a few years ago as some piece of the puzzle seemed broken and abandoned (something hadn't been updated to use a newer version of TLS or something).

I liked buildout though - it was a good system with its bin directory.
Graffiti is only a legitimate art form when it's done with the permission of the owner of the thing being painted. It's pure vandalism otherwise.
Show HN: Create Memes with GPT
Windows 2000, to me, was the pinnacle. It had a number of refinements.

Gallery of screenshots

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win2000advserv
What volunteers? GNOME is a Red Hat project.
Right now I’d be more worried about Elon Musk giving activists access to Twitter DMs than either of the admins for the Mastodon instances I’m on. What good is an audit trail when the auditor is part of the problem?
Hence why I used the qualifiers "universally recognized" and "supposed to be".
I reflexively agreed, but then I hesitated, because some of my recent discussions with other people suggest that to them, in an abstract, it is just that.. some far fetched abstract impossibility. My most recent like conversation was extra depressing, because I was not only given 'nothing to hide' argument, but it also was followed with 'you gotta trust the system'.

I want to blame politicization and very clear 'us vs them' sentiment, but I am no longer certain that is the entire reason for current craziness. I am not sure non-tech people understand what is at stake.

To me it is an episode of Dark Mirror 'The entire history of you'. And they do not get it why it is a very bad idea to make a new normal.
I am curious about exactly what v8 was doing at the time, because "just use Quicksort" doesn't work for inconsistent comparison functions or mutating data. These issues aren't magically resolved with "use a stable sort", but it means you're not just calling qsort(...) to perform the sort.

I vaguely recall JSC actually having a literal tree sort at one point to deal with this.
To me it was Windows 7. XP was great, 7 was amazing. (Reference, NT4 was my first Windows).
Does it? A lot of the events involve China’s influence over Taiwan and the impact on the semi-conductor industry. E.g. China disrupting the chip supply chain in Taiwan and the U.S. responding by supporting the domestic chip industry. What is the conspiracy there exactly? That Pelosi conspired with China to create the pretext for a bill that would support the domestic chip industry to profit off the stock market?
It's probably more efficient.

Reminds me of some paper about Walmart/Amazon systems getting sophisticated enough to run the country better than the govt - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
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Does not? But you could still see it as a transitive dependency of sorts.
I experienced a takeoff abort in New Orleans in a 737 when some birds (I think that's what the pilot said afterwards) clogged up the pitot tubes (in the 1980s) and either the plane aborted the takeoff or the pilot did. It was a max effort whatever it was, scared the shit out of everyone.
What came first? Apple’s trash or Windows’ recycle bin?

I always assumed the latter because it feels like a “we need to be different but throw a tiny bit of shade while we’re at it.”
If your out of pocket maximum for family coverage was $500 after ACA was passed, you were probably receiving at least $20k if not $30k+ per year in benefits via employer subsidized health insurance. Just the health insurance benefits alone were worth half or more the median annual income in the US.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA646N
I called a dozen offices seeking a primary physician (didn't have one) and all of them were booked solid in 2020-2021. I did eventually find one. Note that these offices aren't urgent care or ER centers, I just wanted an annual physical (a reasonable thing that the medical system largely recommends to everyone) and even that was nigh impossible. And my annual physical found an anomaly! So clearly that practice is based in some sort of empirical value. I went back for a 2nd test, it was nothing.
Sounds of melting glaciers used to better predict sea level rise
Please stop with the trollish responses. Even if that was true (it's not), what makes you think Red Hat wants to start paying those costs?
aaah, that's fair enough.
I suspect this is it. There were a lot of things logged to console for twitter violating its own CSP, but I didn’t see any for my script.

It seems the overall handling of network errors in add-ons has a lot of room for improvement.

It should be noted that chromium allows the network request regardless of the CSP. This is the correct, User-Empowering approach. Firefox’s deference to the Origin to control the code the User is attempting to run is the antithesis of what a User Agent ought to be.
> Perhaps the institution of hospitals is outdated.

Not really, but I wish we had more urgent cares available so that people without emergencies don't flood hospitals. The reason a lot of them wait until its serious enough is because healthcare is expensive, so people avoid going to PCPs and Urgent Cares.

