skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The account activation requirement sucks. It's of no benefit to users. Other companies have copied, such as the Insta360 products like their new gimbal. Fortunately I found a better gimbal without that requirement, the Hohem iSteady MT2, which does not come "pre-bricked" demanding account sign-up.
That "can" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, less and less GPs are bulk-billed. We're still better out-of-sight than the US, but under the last govt we started sliding towards privatisation.
It's about the same as "try translating that English sentence into Swahili without learning the language".
>I don't think you should be downvoted for stating both facts and opinions.

It's not a very constructive opinion. Just saying "there aren't a lot of 'good' games made with it". If you want to put some subtley in: note that this is an engine previously used by Silicon Studio (Bravely Default, 3d dot heroes, Muramusa, etc.) and after a few renames it became open source. So this was used to ship professional projects at some point.

And yes, I do find some Schadenfreude on an appeal to popularity being judged by yet another appeal to popuarity.

>What do people want?

I dunno, I can't speak for everyone. But I click on a page about an engine and expect, well, discussion on the pros/cons of the engine. If I wanted to stick with the popular stuff I would go back to Unity or Unreal.
It would be nice if along with the link you would provide information about what the link is about.
You might also be interested in the Oklahoma Surgery Center’s model: https://surgerycenterok.com/surgery-prices/
It makes me think of many things, from the endless search for "your best place" to the challenges in trying to escape history to the episode of Star Trek (the original series) where the "monster" attacking them turned out to be the guardian of the eggs of its species that humans failed to realize were eggs and had been destroying.
Having and caring about are different things.

I care about money, I dont have money.
That's not even what they said. The very next sentence detailed the personal cost of Medicare.
Railway V2
The guidance systems had to account for local variations in gravity as the missile flew to its target. One of the reasons ballistic missile accuracy improved so much was that measurements and mapping of these local anomalies improved so much.

Most are due to magma reservoirs or large mineral deposits. Some are well-known in their effect, but their specific cause is still unknown:

https://eos.org/science-updates/seismologists-search-for-the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrop
But how much does the Belgium gov pay to subsidize healthcare? (Just because the upfront cost is low to you, it doesn’t mean that’s the actual cost.) Is it still sustainable given the trend of retirees starting to outnumber working adults? Also how bad are the wait times to get socialized medical care?
Since when was an installer a "rootkit mechanism"? It was just a part of the software you installed for playing the CDs.

Plenty of legitimate software used installers.
It would have been better had the provider constraints not been struck down by the supreme court.

The entire idea was using the threat of losing access to Medicare $$$ to force acceptance of all ACA plans by providers in order to drive down cost negotiations for individual payers.

Large companies get to leverage large group sizes, and the idea of the ACA was to effectively turn all government aligned plans including Medicare into a single giant "all or nothing" group.

But when the courts struck that down, instead it became the exact opposite, allowing for even more division and sub-grouping across ACA plans, which drives up the end payee costs because there's little to no consequences for providers telling ACA plans to get bent.

The ACA as designed was effectively a compromise, and then the courts reversing the key compromise meant the overall result was a hot pile of crap outside of finally ditching preexisting condition lock-in (which was still a win overall, but a much more minor one).
It still steals the time of original photographer. It is not like dismissal of a lawsuit takes no time.
Pretty good for those with shit insurance.
Some comments on the TC write up¹ a few days ago².

¹ https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/21/oh-gitness-harness-launche...

² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37598082
No it wasn't...

Unity used some of their tech in 2022 to create a demo with some lions in it.
I mean, thats what its for right ?
Seems like they've massively overpriced these, at $60. They stain, scratch, collect fur, and may block third party charging cables. So maybe $20 would be the right price? But of course if they had gone with that price point, they couldn't have claimed this was a replacement for their leather cases.
I have read this thread again and we are in complete agreement. I initially thought you were arguing that useless reading was pointless and shouldn't be done.

I too have beef with the "readers are special" faction but I think its a more general faction we should have concern about - people who make something their entire identity. Then self-esteem is tied to that activity and now that by default means its more prestigous or intellectual or important or what have you.

For what it's worth, I think a book can still be improving even if its written in simplistic language and grammer because a book has the ability to tell a story from another humans perspective. We all lack that ability and I think we all could use a bit more empathy in our lives.
Toyota to triple EV output as it chases Tesla, BYD
The Moondrop and Apple USB-C DAC are so small, and tested by audiofools to be top notch yet are hardly much larger than a 3.5 cable.

I have them both are they sound pretty good to me with my assortment of Chifi IEMs.
Ok, I edited my comment to simply point to the original source.
Kafka will be trash when used as a message bus which is exactly what author had experienced. It can work but it’s designed for stream processing not messaging so it will always be inferior when used this way
For these kinds of relatively low-cost interactions, the HSA is even more of the same problem as health insurance: It's for people who find paperwork to be a fun hobby.

