skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> socialized medicine in some form or another, be that the UK-style NHS or German-style mandatory insurance with a public option

This is not actually true. Some other countries have private insurance and those countries also have lower costs than the US. The US system is unusually mismanaged/corrupt.

> better health outcomes than the United States on pretty much every measure

This is also not true. The main way universal systems get better numbers on some metrics is that people with no coverage often have extremely poor outcomes, which when averaged in results in poor averages. But the average for people in the US with insurance is better than it is in many systems with universal coverage, which is an important metric because the large majority of people in the US do have insurance and their own outcomes is very much a thing that they care about.

You could bring about a large improvement in average outcomes in the US merely by providing an insurance subsidy for lower income people to increase the number of people with coverage. That wouldn't affect the cost much though -- it might lower it a little if it converts some emergency care to preventative, but only for that small percentage of the population that doesn't currently have insurance. The cost issue would still remain in general.

> spends less of their income on healthcare, even after taxes are included.

This is the legitimate criticism of the US system, but it doesn't tell you what to do about it. For example, Medicare in the US still pays more for equivalent care than many other countries do, so just putting everyone on Medicare without changing anything else wouldn't resolve the high costs in the US. And might even make Medicare look even worse because Medicare is in many ways currently subsidized by the high cost of private insurance.

None of that proves that you can't address the high costs without a socialized system -- but making the necessary reforms isn't easy for the same reason that bringing about your own proposal in the US isn't easy. Either way you'd have to overcome the political influence of all the people profiting from the status quo. Doing that is the hard problem.
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This is one of those things that sounds really great - and would be helpful - but not have the significant impact that it might initially seem outside of prescription medication.

The reality is that price transparency already is federally mandated and you can get a list of every contracted rate for every procedure any doctor that is credentialed with your health plan will perform. They’re all available on every national payer’s directory in a machine readable format and updated every month. Startups have formed around making this data available to consumers. This has been the case for a while (well, the number of procedures was limited before, but the concept still existed). It made headlines years ago.

The problem is three-fold (there are multiple but these tend to be the most problematic):

1) It’s almost impossible to know, for any non-trivial visit, the actual procedures that will be performed. This makes price shopping almost impossible to begin with. Not only is it difficult to understand up front, it can (and does, with regularity) change halfway through the procedure - sometimes even after the fact if the procedure was improperly coded. To some extent this is just a result of an overly bloated and complicated billing machine, but it’s a real issue today.

2) Healthcare consumers at their most vulnerable (and, typically, most expensive) are not in a mental space to be price shopping for care. Savvy individuals might comparison shop before an orthopedic surgery, but nobody who just suffered cardiac arrest or was diagnosed with cancer will spend weeks finding the affordable doctor.

3) Healthcare is an intensely personal and emotional interaction. People don’t want to price shop for care even if they can and are in the headspace for it. You don’t want the budget doctor performing the bypass surgery, you want the good one if that’s an option for you.

This can and likely will change in the future. But today the system is broken much beyond price transparency.
Really wish they'd photographed people next to these... I can't guess how large they are.
Never said to give up, but be realistic about the effort to outcome improvement ratio. Universal school lunches are an easy win [1], for example. With time and resources having limits, target what provides the most value. Take care of kids until they reach escape velocity.

[1] https://www.nycfoodpolicy.org/states-that-have-passed-univer...
I would have to disagree. If you have a larger system, then onboarding, design discussions, and communicating changes will be more efficient if you have a consistent language and up-to-date conceptual understanding of the system compared to having to perform code archaeology and reverse-engineer the previous maintainer's intent each time you want to change something.

https://www.unravelled.dev/how-architecture-diagrams-enable-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37222855
Re-reading Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" [1] a few months ago showed me how often I speak imprecisely or use too many words. Often I use more words than are necessary, only to say nothing. The purpose of words is to express ideas, but I often catch myself using words to obscure my thoughts and intentions rather than to share them. Worse than too many words are imprecise words. Words like "stuff", "things", "generally", and many others, simplify ideas to vague caricatures of themselves. Worse still, is that imprecision corrupts thinking. If someone cannot precisely express their ideas, perhaps they have none to express.

