skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the US, it would be very hard to convince a doctor to do surgery on an 80+ year old patient.

Not sure about the US, but this doen't seem to be true in the UK.

"The number of people aged 75 years or more undergoing surgery increased from 544,998 (14·9 per cent of that age group) in 1999 to 1,012,517 (22·9 per cent) in 2015. By 2030, it is estimated that one-fifth of the 75 years and older age category will undergo surgery each year (1·49 (95 per cent c.i. 1·43 to 1·55) million people), at a cost of €3·2 (3·1 to 3·5) billion."

From https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31115918/
they work much less well washington -> ca because the regulatory diff is larger.

and it was more okay for prior immigrants because we had systems like sponsorship. you couldn't show up and get on the dole. this has changed, which is why central american refugees will skip mexico (a closer country they MUST instead stay in to be legitimate refugees) and come through to here.

there are hordes of people who would come here and take advantage of social programs if we let them. those programs effectively keep people here - you can't argue for supply and demand if you tip things such that people are never forced to go elsewhere to look for work, support a family.
Here in Israel, healthcare is free. There is nothing like the comfort of knowing that no matter what, you will be taken care of. You can't buy that for 29$...
I agree that ground anti-air has played a larger role in denying either side air supremacy than fighter jets. But it is important to note that Russia failed to establish air supremacy over Ukraine during the almost year before western anti-air arrived. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian air force effectively carried out anti-air missions (including against drones) and even some ground attack sorties.

So, tellingly, the Russian air force failed to establish supremacy over Ukraine when Ukraine fielded only Soviet-era aircraft and anti-air (and in comparatively small numbers). Which strongly suggests that the Russian Air Force is not a particularly good opponent either.

But critically, the Ukrainian Air Force continues to exist as a fleet-in-being. So while it may not currently be capable of much force projection (I would argue that the Russian air force is also not capable of much force projection against a serious adversary), it does force its adversary to strategically deploy anti-air.

As Russian anti-air systems become depleted (which may be sooner or may be later, but due to the rapid destruction of S-400 systems of late, my money is on sooner), it is quite possible that the Ukrainian air force will play a larger role, especially given that training on F-16s commence in a handful of weeks.
> “paying existing workers more” didn’t make the list

That falls under tapping underutilized labor pools. You're trying to take someone not working and convincing them to work.

There's about 8% slack in labor-force participation to late-nineties peaks [1]. But per the article, some of that is retirement. It's not a long-term solution to rely on paying retirees to come back into the workforce.

When an individual company (or state) faces a shortage of workers, it's often due to pay. Idaho should pay its nurses more. When an entire economy faces a shortage, it's something more structural.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
I will just drop this very old Jonathan Blow video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsT-5VSqk8I which was talking about unethical games.
Stealing More Than Towels: malware campaign targets hospitality industry
I noticed that it seemed very fast which was good
More discussion on this article later:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37653804
The existence of multimillion-dollar treatments offends me.

It seems like medical profit motive has driven medical development too long and we could come up with cheaper, more effective treatments if medical research wasn't driven so much by profit motive.

(/someone with a very expensive condition, so don't @ me)
Do you pay yourself an SRE salary? Including all the taxes?

Infrastructure costs are not just AWS / DataDog / OpenAI bills.
The specific example in the article shows and states that a Booking.com site is emulated. That would be helpful info for a reader.
I am not sure what any of this has to do with employers choosing employee's insurance.

>If you have a high deductible plan and don't meet your deductible, are you really getting coverage?

Yes, because you purchased insurance for when costs exceed $x.

>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.

If there is evidence to support to use of insulin supplies, then all insurance plans should cover them the same, obviously subject to the plan's deductibles/oop max.

>Oh, and all the good specialists for diabetics just happen to be out of network.

Yes, this is the one variable for insurance plans. Presumably, insurance plans with higher premiums pay providers more, and hence a more expensive insurance plan will have more in network providers.
Maybe, maybe not. Watch this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsT-5VSqk8I
Great, let's go. What are we waiting for ? Forgive my impudent, probably arrogant, impatience... but can't we strap some house building robots and automated minesite equipment to a big rocket and call it a day!

We're used to rapid changes in technological advancement now, Spirit and Opportunity exceeded expectations. You could find some antsy, criminals/men who'd prefer to build a mars base than wait for unemployment cheques, deport them.

The meaning is clear, more land, more resources, an achievement for the history books, technological growth, human flourishing. Our first toe hold in the great cliff face of the milky way galaxy.

Leave the earth management and babysitting work to the government, there's more freedom, love, life and meaning in conquering new worlds as a matter of course, in the human condition.

Why wait!
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Console and (non-MMO) PC gaming up until the 360 and PS3 was an unusual time of transparent and straightforward monetization. Just pay once and you own the game forever.

