skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time this comes up I share a link to the McKinsey study from 10 years ago. You can google it. It’s worth a read, it’s an insightful analysis.

They basically adjust spending by GDP, then compare the US to other OCED nations, then split spending across a dozen categories of healthcare spending.

The biggest cost driver? Out-patient procedures. It’s not just that it costs more (it does), but volume is way higher than other countries and one of the biggest drivers of the higher spending seen in the US.

For in-hospital care, the US is marginally higher. Drug spending is higher, but it’s 50% more for 10% of spending, so marginal. It’s lower in durable equipment spend. And much higher in R&D spend, though the impact isn’t huge.

Americans get a lot more out-patient procedures than other countries. That’s the biggest cost driver of US healthcare.

Is it cost effective? Not sure that’s been answered yet.
They'd notice because the people they were following would change, as not everyone on Twitter is on Mastodon.
Paying for something doesn’t mean it’s profitable (or that it’s profitable enough).
Show HN: I made yet another create-electron-app
Simply type "npx electron-starter" in the terminal.
Personally I prefer the Windows 3.0/3.1 icons. Pretty sure that Susan Kare did some of those
Is there any scientific evidence that the special hardware found in high-end audio equipment (gold-plated connectors, "large polymer capacitors", expensive DACs etc.) actually produces perceptibly different (and perceptibly better) audio output?

I mean of course assuming hearing abilities that are within 1-2 standard deviations of the human average, not one-in-a-million-people super hearing. Also assuming actual music is being played, not audio tracks specifically engineered to highlight the difference.
That sounds like a config snafu to be honest, even if it assumes you have swap on
// the law changed, but we're too lazy to rename the constant
Because this was all standardized back when interoperability meant standard fixed-length data formats that everyone had to understand rather than versioned API's and the inertia of the established file formats is too great.

Hell, if you _really_ wanted to insist on an exchange data format, XML would work just fine.
Some areas, thankfully just a few (esp those that have a deal between a specific advertiser,) already use this concept via access cookies. It sort of sucks for me when I strike it, because I may not use an ad blocker, the onus is on the advertiser to declare they've loaded data at the customers end and send the pass cookie, but refuse to do so since their reach deep scraping API tool is blocked, and is returning nothing or rubbish.
Show HN: A GUI Wrapper for png2icons
Generates Apple ICNS and Microsoft ICO files from PNG files for your desktop app.
I don't like how it's written in C++ (and I'm not a Rust person either)
For some reason KDE on Fedora is somewhat broken.

Kubuntu worked flawlessly for 6 years on my laptop (and it's still going).
Why is Ivory even a separate app from TweetBot? Wouldn't it have been more powerful to build a single meta-app?
> I thought COVID proved definitively that remote work is not just possible but equal to in-office work.

That's an extremely strong claim. How do you think COVID proved it "definitively"?
This is a good one. I've seen (and probably made...) some refactor PRs where someone takes an old system and breaks it up into new conceptual chunks. Code reviewer comes in and they find the new code makes even less sense than the previous code. Of course it so happens that the reviewer already knew the old code, and so it's only natural that new code is less legible to them.
I know Python since version 1.6, its simplicity is deceptive, the language is as rich as C++, beginners only think otherwise because the language looks simple on the surface.

When one starts exploring the standard library, everything that is exposed in meta-programming and runtime internals, or the usual language changes even across minor versions, the picture changes dramatically.

Once upon a time I always devoured the release notes for each release, eventually I lost track of changes.
Doubtful that people are going to start mass abandoning their jobs in a layoff wave.
Okay? The fact is that plenty of businesses are in that position for one reason or another, and I think it’s pretty callous to withhold sympathy on that basis.
> they just optimize for a different workflow.

Usually of the people that just work with a giant terminal session with screen and that's it.

No, really, because having a terminal application where "Tab Next" doesn't wrap around just goes to show how worried they are about users outside that niche (and yes maybe they fixed this now, but come on)
One thing to note about Sony android players is that the European models have ferocious volume limits; neither having high gain mode, nor the grunt to drive more inefficient headphones in low gain mode.

This appears to be set as a value in a read only database that would require root to remove. A method to acquire root is not known to be available on any of them.
Lol, thank you for the chuckle, that's how I feel while I use gnome. Damn, I wish KDE was the desktop choice for Ubuntu and fedora, it would solve so many problems.
> Does there exist a nice way to play your own mp3s on a phone today?

There are tons of MP3 player apps for Android:

vlc - has a surprisingly decent UI for music. (Open Source)

Simple Music Player - gets the job done. (Open Source)

Rocket Player - paid a few dollars for it near a decade ago and it's still decent.

