skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is something people in the US don’t understand. Many (most?) countries with national healthcare don’t cover elective surgery (cosmetic surgery, etc).

Many also have parallel (though obviously smaller) private healthcare providers. Of course because there is large national healthcare people who are paying extra for private healthcare are being gouged - because a facility’s ability to gouge customers is limited by competition.

The problem with the US health system is that it is essentially for profit, there is no “lower priced alternative” you can choose instead, and you cannot discharge medical debt so gouging is a safe and secure source of perpetual income for medical providers. It doesn’t matter if a patient can’t afford the debt, in many cases they literally do not have a choice, and then just pay interest on that until they die.

So you have swathes of the population that have comparatively expensive health insurance (compared to taxes paying for national healthcare), but who can’t afford to get any medical care anyway because the insurance is essentially just a “stop bankruptcy if you have a heart attack” insurance not actual healthcare. Despite that they are often avoiding bankruptcy but still being left with 10s of thousands of dollars in copays which they can “afford”.
Most hotels are not connected to each other. A handful are, but if you want to walk across the strip it’s actually quite hard. I visit Vegas yearly in the summer and this fact makes me somewhat upset :)
This behavior was not introduced to GitHub by Microsoft.
>a great proven model that the lagging west took ages to adopt.

I’d be careful with this type of thinking. Sometimes things can just be different.

Take KOLs/live-streaming e-commerce for example. Works in China for a lot of reasons (they’re the worlds most populous time zone for example), but it comes off as a negative utility interaction for Westerners (why is a pretty girl begging me to buy tires?).

Again, a lot of the differences are culture, especially in terms of China’s relatively controlled internet vs. the West’s relative free for all.
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Apple Car Play.
OP wrote

> That was an MIT-licensed open source project I worked on years ago.

which to me implies that OP also received the code under the MIT license and not some other license.
The F-22 replacement is already under active development.

The F-22 was a pretty radical departure from what came before it, and I think it served as a prototype for all the subsequent next generation platforms from which many things were learned. As good as it was, you aren't going to get everything right the first time and technology progresses.
Loving all the pro-comment comments - way to go Hacker News! We’ve come a long way since the days of everyone posting that static typing is the devil, and that my code ‘documents itself’.
Health care in Canada is a responsibility of the provinces, so the guy in Ottawa is to some extent irrelevant.

Although in BC we've had an NDP government for five years and it's not like things are doing so hot.
That is... a great point.

Thanks a ton! Planning to add pages for each brand (Kershaw, Benchmade, etc...) listing their knives as well as each attribute (steel, handle material, colors, etc.)
It doesn't matter what you shout. "Fire!", "Ennui!" or "Robot snakes!"

It matters whether or not if you cause damage.

If you cause a riot wordlessly.. you can still be at fault for a crime.

A man, holding a salmon, shoots a woman. Is the man a murderer?

What if he's holding a tuna?

That's the same as the shouting fire example. It doesn't matter what fish the murderer is holding, it doesn't matter what you yell if you do a crime.
Fwiw, android+firefox+ublock origin works great for no ads on YouTube.
s/very large/a couple of words/
Every study I have ever seen shows the us pays more for less. You’d think that if the US system was actually better we’d see some studies showing that, even with publication and political biases.
I looked up breast cancer survival numbers by country and the US looks about on par with the rest of the developed world.

I do agree with your general sentiment that there’s a lot of nuance that’s certainly worthy of deeper conversation. But I’m not sure that nuance accumulates into a meaningful argument for the system not being a scam when looking at the price tag.
Fuck no. Vinyl is inferior to modern digital media in every single measurable way. I cannot believe this myth won't fucking die! You literally have to roll off the low end in a vinyl master so the needle doesn't pop off the track ffs. Not to mention the vinyl literally wears down every time you play the record.
Programming is fortunately one of those subjects where there's something objectively close to a correct/optimal solution. A trivial example is that there aren't very many sane ways to write a "Hello world" program, but this seems to hold for more complex tasks too. In fact, in my experience, the ones who cheat and get it wrong are the most obvious.