For instance, I have heard statements like "things aren't the same as they used to be". If I ask what isn't the same as it used to be, I receive vague responses that repeat what was previously said, rather than give clarity. Now, when I catch myself using similar phrases, I pause and ask myself, "what am I really trying to say?" Sometimes I find myself not actually intending to say anything - just something. This practice challenges me to think, rather than to parrot mindless responses that tell others nothing about what I am thinking at all.
[1]: https://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/composition/orwell.htm
Many fond memories of my X21 P3 and X220 (i5 iirc). Good little machines. Debian and Gentoo, never had issues (I recall anyway!).
The service is running off their servers, so they get the final say in whether to present content to you at all. Don't cry foul when your account is terminated.
I'm sorry to be off-topic but widows/ers just hurts my eyes. Why not use a more elegant alternative, widow(er)s? Even the uglier widow(s|ers) would be better.
Shift work isn’t really a fair comparison. They’re generally still putting in full time hours. Just grouped differently.
Does anyone remember the name of the 1-bit, bitmapped art you could get in the Amiga terminal? I seemed to remember you would just cat a text file and graphics would appear.
Mount Erebus
I have moved continent. You do not leave friends. If anything, it helps to have even better relations. There is this thing today called internet… family; well that is different. You loose something. But 3x I’m considering it. Is just that moving yet again, after 10 years… is hard.

BTW if you know somebody of those, who can decently code, let me know… because I do not find them!!!
Maybe, but over my 30 years every piece of anecdotal evidence I’ve seen *and* the movie Idiocracy says the exact opposite.
4get.ca, but instead of mixing results it gives proxies results for a single backend scraper. Of the three source engines listed, I believe only Yandex is implemented.

there is also LibreY, but my searches there fail more often than they succeed.
Sweden is a better example. Incredible parental support, high birth rates compared to the rest of Europe.

(Personally, I don’t think high birth rates are a good thing. The long term survival of our species depends on curtailing global population. But that’s a different subject.)
I agree with the conclusion: always use a fume extractor with flux regardless of the type. They're a cheap insurance policy. For what you pay to insure your car for two weeks you could insure your lungs for all soldering.
https://archive.ph/9ML5A
That has generally not been the approach I've seen in the market. Most programs expect you to charge your battery for your daily driving. Battery Swap is for long-distance and fast-charging only. Even if swapping was common, I still think there is risk, it would just be on the charging network, and getting a swap would be like renting a car or other expensive item. The battery would be checked for damage after every use, and damage or excessive wear found would be assumed to be the fault of the most recent renter, regardless of that accuracy.
Can you honestly tell me you'd have chosen to reverse your car in this scenario?

95% of people would freeze, stop the car, and get out and look if they thought they hit someone, to avoid making the problem worse.
Microsoft did an anti-Linux retail PR campaign around the Windows 7 launch, as netbooks with vendor-specific Linux distributions were starting to gain traction. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/09/micro...
I think this is the incorrect other option.

The other option we are seeing now is women in general will greatly reduce or stop having children.

Couple this in with two members of a family required to work to afford housing and healthcare the entire entire traditionalist appeal is going to fall apart due to complete unworkability.
I like this NSA paper

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/mone...
Yeah, I'm also curious. Another commenter in this thread blames individualism and inability to cope with minor incompatibilities but I wonder if it's really true.
Stellarium is great, thanks. Working on Linux is a huge plus.

It s would be perfect with telescope control. Just curious how hard it is to attach some control and use Stellarium as user interface? Scopes have standardized API for control and cameras, which makes it easier. I can try...
https://archive.ph/oeqAD
… I do wish people could just use some round price tags like $1,400 so that I could easily price what the various features are. Nothing says "we value the customer" (/s) like a 0.08% discount and a website that won't tell me straight-forwardly what the cost of the components is.
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> Comparisons to other countries that are much much smaller than the US are sort of silly to me. Europe does not have one healthcare system.

True, Europe does not have one healthcare system. And yet, thanks to the EHIC (European Health Insurance Card) [0], citizens of the 27 countries in the EU, Switzerland, the UK, and the EEA (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway), can use the healthcare systems from any other of the 31/28 [1] participant countries if they need healthcare on a temporary visit under the same conditions as the local resident citizens. The expenses incurred are reimbursed to the system providing the healthcare by the healthcare system of the citizen who is receiving it. This is done transparently to the patient, all they need to do is provide their EHIC card.

This means that each of these 32 different healthcare systems, with their own particularities (e.g. free at the point of use vs. copay), can be considered one single universal healthcare system.