If you go further back in time, you have arcades, which exposed children of yesteryear to the same tricks mobile is doing today.
> Labor exists, just not at the wages offered by employers

Source for the labor existing without immigration? There are tens of millions of people retiring compared to turning eighteen. Increasing pay should increase labor force participation a bit. But it doesn't solve the fundamental demographic problem.
There is a book on this “never pay the first bill”

It’s all a big scam.
Hmm I don't have that option. Perhaps my firmware is too old. Unfortunately Yubikeys can't be updated anymore since the early NEOs :(
That's an interesting idea. Did you write a script to identify commands that you use repeatedly? I wonder how that could best be done?
I believe it’s actually over 9000.
Reason had an article on the origins of the US system in AMA lobbying: https://reason.com/2020/04/05/how-doctors-broke-health-care/

I always wondered why medical insurance was so tightly integrated into the US. The answer is that it was done on purpose, deliberately, by doctors seeking to prevent existing institutions like unions and mutual aid societies providing healthcare as a commodity.
The board represents the shareholders, the management represents the company.

The board absolutely has to care about shareholders or shares would be entirely worthless... and therefore not a good avenue to finance the company at a lower cost than bonds.

It's a delicate balance but you cant blame a board for saving their shareholders, that's why we pay them as owners of the business.
Cashing out by running a company into the ground is what we’re talking about here. The Tony Soprano “bust out” method.
Say what you will but in Idiocracy people had healthcare.

And by the likes of Dr. Lexus no less!
Welcome to Costco I love you.
i still don’t get why people don’t sign up for kaiser if they have no health care.
legos are worse
While I appreciate your faith in LeetCode, let's not pretend it's the be-all and end-all of coding assessment. Just because someone questions its effectiveness doesn't mean they're a StackOverflow copy-paster. Maybe some of us understand there's more to software development than algorithmic puzzles. Let's not oversimplify the discussion.
Yeah, this is a stupid system. The free market doesn't work properly when people can't know the price before deciding to buy or refuse the service. Transparency is not an optional perk.
https://flylitchi.com/help is only available for older models, not for the Mini 3/4 models.
Look, I do realize that "recycling plastic" for years was just "ship to China / Mexico", so it was all a giant scam that the government helped the plastic industry perpetuate: https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=362

But... this struck me as weird. Recycling plastic doesn't need to help reduce carbon emissions, but rather, reduce non-biodegradeable waste that will outnumber fish by 2050: https://www.plasticsoupfoundation.org/en/plastic-problem/pla...

As CBS News reports, Lego said that it “decided not to progress” with the bricks after it “found the material didn’t reduce carbon emissions,

I find this whole obsession with CO2 and "carbon emissions" to be destructive because it takes away the focus from the more pressing concerns like pollution, desertification of farmland, overfishing, collapse of natural ecosystems from rainforests to kelp forests to coral reefs, plummeting populations of insects, etc. etc. That is far far more dire than ocean levels rising by a foot, or humans having to move out of arid environments. And in this case, it's almost comical that reducing plastic pollution is measured by how much it can reduce carbon emissions.
> pay yourself with tax free income when you finally need to

My understanding's that direct withdraws are possible after 65, taxed as income. Does your "when you finally need to" mean only withdrawing for healthcare reasons or is there a way to transfer or withdraw without a tax hit, besides for health costs?
Thanks to you, I learned and named some interesting concepts today.

I also found that vaguely explaining to GPT-4 the description you start with, also produced the proper names for me. Unstructured querying that I could not Google-Fu
i do not trust foreigners and their governments with my information. i don't even trust our own government, but we can at least not hand that over to others.

most of the people entering America right now are not doing so under passports or visas.

and actually i have no problem with opening up immigration contingent on ineligibility for all social services. that way, people will be forced to leave if there is no work and can easily come if there are open jobs.

that said, i think practically this would harm our quality of life. our cities are already breaking. look at how poorly the yankees handled the few thousand illegals we shipped to their "sanctuary cities".
It’s all interpretation though, isn’t it? Unsurprisingly, the Constitution has very little say on the topic of health insurance. How the content of the document gets applied to modern contexts is a matter of enormous debate, in a lot of contexts “unconstitutional” is a moving target.
Low value comment. This article is talking about the size of the labor force. That has not grown as quickly in recent years due to an aging population and other factors.

Tautologically at a certain wage you could convince the elderly and children to work but that’s not really useful compared to have a larger working age population.
they shortcut me to just a few interviews rather than the full 7 interview cycle. but i failed the typical leetcode trick question so no deal.
> paid shills aka "influencers".

At least the SEC insists that ones who tout securities disclose that they're being paid, as Kim Kardashian and some others found out the hard way.

