skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I‘ve started as Windows systems engineer with NT 4.0 and it was my day job through around Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. I rarely had problems or blue screens because of the operating system as such.

Never used 95 or 98 at home though, started with 2000 Pro there.
No one spends billions for the sake of symbolism.
That entirely depends on the company she works for, and her own disposition.
> their commute radius is frequently limited with gas costs that are insane

where in the eu are you talking about? every time i visit/talk to friends there it seems to be the opposite because public transit is ubiquitous and you can get a train out to all sorts of small towns and villages.
Yes, you can have fanciful "models of computation" with oracles of various kinds.

Few people really think of that as computation.

But I agree that there are real examples of physically possible computation which are not deterministic. The most widely used being true random number generators. And so theoretical computability is not necessarily the right model for the real world.
The tower that ended loneliness in Japan
Quite likely she will be punished for it, directly or indirectly. This is why it’s bad to be an employee. If you earn a living by knitting scarves in your house and work out a way to make them faster or better, or both, you’ll make more money or have more free time. If you knit scarves for a salary you’ll probably suffer for doing it faster or better.
Hm. That’s a good point. Provide government care and it pays more than private insurance (which it should if economies of scale are employed). That would basically gut the private industry entirely.
In America, most get their health insurance through their employers, and you don't get to choose the details.

Naturally this leads to middle men because it's all opaque. They'll eventually run up costs because they keep taking more of the profits.
It’s HHS that can do that not the hospital itself. The intent is to avoid oversupplying an area with hospital services. Because individual demand is inelastic and the government directly pays for half of care (Medicare, Medicaid) adding more supply means increased aggregate healthcare spending. Of course existing firms take advantage of this regulatory process to hobble competition.

This is an emergent problem of third party payment. Normal supply and demand mechanisms are not at play.
You’re right it’s a lot of “people” to piss off, but in this context it’s like being a sheep trying to negotiate what’s for dinner with a wolf.

Speaking of negotiators. These groups have very skilled so they wouldn’t just let themselves be played off against each other to their own detriment.
I'm sorry for misunderstanding you, I now understand that you don't see a disconnect there. Ha! "block of wood" that's a good one! Thank you for sharing your real view, your courage in sharing is inspiring, and I respect your integrity! :)

I read your "must equally face consequences" as promoting an admirable lack of bias. Likewise with your helpful comparison of the relative moral priorities of (war) crimes versus loyalties, which I saw as evidence of your support of impartiality and justice.

I appreciate you clarifying your position and owning your bias--even if you don't state what it is!--we all have biases, but if we are primarily led by them, and not by the more objective and impartial principles you also mention, it may be difficult to arrive at a satisfactory solution, or peace.
> the average physician pay has not kept pace with inflation for about a decade now

This might be true for primary care and family practice. I don't think it's true for specialities. And part of why it is true for primary care is because nurse practitioners can do that job now.
> The launch pad will be built some 350 kilometers from the coast in the remotest corner of Germany's Exclusive Economic Zone.

https://maritime-spatial-planning.ec.europa.eu/media/14877

Looks like the latitude will be around 55°N, not exactly ideal for a spaceport.
That Investopedia link is by market cap, but the quote you mentioned from the Economist is by revenue.
Germany doesn't have the resources to take on anything.

They have a shrinking economy and a rapidly aging population.
The plural of "the monopolists" is an interesting concept :)
All it takes is for one microservice to start hanging on a GRPC request, server hardware stops doing some fundamental thing correctly, or some weird network quirk that 10x’s latency to half the switch ports in a rack, and you end up with insane, sophisticated cascade failures.

Because engineers don’t have to understand infra, it often spans geographies and failure domains in unanticipated, undetectable ways. In my opinion the only antidote is a thorough understanding of your stack down to the metal it’s running on.
"Most" might be technically correct on some grounds. But more than 1/3 of American hospitals are for profit several of the largest health insurance providers are for profit. and basically every specialist, independent doctor practice out there is private.
Economist said "by revenue". You seem to have listed by market cap, so not the same.
The trend has been accelerating.

> Fueled by international private equity funds, consolidating firms have been on a tear in health-professional fields, buying up practices in fields such as veterinary medicine, dental care, optometry and pharmacies and assembling them into chains

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-private-equ...
> It's possible that the microbiome health really is as important as some people think, but it's also possible that the role is more minor and the changes in it associated with various diseases is just incidental.

You overstate your counter argument. The role of the microbiome in disease is complex and it’s hard to nail down the exact pathology, but the chances of it being incidental is vanishingly small.
I rather object to the phrase 'Techno-Optimism' being assumed to refer to Andressen's recent vaguely fascist rant. Techno optimism was a thing before then. See for example 'How to be a techno-optimist' from Big Think 2022 https://bigthink.com/the-future/techno-optimism/
I think you lost the thread. The claim was factory farming doesn’t change the volume of meat consumption and production, only the geographic location of it.

