skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think problems in US healthcare were just something other people have to deal with, and that along with my (low) six figure salary I would get access to world-class care. A few things changed my view on this. The US healthcare system has problems that money can’t fix.

I went to grad school and had to pay $6k out of pocket with no income for a horrible insurance plan. There are no better options on the open market. The system has not found a low cost solution.

I had a kidney stone and associated infection. Short of just going to the emergency finding care is a nightmare. My insurance website (Anthem) is consistently incorrect and out of date. Doctors all have their own websites and preferred means of contact. Of course everyone points fingers but when you’re in extreme pain you don’t care why the system doesn’t work, what matters is the system doesn’t work.

It’s often impossible to get in contact with a person. This is true for insurance of course but also increasingly true with doctors. The system has decided that robots are best for talking with sick people.

Information is not standardized. The best record of my vaccination record is in CVS because I’ve moved around the US a few times and it doesn’t follow me. As for my other medical records, who knows. Of course covid vaccines were stored on a pathetic paper card which could easily be destroyed by…anything.

Referrals take forever. My doctor said she would mail me a referral in a couple weeks. A couple weeks! By mail!

I was only able to transfer medical information out by fax machine because it’s “more secure”. No one has fax machines anymore. Of course I had to use a shady virtual fax machine app to get the information I needed.

It doesn’t surprise me that Americans have such poor health. The system is designed to extract money, not provide healthcare. A good system would provide care at cost, but a public company physically cannot do this.
1: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FzEiw...

2: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06/submarine-missing-nea...
The law does not require CCS, only interoperability. From https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/28/2023-03...

> Interoperability of EV charging infrastructure. The requirements relating to interoperability similarly address less visible standardization along the national EV charging network. The FHWA is working to establish a seamless national network of EV charging infrastructure that can communicate and operate on the same software platforms from one State to another. The FHWA establishes interoperability requirements through this final rule for charger-to-EV communication, charger-to-charger network communication, and charging network-to-charging network communication to ensure that chargers are capable of the communication necessary to perform smart charge management and Plug and Charge.
> So now, once again, the USA adopts a "standard" shunned by the rest of the world.

Maybe I could have the wrong read, but this sentence structure:

> the USA… shunned by the rest of the world.

Does two things: it implies there's a standard "the rest of the world" has agreed on (there isn't, and there never is, it's one of the things that makes the world big) and it signals you as probably one of the two types of people which might be unintentional on your part, but still:

1. A European complaining about America.

2. An American complaining that we're not doing things the European way.

There are other possibilities, but those are the two most probable reads.

As far as charging standards go, we haven't settled on a standard because there's only one charging network worth a damn in the country, and until Tesla started making agreements with other automakers to sign them on, it was exclusively for use by their customers which isn't great if you're Ford or GM or another startup EV manufacturer and trying to get people to buy your electric cars instead. Right now it looks like (in my opinion, this is not settled) we'll probably settle on NACS, but as opposed to what? CCS? 1 or 2? CHAdeMO/ChaoJi? Is there a technical issue you have with NACS specifically or is it just that it's not a de jure standard somewhere else?
time will show if old mods and 3p apps are that critical, since both are removed now.
No, I don't read BS books. Have you read Mein Kampf, Das Kapital, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
There’s something strange about hanging on to books that will never be read; another example of the human proclivity for hoarding.
Right but if that's all it can be used for, it will eventually settle into a value below its equivalent dollar amount. That is, the amount of bitcoin you'll get for $100 will buy some fraction of the meth that $100 will buy. It will probably be close to 1:1 but that discount rate will be the only actually important question. The limited utility will function as a capital control, so it will be like Bahamian dollars.
There are many cars on the global market with two AC charging sockets but last time I checked, there are none with two DC charging sockets. Multiple DC charging sockets would be a severe safety risk without a beefy isolating mechanism, which adds weight and a non-trivial point of failure.
It's not different. "OceanGate intends to make underwater exploration cheaper and accessible to private citizens", says Wikipedia. And the people on it look, aside from their wealth, like members of the general public to me. They have no particular knowledge or skill, so I don't think they have an expert's ability to evaluate the risks.
So, I hope they show up but a couple of folks I used to know in the tech community in Columbus would travel down to Marion State Penitentiary every month or so to teach programming to the inmates there. One guy they taught even got a job right out of prison, writing code as an intern. I’m certain he’s a senior or staff engineer now. Kenny, if you’re reading this speak up because folks need to hear your story and now is the time. Guy, and Will(?) too.

Anyway, I’m pretty sure like all these Java books was because of Will(?) trying to bring them in for this program.

They had to do some insane thing like photocopy individual pages or something to get around regulations. Apparently it is next to impossible to bring in any educational materials that can help inmates when they get out.

