skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Netherlands! Well okay, I don't know what it's like elsewhere, but I know it's good here :)

Here's the lowdown:

- If you can't afford it, the government pays for your insurance

- If you can, you pay for it (nearly everyone can)

- Prices are regulated by the government

- You can not be turned away, and can not be charged more than the regulated amount for your insurance, no matter what

That last one is the killer feature. You could have cancer, and the insurance company still has to take you, and for a monthly price not higher than the maximum the government's put in place.

The Netherlands had a free system like the NHS, but once the quality started going downhill, they looked at reality in the face and built a better system. The standard of healthcare here is amazing!

This isn't a popular narrative in the UK, because it shows how there are more choices than just "completely free" or "U.S.A. style dystopia", which is the argument used there to promote the idea that the NHS can work.
The average business uses G Suite or MS Office, and I'm sure that they could find the right setting if their government contract were dependent on it. That's a heck of a lot easier to pull off than migrating >1.4 million military personnel to a new email address.
except it scales to 10s of thousands of sites.

what value are you providing to this conversation other than unwarranted pessimism?
It's a very limited task: take a document and classify it into one of (for example) 10 or so categories. Things like detecting certain words can do pretty well in some cases. Things that compress well have the occurrence of common substrings.
Is that true? It seems to be hurting the households with huge mortgages most directly.
One way to interpret/understand language models is as quite involved compression algorithms.
That's your opinion, sharing a wall but being able to walk or bike easily to everything I need it a huge boost to my quality of life.
> share walls with their neighbors

I honestly don't know why anyone would ever want to do that. To me, it's only done out of necessity, and is a driving force in motivating people to get the hell out of that situation asap.

But the cool thing is, some people can choose that, if that's what they desire, even though I can't understand why.
> along with

I did not name Orlistat, I named the medication alli®. alli® contains talc. You can't obtain alli® without talc, AFAIK. Orlistat does not contain talc, but Orlistat is not alli®.
I have never understood those laws since their introduction. You should go to jail because you could kill someone once in your life? And because of this, I have to pay taxes to famous singers (the "mafia") even if I only store family photos on my phone or on my computer. This makes absolutely no sense to me, and that's why I got my money back by using a VPN to download whatever I want.
Sure, but they're far more rigid and don't take a ton of input beyond specific SCSS-type variables.
I can vaguely remember working on systems in the finance industry that combined vendor XML, various internal XML schemas and transformed these into XSL-FO documents for rendering through multiple passes through XSLT.

If I had to guess the chances of there being some element names clashing without namespaces would have been fairly high.
what about the verification proccess then?? some servers are bullshit wanting to be verified by phone number
Clearly not a lot. It took the comment as a means of letting others know that American style asphalt parking jungles is not the only option. That there are healthier, more aesthetically pleasing, and more environmentally friendly alternatives to our way of life.
A bit click baity at least. And without opening it you have no chance to understand what this is about. I know HN has a policy against editorializing but in this case, a brief summary would have been helpful.
He said it was classified until 1991, but that it had been revealed accidentally multiple times before then. So that checks out.
Ford Cuts Price of F-150 Lightning Electric Truck by Up to $10k
Marking recent / uncommitted additions and deletions to your code, and linter errors / warnings, so you can jump right down to them - is super useful, especially if you just changed one little thing amongst a pack of similar little things. You can jump back and forth between two trouble points in code with a single click, and without having to remember anything.
> Startup game is more like poker . It is very different from chess .

That’s the point of the article. It contrasts the thinking styles of ‘founder-types’ and ‘scientist-types’.

As a (in the terms of the article) ‘scientist-type’ who regularly gets lost in the weeds of the details, I found it a pretty interesting commentary.
> it'd be good to make cities painful to drive in

This is the wrong approach. Don't intentionally make driving worse for anyone, anywhere, ever. If you want people to use transit instead, then improve it until it's a better option than driving is today.
> Yes but you can say this about literally any idea in any field ever.

Great! That's why it's fun to say.

I do find the prospect of scientists using a bit more amusing than the average employee, however, as the public expects them to be holy.
It's funny because this philosophy makes a lot of sense. Nobody has given it a name yet though as far as I know.

The philosophy that mass advertising is a malaise that hurts more than helps. That humans inherently can't be trusted with data. No matter how benevolent the cause may seem, that data is not going to be safely leveraged in the interest of the people that data represents.

Take Cambridge analytica scandal for example. People thought they could trust Facebook with their opinions. It turns out that data was being farmed and sent to a political aggravator who is being paid by the Republican party. Some could say it is one of the things that turned the election of 2016 to Trump. Zuckerberg had no problem with this.

