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> I like Clojure, but unfortunately for web development, there isn't a great stack

What do you feel is missing? Certainly there are options (something as frameworky as Fulcro, something as barebones as a React wrapper like Reagent), so there must be some itch you can't scratch?
I'm planning on starting a part-time MBA in the fall. Did you enjoy your experience in your program? Would you do it again?
"Also many countries have price controls on drugs, and US does not (thus subsidizing RoW in regards to new drug research)"

I think this line is BS propaganda by the pharmaceutical industry. I am 100% sure the US would be way better off if they controlled prices and then subsidized research directly instead of paying outrageous prices.

As far as hospitals losing money, this doesn't mean that they are using their money efficiently. My ex used to do auditing of hospitals and a lot of them showed a circle of friends consisting of local construction company, architects, business consultants, doctors and others. They all lived well on charging a lot of money to the hospitals and the hospital execs didn't check because they were all buddies.
Same as Canadian. It took me 7 months to get an endocrinologist appointment. Luckily I was in traveling in Mexico and saw one there. If I had waited for my Canadian appointment, i would have lost all my hair and over 30kgs by that time. (It was a harmone related problem).
The reimbursements for ER doctors are incredibly out of wack with the training and responsibilities compared to similar physicians, and especially with advanced practice nurses/PAs. In some places, it's not uncommon to have ER docs making over $500k while the internal medicine docs that they turn their sickest patients over to will make less than half of that. The non-physician staff performing the same will see less still. Compared to the IM docs, they have the same educational requirements, same residency length, they work at the same hospitals, but the ER docs just rake it in.
Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/ to get a glimpse of the modern US healthcare system (Canada and EU are similar). I don't really know what else to call it than "shitshow".

In an effort to cut costs hospitals severely overwork their doctors and nurses. It's endemic, anyone who knows anything about healthcare understands that people work >12hour shifts where they are always busy and you can see the constant chaos in any ER.

Moreover, despite being overworked and literally caring for people's lives nurses are severely underappreciated. Because people are rude and needy especially when they are sick or their loved one is sick, and a lot of people just don't realize what nurses have to deal with.

Though some nurses really are terrible at their jobs: nurses who are externally apathetic or downright sadistic or dangerously incompetent. But that too leads back to healthcare being mismanaged and underfunded, because proper management and funding is required to find and fire these nurses and or prevent them from being hired.

Also, environments in many healthcare orgs are toxic. Probably because of all the stress that working >12 hour shifts and seeing people severely sick. The drama and absurd rules go beyond anything I've ever heard about in any tech company, things are normalized that in a software job nobody would tolerate.

To say it's "a complex/hard problem" is an understatement. Healthcare is one of the biggest expenses of any country. It really does require tons of resources to diagnose and treat a sick patient: there are only so many surgeons and drug manufacturers and MRI machines, and the same symptoms can be from 1000 different diseases and the same disease can present different symptoms in 1000 patients. In first-world countries we expect to provide quality care to anyone rich or poor, because to deny care is very wrong, but in practice that means we have over 400 million people that need specialized visits and treatment.

But at the least people need to understand, and governments need to stop funding other various things when what we really need is more hospitals and salaries for more healthcare workers. It seems every day I hear about Canada cutting or ignoring healthcare costs or US fighting over funding and whether insurance should be private. As a tech worker I think doctors and nurses should be payed more than tech workers, because what I do is very important, but what they do is moreso because they are literally saving people's health.
is NHTSA the relevant authority here? The "H" stands for "Highway"
We’ve seen that having a profit motive is, to a point, generally good in many areas of commercial life.

Healthcare is not one of these areas.
Yes. It's just like processing any other ceramic
Trains have been getting longer in recent years, increasing the amount of time people have to wait at train crossings. Seems likely that people will respond by taking more chances at beating the train and some percentage will lose their bet that they'll get across in time.
I would like a model where I can pay per article on a website. I am not going to subscribe to Bloomberg because I can’t fit it in my budget, but from time to time I would like the ability to read a single article (either linked from here or from a colleague) and would be willing to pay a small fee.

Wish someone (Apple?) would figure this out
You can still use Snowflake + DBT to track usage. However, this won't cover billing use cases. On top of this, you could need to create invoices, trigger payments, handle coupons, and issue credit notes.
Many customers use warehouses to track usage and send usage-based HTTP events to Lago. This is the first step towards a full consumption-based or hybrid billing model.
Ensure continued revenue and customer satisfaction by covering the entire billing, pricing, and invoicing workflow (not only aggregating usage)
Is the author stuffing the book contents in SQLite on load time or fetching them from a file?
Actually 80 column cards[1] were a pretty routine thing in II+ machines from early 1980 on. Those and the Microsoft Z80 CP/M card were more or less the standard "business computer" until the IBM arrived. These got you full ASCII and lower case support, and ran things like WordStar and VisiCalc as well as anything on the market.

