skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels all well and good but in reality it might work out differently. Your hmo argument feels like centering the lower quartile folks at the cost of the average middle class man that wants agency in his healthcare journey. the reason i chose a ppo instead of an hmo is with a ppo i can go visit a psyciatrist directly, tell them i had adhd symptoms, get diagnosed and get prescribed adderall pretty much immediately. With an hmo that would take at least months. Why pay full price for a canadian/uk style wait/referral system?
Where can I get black market dishwashers that use three times as much energy and water for my new build?

I've already manually removed all of the flow reducer bottlenecks in my showerheads.

If you want me to use less water or power, tax it more, don't render my appliances nonfunctional. Alternately, heavily tax the inefficient machines so they aren't cost effective for normal consumers/builders.

I really hate how poorly modern appliances work.
> HVACs at offices work 24/7 at a very cold temperature, so much so that most people bring jackets to work.

You can always add clothes. If it’s too hot, there’s only so much you can remove. Particularly in a corporate setting
Yes - and if you choose not to pay for health insurance, you get fined on your income taxes.

Don't pay your income taxes? Go to prison.
> All your code history is one git rebase away from being abolished forever

unless you also GC right away, it's not gone.
"the description sounds like the procedure is working directly on the textual representation of the flight plan, rather than a data structure parsed from the text file. This would be quite worrying, but it might also just be how it is explained."

Oh, this is typical in airline industry work. Ask programmers about a domain model or parsing, they give you blank stares. They love their validation code, and they love just giving up if something doesn't validate. It's all dumb data pipelines At no point is there code models the activities happening in the real world.

In no system is there a "flight plan" type that has any behavior associated with it or anything like a set of waypoint types. Any type found would be a struct of strings in C terms, passed around and parsed not once, but every time the struct member is accessed. As the article notes, "The programming style seems very imperative.".
I keep reading about XYZ being the reason people will finally flock to GNU/Linux, since Windows XP, instead me and others gave up on the desktop, and went back to Microsoft/Apple/Google offerings.

While Valve admitted failure, and has to emulate Windows (yeah not quite emulation), as mechanism to have games on GNU/Linux, not even studios developing Android games with the NDK can be bothered to target GNU/Linux.
Evaporative cooling is largely industry standard. Going to of course depend on local geography but it's certainly been the go-to over the past 15 years from what I can tell.

I'd be highly surprised at any other use here.

It's definitely not stored and then returned to any water system. It is consumed.
That 40% did not lead to a 40% increase to the cost of living like you are implying. Cpi went up 8% in 2022, and social security went up 8.7%
Technology Connections' videos are a bit long for my taste. This one and its follow up really only have a few takeaways:

Dirt sensors might mean that deliberately leaving crud on the dishes (rather than rinsing first in the sink) leads to longer and better washes

Run your kitchen sink hot water a little before starting to get warmer water into the dishwasher

The first cycle is just water, before the detergent tray pops open, so put detergent into the pre-wash tray or just straight into the tub to make it do more cleaning in that cycle

But don't put two pods in, i.e. one in the detergent tray, and another detergent pod into the tub because these pods are very concentrated and harsh and will damage plates. Only add a little extra powder
File deletions and renames are common problems with many revision control / build systems.

Other than the nuclear option ("make clean"), another is to have a specific rename / remove make target, so:

make rm sourcefile

or

make mv sourcefile newsourcefile

... which will handle the deletion and renaming of both the original and generated targets.

In practice for even fairly large blog and online projects, a make clean / make all cycle is reasonably quick (seconds, perhaps minutes), and is often called for when revising templates or other elements of the site design. If you're operating at a scale where rebuild time is a concern, you probably want to be using an actual CMS (content management system) in which source is managed in a database and generated dynamically on client access.
Writing this make program in bash would invovle even more difficult to read hacks, as bash also does not support multidimensional arrays.
EFF Surveillance Self-Defense
> Biden is undoing this: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/bidens...

