skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve also sat in an ER, waiting to be seen while in a lot of pain or with someone in a lot of pain or with visible injury. The only time I’ve actually been triaged immediately was when I had so much blood running down my face that the nurses didn’t want me to scare others in the waiting room. This was all in Dallas at good hospitals.

I’ve waited months to be able to see a doctor. In fact, I’ve just recently seen a dermatologist after a 9-month wait. No one else had anything sooner.

I’ve learned with the US system there are a lot of hoops you have to jump through for care if you want insurance to be happy. I have to go to one or two other clinics or quick care facilities in order to get in to see the doctor that I actually need. And once I have a prescription it’s always a prior-authorization fight to actually get the meds.

And all of this, knowing that I can’t ever take a sabbatical since COBRA, on top of my monthly expenses, would be prohibitive.

So, it feels like the US system is the worst of all worlds. I’ve got the waiting and the pushback and the expense.
Yes absolutely, but your iPhone and the HomePod should be on the same/main vlan, not the HomePod on the IoT vlan.
> Idly chatting with the search box doesn't strike me as the most productive use of my time.

That’s not using the search service for search
I wish murex got some more love - https://murex.rocks/
CoL based on state is obvious idiocy.
Source: family member is a compensation analyst.
Fish is wildlife (mostly) so the sooner we stop taking it, the better.

Farmers ensure they have cattle for next year. The fishing industry doesn't take that care over next years stock.

Stop eating fish. Please. Just move to chicken or some other meat.
The thing that angers me about GoDaddy is the sniping of customer searched domains. Maybe “everyone does it”, but still scummy.
Do you really have rename on your computer? What OS is this?
Once more -- my plan is to NOT seek a fix to everything that can possibly go wrong. Colonoscopy is 1 example.
> they make shareholders rich

do you realize that for most software engineers at the hi-tech companies, the majority of their compensation is in the form of equity?

and at startups, reduced headcount cost gives more runway for the company and hence employment.
Damn, the text is almost unreadable because of the strange proportions of the body font and the low line height.
Here’s some data that might explain why some people are so upset. And since most people are unaware of these things and the media ignored/suppressed them, they dismiss such sentiments as “anti-science.”
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/timeline-the-proximal-ori...
>Whom do you choose?

The guy who performs better.

>I argue that you should choose the student which is more likely to make the most out of those resources. ... the difference in GPA compared to students in the same cohort?

The entire point of equality is that we are all one cohort: Regardless your race, gender, background, or creed you will be treated the same as the next guy in line; and there is only one line.

To treat otherwise is discrimination.
I don't understand, if one is upset at "popular references to science" (however you're defining that), then why would they be aggressive against "science"? Literate people would also understand that these are two different things. It seems like misplaced anger if this is the case.
No. Because the system of government in the US is such that states have the responsibility for lots of things rather than the federal government. However, that has the side effect of making the state you live in actually matter. I can't (or am at least not supposed to) just establish an address of convenience somewhere that has the lowest taxes.
I think it's useful when you don't know what to search yet but are looking to solve a problem. For example, I am planning a wedding and I asked it to put together a rough budget for me and this helped me to prioritize where to spend my energies on the vendor search.
Yes, I was pretty on the side of the remote work until the pandemic. I don't think it's mentally healthy for most people. Long commutes aren't mentally healthy either though, so I understand people that want to leave that behind. I've got a less than 10 minute commute and I can easily bike that if I need to.

Society is already too segregated with technology and I really do not think it's a good idea to move all of our in person communication to zoom calls. I really believe a lot of our current issues are due to the face people aren't communicating face to face enough and they've don't think of people on the other side of their screen as real people.

I think a hybrid work setting could be great in the right circumstances, but 100% wfh just isn't a great idea imo. If you are 100% wfh you need to force yourself to find some other social group.

Additionally, I'll add we have whole generation of kids being brought up on primarily electronic communication. They're not getting appropriate social skills to begin with and then we're talking about throwing them into a remote work world for their entire lives. I think this is just a recipe for increasing their already poor mental health.
Many people feel fine right up until the point they get diagnosed with a terminal illness. The point being, this would be like going to the doctor and having high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, etc. etc. The patient can be up, walking around, feeling OK, but in reality they are headed for a nightmare.
The simplest thing you can do should be the correct thing to do.

It is impossible to do this 100% in a programming language, absolutely.

But shell violates this all over the place for programming purposes. And it's not like "read the bash man page" has a nice clear "hey, here's the way to write bash as a safer programming language".

I like bash as an interactive shell. Don't love it but like it enough to not go looking around for "better". As a programming language it's not great. It's convenient, but in terms of discussing which is a bigger minefield of problems, C or bash, I'm not sure. C is worse in practical impact because more people put it on the network, but bash is right up there in how much like walking through a minefield it is. I still use it but I definitely have it linted through shellcheck to do anything serious, and shellcheck always has things to say.