Probably the closest thing to a legit "social media coordinator" is the one for the New York City subway system. Someone had the sense to put the on-duty social media coordinator in the rail control center, where they can see the display boards and talk to the people running the system.[1]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/worst-job-in-america-responding...
The B-2 stealth bomber also has an astro-inertial navigation system which relies on tracking stars.
The on-device scan of course.

It'll have to be embedded in the OS so it means you won't be able to run FOSS as you can simply remove the spyware then. Or, if it's done in each app, they'll want to forbid you from sideloading. Ironically that's exactly the thing the EU is forcing Apple to enable now.

Most likely they'll do some kind of evil attestation before you're allowed online, the same way Google is planning to put in Chrome with WEI to stop adblockers.
Show HN: Webcam Test
Please god no. We went through this already, it halved wages and made single income households a luxury. I personally don't want some stranger raising my kids for me, I want it to be me and my wife doing it. I don't want to delegate rearing of my children to the state, looking at educational attainment in aggregate, they're really bad at it. I don't care about a labor crisis, I care about my family. If wages go up, good. You're not taking my wife and making her your secretary or putting her on a factory floor to keep my pay down.
An overpass might make a nice hangar.
Why does it have to be without immigration? GP didn't say that...

Plenty of people want to come to the US btw, if you look at all the people coming over the southern border illegally. We just need programs to help those people do it legally, distribute them across the country (instead of concentrated in border states) and help them get acclimated to american culture.
> crony capitalism

how to get rid of crony cpitalism?
It’s about proximity to the money printer unfortunately. Triffin dilemma. Like it or not, we’re not sending cash to nursing assistants in Idaho. If they wanted more money, they could’ve flipped houses in 2020–2022.
Having switched to an iPhone, the thing that I realize now bothers me the most about android phones is the battery life. So many things about iOS frustrate me but the battery life alone makes up for all of that. I don’t understand why Qualcomm and Samsung feel the need to have 8 cores of 3 different types when Apple’s formula works so well.
For me, the more I'm able to avoid productivity related guilt / shame / "catch up" behaviors, the more energy I've had for addressing underlying issues.

Some things have just sort of worked themselves out. I've ended up with what I think of as a "procrastination ouroboros." Most of the projects I rotate through have various interesting parts that are in various states of completion. The big difference for me, though, is that it _is_ a rotation. I actually return to projects now, because I don't completely burn through all of my enthusiasm in the first go. One of these is a project that I've been working on for several years now, which is a first for me.

I still don't love losing days on something nonsensical because I hyperfocused. I still end up stuck on boring tasks, and it's hard to not feel like it's all laziness, etc. After years of that, though, it feels like pushing _directly_ against those impulses isn't really sustainable. It's pointless wasting extra time on self-flagellation.

I don't know that this level of granularity will actually apply to anyone else, but I think it's worthwhile to at least give yourself the space to explore things like this when you can.

(Also, I take an SSRI, a prescription stim, working from home helps, and I'm sure there are a myriad of other things / factors. I think, if nothing else, "giving in" would have helped me try some of those things earlier, and it has helped me avoid short circuiting thought processes that prevent attempts at actual change.)
do you think i have time or energy to go grind leetcode for 6 months?
Tolkien lived to 81.
Agatha Christie 86.
John La Carre 91.
Jackie Collins 77.
Ken Follet is 74 and still very active.
Anthony Burgess 76.
PD James 94.

If you're talking about Douglas Adams, he died of a massive heart attack...in California, where he'd lived for years.

So, in summary, uh wot mate?
Both my children suffer anxiety, and their mother drank 4 litres or more a day of diet coke for years, including during both pregnancies.

I realise there could be many other factors, but does anyone else have any anecdotal evidence to relate?
Playing with fuzzy logic a afternoon rabbit whole of fun experimentation. I get into some cool examples of Levenshtein distance!
Idiocracy called it. Costco law school soon.
As someone who plays instruments via audio interface:

I'm really confused by their definition of low-latency. For me, everything above 10ms is not low latency and I can -feel- that things get sluggish and a little less responsive.

And btw. I've achieved ~5ms latency on Windows devices 10+ years ago.

It's too bad, because as of today you cannot really use Android devices for live-music making on them.
Come on. American software startups literally invented that motto. Just because you may be working at a slower paced company doesn't mean America does not have it.
I was waiting to check in and heard the desk guy talking to someone on the phone about water but didn't think much of it. They didn't tell me anything and after I got to my room I saw there was no water. I went back to the desk to ask about it and was told it was being worked on and would be fixed soon. When it didn't get fixed I kept calling and kept getting told it was being worked on. A few hours after checking in I saw a repair van arrive to start working on it.