This is the kind of philosophy I'm talking about. Getting rid of this kind of garbage.
Agreed. I regularly have to do a little "disable for site" dance with uBO and Privacy Badger to even get certain websites to load. It's kind of convenient in that it gives me an inflection point where I can choose not to use that website or service at all.
There's something to be said for making this as painful and costly as possible for J&J.
Looks like that intro paragraph is going to need an update =)
> 'website' is going to lose meaning when there are trillions of them, all blandly AI.

how does this differ from letting non-tech savvy people build their website?
Thanks, should be fixed in a minute. That's what I get for writing dates by hand...
I can see the value in operating airports at a loss in truly remote areas. sometimes it's the only way to maintain connectivity to the rest of the world. for example there are communities in alaska that are literally not connected to the contiguous US by road or train.

but otherwise yes? I don't think airports like IAD should run at a loss. they are very expensive to operate and primarily serve commercial airlines. the gate fees and retail rents should absolutely offset that, and if they don't, the airport should be closed.
For example the aircraft is unstable by design and software keeps it responding and making changes N times a second (IIRC 40times/sec or something like that) without which it might crash - so that system would be one you don't want to change frequently.
I can't speak to the quality of this version or what is considered 'out-of-date', but I don't think a translation necessarily needs to be recent to be well done. I recently read the A. T. Murray translation of the Odyssey from 1919 and enjoyed it immensely. I can also heartily recommend the Lattimore translation of the Illiad from 1954, though the more recent Fagles translation is great too.
Detroit, as the capital of the auto industry, has far more parking than just about any other city I've ever been to. There are huge, multi-story garages right on the main thoroughfare downtown.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/parking-lots-eat-american-...

> Detroit was, or is, Motor City. Its center can pull off another automotive-related nickname: Parking Central. Fully one-third of downtown Detroit is dedicated to letting cars do what they’re not designed for: standing still.
We’re starting to see more e-bikes have GPS tracking built into the frame, at least with higher end models. See Canyon, VanMoof before they collapsed, etc

If that becomes more widespread, e-bike theft will be a lot riskier, and hopefully easier for companies to insure.
if it didn't work, they wouldn't use it.

I'm sure it does work but the question is --- does it work *better* than simple, cheaper, more logic driven, context based advertising?

I know for a fact that it doesn't work in a lot of cases. Right now, businesses out there are paying to show me auto-related ads based solely on my personal history --- and it doesn't work because I bought a car 6 months ago.

"Context based" means displaying ads when I actively express an interest in a product --- like when I use a search engine to find info for a particular model or visit a web site dedicated to a particular brand.

Paying for ads based on nothing but personal history is really kinda dumb --- because history can be a poor indicator of current or future interest.
Other reply is great, more in-depth on details from me here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758681

Plain english TL;DR:

- if you limit your task to binning snippets of text

- and the snippets are very well-defined (ex. code vs. Filipino text)

- the snippets _bytes_ could be compared and score well, no text understanding needed

- size delta of a GZIP after adding one more sentence acts as an ersatz way to compare sets of bytes to eachother (ex. you can imagine a GZIP containing 0xFFABCDEF that has 0xFFABCDEF added to it will have a size delta of 0)
They are not bragging about the bot. They are bragging about how great the dictionary is. There’s this subtle difference in the context.
Writing for Others: A guide to more effective communication in the workplace
I have pyright/shell running happily with lsbconfig and haven't noticed any lag. There's a way to profile plugins to see what's killing you I think.
Is at inevitable characteristic of people interested in software to ignore reliable/existing/"boring" tools and reinvent the wheel? I can see the benefit as a learning experience, but a lot of these diy efforts accidentally become popular to the detriment of better tools.
I don't believe for even one second that this process is designed and executed for the legitimate protection of the aggrieved.
Seems like a common pattern. State of the art models being well replaced by a information retrieval layer (top 10 results) fed into a much lighter model that does something with that plus the original input. Cool result!
I typically love things from charm bracelet. They make phenomenally good looking TUIs. For that alone I will try to work with this. However, I do agree that there is a tendency in many of the projects to lean on unnecessary servers by default. For example, to have a local glow experience, you have to edit the config to not send your data (encrypted of course, which is good) to a centralized server.

I'm going to contradict myself here, but soft-serve is also phenomenal, but only works with self hosted git, but not gitlab. This is great (as said before, cloud should not be default) but sometimes you want to connect to a well known standard git server like gitlab.

Anyway, this looks great, despite the existence of aerc, etc. I think it's a welcome addition, but if the additionally API key can be removed, and if it can work with complicated emails like Oath 2 and Microsoft office webmail, it will likely take off.
There's an interesting interview with a designer of SimCity, where he discusses parking:

Geoff Manaugh: While you were making those measurements of different real-world cities, did you discover any surprising patterns or spatial relationships

Librande: Yes, definitely. I think the biggest one was the parking lots. When I started measuring out our local grocery store, which I don’t think of as being that big, I was blown away by how much more space was parking lot rather than actual store. That was kind of a problem, because we were originally just going to model real cities, but we quickly realized there were way too many parking lots in the real world and that our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.