(And yes, bash is far from the only programming language to have this problem.)
The ten year journey of Facebook's app for iOS
Over how many years? An air source heat pump that you only use 8 or 9 months of the year will take longer to pay for itself.
I suggest that you port CMD.EXE to POSIX.
>Sure, there are some DEI types who believe that. There are also some anti-DEI types who believe that whites are a superior race, and DEI is a conspiracy to subjugate them. (If you don't believe me, just keep reading the comments.)

>Judging a movement by its fringe is unhelpful.

The difference is that the "fringe" DEI types who believe this are the ones running our universities and most of our most powerful institutions, while the "fringe" racists wearing white hoods sipping whiskey around a campfire in West Virginia have no institutional power whatsoever.
Disney is laying off people because their movies keep bombing in the theaters. All they do is remakes and spinoffs of the famous old IPs they devoured, but that gravy train is coming to a stop. After a while people get tired of watching more half-baked Star Wars and Marvel sequels of bootleg quality.

They're running out of franchises to milk, and making something new and original is not in their corporate culture.
Unprofitable tech companies are probably not doing too great in the face of rising interest rates.
In DEI's defense, SHRM generic policy is very generic indeed[1] and is unlikely to cause controversy. Just more corporate bureaucracy most people ignore.

<< This just isn’t true. At the core of DEI is the understanding that negative cultural biases make life worse for everyone. These cultural biases (which differ individually based on a million factors) are an unavoidable part of the human experience and impact all of us in different ways, so DEI initiatives encourage being mindful of them in order to limit their harm.

Hmm. I am currently participating in a group that uses a more, lets say aggressive, interpretation ( white supremacy is pervasive and all that ). It gets old fast.

<<You’re never going to hear about all the DEI professionals capably doing that work because it’s uncontroversial and often very private, but it’s happening all the same and it materially improves employees’ lives every day.

Maybe, but then good actors have some responsibility to denounce bad actors.

[1]https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/pol...
Very nice set of tools! I'd love a native version that doesn't require a browser, though ;)
You drastically overestimate the general software consumer.

Thunderbird is really only used by performance obsessed nerds, and that's largely in part because performance obsessed nerds all but prefer hideously outdated UI.

But for any normies, they're gonna load it up and feel their skin crawl, along with the overwhelming sense someone might turn the corner to their cubicle and begin shouting "NERD!"
> whose owners are the American middle class shareholder, farmers in Kansas.

The top 10% of Americans own 90% of the shares. If by middle class you mean “above the labor class, below the ruling class”, then I … still dont agree because the 0.1% ruling class still own a disproportionately huge % of those shares!

Also farmers are disproportionately immigrant labor who have no wealth and own no shares. Bill Gates owns 7% of all USA farmland but I wouldn’t call him a farmer.
And it is no wonder they have issues when their customer support is hostile. I used to pay for Gitlab but switched to the community edition after having to deal with their support over billing issues. Easier to use the free version than the paid version. Making money does not seem to be a priority.
The x in the upper-right corner is hard to see but it does close the pop-up. The pop-up itself does not inspire confidence.
which says a lot if the economy is disconnected from the prosperity and economic outlook of the majority of people. In such a case, a "good economy" is just a synonym for "elite are still doing well."
Same, I have used Fritz!Boxes for years, they are reliable, get updates and are quite configurable. The labs version even has Wireguard support now (they had IPsec before).
Yep, some athletes know how to let it go, if not so much when. But others that is what always defined them and don't know anything else. Adjustment can be hard. This happens to ex-military as well.
I don't think experts like pointless and incorrect pedantry anymore than anyone else. Well maybe a little more because they can easily put you in your place. :)
Well, that'd be the illegal practice of law: to draw up a contract for someone based upon their specific inputs and requests. That's actually a big difference from a boilerplate contract that you buy at a store.

>Why not? The competition at this level is "Google for a free MS Word template." But I bet plenty of people would pay a hundred bucks for an "AI powered contract generator" instead.

Because these aren't templates. This is the practice of law. There would have to be significant legal requirements for a company offering such a service. They'd have to not be able to disclaim their liability (which all the ones I've seen so far do). otherwise, it's just pointless. the company itself would have to be capable of being "disbarred" and in such a way that they couldn't just trivially reform. Those are two things that come to me foremost, but there are probably more.
Having seen this for other family members: I have a compressed nitrogen cylinder reserved in the garage for this purpose. I hope my wits are about me to use it, or that a DNR keeps any hospital stay as short as practical.
Show HN: Murmelbahn - Reverse engineered the Gravitrax course file format
I don't know how popular Gravitrax is state-side.
For those who don't know, it's a popular marble run system with dozens of extensions from Ravensburger[1] (see what can be build in a recent video here[9]), our kids love it! And a Junior version for kids 3+ is coming out this year.