We need better way of paying funding/paying for healthcare.
I fully agree. I’ll throw out a thought: they don’t translate well into the higher resolutions.

Actually I doubt this. But the very simple, dumb icons probably scale more cleanly.
It wasn't so bad as long as you turned the window title height down to normal. Then it was nice because you wouldn't prick your finger on sharp edges anymore.

Out of the box, the extra window title height took up too much room, ugh. But then now there's so much whitespace everywhere.
> help update the nearly irrelevant office-supply manufacturer

Excuse me? HP was the leading computer platform for the Oracle database at the time. They might indeed have made a lot of money from printers & supplies, but they also had a big hardware business that became Agilent.

In about 1987, I visited HP in Wokingham, England for 3Com to talk about an email deal, and in ~1994 in Fort Collins, CO for OpenView.

It IS true that Fiorina wrecked a great company. They were always great people to work with, whatever else they were.
Part of it probably has to do with how sterile modern hieroglyphs are.

Look at those Windows 3.1/95/98/ME/2K/XP/Vista/7 icons: They have character. You try and tell me they didn't have fun drawing the icons for MS Agent and Dr. Watson; the fun and sense of humor the devs and artists had making them just ooze out.

Modern day hieroglyphs? They aim to not confuse or offend anyone, and end up impressing noone. They aim to speak all languages and end up speaking nothing. They aim to inform everyone and end up informing noone.
Hello time traveller
Isn’t the word “innovation” doing a shit ton of heavy lifting here. It’s different for sure.
Back when you could deploy Python with apache and mod_wsgi straight out of your distribution's package directory. Ruby meant mongrel or fcgi, usually hand-built off in /usr/local, usually leaking memory, usually coughing up core dumps on the regular. Ruby libraries that linked to C libraries usually depended on bleeding-edge versions that were on developer Macbooks, but not the versions that were packaged in Debian or Redhat.
Radxa has the Taco hat for the RasPi CM4, with 5 SATA slots, an M.2 Slot and 2.5GbE!

https://wiki.radxa.com/Taco
If you read the article the person who is buying them is "An emergency room doctor and addiction specialist" who is trying to keep the rural hospitals open and functional, in order to help people and communities.

I don't doubt what you say maybe happening, though I imagine that would be a lot of larger rural center hospitals.

It still baffles me that only ~20% of your hospitals are government owned, and equally as many for-profit.
"Code quality" should be about readability. And by "readability" I mean "can the function/module/system be understood by the individuals on the team fairly quickly?" Just because someone doesn't like the indentation, or the looping style, or whatever opinions they have ... these things don't make code quality poor. If you can understand the system, make changes, and add features without bringing down large parts of the system, it's probably fine.

The problem as I see it: companies prefer the inexperienced devs because they're less expensive, and as a result, their inexperience leaves them frustrated with code that they "don't like." They then attempt to sell management on a rewrite on these grounds.

The team can only deliver features that customers want, on the schedule the business wants, if the underlying infrastructure of the code allows it. If the code infrastructure forces me to spend too much time implementing features, and feature requests continue pouring in, then there will never be time to refactor because there will always be "pressing feature demands."
What makes you say that when preachers are actively testing the laws regarding non-profit status, widely reported to support GOP legislators who are using their religion as the basis for their platforms on abortion.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/30/johnson-amendment-el...
https://www.newsnationnow.com/religion/churches-politics-pul...
The icon gallery could use image-rendering: pixelated, though. For 4k and "retina" displays. Otherwise the browser upscales it with cubic interpolation and it will look blurry.
Seems sus. I don't think donations from the street will pay for bills as efficiently as getting a job-- not that finding a job is an easy feat.

Additionally, many hospitals have financial assistance programs (for example) : https://www.texaschildrens.org/patients-and-visitors/insuran...

The Ronald McDonald house also helps families with a lot of other expenses: https://rmhc.org/
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/XmT5r
I would assume that was a scam. It is common for people to use children to garner more donations.
It's weird. It definitely reads like the Quanta author either didn't know what a mathematical category is, or didn't think it merited explanation, despite explaining simpler things in excruciating detail in the article.
I'm a big fan of the SVG icons used in the Azure Portal. They're embedded directly into the HTML, so they're efficient. Their design is simple and looks good both at small sizes and scaled up. They have a fairly consistent color scheme and "design language", making them easily recognisable. You can download the SVG files separately and embed them in design documents, preserving the high-quality vector art format!