I had not heard of the IER, and so looked them up:

> The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization that, according to itself, conducts research and analysis on the functions, operations, and government regulation of global energy markets.[1] IER maintains that the free market provides the most "efficient and effective solutions" to "global energy and environmental challenges".[1]

> IER is often described as a front group for the fossil fuel industry.[2][3][4] It was initially formed by Charles Koch, receives donations from many large companies like Exxon, and publishes a stream of reports and position papers opposing any efforts to control greenhouse gasses. Thomas Pyle, president of the IER and its offshoot American Energy Alliance (AEA), was appointed to the US Department of Energy's transition team after the 2016 United States elections.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Energy_Research
How does public domain license compare to something like GPL? Isn't public domain better?
> Because unless you know what the liquids are/do, you're just cargo culting

Right. Specifically, its the kind of advice that even if it works on the market at the time it is written, if it gets popular, it is very trivially subject to gaming in the way that gives truth to Goodhart's Law. "More colors of liquid in the pod = sells better" is an obvious target for trivial optimization with no change in substantive composition.
Here is an hint, gammer culture doesn't care about FOSS, only about IP, exclusives, and great games regardless of the platform.
I seem to recall the bullet on the gurney story to figure fairly prominently in the latest JFK documentary by Oliver Stone. Am I mistaken? When I read this accounting it didn’t strike me as totally new but rather a vindication of a story that had been relegated to being a conspiracy?
Overnight debt gets repaid daily at the (federal funds rate). and long term debt which averages around 4 years probably, gets 1/(365*4) paid daily.
The thing that will get Linux over on the desktop is the thing that got Windows over: preinstalls, on almost all models, from all major PC vendors.

It'll never happen, but that's what it'll take.
I wonder if they'll leave like NPR has left?
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter...
In IPv6 you'd do exactly like you'd do with IPv4, by assigning ULAs (private, local addresses) to your machines from fc00::/7.

With the (IMHO) big advantage that unless some madman has configured NAT66, the traffic over ULA will *never* get out into the internet.

The fact you have GUAs allocated doesn't mean you have to necessarily use them for your internal traffic. Most of the time link local addresses (on small scale, with auto discovery via LLMNR or mDNS) or ULAs are way more convenient than GUAs or IPv4 local addresses.
Most of the complaints I remember weren't about the inner workings of the computer, but about UI. The automobile argument wasn't that drivers needed to undertand the ICE, but to understand steering wheel, gearshift, brake and throttle pedals, etc. The complaints I heard were mostly pre-1995 as well, before Windows started seriously overtaking DOS and UIs had relatively little in common between programs.
I'll pay more for faster wait time and approching specialists from the "customer frame" as opposed to a "referral frame/shuffling through the system".

> And a bigger problem is healthcare deserts. If you're in a rural area your options are limited by default

i don't care about that. unlike the last healthcare debat, i think i'll keep my doctor this time.
Years ago I was in a DC bar and struck up a convo with the man next to me. He was a physician and after a few drinks he opened up to me and said, "The main problem with the healthcare system is that we don't let old people die." It was one of those transgressive things you hear and take note of. It does seem like a foolish use of resources to extend the life of someone in their 80's for a few months of more misery for the cost of several million dollars, when that same money spent on younger people could change their whole life for the better. But yeah, "Let old people die" is probably not going to win elections.
In (western) NY it's unheard of now. Everything is some form of PPO.
This can be summarized as "terminally inadequate technical controls"
I'm not even sure if you and GP agree or disagree.

As for me, I want IPv4 to stay forever. It works for me and I don't see any reason to spend time and migrate to something else.
Escaping containers using the Dirty Pipe vulnerability
And which mechanism is that exactly?
Ubuntu is now bundling advertisements for their paid services in apt upgrade output and the GUI software sources manager, in packages which cannot be uninstalled because they're hard dependencies of the `ubuntu-desktop` metapackage. Plus they've replaced Firefox with a package which installs a Snap, which loads so slowly they added a "snap opened" notification.
> I get the feeling more and more that peak Windows is upon us.

Probably. But I don't think Microsoft cares. Just look at where Windows is in their org hierarchy; it's definitely not top dog anymore and it's not a "strategy" like it once was.

The days of Microsoft needing Windows to make money are behind us, that's for sure. Peak Windows is probably correct, but that fact is not going to usher in Microsoft's demise.
And compost for our garden, though I wouldn't use this to justify chronic use of coffee.
My parents have an older Bosch from before the present regulatory lack of efficiency by design. It's amazing how well it performs. It's been repaired a few times and hopefully they can still keep getting replacement parts for it for a long time.
I am writing an article for the economist titled: "Flying cars will transform commuting".
An awful lot of cities have a "digital twin" of some sort in the planning department and frequently the data is public. It would be pretty neat to be able to work from this material.
> A typical solar panel absorbs ~20% of the sun's energy blasted on to a city rooftop. If that's used to power air conditioning it's doubly effective. You're reducing the heat urban heat island effect from the sun's energy, and you're also not adding additional heat from external power sources in to the city.

