skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Urgent care is one of those scams so brazen that they can do it out in the open and get away with it. They bounce almost everything to the ER and essentially charge twice for the same work. Once at the Urgent Care and once at the ER. It's such a fantastic business model and essentially is doubling their profits.

It's not just private equity pulling these shenanigans. Our local Children's chain is a non-profit and they pull some real shady shit.
How does it compare to "similar" economies in the continent, like France?
I've posted here before about my dad in the cabinet field. He got a raise to $20 an hour in 1991. He worked a lot of overtime too, so by the end of the year I'm sure that was over $50k. In 1991.
Law firms do this already. On site doctors too = no reason to ever leave!
Many companies in the bay area pay 25% more than prevailing- it's called "the bay area tax".
That’s amazing. I could see that actually working as a name since everyone will get the joke yet it’s dissimilar.
When considering getting a Moissanite ring, I spent a significant amount of time researching the differences between diamonds and Moissanite, but I couldn’t explain or recognize the difference between doubly-refractive and singly refractive gems. We’ve even had jewelers who have looked at my wife’s ring and thought it was diamond. Admittedly that was a casual look and not a thorough appraisal, nevertheless, I doubt even a tiny percentage of the population could spot the difference.
> Remote update mechanisms can themselves present security problems in some domains.

I've proposed many times that the device have a physical write-enable switch on it, not a software switch. That way, a malware infestation won't survive a reboot, and your backup hard drives won't get compromised.

I'm amazed that nobody does this. (Hard drives used to have a write-enable switch on them.)
Flipped it with the layer key so it is on the left instead of right. I often hold down the super key with a right-handed mouse operation to move and resize floating windows.
To the extent that the government regulates/controls commerce, you will have corruption and cronyism. Restore freedom and remove the government from commerce, and cronyism goes away. I'm guessing the UK government is HIGHLY involved in all aspects of commerce.
In France, money is dirtier than sex
That seems supremely othering. Do you have people in your life that you value over humans you don't know? What are the people you know, over the people that you don't, other than them being a meat bag that you know stories about, vs a meat bag that you don't?
Yeah I find it strange that the EU technocrats believed and still do believe that Brexit was a UK problem. It was a wholesale failure of the EU project, even just at the level of truly convincing people that it was worthwhile and good for them, when there was a (slight) majority in the UK who didn't believe that when the choice was put to them. Those that run the EU seem to be blinkered to the idea that other people might not agree with their full-speed-ahead mission of federalism. They were openly laughing at Nigel Farage (not a fan of him but...) in the EU parliament, like laughing out loud to his face in public, when he announced that he was going to get the UK to leave. They couldn't even conceptualise such an event. Now nobody is laughing, and it has been labelled as simply a British problem.

Jean Baudrillard summed it up brilliantly in responding to the 2005 referendum in France that voted 'non' to the Lisbon treaty, which again, they couldn't believe at the time. But then they just rewrote the treaty in a different form and passed it anyway, almost in whole. Same sentiment from Baudrillard applies to the Brexit referendum, and ongoing today:

Baudrillard - Holy Europe (2005):
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii33/articles/jean-baudrill...
A L5 at Google typically makes more than all principal engineers at Microsoft (levels 65-67)
He is talking about a 5 eye state and nuclear power, which left an economic union, losing the benefits of said union and calls it bullying as if nation states were toddlers.
To the contrary. If Helium is as rare, precious and limited as we're led to believe, the price caps would be removed and helium prices would skyrocket to what the market would bear. I guarantee hospitals are going to pay more for helium than party city.

Helium prices are artificially low leading to it's irreverent use.
Nope, now stop thread crapping please.
I'm learning Go[1] and wrote this module a while back that generates random passwords, diceware passwords, PINs, and UUIDv4 using crypto/rand. I just refactored the base algorithm with the help of ChatGPT, and reduced allocations from 10 to about 2.

The API is still not stable, hence the version[2], but I would love some feedback or a review so I can remove the notice at the start of the README file, haha.

[1] Programming in general, really, as servers are my forte.

