skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sad truth about COVID-19 is that the American health care system, and possibly global Western medicine, was terrified of the understaffing and poor management at hospitals.

The whole bit about "flatten the curve" and "don't overcrowd the hospitals" wasn't about crowding at all, but because there weren't enough physicians and support staff to handle increasing patient numbers.

Health care has been a booming growth industry, and COVID-19 gave it a literal shot in the arm. Facilities are popping up like mushrooms, especially those that serve the "seriously mentally ill" and there's a whole continuum of facilities to do that, from acute inpatient to discreetly unlabeled outpatient clinics.

Health care is expanding and encompassing more and more, while at the same time it is tightly integrating to provide "one-stop shopping" of comprehensive services under a single umbrella. My insurance carrier owns a chain of pharmacies, leaving nothing to chance: the more ultra-processed food and booze they can sell, the more people come in the front door of their PCPs and addiction treatments. The more lousy condoms and "95%" contraception they can sell, the more OB/GYN business for unplanned pregnancies.

However it seems that there's a perfect storm of rational people being disillusioned by this sort of "health care" that they don't really feel like working in the field, plus gatekeeping and artificial limits on medical graduates. The physicians I've interacted with are burned out and turning extremely cynical. "Verge of collapse" is quite a charitable assessment.
And how long do you spend at it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38861462

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858887

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858726

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38857524

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38857309

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38856222

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38854146

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38853587

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38852679

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38844170

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38841080

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38840981
That’s not what this thread chain is about where we’re saying the time complexity for various operations on more obscure but still common data structures (eg btree, trie etc) are trivia that is typically documented by the library providing said data structure. That is distinctly different from being able to perform a big-o analysis on a given piece of code.
It's an incredible reminder to people that HR are not there for the staff. I sometimes forget myself but it's one of the most plain scams in the workforce.
The point is loss aversion is a cognitive blind spot which results in people being less happy.

Perhaps you really do make use of a guest bedroom often enough it’s worth spending 10’s of thousands on. But isn’t the case everywhere. Perhaps you’re wasting money on excessive car insurance etc across a lifetime of choice it adds up to a massive drag.

In terms of EV’s people are spending more time driving to stations because they picture the once a year vacation driving taking 1 hour longer rather than the wasted 5 minutes 48 weeks a year which costs them 4.
Honest question - can you rent a car for the trip?

Whole my kids were growing up we had a big people-mover vehicle. They grew up, we stopped using it, send I sold it. Recently I had a group visit and we wanted to see the sights. I simply rented (a much more modern and nicer) people mover for a week. Renting local, away from the airport, was really cheap.

My daily drive is negligible. For road trips I'll just rent a car. I can also rent a truck if I need to carry stuff, or something with a towbar to drag stuff.

Being "cheap " 350 days a year leaves a big budget for renting the edge case.
Middle manager? I recommend you look who Gwynne Shotwell is within Space X.

To spare you the googling, she is the CEO, but I guess under Elon Musks "leadership" everyone else is just middle management.
I wrote it completely from scratch, basically a custom type of tree search. Admittedly there are naive aspects and opinionated optimizations and magical constants involved in the final code, but in practice it's worked without any problems for 4-5 years, and it's relatively fast for the amount of data it's churning.

[Edit: An example of a magical constant is the weighting of "friends" over a period of time versus "number of moves" required to achieve optimal friendships]
I'd love to see the correlation with popularity (followers, tweet views...), and with the number of tweets, and then some measure to try to to remove those effects to really get the most toxic accounts (i.e., community notes per total tweet views).
Yeah, these younguns have a lot to learn. :-) The notion that there's something innovative about using a small VM to port software is hilarious. BTW, here is a quite impressive and effective use of that methodology: https://ziglang.org/news/goodbye-cpp/

Dewey Schorre and Meta II, eh? Who remembers such things? Well, I do, as I was involved with an implementation of Meta V when I was on the staff of the UCLA Comp Sci dept in 1969.
Ants are like a real-life machine learning model.
I used to believe there was one significant command difference but I am no longer sure it matters and frankly cant recall what it was even. There is a difference in how they handle the undo/redo stack, there are some differences in :.= and ^g handling. The flip to alternate brace pair behaviour is different but can be configured in vim. I think expandtabs processing is different. Nvi is far smaller but that obsessional view is less important in these days.

Nvi has no syntax highlighting and is far less scriptable. Again, it's minimalist religion.

A lot of this is muscle memory.
I'm not GP, but the towing capacities of most EVs are pretty abysmal (in both weight and range), which is a factor in our selection.