Need more developers? Train some inmates.
Possibly, how does that relate to my comment?
Seems like a wild jump from “giant company” to “Fortune 10”
I'd like a way to do this for bash functions which I use quite extensively.
Hopefully it will have a better quality of offerings then the current Plugin Store.
Unrelated question. Anyone know if it would be difficult to write a SwiftUI “compiler” to non-Mac architectures, including wasm? (I’m not a ui developer). I mean, I realize it is probably non-trivial, like most cross-platform ui, but I have been imagining that Apple would do this since they released it, so that their webapps could be written in SwiftUI instead of whatever they are doing now…
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36412619
That doesn’t make them stupid, per se, merely ignorant.
I don't know what is up with companies wanting to ban the dislike emotion. Spotify used to have a dislike button for that one awful song your favourite musician produced. No longer, I have to skip the same song over and over.
There are 13,458 florida keys homes sold recently according to Zillow. The prices for the homes are almost at record highs. The homes bought from the "Voluntary Home Buyout Program" were for homes impacted by Hurricane Irma not by rising sea levels.
A pen plotter might be the most well-trod path to go. I regularly come across home made ones.
Just wanted to confirm those first three points. I keep a 25' converted bus in California for when we fly to the US for holidays. I really dislike holding people up, so will turn out whenever possible, but...

There isn't always advance signage, so you often see them at the last second and don't have time to check the quality of the approach, check if the person behind you has enough warning, etc.

They're always far poorer quality than the road itself, so you're aggressively decelerating a heavy vehicle in usually mountainous conditions, approaching a 4"+ drop into ragged pavement or gravel. I've hit some of those spots at speed and it's felt like the vehicle was going to fall apart.

And yes, often you're going slowly because you've just let a few cars past and reentered the road, just for another person to drive up behind you and start the whole game again.

It's very very rare to find signed turnouts that are good and long enough that it's trivial to pull off the road at a reasonable speed, let people through, and then continue on without just creating more problems.

I remember turnouts in NW Idaho or closer to Spokane maybe where the signage suggested you were meant to use the shoulders to let cars pass, but they were really narrow and I wasn't sure how exactly they were meant to be used? Anyone familiar with that area? If it's not wide enough to get fully out of the lane, wouldn't the passing car just overtake using the opposite lane anyway?
I didn’t say I wasn’t one of ‘em …
My impression is that the hassle and pain of doing this is often why languishing projects are deprecated. I can't tell you how many times I've read TotT issues or seen threads on eng-misc or elsewhere that would either talking about some new test system and how it handles crufty codebases, or how one should check for dependencies, or what might happen with some internal app that lost its sponsor/maintainer because they either transferred teams or left the company. For a while, even somewhat important things like Dory were un-maintained (after Moh Musa left Google), and lots of times it's happened that reorgs caused deprecations.

Seeing how those sorts of things play out in actuality, it doesn't surprise me that unpopular or unprofitable products are killed rather than kept on life support. Lots of times, the people who would have to fight for them don't have the political will (or maybe even complete history of the product) to commit to staff allocation to keep them alive in the face of the alternative: chasing the next 10x dream.
So corporations doing whatever they want with no oversight regardless of the consequences is just fine and dandy? Obviously there's a middle ground between 'nanny state' and 'corporate anarchy' - reality is not so black and white and imagining it to be so is a naive sentiment.
could you give a link?
That won't work with rain or likely dirt or dust either. They do have a B1 which is shown forging water but it's $100k.

EDIT: page says that's not the real price, but https://www.ground.ghostysky.com/en/product/unitree-b1/ claims 70k€ so who knows.
chefs kiss
I don't know, as a non-American, Tomah Wisconsin sound exactly like the kind of place you could get a nice grilled cheese or a decent hamburger at a diner unchanged since the 1950s, with a bottomless cup of coffee and a nice slice of apple pie from a friendly middle aged waitress called Flo or similar who would no doubt call you hon. I'd look forward to stopping there.
Awesome! This came to my attention when I saw a tweet from this bot which indicated the FedCM had an intent to prototype the FedCM AuthZ API.

The tl;dr is that the FedCM working group and the browser vendors are slowly working towards first-class APIs and UX for OAuth and authentication, so that federation will work when third party cookies are phased out.

Lots more details here:

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/qqrG6...

Anyway, the point is, if you are interested in an evolving web API for your product, you should pay attention to what is happening among the big four: Chrome/Chromium, Edge, Safari, Firefox.
No you don't. OpenAI didn't ask for permission when it took everyone's work to create gpt.

Pirate all LLMs. They're all yours anyway.
> Does the central place that Turing machines and the idea of a linear tape retain in CS reflect some deep mathematical truth

No, not at all.

> or is it a cultural preference based on Turing's key historical role?