Just tell me how much money I owe you and let me pay. When I find myself at a clinic, I tell them I don't want to use health insurance to pay. They just give me a bill and I give them money.
[dupe] (like most techspot stories)

More discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37651962
sorry, but images are not stat-sig data.
Instead of signing a blank check for my doctor visits, I now get a paper that tells me how much my visit might cost, and that I am only liable for up to $400 more than that. That is progress.

Also, if my wife has a baby at an in network hospital, and the anesthesiologist or whoever is out of network, I know that the healthcare is still going to be considered in network, and so we are still only on the hook for the out of pocket maximum. Also progress.

And if you are away from home, and happen to get into an emergency where you are taken to an out of network facility, you are still only liable for your in network out of pocket maximum, which is progress too.
Other funny note…for all the Silicon Valley folk on HN…the trident missles the US uses on submarines are built in Sunnyvale.

I’m imaging most on here have read some/all of the secret history of Silicon Valley posts, but if you haven’t they are great
Watch some clips from Ray Kurzweil, I find his visions to be basically indistinguishable from what I've read in the bible and in other religions. He talks about immortality, resurrection, digital afterlife. Omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient super intelligence, the whole shebang. He even claims that soon, we'll all be Gods, millions of times more intelligent then we are today. In some ways, I actually find his views and beliefs a little disturbing.

I recently saw an "AI safety discussion" featuring Gregg Brockman from OpenAI who was referencing Kurzeil. It does seem like the religion has maybe caught on. To what extent Brock believes in it, I'm not sure but I can't help feeling that this belief in modern tech might one day seem like how we thought of the pyramids granting eternal life, or mercury, or any other seemingly incredible thing discovery / phenomena of the time. That is to say, the brain is a fickle beast and is easily amused and is just as easily bored. While we're in the situation we fee we're on the doorstep of immortality, eternal greatness, but maybe we're no where near that.

I'm open minded about it all, but it's hard to deny the parallels between the past beliefs and the present. Maybe this time it is different? Who knows.
So why didn't you just say you didn't have insurance.
fwiw your insurance most likely got billed $160 but that is not what they ended up paying for. that is the negotiation price, which you have less leverage for, but your insurance company has tons.

in a real world scenario, your insurance company probably paid $5
> If scientists had the slightest bit of societal power, our response to climate change wouldn't be this shameful

Why? Scientists are still human beings, they have partake in torture and genocide in the past. "I aim at the stars.. but sometimes I hit London" etc.
Robert Reich, professor of economics at UC Berkeley, put a course online this year with all of the stats you seek. Yes, wealth inequality makes income inequality seem like an easy to measure proxy yet ultimately misguided metric.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOLArO56vjuoeaIPzKQibBDbx...
Mine has stopped even asking for a receipt. But more importantly it's a super-IRA that's the best tax reduction around.
> There is no labor shortage, there is simply no longer surplus labor (due to covid deaths combined with structural demographics) enabling churn that kept wages low.

There are a number of mental hoops that one must jump through for this statement to make any sense. A lack of surplus labor is what exactly, if not a labor shortage? How is a high supply not the exact same thing as a labor surplus?
I see what you are saying. You can indulge too much. There is a certain amount of discipline required. In my method, I have to work for the 20 mins. Essentially practice focusing, work through the restlessness.

I also have things during the 20 mins to help me stretch it out - such as sitting outside while working (or have window wide open) or TV and music on for the background noise.

For the 10 mins of distractions, definitely have to be strict about it. Can't stretch that. It goes by very fast. Can't go out to do errands just because I feel like it.

As an aside note, doing 10 mins of house chores multiple times a day really adds up. Lot of satisfaction, and more importantly focus gained!, when the house is tidy.
Or sun exposure - many large chunky plastic items become brittle and fragment after years in the sun.

Then there's shadecloth - literally tens of hundreds of thousands of kilometres of shadecloth woven from plastic fibres that all eventually goes rotten and is replaced.

Tearing old shadecloth down sends tonnes of microplastic into the environment after what frayed and blew away while it was up.

https://www.sagehort.com.au/horticultural-materials/shadeclo...
from the linked article:

> people and organisations alike tend to be judged by the worst thing they do
with how they are executing tick tock and making a mockery out of the USDS system, I would not put this past them at all
They say you can't cheat an honest man. WSB users were trying to take advantage of shorts by creating a short squeeze; instead they themselves got taken advantage of.
Labor exists, just not at the wages offered by employers.

Unsurprisingly, none of the solutions involve lower share of income for execs and shareholders in favor of larger share for workers.
I have a very hard time guessing which way he'll testify. Trying to get anti-monopoly forces rallying seems like a dangerous game. Especially as the largest company in the world, with the least free & open most anti-general-purpose scheme yet-devised for computing devices.
Except they're competing.

