skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your characterization is ignorant of how scummy medical billing actually is.

Concur completely. I once lived in a state where "Balance billing" was illegal, yet despite having a bluechip insurance plan, seeing some physicians in-network AND paying the co-pay at the same time, I could always count on being balance billed.

GRRRR. Talk about a seriously ticked off customer. Given what I know about medical billing though, I would not be surprised to hear that insurance companies were likewise trying to bilk the practices, forcing these shady responses (My wife's practice has an in-network private practice model, but insurers refuse to accept the billing rates they agreed to as a part of contract with the practice, and they play an intentional game of denials after previous authorizations, or, they intentionally send patients checks which the PTs go and cash, and fail to reimburse the practice)
Nix solves all these problems for good.
It's a monster of a system, but if you're migrating anyways then might as well migrate to the real deal, not to some fly-by-night half-baked thing that gets you halfway there.
You underestimate the power of "defaults". Also one should question Apple why they don't ship Safari on Windows/Linux. They have all the resources available if they care. EU regulates and Apple is here to blame. Protecting their revenues (WebKit). It's only surprising it took this long to regulate. On the other hand US government is laughable at not doing any pro-consumer choices and getting bribes/sudden turns etc. EU here is leading here (protecting customers instead of companies)
This makes me think of the recent changes to pip on Arch Linux that recommend installing modules with pacman.

Pacman is ok, but I recently destroyed the Ruby installation on a computer while trying to use Vagrant and other Ruby packages. I still haven't figured out how to fix it. Lesson learned, stick to AUR and pacman repo.
> Does everyone only build web apps?

Unfortunately I think most people do, which is why there is a big bias towards web tech. I don't, and I hate the fact that most people seem to think that web tech solves everything :-).
Hah, I had the same experience. Saw microsoft.com and thought "it's gonna be a Raymond, I can feel it"
For those using the Apple Watch: would you recommend it?

I was an early(ish) adopter of smart watches/wearables - think Pebble and LG G Watch era. I walked away from that experience with the perception they exist solely as expensive distraction machines with an extremely short functional life and have been enjoying mechanical watches since.

This tech has me on the verge of trying again. It's seems to be getting pretty close a ubicomp device. There's enough compute onboard to do useful things with the sensors, particularly with the addition of the neural cores. The UWB proximity awareness look interesting too for someone with other apple devices (HomePods etc).

What I'm not familiar with is the current software ecosystem. Are there any core functions or third party apps that make use of this outside of just slinging notifications?
historically all windows software has either been unzipped into a folder or installed using an installer created by the vendor, so as a result the vendor has to provide their own uninstaller too. uninstallers are complex enough that the OS can't completely take their place, though Windows has shipped with an install/uninstall framework called MSI for a long time.
For one example.

> Projects written in C# using Godot 4 currently cannot be exported to iOS

With unity or unreal it's one click as long as you're using a Mac.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/export/expo...
Where do IPC like binder fit in to this map?
Or even a secondary source. It strives to be a tertiary source.
Exactly. A great working example is Obsidian. Every version of it - desktop, android, iOS, writes locally first and then syncs to remote (if you’re subscribed to the Sync service, otherwise just writes locally). Other than Sync (and some other optional services like Publish), it is 100% functional without network connectivity.
wow... for me gyms (or sports in general) was the #1 place to meet new people, here where I live and in my bubble (germany) it's quite common to spend a few hours in the local boulder gym, or climbing gym, drinking coffee, grep a pizza boulder/climb a bit and small talk, meet friends and new people, same on the local skate park or pump track, hang around, skate, talk, and meet new people, also the sauna/pool areas of some larger gyms are quite social, same goes for the local park, watch the kids at the playground, a coffee is always nearby and plenty of people to talk... and everything in walking or biking distance (I live in a small town)
Some human book readers have a lot more than accurate reading skills. (Can even read a title like 'Astounding Science...' (without the 3 second pause before) 'Fiction September 1959'.) https://ia801608.us.archive.org/25/items/synapseml_gutenberg...

They have wonderful voice acting skills as well. They can create multiple character voices and personalities. They can detect and express emotions appropriately, without hints from the text.

They'll continue to be highly valued, and far more enjoyable to listen to, for a -long- time.
FDA panel declares decongestant phenylephrine ineffective
Another bad style of achievements: RNG-heavy.

For instance, to get the “catch shiny Pokémon” achievements in Pokémon Crystal (https://retroachievements.org/game/11841), you have 1/8192 odds on encounter… for each Pokémon, and there are 213 of them.
it's a little more general, I think, since one common use case for it is to use it on your own process in order to intercept calls to stdlib/OS code from libraries you don't control.