A little bit, but the main reason is just that Turing machines are a convenient language for introducing complexity theory, which is usually the first and often the only area of CS theory encountered by undergrads. Other areas are fit for other tools. Computability theory typically works with mu-recursive functions, programming language theory with lambda calculi, computer architecture with various sorts of register machines - Turing machines have a central place in CS but not the central place, by any means.
I've been wondering about this since I wrote my first assembly library. It seems like a great explanation, and the design of the website is really pleasing as well.
This answers a question that's been bugging me: Why TF can I not find a Calendar app on the Play Store that does not depend on Google Calendar? I used to have one 5 years ago that was completely separate, but now I'm apparently not allowed to have a calendar app that does not send all my calendar info to Google.

So now I have this very nice Android phone that does not have a Calendar app because Google won't allow such a thing to exist unless they get to see my appointments. Guess I'll have to write some kind of web app calendar thing if I want a freaking calendar on my phone.
Why not pay the users instead of the mods?

If there's a market for paying users directly for content, and also as a way to not need mods, someday this market will bubble up.
My long journey experience (perhaps not fully typical) was at odds with both of your "realizations".

* I spent most of a year on the road, circled the U.S., about 18k miles in all (and averaging almost 17mpg). Sure, it's a lot of miles, but some people do that commuting. The experience was in no way "just driving and sleeping" in fact the driving part was not particularly unpleasant (amazing views, music, books on tape, conversation, photo stops) but was a very minor part of the overall experience.

* With a compact (25') class C, I had a comfortable queen sized bed, 2 TVs couch, heat, A/C, 2 sinks, stove, microwave, fridge, flush toilet, closet, large dinette (seats 6), and a great hot shower every morning. A slide out made it very roomy when parked. A huge awning made for comfortable outdoor living on sunny days. I've done the station wagon thing, and it can be great for a while - but for a year on the road? NFW.
How would you propose regulators determine if a person is skilled or knowledgeable enough to evaluate the risks?
It's entirely legal to design and build your own boat and put it in the water pretty much anywhere in the world.

If you want to carry paying passengers then things are different, but that's why they were officially crew.

(Crew members who are paying to be there has a very long history. One of the last lines operating sailing ships, in the 1920s and 30s, made money from merchant marine cadets whose countries still required them to have a certain amount of experience as crew of a sailing vessel to get their ticket.)
I think of bitcoin as THE null commodity.

No intrinsic use. No mass. No degradation. Transports at the speed of light. Perfectly scarce and not debaseable.

All other commodities exist at various vectors outside of this null point. They have various usefulness in and of themselves. They have mass and volume. They degrade at different rates. They take a lot of time and energy to transport. They aren't perfectly scarce and some are absurdly abundant.

Humans have overloaded various commodities throughout history with the memetic concept of "moneyness". Mostly gold and other precious metals because they have properties close to the null point that we find most important (primarily scarcity and close to zero degradation). We hoard these non null commodities because we came to collective consensus to imbue them as the database of our debt to each other, otherwise known as money. However, this had the negative effect of tying up otherwise useful commodities that we might have been able to put to productive work. This money also had the negative effect of being difficult to transport, store securely, and fractionalize.

Then came government backed, faith based currency. It's a near null point commodity and we really like that when choosing something to imbue our collective moneyness concept in. No intrinsic use. Low mass (paper) to no mass (digital). Limited degradation (paper with replacement service) to no degradation (digital). Easy transport (paper with high denominations) to light speed transport (digital). However, it's scarcity is highly questionable. To quote Satoshi, "The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust."

Bitcoin is the null commodity because it solved the final piece of the puzzle that we tried to solve with fiat currencies. Eliminating trust in central authorities and perfect scarcity.
A personal library is meant as a research tool. The point is to have books around you haven’t read.
That wasn’t actually true on the boards I’ve tried, MangoPi MQ-Pro being the most recent. Look here for more details: https://linux-sunxi.org/Allwinner_Nezha
Maybe if it had a “standard” U-Boot flashed onto a SPI chip you could standardize the process, but then you can do the same with ARM (this is what TowBoot does), so RISC-V is not a benefit in this instance.
Yep. Any rescue attempt here will endanger others at great cost.
Nothing wrong with using a logitech gamepad for a submarine. What can be problematic is if they only packed one :(
I did not in fact say that. I'm addressing the broader false claim that the ocean is some sort of essentially unregulateable space. Indeed, I think the final paragraph makes clear that I think it's possible that no agency currently has unambiguous authority, but that won't stop people from creating one if enough people die like this.

