skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In his 1979 book Messengers of Deception, Jacques Vallée describes his coincidental run-in with a mysterious character identified only as “Major Murphy”. A former US intelligence officer. In their conversation, Vallée tells Murphy that he prefers to use the methods of science to investigate the phenomenon. The Major is unimpressed: “What makes you think that UFOs are a scientific problem?”, he asks. He then proceeds to lecture Dr. Vallée on the rigid rules of science. “For example, it has to assume that the phenomenon it is observing is natural in origin rather than artificial and possibly biased”. The UFO phenomenon may however represent some alien form of intelligence, he continued, and if it does, “the study of it doesn’t belong in science. It belongs in Intelligence”.

Well then we need to make the domain of Intelligence something Open that can be studied in Public by the Public. Not something closed off, secreted behind closed doors.

It may not be a scientifically resolvable conundrum. Perhaps you need a mix of science and intuition to comprehend it. This would be appropriate. But we need to bring a scientific openness and cool detachment to this, as well as radical transparency to get as much data in as many hands a possible.

Otherwise we're all doomed, basically. Doomed to be manipulated by a "control system" we neither comprehend, ascertain nor are free to manipulate ourselves. Humanity's destiny is to be free of all those things. We need to unite and solve this thing together. Not trust those losers in secret projects whose only loyalty is to their secret handshakes and in their myopic specializations and misplaced hubris fail to see both the danger to the rest of us and the benefits strategic, operational and investigative of radical openness.
> We've come full circle on low-rez graphics, at the time it was the best definition they could generate but now it's an aesthetic.

And modern "low-res" graphics are anything but :) They are very high definition
The Decline of Condominium Construction in CO: Addressing Litigation Reform
What?!? You're telling me the weekly full disk virus scan that ruins 3 hours of work, the fortnightly security announcements from the poor schmuck chosen to be the security representative, and sending the password for a file in a separate email than the file.. all these don't really do much? the horror
Assuming that the two alien races are indeed "intelligent" (approximately relative to humans), and that they possess sensory perceptors approximately similar to those of humans, and that they inhabit the same observable universe as humans do - a universe that contains a great many physical (imperfect) circles - surely they should be expected to have conceived of the same abstraction of a (perfect) circle? And therefore to have gotten to pi?

Then again, maybe a circle (and all other geometric abstractions) are too tied specifically to visual perception. Maybe, for example, intelligent aliens who only have auditory perception, would have no concept of a circle but would have gotten to the Doppler effect. Or intelligent aliens who only have tactile perception, would have no concept of a circle but would have gotten to the laws of thermodynamics.
A big part of it is the liability insurance. Being able to sue and collect from healthcare providers for millions of dollars has a cost.

One of the pernicious undercurrents affecting costs throughout all of US society, where I think the pendulum has swung way too far.
And they couldn't even bother to add a screenshot.
> From the linked blog post by the actual provider

The linked blog post: https://sesamecare.com/blog/sesame-costco-partnership
No because DJI, XPENG, BYD, and a ton of other Chinese companies have this 'move fast and break things' mentality X100 that most American firms don't have. They ran circles around GoPro and their attempts. Closest analog is Tesla/SpaceX but who knows if even those guys last long term when the guy running it is so easily distracted by nonsense (eg. Buying Twitter, starting yet another company, playing hours of Polytopia etc. )
> That was an important lesson. Dumb, readable code is infinitely better than clever.

Ok I completely disagree with the first point. The author describes translating XML files using an unusual (at the time) method which most of his colleagues couldn't understand. He was ahead of the curve, yet his colleagues were not smart enough to keep up.

This is where good documentation is important. He should be helping his colleagues understand what it is that he did and why it's so useful. Give a few presentations, help them see the way.

Instead, the lesson that he's taken away is that we should all reduce ourselves to the lowest common denominator of our current and future colleagues, because it's better for everyone to be able to do things incorrectly than it is for one person to lead the way.

> I think about this pretty much every time I install a new npm module or otherwise import someone else’s code… what otherwise sensible thing is it doing that might ruin my day?

This is an enormous, important part of every programmer's job. Neglecting to dig into the details of every single submodule you use is like a mechanical engineer failing to understand the type of fastener used to secure two elements, or an electrical engineer that ignores the details of an IC chip. An engineer should never treat a subcomponent assembly like a black box.
I like that only 13 years later after a decade of ranting about it - people are finally understanding on their own why the “Affordable Care Act” was such a bullshit scam entirely supported by insurance providers.

It was even sold in a ridiculous way. “We all know health care is broken, so if we just force everyone to sign up, and give them more guaranteed income streams then it will fix itself!!”.

I don’t want to hear about how Obama actually wanted single payer or X. He knew exactly what it was the whole time.

“Medical billing” is an industry probably larger than medical care.

