skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may not be a law here in the US, but most stores do it anyway. Meijer, Kroger, Walmart all have per-unit prices in a corner of the tag. Most of the time, sale prices have them too.
Can you adjust vector magnitude prior to the normalization? If the max coordinate C is close enough to 0, divide all coordinates by C.
In Czechia they are just littered everywhere on the sidewalk.
Once more, with feeling: it's not the lack of spending or taxes or too many billionaires that make healthcare difficult in the US. It's the unholy system created by generations of governments over there.
It's a lengthy title that didn't fit into the HN title limit. I've edited it to include the word "combined" although the result is still a little unwieldy.
Wait a second... this is starting to sound familiar. I swear there are policies that are too into place but I just can't my finger on it. Hmmm...

/s
That’s just good UI design. Make complex stuff look dead simple.
That’s just the nature of Nostr at the moment. It’s very Bitcoin adjacent. There’s significant overlap between Nostr and Bitcoin developers. Also, Bitcoin (through Lightning) is the currency used on Nostr for anything and everything.

I can totally see how that’s off putting for normal people though.
ULA's Vulcan rocket is fully stacked at Cape Canaveral
How do you plan to attract users? Users come for content and creators come for users.
You can see it clearly by watching the trends in any of the NPM tracking sites, such as npmcharts[1].

[1]: https://npmcharts.com/compare/bulma,tailwindcss,bootstrap,ui...
For those who will click directly into the comments:

The US GOVERNMENT (not the US as a whole) spent more on health care ($1.8 trillion) to provide non-universal healthcare than 6 European countries with a combined population similar to the US did ($1.2 trillion) to provide universal healthcare.

The article's premise being, it costs the government significantly more per person, and 50% more in total to run a non-universal healthcare system serving a subset of the population, than it does a universal healthcare system which covers everyone.

As a whole, the US spent $4.5 trillion (private+public).
A significant portion of inventors, especially the employed kind, will quite intentionally not read up on patents in order to avoid the risk of triple damages.

Patents serve to inform the lawyers more than the inventors, at least in the US in modern day and I suspect elsewhere too.
I rented a Lime scooter once. Slow but fun. I decided to never rent again, Bought a performance scooter that goes over 100KPH. Total thrill ride.
May I remind you that you started with

>> Alternatively, skip all the meetings anyway and then fire your middle manager. Or, if that fails, go work for a company that values your time.
Building a Hassle-Free Way to Port CUDA Code to AMD GPUs
I can't say the thought hasn't occurred to me ;)
Tech Workers Didn't Worry About Job Cuts Until 2023
There is no such thing as "universal health care" in a country, in any meaningful sense. Every country with government run health care rations with limits on availability, wait times, excluded treatments (mental health, dental, vision, drugs, acupuncture, etc), and often by personal clout/connections (this is the case in Canada, where I lived for many years).

Note this is in no way a defense of the US system, which is messed up six ways from Sunday.
https://archive.ph/YI6RB
Demo: Code generation and editing via streaming speech recognition
I created this Proof of Concept (PoC) and video demonstrate how prompt routing can be used to make ChatGPT dynamically select the targeted prompt, achieving better results. The concept involves categorizing the initial prompt using ChatGPT and then selecting a more specific prompt based on the tag to resend targeted prompt to ChatGPT. This PoC showcases the efficiency we can gain when using speech recognition and AI tools in development. I will release the code-assist tool on GitHub once I have more free time to clean up the code. If we have a set of well-tested prompts for different types of specific tasks, I believe this tooling approach can help us increase our productivity by skipping a few steps in our repetitious daily work tasks than just code generation. Editing code, issuing commands (with safety checks), and automated scope-down online search are the next steps to multiply work productivity.

Video Demo: Code generation and editing via streaming speech recognition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJXAFffxtIs
A lot of Console music is distributed as the machine code that is fed to the synthesizer chip. Emulators have been built to faithfully reproduce that sound from the same code.