For example, in the bad old days I used detours to virtualize the windows registry so that I could do "fake installs" of COM components inside of a VB6 app, allowing it to run without an install and without administrator permissions. This worked by detouring all the Win32 registry APIs, which was sufficient to intercept registry accesses performed by the COM infrastructure.
Disliking the generality of this function (as a sibling commenter said.. I mean with the wrong predicate you won't even get to test for list or dict.. but ok for those nested list/dict structures; but why not test first for them?) it is just a map and an if, or a map/list comprehension?
> but the 30-pin's ecosystem of accessories was so huge it was a pain in the ass to switch away from it

It's going to be even worse switching away from USB-C in 2033.
It's technically JScript.
Yes, the same way one could write VBS (Visual Basic Script).

I think Windows 98 already had this ability. Possibly Windows 95 as well. It's a variant of the language called JScript, which is what was used in old versions of IE too.
Yeah I realized we were in agreement after posting :D
>Why didn’t the industry protest these business models in the first place?

they always have and always will. But revshare and ESPECIALLY residuals (tangential to this topic) are costs that the elite will fight to the grave to not give out.

Indie devs are simply taking that gamble and unironically working for exposure. profits are razor thin in games and the market is fickle, so it's much preferable to have a guaranteed minium than to negotiation revenue/profit shares. if they become "too successful" they simply need to use that newfound exposure to negotiate a better deal next time.
It is in this domain, of broken promises and broken people that you can establish what a society is really made of. Graeber's Debt is obligatory reading (alas not easy to read) if you want to dig into the painful history of debt relations between humans.

The post provides excellent insights into the odious side of consumer finance. It feels like a follow up with ideas about reform would not be wasted effort: Once this domain meets the odious side of tech (uncontrolled data collection, tracking etc) the toxicity will grow exponentially.
"What an insult to writers, artists, and game designers! None of them have managed to imbue their works with "unique spirit?"

As someone said, to the extent they have managed to do it -- and many have -- it was not because of engines like unity but despite them. I imagine all those people would have been happier if the engineers had made a custom engine for them (and quick).
Been using this for years. Mostly really useful. Sometimes tricky to get right since the available APIs are semi-well documented and it's JScript, which is some sort of old Internet Explorer-ish version of JavaScript.

By the way, there are also HTAs, which are Microsoft HTML Applications. You can create a simple double-clickable GUI with these using only HTML and JScript.
We like open sauce
I'm not elderly yet. But I have a surgery-related profound hearing loss in one ear, which means I have a hearing aid for that. And much later I reached of the age where now I have TWO hearing aids, because of age related hearing loss along with loud rock-and-roll, that I now wear one in "the good ear."

I still don't want a louder driver.
I use the stipple pattern which is set by default if you start the X server with the -retro switch (which I use). I do not have any icons and do not use a desktop environment.
I always enjoy patio11's writing, and I think a bit part is he writes as if the reader is intelligent but not knowledgeable about the topic, which is the best way to teach. The other three permutations of those bools are much more common.
Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the [morally validated].
No they don't. Sometimes societies stagnate and things become shit expensive.
1. Small apertures' one advantage is their being able to see a large amount of the sky at once. For any coherent aperture the larger it's span in a direction the smaller the beam pattern is in the perpendicular direction upon the sky. The bigger your collector the smaller your beamwidth the less you can see at once. Big dishes have small FOV and aren't good for monitoring the entire sky.

There are ways of getting around this: physically scanning the big antenna, multi-apertures for receive across the focal plane, or by abandoning actual imaging and measuring the correlations between arrays of lower gain (smaller) apertures.

But the best way (if the signal is loud enough) is just to have a smaller aperture. Real science monitoring for transient radio signals can and is being done with literally just using the feedhorn from a large dish by itself (with some precise clocks, expensive lna, receiver, and time stamping) to detect FRB (and other high power transients),

https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05077 STARE2: Detecting Fast Radio Bursts in the Milky Way

Multiple stare2 type instruments distributed around the world are likely to do real radio astronomy in the near'ish future. This is amateur scale possible. In the "Completely Hackable Amateur Radio Telescope" they're using a pyramidal dish because it's easier to construct but for trying to contribute to "real" radio astronomy you'd want a choke ring feed horn or at the very least a conical horn. The idea is to minimize sidelobes which otherwise prevent you from knowing for sure the signal you received came from the direction the horn is pointing.

