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It's intriguing that medical care is always the worst kind of service, by far, in every country in the developed world, compared to every other kind of product or service we depend on. Compare it to food, electricity, gasoline, clothing, water, cell service, haircuts, transportation, movies. If you're not in a rural location, you can buy food or a restaurant meal 24-hours a day in less than an hour. There's complex infrastructure and supply chains around food production, but it works, and works fast. But you can't start most medical treatment without waiting days, weeks, or even months. In lots of places you can't even see a family physician or primary care doctor without waiting days.

Why is it? It is because medical care is more "personalized" and less of a commodity? Because it's heavily controlled by government? Is it the liability (medical people can get sued for a lot more than a bad haircut)? Due to much higher expectations of what is acceptable medical care compared to, say, food?

It doesn't seem obvious to me why the economics of medical care should be so different than everything else we use and depend on.
Ask HN: Is Comcast ripping me off and how can I prove it?
I pay $80 per month for Comcast to deliver at least 300mbs per second. While fast.com and speedtest.net show roughly that figure, I can’t even stream a YouTube video without frequent dropouts or pauses lasting up to a minute. YouTube’s Stats for Nerds reveals numbers closer to 10Mbps on a good day. My computers, phones, and tablets are state of the art or one gen old.

Service has declined over the years and I suspect they are severely oversubscribed. Going through phone support is exhausting. Of course I grit my teeth and endure the reboots, etc. even though I’ve always taken those measures before calling.

They talked me into renting their modem instead of my $500 Orbi the last time. I figured he’ll, maybe it was a scam to force me to pay for acceptable service. Whatever, worth the additional $15. Shockingly, no improvement and in fact it got worse.

Are there commonly accepted diagnostic programs that I can use to find and confirm the issues such that they can’t deny it’s them? Or if not them show me the cause? How do I get them to deliver the kind of service they had no trouble with two years ago?
Social media algorithms aren't the unbiased arbiters of demand that we think they are.
? Anybody can figure out alli contains talc, it's listed right there on the document you linked.
Can't you voluntarily choose to not use a phone anywhere? What makes this island special then?
Having not followed the story too closely, it is also unclear to me under what timelines the talc was most likely to be contaminated with asbestos. Always? Up until X date? Just the baby powder form, but not the pills, etc?

This blurb on Wikipedia [0] indicates that asbestos levels might have started being controlled as of 1976.

>...Stringent quality control since 1976, including separating cosmetic- and food-grade talc from "industrial"-grade talc, has largely eliminated this issue, but it remains a potential hazard requiring mitigation in the mining and processing of talc.[39] A 2010 US FDA survey failed to find asbestos in a variety of talc-containing products.[40] A 2018 Reuters investigation asserted that pharmaceuticals company Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that there was asbestos in its baby powder,[41] and in 2020 the company stopped selling its baby powder in the US and Canada.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talc#Association_with_asbest...
facsimile refers to communication by fax machine, an ancient method of written communication over telephone lines that was popular pre-email, and is still popular in remaining pre-email societies such as federal government departments and japan.

> begrudgingly generated by the use of software

read the top of https://computer.rip/
Death is extremely expensive. Investigations, medical care, funeral costs, unpaid debts, psychological care for loved ones, children who are left without parents, etc. etc.

Sure, I could have chosen a different example, but my example was still good because motorcyclists not wearing helmets costs society $1.5B every year[1]. And either way, you understood my point.

1. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
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You're agreeing with the comment you're replying to. The parent comment is saying the "playbook" doesn't say to give a date, and they've given one so absurdly soon that it's impossible to hit. The "get signups for a fake product" is out of the playbook, promising it 4 months from now when it doesn't exist at all is not out of the playbook.
I feel like I should be the kind of person who prefers eMacs over vi(m), because I've always been a hotkey maniac. I'm actually not though at all, and I much prefer the simplicity of vim. I already have way too many hotkeys lingering in my brain, especially since I played the game Age of Empires II.