You’re not reducing energy here. If you gather and then release the energy again (make it do work) it’s simply being re-released.
That’s a pretty nice quip but not necessarily meaningful.
The netbooks show how well it worked, with every OEM having their own flavour.
You don't get fined on your income taxes. That hasn't been the case since 2018, which was half a decade ago.

What punishment do you think is appropriate for someone who engages in willful tax fraud or evasion?
Yes, you should definitely have branch protection turned on on main, I kind of assumed that went without saying. But to actually lose your entire git history would require both having no branch protection and having every single developer on your staff be in the regular habit of force rebasing their own branches on main. If a single developer does a double take when they're told that their branch has a different history than origin/main, then you probably didn't lose more than a week of work.

Also, it's worth noting that this dead code will almost certainly not get reused wherever you decide to store it, so it's best to keep it as far away from zombification as possible, even if it's not the safest place.
Yep, and also:

1. You shouldn't be allowing anybody to force-push rebased stuff onto major branches in your main repo (the one builds come from) anyway. This is especially important to support auditing and trace-ability.

2. Just because the folder is a git-repo isn't an excuse not to have it part of your regular offsite backup set.
What do you mean by "the majority of HMOs got usurped by HSAs"?

I'm only familiar with HSA as a Health Savings Account, and it doesn't make sense to compare it with an HMO in that context. Is there another acronym? Or are you instead referring to an HDHP, a High Deductible Health Plan?
http://aitidbits.ai for a roundup of the recent AI papers, tools, and open-source libraries
I had the same reaction as lathiat, if your washer smells bad because clean wet clothes sat in it for a couple hours you "probably" need to clean it. I also think people have a bad habit of closing the front door of front loaders between use.
You haven't answered the question about why you think doing math should be a fundamental right.
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They really need to fire whoever keeps ramming non-sequitur rewards stuff into the windows product.

I have still don't understand what the rewards are for, despite having spent inordinate amount of time removing them from my windows machines, but it's bizarre that some product manager gets to piss a convoluted frequent flier miles scheme all over microsoft's premier product. That's akin to Ferrari covering their very exclusive cars with promo stickers hawking those ferrari licensed asus laptops.
They basically did a bunch of searches using Google assistant and then act shocked when they're treated like any other search.

Yeah, your searches are used to target you ads, that's how Google makes money.
> I believe you can get out-of-state covered via out-of-network. But as mentioned, the out-of-pocket max on my plan is shockingly ~6x more for out-of-network than in-network. So you won't pay 90% of $200k, but it will still end up a very substantial amount. But maybe that could still be worth it to see an out-of-state specialist?

See, this would be the expected, plain reading of out-of-network vs. in-network deductibles and coverage.

But be very, very careful with out-of-network: the truth is that your insurance only covers whatever percentage they claim they cover of the "usual and customary" charges for out-of-network care, not the the actual charges you receive. Because out-of-network providers are by definition not contracted with the insurance carrier, they can (and do!) charge you whatever they want. And then your insurance only pays for 10% of that, because they then claim that the "usual and customary" charge for whatever care you received is only 10% of what your provider charged you. (And, of course, the out-of-pocket max for out-of-network care is only for "usual and customary", not any charges beyond that—so it offers basically no protection.)

...which leaves you with a bill for 90% of $200k that you're not particularly in a position to negotiate—neither with your insurance company, which has no incentive to cover it, nor with your care provider, which has already billed you and will happily send your bill to collections (most of the time, though not all the time) and take XX% of it rather than give you a 90% discount.

So: on the one hand, you have zero price transparency before you receive care; on the other hand, your insurance contract has terminology that implies one thing but hides the reality behind reasonable-sounding legalese. One would be hard-pressed to design a worse system.
The tesla semi is adequate for something like 80 percent of the loads 18 wheelers take because long haul is apparently only 20 percent of the market
the situation is caused by a confluence of multiple issues.

The biggest red-flag is that they chose to repurpose a flag! Why? Is it really difficult to add a new flag for a new feature?