Unfortunately, the software industry also has plenty of literal tools who are far too trusting of what the computer says (or authority in general, but that's another rant...)
Nearly $1 billion USD in assistance to Ukraine, more than half of which is military material, isn't nothing.
Let’s not forget, there were also many people on HN predicting at various times during the buyout that:

* Musk would somehow weasel his way out of the contract

* Musk would demonstrate that Twitter had lied to the SEC about bot numbers

* Musk would embrace a policy of free speech absolutism (within legal limitations) upon taking over

None of which came to pass.
The best pro for strawberries is rather that are available grown in greenhouses where the n_p=19 can be controlled as otherwise they are both are the top of pesticide contamination and use.
Probably, and they're wrong.
> Consider it a sort of checks and balances.

So, just like a proper code review process.

>
I have been running an open source project for a few years now with 40k downloads a month on NPM. This project has a heavy dependency on two other projects.

Are they dependencies on libraries, or are they dependencies on services?

Library dependencies are 'easy' to test. Service dependencies are very, very difficult. Tractable, but very difficult. That's just one of the difference between a small project, and a large product.

Just because we have vastly more than two dependencies doesn't mean that I'm working in a shitty environment. It just means I'm working on a large problem.

> I've worked for a number of other companies where we had fantastic testing infrastructure, CI/CD... mostly because we started from day one with that. Bolting it on after the fact, never happens to the degree it should.

I'm not sure why you believe that all of these things weren't with us at day 1, either.
Not to be confused with natrium.
> Advertisers mainly want to pick from this menu

Stations publish their ratings by demographics and their rate card. Most national ads are moved by agency and this is all they look at. "Popular with women 25-35 at less than $60/minute? Perfect."

Local advertisers might care a little more, but not much, typically. If they're a long lasting business, they get media buying savvy pretty quickly. It's not absurdly complicated and the whole process is generally shepherded by sales executives that make pure commission.

> That put AM in a down-market position

The ratings and demographics drive this. AM is mono at 10kHz and doesn't penetrate buildings or daylight particularly well. FM is stereo at 30kHz and has far fewer issues.

There is a station driven side, but it's mostly costs. AM stations are more expensive to run. There are more modern modulation techniques, but standard AM is a power hog. FM is far more forgiving and allows you to create gain with multiple antennas in a way that AM does not. FM is easier to make directional and allows for co-location and combination in much less physical space and cost than AM. Complicated AM arrangements require an "array" of up to 5 towers to create the correct directional day/night pattern signal granted by the license.

> which is a big sign pointing to the "niche" door of relative commercial obscurity.

It was around 2006 that AM started to lose it's ratings ground. Unsurprisingly it's when you saw things like "Air America" come into existence, and XM and Sirius launching satellites and gobbling up talk formats. In my view from the time it was all a response to the big killer.. the internet.

It was at this point in time it was starting to become obvious that the internet could entirely replace radio, and for national syndicated talk formats, it could most easily replace those. For those in the industry who knew where to look, they could see the writing on the wall. They were viewed as pariahs and it fell on entirely deaf ears, but they were there and they were trying to communicate all of this.

> but the decisions are made entirely on commercial grounds.