I don't play many games these days, and I certainly don't use their hotkeys (I play exclusively on consoles these days, lazily).

None of this likely has anything to do with the article. I'm sorry to report that I did not read it. I come here for the commentary, not the article. I am guilty of that.
We are talking in general.

TFA behaves well, but I can understand if some users has learned to simply stop clicking the logo to get to the product page
I think it just means the author does not like software too much and can be reached via fax.
If you're referring to the climate, wasn't there a huge siberian forest fire a few years ago?
What if the helmets were giant (unlike bike helmets, the rider doesn't have to carry the
entire weight or air resistance). Then, instead of filling the helmets with hard styrofoam, we could fill them with something even softer, maybe a compressible gas. People could obviously store them in the vehicle. It might be annoying to wear them all the time, so we could mandate that cars detect when you are about to be in a crash and slam a helmet on your head. Although, come to think of it, it doesn't need to surround your whole head. What if we could make it just appear between your head and anything you were going to hit. Hey, we could even have those things hold the micro helmets. Since they are filled with air, we can use air pressure to deploy them fast, these flexible bags of air.
$3 mn in a decade is only 300,000 / year

Plus they’ll be costs involved that will come from that 300,000 too
> Technically it's a drain on society's safety nets.

The solution to this is to replace safety nets with transfer payments. Don't provide people with healthcare, provide them with money with which they can buy healthcare or insurance. This also stops the subsidy from ratcheting up the cost of the thing, because if you can drive 30 minutes out of your way to save a thousand dollars you do it, but if the government is paying either way then you don't.

And then if people want to buy less safe cars, insurance carriers will charge them higher premiums.

> Also, the other argument goes that "people don't know how to actually get what they want for themselves, and will act against their own true self-interests".

This is nothing more than paternalism and has proved wrong time and again. It turns out that on average people understand their own situation better than far away generalist policymakers, even before you add in lobbyist influence.

Which isn't to say that an individual will never make a mistake. But legislators make mistakes at scale. Whereas if you want to get individuals to change their behavior in a way that genuinely benefits them, all you have to do is tell them about it, not punish them if they hear you out and still want to do something else.
I’ve personally experienced insurers having different “levels” of plans, and some employers pay for a higher level of cover than others. Once, I switched employers, my new employer perchance used the same health insurer as my old employer-but at a lower level of coverage.
It allows j&j to only offer what they are willing to lose?

It would different if the court themselves attempted to limit liabilities. If I could limit the cost of my liabilities, you could sure that I’d discount them to the detriment of those that owned the liabilities.
Do they differentiate men/women? Another, is the insurance company same for both?
Definitely an improvement.
Got it, thanks. Certainly a very interesting and active space. I was playing around with FLARE (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06983) for RAG this week, and LMQL (mentioned by another poster) seems to use a similar technique.
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Yeah maybe different down there. Probably depends on the office space too. I'm in Seattle for whatever that's worth.
> While the discharge capacity of SSAB-PDBM reduced to 44% after 30 cycles, by increasing the proton-conductive polymer content of the negative electrode, the researchers could significantly improve it to 78%.

That's still a 22% drop in capacity after only 30 charge cycles; this system has a long way to go before becoming a practical battery.
Hi Dang, how about an archive mirror link next to flag for links older than, say, 30d? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21766547
Huh, I wouldn't classify any of those propulsion trains as pump-jets (and I never heard them called that aboard said vessels ;-P), but wikipedia seems to agree with you.

They're ducted propulsors, a direct evolution of the classic submarine prop that integrates a pressure-increasing shroud and stator vane assembly. A "pump jet" classically involves some sort of centrifugal pump element or at least a vectoring mechanism.

You typically wouldn't call a ducted fan (ex, on the X-22 [1]) a jet, but I guess in the water we do.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-22
This comment is just so ignorant of actual public health that it doesn't feel worthwhile to respond to.