It wasn't until 83 or 84 that the XT/AT "lots of memory and hard drive as standard" configuration drove DOS software (c.f. Wordperfect, Lotus, Turbo Pascal) farther than the IIe could reach. The Apple spent an absolutely shocking amount of time as "the best computer to buy" for a working professional. It really was way ahead of its time.

[1] The Videx Videoterm was most popular, but there were many clones. These were all based on the MC6845 controller with their own framebuffer RAM. In essence they were mostly identical to the IBM MDA card, though without the special character attributes and high-bit graphics characters.
> Airbnb adds fees that goes to airbnb ( vs the host). How does that look in germany, its added to the price host sets. Host sees a different price/night on the listing than what she set ?

Australia makes them put that in the price. It's why using the Australian AirBnB site to find an AirBnB is so much nicer.

> also, Airbnb lets you see cleaning price in the listing, so its not a hidden fee.

They make it hard to compare listings based on total price, though. Which is especially bullshit when a bunch of listings are clearly using the cleaning fee to boost profit, not to cover cleaning.
Because it’s a bunch of bullshit and people are falling for the spin. Previous admin did nothing about the balloons, yet all of a sudden it’s a problem and a failure of the current executive branch that calls for impeachment.

It’s tiresome.
It's a good concern. It does seem like it's sent uncompressed, gzipping gets it down to 360KB. Still hefty, but not _crazy_.
Is it though? There are quite a few people who lack access to the normal healthcare system and use the ER as primary care of last resort because no one is turned away. PAs and NPs would be perfect for those patients.
Not completely related to privacy, but I do know of one state-level initiative to enshrine into law a requirement that the state largely end the requirement of proprietary software usage to interact with the state's various digital interfaces - "prohibiting, with limited exceptions, state agencies from requiring use of proprietary software in interactions with the public" - HB 617-FN in New Hampshire.

It's not a one-and-done solution but it's a big step in the right direction for government, especially for digital privacy.

More info: https://libreboot.org/news/usa-libre-part2.html
>Running a service that might serve an EU citizen quickly escalates to involving lawyers and performing risk analysis in relation to being sued in a court across the ocean.

Running any service where you are not sure of legal requirements might require consulting a lawyer first, how is it unique to GDPR? And in order to be on the radar for GDPR violations as a small business you REALLY need to do something seriously wrong.
Very interesting. Are these classes available to regular folks or do you need to be in army or police to enroll into these kinds of courses?
wow, interesting. Thanks.
The problem with this seems to be the nonexistence of micropayments.

As far as I know, there is no viable solution to pay $0.01.

Which is a pitty, because $0.01 per page would be a CPM of $10 which is crazy high. For most publishers, that would be a big increase in their earnings.
This is, in fact, the topic of the article linked.
"They used to come up and rub my leg hair. The kids loved to rub my legs."
Both liberal and conservative media have our heads in the clouds right now both literally and figuratively.

The lead story has been balloons and aliens since before the derailment.

It doesn’t help that there’s still a war in Ukraine, a earthquake in the Middle East and the Super Bowl just happened.

It’s for these reasons that a “small-town Ohio issue” is further down on the media list of priorities.
Yeah, please disable the custom cursor. IME custom cursors are something that site designers tend to like, and think are pretty cool, and site visitors end up loathing. The cursor is your interface to the UI and as such isn't exactly a *part* of the UI - it's your way of saying "hey I'm here, I can do things," etc. So for a UI to take hold of it and change it is extremely jarring.

(Video games often do change your cursor of course, and part of that is because they're indeed trying to be immersive, and you're here for that experience. But such is not the case on a website.)
well in a while google chrome isn't going to let you do that anymore!
Yes, AI is getting a lot of hype right now. No, this is nothing like blockchain.

For something to be overhyped, it must have a hype level disproportionate to its value. Deep learning is generating a huge amount of real value and is solving real problems. When we were getting Superbowl ads for crypto, the value proposition wasn't there.
Hospitals shouldn't be a profitable business.

Then elide "profitable" since that is the goal of every business.
While I agree with the sentiment, I don't think there is a "true" spirit of HN. His sentiment as much as yours are in its spirit.
Because it can actually generate some interesting and/or useful content, unlike 99% of Blockchain proposals that amount to "a database, but worse" in the best case and "fraud, but obscured by technobabble" in the worst case.
My experience is that customers want features shipped yesterday and the critical bugs affecting them fixed asap. Companies want money to flow in and penalities not to kick in. Refactoring serves neither of these goals so it's rightfully in the middle of the pile with uncritical bugs and is done when there is time.
I must say I'm very intrigued by this idea, honestly not so much for playing against an AI simulacra of an old friend, but for training up AI to play games without the traditional method of "give them cheats to make them harder!"
I feel the same way about “chainsaw juggling for babies” classes at daycare centres. People are so quick to jump to “that’s dangerously” or “ouch you cut off my arm” rather than engaging with the subject and suggesting ways the babies can be better taught to not decapitate their carers.
Aren’t most hospitals in the states non-profit? But all those doctors and administrators want money, so it hardly matters.
Vinyl chloride breaks down quickly into hydrochloric acid in the atmosphere. Including when it is burned (and the low amount phosphene given off when burning).