Finding one that can tow even 3000 lbs is uncommon and 6000 lbs or more puts you into the Rivian/Lightning/Hummer realm in EVs ($$$). Or any-old <$20K used half-ton or mid-size SUV can tow that all day long.
None of what you say applies to me.
Do this enough - like I did renting cars for roadtrips - and you Will have both good and bad memories. I have been doing this for 5 years and for every "that was such a fun drive for us" there is a "we needed something spacious and we got a compact city Suv because they screwed up our booking and there were no alternatives" kind of stories. Or "we got an X5 with a steering wheel making funny noises" or "we ended up getting a hybrid with a very small trunk" or "the car started smelling funny a few hours into the ride" or "they got us a car with a slow leak in a tire". And when that happens, its sometimes enough to suck all the fun from your rare vacation and it costs a lot of time to get a new rental, in relation to the time you have at your disposal. Its also not really cheap. I owned a range rover before deciding on switching to EV plus rentals combo and my total costs of using a car stayed at the same level.
It's not remotely outdated.

I have the top tier of Avis loyalty program, almost exclusively on corporate rates, and even then arriving at SFO often results in a > 30 minute delay between arriving at the rental car centre and getting on the 101.

If you try to rent at an in-town location, forget about it, you're going to be dealing with someone who has spent a long time watching The Apprentice and thinks they know what business is about trying to sell you a 2008-era navigation system.
Part of that is making electricity cheaper, which means finding better alternatives to renewables, for the time being. Realistically only nuclear can get there until more breakthroughs happen in solar. Instead we're seeing electricity go up and this is only going to make people double down on gas cars, moving to a different state if needed.
Not "shocked" with Choquei being the first. If you guys only knew what happened in the latest weeks.

A girl committed suicide because of a fake news they made.

It's worse how they manage multiple pages. Poptime in the list? Also managed by the same group (Mynd8).
LFP batteries[0] are cobalt-free and make up over half of the EV market as of mid-2022[1].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery

1: https://m.energytrend.com/news/20220520-28100.html
First I thought you were joking. But as of February 2, 2009, 1 ZWL (third re-denomination) was equal to 10^12 ZWR (second re-denomination), 10^22 ZWN (first re-denomination), and 10^25 ZWD (original currency).[1] 1 ZWL does not fit in a 64-bit integer if converted to ZWN or ZWD:

log2(10^22) = 73.08
log2(10^25) = 83.05

Bigint would work though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar#History
Apparently this is the kind of hardware they are using.

http://www.xforceamps.com/item/Straight-64Pill---Krazy-Xtrem...

> Straight 64Pill - Krazy Xtreme Duty - 6.4KW-M

> Together they can draw up to 1280amps total off your mobile.

> The combined output power of the two units is +16000w PEP when supplied with enough electrical power.

edit: Larger one from 10 small ones with a maximum ampere draw of 980.

http://www.xforceamps.com/item/Straight-480Pill---Krazy-Xtre...

> Straight 480Pill - Krazy Xtreme Duty - 48.0KW-M

> Maximum Recommended Dead Key Output 12000w

> The combined output power of the Ten units is +130000w PEP when supplied with enough electrical power.

edit1: Also
https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/if-your-128-pill-amp-isn...

>Puts 48kW amp in car, gets effective radiated signal no better than a couple of kilowatts does due to the fact the car is a crap ground plane to start with.

>Someone commented that commercial AM stations are limited to a couple of kilowatts more. If you look at the antenna ground system AM stations use, there's a whole lot more metal involved than is in the body of a car.

edit2: Video from a smaller car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOT63GUdQDc

edit3: More specialized cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daKDu6FT2Xs

edit4: Truck that claims 60kw dead key output https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1YWke8cseg
Just downloaded it, thank you!
Interesting challenge, shame its only java. Can't wait till people start hand rolling their own JVM bytecode.
Musk's tweets aren't working conditions.
Well this will be fun. We already live in a world where law enforcement can easily spoof cell towers and ensnare anyone whose phone trusts said tower nearby, on a geographical basis. We are approaching a brave new world where any rogue nation's satellites could be overhead to provide cell service to anyone.

There is a certain area of town where I frequently go, and there is a conspicuously disguised cell tower across the street, and I've suddenly become suspicious of it. As you roam around the countryside, do you trust the cell tower that's providing service to you? What happens when a rogue tower begins to lie about the time of day, or begins to harvest your data traffic for later decryption, or simply analyzes your SMS traffic on behalf of organized crime threat actors?

It seems high time we need strong authentication mechanisms between handsets and towers, but on the consumer level, this is not a realistic goal. Have fun out there.
Except that an EV isn't cheap. Buying a $50-60K EV over a $30K IC does the opposite of leave budget to spend $1000 on a road trip rental.
If you have a collector car or an unreliable car, I can see how that could make financial sense. If you have anything that people would describe as a "normal, reliable car", that does not seem like a money-saving move. 1600 miles of mostly highway usage is not particular stressful on a car.
Finally, some sense. Thanks for taking the time to summarize this.