I fully support Costco here, insurance is a scam.
The article doesn't mention anything about the Azores or Madeira.
The registry is far from high performance. And given the registry is basically a massive hierarchical structure, how is it different from files re: "random places"? The same dev that dumps files in "Random places" would dump values in random places in the registry.

The registry is almost never a good choice for storing...anything outside of the operating system itself, unless the data is somehow tightly coupled with a specific Windows install (e.g. an activation key). The idea of storing instance data in the registry is madness.
Double down on C.
Large swaths of the U.S. never had lockdowns or had minimal lockdowns and it was the correct choice not to. The idea that you can hide from or wait out a disease as viral as the common cold is laughable.
Looking over the best games for Apple Arcade and it’s… Temple Run, Cut the Rope, Fruit Ninja. Really! That was the peak?
The long form Time article “Bitter Pill” from over a decade ago does a good job of explaining the how and why of the clusterfuck of American healthcare. Sadly and unsurprisingly, not much has changed since then besides slightly more price transparency that hospitals have fought tooth and nail against and hasn’t really moved the needle much in terms of improvement. The only other somewhat significant improvement that I can think of in recent years is the enactment of the surprise billing bill on Jan 1 2022 but I’m not even sure that has done anything meaningful or not since it went into force.
Scientists hail pioneering software in hunt for alien life
I thought the whole point of an HSA was to be used as a tax shelter. I didn't get one because it seemed way too complicated and also I don't make nearly enough money to set aside money in an HSA but that's what I remember when looking up on it a little.

I think you're not supposed to use it actually for healthcare, at least not in your young age.
They have a range in the Atlantic, it’s used for launches from the Atlantic…the French do similar things

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34043/france-just-test...

Generally the logic is don’t launch on trajectories over land unless you have to. I believe all of the land based is ICBMs are still tested from vandenberg on the (most beautiful section of) California coast near Lompoc for the same reason. Vandenberg doesn’t have any deployed ICBMs, they all fly to kwaj for testing. Same reason nasa/spacex/seemingly everyone but China make it a goal to not have launches go over populated areas.
I think I was a bit harsh in my words, sorry about that. I just see a lot of instances of "most ..." "many people" "some people" etc followed by some generic observation that I don't think always has enough supporting evidence or is just completely subjective.
The empire is collapsing so might as well rip the last remaining scraps of wealth off the walls before it goes all belly up. I would do the same if I were in their position.
Also, malpractice insurance is expensive, so patients are also paying for that...
Tesmon provides a unique value proposition by extending testing capabilities beyond what is usually offered (such as databases, Kafka etc) by their competitors, and as a product manager, I found the UI & UX of their latest Mac Application to be on point as well.
You really have to put some wear on a piece of plastic to get microplastic particles. Washing polyester clothes and driving cars on "rubber" tires for example.
That's like: "There's absolutely no reason for the executive to embezzle - they don't need to, they already have the cushy job."

Cheating means greater profit, and (unless caught) more-reliable profit.
The original research downplays that it's specifically Booking.com customers who are targeted here.
I can certainly attest that I've had dentists damage my teeth on more than one occasion.
So. Getting a CPAP. DME charges 1.2k$. That's the one that the doctor set me up with. Goes through insurance. I end up having to pay $800 in insurance. Now it requires 1 month of monitoring. Also, $16 for 2 generic filters.

DME is pretty shit about getting back in touch with you unless you force them to via the doctors office.

Dropped them for Cpap.com with a script from the doctor.

What do they charge out of pocket? $800, do the insurance reimbursement yourself. Secondly, they'll call you up 15 minutes after you order and in 2 days later the machine will be on your door step. Filters here are $8 for 6. (Delhi, India was about $5 for 2 in a store with a label stamped from chicago)
I do not know why that would be difficult, I have never had an issue getting a receipt with patient name, charges, and the amount on it.

Also, the ideal way to use an HSA is to not use it. Every year, transfer the HSA funds to Fidelity, invest in VOO or whatever, and let it ride as long as you can. PDF all the receipts, and then pay yourself with tax free income when you finally need to.
Patent Troll Kills Open Source Project on Erasure Codes (2014)
Yup. But that’s based on knowing where the silo is, they are less mobile than subs (or trucks or trains). The alignment is all based on dead reckoning from where it started to where it’s going to know where it is, where it wants to be, and how to steer there.
I don't know if it is insurance or the administration on both the provider and insurer sides. I have a horrible respiratory infection in western Europe, here I'd have likely died or been so overcharged I'd wish I had died. There 17 days in ICU on a ventilator and a few weeks or normal hospital recovery the total bill in 2001 was under $20K, the Euro and Dollar were almost even then so the conversion isn't important. Now if a local had needed that bed more I might have not been as lucky. This is what a well organized society can do, keep everyone under some level of free care so there is less chaos in their ER departments and that they'd have time to treat a foreigner well. If we switched to single payer the estimates are that we'd save money as a nation the first year, even with all the backlog of needed care and any transition costs. The savings would compound as preventive care started preventing more serious outcomes and things like car insurance and liability insurance would come down in cost too.
If this references buying on eBay, couldn't one just filter by Buy It Now?
”Lego makes thousands of pounds of new plastic toys every year.”