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/icons/

Compare these to the AWS icon set, which are just lines on a single-color square: https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/
And there it is, the inevitable "woke".

Why is this hard to understand without bringing your politics into it?

If you build an app that depends on an API, it really sucks if that API is taken away. But we all know it happens. Even so, most companies care enough about goodwill that they will give some advance notice so that you can prepare for it.

In this case, the API was revoked with absolutely no advance warning for people like TapBots, who have been selling and supporting TweetBot for literally years, and now have to clean up the unexpected mess.

That's why, on their merits, Twitter the company and Musk the owner are complete dicks here.

Can you understand that, or is basic common decency too much woke orthodoxy for you?
I heavily disagree.

At the time of change, its obvious you're making the code shittier. That function? It doesn't do what it says anymore. That other function? Just a few more boolean variables. Hey, we don't need to refactor, we can just make negative numbers mean one thing, and positive ones mean another! Death by a thousand cuts.

This is also the best time to refactor. You skip the whole "I don't like the way the code looks" bullshit. The codebase doesn't support your feature? Make it support your feature, then code your feature.

And you know what else? You are only changing code you're touching. Refactoring code you don't need to otherwise touch is a waste of time.

But yeah, if you parachute in 6 months later to look for a refactor, its gonna be all gravy. How much shittier your code is just a distant memory. Get on that next feature - just another flag, just another lying variable - in hindsight, it's all subjective anyways.
People engaging in petty "affront to the authority of the state" types of crimes benefit because in an environment where you have plenty of real crime to go around there's no need for cops to initiate the kind of police interactions that end up with Eric Garner getting choked out or a bullet in a man who has a bench warrant for failure to pay some BS.
I’d love to know the story behind why CD player is so different. Gotta be cool?
A small mistake does not a complex systems failure make
This is exactly what I’m objecting to.

A good amplifier has better than 100 dB SNR. Your ear may have better than 100 dB dynamic range. Your sound system may have a bit less useful range, since your goal isn’t actual to destroy your ears. But 100 dB is a vaguely credible target.

So somehow you’re supposed to get a preamp and an amp, and you’re supposed to connect them, usually with RCA (unbalanced) cables. You’re supposed to get both devices to agree as to what voltage is full scale. And you’re supposed to get a noise floor, on the interconnect, better than -100dBFS. And you are supposed to do this with at least two separate cables plus whatever ground (or neutral) connections exist to both chassis, and this is all done near 60Hz currents that induce a voltage around every loop in question.

This is a tall order. At least the pros use balanced connections.

Or the industry could move to digital interconnects, where the DAC and the amp are connected by short traces on a PCB with a proper ground plane. And full scale on the DAC could be matched to the amp’s input.
Unfortunately, yes. And they wear out fairly frequently, too.
They’ll do it either way, but it’s nice of them for asking.
Assuming the company existed, and was not corrupt in handling all that money. But there is a lot of volatility in a company existing for 50+ years in the future, and there is a lot of corruption.

Hence the tightening of DB pension funding and investment rules (PPA 2006), culminating in non taxpayer funded DB pensions being untenable expensive.

401k funds are as guaranteed as any defined benefit pension. They both get invested into SP500 index funds, and they both get bailed out just the same by the federal government. If the stock market tanks, the DB pension is going down just like any 401k.
Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
It's free to play on steam, but you'll need a computer with a dedicated graphics card.

I just released a new version after first releasing it 18 months ago. It's been a hard slog to scrounge time as it's not my day job but that's life.

There's a ton of obvious improvements in the future (weather systems, temperature, varying rainfall, ice/snow, more biomes, more plate tectonics, lava, etc) but all suggestions/feedback is welcome.
Mozilla's signing process isn't too bad, especially if your addon changes infrequently. Recommend trying it.
Attaching the windows to each other has been done. Synchronizing their working directories, to my knowledge, has not.
U.S. Will Hit Debt Limit Jan. 19, Yellen Tells Congress