It comes with a free app that can be used to build courses and then also share those courses via a simple short code. The app can also display all the tiles you need to build a course.
What is not possible is to list available courses or check whether you have enough tiles to build a specific course.
Chris Fuchser (The Masked Marble on Youtube[2]) built something called Gravisheet[3] which is a Google Sheet where he collects codes from the app and also lists which tiles you need and so on. This is awesome and a great start!
Unfortunately, it requires a lot of manual work so at christmas when my kids (ahem...) got their first set I got started reverse engineering the file format Ravensburger uses and built a small library/site to display information about it.
The source code can be found on Github[4] and the site is also hosted on a free fly.io machine[5].
You can already see a JSON dump of the binary file contents[6] and also get a Bill of Materials[7] for a course. On the frontpage you can say which sets or extensions you have and get a list of courses.

This is all very rudimentary, mostly because of lack of time and lack of frontend skills but maybe it is useful to someone.

I'd love feedback (and contributions)!

Tech stack:
- Rust backend with Axum
- Storage in Postgres
- Frontend in Svelte

The ImHex editor was incredibely helpful in reverse engineering the format[8]! Thank you very much for the author, he was very helpful as well.

[1] https://www.ravensburger.us/discover/gravitrax/index.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@MaskedMarble/videos

[3] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T-hLIBz05q4QMlt7xQ63...

[4] https://github.com/lfrancke/murmelbahn

[5] https://murmelbahn.fly.dev/index.html

[6] https://murmelbahn.fly.dev/course/83JFIBBI7H/dump

[7] https://murmelbahn.fly.dev/course/83JFIBBI7H/bom

[8] https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex

[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsglFJWVTMg
I'm using zsh, but that hardly counts as alternative
>I'm anticipating the "aliens are drinking the sun like a milkshake,"

If that's the case, we should be studying the straw. If they have a straw that reaches all the way to our star, then they have all the star. So just think about the tech we could learn by just studying that straw
They will eventually but they still have a lot of legwork to do before their 15 minute city plan (needed for long term climate lockdowns) can be implemented.
> Local currency cash is the only thing a state has control over.

The state has control over its banks. You can't generally get a Mastercard or Visa card that isn't issued by a bank doing business in your jurisdiction.

How tightly the state holds the reins of the bank depends, but usually they're among the most regulated of the nominally private institutions we have.
It's not a bug, it's a feature. Constant usage means constant need to purchase.
They don’t solve the web search problem better than web search engines do. But most people aren’t interested in a document retrieval exercise, they have a question and want an answer to it. The interface of posing a cryptic phrase to find a collection of “relevant” text blobs that you then have to sift and read to try to piece together an answer isn’t ideal for answering a question. When we have a question of a professor they sometimes answer with a list of papers, sometimes with a long form answer, and sometimes both. I think all three are useful, depending on the context. But the last one is clearly the most useful. It provides an intuition up front and an opportunity ask clarifying questions, as well as a way to find more detailed information and understanding from a known credible list.

LLMs have a chance to offer an oracle that doesn’t answer in cryptic or evasive ways, but attempts to just give an answer. The hallucinations are a huge flaw, but one that I’m confident will be addressed with other non-LLM AI approaches. But it’s the right user interface for answering questions - it answers questions with answers, not a pile of potentially relevant documents to sort. The augmentation with citations, especially if they’re semantically revenant rather than symbolically, is a huge plus.
So, are there FANGS that not only are not laying off, but are even hiring or raising salaries?

Or all they looking at each other and copycatting?
> "It doesn’t matter where you work, as long as you get the work done."

This sentiment is weird to me. When people express this, I think they have a myopic view on work. Like they view work as a series of JIRA tickets that need to be closed out. As a senior leader, one of your jobs is to teach the younger folks how to do their jobs efficiently. Your personal output is not that important. You are there to be a force multiplier. Teaching is much easier in person.

It's like people who hate the interruption of a colleague sending a Slack message. Yes, such an interruption is slightly annoying, but part of your job is to help other people. Unblocking someone is most certainly more productive than whatever you were doing individually.

Ultimately, very few things are built solely by an individual. "Doing work" is mostly about collaboration if you want to build anything substantial.
And how is Disney related to gitlab?!
The Pol Pot view of intellectuals is to kill them, along lots of people. This was just some text in a website.
I wouldn't want my $500k+ engineer to even remotely get close to burning themselves out.
>"seems to be"

But see, it isn't. You've got an axe to grind; I get it. I just don't care that you don't like DEI for these slippery-slope, made-up reasons you have, in your head.