It is economically not viable for every American family to produce and kill their own 2lb of (currently, on average) consumed meat per day. That is why we have factory farming and why it dominates our food supply: economies of scale. The lack of these economies is why you objectively and in actual fact do not see the same scale of meat consumption in less industrialized food systems.

It has nothing to do with whether it’s physically or psychologically possible to kill x chickens per day.
> added Europe because they’re subsidized by taxes, not massively cheaper).

Then you don't know what you're talking about. European prices are much cheaper including tax spend. In fact, the US has about the same public spending on healthcare as European countries do. You just don't get covered by it
The argument is that the same problems occur in education: take your education specific points & you can find the equivalent issues in healthcare (Healthcare is full of completely opaque pricing activity, ridiculous nameplate price, give enough grants and other financial aid).

These are probably emergent effects of capitalism. I have a systematic fix, but I can find no margin to write it.
There is a book called "statistics for engineers and scientists "
The same JPMorgan that financed Epstein, failed to keep mandatory records, "lost" 47 million emails and were fined nearly a billion dollars for spoofing metals markets? The JPMorgan that taxpayers "gave" a $12 billion bailout to?

... Probably not your friend, unless your 'net worth' is in the 8 figures range.
How do these attitudes towards work ensure productive output, which is related to economic activity and thus national security. Is the idea that some modern work is more mentally tasking, and so 4-day work week prevents burnout?
Random related anecdote. I met a guy in Colombia who was cycling from Canada to Patagonia.

He'd made it all the way to the border according to his maps but was stopped by armed military/paramilitary troops and sent back to Panama by river in a dinghy full of (or made to appear to be full of) bananas.

In the end he had to fly that leg. It's also common to sail it, Panama city to Cartagena, but the other direction makes for a smoother trip.
That's a great paper, thanks for the pointer.
Do you have data on that? The most recent data I've seen shows physician pay going up.
Stationary Bandit Theory
UberEats
Higher Ed is being propped up by a second tier of consumer credit that basically lends extraordinary amounts of money for almost no interest, never allows defaulting and can be paid back over essentially your entire lifetime. Were it not for education lending, we would not see these prices.
That’s a great idea.

I’ll mention that I do select posts to HN with the assistance of a smart RSS reader and the two of us are adding posts to the queue faster than we can submit them so the next frontier is bringing the quality up but it’s not so trivial to define ‘quality’. Specifically “lots of points” or “lots of comments” are not a great metric in themselves because I know (and YOShInOn knows) that I could easily do better on both of those by posting clickbait articles on shoplifting in San Francisco or the low fertility rate of Japan and I wouldn’t be proud of that.

I don’t have a clear picture of what exactly it looks like but if I were able to teach my RSS reader to parse comments that would be a good thing.
The list you grabbed is ordered by market cap, while The Economist said there were 8 Big Health companies in the top 25 _by revenue_ which is a different metric.
Yes, but it's not where most actually go. 75% of degrees are awarded by public colleges and universities.
Brazil has the exact same unfortunate tendency. Hell there's a literal socialist in the presidency right now and countless others in power. President fancies himself the creator of some kind of latin american soviet union.
I’m not sure it was mainly rich folks who suffered. Many small scale investors also lost money. So severe were the losses that something like 25% of private wealth in Scotland was destroyed.

Some argue we are still feeling the effects of this today. It certainly didn’t help with social attitudes towards being miserly with money (which we very much are).
Worked at Grab. They had a ton of micro services. It was their way of partitioning databases so that they didn't have to deal with joins. Yes, it caused a lot of problems.
youtube as curated by HN
https://xiliary.com/bck/hn-tv.html
yeah i pay 500/month for a shitty bronze plan ... your premiums aren't going up because of me, its because of the tens of millions of people paying zero per month.
I had a lightbulb moment when I realized the USA is not a country (or collection of states) that exists to benefit the citizens. It's not there to provide healthcare or education or food to kids and all that.

It's a system (or whatever word you want to use) designed to benefit companies and corporations. Everything is designed the way it is to create maximum profit for the owners.

Think about the whole concept of an LLC, look at tax rates and the kinds of fines a company gets when they do something bad. They profit hundreds of millions and get a $400,000 fine for breaking the law. This is not an accident.
There is no bright line on the DIY spectrum between that injection molder and making your own charcoal to refine iron.

I love building machines - enough so that I never build anything with them. Maybe someday I will, but by then 15155 will have built hundreds of things.
It is basially a tragedy of the commons.