When people die young, they don't pay back the enormous amounts of money that was spent on raising and educating them.

Smoking is an absolutely perfect example of something that costs society absolutely staggering amounts of money. Do you know how much it costs to treat someone who gets cancer from smoking? Or to treat someone with diabetes who was obese? Or to send someone to rehab for drug use?

Any one of these things can easily cost society (government, insurance company, family, the individual themselves) millions of dollars. And the majority of the cost is almost never borne by the individual. If you give yourself cancer and have health insurance, all the other people with health insurance pay for your treatment.

> just that it shows how dumb the thinly veiled telling people how to live in the name of their burden on the healthcare system argument is

Instead of saying it's dumb, how about you actually explain it or provide examples? There is nothing anywhere that will tell you that letting people smoke would save society money. That's so unbelievably backwards that I can't believe I even read it.
Productivity is absolutely a nonlinear with compile time. I work in Go, so compiling doesn’t take long enough to cause me to async away. Big switch from C++ a couple jobs back where iteration time was measured in minutes.
I set up a game boy camera -> super game boy 2 -> snes -> snes hdmi adapter -> hdmi to usb input for that extra retro vibe in video conferencing in glorious 128x112 4-level grayscale.
Oh wow, it supports the NIOS2. I remember my first real "engineering" internship basically involved bringing up a pseudo-OS for this thing, it was super new at the time, and the software - at least with whatever license my employer had at the time - was extremely limited. Essentially no OS, no memory protection, no threading (mostly needed for event dispatch on the platform I was working on) - I think other "softcore" CPUs existed at the time that had linux options but presumably I was being given fairly "they're an intern" tasks so I'm not sure how much they really care. Certainly the bulk of their interns were EE and I was the only one who could actually write software at the time, but on the other hand that meant I didn't know EE :D
No I mean, I agree that it's an issue and I think I know why it happens: usually when the user says "I think that's wrong" you are in a case where in finetuning, they wanted the LLM to agree with the user and correct itself. I mean, I don't know their RLHF logs but from what I know of how it works, I doubt the LLM has ever been encouraged to doubt the user.
I recently had a stressfully large quantity of small tasks to do on a deadline. First, making a list eased the stress -- I had a place to collect tasks as I thought of them, rather than trying to keep them all straight in my head. Second, having a list provides a reward structure: if you get a thing done, you get to tick a box. And then the list is shorter. Some tasks ended up being more complicated -- break it down! I'd make a new subtask, and tick the box.

Todo lists are also highly recommended for people with ADHD for unstimulating, repetitive tasks. Chore sheets, for example, are how my house stays marginally clean. Chores are broken into daily, weekly, and monthly tasks. Again, the best reward is tick the box. The irony here is that I've lived my whole life with ADHD, and it wasn't until my kid struggled with his own ADHD that I learned this incredible hack from his counselor.

Lists are stressors. Unwritten lists are way bigger stressors. When you tick the box the relief is palpable. That said, I don't use apps for this purpose. Pen and paper, a whiteboard, or a laminated printout is best. Because the last thing I need when I'm aiming to finish unstimulating tasks is to interact with a smartphone.
I'd never heard of LMQL before today, but it looks very nice. Do you have any experience building with it and, if so, would you be willing to comment on what it's like?
Alcohol is poison no matter which side you come down on in this discussion. Very occasional use is OK (for you, but not for me) and not likely to cause you harm. Just like getting high once a year is probably not going to kill you or cause you any type of irreparable damage.

But I'd be hard pressed to be convinced that drinking in any form, at any given frequency- is going to be good or beneficial for the majority of people anyways. If what's in wine is so healthy for you, why isn't it in pill form? Why haven't we found how to extract those sought-after polyphenols, flavonoids, et. al. sans alcohol and served that up yet? Oh, right- we need to support the alcohol industry.