So immediately following the crash the area was dangerous, but it is already mostly safe again by now.
This already happens when the popular press reports on papers. Can’t be any worse.
When my kids were born everybody warned me that the time would fly, they would be teenagers before I know it.

That’s why I bought a banjo. If these year are going to fly by then I might as well insert 10 years of banjo practice into the blur. I might be bad now, but by the time my kid is 12 I’ll be 10 years in.
A hitjob is a hitjob, but a pogrom is not a pogrom?
1 - Create a Twilio account.

2 - You need to add a phone number and receive a SMS challenge, before setting up any other 2FA method

3 - With the Authy app installed on your phone, the token is instead instantly added to your account upon reception of the SMS. This cannot be disabled. Use a very particular combination of steps in the account settings to convince it to let you use a simple offline TOTP app instead.

4 - Use your recovery code every month and repeat the whole thing because somehow all other 2FA methods break simultaneously for all Twilio accounts set up with that phone number.

The experience was so awful I had to delete the App and the account.
Sounds like a great reason to adopt Nix or the like! Run each tool in a sandbox appropriate to what it's supposed to do, and store the entirety of the inputs and outputs so they can be audited if the need arises.

Nix got there via reproducibility, but it's exactly what's needed to mitigate compilers with surveillance features or other backdoors.
> Ultimately we need more doctors and less hospital administrators.

I guess I tend to agree but you can't just conjure them up. You can set policies to encourage physicians to emigrate to the US and make it easier for students to pay for med school, but in the end only so many people are going to want to become doctors.
The code I've generated with AI is quick-and-dirty, but as it lacks context from request to request it is also riddled with inconsistencies that I need to straighten out.

...so I expect more buggy software in the short-term.
I don't know what you're criticizing here. I was contrasting "mocks" and "fixtures" in the context of unit tests as ways to instrument services depended on by the code under test.

A "mock" in this paradigm is some kind of testing technology that allows you to directly instrument return values for function calls on the dependent service, whereas a "fixture" is some concrete test-only thing you coded up to use in your tests.

If a fixture just acts as a dummy return-value provider, no problem (but you probably should have used a mocking solution). The problem that arises is fixture code that simulates some or all of the production service code, and/or (even worse) allowing modification of production code to allow use as a test fixture. This is the way to madness.
The example of the woman who went three times before seeing a doctor and having a diagnosis made is a little silly - regardless of who sees the patient, it often takes repeat 1-2 repeat blood tests every 48 hours to figure out if the patient’s HCG level is rising enough or falling which is needed to help figure out whats going on [1]. The patient is often told to return to the ED for those return visits because its almost impossible to get seen by an Ob-Gyn in that timescale, and the main concern is to not miss a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy.

[1] https://wikem.org/wiki/Ectopic_pregnancy
At least with the crypto bubble, VCs could easily drop their bags on the general public. Things are going to be interesting when all these GPT wrappers being billed as “AI companies” start to centralize (how many AI copy writers do we really need?). It’s going to be a race to the bottom and the real winners here are going to be GPU sellers.
> the majority of which are anime[1]

I don’t see any anime on that page. Would actually be a plus for me.
Please engage substantively and stop spamming me with the same comment.
Ask HN: AI “white mirror” – what are some inspiring future visions you've seen?
We have black mirror. But no white mirror, yet (Microsoft/OpenAI, this could be a cool thing to do ).

What are some of the best inspiring visions of the future you've seen?

Both distant ones, as well as ones that could be possible within ~1-2 years
Thank you. I have no idea who works on that nowadays, and, being Google, they're probably going to kill the feature.
In a twist of fate, the Chamber of Civil Engineers building is one of the few that withstood the quake.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/10yw2...
Absolutely agreed. The tax rate in the Bay Area (and also NYC) alone makes me blink. Toss in inflated costs for rent (and inflated food, grocery, parking, and everything else because the rent is so high) and it just doesn't make any sense. Not to mention the property tax you'd owe on a 2023 purchase of a 1MM+ "starter home."