Manaugh: You would be making SimParkingLot, rather than SimCity.

Librande: [laughs] Exactly. So what we do in the game is that we just imagine they are underground. We do have parking lots in the game, and we do try to scale them—so, if you have a little grocery store, we’ll put six or seven parking spots on the side, and, if you have a big convention center or a big pro stadium, they’ll have what seem like really big lots—but they’re nowhere near what a real grocery store or pro stadium would have. We had to do the best we could do and still make the game look attractive.

Source: https://bldgblog.com/2013/05/sim-city-an-interview-with-ston...
If we could condemn a thing due to hype alone, we would condemn all that is good in the world.
Its very expensive to be poor
Affirmative action is racist by literal definition. In the US and most western countries, racism is seen as undesirable. That is why affirmative action should be illegal.
I think we are evaluating on different criteria. Soul of a New Machine is a much better written book.
We arrive August 2nd. What would you recommend for newcomers? We've signed up with the gemeente and our daughters have spots in the Taalschool. Any ideas on how to meet people?
Senate bill targets end-to-end encryption, requires companies to report
How was anyone able to sell dog treats before pervasive digital surveillance? Must not have been possible.
"However, there is nothing mandatory the URL has to do whatsoever"

To be honest I think that just added to the confusion - the idea of using a URI that was just a unique name and not something that actually referred to anything wasn't the easiest thing to appreciate.
You’re surprised the us government has caused an economic recession and capital flight by banning the primary revenue driver of some of our largest tech companies?
I know you saw articles about the inventor dying and his name being 'Goodenough' and you want to make puns, but regular lithium ion has big problems with durability. Lithium iron phosphate, lithium titanate and sodium ion batteries all improve durability but have different downsides as well.
There's been a massive transfer of wealth from bond holders to the British government as interest rates have increased.

The British government is primarily financed by very long term debt [1] which is the most sensitive to interest rates. As the market value of those bonds has collapsed, the government could repurchase them for a fraction of their notional value whilst banks, pension funds and overseas investors have taken a hit.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/767d81c6-726c-4d34-8b24-d9685a60a...
[1*] Key diagram: https://images.app.goo.gl/8oxQ8gw2fbbZWAZS7
Nonsense.

This is only true if you live in an inner city bubble. Cars are pretty popular ways of getting about in the suburbs and rural areas.
I am using typescript with typescript-language-server. I'll give the lazy stuff a try, but I am not sure why this would make the editor more responsive outside of the initial load.
Its was always hilarious to me that you could get communists tee shirts very easily - as long as you where willing to pay for them.

I guess I never really thought that commodification also worked for the values I grew into.
Because resend, a YC company, wants you to use their API so they created this.
NASTY! You’d be right. I too did not get the ‘ad’ notation in my own dig response record.

This mean, any TXT record can easily be spoofed via a simple transparent MitM packet munging.

https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/current.cvd.clamav....
In an XML document using namespaces, all tags and attributes are named with the tuple (namespace, name).

Tags are always in the empty string namespace unless an explicit namespace prefix is given, in which case the tag's namespace in the one corresponding to the prefix.

That's it. That's all there is to namespaces and attributes. The idea is that the namespace would be redundant to the namespace on the tag, because the attribute's meaning is already 100% dependent on what tag it is on anyhow.

The big key to working with namespace documents in general is you have to understand that the names are now tuples (namespace, name), and that the string prefix you may see like "ns1" is an abbreviation, not the namespace. The namespace is the thing declared as the attribute of the xmlns tag. Get that right and most of the rest follows. What almost everything gets wrong is failing to treat names as (namespace, name) correctly, and trying to treat names as a single string like in non-namespaced document, and then writing in whatever misconceptions their particular implementation wrote in to get around the fundamental impossibility of handling a 2-tuple with an internal datastructure that is only a 1-tuple.
The texas two step is not used to skirt liabilities. Its point is to consolidate all the cases in one court to reduce lawyer headaches and ensure each claimant is paid fairly.
For a video example, here's a de Havilland Vampire destroying a runway on takeoff at an airshow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX3_mQZ4gY8
I'd love to see something like oh-my-zsh but for stuff like this, because there are a ton of day-to-day utilities I'd like to use in the terminal, but I don't have time to track them all down and configure them.

For instance, I'd love to see a good to-do list. I've tried a couple but they underwhelmed me.
Working fine here for me on macos, latest FF, uBlock enabled
It's an issue when it takes 10m to walk to the Walmart entrance from the parking lot.