2. Another low hanging amateur accessible "real science" is actually doing something when you're receiving solar radio emissions. Calculate the velocity of a CME shock by the frequency drift as it travels upwards through decreasing magnetic field. Or even more audacious, use a hackrf (or ettus usrp b200 or something) to frequency hop at 8 GH/s over a few hundred MHz bandwidth and record the fine structure present at milli and microsecond timescales precent in many types of solar radio bursts. Things like spectrogram zebra patterns and fiber bursts and other unexplained highly coherent fine timescale patterns which still lack accepted physical explaination today. Particularly in that their very short timescales indicate the emission regions have to be only ~a handful of kilometers in scale but outshine the rest of the sun. Whatever "small" solar features are making these short intense radio emissions are open to even amateur interpretation at this point.
Imagine how the timeline feels where Apple wasn't forced to change the port.
I can't speak for whether Apple gets it right, but my experiences with the various package managers on Linux have not been any better than my experiences with installers on Windows. I've settled for avoiding system packages for anything I can build from source since system packages are always outdated and often Strange, and I try to avoid third party package sources and weird stuff like Snap or Flatpak since it's also historically been a source of problems for me. Maybe life is better outside of the Debian sphere though, since I've only dealt with Ubuntu and Debian.

Windows does have installer/uninstaller infrastructure called MSI (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/windows-...), but ultimately it's up to developers to choose to use it.
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Audio over usb works fine at usb 2 speeds.
This feels recursion-schemesey. Something like:

para (\t -> let asIs = (map fst t) in if(whereFn(asIs)) updateFn(asIs) else map snd t)
From a similar article [1]:

> But an FDA panel said after a two-day review that the oral decongestant ‘is not effective’ at standard or even high doses compared to a placebo.

> Their ruling is not binding but strongly suggests the agency could soon heed their advice and pull its approval, forcing companies to pull or reformulate their products.

1. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12509573/FDA-rule...
I got a generic "ATOTO" one that was on sale. I had to upgrade the firmware since there was some audio stutter after about 15 minutes, but after that it's been just as stable as wired CarPlay for me.
Current 12MP cameras are actually 48MP sensors, which use pixel binning for better color and noise. You’re bound by physics here, not corporations.

I didn’t check recent sensors, but 24MP ones would be 96MP with binning. Sony makes multi-mode sensors which can produce different sized outputs to optimize details and image quality for a given light amount.

Computational photography is like artificial flavoring. It looks fine, but lacks the finesse of a big sensor. Also, “dreaming” things in photography is a no go in some contexts.

Also, I think some iPhone models have emergency satellite communications already, no?
If the iPhone or iPhone Pro could be connected to a USB-C dock with a keyboard, mouse and external monitor (or two) and display full fat MacOS; It would be the most impressive mobile device ever created.

I could imagine companies issuing iPhones with MDM and corporate credentials preconfigured. As a developer, that would be a pretty cool workflow.

I already ssh into a remote box to get faster development performance (even from my M1) - a powerful mobile device that could be used as a thin client would be crazy cool.
And what do you do when the $10k ambulance ride isn't something you can afford?
Exactly like this, just with a lightning port.. weee
> So what's up with the emblematic rooster? It's the astrological sign of the brand's creator, David Tran.

Ugh.
How to liberate your laptop: The definitive guide
I've seen Malwarebytes flag uninstallers a few times.
I said that I wasn't familiar with the concept of buying credit debt, but specifically said I was familiar with buy medical debt. I then compare and contrasted how I feel they are different. I also said that buying credit debt isn't necessarily a bad thing, but due diligence should be applied to whose debt is getting wiped out.

You've spun into something it's not to make a point. Which I'm still not sure what it is
Don't give cash to addicts
Covid Boosters Can’t Outpace New Mutations. Here’s Why They Still Work
It is very common for malware to contain java script payloads that try to obfuscate themselves like like this:

Seemingly_random_code(seemingly_random_string)

The seemingly_random_code decompresses/decodes whatever is in the seemingly_random_string and hands over control to it. Interestingly the decoded code is another version of the same with different code and string. This goes on for ~100 layers deep then at the end it just downloads and executes some file from the net.
>lightning cables don't often wear out.

Look closely at the lightning cables in your house, calling it now at least one of them has a burnt pin (4th pin from the left most likely)
I got paid to live in Antarctica
In my limited experience, USB cables do go bad. Fortunately the USB-C and A female ends take much more abuse than the cables.
Pull the car over immediately if the passenger becomes sexual or problematic in any other way, and the taxi/limo/whatever ride is over. The camera is already engaged and has the reason clearly presented. The orange blinkenlight on the back is already blinking for others to intervene. That's what you're supposed to do in such situations as a driver.
Pixel 6 Pro with Graphene OS...

like the privacy
dislike the call quality
dislike the speaker sound, either too soft or too loud
dislike the camera...seems to downres images sent via text.

the rest of the phone experience is awesome. Though im not so sure the main phone functionality being shit is a win... :/
With a little bit of love, sure why not ?
I don't know how to send you a DM or add you here, but I sent you a LinkedIn request!
I use Linux not only on laptops, but also on servers.