If players think they win more at Casino B than Casino A, Casino A makes less, not more.
Goodrx makes money by exploiting the PBM system (which I'm in favor of them doing, to be clear.) If it becomes too popular then something will change in the pharmacy-PBM contracts or the goodrx coupon margin will naturally narrow as they become "the price" and their margins on the rebate sharing narrow as afforded by transaction volume.

Goodrx is great, but it doesn't save money for the majority of insured (for the half of the country on better-than-average plans) and it doesn't bring down costs nearly as much as you'd want for expensive medications. Cycling manufacturer's coupons for expensive medications can match or beat insurance copays when Goodrx won't. (And you'll increasingly find some insurance actually apply a manufacturer's coupon rather than cover directly. I had this happen recently with a 90-day supply of Freestyle Libre 3.)
Yes. They're expensive in the US because our healthcare providers are expensive.

Middlemen can't raise the price that much; you could just go around them if so, either by not using it or by going to another country.
Beware the IDEs of Arch
“Aaaaand, it’s gone.”

(South Park, “Margaritaville” episode, 2009.)
at this point then NULL hypothesis should be that China is using consumer grades products to spy on its perceived enemies including the USA.
This is a pretty hot take. The NHS has been run into the ground. That doesn't mean socialised healthcare is not possible. I don't look at broken old car and say "no cars work".
Interesting that this is enough evidence to the contrary for you. To me that looks more like what they say, not what they do, and is a well crafted smoke screen. They still seem to be acting as if they’re purely interested in extracting maximum shareholder value, at the expense of the public.
One thing I've noticed about the UK is that I've had to stop reading every British author I've read in my life because they've all died young.

Some of them did manage to release statements about how much they support the NHS before dying. I'd be more impressed if they lived though.
YouTube is axing its ad-free Premium Lite subscription plan
Ozempic is a lower dose of semaglutide for type-2 diabetes only. The higher maintenance dose (2.4 mg) marketed as Wegovy is for weight loss.

A weight loss oral medication will be available within a year or so, and it will dramatically reduce manufacturing costs. (The autoinjectors are very well designed and nearly painless, but they're very expensive and the whole thing is disposable.) It will still probably require a cold chain. Rybelsus is already available for diabetes but it isn't approved for weight loss in 3 7, and 14 mg doses. Novo Nordisk will likely issue an 50 mg per day for maintenance dose.

IANAD: If one can, they should first try to limit portion size because the risk of thyroid cancers with long-term semaglutide use is unknown and nonzero. There's a real possibility of another Vioxx/Fen-Phen moment.
You're leaving out Medicaid expansion, probably because you earn too much to need to use it.
The provider could choose to charge by time, but they usually benefit from insurance companies being able to pay them more than their patients, hence them choosing to accept insurance rather than charge by time or something simpler.

Even planned surgery can have an upfront cost:

https://surgerycenterok.com
bad reasoning. e.g. catalonia wants to leave but other states want her to stay - majority rules, right? have to use the system, right?

subregions should generally be able to secede. this is essential to maintain "consent of the governed"
KSP is on GOG, but the enshittification made all reviews one-star:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/kerbal_space_program

I don't know what other companies have screwed up GOG titles, maybe paradox (like stellaris?)
why does this read like tech that should not be reasonably legalized for civilian use
Idk what you going on about to be honest. I was talking about society in general, not the 1%. You're also just letting survivorship bias take over. Just because the cherry picked examples you picked out got to the top doesn't mean there aren't 100000 people behind them that failed extravagantly.
Read up on “fiduciary responsibility”. It has nothing to do with “employees of the company” or “to the benefit of the capital that funded them.”

Fiduciary responsibility is every board member’s responsibility and is legally binding (documents are signed stating as such when one becomes a board member). There are probably law suits pending against board members because they broke this responsibility.
The problem is some stuff I just don’t do often enough to remember. Like clean up my old git branches.
Out of curiosity, did you contact reception when you discovered this, and if so, what was their reaction?
If you have a high deductible plan and don't meet your deductible, are you really getting coverage? If you had diabetes, which plan would you choose, one that covers insulin supplies 100% or one that only covers the bare minimum, and even only then if you reach your deductible. Oh, and all the good specialists for diabetics just happen to be out of network.
> This book is not really addressing the more common "is math real" question of it being empirical or invented.

Please note, this is mentioned at the beginning of the review:

"I settled in to read the book “Is Math Real?” expecting to become embroiled in the age-old controversary of whether math is invented or math is discovered. Instead, I found myself confronted with two viewpoints of mathematics: one view is that mathematics is a stiff and fixed set of rules and algorithms while the other view is that mathematics is flexible and our understanding of math comes from questioning of why mathematics functions so effectively.