The patient will pick the $300 device over the $1 device every time, because their copay is the same either way. However, it means insurance premiums go up next year.

The doctor, hostpital, insurance, and manufacturer all get paid more the higher the price.

There is literally nobody in the system who wants to choose the cheaper but 99% as good product.
How's the Eurocloud project doing? Are they done writing regulations and started on services already?
I got this one:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-6-2-apple-carplay-built-in...

It works fine, but if I were to do it again, I would have bought a better quality one with a bigger and more responsive touchscreen.

I cheaped out because I did not know if the new head unit would fix the battery drain issue, and if it didn’t fix the issue I was going to get rid of the car.
Back in the early 1970's at the university I used to hang out in the rapidly developing IC fab shop with a fellow student who was an EE major. It was a unique time when individual innovation was at its highest point, and crushing financial pressure nationwide was only beginning to force the downward trend since then.

This was pretty interesting to me as a chemist, and there were even more parallels once I went to work for a company specializing in emerging chemicals, where unending experimentation and innovation was essential to bring yields up to tolerable levels from starting points which were barely feasible. Similar to emerging semiconductor processes.

With all the effort Zeloof has put in, apparently single-handedly for the most part, in his garage he does have what looks like a more advanced facility now than they had then. With the ability to make repairs and do maintenance on the comercially available equipment of the time, to a degree and with determination that the leading professors did not even usually possess.

This is the kind of person that needs to be protected from potential disasters that could derail his continuous progress, especially with such an early head-start.

Very much of an outlier, but there are uncountable others who have always had to wait for the least bit of opportunity which never arose in any realistic way.
Admittedly I'm a greybeard. Wrote my first app in 1984. Moved through the ranks, from support to dev roles, application architecture, enterprise architecture and finially process optimisation.

And so wow, those diagrams in the links - how does one even manage all those boxes?!?

Architecture is easier than coding, if you stay away from more/bigger/but_my_app_is_a_special_little_snowflake mantras. Consider the age-old, tried, tested, proven architecture models of yore (other than their most excellent diagram notations, stay away from UML).

Architecture (design) is layered, not spaghetti thrown at a wall, hoping something sticks. Most (99.9%) software domains can be divided into three horizontal layers -

1. UI

2. Application/business layer

3. Data layer

(note that both internal and external service layers sit at the same level as data layers, allowing them to be called from the application layer)

Finally, there are vertical layers (shared across the initial three layers) These typically include -

4. Communication

5. Exception management

6. Security

7. Logs

Start with that as an overview/index of the entire solution, and when the beast needs to grow, just grow it. But grow it wisely. Use the standard 3-tiered architecture model. Re-use those cross-cutting concens in new applications.

Federate identities. Standardise access/permissions management.

Finally, don't feel compelled to use all the things - if the solution is services-based, don't code a UI for it. Simply connect your client to the relevant, existing service. Yes, services can be tiered, assuming your management processes are mature.

As to the management issue. Governance is what keeps your estate from turning into a hairball. Make extensive and judicious use of

1. Risk management

2. Change management

3. Stakeholder management

4. Design reviews

5. Project review (where team members grade managers)

Establish a technical design authority. The TDA concerns itself with broadly technical matters that facilitate a system-wide perspective. This might include -

1. Systems and solutions

2. Data

3. Communications

4. Quality objectives, including security

5. Development and development operations (devops)

6. Infrastructure (including but not limited to directories;
networks; servers, both on-site and remote/in clouds; workstations and mobile devices).

7. Testing (Tools, techniques, platforms, languages and frameworks)

8. Locations
Doctors & MBAs.
MBA types running health care insurance, hospital groups, etc take the brunt of the anger because that's where we see our dollars go most directly, due to the convoluted way we pay for healthcare here.

However, doctors are very well compensated, and in HCOL often enough to underwork & choose their own hours. And there is an entire cartel system to ensure we don't produce more doctors domestically via our educational system, nor do we allow doctors to immigrate from elsewhere and start practicing. So supply is artificially limited.

The really enterprising doctors then setup all sorts of alternative income streams, like building their own clinic with other specialists to which they then refer you for all procedures.

Then you have all the doctors pushing elective procedures when you just want to talk about health.

And finally don't forget all the free golf resort trips they get in the form of "conferences" paid for by pharmaceutical reps. Basically kickbacks. The opioid crisis relied on a lot of this in order to happen, and 1000s and 1000s of doctors failed the moral test.

Plenty of doctors went into it for the right reason, are overworked, and underpaid.. and I don't exactly want to say "its a choice" but.. the option not to be certainly exists..
Alternative response:

>> Code that has been thoroughly tested is akin to a running system for a year

> Except that isn't even remotely true. Perhaps if you system has a purely machine interface, with a limited 'dictionary' of interactions, then a test suite could replicate deployment to a very large degree, but otherwise at best it can give only an indication of how use-worthy the system is

The last sentence there, I would state the exact same about battle testing. Both testing and 'battle testing' is just executing code, no real difference from that perspective. The difference comes in the form and variety of scenarios.