You'd have to build an emulator for the Cisco phone and extract the code that generates that sound. I'd wager it's just a routine in ARM that is creating the sound on the main CPU...
I bought one of these too (ottocast) and yeah it has quirks but man, wireless CarPlay is even better than the wired one. I can just jump in the car and the phone can stay in my pocket.
> I see this in other reporting as well. "Massive drop in X" or similar, when reality is it's returning to pre-Covid levels.

Should it not be reported on, when the rise was reported on? It is a massive, newsworthy, drop and one of the side-effects of Covid wasn't "may increase dealmaking", so it shouldn't be assumed to recede alonside Covid.
Can you recommend something high quality?
Many would argue that this very clearly shows the US gov is unable to provide cost effective healthcare, if they’re already paying through the nose and not even covering the entire population how would adding a single payer system be more efficient?
Don’t tell the audiophiles.

SOS-preamp here we come!
This is great! We could also point it to https://biorxiv.org/
Awesome work!
https://archive.is/CKV7u
LBRY is doing just fine* with Odyssey.com

* as fine as an alt-YouTube ever does
Average physician salary in France: $154,000[1]

Average physician salary in the US: $352,000[2]

That’s a big chunk of the difference. Simply changing who pays for your healthcare won’t close that gap.

[1] https://www.erieri.com/salary/job/physician/france#

[2] https://weatherbyhealthcare.com/blog/annual-physician-salary...
The hype might end by that time. Maybe it will be "self-replicating self-organizing microrobots" by then...
That an implementation problem. In the Netherlands self checkouts are very quick and painless. There are no weird ceremonials or a bagging area or whatever.
It won’t change, too much money is being made and they can buy all our politicians, all of them
Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support
That's what I said, verbatim: "People's desire to belong to something is a thing, but the definition of that something is very fluid."

The instinct is there, but how that instinct manifests is absolutely a cultural construct determined by circumstances. There is no biological imperative that says I should belong to the group of people born less than 10km from me (or 100, or 1.000, or 100.000).
And the fault lies with the VCs and the startups they have backed with no path to being a business that generates revenue or even becomes profitable.

Instead, today's startups lives off fundraise to fundraise and when the party stops, they inevitably shutdown.
The US doesn’t typically spend on health care. It spends on sick care targeting things which can be dealt with via medications or surgery.

For example, most doctors don’t help people avoid heart disease. Instead they watch for it or things they can treat with drugs that can lead to it. Then try to help people manage it that. I’m not blaming doctors, it’s the system.

If we targeted health care and generally good health over the course of our lives, cost could radically go down. And people would have far fewer issues.

</rant>
Polarized light serves as a visual signal for landward orientation in spiders
Agree with this sentiment. The argument I’ve heard for why people use Medium (rather than say a custom blog site or ghost or Substack) is: SEO is better with Medium.
patio11 is smart, but I never understood the attention he got as an entrepreneur. He had a bingo card creator, which barely netted enough to survive in almost any US city (He would frequently post his stats during the JOS/BOS days), a failed job gamification startup (I'm not sure how long this lasted, but it was so short, I barely remember it), and ended up getting a regular job like the rest of us.
> Of course you may argue that the US is too exceptional to compare

In what sense?
Rex Basterfield makes tons of free synthesised VST instruments, but created an interesting 'resonating sound box' effect earlier this year that would seem relevant here for the box tone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NBm0CdJ8x0

Got to recommend his Sim-Cimbalom instrument too... he created and released this amazing synth 12 days after I suggested it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALKOXqQXyTs

Many of his instruments provide little details along the lines of those in the article (see his narrated YouTube vids), all freely-available here, most-recent at the bottom:

http://flowstoners.com/quilcom
Great question!
Here is Dot's answer: https://eu.getdot.ai/share/4e80130e-9c0c-4a62-b382-402a978e0...