There is nothing inherently wrong about plastic. Plastic waste is the problem. Cheap plastic waste.

In general Lego

- is used for decades

- is not cheap

Plastic has it’s uses. It’s not inherently evil.

Lego’s use of plastic is the best kind.

There is nothing wrong in supporting Lego.
Insurance companies are not legally required to provide the same coverage, rates, deductibles, and benefits as every other insurance company.
Hi, we've solved the problem you mentioned! Please take a look on our open source postgres vector extension https://github.com/tensorchord/pgvecto.rs.

Our index building process is significantly faster than pgvector on hnsw because we can utilize all the cores, whereas pgvector can only use one core. And for the filter support, we do support pre-filtering, which will guarantee enough results no matter the condition is.
I was a total convert to the Pixel 7 Pro until two weeks ago (check my comment history). Now my phone goes black when the slightest amount of pressure is applied to the center of the screen. Spent over an hour in support hell (and 6-8 hours of backups/migrating to a spare phone/etc) to be told to go to an Asurion center to get my phone fixed.

Had a lot of hope and goodwill lost on this phone. I feel like I paid a premium price (over $1100) only to get shoddy service and a shoddy product that will fail just outside the warranty period. As much as I dislike the iPhone, at least I can walk into an Apple store and get support right away, and not the Google runaround.
Many cities have reduced or done away with the parking minimums. It ends up being another way of extracting value out of the existing market, but does little to reduce the median price of new homes.
I'm glad to see this. There is a huge need for something like this, so much so people routinely ask health-related questions in online forums which routinely have poor policies for how to handle such questions.

Frequently, someone claiming to a medical professional tries to bully everyone into accepting their answer as the only acceptable answer. Weird online social dynamics exacerbate the problem.

If you aren't verifying medical credentials, anyone can claim any expertise, whether framing real credentials in the most impressive fashion they can spin doctor it without lying or outright lying.

It's a broken system. Hopefully, services like this where you pay a small fee and you know it's an actual medical professional will serve to start filling in some of those gaps.
The first paragraph of page 40 says: "Stars are normally tracked before takeoff, both at night and during the day (...)".
Well, it's probably pretty good. I believe I trust Costco to provide a quality service more than I trust most doctor's offices.
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How would that help in this case, where customers are entering their own CCs into the phishing page?
In Belgium house dr visit costs me 4 euros as a medium class income… even less to free if I’m poor… The other money is automatically covered by the required insurance which costs not that much either.
It's insurance. Just like car insurance, home insurance, travel insurance, etc. It's not supposed to pay for everything for everyone at all times. It's supposed to pay for the outlier events, the super events where an accident occurs or a tragic health diagnosis.

Health insurance is not health care.

That being said, I'm not arguing whether everyone should be entitled to free/reduced health care - but I am making the point that insurance is just insurance; it's a hedge against an unlikely but costly event.
They added it starting the Mini 3 Pro, but it is possible to have tracking in the older Mini drones thanks to third-party apps.

One of the more popular ones is Litchi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4jc5ZpSxrQ
I had an urgent care clinic offer me a sling… 5 months later I got a bill for $160. The same sling sells for $4 on Amazon.

They knew my insurance would pay them, and I have to pay my insurance. It’s a scam top to bottom.
iPhone 15 teardown reveals software lockdown
I am sure that the article is fascinating. However, I could not get passed the ads. The text of the article loaded within a second, but then the ads started to appear pushing the text somewhere. Then cookies banner took up a solid 1/4 of the screen. Then some of the ads reloaded changing size.
Horrendous experience that killed any desire to read the article itself
Wealth inequality existed even when the boomers were coming of age, even if it wasn't as bad as it is right now.

Among the boomers, there are surely a sizeable percentage who were never able to accumulate 'wealth', possibly through no fault of their own.

Perhaps they chose the wrong investments, because pretty much every able-bodied, mentally sound boomer with no other extenuating circumstances could have bought a house even at working class wages.

Perhaps they had a mentally ill relative they made sacrifices to support.

Perhaps they suffered a workplace injury early in their career.

Perhaps they retired comfortably but fell victim to a phone scam, and didn't properly budget for a devastating financial loss in addition to crippling inflation.

Now that group is being thrown out the streets, very likely by the boomers who had better fortune.
If you were real deal you'd be interviewing for quite high level and most likely targeted hire, without any of leetcode. It seems that you were considered drone.
Mathematics is an inherent part of the Universe. What we Discover/Invent are Models/Notation for identifying and using them. The difference today is that we have built and extended the Abstractions/Relationships to such an extent that people feel it is not "Real" which is of course not the case.

