skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Health insurers (payers) don't deliver different levels of service based on a plan’s deductible or copay. That's literally just a field in the database. All of your claims and prior authorization requests still flow through the same systems.

In general high deductible health plans can be good option for consumers who are in good health and have the financial means to absorb an occasional large medical bill. There are also tax incentives for such plans.

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/high-deductible-health-p...
Also this whole conversation is specifically about air source pumps. Geothermal are immune to air temperature fluctuations with the tradeoff being higher installation cost.
The US is very conservative and broad swathes of the population hate "European" ideas.
Yeah, in my experience they are by far both the fastest and most consistent fast food restaurant. I've read they are also the highest revenue per-site chain.
Or many devices while data is consistent. Where is source of truth. Per user or per resource or per service. A lot of questions.
Something along the lines of what circuit breakers clip into should be reliable enough, I would think?
> The complaint alleges that Wang created FTX’s software code that allowed Alameda to divert FTX customer funds,

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-234

That’s the press release from the SEC about their charges , saying Wang built a back door and Wang has pled guilty to those charges.
Why it is so hard to find your target audience
Show HN: Print-A-Planner – create customizable printable planners and journals
I created Print-a-Planner - a web app that helps you create personalized printable day, week, and month planners and journals.

We all have unique ways of journaling and organizing our days; our planner should reflect that. With Print-a-Planner, you can personalize your paper-based planners to suit your specific needs and preferences.

It's completely free and easy to use. Print-a-Planner is perfect for you whether you're a student, a working professional, or just someone who likes to stay organized.

I would love to hear your feedback and any suggestions you have for any feature that I can add to make it more useful for you. I'll be happy to hear your ideas and implement them in future updates.
Tribalism and identity politics.
You use celsius? You must have gone to a specialized school then.
A Look into the Engineering Culture at ISRG (Let's Encrypt)
I usually go to the Mountain View Costco. From the /r/bayarea subreddit they've only been out of eggs a few busy days since the Covid-19 pandemic started, but prices have risen from under $3 for 2 dozen to $5.99 for 2 dozen over the same time period.
There is a service like that on Ethereum. It's called Golem [https://www.golem.network/].
It would be great if React could be built directly into browsers, but it would greatly curtail the current flexibility of server-vended React. The project is able to evolve quite quickly unshackled from a w3c process and the pulse of major browser updates.

(IIUC, there was a proposal in Firefox decades ago to make the engine into several flexible modules and a page could declare which modules it depended upon, then the browser would either cache them and use them for multiple sites or already have them builtin. You'd get the best of both worlds: rich and expressive pages without the frequently-paid cost of poly-filling the gap between how the developer wants the render engine to work and the actual implementation of the render engine.

Sadly, I suspect the actual complexity to implement would have made for a worse overall situation than what we have now).
Adam Ragusea has an excellent video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OeoBbjwEFg
Driving the Alaska Highway there are a bunch of markers for historical things along the road like bridges & lookouts. The majority of the Alaska Highway is actually in Canada, and so all the signs are now in Kilometers and they say things like "Historical marker 1550km (old mile marker 965)".

I was standing at one taking a look and an older couple came over and loudly exclaimed "It's a damn sacrilege to the memory of those young men who built the road they would go and change it like that."

They were adamant changing it to kilometers was unacceptable, because old reasons.
A difficulty that I find is that metric as commonly used is more awkward for estimating.

For example, I find that metric distance as commonly used doesn't have a good equivalent to feet for working with medium lengths. By "as commonly used" I mean that, while I could theoretically use decameters, in practice average people seem to only use millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers. That makes it difficult for me to estimate medium lengths in metric. For example, it's awkward to describe someone as 1.83 meters or 183 centimeters tall. It is much easier to describe them as 6 feet 2 inches.

To a somewhat lesser degree, the same seems to be true for volume. In practice people only seem to use milliliters and liters. That leaves me with no good equivalent to cups or gallons.
>The difference is that self-documenting code is bad. Code isn't documentation for humans. Documentation is documentation for humans.