We actually wanted to post it as Show HN, but dang advised that since it is not directly interactive it is more of a regular post.
This reminds me of Cousin Vinny.
I paid for it because I love what Adam and team are doing with Tailwind. It's been incredibly beneficial to use as a backend engineer, and the amount of money paid is trivial to the benefits it provides.
I believe the numbers you're quoting are "trillion" and not "billion".
because if you are the single payer (govt), you can negotiate much much better rates.
Elon probably didn't pay the compute bill.
I had an office, with a locking door and a north facing window wall, so I never fried in the sun. It was dead silent, walls were soundproofed. It was glorious, I could focus and rarely needed to move to a meeting room, my office had plenty of space and a whiteboard. They were on an extremely long-term lease and it was a marvellous anachronism. The commute was a damned nightmare. A soul destroying 30 minutes to one hour stop and go. The lease expired, offices demolished and we moved to what became my first open office layout. I made it a few months before resigning. Absolutely hated it and I struggled to get anything done. However, I could walk to work, which is always a great thing for a health and mind clearing after work.

I’m back to working from home again we have a nearby office that I visit occasionally for meetings. It’s a separate room north facing window (West and south aren’t great at all). For me, there are tax benefits to help cover the cost, and the savings on a commute, restaurants for lunch, and dry cleaning easily cover the rest. Time savings are great, but I recommend keeping the commute at the end of the day, take different walks around the neighbourhood. Find new businesses, meet neighbours. It’s much better than the same walk each day to work.

My 2c.
> just me ranting about how pointless an active regen DPF is :) I hope that one day regulation realises that and clamps down on them.

I hope so too. You can't sell a product that is known to break down under reasonable use conditions and then attempt to charge the owner for fixing said product. If diesel engines simply can't be made more environment friendly then ban them, end of story.
Just vaguely reminds me of: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...
Imho you'll find that a middle manager who spends his days in meetings by himself wishing he could fire the "toxic" people who didn't come is non-essential, but I'm happy to leave that journey of discovery as an exercise to the reader.
> Between direct public spending and compulsory, tax-driven insurance programs, Germany spent about $380 billion in health care in 2022; France spent around $300 billion, and so did the U.K.; Italy, $147 billion; Spain, $105 billion; and Austria, $43 billion. The total, $1.2 trillion, is about two-thirds of what the U.S. government spent without offering all of its citizens the option of forgoing private insurance.

Is it fair to include Germany here? I thought the German system required everyone to have private insurance through their (breadwinner’s) employer. But I’ve only heard this via self-employed people complaining of having to pay €300 a month in health insurance. To me it sounds more like the American system than the UK one of everything just being free and state-funded. But as I say, I only know through hearsay.
COVID led some of my family into being antivax and the ones who already were just went deeper and bought into QAnon. Ny partner is immunocompromised. Willfully making choices that are dangerous to the general population is where I had to draw the line. It's unlikely my kid will meet many of their cousins. I just can't trust their parents and the things they say are comic book level conspiracy.

My story isn't unique. Geography isn't the only thing preventing interaction with extended family, some of it is the deterioration of family because the world has gone dumb.
It's not really.

It's 60% vs 40%. That's a difference of 20% of the total population of millions of voters. It's a pretty big difference in anything relating to politics and policy.
That's a great observation. I guess the problem here is one of enforcement- with so many patents coming in, how can you

a) prove that a human didn't contribute meaningfully, an act of transcription obfuscates the origin here.

b) Devote enough manpower to doing this for every patent?

If the contribution is opt-in then it's marginally better, but I can see that the lion's share of patents would go to whoever has the biggest LLM, thus pushing the wealth gap larger.

Patents are about novelty and effort (we want to reward the inventor), who's to say that these inventions would be novel, when anyone with a large LLM can find them?
Medicare and Medicaid
Americans are relatively wealthy and hence choose to spend more on healthcare. That’s not surprising to me.
It’d get surprisingly close. The biggest issue would be 1-bit alpha preventing window transparency, but that’s more of a limitation of classic Mac OS than it is of kaleidoscope.