The best argument for this are the various structures across the World (eg. Pyramids in Egypt/Central-Latin America, Temples/Structures in India, Aqueducts from ancient Rome, Great wall from ancient China etc.) spanning thousands of years which could not have been built without a knowledge of Mathematics as we define it today. Their approach and models/notation may have been different but the essence of the Mathematical Abstraction is the same.
Your friend probably looked out the skylight and actually oriented himself on the stars' positions.

I'm saying something different, which is that unlike the SR-71, the C-130 didn't and doesn't have an instrument that scans the sky and automatically determines where it is based on the constellations it can see.
And on top of that, they introduced architecture that is currently exacerbating heat island effect. The native architecture was designed for the local climate and didn't do that.

I hope India can wash some of this off and get to a better place.
It can cost you $0. There is a difference in what you wrote.
Yes, they are required to provide (broadly) the same "coverage" and "benefits". The things that change are network of providers, deductibles, and oop max.

If you have diabetes, no matter which plan you choose from UHC/Elevance/CVS/Cigna/Humana/Centene/Molina/etc, you should be covered for all the same evidenced based care from all insurers. You should also be covered the same for a host of preventative services as required by law:

https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/preventive-care-benefits...
That was helpful to understand the problems with Tokio's dominance. As someone using Rust for web ... ehhhh ... stuff :-) I was always / still am happy with Tokio. But now I see the shadows Tokio casts.
”that will probably end up in the environment over time.”

A few brick here and there, for sure. I have 40 year old Lego blocks in my house. Unless the quality has degraded severely that plastic will be used for decades.

The problem with plastic is cheap packaging that is designed to be thrown away by the consumer at the first instance.
Borrowing money to buy back stock is the opposite of funding: it's de-funding. It's the acquisition of liabilities with no offsetting acquisition of assets or future cash flows.
You can still open them in a graphics editor but cannot preview them in the OS.
Please describe how the Affordable Care Act led to the situation you're responding to.
More than anything, I’m trying to expose myself to the current technological front because it’s likely that some ideas there haven’t been implemented yet. I totally agree that there are ideas to be found in past situations, and every now and then, an incredible leap forward emerges thanks to some ancient theorem. In fact, I believe it makes sense to combine both approaches. As for the competition of ideas, I don’t see it as much of a problem. Ideas can be combined with others, and even if the exact same idea comes up, there are still numerous fields where it can be implemented
It is also a bit sad that these strategies started to leak from mobile games into other platforms. Now we can find console and PC games with random "gift boxes", daily XP limits to force you to keep playing and others.

Not that it should be blamed fully on mobile, it was already getting worse on itself, with cosmetic paid "DLC" that could be (and sometimes is) present on the base game files at release but exists purely for monetization purposes (Oblivion's horse armor) or exclusives limited to a certain retailer.

There are several concerns with dark patterns that we have to pay attention nowadays, specially when children are exposed to these games, which did not exist in the past.
Very true. But for someone in their 20’s-40’s who lives a reasonably healthy lifestyle this is an option for preventative care that they did not have before. We can all lament about why this is an option vs an actual functioning healthcare system but for the people who are alive in this dumpster fire today that don’t otherwise have insurance it’s good that something is available. And even for people who have insurance it’s probably actually financially smarter to purchase cheap “catastrophic death level bazillion dollar cost cancer insurance” and just go here for preventative care on their own dime
this is just wishful thinking. There is shit ton of people who can write some code by copypasting stackoverflow and kicking it until "it works on my machine". leetcode helps to filter at least those.
> And, crucially, it is not supported by neuroscience [3]. It seems that there are distinct brain areas involved specifically in mathematical thinking outside of those that are language-specific, which would mean that mathematical thinking is more than language [3].

I would not construe a small study of 30 people (15 math experts) as having the backing of the field of neuroscience.

The steel man position of mathematics-as-language would be something along the lines of "Mathematics is mostly a language + some other stuff". The paper in question only shows there is "some other stuff"---but that is also true of almost every non-contrived use of language. The paper shows that the other stuff for sentences about history and nature appear differently in the brain than the other stuff for sentences about math, but that is far from demonstrating that math on the whole is not mostly a linguistic phenomenon.

Personally, I think case studies of famous mathematicians or physicists discussing their thinking process (e.g. Einstein) is more convincing evidence against the hypothesis than fMRI studies.
Apple weaved itself into a fine mess with the awful iPhone 15 FineWoven case
I just realised this now, technically every race/group is the name of a first nation.
Last I heard device fragmentation made low level audio practically impossible. As the brands offering Android die maybe that will change.

I used to want it for music production but modern mac airs are both cheaper and better devices to make music on while being ultra portable.