If 32 different countries, with their own legal systems, legislation, languages, and healthcare system design (insurance based or state funded) can cover approximately 500 million citizens, then 50 US states under one single federal government should have no problem doing the same for their 333 million citizens.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Health_Insurance_Card

[1] In the case of the UK, the EHIC only reciprocal with EU and Switzerland, not the EEA.
Imho EM has become a lot more difficult because it has been split into Manager, PM, TPM, scrum master, and all kinds of other shit. It’s weird watching teams struggle so much because you have 3 or 4 people trying to do similar jobs and stepping all over one another and ownership goes out the window.
I think actually it's not desirable for the car to try and drive itself off a person trapped under the wheel
But x86 is PC, there are ARM notebooks, smartphone is just a computer with touchscreen and telephony.
About as tall as an ordinary storey of a house for the larger ones, and has short as stooping height for the shorter ones, in my experience.
Meh, I'd agree that they aren't quite built like a tank anymore, but my T560 is still going strong after nearly 8 years. Not bad going.
Ask HN: Can you suggest great websites/blogs about Antarctica, such as brr.fyi?
I’m not one to defend Cruise generally, but I believe emergency services told the car to not move, and in this case, the woman had previously been hit by another car. The real issue is that it didn’t see her lying on the road.
> I've never known any experienced security professional who places any value in CISSP, CEH, etc. (In fact they're often a negative indicator of competence)

You're tempting me to go on a very long rant about your comment right there. Those two certs are horrible but here are plenty of difficult certs with practical exams like offensive security certs and even SANS these days but damn shame on you if you use someone's certs as a negative indicator or an indicator of anything other than they or their employer paying a large sum of money to validate some knowledge or skill.

> Coincidentally, all the best security minds I know are mostly self taught when it comes to the security aspect, having pivoted into it from a dev background. The types of people who spend their free time reverse engineering anything they can get their hands on or practicing CTFs.

Right, and you will accept github accounts and HTB accounts on a resume? How many company's HR will let you? How do you know people aren't buying those accounts to get a job? (Certs are proctored).

You can teach yourself a lot of things, I did. But there was a crapton of stuff I had to learn responding to incidents and trying to solve real world problems that you just can't learn sitting at home. I don't disagree with what you said about being self taught, but that only means they are motivated and have potential. Certs and experience is how you prove that potential enough to get an interview, it is the manager's job to grill them and make sure their cert isn't b.s. after that.

I have seen talented people with or without degrees and/or certs and with varying backgrounds from school teachers and geologists to masters degrees.

It's rare to have more than 100 applications for security jobs. So my take is that security managers themselves need to learn security well or hire people whose opinion they can rely on. And then use certs and experience to priorize the stack, do phone interviews and practical online tests to filter out applicants and do an extensive in person (or over zoom) technical interview to hire the right talent.

If I may add another perspective, the culture in the US is particilarly horrible. In certain other countries, they have tons of talented hackers who get paid shit (well, at least not as good as the US).
lots of people have gone first, second, hundredth...
Nah. The blockchain is forever and there are all these breadcrumb producing onramps.
This is not surprising, it's a very authentic and verifiable cover story.
Show HN: Generate AI Video Interviews
That very issue you linked appears to have a request from a screen reader user asking to be able to skip content with no alt text
The correct solution in this case was to stop. Far better to jack up the car with first responders present, not continue to drive and run over the person with the other wheel.

One is also missing the context of the pedestrian had just been hit by another vehicle, it wasn't like this person was laying in the street for a while and this car ignored and ran over her. The woman was struck by one car, was on the hood of the car for a few moments, fell off that car and immediately into the path of the Cruise car.
when hitting a captcha loop, temporarily deactivate any adblockers, including especially VPN-based ones such as blokada and pihole, and solve the captcha one more time.

This fixes the problem for me.
It's now using searx-ng!
it appears that some people disagree with my comment. but i do not understand why.

am i misunderstanding what conservatism is?

or do people disagree with the idea of equality between men and women?

or with the idea that valuing family more would be better?
10% of the population was notables and nobles?? I'm gonna need to see some links/data here.
A relevant quote about the change of affordability of certain things from the late Agatha Christie looking back at her early years - "I couldn’t imagine being too poor to afford servants, nor so rich as to be able to afford a car."

With respect to material culture - so also with respect to what clothing styles and fashions are possible - anybody who can afford a car is far richer than people who had servants a hundred years ago.
I've taken to calling it Americanism. That wraps up so many of the weird cultural issues, because it's not capitalism to have basically no monopoly abuse protection, regulated-but-not-markets, and exclusivity and non-compete agreements. It's closer to anarchy or fedualism, with a veneer of "let's not devolve into mad max" on top.
https://archive.ph/a6YPX
I still see that part as the most complicated and work-intensive in a small/home setting. I've been looking at ways, effort and prices for several years now and I'm still split between resin plus injection or just resin prints. And I am still end up with outsourcing as the result. But I'd really like to own that process... frustrating.

If anyone has a really feasible/well working solution for enclosures etc. please post them :)

That said, while I excluded the molding part explicitly, since I thought about CNC milling, pick /place and other computer-cobtrolled multi-axis applications, I think one could have used CNC and/or some kind of "sand" baking (negative) appoach. Not sure what kind of hard wood solutions might also have worked as some kind of medium for subtractive designing the negative for a small production run.