Even if the technician was careful not to let prod be out of sync, it is possible that the deployment isn't instantaneous, and that the old code could've ran when the repurposed flag was turned on.
Microsoft only continue to make Windows desktop because businesses "need it", and it's a gateway to sell people azure and office. Eventually they will open source as much of it as they can, or rather, build a flavour of windows that is Linux and essentially distribute binaries for the directx stuff and other things they're not willing to fully release the code on.

mark my words, Windows isn't dying a natural death, it's parent is suffocating it in its sleep as a mercy killing.. mercy from having to support it forever
Zadie Smith, Stephen King and Rachel Cusk’s pirated works used to train AI
What do you mean by backsliding? Is it only 'evolution' when things become stronger/smarter/faster?

Evolution is organisms adapting to their environment in the face of selection pressure, it has no particular direction.
Chemical Engineering Beyond Earth: Astrochemical Engineering in the Space Age
In my experience, psychiatrists will often require a referral even with a PPO - not for insurance reasons, but for their own reasons.
> It's just a bizarre attitude. "How dare you try and make things better if you fail do them perfectly?"

Standard internet purity testing these days, really.
is oxyclean alright for your dishes / dishwasher?
According to https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-developer-role... , about 58% of developers are web front-end, back-end, or full stack. That's probably an undercount since their survey includes non-practitioner roles such as management, students, and QA. All of those will be using more or less the same frameworks, libraries, and other software to target the same browsers, database engines, operating systems, etc. Doesn't seem like that much of a stretch to be able to write a test that evaluates proficiency in the common underlying concepts used across web software.
Only annoying thing about upgrading to the euro dishwashers is that they're not hard-wired. So you have to install a receptacle in an adjoining cabinet and plug into that (or cut the plug and hardwire... but not officially recommended).

I guess it's because europeans typically take their appliances when they move instead of leaving them in place (as they typically do in North America).

Costco had the best pricing on Bosch in my opinion. Cheap delivery and removal of the old unit. Was really surprised how lightweight a washing machine is, but I guess it's just a shell with a pump thin metal+plastic drawers at the end of the day.
they were not slaves, but something like Russian Teamsters
I guess that depends on state. https://www.coveredca.com/learning-center/tax-penalty-detail...
My company offers Kaiser HMO in California, but elsewhere only a PPO+HRA.
I’ve always thought the whole “in-network” “out-of-network” thing is such a scam—a booby trap set to trip you up so you end up owing a fortune. You carefully went to an in-network hospital to see an in-network doctor, but SURPRISE a non-network doctor happened to stop by to draw blood and boom, you now owe 90%! Sucker!
I don’t know why it is the way it is but it sucks. What even is this in/out distinction if not a conspiracy to fleece the public? I’d be in favor of regulation that simply makes all doctors in-network for all insurances, period. Get rid of the unnecessary complexity minefield.
If it is legal for the state to aggressively censor what the state deems misinformation in the case of a real crisis, it is similarly legal for the state to aggressively censor true things that the state deems misinformation in the case of a manufactured crisis.

That's the issue: we do not trust the state to be impartial enough to decide what is or isn't misinformation. Remember when they lied and told us not to wear masks so they could hoard them for healthcare workers? In that instance if they had been "much more aggressive" as you advocate, saying the true and correct statements of "this is an airborne respiratory virus and you should wear a mask" would be subject to such censorship.

Given that we've seen governments carry out all manner of atrocities (eg the US CIA torturing people in the wake of 9/11 for a recent example, or the Third Reich's famous death camps) throughout literally all of human history up to and including present day without exception, by both "good" governments and "the bad guys" (also without exception), why on Earth should we allow such organizations the power to decide with force of law what is or isn't true?

A lot more people will die from direct and intentional actions by government than will die from misinformation.
YEp, somewhat resemblance to Teamsters
Does this mean that most young Canadians can certainly financially afford to have kids without going into debt, but for some reason (worried about the future? Lazy? Other priorities?) just aren't interested anymore?

So in other words, them not making babies has nothing to do with economics?
Subscribed ... always wanted to know from a creator if its ok ....

1) what does research for running a newsletter look like? Many seem to curate a collection of content from other similar newsletters. Others seems to annotate and summarize. Is this ok?

2) How do you get audience .... any strategies that work? Or is it just have fun doing what you love and hope that audience show up
RAM is close to Tbps rates and ~100 nanoseconds of latency.

The algorithm for locating the machine that has an in-memory copy is likely more expensive than just loading directly from disk.
They force the engine, which is bad, but much less bad (IMO, at least) than forcing a full-blown browser full of insanely privacy-invasive defaults on users.
But is the UK work visa equivalent a lottery?
What are the alternatives with similar coverage & faster response times?