I'm a teetotaler, and former recovering alcoholic from a family with a history of alcoholism. So there's probably my bias. I also don't believe we should be consuming as much coffee, or rather caffeine, as we are as that is probably a leading contributor to increasing anxiety and depression.

I realize I am unlikely to be very unpopular here. But I don't care. The alcohol and caffeine industries are propped up by those who are addicted - 80% are funded by the 20%; people who handwave this away are forgetting the harm it's causing some and ignoring the damage these individuals go through because they are so normalized in our lives these day. And yes, you can add chocolate to that list (having some caffeine to a small extent).

There are huge lobbying and advertising mechanisms in place to ensure it keeps going. I.e., Coca Cola depends on caffeine being present in their drinks. Just take a gander at the top 5 food&beverage companies in the world.

Top Food & Beverage Co. in the world (2022)

#1 - Nestle (caffeinated drinks, chocolates, addicting food)

#2 - PepsiCo (caffeinated drinks)

#3 - Anheuser-Busch (alcoholic drinks)

#4 - Coca-Cola (caffeinated drinks)

#5 - Mondelez international (chocolates, caffeinated drinks)
> why does anyone besides my family really care if I wear a seatbelt or not?

I care for a basic and selfish reason beyond the "human missile" one: if I'm in a car crash with you and there's only one bed available in the ER, I don't want your lack of a seatbelt to be the source of a hard choice by the doctors operating on us.
I just assume they all are. Then, when someone gives me an actually thought-out reason for why they did something and it seems plausibly pre-hoc (so to speak), I can be legitimately surprised and delighted. But in all honesty, I’m talking about early-to-mid teenagers, for whom most random outbursts are just that, random. Which is not, as it turns out, that big a deal. Adults get huffy because they take it personally. Dudes and dudettes, they’re teenagers. Chill.
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He didn't take credit for making the wire, so no.
It's not new. Teetotaling has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years.

The first time it's been written down as a practice was in 1832.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teetotalism

Btw, "Globally, almost half of adults do not drink alcohol (excluding those who used to drink but have stopped)."

It's not that weird. But western societies have made it seem like having the 'occasional' drink 3 times a week a 'normal' thing.
I think the real use-case for these is for use on a large campus: University, Corporate, or otherwise. We have a half-dozen at work for getting between buildings, and the key advantage is that you can park almost anywhere for a short time without blocking traffic. We also have rideshare bikes, and sidewalks, but sometime you need to get a heavy box to the factory quickly, and these are perfect.
CSS is designed to be very fast, and because of that design choice it's less expressive. XPath is not going to beat CSS in speed, but it allows you to move through the document in any direction (up and down in the DOM tree of elements, forward/back among siblings in the DOM tree, and forward and backward in document appearance order).

We use XPath at work from CSS with custom plugins, and use XPath in JavaScript for targeting elements that otherwise wouldn't be straightforward to select with CSS.

Another cool thing XPath does is have awareness of the text content of elements! //li[contains(.,"example")] would target all <li> elements with text content containing "example".
The neat thing about emacs is that you can make it behave like vim but with easier/more customizability.
Sometimes calling sales can get you a better price or benefit to make you close the deal and buy the product straight away.

If you have done your research beforehand, it’s a good way to get a discount.
> Compare it to food, electricity, gasoline, clothing, water, cell service, haircuts, transportation, movies

Compared to other essential professions, doctors need 8 years of schooling and another 4 years for apprenticeship. As for nurses, they are both abused and underpaid. Maybe AI and subsidizing medical schooling can help? Raising the retirement age should also help. A large portion of the population does not pay into the healthcare system.
I still remember 0x90 because I still use it all the time!
Audio: https://youtu.be/AIhy0T7Q48Y
As mentioned in the comments.

As explained that apparently all pictures of PKD are under copyright.
Two things:

1. We need a federal anti-SLAPP law.

2. Discovery is a bitch, J&J.
Are we currently doing all we can to prevent collapse? It seems like they vaguely try to stop pollution and WW3, but what about the Carrington event? And why does it seem like individuals are far more interesting in preparing for collapse than preventing it?