(This is intended as humor)
The subtle brilliance of Indian UI/UX
RxSwift – Reactive Extensions for Swift
this topic is a bit of a rabbit hole. Yes, roads have always been there. Massive car infrastructure and parking has not.

Looking back in time, most people would actually walk for most of their daily life. That reflected in how cities and villages were built. This layout has only changed after we started adopting cars as default mean of transportation (mostly 1930s and later, with some exceptions).
because The Old Way is universally better.
The pain is more to do with debt to income ratio than absolute debt

In general poorer people tend to have more trouble servicing debt
Community college courses?

However, though social, adult friendships are work. Wanting them to be easy makes them much much less likely. Good luck.
Eli Lilly’s experimental Alzheimer’s drug slows progression of the disease,study
May. May not. We don't know so this is a giant waste of time and money.
I don't think that TillE meant "the problem with wikipedia is that wikipedia is an inch deep." I think TillE meant "the problem with training a chatbot grounded with wikipedia is that wikipedia is only an inch deep."
>In this case, filing for bankruptcy created fairness among victims, they did not have to be first or fifth to get the right damages, every victim was treated equal.

It creates fairness among victims by removing their rights to seek higher damages via their own court cases.

This "fairness" is only needed if the total amount of judgements exceeds what J&J can pay. In which case it is J&J which should be declaring bankruptcy, but that would block their ability to keep paying dividends to shareholders.

> The only reason the court quashed it was because it wanted J&J to fight the individual or class action lawsuits

Exactly. The judge saw through skeezy J&J attempt to use a sham bankruptcy to avoid the large payouts that can come from jury trials.

Edit: Seriously, how can any person believe that J&J are doing this to make sure there is money to "fairly" pay all the victims while J&J is still paying some of the money that might be needed to pay victims as dividends to their shareholders. It is pretty darn extremely clear the J&J's primary goal is to reduce payouts and maximize shareholder value
This is part of a series that’s been running in the WSJ for a week now. There are still lead lined cables all over the country, with little awareness of the risks they pose; the first article in the series discussed cables going past playgrounds and daycare centers.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/lead-cables-telecoms-att-toxic-... https://archive.is/MA0wG

“Aerial lead cabling runs alongside more than 100 schools with about 48,000 students in total. More than 1,000 schools and child-care centers sit within half a mile of an underwater lead cable, according to a Journal analysis using data from research firm MCH Strategic Data.”

We took lead out of gas (except general aviation). Everyone who buys or rents an older home or even just buys paint at the hardware store is reminded of lead in paint. Most are aware of lead in pipes, especially where these pipes are present. Yet lead levels in children nationwide are still substantially higher than they should be given the mitigations that have already been done.

These cables are likely a huge portion of what’s left, and almost nobody has heard of them. Even when they’re right in front of your face hanging from a telephone pole.
> If i'm a landlord I'm not going to settle for 3-4% rental yields (common in recent years in the South East and London) when I can earn that on risk-free government bonds in a much more tax advantaged way (there is no cap gains tax on them)

You realize that when the price of the real estate go down, the yield in precent for renting them out will go up? In theory to match "risk free" bonds.
it was more than just a discontent with liberalism, it was also discontent with communism -- an attempt to find a 3rd way / fuse them.

the ruthless capitalist approach led to the development of communism as a reaction. but communism had its own faults and, to many, egregious failures as well.

Mussolini -- who was literally the editor of a socialist newspaper -- grew disillusioned with socialism, and proposed a 3rd way by mixing chunks of capitalism that he liked with the chunks of communism that he liked, as well as a good healthy dose of machismo and nationalism to paper over the gaps.

similar approaches were taken in Germany, and there was a Nationalist (right wing) Workers Party (left wing) called the NSDAP that tried to do the same thing. Instead of pure corporatism they made it ethnic, but had vaguely similar approaches to corporations and the state, which often meant whatever they felt like at the time.
Absolutely this.

I'm reminded of the old Breyers ice cream commercials where they'd have some kid read the chemistry farm that was their competitors' product. Gum this, gum that, etc etc. Sadly the company later decided that if they couldn't beat them they should join in too and adulterated their product just as bad if not worse.

I'm not pretending that anything with a scary name is bad or that all natural things are by default good but ice cream is frozen cream with some flavoring, not all these insane emulsifiers that cheapen the product and taste. It's no wonder people fall out of love with ice cream when it's no longer what it used to be.

It doesn't help that options that provide an actual ice cream product are increasingly treated as an ultra luxury product and start charging double what the adulterated product can go for--but I was willing to pay for real ice cream. Sadly the only option I have these days is a foreign product at those higher rates, because the local supermarket has discontinued selling the other brand which still made natural ice cream in favor for some kind of partnership with Breyers.