Surely you're joking? Code is meant to be read by humans. The comment above your single-letter variable doesn't count - just give it a proper name and use the type system.
My new (return air) heat pump that heats my whole house and provides all hot water is $6k. I expect a 15 year life. The only thing that could possibly be cheaper long term would be drilling a hole for ground heat, which would be around $15k with a similar pump and the difference being the whole.
> In scenarios where metric is actually needed or appropriate nobody has any trouble using metric

This is the key point. What people asking this question often miss is that the US is actually a dual system country. Metric is quite common anywhere it is valuable to use! So the places it isn't used are mostly the places it isn't so useful, or at least where the transition cost is very high.
Lydon Johnson had an answer (via George Will):

In 1966, the price of eggs rose to a level that President Lyndon Johnson judged, God knows how, was too high. There were two culprits – supply and demand – and Johnson’s agriculture secretary told him there was not much that could be done. LBJ, however, was a can-do fellow who directed the US surgeon general to dampen demand by warning the nation about the hazards of cholesterol in eggs.
How much does 12.34 gallons of water weight?
It’s not that they are brighter; they are far more streakier. I can easily tell which lights are LEDs. It’s much harder to see at night and it’s not just getting older.
Nobody was claiming CPI was for looking at personal financial planning. It is about the larger economy that in turn effects individuals.
The better question to ask is what is the benefit? For everyday usage by regular people, it's not clear to me that metric is superior if you didn't grow up with one or the other, hence the lack of push for a change.

In fact, I've seen the argument made that feet, inches, miles, cups, teaspoon, Fahrenheit, etc are superior to meters, centimeters, km, mL, Celsius, etc for everyday use. As I've seen it presented, this argument contends that centimeters are too small, while meters are too large for many common things you want to measure, such as the height of a person. Likewise cups and teaspoons are actual objects that you could visualize and get a general sense of the amount without even knowing the actual measurement. Same kind of thing for Celsius: the most common usage of temperature measurement for the average person is air temperature. For the set of air temperatures commonly experienced on Earth, Fahrenheit provides more precision.
Passmark says they're #1 in single thread : https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
wait, what? Where??
The entire worldwide industry is dealing with a pathogen (bird flu). There is a large upfront capital capital cost to acquire industrial scale chicken raising equipment and facilities, plus time to raise the new chickens (6 months from hatchling to maturity).

In that time we could very well go from scarcity to glut with current producers as bird flu works itself out and they regain capacity. And it’s not like you wouldn’t be subject to your flock(?) of chickens getting the disease.

That’s not too say there isn’t opportunity here (there might be) or that people aren’t reacting to it (my brother in law just repopulated his home coop), but in general agriculture is a highly competitive business with low margin’s and “obvious” profit opportunities are riskier than they appear.
bruh...
I've had "FTO" (Flexible Time Off) at 2 different companies now, including the one I'm at now. I personally like it but when I discuss it with friends I get mixed reactions.

> Microsoft will no longer require US employees to formally record vacation

I wish. I still need to track my days off because I work in the agency world and there's client billing involved

The following are some negatives you'll hear people say about unlimited time off, some valid, some are just opinions/speculation without any evidence.

- You no longer get paid for accrued and unused PTO days when you quit a job. Not all employers did this, but it's a definitely a thing. So some see switching to this system as benefiting more the company than the employees.

- Rewarding people with more days off the longer you were at a company gets thrown out the window. A previous company I was at converted to FTO and some long-term employees were pissed because of this. They felt their commitment to the company was ignored and discarded. They felt there was no reason to stay at any company long-term anymore.

- Depending on your manager, they can decline your vacation day requests without a second thought because they no longer feel they are limited and important. I have never personally experienced this, and I don't think I knew anyone that this happened to, but this is a valid concern I guess. I guess this is already an important thing in positions that require coverage while away.

- Unlimited days does not mean you can take a month off (again, depending on your company). Both the companies I worked at (one currently at) have a limit of how many consecutive days I could take off. 14 days (not including weekend/holidays) is my max.

- Depending on company and/or state (like CA), there's less urgency to "use it or lose it" and some people say that you actually take less days off than before. There will always be outliers of people who take more days than before. In 2022 I took 16 vacation and 4.5 sick days. So I averaged about the same amount of days off I had at non-unlimited-days companies. So there is some (anecdotal) validity to this. In 2023 I am going to try to take more vacation days off because I want to truly take advantage of unlimited days.

- If there's an employee on a team that takes more days off than others, animosity can build towards that member by other's who feel they are doing more of the work. Again, this is speculation and I have yet to see this happen in real life, but I've heard friends say this before.
The US mile is different from the UK mile and US gallons are sufficiently different from UK gallons. Yes, our measurement system is almost entirely homegrown at this point.
On the AMD side, using the ECO mode which drastically lowers the power limit barely has any effect on the performance. (I think except 65W mode on 7900X)