Just about everything else including window chrome shape, titlebar and titlebar button positioning, widget theme, desktop icons, fonts, and cursor were under the full control of the theme’s artist. There were Kaleidoscope themes (“schemes”) that did wild things like round windows and vertical titlebars. Schemes mimicking other contemporary-and-older desktop environments (Win95/98, IRIX, NeXTSTEP, BeOS, etc) were pixel perfect.
While I am very enthusiastic about reforming our system to a single payer system, one fact about the US that is unique that a lot of people on my side of the issue need to understand better is that making our healthcare system more socialized will almost certainly not bring down the costs. It may even go up.

One of the big factors driving the lower costs of healthcare in other countries isn't the cost savings from socializing it, it's the fact that the US essentially subsidizes the entire drug research industry and the rest of the world doesn't have to pay for that like we do.

So even with single payer healthcare, we're still gonna have to be the nation that shovels all the money into the drug industry. I don't personally see a problem with that per se. We are a rich country. We should pay the lion's share. But the cost shouldn't be so directly passed on to consumers in the form of insane drug prices. Switch to a prize system in exchange for taking stuff off patent or something, e.g. the federal government buying the patent whenever something new comes out for an extremely high one time price, then let the generics market go nuts with it. That would bring down consumer prices without eviscerating drug company profit margins and destroying their incentive to innovate.
do you understand why they get paid that much in the US...?
The glut of bad companies has successfully converted the SV startup scene into a market of lemons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
Factor in cost of employee as well.

The cost of employee is around an additional 22% of Salary in France but around an additional 140% in the US [1] (401k, SSA, Health Insurance, etc), which brings the total spend much higher in the US.

[0] - https://www.internago.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-employ-pe...

[1] - https://www.sba.gov/blog/how-much-does-employee-cost-you
It's such a pain talking about this on HN which is pwned by $TSLAQ who'll downvote bomb you when you mention them. But really sad are the simps who are not shorting Tesla but follow $TSLAQ.

The original article link that's banned on Twitter is very low quality / fake news.

It is not the 'claimed' article on Aftonbladet about the warning, they link to a better written Aftonbladet article that doesn't have any warning on Twitter. So even Aftonbladet seem to admit the original was crap.

But it is true, Twitter has a warning on a news story they don't like - https://twitter.com/sofiabostrom/status/1736350308517748944

And that tweet is not visible in search I found it via Google & site:twitter.com A reddit comment also said the journalist is shadowbanned.

Mica is also used in makeup, Refinery29 did a ok doco on it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeR-h9C2fgc

Don't like kids making your makeup/cars, pay for them to go to school..... Of wait that'd be like Mr Beast.... way not Woke. Give money to the Woke to solve the problem.

On topic. Bullshit of Twitter and really technically dumb, why not just lower it's impact. It was a fake story not even in English, it clearly applies to all cars (including ICE) normal people (ie not HN) would see it's not Tesla but a mica problem.
Show HN: I Made Crypto Santa
A serverless secret santa helper with asymmeteric key encryption, because I wanted to needlessly complicate things
Chronic illness rates in the US are far higher than in France, too. In the US 40% of adults report suffering from 2 or more chronic conditions.
Introducing Sage, a programming language that's wise beyond its bytes! I've been working on this project for 2 years and I'm happy to finally share it with you in a presentable form! This is the culmination of several compiler projects over the years.

Join the Discord to learn more about Sage!
https://discord.gg/rSGkM4bcdP

Checkout the web-demo here!
https://adam-mcdaniel.net/sage
In Germany, Twitter is one of few ways to get informed about the war in Gaza. - German media completely ignores the horrors happening there. And attacks intellectuals like Masha Gessen, cancels others like Ilan Pappe, Judith Butler, Candice Breitz, Ai Wei Wei, smears Greta Thunberg, and many others. So yes, Twitter is a very important channel to listen to various voices.