Fun side note... 90% of the DoorDash delivery drivers I see are driving a Prius, because the cost of ownership is lower.

That $25k Tesla is going to eat Toyota's lunch and every one of these delivery drivers is going to be financing one.
Depends on the edge, right?

0.1 per cent vs. 2 per cent both look like a banal edge, but it is a 20:1 difference. If you do something 0.1 per cent of the time, you spend 1 day in 3 years doing so. If you do something 2 per cent of the time, you spend 1 week every year doing so.

Also, it matters what the consequences are. I spent nontrivial money securing my home from potential burglary, because I just don't want to experience it, ever. I don't have a guest bedroom, but your example with the hotel down the street actually assumes that there is a hotel down the street; what if the closest hotel is five miles away and taxi services are unreliable?

Etc.

I get that some people overspend, but the original topic was range, and in a country like the US, with its vast rural regions, a lack of chargers on some trips may be a serious concern.
You do not really know how low the frequency is for a particular person and how important those events are. I think you are making baseless guesses.
> Up front planning

Hosting your own party has a lot more planning. And don't discount the planning that went into obtaining your own party room in the first place.

> A pub to exist nearby. While I as a presumably fellow Brit would not buy a house without being able to walk to multiple pubs, that is not the common case in the US where I actually live.

Don't get hung up on the 'pub' part. It can be a restaurant, public park, street (block party), arcade, bowling alley, or whatever is fun and convenient for you.

It can even be another room in your house. Move some furniture around, put in some speakers, BAM, party room.
> discuss working conditions

Which part of the open letter discusses working conditions?[1] It's about how they don't want to work for a company owned by a person expressing their opinion in the public sphere because it causes embarrassment in their own social spheres being voluntarily associated with that.

The court case is now about them demanding to have their jobs reinstated to a company owned by that exact same person where absolutely nothing has changed.

I agree that workers should have freedom of speech, but the owner of the company they work for also has that same right, a right they oppose and which seems to be the root of all their problems leading to this case.

Freedom of speech was never freedom from consequences was it.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/16/23170228/spacex-elon-musk...
> People focus too much on edge cases when making life decisions, imo.

Not in this situation. If you take a family trip[1] once or twice a year, that's not an edge case, that's an annual case.

The other thing you are missing is that those routes that are longer than the EV range are busy every day!

If you go out, today (non-peak season), and see 2000 cars drive that long route today, that's 2000 car owners today that need that range, or 2000 car owners who would tell you "range anxiety" if you asked them to move to EV.

On peak times, popular long routes get over 2000 cars per hour. We're talking 100s of thousands, if not millions, of this need coming up per year, so its hardly an edge case.
There are productive and destructive ways to handle disagreements with the chain of leadership. If I choose a destructive way, I shouldn't be shocked that I find destruction at the end of that path.
Think whatever you want, but loss aversion is a well studied issue. And you are definitely making sub optimal decisions because you’re human.

In the end I’m just describing a common mistake, not suggesting you specifically should buy an EV or whatever.
Nice to see consolidation in the low code space. Congratulations to both Airplane and Airtable!
Read Children of Time and have your mind blown.
Small is relative; I live in a relatively large apartment (1000sqr feet) in a super dense part of a city; everything I can access (gym, food, healthcare) is within less than 5 walk and I have a great community of people I meet with almost every day; almost by accident :) I like the dense space, and 1000sqr feet is not really small. I don't see the value of owning endless nothing, I'd rather go to the forest to be alone, fortunately a bus line takes me there; or I can ride an ebike.
Would be really nice if there was some sort of intermediate state / loading indicator, as there a bit of a delay when clicking each option and it's a little unsettling trying to work out what's not working.
Kind of a bold statement when looking at the definition of "protected concerted activity" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_concerted_activity

It doesn't say anything about controlling your employers speech on their personal social media accounts.
This is just a map/reduce problem. Use Hadoop. It's Java, isn't it?
Why Is Gold Golden?
I found that "Renato Bravo" you link, but based on photo ressemblance I don't think they are the same person.
Did you try and run it to see how will it performs? Could be an interesting data point on the leaderboard.
> … they just tell you what was issued, not why, not who in any useful sense was issued it …

They give you the certificate, which contains the issuer's CPS. If it's an issuer that you (the domain owner) don't recognize, you have at least a starting point for reaching out.

> … and they take up to 24 hours to do that.