It really is pretty wasteful, but not much can be done I suppose.
The US is moving toward the metric system, slowly. Federal efforts may have largely stalled during the Reagan admin (though things like requiring metric labeling on products still eventually made it through), but there's nothing stopping individual states from requiring metric in more places, e.g. road signs. As for why no state has bothered to do so yet, it's likely because there's currently a thousand more pressing issues to expend political capital on first, many of which are existential crises in a way that metrication is not.
Nobody says that it has no effect. Only that efficiency decreases. And that even at diminished efficiency it's still better than a boiler.
We lost the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1999 because Lockheed Martin supplied a part that output results in pound-seconds and then that number was fed in to a NASA part that interpreted it as Newton-seconds.[1] Having US engineers speak a different language than all of the other engineers in the world imposes real, non-negligible costs for data checking and risks of failure for any project that might interact with non-US-centered expectations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...
This is cool, but I'm curious to know what took 16k commits. The projects that I've been on with more then ten thousand commits had many dozens or hundreds of folks working full time. And to crank that out in 1.5 years! That's 22 commits per day, every day. That's a fairly meaty engineering org's cadence. Is there some complexity that needed to be overcome that the post doesn't get into?
Scheme no, but it was a company that fell apart quickly. Employees would be better served to get out and secure a new job the day before a crash rather than the day after.
Ask HN: What are the American solar companies
My understanding is that the vast majority of cells and panels are fab’d in China. With the plummeting price of solar, it seems like we should be seeing a small boom in mono and polycrystalline solar cell fabs and panel integrators in the US. Does anyone have their ear to the ground in this area? Is it too capital intensive to set up a fab for cells / panels in the US?
{
“/*These are the ports we use”: “*/”,
“ports”: [22, 80, 443]
}
What happens is that one browser (usually Chrome) implements a useful new feature. Then applications are released that use that feature. Then the other browser vendors start hearing from their users that they suck because they don't support the nice new feature and hence can't run the nice new applications. And eventually they add support.
If you seal your house you have to worry about moisture removal otherwise you're going to be getting damp issues.
World Economic Forum predicts a decade of 'polycrises'
Reservation comes in 1950, does India doing great before that?
I talked to a farmer yesterday who said (at least in the US) it is bird flu. For some reason, the layers seem to have been hit harder than the boilers.
US standard may be worse, but the USA is the leader of the free world and is not about give up the choice to use other systems and bases like duodecimal and bow to some arbitrary tyrannical French system imposed by a despot that declares decimal to be the end all be all.
Oh huh. I hadn't considered liability implications of using a framework. Thanks for the viewpoint.
It'll still work somewhat. Just inefficiently.
It's not "purely political" in any meaningful sense. It's just hard to transition something 330 million people use on a daily basis and the benefit is close to negligible. It's certainly among the least of any American's problems. Yeah, we have to have a set of metric sockets and a set of imperial sockets, but life goes on. Why doesn't the entire world standardize on language? That would provide far more benefit than standardizing on trivially-convertible units of measurement.
Why do you think that matters here?
How 1Password is designed to keep your data safe, even in the event of a breach
It's interesting that every time this comes up, return air heat pumps are never discussed. It's always the AC-kind. Is there something about how ventilation is built in e.g. the US that prevents using return air for heating? Where is the air that's drawn from kitchens/bathrooms typically going in a reasonably modern US home?
$2 billion is an insane amount of money even for a major gov software project

And even after $2B it was completely broken and late and required another year and hundreds of millions.

I get the feeling people see thousands of millions of dollars as some abstract thing. You could build an A+ team with 1/100th that cash. Yet it still ends up sucked down a blackhole that's only designed to consume more money.

And there's zero consequences for failure. The same few contractors will get the contract next time.
Because bird flu might be a very unpredictable supply disruption.
Another way to think about it is that safety is good for profits, at least in so far as consumers care about it.
And I think consumers do care quite a bit.
Of course there are arguments to be made for regulation, but I think your statement is overly emphatic.
RSS with replies and comments, that's a pretty big step up (and I'm all for using RSS when nothing more is needed)
Is there somewhere in the U.S. that doesn't use metric?

2L bottles of soda, 2.4L engines, 100m races, 5K runs, 2cc injections, 20 kilo drug busts, 11mm wrenches, M5 screws
Well, Apple, Windows, and various GNU/Linux distros (as they can also run Chrome and Firefox, i.e. two of the most popular apps, plug in a mouse and keyboard, do 99% of the "computer stuff," so they're fine). Chromebook is probably on the fence since you really have to beat it with a hammer to run Excel on it (depending on how you turn your head and squint, that's maybe true for Linux also, but you can get Excel running on there if you really shoulder into getting your compatibility layers working).

... but nobody considers the Arduino a "computer" in the same sense they consider a Raspberry Pi a "computer" because it can't run general-purpose apps.
> No, the behavior is not correct, because changing /etc/localtime is an asynchronous operation

Well, technically you can do both from the same process (i.e. localtime(), unlink() + symlink() to change /etc/localtime, another localtime()), in that case it would be synchronous.