That's where I disagree. It was technical grounds. The listeners moved. Advertisers follow the listeners. It's not some sad story of purely monetary pressures destroying an old industry, it's a hopeful story of a new industry still desperately trying to break free of the vestiges of the old ways of operating and thinking.
My point is that GitHub does not personally want to have a hand on the reins, or whatever metaphor we're doing here. A private fork is a copy of the original code that GitHub is holding onto. A clone on your personal computer or server or printed out on paper tape is a copy that you are holding on to.
I couldn't fit this part in my tweet, but this is an important caveat.
And yet getting an appointment to see a Doctor is a multi-week process (Ontario). The last time I wanted to see my own Doctor was a 3 week wait for in-person and 10 day for a phone. I took the phone option because I had the issue before and wanted some feedback as soon as possible - I did get prescribed the same antibiotics - until then I self treated with OTC hoping it did not make matters worse. However there are many who do not have a provider and the walk-in system is not working effectively - most offices are not taking walk in patients. In Ontario, I think even online health provider systems are off, exacerbating the systemic problems. The rest of the family is losing their Dr in March due to retirement. Right now healthcare in Ontario is free and unavailable (empty store syndrome).

The US system has always seemed available, especially Doctor/urgent care visits. Clearly there are procedures that are inaccessible to certain demographics.
Production was ended for a lot of reasons, but the program still exists in a support role. They're deployed in active duty and are upgraded/retrofitted with modern technology.
malloc(0) return value is undefined by POSIX and can return NULL (IIRC it did on NetBSD).
In most states in the U.S. you can order many tests for yourself, paying cash, no insurance involved. The TSH test you mentioned can be purchased for $49 [0] at the first place I found. Places doing this will coordinate the test appointment for you at a nearby local testing center, the same companies doctors might use, and the testing center would draw the blood sample for you. There's several states that may not allow tests like this to be ordered outside of a doctor visit, for your own good presumably.

Using insurance and going through a doctor it can be difficult (understatement!) to find out what something will cost ahead of time. Your insurance may charge you $150 for a sick visit to the doctor, and the doctor may tell you there is no charge for the test, but unless you ask the right questions you won't find out that they are just talking about their part of taking the blood sample and ordering the test, they won't volunteer that there may be third party lab charges, and they and their office staff will have no idea what those charges might be. It can take a lot of time to chase down all the parties involved - your insurance company, the doctor, the lab, for other things maybe a radialogist, an anaesthesiologist, and/or facility charges at a hospital or clinic, medications from pharmacist, and so on, trying to find out what the total bill might be, and there are no guarantees, any of them can tell you one price and bill something different, it might depend on which billing codes are used for each procedure, and you may not get all the bills for months. Doctors have you sign a paper saying you will pay for anything deemed medically necessary, and these third parties will threaten to send you to collections based on that, if you complain. Typical insurance plans have a yearly deductable of several thousand dollars, applicable to non-preventive care, with the idea being to incentivize people to pay attention to the costs for routine care (there's also an out of pocket maximum, perhaps $10-15k per year). But the costs are obfuscated. It's not a free market system, it's a scam, a jobs program for health care administrators (3200% increase from 1975 to 2010) [1].

[0] https://www.testing.com/tests/thyroid-stimulating-hormone-ts...

[1] https://www.athenahealth.com/knowledge-hub/practice-manageme...
> discourage pets from chewing on power cables around the house

Apparently rodents eat some car cables. The cables should be coated in some kind of solidified bitter hot sauce. Bittrex and ghost peppers, perhaps.
You don't care about how the SQL server gets the data the same way how you don't care about what is happening in the background when you use File.ReadAllText The technology behind does not define the programming paradigm. You can speak about these paradigms without computers.

Imperative programming: really detailed cooking recipe

Functional programming: assembly line of a car factory

Declarative programming: a robot what can do what is programmed for, and sometimes can work with really unspecific instructions (like this one line in a file "Hello world" is not a valid HTML, but the browser still renders it)
EBS Optimizer
I dunno, American here and to me being up for something and being down for something are pretty equivalent. I don't hear any hesitancy in "I'm up for whatever".
What happens when you wrap around the transaction id in PostgreSQL
The competitors have gotten more expensive, and apparently they've sold enough that the "shovel cash into development and make it up on volume" approach has worked. Like, the Gripen's development costs are a fraction of the F-35s, so it should be cheaper both because of that and because of being built with less fancy technology. But the development cost doesn't matter now that everyone and their dog is ordering a thousand F-35s (and it certainly feels like it took a certain amount of "no-one ever got fired for buying IBM" to get there, but at some point being the industry standard is a self-sustaining position), and meanwhile the Gripen is more expensive to operate than it should be because... honestly I'd really like to see some answers on what kind of "cost disease" seems to have affected all "4th gen" combat aircraft over the last 10 years or so, but it's undeniable that it's happened.
I mean yes, but also unhelpful.