Germany did something similar in dealing with Covid. Everyone not in line with the officially accepted narrative was attacked, ridiculed, smeared. I started discussions with "although I have been vaccinated", to have permission to speak.
I instantly purchased this. I really love Tailwind and the component/UI libraries they sell. I'm shocked that a CSS library/framework is so divisive. If you don't like it, don't use it!

I'm also surprised that someone ... selling something ... gets such negativity on Hacker News of all places. Again, if you don't like it or it doesn't have value to you, don't buy it!
One terminal emulator with a bad implementation of buffering and outputting text doesn't make a different bad one good.
Totally agree. The biggest failings in the US are around public health. In the US, the path of least resistance is to drive everywhere, sit at a desk and eat fast food. It’s really hard as an individual to overcome these forces.
The Netherlands is different: I have 4 kids. All going to daycare 3 days a week. Total costs 3000 euros. I get back arround 700 from the government. Still 2300 euros. Thats 100 euros more than my rent. Kids are expensive.
I love reading about implementations like these. I love the technology behind it. But I’ve never read about a project like this and wanted to automate my house in any way. Maybe I’m a weirdo, but I enjoy getting up and turning on the light, and making coffee. I’d be somewhat bored if it was all done for me. I would miss the routine.
School is expensive, there's more money to go around, and the opportunity cost is much higher.
We will be seeing many startups layoff folks, pause hiring and shutdown in 2024, if they aren't able to make any money and keep relying on fundraising from vulture capitalists.

As expected, the cheap money era is dead, and we will be seeing lots of VCs pressuring and demanding sky high valuations of the startups they've backed for their ROI.
Ha! You’re right.
If you include individual expenses, Americans pay a lot more, with on average worse outcomes. This link posted by a sibling is illuminating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

That said, the US system is pretty much the best in the world if you're wealthy.

At the end of the day, it's completely in line with the American cultural norm of promoting the material success of the successful. It's why some of the world's best doctors are in the US, why people on this website think half a million USD "total comp" isn't that crazy, why the US has such a dynamic startup ecosystem, and so on ...

When you consider that, it all makes sense. I wish Americans were more upfront about this being their culture though, and others in the world more understanding that this is what they are collectively trying to achieve, rather than an abberation. I'm not passing any judgment, just observing -- though anyone is free to of course.
A Gnomon device would probably be a few hundred tons and a Sundial a few thousand tons - hence the delivery mechanism for the latter on Teller's blackboard apparently being "backyard":

https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/09/12/in-search-of-a-bi...
Heads up, I have "block newly registered domains" configured in my NextDNS site, so I can't resolve flare.pub.

For the future, might be good to register the domain a little while before the launch to avoid this.
1. Average physician salary in the US: $352,000[2]

I have many friends who are doctors. There is the salary they make, and then there are all the extras. Some have used their salary to buy the equipment in their office, and charge thru for equipment usage (added money on top of salary.)

Some have used their salary to buy the building used for their medical practice, and charge thru the facility fee (added money on top of salary.)

I agree both are "investments" but it is a non-traditional investment where you have a huge edge and a ready customer.
I have lived in Norway for a number of years.

And yes, there is. At least in comparison to the US system: "Universal" means everyone gets a basic level of care.

... Rations? There are no set limits, though they might not build another MRI machine if the existing ones aren't being used enough. It isn't like health insurance doesn't limit your care: They just tell you they won't cover x or y. And your denial of care will be different than what your neighbor gets in the US instead of everyone being treated nearly the same.

My drugs are covered in general. And when I purchase them, most are fairly cheap compared to the US.

Wait times definitely exist in the US as well, especially if you are waiting on a specialist, who likely isn't in your area unless you live in a big enough city. At least when I have wait times here, I get paid time off work if it is necessary.

Mental health is included.

Acupuncture isn't actual medicine.

Dental and vision aren't included here: Vision isn't generally too expensive (my partner and I both wear glasses) and dental has a discount. I think these should be included, though. Still better than dental insurance in the US - at least i can afford a dentist here. The dental is included in some systems (looking at you, Brazil).

In short, the complaints are the same in most places. Especially in the states.