I also suspect that people with broad authority may investigate this and consider/recommend prosecutions if appropriate. E.g., the Washington State Attorney General, the US Coast Guard, and the Canadian Coast Guard.
I totally think it matters, philosophically. Clearly there's a moral difference between risking your own life and profiting off risking other people's lives.
A Strange Thought: New StackOverflow?
Introducing a novel forum concept that leverages the power of a large model to generate all questions. Users can upvote answers they find helpful and also participate in correcting and generating new answers. The revised data will be incorporated into the large model to improve the quality of future answers. To ensure effective management, a point system can be implemented where users earn points for asking questions, voting, correcting answers, and receiving high ratings for their contributions.
I don't even think at those levels the government should bother. It is not we are selling a car for thousands of people that we know it occasionally leaks fuel in the engine bay.

People who pay for that kind of trip know the dangers and have money enough to do their own due diligence.
The next step change for ML will be some kind of broad model (like the the LLM equivalent of JEPA) outlining the answer from a “big picture view” and then using an ensemble of small, precise models like this one filling in the details.
I think this is one of the reasons motorcycle camping is seeing such a huge increase. Those that liked to camp moved to overlanding. Then that filled up. So now they are moving to adventure bike camping.
That would just re-price Bitcoin. The price could crash, a lot, but that won't necessarily reduce adoption. I know I've got a lot of $0.01 limit orders that'll have me hoovering up Bitcoin if it ever reaches that price.
It's a poorly written article that's almost completely useless for people actually interested in this type of problem. The Beta distribution models the uncertainty of a seller's positive ratio given their total count of positive reviews (a) and negative reviews (b).
I had to drive a windy, steep road near Santa Cruz last year (probably the 17 from San Jose down towards Scotts Valley) and local friends couldn't decide whether I should drive that road later that night (they said chance of drink drivers was fairly high) or in the morning after heavy rain (they said accidents were all but guaranteed). I went in the morning and there were indeed multiple accidents.

I can't think of a road or situation here in South Australia where anyone would need to be worried about either of those things to that heightened level. Yeah, take it easier when wet or foggy, or when tired, and drunk drivers exist, but not to the point of seriously warning people on a particular route.
We need source it is being removed.
Preaching to individuals is not at all effective, and some would say it's actually a distraction, as large scale companies and wealthy individuals are the chief offenders in climate pollution.

The measures necessary are to first stop congress from trading on companies while they hold official seats. It facilitates loopholes and lax enforcement of environmental crimes. Then companies need to all pay their fair share of taxes for environmental clean up and regulation, and they also need harsher penalties for mistakes. Then we need to find new ways of changing heavy industry and transportation to more carbon neutral methods... Frankly batteries create other problems, but technically there is no good reason why batteries should not be swappable in vehicles like propane tanks are (albeit with a forklift maybe) to prevent charge downtime and to facilitate routine battery maintenance and proper disposal/recycling.

We need to admit the current state of environmental protection is too geared towards making Elon and existing energy interests rich while still not being truly valid and non-polluting. We need to hold corporations accountable and they need to fund these efforts to truly stop the bleeding. Perhaps they can stop funding sports stadiums and arenas and put that money to better use.
The human brain uses roughly 20 watts, which is really a remarkably low number.

https://psychology.stackexchange.com/a/12386
The new canyon/Colorado's can tow over 7000lbs.
EA is pretty bad. The fact that no one can decide what side the connector should be on also leads to chaos (cars splayed out everywhere around the chargers).
electricity. which you probably got from cheap diesel in a generator on your carrier ship.
Surprised I'm the first to comment on this. Upgrade all the following to premium quality:

* Sheets / mattress
* Towels
* Underwear / socks

The quality is better as the price goes up (then at a certain point you're paying for brand). These are things that you use on your body every day. Buying well made things here are little reminders that you've made it and are taking care of yourself.
Doesn't LineageOS come with such an app? Even if you don't want to use LineageOS, you might be able to just extract that .apk from it and use it on stock Android.
Clearly it's a rhetorical device that may be a bit more heavy handed than one you'd used.
Most of my own use of (unsecured) FTP has been with hacked consoles. Server software is usually written pretty soon after a toolchain works, and is a huge quality of life upgrade. Really don't see that trend stopping.

Anecdotally, pestering a nontechnical buddy of mine to learn how to FTP games onto a ps3 gave him a headstart on a tech support role he got years later.
If it’s trivial then why does every other competitor suck at replicating it? Is it possible this is just a case of sour grapes that this intellectual is annoyed they’re not at the driving wheel of the coolest thing anymore?
The Chinese charging standard (GB/T?) is by far the most popular, if only because the Chinese are adopting EVs very aggressively.
As Tesla moves to replace the 12 volt subsystem with 48 volts, it would seem even more plausible to do V2L by routing outgoing power through the 48 volt system.

The Ford F150 Lightning does V2L through the 9.6kW of on-board inverters. Fairly sure it's not capable of sending that back through J1772 / CCS2 unless I'm mistaken?