Foobar2000 - The familiar old man is still around.
I think that's not the point. They are making a product seemingly targeted at audiophiles and they don't provide enough storage (for the amount of music an audiophile might have), while showing off some obscure features like the gold plated components
To clarify: what I'm saying is it may be unfalsifiable, but we have incontrovertible evidence that a similarly unfalsifiable thesis happens to be true. So we can't just reject it out of hand on that basis.
> Any Tom and Jerry episode involving Mammy Two Shoes

Since I watched Tom and Jerry cartoons many, many times, I just looked up who this is (although I kinda had inferred it, there aren't that many characters in Tom and Jerry :)) and why she's a problem.

Curiously, I always thought she was the owner of the house, so any racist undertones were totally lost on me (note that I'm not American). (I did get that they were quite sexist, no man doing housework ever).

I don't deny the racist intent, but it's funny how one needs the cultural context to get that. I hope in a few decades it will be lost on every kid.
Until you have a kid in school, and then it’ll pick up again.
I've dealt with US companies as European for a couple of things, and I think that I've been avoiding companies from there for the past couple of years due to speculation about this chip shortage, I've 2 bikes from US one super 73 and one bird bike, for the bird bike in particular, in order to have the engine replaced I've had to wait for 2 months, due to chip shortage, while the shop I've bought it from has had the whole time new bird bikes delivered to sell, so yeah, I think a good part of the global chip shortage when it comes to post-sales components is speculation, I've got a vanmoof since then and it takes a week get damaged pieces (not needed replacement parts so far, but I've friends with vanmoof who had)

But yeah as a rule of thumb stay away from super73 and birds bikes
There is no such thing as an out of practice immune system.
> Twitter subsidized someone else’s paid app

I thought the larger developers had to pay Twitter to use their API?
At least it has both a headphone jack and Bluetooth 5, unlike the majority of the smartphones out there that have outright removed the former.

Just plug it in and that is it.
Me actually.

I finally made the switch to a phone without headphone jack last year. I like the phone, but the pretty expensive bluetooth headphones I tried don't sound as great as my beaten year old wired ones.

There's many places where I don't care about having a dangling wire: at home watching tv/movies, while working at my desk, or in public libraries for instance.

A small audio player that work with my wired headphones would be workable, I l'm seriously thinking about it if moving music in and out is easy enough.
Sounds a lot like downloading stuff from HP, too.
Finally USB-C, no more proprietary cables.
I never used it, nor do I plan to.
I use oxygen icons on KDE. Not at all a windows clone, but I think they look decent.
This site is worth a post in its own right! Just enjoying skimming thru it. Good find!
That's a different product. There's no alternative for a Twitter client blocked from Twitter's API.

(This is not a value judgement of Mastodon vs Twitter)
> Who IS the target market for something like this?

Some people work in environments where you can't have "smart" devices. I could see this squeaking by (for example you can have some single purpose devices like Garmin watches, but not Apple watches with wifi and cellular).

It might be good for airplanes too if you want something to drive your headphones without draining your battery, but I guess in-seat power has kinda solved that already.
It's sort of circular now with the posts pointing to each other. The verge one is probably the better summary and has more context, at this point.
I'm in the same boat with Google Play Music and Youtube Music.

I switched to AIMP and have been gradually moving files over.
This looks awesome. I've been wishing for more hardware buttons on Android or iPhone devices for so long.

I would even take a case for iPhone which has extra buttons for common tasks on the side. Please steal this idea.
Are those an abstraction over multiple implementations? They seem pretty concrete to me.
Content vanishing is the reason I archive e.g. favorite podcasts and some YouTube videos. For example, the whole cracked.com podcast's back catalogue seems to have effectively vanished from (useful) streaming now, for monetary reasons.

Though even here, backup copies gets increasingly harder to create. Another podcast I listen to has now stopped having an RSS/xml feed and while it seemingly is available still, it's available only in a proprietary player on ne web site.

Warehouse fires are one thing. But increasingly, change of distribution model is ruining the availability of stuff that was free to access when created, for purely profit reasons.
I am a huge fan of standalone mp3-players.

So much so, that at some point I made a comparison site for mp3-players. But nobody cared. I made comparison sites for smartphones, laptops and monitors which became quite popular. But for mp3-players, it seemed like I am the only person on planet earth who uses them.