[2] Still debating if the Random.Generate() and PIN.Generate() should return an error or not.
Who owns the no-cd copyright?
> We’re often told to avoid artificial sweeteners, artificially hydrogenated oils, artificially enhanced flavors, artificial dyes and colorants

Well I say we should avoid artificial distinctions - such as the one between natural and artificial!
Singapore is highly capitalist.
Engineers in Silicon Valley did well, but the multiple over other work wasn't as high. I think that's still true for many employers in Silicon Valley- they pay better than average, but when you factor in all the details (long commute, high prices for everything, decaying infra) it's not really a premium.
It's too soon to say. Terraform enjoys network effects due to HashiCorp's other tools working well with it out of the box.
I'm not sure how much it has relative to other engineering and arguably comparable professions more broadly. Maybe somewhat? But $100K+ as an entry-level in enterprise IT is probably pretty solid.
This is where we as an industry need to embrace unions and let folks like you mentor and train younger developers.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai reflects on Google's 25th birthday
That is probably how I would feel as a parent as well. Though, just to put it out there, if you're a donor your retained kidney grows and makes up for the one that was removed. Also, you're given priority on the waiting list in the future should you ever need one yourself.
USPS is run like a business and is one of the most successful and well liked arms of the government.
Statistically you're more likely to end up in a 1986 Chevy van with "Spase Rokit" painted on the side.
Compare:

A) I kind of think to myself: “Is this picture worth a dollar?”

B) I kind of think to myself: “Is this picture worth my time?” Is this picture worth stepping out of what we are experiencing and doing the photographer thing.

Compare:

A) There is also a surprise factor and time machine effect with film that is impossible to replicate with digital cameras (though some have tried). When I get a roll of film developed, I have essentially no idea what I’m going to get back.

B) There is also a surprise factor and time machine effect with digital. I don't preview or edit images on camera. Weeks can pass before I upload to a computer. When I upload a memory card I have essentially no idea what I’m going to see.

Compare:

A) And, again, because shooting film is so expensive, I usually only take a couple pictures on any given outing.

B) And, again, because being fully in the experience is valuable, once I've chosen to do the photographer thing I take as many pictures as that needs.
amazing i thought they worked alone and that synapses were a kind of useless plaque
It was a very close election. There are any number of things, that, had they been different, Clinton would have won. Trying to ascribe a single cause is fallacious.
What’s their motto now ? Make the shareholders rich ?
Figuring out how recursive descent worked was just magical.
Specifically, FAA allowed Boeing to use software to cover up design flaw (crammed bigger engines under wings which causes pitch up problem) so it would appear to drive like older 737s. Apparently only a test pilot has been charged for falsifying some paperwork. 737MAX should be required to get a new type certification due to the significant changes.

Another example of regulatory capture leading to inadequate oversight is FDA, which has revolving door with drug companies.
https://www.mdlinx.com/article/10-dangerous-drugs-recalled-b...
Why is it a natural monopoly? It's a monopoly right now because the government has prices so artificially low (subsidized by tax dollars) that private companies can't compete.
Communism and socialism don't lead to cronyism and corruption?
Honestly, it's fair game. I don't expect every studio to have the source code handy and someone who knows how to build and modify the game anymore. If the crack does the job, I can empathize.

Inversely, it's not like the crack was made just out of educational curiosity. At one point it might have hurt sales... now somehow it helps.

Not like the group would have a moral high ground to claim their copyright was violated. Though the idea is fun.
Once you get past Abilene or San Angelo you're getting into the eastern reach of the Chihuahuan Desert, so around 4 hours. Some maps put it west of the Pecos but that's not the official line, to be fair different maps seem to put it in different places.
I think twitter or X is still very good to get latest updates .. obviously lot of propaganda too but if you are trained enough to spot propaganda you kind of filter it out .. but don't open it more than 10-15 minutes to stay away from all twitter dramas .. place is still cesspool like our world
Update: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37399144>
The answer is always some form of “share your knowledge.” But that’s the point where the well-trodden career path ends and you either hang out at the depot at the end of the road with the other lifers or you set out bushwhacking on your own to figure things out. There’s no pay-scale signposts. You become slightly unrecognizable. And everything becomes new again, which is extra challenging to your old-ass self, because you’re pretty comfortable in your ways. But, if you persist with it, I believe (I’m not there yet), there’s nothing more rewarding than seeing your knowledge sprout into a forest.
If you really believe you have a good culture, and attract the best talent, you should be able to offer your best candidate the position and wait for them to decline or accept. Other candidates may move on if you tell them you've extended an offer and are waiting to hear back, but forcing someones hand is a poor culture indicator, and being in a rush to hire in the majority of the cases indicates lack of planning.
Well, in this case its not like you have a choice.
Sorry, I just had to know. I was feeling a bit involuntarily solipsistic lately for some reason
Question for you from the 17 year old me.

Why did you do this? Fame? Money? Challenge?