When I emailed corporate afterwards I explained that they had checked me in without informing me there was no water.
Windows 11 copilot is not really the same thing though. They don't do something like homepods you can have around your house.
can't we strap some house building robots and automated minesite equipment to a big rocket and call it a day!

Sure, if all you want to "live" there are robots. If you want to send people, we having annoying little issues to address like a breathable atmosphere, survivable temps and locally grown food.
> Why does it have to be without immigration?

The comment argues labour shortages are a fiction used to drive down wages. Immigration solves a labour shortage by driving down (or stabilizing rising) wages.
it’s more like they don’t understand what matters in mobile because ads is all they know

and as long as they can sell ads nobody cares
Chip War: The Fight for the Most Critical Technology [video]
No, they don't. Well, not the ones I read. Philosophers have been cheerleading science since Kant.
Seconded.

Between Pixelmator and Affinity Designer I've officially kicked Adobe to the curb.
Has Google copied the "Focus" feature that allows you to have different notification settings for different activities?

For instance, when I set my focus to "at work" I may decide to mute all notifications for social media apps and send calls that aren't from my family straight to voice mail. When I'm at home or at the gym, I may want my notification settings to be completely different.

Without that feature the Android notification system is much less flexible.
Virtual Imaginary health care for 29,99. How very late stage capitalism.
I head great things about Fish but I never took the dive.
That’s the impression I got, and that’s why I haven’t applied. I don’t want to work somewhere that makes me jump through arbitrary hoops just to get in the door. I’m not a college student, I have a busy full time job and a family to take care of. I’m not going to take time away from that to read a book about how to ace a deliberately esoteric job interview.
fyi carbon emissions directly causes global warming and ocean acidification, so yes, mitigating carbon emissions IS very important to help your desertification, rainforests, kelp forests, and coral reefs
Thinking of insurance in healthcare like normal insurance is not accurate. They are activly involved in setting coding practices and therefore prices. They are entwined and in many ways ARE health care as far as billing is concerned.

(Currently studying for my CPC exam)
If there are 100 workers and 200 jobs, those workers will take the highest paying 100 jobs. The other 100 openings go unfilled.
> I don't want to delegate rearing of my children to the state

Okay? Then don't. Universal doesn't mean mandatory.

Are you suggesting we should reverse womens' rights in the workplace so you can keep a particular family model?

> If wages go up, good.

Wages don't go up infinitely. They go up, then you run out of workers, and raising wages further doesn't bring more labour to the table. At that point, you cut services and increase prices to temper demand.
The horror stories from the UK type system are more like "I had to wait 8 months for treatment" or "my medication wasn't available".
I was at an event were the organizers praised themselves for caring about the planet, sustainability, and for how green they were.

They were also serving cookies individually wrapped in plastic.
Something like Easy68K (68K assembler/simulator) for macOS?
We learnt a bit of Motorola 68K assembly on computer architecture class using Easy68K (http://www.easy68k.com).

It's a great tool, unfortunately Windows only, and probably isn't maintained anymore. Anyone know similar app for macOS?
For the tech you are getting yes. Phantom 4 was $1700 3 years ago. You get more tech in a very tiny package and especially at toy class which is under 250 grams. This it 249 so you can fly nearly everywhere as long as you don't bug people with it.
> So far nobody has demonstrated the existence of phenomena that contradicts the equations of physics.

That's kind of a tautology because physics is rules for what we observe. If we observe something contradicting the rules then we come up with new rules to describe the new thing.
I wish itch.io was more popular there are so many interesting games on there but like you said not enough people playing.
Here’s the problem about languages like Rust, at the very beginning of rust goals it gives you all the control while offering security and performance, want some libraries to manage some these authorities no problem, but the problem here is that if everyone want to agree one thing or feature while the language gives the programmer to full control this causes fractions in the ecosystem, 3rd party vs rust core team issues and co, a single unmaintained library can deal a massive blow to the ecosystem on like Go where “The Language makes the decision for you” it gets worst as rust isn’t a domain specific language (way more than python or java) even tho it’s a systems language this brings in different domain ideologies into the language which in turn creates massive 3rd party libraries to be able to handle those ideologies which in turn causes a massive blow to the ecosystem if more unmaintained libraries pile up.

This circle will repeat its self over and over again
If people are living with their parents later in life, and putting off purchasing housing because of cost [1] this could have non-insignificant impacts on successful courtship and reproduction.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-living-at-home-a...
I listened to "Masters of Doom" as an audiobook.

It went from good to excellent because it was narrated by Wil Wheaton.
The Pathless. Monster's Expedition was also great, but it's not available any more. And that exposed a nasty detail of Arcade: Once a game isn't “available” any more, all of your copies instantaneously stop working.
people should be able to disengage from society and not pay tax. income and property taxes are retarded and extortionate; we can create a model that fixes this with higher consumption taxes and much lower spending.