I'm making up the duration amount for the sake of examples, and clearly that can vary based on the system and the efficacy of the testing.

My assertion is that testing is akin to running code in production for 'n' units of time. Perhaps it's exactly the same as running that code for one second in production. Does one second in production give much more than an indication? Not really, but testing & battle testing are in the same boat.

> The problem with testing is that you need to know what to test. So unless you have some method of capturing every possible way a system is actually used, you will always run into the 'unknown unknowns' that you didn't realize even needed testing.

This is just a problem with building systems. This line of reasoning can become a bit nihilistic (why do any testing at all, manual or automated?)

Let's say a system has 10 major permutations, 2 of them are unknown unknowns. Let's say further that it takes 10 seconds running in production to be aware of half of those cases. Applying tests that cover those 5 scenarios is then akin to running the system for 10 seconds. If i have 100 modules, I change one, and there is a test suite that gives me the confidence of having run all 100 for at least 10 seconds (in varying combinations of together, in isolation, in shadow environments, etc).. then I will have effectively gained 10 seconds of battle testing before having released anything.
> the security boundaries are going to look like IoT, which is to say a dumpster fire. The thing that makes me worried is that we will get broad market penetration followed by gradual frog-boiling upgrades to scary capabilities.

Exactly what capabilities, though? Are you expecting that individual people's super-LLM-powered Alexas will be enabled to cause drone strikes? Or just that they will be enabled to, say, cause a fire in their house?

The latter is simple to deal with: insurance companies, once they recognize the dangers of such tech, will either require you not to have it if you want your house to be covered, or charge you a much larger premium if you have it. I don't see that being a major issue since the obvious incentives involved will limit the damage.

The former case would be more dangerous but I don't see how it would happen as a standard market operation, since we already have laws that hold people responsible for harming others.
I wrote Hacking Healthcare for O'Reilly, I've managed hospital systems and group practices, I've been a patient with a life threatening illness. This is a really low effort article, it doesn't even really define what it considers "healthcare". In the US healthcare is 1/5 or more of the entire economy, so who profits from 1/5 of all US economic activity is a silly premise.

The US doesn't have one healthcare system, it has 50+ (or 51, ...59, is healthcare in Puerto Rico part of the US healthcare system?, how about American Samoa?). Contrary to many peoples opinions the "healthcare system" is not operated or overseen primarily at a federal level. The federal government is one of the largest buyers of healthcare as an insurance provider, that is true.

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. Subsidized education and price controls in foreign systems also make comparisons excruciating. I think it is usually a canard. OECD data is, in a word, "garbage", as it relates to healthcare. Just one example: In the US, eyewear for seeing purposes is healthcare. In almost no other countries do you need a prescription for eyeglasses. Prescription eyewear in the US is a 20-30 billion dollar market, depending on how you want to count it.

I think the mechanisms for paying for healthcare in the US are really inefficient and involve too many intermediaries. This is a result of a lot of accidents of history. America is a very physically large country with a lot of people all over it, we expect very high standards of care, we consume a tremendous amount of pharmaceuticals, we have wildy abundant and relatively inexpensive food that seems to be correlated to our being much more overweight than a lot of other peoples, we engage in a lot of dangerous activities at a rate that far exceeds what a lot of other peoples do that seems to correlated with our culture, on and on.

Instead of hand wringing about differences between ourselves and other cultures we would be better served looking at boring things like medicares 3 million pages of medical claim guidelines, clearing house operations and conflicts of interest, better incentives for state level responsibility, antitrust litigation, lots of practical things that don't make click bait headlines.
One simple answer is healthcare is receiving boomer’s wealth, not inheritors.
My company dropped down to a 4-day week with everyone getting to choose their day off - I went for Wednesday because it gives a nice mid-week break. And Monday and Friday are great for focussed work because the majority of people picked those two days.
I’m not sure what “actual data analysis” is exactly, but it sounds like something that would be better handled in a stats or science class.

Though, if programming were taught as a basic problem solving tool like writing and arithmetic, just stuck in the toolbox, a science class would probably benefit from having it there. For example, if it was expected that a kid could do programming as well as they can write a lab report, then it would probably be easy enough to add some sort of “call Numpy to do a linear regression” type section at the end of every lab report.

This sort of programming is an everyday force multiplier, and it ought to be taught as such.
European Central Bank to start two-year "preparation phase" for digital euro
Blackmail

Threaten physical harm
Falsehood in Wartime