It really feels like people would rather live in 1800 than continue with industrial society, even if the environmental toll and body count was far higher than what future tech could achieve.
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GraphQL is orthogonal to REST. GraphQL is a query interface, nothing more. Now, if you (incorrectly) conflate HTTP and REST, I can see how you'd make this mistake given the limits on URL length, but even then there's absolutely nothing preventing a GraphQL query being serialised as a URL.
Ok, that took a turn I wasn't expecting.

So no overweight people. Hmm. I'm not sure what the cut-off for overweight is...

I guess, if we're going to police lifestyles from a health point of view, we should exclude smokers, vapers and drinkers from the list as well? Apparently no amount if alcohol is good for you...so....?

While we're at it what about red meat consumption? Thats not great in excess.

Oh, and motor-bikes. There's no good reason for those, and they're like accident magnets.

I guess what I'm saying is that once you start down the path of determining non-qualifying behaviors, it's hard to stop. Surely all of us would be disqualified sooner or later.
Ahh, I've been meaning to try FLARE—was it a marked improvement over traditional RAG?
A true IDE layer for neovim.

The best part is that the developer(Folke) is very active with development and basically helping with all sorts of problems- the other day, I opened a pull request and it was resolved within hours..

Thank you Folke for the amazing work around neovim not limited to lazyvim.
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While probably not ideal for a phone or car, it could still have its uses. So long as it stabilizes at that 70%+ region, that is not potentially a deal-braker for grid installations. Which is an optimization of installation cost, maintenance, longevity, operating temperature/pressure requirements, charge/discharge rates, etc.
Stick with what you like, if it works for you then that's what's most important. Personally I switched from neovim to emacs, but I don't care for the 'emacs style' of keybindings. Instead I use evil-mode and set my own bindings with hydra for everything else. Tbh main reason I switched was elisp envy; there's not really a whole lot that you can do with one but not the other.
Try hosting a DIY speed test on a cloud server (like Google colab or the free oracle instances or whatever):

https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest

Also try a YouTube download with youtube-dl

Yeah, fast.com (which is Netflix) and speedtest.net are unfortunately not useful tests.
Unelected bureaucracies absolutely dilute the efficiency of democracy, some times grinding it to an absolute halt. If this weren’t true then you’d never see disputes between bureaucrats and elected executives, but you do see that, all over the world. Some commonwealth countries have it even worse, where certain government institutions are accountable only to the king, rather than any elected executive authority.
How is the business getting off easy in this scenario. It's dissolving. What else can we do to it?
You can do this by right-clicking the currently playing song title in the footer and copying the link. Dang, I wish this was more discoverable.
To say they went to High School together is a huge stretch, that they were at the same High school at the same time might be clearer.
I had used Rebol for writing small programs a while ago, and it was fun. The Rebol software was also very light, at under 1 MB, IIRC, for both the Windows and Linux versions.
In addition to providing VGA and DVI output, this optionally adds a blitter and hardware multiplier and divider to the c64.
Until you get that radar sweep that cuts off your wifi for 30s.
I had a similar issue and switched my provider. Are there any alternatives for you?
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You're kind of making their point for them.

It's dumb to mandate helmets or any other specific technology because it removes the possibility for something better or for context-based decisionmaking.

Suppose you ride your motorcycle into the desert and then lose your helmet into a canyon. Your phone is dead. Your choices are a thirty hour walk out of the desert which might cause you to die of dehydration, or riding your motorcycle without a helmet. Should you get a ticket for making the obvious choice?
I hadn't heard of LMQL before - have you tried building with it and, if so, would you be willing to share your experience?
You can usually find them lightly used on eBay or Craigslist (or country equivalent). Then just flash it with DD-wrt or openwrt.