I didn't know enough to so it myself and no one would teach me.
Create account before seeing it? Pfft.
We are talking about the same one, and there imo was some wishful exaggeration in a lot of coverage regarding how it all actually went, probably for the sake of making it into a more interesting story. I was in those HWNDU threads at the time, so I clearly remember it, and sources that looked at it in more detail corroborate it.

Tracking jets flying jets along with the rest of the things you mention only helped with narrowing it down to somewhere in the viscinity of Tennessee[0]. After that, there was no progress whatsoever until that geotagged tweet containing a photo of Shia with a diner waitress (she was the one who tweeted it, as it was a typical "i took a photo with a celebrity i just met" tweet), which narrowed it down to a speicific small town in Tennessee. And only then all the fun stuff with driving around and honking occurred.

While tracking flying jets was a cool idea, it ended up being a dead-end approach, as it didn't help with narrowing it down beyond "Tennessee and adjacent areas". And the geotagged photo that eventually led to the flag location didn't rely on overhead jet paths or any of that, as the geotag was fairly sufficient.

0. http://wikimapia.org/36787915/He-Will-Not-Divide-Us-Flag-Sit...
What a story. I got to the end a complete, sobbing wreck. To send your own children away to abominable, putrid institutions at the advice of doctors is something I can't even imagine. And it really wasn't that long ago.
since 1965, but income is up only 18%

All I have to do is look around to see that can't possible be true.
I mean even if you can build a computer from scratch a few self built transistors aren't going to weigh up against advanced microchips.

Unless we have different ideas of what 'from scratch' means.
Hydrogen is expensive to produce, store and transport.

We only see Hydrogen vehicles like this because of Government grants .. we only see Hydrogen fueling stations because of Government grants.

Once the grants stop, the cars will stop. Literally.
I regard music, photos and video as extremely valuable, so that doesn’t apply to me.
> unworthy of discussion to every couple.

“Unworthy of discussion” vs. “isn’t going to be happy” is a good way to move the goalposts.

I suppose I’m just tired of the juvenile meme of “my wallet is going to hurt” or “my wife [almost always wife, and never husband; what does that say?] is going to be upset” at <insert hobby>.

If that’s the level of trust one has in their life partner, one ought to take a closer look at what’s really important to oneself.
I moved colon to under "g" on layer one (which I hold with my thumb) and it's surprisingly effective,

Same with # under a, and all of the brackets under erdfcv keys
If that's what the main thrust of the article was about, I'd say yes.

This one, though was far more about the journey than the destination.

(This isn't always the case, and is arguably far less often the case than authors tend to think. But I feel it's more than fairly applied in this instance.)
The Dying Light of Fireflies
There are a bunch of magazines with the title "xxxxxInsider". In my experience, you should take their opinion pieces with a large grain of salt.

Personally, I just reverse the titles' meanings and I find the "information" they are trying to sell me is more accurate that way.

In this case: China may now never take the US's crown as the world's largest economy is the title. And in the first few sentences we see Forecasters expect its GDP to briefly pass the US's in the mid-2040s

What part of 'NEVER' don't the people at BusinessInsider understand?

Anyway, under PPP the more accurate way of comparing economies, China's economy passed the US's about ten years ago, back around 2014.
I got a 404. This seems to work.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-09-brain-reveals-human-n...

And pdf:

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-09-brain-reveals-human-n...
My primary care doctor informed me a few days ago that he's shutting down his current practice. Appears to be driven by his desire to get away from the insurance companies. He's part of a new practice where you pay a monthly fee and everything's included. You can text and email with questions, stop by for an appointment and get right in, and so on.

The advantage for him is that he never deals with insurance companies again. The disadvantage for me is that, since I have few health issues, and they're minor when I do, it would cost a lot more per year.
I'm curious if you are relating these two ideas or if you're treating them as separate. Is there a connection between unions and mentorship?
> - if you don't think a remote job is a good fit for you, consider moving to London

This is a recipe for potential disaster: London cost of living, especially housing, is out of league against the rest of the UK. It is however true that its where the ICT sector is, and joins Fintech and other market segments. Reading is also worth thinking about for ICT, or Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge but none of these are good housing markets.

GBP33k is right on the median salary for the UK. That should of course NOT be poverty line living. It speaks volumes for the crisis in the UK economy that the cost of rent, heating has gone through the roof, and that this is no longer a comfortable paypoint. It's not nothing, but its value in real terms has dropped significantly. People on 33k should be able to save money and have a safety net. From speaking to family who live in the UK (I emigrated 35 years ago) many of them don't have this buffer. It's scary.
It's clearly more complicated than this, as people are pointing out, but I think your point is directionally true, and worth making. Maybe somebody else would have raised the bar, maybe the bar wasn't raised as high as was claimed, maybe they even raised the wrong bar. But, Google did pressure many other employers to change in a generally positive direction, so I'd give them that.