Personally, I still use a Sony Walkman NWZ-E585. For me, that is the best mp3 player ever made. It has a nice form factor, feels very good haptically, the navigation interface is ok, the sound quality is great, the noise cancelling too, and you can access the storage without having to install propriatery software on your computer.
At least the lucky ones having Android 12 as baseline can now make use of Java 11 subset (because as usual Google only takes the parts of standard library they care about).
The randomize button was added in UserPatch, which was the de-facto version people played (on Voobly) until DE2 came around, it just took that over from there.
Did you accuse me of saying "look at what they were wearing", because that's not at all what I was implying and you've read into that of your own volition. I simply said if you're going to make your business so entwined with another company's business in order for your business to thrive, then you better have back up plans for that other business no longer being available. There's no victim blaming going on here, except in your mind. As someone who's been part of a business that suffered "all eggs, one basket" syndrome, it is something I'm keen to not suffer again. If you can't handle business advice that questions your business plan, then maybe you shouldn't be running a business.
I don't have this exact model, but I did have two earlier iterations of the Walkman which I liked for three reasons:
1) it's a lot lighter than a phone, so convenient to take running
2) the battery lasts days (if not weeks) rather than a single day
3) it has a wired headphone jack, so I don't have to use Bluetooth earbuds that regularly fall out or disconnect.

I don't recall either model being that expensive though.
Of course you do, because even if you're gonna sell it in one year, the amount you can sell it for is going to be determined by its long term value.
That's the thing, this rock wont have athmosphere, so close to the host star, it would have been blown away

That's why I mentioned the hypothesized mercury situation, as mercury has got a very thin mantle and its core is VERY outsided, so it has got a very strong magnetic field. This is consequence of likely early solar system crash, Mercury might just be the core remnants of a planetary collision elsewhere

But yeah, this rock wont have athmosphere
There may be designs that cut out some/most of the cost, but I made the comment because I watched a YouTube documentary on an airport that was making modifications and they had to dig up a bunch of the runways. They made a big deal out of the work, including working with a special contractor who had a practice area where they tried all the work they'd have to do ahead of time and timed themselves to be sure they could get the runway back in operating condition by the time it was needed. The amount of work they went through for something fairly minor was pretty memorable. I took from it that airports have a lot of logistical concerns that are pretty unique and the "that seems simple" take that I'd previously had about the tarmac portion of an airport being just a bunch of asphalt with some signs and lights on it was totally ignorant of all the complexity.
76.2 - still puzzles me, though. While I can convert units in my my head, I have never used anything but metric... so I always convert them. The most common misuse is likely to be attributed to Canadian folks, I guess.
Hey wait, good point, what the heck kind of data structure even is a stack of papers? You can insert like a linked list but hop around like an array.
Show HN: An Open Source Alternative to All Big Tech
Reams and reams of absolutely useless tests that may not have
checked anything that mattered, but that did bump the coverage
metric up.

I would go farther than that, and call those tests worse than useless. Tests that are written to appease some kind of automated coverage metric god tend to be tests that test internal implementations rather than API contracts. So you end up with a codebase where a single line change to production code requires something like 150 lines of test code changes, all because the internal representation of some data was changed in some kind of trivial way.

It's possible to avoid this failure mode, but the teams that are smart enough to avoid this failure mode are also generally smart enough to avoid having unreasonable coverage goals.
Lab-grown alternatives aim to cut palm oil dependence
For asking permissions, Google should explain thé code with GPT3
When asking permissions, Google describes the worst scénario because they have no way to know and Say what the developer does un his code.

But, hmmm, in 2023, really ? Google use chatgpt3, give it the developer's app or extension code, and that's all!
6G (Network)
Or 1-bit.

https://towardsdatascience.com/binarized-neural-networks-an-...
11m total is based on gifter, while 17k per year is based on recipient.

If you give more than 17k per year to a kid but will never give away 11m you just need to disclose it on a tax form, you don't need to pay a gift tax. (State taxes can have their own rules)
Very nice tool, do you have a plan to make a web extension for it?
I find it weird that the article takes turn into portraying this as some kind of "woke"-driven decision by Warner Bros Discovery, when (as noted in a linked article) it's actually just part of the nonsense service-worsening clear-cutting that the company is doing to try and make its short-term financials look better.
> Who IS the target market for something like this? It's almost as big as a phone, and costs as much as many phones...

Me, but I aint paying $800 for it (if I understood the article correctly).

Give me a walkman made specifically for listening to music with 250GB+ and without all the pain to move music onto and off of the device and can last _weeks_ on a single charge with regular use and I would purchase the shit out of it.

I feel like a lot of people don't realize just how leashed they are with modern phones. My favorite phone ever is an old Palm phone that I still have to this day because I refuse to throw it away. It's smaller than the original SE, far lighter, and could last up to two weeks on a single charge. Contrast that with the 3rd gen SE I have now and I'd give it up in a heartbeat if something like that Palm arrived.

But it won't, so moving the music playing experience off of the phone is a good step to loosening that leash.
Unpopular opinion, none of them.

Because even for FOSS stuff, unless you are an expert on all levels of the stack you will not be able to assert there are some hidden exploits disguides as perfectly safe code.

And if you have to rely on third parties to assert that for you, then you will have to trush their honesty and technical skills to be able to assert such statements.

So there is only hope that all players are experts, don't do any mistakes, keep being honest, and exercise their certification for every new release for all products that make up a standard installation.
Potentially me, but this time not.