Indeed, the Maximum Merge Delay is 24 hours. But in practice, by monitoring multiple CT logs, it takes just a minute from successful issuance to having the certificate show up in at least one CT log (see https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebProbeSpeedNe...).
The Lilygo/TYGO ESP-32 boards I've used also have horrible battery life while deep sleeping (which is a bummer because they put out some cool boards that seem ALMOST perfect for battery use cases)
For some reason, this thing comes with an Arabic keyboard. Which is pretty bad ass
my bad .. handicapped by the way I auditize .. point remains the same tho. Need to clean up PyPI or stop the mortals from using PyTHON. In the meantime, maybe put your venv's into a single non-emulated vm.
By your glaringly omission of numerous left-wings, leftists, and alt-lefts Twitter with community notes, you wouldn't be one of those as well, wouldn't you?

After all, the integrity of journalism appears to be dead.
I've got an 11 year old Model S. The range is reduced somewhat, but overall it's fine. Fine when it's cold out, too, you just set it to preheat before you go. Plug it in overnight.
The ants already sound much smarter than humans.

Ants: use antibiotics to treat wounds

Human: I'm not using that! It has microchips from Bill Gates in it!
In their defense, they have a lot of consumer-friendly policies (free cancellation, the ability to add on days to your rental) that would make it difficult to promise particular makes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_over_Water_(Jordan_River)
I disagree.
The sustainable alternative to EVs is hybrids, not gas guzzlers.

Hybrids can be smaller, cheaper, lighter and gentler on the grid. Each of these matter.

Heavier cars cause significantly higher road wear [1], particulate pollution [2] and occupy more space. EVs by necessity, are heavier. This is especially evident in America's favorite product categories : SUVs and Trucks. The Ford- F150 lightning is 1.5x heavier than its gas powered brother.

Mazda is able to fit in a hybrid rotary [3] range-extender in the MX-30 REV, saving about 800 lbs from having a smaller battery. The rotary only serves as battery charger, so you get all the benefits of an EV and none of its negatives.

Full-EVs are solving a problem that doesn't need solving. I respect them as a premium market segment option. But, massively subsidizing them with a 8000$ tax credit & virtue signaling makes no sense. The infrastructure is decades out from being there. There will be an eventual transition to EVs over the next 30 years as energy density and grid issues are solved. But, we should wait for it to happen organically.

As of 2023, EVs are not the sustainable solution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

[2] https://dynomight.net/tires/

[3] Doritoes are back baybee.
It's called "congestive collapse" or "throughput collapse" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_congestion

It's caused when a surge in traffic causes a self-reinforcing blockage that doesn't solve itself even after reducing incoming traffic below the pre-surge level.

Network traffic planning is always a conflict between efficiency and edge case tolerance.
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Await is simply syntactic sugar on top of what everybody was forced to do already (callbacks and promises) for concurrency. As a programming model, threads simply never had a chance in the JS ecosystem because on the surface it has always been a single-threaded environment. There's too much code that would be impossible to port to a multithreaded world.
Yes. I have a federal felony conviction for fraud involving a computer, against a former employer. Good times.

I've worked for 2-4 companies since then, depending on how you count acquisitions. I've even been trusted to write code that has touched a lot of financial transactions for customers. I doubt I would have been able to stay employed if I didn't have some dedicated advocates, mostly at the CTO level.

At my last (very small) company, my background never even came up. No check at all.

I've also spent a few years scraping by as an indie mobile developer with up to 15 apps in the different stores. With just a bit of a corporate shield, nobody even needs to know who you are.

In the software/IT field, I've met and even worked with plenty of people with criminal records. Multiple DUIs. Two that were convicted of vehicular manslaughter or something similar. Plenty of drug offenses.

You may want to check out Underdog Devs. You're likely too experienced for their mentee program but at one time they had a good list of tech companies willing to hire people with criminal records.
nice! which direction did meta-v go meta in?

i recently reimplemented meta-ii myself with some tweaks, http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/meta5ixrun.py

i guess i should write it up
Really impressed by the depth and breadth of this project, well done!

A particularly interesting part is the socket layer inside the browser. Other people solving this problem have previously used a proxy to a server that does the real socket implementation. This means you can't have a "browser-only" solution.

The author has solved this (for HTTP/S only) by proxying HTTP requests and then re-creating them as fetch requests (details here: https://github.com/ktock/container2wasm/tree/main/examples/n...). I'm very interested in using this approach for my own project Runno (https://runno.dev).
Most cases like these are just to get money from the employers because they have publicity risk. There is no law they can point that is broken. The article even clearly says this:

> The case is scheduled to go before an administrative judge in early March unless SpaceX agrees to a settlement beforehand. A spokeswoman for the labor board said it was seeking make-whole remedies like reinstatement and back pay for the workers.
We've been doing the same thing the Russians did to their defence industry to our medical care industry. Its been hollowed out from the inside and made a lot of people rich in the process.
> No external dependencies may be used
You can get Arq backup where you pay for storage and not devices.