The premise of “Is Math Real?” is that people have different emotions about math. Some love the math and have little difficulty determining the correct answer to a problem while others loathe and dislike the math and have a difficult time ascertaining the correct response. Many times, a student is humbled or chastised for asking ‘a stupid question’. Author Cheng states that there are no stupid questions. In fact, the most profound concepts in mathematics are learned from asking the simplest of questions.”
I prefer verbose code over unknown defaults. If I need to comeback and read that code again, I'll know exactly what is going on at first glance.

I've never understood the desire to type less. Yes, there's a certain amount of tedium involved. This is life. This is why it is "work". Take away the tedious elements and you'll find problems in other areas. Everything is a tradeoff. I gladly accept the comfort of verbosity over unknown ambiguity.

Actual programming is the last mile of my workflow. Why would I want to be lazy there, or cut corners? The finish line is already within sight. Identifying a problem and coming up with a solution is the bigger task.
Try prompting it, "How can I make a Bellamy salute?"
Too many people wanting a portrait of him being stabbed 60 times?

Or intimate drawings of him with Cleopatra?

Cuz the world is full of weirdos, so that's my guess.
You didn’t know until much later how much it would cost you after using insurance, and normally you have no way even after the fact to compare to the uninsured price.

(The medical provider also likely won’t be able to provide accurate all-in pricing at the time of service.)
Like any insurance, the reason you have it is for when something happens that one cannot reasonably anticipate.

It's not the $500 infection that gets you. It's the $60k knee reconstruction or the multi-million dollar cancer treatment.
Too bad Costco (Costco employees) is not providing the service. It a different company called Sesame, and I do not typically lend Costco's reputation to vendors they endorse.
The amount of plastic in LEGO is a drop in the bucket compared to: Plastic packaging for food and goods, bottled drinks, car parts (panels etc; remember that a car is completely trash after ~20 years), plastic in shared goods such as school chairs and airplane cabins. So, it's simply not worth worrying about.
It was obvious. I giggled when a journalist asked a Robinhood executive "how could you dare grey out the buy button, you re scamming investors", and he replied befuddled "how is it a scam to prevent them to buy at the peak of a bubble?".

The disconnect between the short squeeze amateurs and the reality of any market was painful to witness, myself working at a large stock broker. Stocks are worth their dividend over time: stock with no dividend and with only a speculative future value are always a trap. It's ok to be conservative and expect a regular payment related to performance, it's very risky to speculate on other market participants' behavior: they have agency too, and sometimes are competent.
Bulk billing for GP visits seems to be getting rarer though, I looked on Healthengine and there's way less GPs doing bulk billing in my capital city. My last GP visit was ~$50 after medicare.
what a strange argument to make
"Harry Potter" was written by Rowling who was on welfare.
Changing anything about Lego would be monumentally stupid. The stuff is essentially perfect and has been for decades.
I imagine your appts/per hour go WAY up when it's a 5 minute voice chat versus occuyping a room in a physical building for an hour, having a nurse take vitals, all that ancillary stuff.
If you're willing to go through the trade offs in not using large scale first hand plastic, surely buying second hand isn't that much of an inconvenience
It depends on the medication.

For generics the discount cards can often make the price lower than the prescription co-pay.
That literacy rate claim is questionable. By 1830, the literacy rate among English men was 60%. Dharampal’s book is based on British surveys of India during that same period, and don’t show anything approaching those rates: https://www.indica.today/long-reads/remembering-dharampals-s... (“Campbell’s report reveals that there were 533 schools in the Zillah of Bellary, in which 6338 boys received instruction, out of a total male population of 438,673.”).

There’s a lot of pretty dubious claims these days about precolonial India due to BJP. E.g. the statistic that India was 20% of world’s GDP before Britain and 5% after. (The endpoint of 1947 just happens to coincide with the US and Russia becoming absolutely massive economies.)
The fact that you had an entire team operating it is the key, I think. I've seen various big buzzwordy techs used at various shops I've worked at and whether it was nice to work with totally came down to whether there was a team behind it operating it for us.

K8s with a k8s team running it - fabulous. Without a team and everyone kind of just needs to know enough to get by, except for the one guy who set it up? Dreadful.

Airflow when there's a team running it? Great. Luigi when it's just you, another dude, and the one guy who set it up? Not great.

Even RDS is like eh. Still had RDS tip over and we had to do manual vacuuming or something with compacting tables with dead tuples. Annoying when we were paying for RDS to ostensibly not have to do this.
Second paragraph explains further.
Haha yep. Like a bar pilot.
Perhaps the president/congress shouldn’t try to make unconstitutional compromises.
Good point, but I left out Medicaid expansion in my case because I live in a state who turned it down for political grandstanding purposes. But it is worthwhile to mention because most states did not
Go calculate what a small fraction of your total plastic footprint is Lego. Worrying about it for one millisecond is complete lunacy