Learn what DEI is actually about. Then learn what the interviews actually produced (read: get your information from as many different sources as you can; not "one", even if it supports your bias). Then learn how the interview results correspond to the associated DEI standards. THEN you can speak constructively about what points are being misconstrued, which ones are being purposefully distorted, which ones are being ignored, and which other actions are unrelated to DEI and are only using it as a way to cover for politically-motivated actions.

OR, just go on believing that this "confirmation" doesn't have anything to do with your "bias", and believe it wholesale. Whatever floats your boat, dog.
Every time a tech company announces a layoff, I'd like a corresponding announcement of where in their history this puts them. Back at late 2022 levels? 2021? 2020? All of these layoffs feel like a little purge after a big binge, not a serious signal of problems.
This is a reasonable criticism. But it is primarily a criticism of science reporting and public health policy. Many people agree with what you are saying, but instead of deciding we need changes to the way the media and government handle science, they decide science is bullshit and we end up with a major and growing political movement based on proud ignorance.
The bbc article on this mentioned that a poorly recieved meeting with investors around AI strategy also happened today which can't have helped
Sometimes I want a search engine, sometimes I want a good enough answer. Two different use-cases.

When doing research I need a good search engine. Find me the official docs, not the SEO’d blogs. Find me that podcast episode. Find me the exact article I remember reading 10 years ago. Don’t try to guess and half-arse a result just because it has more ads or better SEO. I’ll do the hard work of synthesis because I’m looking to understand something deeply.

Current search engines have gotten meh at this use-case. Or at least Google has.

When looking for a quick answer, I need a smart-enough agent. How old is this celebrity? What’s the air speed of an unladen swallow? Give me a deity that starts with G. What the hell is a “nepo baby”? What does this random emoji mean when sent by a 20 year old and what is it by a 40 year old? Who’s that actor in that show with the thing?

I don’t care about the source and I’m not looking to do research. Just tell me a good enough answer so I can get back to my conversation or whatever. Current search engines are pretty okay with this, but GPT is better.

The two use-cases are fundamentally different and trying to merge them is where things went wrong.
Sorry, but your criticism is misguided. Hotez is talking specifically about the anti-vaccine movement, which was literally dead wrong about the safety and effectiveness of the COVID vaccines. You are equating that to (presumably) quibbles about effectiveness of masks and quarantines, where most governments erred on the side of caution.

Those are simply not the same things. The government response was calibrated based on what the scientific consensus was at the time, and whoever followed those guidelines (including vaccination) had a much lower chance of suffering and dying in the last two years. The other "side" was trying to convince people to try hocus-pocus medicine and avoid the only effective strategy for prevention.
Well, for Disney, making up for some of that early pandemic park revenue is certainly a challenge. Nobody messes with Mickey Mouse’s money!
Where are you leaving from? Wishing you the best
I still cannot believe how much high-quality content I can get for free. Some of it has ads; some has a tip jar; some makes extra content behind a paywall. I donate to many of them, even though I rarely actually listen to the extra content. There are just too many things that interest me to spend even more time on the same things.

I keep expecting that to dry up. Thus far none of the shows I listen to has moved entirely behind a paywall. It's bound to happen one of these days. But I'm genuinely unsure if most of them will do better behind a paywall than just asking for donations or hustling for ads. It feels as if a paywall will increase the average income per listener by 10x, while cutting the audience by 90%.

Those numbers have huge error bars, but apparently all of the hosts I listen to have concluded that they'd rather have larger audiences. At least for my interests, the podcasters all seem to genuinely want to connect audiences with their subject, and want enough money to live on, not get rich.
More people are going to be skeptical post 2020 because these "trust the science" morons were/are putting their crazy in plain view. Same crowd as "Why I hope to die at 75" and "You'll own nothing and and be happy".

It's not hard to connect the dots of corporate profits and policy. If readers think eugenics is a barbaric relic of the past, I have a sweet lullaby to whisper in your ear.
This doesn't stop in high school, and you only get so much better at it. Your life feels like my life now, and it's largely going to waste.

I think schools and colleges may be correctly preparing students for "the real world", and this is unfortunate.
Or, for a different perspective, someone won't pay you a premium because you want to live in Manhattan because they don't actually care where in the country you live.
The current assumption of the climate apocalypse is:
We are going into a brick wall, it’s our fault, we have to put this as first priority.

While there is some truth to that, we are also going into a brick wall in many differents ways.

What is the most important?
How much ressource should we allocate to each one?
In how long will this be a problem?
How to assess if we are making progress with our measures?

How many poor people today are we ready to sacrifice to reduce CO2 now (raising energy prices, reducing fertilizers)

The improvement in growth of plant was an unintended positive consequence of our action. The deserts are greening, we should at least take notice.

From what I see, the rapid improvement of technology: solar, ev and other will make climate change a non issue.
I'm already using google to ask human like question "what's the second most populous country in africa". ChatGPT-like LLM can only improve that.