The majority of people aren’t going to urgent care for random checkups. The over reliance on urgent care in the US is a byproduct of a system that means people often have no other option (dr doesn’t take your particular insurance, your insurance doesn’t actually cover checkups, …) and the general cost of preventative care in the US meaning people don’t get things looked at prior to them becoming much bigger problems, where they do become urgent.
There is a culture that the l33ter the code, the more senior I am. So, many people will never refactor code to make it simpler to read. It affects their ego. In fact, I've seen the opposite: simple code refactored into more complex (not by the original author). The mindset: if it's more complex, it must be better.

Java example: rewriting non-stream collections code to use lots of chained streams. Using lambda functions when not needed. Rewriting case labels to use case lambdas. etc.
Unfortunately, in a lot of ways, it already has.
Reading many different viewpoints is not a virtue if it is done with such credulity as to buy into such nonsense as this:

> The Burzynski Clinic is a clinic offering an unproven cancer treatment, which has been characterized as harmful quackery. It was founded in 1976 and is located in Houston, Texas, in the United States. It offers a form of chemotherapy called "antineoplaston therapy" devised by the clinic's founder Stanislaw Burzynski in the 1970s. Antineoplaston is Burzynski's term for a group of urine-derived peptides, peptide derivatives, and mixtures. There is no accepted scientific evidence of benefit from antineoplaston combinations for various diseases.

> The clinic has been the focus of criticism primarily due to the way its antineoplaston therapy is promoted, the costs for people with cancer participating in trials of antineoplastons and problems with the way these trials are run. Legal cases have been brought as a result of the sale of the therapy without regulatory approval.

> Burzynski is also the president and founder of a pharmaceutical company, the Burzynski Research Institute, which manufacturers his antineoplaston drugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burzynski_Clinic
I work in security, and I've had zero good experiences with the anti-virus vendor market.
I do feel a little bit sad that Saab's Gripen wasn't chosen - it seems to do well in adverse conflict conditions (takeoff/landing from public roads, etc.). The adoption of the F-35 instead of the Gripen also shifts their military doctrine a bit.
Sony says otherwise[1]

[1]https://www.gameinformer.com/2023/01/31/update-sony-says-it-...
I agree. I have come to view social media and dating apps as the virtual equivalent of bars - just like bars in real life, there seems to be a trendy hotspot for five years or so that then gradually declines in popularity as new ones open up. The previous hotspot may continue on for years with a core set of users or become a local institution but will likely never be as popular as in it's heyday unless it has both a complete redesign and a rebrand turning it into a brand new bar.
Currently, employers more-or-less do a good job complying with OSHA regulations. Far better than complying with, say, EPA regulations, or ADA regulations. What's your analysis for why it would be good public policy to reverse their incentives for workplace safety?
EF core makes it simple to test against a real sqlite db. It is super fast to run the tests and gives a reasonably realistic outcome.
Recent vintage Porsche 911s only have FM. anti-flex.
I think whoever wrote this article has never heard of Tripoli. Albeit, a liquid fueled engine is quite an accomplishment. The article should have focused on that.
Doesn't BBC WS broadcast over shortwave, not AM? I used to listen to it in many different countries (though no longer because ... Internet).
The fact that it feels unsafe is what makes it safer. You're prompted to slow down and pay attention to what's in front of you.
> Back button is broken, for example search for balisong knives, click on one, click back - your search is gone.