Analogously: I'm not a fan of Starbucks coffee, but I recognize that (where I live) specialty coffee places mostly did not even exist before SBUX popularized the idea that coffee didn't have to come out of a #10 can. You can raise the level of competition while not being the best yourself.
Yes, and even if you do ban the religion itself you can’t ban people from gathering and discussing ideas. The only way I can think of is biased force.
Genuinely responding: Because it sounds extreme? You painted a picture of someone who is incompetent ("not being able to keep track of each tool being used, or the order in which to use them") and a danger to themselves and those around them ("they may be incredibly dangerous in a woodshop or metalshop" and "forgetting to unplug dangerous equipment"). That seems extreme to me, hence why I said "they seem extreme".

I have been in the company of people with ADHD at various stages throughout my life and this depiction doesn't fully align with my personal observations. From what I've experienced, individuals with ADHD do face challenges, but they are not universally incompetent or dangerous. They may struggle in some areas but excel in others. My ask for a source was to understand if this portrayal was based on a study or evidence, or if it was a personal observation.
I don't think its about absolute career growth, everyone has limits to what they can achieve (determined by innate ability and luck) and understanding some good philosophical principles can be a good guide in how to approach your personal limit. Theres a lot of good advice in the article.
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We are talking about the bay area. No one – IBM, Cisco, Apple, Oracle, HP, Novell, Intel, Motorola, 3Com, Yahoo or any of the other big industry players that employed software engineers – paid anywhere near the salary and benefits of Google.
They also need to know the sites to make sure replay works etc for qa. But why they don’t store that data separately is bizarre.
The winning formula that seems to work without fail for personal productivity is crystal meth (not overdose or paranoia/psychosis or permanent heart and brain damage of course).

It's popular these days to dismiss negative consequences for all sorts of things as fake, but side effects need to be confronted and actually dealt with, not just waved off. Would you let the 'communism has never been tried actually' people off the hook?
Good points.

> The biggest problem though: the original requirement sounded like every output needs its individual "submix", so the complexity would quickly explode. You also cannot easily add e.g. delay compensation or digital EQ / FIR filter for room compensation if you later figure out this would be useful. You don't have these problems in the digital domain.

I definitely missed this, that makes it totally untenable in analogue domain as anything other than a ridiculous art project or back when it was the only way to do it.

The digital solution is much more flexible and once you get the pipeline running and understand how it all works, much easier to modify. I mention the analogue option only to offer an alternative, possibly more intuitive / easier to get started and experiment with option. Even in the simple mixer case, it's still probably not a viable solution for a real product, the digital stuff is so cheap now.

> I don't think the analog solution is significantly easier to build.

It's not just building it, but the learning curve. OP seems to have no electronics or DSP knowledge at all. Maybe it's my own background clouding my evaluation here, but bootstrapping even a passthrough ADC -> DSP/FPGA -> DAC pipeline to the point where it works sounds like a near-herculean task for someone without experience of either domain. For practical purposes it more or less requires custom PCBs which is its own learning curve, and even a basic FPGA is going to have non-trivial power, layout, and bitstream storage requirements to get right, which requires reading layout / power / app notes & datasheets. Then you need to learn the vendor's tooling and how to set up PLLs and design a clock scheme for the system, learn an HDL - which tends to be very unintuitive for software folks, with a steep learning curve of its own. Finally, you can eventually get to fooling around with your basic noop pipeline, but that is a loooong way from the word go to thinking about the problem you came in with.

It won't be, relatively speaking, any good, but lashing up a simple additive mixer with a couple opamps on a breadboard will get you something to start iterating on. In the end it might not be any easier to get to a final solution, but personally at least I find this kind of iterative improvement much easier than brick wall after brick wall with little to show for it. Especially given they want an 8x8 matrix, frankly I think using existing OTS audio interfaces is the only practical solution unless OP is willing to dedicate a man-year of work to the project.

> Don't forget that machine assembly is also super cheap now at least if you order in Asia, which removes almost all of the "soldering challenge" since usually only a hand full of big THT components like connectors will remain for you to solder manually.

I almost mentioned this, and I've done it successfully a bunch of times, but it felt like a bit too much learning curve (lol compared to learning HDL).