But just because it's a bit cheaper in other parts of the country doesn't mean the pricing is good for locals. Most of the world doesn't work in tech, and makes nowhere near tech salaries. We're already starting to see the problems (homelessness is a major one) that stem from prices exceeding what the poorest in society can afford. And when you can't find people to work basic jobs, and people have to find a way to live outside the system, it'll only get worse.
> The “Go maintainers” are accused of doing various things in the first paragraph and are then referred to in the second paragraph as ‘lads’; no salient subset is introduced as a potential discourse referent.

The accusation does not state that each and every Go maintainer is personally doing this. The accusation is targeted at "the Go maintainers" who are (allegedly) doing this.
I don't think there is a way around this.

Companies technologically focused or not have to comply with local regulations on a number of things: privacy, age restrictions, medical, gdpr, hipaa, etc. So you can't "just follow international norms" You have to follow local norms.

In the West we had tech coordinate Covid, election and other information with government.

But now the West is "uncomfortable" with others wanting to set their own narratives because we disagree with them for differing reasons.

One is hard pressed to say one is right and the other is wrong. They are the same coin showing different sides.
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I know plenty of "practicing physicians" that speak highly of midlevels. Comparing tenured doctors to the student-filled shit factory that is "noctor" is either extremely disingenuous or extremely ignorant.
You forgot to include "the people who are responsible for the train derailment and the people who decided to release the chemicals into the atmosphere told us there is nothing to worry about, so you should believe them."
I think we're in uncharted waters to some extent and should have some restraint about predictions.
> Wish someone (Apple?) would figure this out

That would probably be a proprietary solution working only on iOS and Macs with Safari. How that solves the problem for Android devices and Windows/Linux computers, maybe also for Macs with a non Safari browser?
I did a check of my municipality. 80% of the apartment complexes in the area use 3rd-party software of the like in question for their property management. Their capture of the market is likely sufficient to drive prices, which is why at least one company (RealPage) is facing multiple lawsuits alleging price-fixing. As for warehousing, it is a known issue in NYC and likely used in other places.

I wonder what your interest is in handwaving these issues which are well-known and being acted on. You seem knowledgable except where it would tend to hurt your argument that everything is as it should be.

What say you on rent specials?
How does walkability or the lack thereof require datacenters to be near anyone at all?

Light travels 300 kilometers in 1 millisecond; we're talking one millisecond additional latency to be outside of most metro areas, two or three and we're in unpopulated rural areas for sure.
"The fault" isn't some finite and indivisible thing that needs to be assigned to only one group of people. Politicians are at fault for not cracking down on scammers, and the scammer contractors are also at fault for being scammers. One does not diminish the other, stop thinking of fault as zero sum.
Being "ready" is never a requirement. It's about how much money they can raise and what ads they can produce.
I use Readwise for notifications with highlights from books, but they also support newsletters.
Construction scams? More like government approved construction scams. In recent years, the Turkish government issued many exemptions for projects that were built or expanded in violation of the official buidling rules. For a small fine (which yielded the treasury almost three billion euros) they could do whatever they wanted, going against all requirements and obligations for safe building which is nature-disaster resistant.
Talking to AI chat bots is the equivalent of talking to a parrot. I can't wait for the next market crash to wipe these ai and bitcoin companies off the face of the earth. Such a gigantic waste of human effort ( and carbon budget, in the case of bitcoin)
The only person angry and foaming at the mouth appears to be you.

If you're this aggressive based just on what I said then it's worth considering if you also interpret various other very normal things people say in the worst way possible, and the problem is mostly in your own perception. If so: don't be a libertarian, and get help.
I used to get really annoyed with links posted to HN behind paywalls, then I found paywall bypasser browser plugins that made my life less annoying. I would never go back now and like what, actually pay for news? No, I'll just go find another creative workaround or stop reading news here.
Daniel Suarez's latest book takes a look at this.

It is fairly detail heavy mind!

And the main character seems to have the same arguments again and again, but it is a good book all the same.

SPOILER
Along the lines of using moon based resources to develop giant solar satellites to beam power to carbon removal plants to reduce atmospheric CO2.

Ironic that some other crowed were launching sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere which was "inspired" by a Neil Stephenson book.
> Iatrogenics happens when the benefits are clear and the harms are hidden. So “rational” people tend to intervene because it would seem the benefits outweigh the costs.

Also as always you must remember that not every single person will be harmed equally. And in many cases solutions are chosen not because they are best(cheaper/least harmful), but because they harm specific portion of population. Think why swimming pools were filled with concrete and many more.
"Now, it is possible that one of the sites hit the Bypass Paywalls Clean add-on with a DMCA notice, which in turn could have resulted in Mozilla delisting the extension from its store. I'm not entirely sure about this, because if that was the case, wouldn't Mozilla have notified the developer?"

Before you get outraged, please keep in mind that this is all speculation at this point and there's no official response from Mozilla saying they removed it for the reason of it being a paywall bypass.