Not so much broken as non-existent XD. That's a great point though, will add in functionality to keep search state.

Yep forcing login after advanced searches was the quick option there, will definitely swap it out tonight.

Thanks a ton for the feedback!
I can't really do your research for you, but I guess if you looked at the budgets which are publicly available for the Washington metro area, transportation authority, you might find out.

Also, WMATA's budget is separate from the city...
Many of my college classes are (and even high school classes! though I was coming out of HS in the tail end of covid) like this.

High school: Watch ~1hr lecture every night for next day's class, in which we did worksheets and the teacher would work through problems, but we were generally expected to have learned the material (teacher would not re-teach it).

College: Last semester I had a Data Structures class with a similar structure, but with 2-3 lectures a week. Same idea, we worked on practice sheets in class and had far more time to ask questions instead of having the entire concept taught to us. I much preferred this because some concepts covered, I had a very solid understanding of, so not wasting time in class was great.
Technically, [0] is not allowed by the standard. The real issue is [] vs [1].
I figure if I can swallow my objections and give Disney, Amazon, and Google money, Sirius is barely a scratch on my conscience.
Pedantic is splitting hairs over choosing near identical shades of biege.

You altered the meaning of what I wrote by adding "to be copied".

Own it, don't throw that on me.
The thing about dogfighting and guns / mawr dakka seems to be an American thing, I did not hear it, but David 'Warisboring' Axe seemed like a serious reporter, and Marcus Ranum was a serious IT guy
Even if you are using windows, there is no reason to subject yourself to the bin fire that is Acrobat. Literally[0] every single other PDF program is better, faster, cheaper, easier to use than acrobat. Plus many of them don't randomly crash and burn half your CPU usage until you kill them like acrobat does.

[0] No, clearly I haven't actually tried all them, don't be so pedantic.
The hard part about testing SQL is decoupling from infrastructure and big data sources. We use DuckDB, and pandas dataframes mock data sources to unit test SQL. Python testing frameworks (or simple assert statements) can be used to compare inputs and outputs.

When the tests pass, we can change from DuckDB to Spark. This helps decouple testing Spark pipelines from the SparkSession and infrastructure, which saves a lot of compute resources during the iteration process.

This setup requires an abstraction layer to make the SQL execution agnostic to platforms and to make the data sources mockable. We use the open source Fugue layer to define the business logic once, and have it be compatible with DuckDB and Spark.

It is also worth noting that FugueSQL will support warehouses like BigQuery and Snowflake in the near future as part of their roadmap. So in the future, you can unit test SQL logic, and then bring it to BigQuery/Snowflake when ready.

For more information, there is this talk on PyData NYC (SQL testing part): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQHksEh1GCs&t=1766s

Fugue project repo:
https://github.com/fugue-project/fugue/
Most / All of the infrastructure built to build the F-22 has been cannabalized to build the F-35. The production machinery and factories for the most part just don't exist anymore and would have to be rebuilt.
Cometeer’s Frozen Coffee Pod Business Is in Hot Water
I know, when you have a bunch of conservative governments that have explicitly stated that hate nationalized healthcare, they can do a lot of damage to it.

Also, I really don’t think when people are complaining about the NHS in the UK that for the majority of them the US system would be at best no better, for many would be worse, and for all would be more expensive.
Forcing me to create an account after a certain amount of interaction without explaining what the account is for, or providing any information about how my personal data will be used is an antifeature. Depending on the jurisdiction, it may also be a legal issue.

That said, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is a work in progress and that you'll be adding additional information about how you use my data soon?
Big Business advances government interests. I'm not surprised. This current administration is brazenly anti-2A and pushing corporations to get in line or feel the squeeze.
Numbers don't look great but you would need to consider the following too.
Any cooling cost you have that will also benefit from insulation and the fact that within 10years time you most likely need to upgrade the gas heater with something non fossil.
Also it is questionable if gas prices will remain where they are currently.