My criteria is heavy on "do one thing well". I want something without internet, "apps", a convoluted OS, and basically all the other things that make phones a Swiss army knife.

Those things aren't free, they come with a cost which I'm not willing to pay; attention, bugs, distraction-as-a-service. Also, I'm not 100% on this because I haven't tested it, but I think the output I get from FLAC files on my music device is better than my phone.

Yes, I'm also the type who enjoys a separate camera.

There's a piece of mind to dedicated devices I was robbed of for a while with the the phone.

Now having said all this, the real answer to your question is; nobody, because this device seems to be a phone :/
I said "All it needs is to be able to recognize when it’s unable to safely have control *with enough advance notice to delegate to a human*"

IMO, there are road conditions where this is possible. For black swan cases like random wind gusts, tire blowouts, boulders falling onto the highway etc. I think AI would be better on average *currently* (again, just clarifying what I already said).
Windows NT4.0 icons were the best:

https://winuxinfocenter.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/deskto...

Why 98? Same icons on 95 were they not?

No argument that the Windows UI has gone massively downhill with each successive release. But hey, if they make it complicated enough, needing to add/remove programs in 3-4 different places, maybe you'll search for everything with Cortana and then they can track and guide you into their own services.
The problem is, as long as old python versions continue to exist, the competing standards also will continue to exist. From a user experience stand point it is horrible. Depending on the python, pip, or Setup tools version on a system the Install command might do something drastically different in each case. Often it’s not even clear what’s happening under the hood.
I think the Java ecosystem is an interesting example, because it has many different types of ORMs available:

Hibernate: a fairly "traditional" ORM, that can abstract away SQL almost entirely, it even has a DB-agnostic DSL for some use cases (HQL)
myBatis: an ORM that lets you write actual SQL in mappers and generate statements dynamically, with conditions/loops/etc. defined in XML
jOOQ: an attempt at letting you generate queries in pure Java code (as opposed to the myBatis approach), which looks a bit like the one in the article
JDBI: a very lightweight wrapper on top of JDBC, which perhaps isn't a full ORM, but makes querying the database with SQL a bit easier
(probably some others, too)

Personally, I think that the "Object–relational impedance mismatch" isn't necessarily the worst thing ever in the day to day, when you need to get things done: most ORMs can be good enough, when used responsibly and for the things they actually do well. For example, in my eyes it makes sense to take advantage of DB views and keeping how data is queried (think complex SQL queries) mostly on the DB side, whilst keeping the mappings in the actual ORM layer relatively simple, instead of trying to do a bunch of joins in the ORM.

That way, if you ever need to debug how something is selected, then you can simply look at the data in the view, which is going to be the problem in most cases. In my eyes, that's a good way to also avoid running into the N+1 problem too often - if there's a table in your APP (a list in your API) that you need to populate with data, that might as well be a single query against MY_BUSINESS_DATA_V or something like that.

As for doing the opposite - modifying data, you might also benefit from simple mappings, perhaps even taking advantage of some of the codegen capabilities available. Point a CLI tool at where an instance of your DB is running and generate your entities from the existing schema (or vice versa). As long as you don't have too complex DB types, it shouldn't be too bad.

If you choose a different approach, in my experience you'll spend a lot of time struggling with the internal complexity of the ORM. Hibernate is a good example of this, I've seen people spend entire days trying out how to express their super complex queries in the ORM, not really knowing how to get the equivalent of whatever SQL they need.

SQL is good for working with data, so do that whenever it feels like a good fit for your problem. SQL is sometimes worse for certain other aspects (if you need CPU intensive processing for a limited subset of data, subjectively also readability, how expressive the code is, testing, logging, tracing, the available libraries and so on; things that general purpose languages can do better) so don't try to put everything in SQL either. Try to bridge the gap between SQL and whatever language you're using in a low friction way, if possible.
Okay, what was the back up plan? Nothing? none? really? nope, no sympathy.

Oh, you had a plan, but you couldn't really get it up in time, well, that's some learning pain. I'll cry a tear in some beer with you.

Tried to make a plan, realized there was no alternatives, but carried on anyways? That's very brave (ahem, read not smart) of you, but if you're a sole proprietor with no employees depending on you, then we can also share a beer of how to be smarter in the next venture. Got employees that are now hat in hand because of your "bravery"? Nope, again, no sympathy for you, but I'll be at the bar with your laid off employees burning you in effigy.
I think your real question is wether uncompressed audio from a fine tuned DAC sounds better than compressed AAC converted by current Bluetooth headphones.

The competition to this are mobile phones, and they almost all moved to bluetooth only, so the choice is which Bluetooth headphones gets better sound with a form factor you better like, pitted against the flurry of wired headphones and hybrid that are still on the market.