But in general i agree, if the timeout was small enough (say < 100 ms) i guess nobody would object.
how about implementing ActivityPub like write.as/WriteFreely?
Good luck implementing lock free algorithms without the help a GC

The magic is called productivity

that doesn't mean the authors had any fun

You went from implying that it can't be done, to saying a GC is about productivity, to saying it's about "fun". The goal posts are all over the place here.

Meanwhile, I've done it over and over in C++. The reality is that memory allocation shouldn't be a big part of a fast data structure anyway, let alone a good lock free algorithm, because if you're relying on allocation that much you are hopping around in memory, not to mention leaving a big part of your data structure to a black box.

Unfortunately Modern C++ is mostly found in conference talks.
Most the real life code looks quite Orthodox C++ to me, including from big name ISO members on their SDKs.

I don't know what either of these is supposed to mean.

If you want to be explicit, tell me what algorithms need a garbage collector, because this all sounds a lot more like something you want to be true or want other people to agree with than something learned from extensive experience.
This Johnny Harris youtube video does a decent job describing this. It would take at least a generation before the US population really got used to using metric places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRnuY1Vao0o

The timestamp where he's directly talking to what I mean:

https://youtu.be/nRnuY1Vao0o?t=1192

In it, he mentions the main reason why he doesn't use the metric system: he can't. Inches and feet and miles and ounces and pounds are so deeply ingrained in his mind. Even when he tries to relate to metric, its always in relation to imperial units, because to him its not about 30 centimeters its about a foot. Its not about a kilogram, its about two pounds. He can do the conversions in his head usually, but actually visualizing how far 5km is means converting it to miles which he can conceptualize.

Its like learning another language. Sometimes people are really great about just remapping their brain, but many people just end up internally translating things instead of actually deeply adopting the language. And if they're going to just be constantly translating it, it'll just be uncomfortable for them, and they won't want to do it. Because to a certain extent, what's the harm in my speedometer being primarily miles per hour? What's the harm in having a sign say "Rest Stop 5mi" instead of "Rest Stop 8km"?

I'm pretty similar to Johnny here. I can easily visualize ~300mi on a map. 300km? I know it is a good bit shorter than 300mi, but just at a quick off the top of my head I wouldn't quite know how far that really is. I'd be just doing the conversions in my head which takes me a second to think "ok, so divide by 1.6ish, so that's a little over 180 miles..." which I'd then use to conceptualize how far that is.

Changing to metric isn't just changing all the highway signs. Sure, that could be done in just a few years if we wanted to. Its changing how everyone actually thinks, how everyone is actually wired. That's what holds up the US from actually adopting metric.

But in the end, I still do use some metric. This drink I'm drinking has its nutrition label in grams/milligrams/Calories. My child got 1mL of iron supplements and vitamins this morning. It will be a long series of small steps before people get used to the change. Just swapping all the road signs overnight isn't going to lead to very happy people.

Back when most of Europe adopted metric, 40% of the population were illiterate. Tons of people didn't really deal with a lot of weights and measures in their daily lives. We live a very different world today than when metric was adopted in most of the world.
Oh, I was mistaken.
I've verified that at least the rev instruction works (tested on clang -march=rv64imafdcb0p94).
React super complex

Starting with ruby rails and similar much easier

In case you decide to try again
For example some employees can override many checks and procedures for operational reasons and if they want they can use customer funds or conspire with people from outside the organisation to do shady things.

On a normal business day people will coordinate all the time and funds or resources can be moved, locked, released etc for operational reasons and no one will question a thing because everyone knows their part only and those who know the big picture are not exposed to these operations on daily basis.

So if an employee is doing something shady, they will act based on the developments on the ground. For example if a client is going to withdraw their money, they can move funds from another account to cover for the missing funds. If the employee is cut off for an extended period, they won't be able to arrange this and will trigger an investigation.

There are of course regular audits but these audits will catch you only if funds go missing or some other obvious irregularities are happening because they can't analyse every single action of the employees.

I was told that it's not unheard of employees taking the money from the client accounts and invest it stocks or crypto, take the profits and put back the money. They are usually caught when the investment doesn't pay off and can't put the money back.

Also, apparently there are cases of employees conspiring with criminal organisations to launder money. Handling of the client by another employee can reveal the shady business.

So in essence, any fraud that requires maintenance can be potentially uncovered in the absence of the fraudster.
I find it fascinating people are so concerned about cameras. I am much more concerned about microphones. And I’ll betcha you’re typing on something with an always on microphone right now.
The problem with replacing NOTAMs is that it actually is a fairly simple system that works pretty well from a technical standpoint.

The biggest issues in general relate to the data itself and the processes involved.
They are improperly installed LEDs. And also yes, they are about 2-3x brighter than halogen bulbs.

You can easily check yourself by comparing lumen values on the car accessory websites.
i dont understand how this is not already possible?