Also, I am more likely to have 2048 core laptop than playing full screen Flash videos.

https://xkcd.com/619/ complains about some Linux development focusing on support on server/supercomputer features and ignoring UX issues and support for some then popular media format.

The ironic part is that support for absurdly high core devices becomes more relevant, while Flash died.
There's a huuuuge difference from being poor serfs in the feudal lord's fiefdom than someone that can't say no to a sale but can't actually afford it and buys on credit.
> how else would you suggest it be done?

Might I recommend a blockchain and smart contracts?

I'll see myself out.
This interview is just not attached to reality:

> The other is to create more efficiency with a through-running system, where you would have what are now New Jersey Transit trains coming to the city, crossing through Manhattan, and out the other side to Long Island. Or run Amtrak trains and freight trains coming from Pennsylvania through the city and up to New England. That idea is not technically insurmountable, but it’s bureaucratically daunting, because multiple organizations oversee those lines. In a perfect world, New Jersey Transit, the Long Island Railroad, and Metro North would be united and even integrated with the New York City subway system.

The irony is then he immediately explains why this wouldn't work:

> The problem is, you can build highways and bridges and towers from scratch much faster than you can reorganize a bureaucracy.

More ironically, much of the interview is saying we need to use this behemoth of a bureaucracy to implement changes. Yet he then says the City can't do the one thing it actually can do:

> The situation is complicated by the fact that Amtrak (not the MTA) owns the station, and MSG owns the Garden; it’s a rare case of double-decker ownership. MSG isn’t a tenant. It’s not like a lease runs out and you can evict it. If you’re going to get the Dolan family, who own the Garden, to move, you would have to buy it from them.

If MSG doesn't have a permit to operate, it's mostly worthless! MSG called the City's bluff this summer and got an extension on their permit -- but the City could have decided not to renew it, and MSG would've had to close.

A bit later, he suggests using eminent domain to take property by force:

> The idea was to use the power of eminent domain to condemn large parts of the neighborhood around Penn Station, override the city’s zoning and allow massive new amounts of FAR in an area that’s largely owned and controlled by Vornando.

I'm not advocating for this, just pointing out the the interviewee is dismissing one of the few things the City can do on its own.

And more generally, neither the City of New York nor the State of New York are known for respecting property rights (or Constitutional rights broadly), so they _could_ do anything they wanted and just drag the victims through decades of legal proceedings after the fact.

(Again, I'm not advocating for this.)

There are lots of ideas for renovating/ expanding/ rebuilding Penn Station. Most of them are crap, but some are good. Unfortunately, even the good plans have to get through the government bureaucracies, where they either get axed or become ludicrously expensive.
> There will almost certainly be some laptops that attempt to charge themselves from the iPhone battery depending on which of the 10 versions of USB-C are being implemented.

It’s not like there are 100s of phones out there with a USB-C connector we can try this on already? ;)
It looks custom, built with Laravel: https://github.com/RetroAchievements/RAWeb/tree/master/app/C...
Reading stuff like that, just makes me love package managers even more :)
John Oliver did that on his show: https://money.cnn.com/2016/06/06/technology/john-oliver-medi...
Well, obviously.. People also shouldn’t become addicted to heroin in the first place when they aren’t born addicted to heroin! These are completely obvious and inane things to say.
To me, empathy is required to be a good stoic. Empathy helps guide ethical decision making. Just because we’re not overwhelmed by it and show it outwardly, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Similar, though less essential, with other emotions. Stoicism is not the eradication of feeling. That would be denying our basic humanity and contrary to stoic principles. Instead, it is the mastery of it. Keep logic in control. Think Spock.
Could you please stop using HN for ideological battle? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for—regardless of what you're for or against.

Your account has been doing this repeatedly and that's not what HN is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Super capacitors are highly overrated by the general public. They really aren't that much better than lithium ion except for in a very narrow power/time bandwidth.
“Who knew about YouTube?” In 2016…
Unreal isn't being used to crank out low end mobile games that are purely ad sponsored... betting that there are more shenanagians going on in unity's space that would means it hard to actually check the books versus someone with 1M in revenue
I remember reading an article from an HR manager who had to do that. He had a woman begin emailing discrimination lawyers in his office because she knew he was about to find out she was pregnant from her Facebook.
Great article. I would like to also know how close, or the closest time each of these companies felt to dying, or if they ever thought they wouldn't find PMF. Or when they knew they would get to PMF. Or if they always believed they would get to PMF.

Is a dead company just the same as one that never found PMF? Is that how survivorship bias is accounted for?
> It never worked well on the desktop and extremely likely never will.

Well, Windows also never worked well on the desktop*. And current Linux works for me better than current or past Windows*.

*for me - your experience may be different