Still not something I would see as easily implementable. But I also have no lazy solution with nice results today. E.g. for implementing display windows some kind of professionally color-coated clear case seems the way to go to get to something that ressembles current standards (always the main problem, anyway). Hard to do that with limited space and without a professional absorber solution.
At the end of the day I'd say even talking about homemakers doesn't matter as much as you think.

People in general like the addition economic freedom from making more money. Even starting at WWII women started working in huge numbers in the US and that number has increased ever since. The sending the money back in tax credits barely works in a single income house because the otherside in the massive increase of available workers in the US is the massive inflation of assets. When one person works solely to afford a house, the other person can't take a break to have a child. Now add in the out of control costs of healthcare tied to your job no one in the younger generation is going to want to have a child.
Is there anything that stops patients from lying that they are in a different state (just temporarily)?
New technologies are created in the following order:

- Make it possible (Blackberry, ChatGPT)

- Make it pleasant (iPhone, ?)

- Make it cheap (Android, ?)

Generative AI is still in the 'Make it possible' stage.
I looked at several precisions this month and they all had Ubuntu options. The /developer/ page doesn’t seem to exist any longer however.
In general working with or on behalf of "the security state" or "security apparatus" isn't considered kosher anymore.

I'd wager that probably plays a large role.

Additionally there's been several leaks of our spies' identities, by foreign countries but also by our own people to get back at others. Consider Valerie Plame [1] who's identity was leaked by the Bush administration folks: Richard Armitage, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby, apparently to target Valerie's husband. While Libby went to jail, the group still had a receptive journalist in The Washington Post who similarly had no qualms about revealing the identity of a spy, regardless of danger or legality. Actually we tend to treat journalists as a "higher caste" not to be questioned: "Of course a journalist has the right to report on <any|every-thing>!"

I don't think the same environment exists in our country as in the old days where it'd be "safe" or attractive to be a spy.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame
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fixes the overflow so you don't have to scroll left-right to read it.
The T490 is the worst ThinkPad generation to buy right now. The generation they took out the removable battery, soldered half the RAM and generally made some other anti-improvements. So you get the oldest hardware without any of the pre-redesign benefits.

I guess the T495 is worse. Those first gen Zen chips are just terrible.
It's maintained, minor changes as late as January 2023 (https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/changes.htm).

This is stable stuff!

The retro html needs a bit of a refresh, but everything seems to work AFAIK.
"Increasing consumption of dietary fiber with fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes across the life cycle is a critical step in stemming the epidemic of obesity found in developed countries. The addition of functional fiber to weight-loss diets should also be considered as a tool to improve success."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15797686/
DaBaby would make a good spy.
I did not know that was possible! I would never have thought to do that, personally.
I didn't understand the article correctly. I was wrong.
https://archive.ph/esd6a
Here I take the blame. I ask from day one to work on some kind of vision. She said that we can't talk for days, so better do it fast.

I said yes (instead doing what I wanted that was to invest the time needed to agree on a vision).

Then I continued saying yes again and again, until without realizing it, I put my self in an employee mindset. Waiting for her to decide what I work as she blocked everything.

I need to move back to founder mindset and start setting some boundaries.
I mean, if you want the # of PRs to skyrocket to an impossible to manage level, that's great advice!
The US government is arranged to ensure that, the Senate and Electoral College both give significant electoral weight to rural areas in the Midwest. Reading the writing from the time that's intentional and by design.
I think you are alluding to the difference between "simple" and "easy". You might enjoy this talk from Rich Hickey: https://paulrcook.com/blog/simple-made-easy

You can add stuff to make something easier to build or deploy (faster, more automated), while the addition makes the whole more complex (less understandable, harder to troubleshoot).
Isn't it only the US plodding on with non-metric weights and measures?
https://archive.ph/IH22l
ThinkPads, at least in EU, offer the option of no OS or Linux. And the discount is €60 if you opt out of any OS and €30 if you choose Fedora or Ubuntu instead of Windows Home.

With a little subsidy, Dell's pricing you report doesn't seem too far off.
Because all new wireless cards are AX, which FreeBSD has no support for.

You'll be relegated to using Linux in a VM for wireless, or downgrading to old hardware.
I don't remember if this was the specific article, but this one about Afghan refugees was memorable. The people here are not why the routes exist but show some of what is involved.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/world/americas/darien-gap...
The same article posted for the 14th time since 2017. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=c4model.com
Octo – Edit and review GitHub issues and pull requests inside nvim
https://archive.ph/hBU7H
Annual perplexity pro user here. I love it.