skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went through this with my provider and insurer, Aetna.

They had me rent the machine for 30 or 60 days. The machine had a cell modem that reported data to medresair, the manufacturer, and my sleep clinic checked that. A nurse called me twice to check in, sent the something to the insurer and after 60 days submitted a new claim.

It was actually one of the most efficient processes I’ve ever had with my insurance.

Like everything in the US health system, experiences vary depending on provider and payer.
I hope we reach a collective maturity on this. LLMs have so far I've noticed, left a trail of mediocrity. I'll of course not notice the parts that are good, so there is some confirmation bias here.

And, I hate it. If not used appropriately, it's an automated output from left side on the Dunning-Kruger. Bullshit asymmetry has gotten more skewed, and it's tiresome.
"Speed of light" makes more intuitive sense when you think of it more as the speed of causality i.e. the fastest physical speed a cause can have an effect

The speed of light in a vacuum happens to be the best representation of the maximum speed of causality

Which also makes more sense why you can't do things like travel faster than light (your effect would precede the cause), and why two protons going past each other in opposite directions don't violate this law
There are plenty of options e.g. React Native, Flutter if you want one codebase.

And if you want to have a lowest common denominator user experience that's fine but you shouldn't expect users to reward you for it. That's why successful apps tailor the experience for each platform.
I am pretty sure iOS has way less than 50% market share globally? So if your target audience is global I am guessing you lose less, on average
The difference is that (subjectively) there used to be less of this on HN. The herd moves much more aggressively now rather than granting for debate. The generational differences are much more pronounced; the politics not a match of Democrat vs. Republican, but something equally vindictive. It isn’t particularly pleasant, but what are the alternatives?
The ramifications of this breach are profound. Cybercriminals who gained
access to the AnyDesk portal could glean valuable information about
customers, including license keys, active connections, session
durations, contact information, email addresses, and the number of
managed remote access hosts, all with their online/offline status and
IDs. Such details open up a plethora of malicious possibilities.

In light of this breach, AnyDesk customers must take proactive steps
to protect their accounts and data. Password changes alone are
insufficient. AnyDesk offers a whitelist feature, enabling users to specify who can connect to their devices, adding an extra layer of security.
Multi-factor
authentication (MFA) is strongly recommended to enhance account
protection. Organizations should also monitor for any unexpected
password and MFA changes, suspicious sessions, and emails referencing
AnyDesk accounts from unknown sources.

https://securityonline.info/anydesk-breach-2024-dark-web-sal...
I thought I would start seeing red and frothing at the mouth when I read this, but this is actually a pretty reasonable take. I wouldn't say that the takeaway is that open source is just a diversion though - it's just that we should actually think about the fundamental software freedoms when we create a free software project. It's not just about making the source code available and slapping a GPL license on there (though that's important). If one of our goals is to give the users control over the software we develop, we should think about whether our software is actually achieving that goal - i.e. thinking about: have we actually designed this software in a way that makes it easy to modify and customize? Should there be a higher-level layer through which less technically savvy users can still customize this software to some extent? and other questions like this.

It's easy to get caught up in a primitive mode of thinking "FOSS license good, proprietary license bad", but we have to remember that free software licenses are not ends in themselves, but are a just a means to achieving freedom for users. Whether this goal is really achieved is a function not just of the software license but also of the actual design and customizability of the software in question.
The bags are my property, I worked for them. The collectivists fail to understand this very important part. If you want to re-use yours, you're free to do so. Mandating me to do so, is opposite of personal freedom.

At this point in time, Canadians are getting taxed on taxes.
If you fail to see that this is unsustainable, maybe you'll understand that for all the taxes you're paying, should you get sick, the government will more quickly offer to end you than to give you an MRI. In fact, they just passed a law that promises to jail for 10 years anyone that try's to dissuade you from letting them end you.
So it has been my experience that the collectivists don't really care about human life, as much as they say they care.
Collectivist utopias never are...
So I am looking, like many fellow Canadians, for a second home, in case things deteriorate any further.
Cool! This reminds me of Master of the Lamps that we loved to play on the Commodore 64.

https://www.c64.com/games/262
The problem is that the city relies on property tax revenues to function.
Thus impacting the supply.
Yep, its good that most countries don't have to worry about going to war with the next tribe just over the hill, also modern improvements in medicine helps a lot.
The amount of people who died from open wounds and drinking water that has not been chlorinated or boiled back in the old days...
Also people who have food allergies living a lot longer.
Also health and safety on construction sites.
I'm not publishing an article on a major news site so my fact clearance rates are lower - that said some cursory searching showed better workplace safety results in the UK and EU on the order of 5 to 30% depending on the source (BLS has some data also). Wrt environmental protection, and the political aspect, I would answer that the withdrawal from the Paris agreement demonstrates both.

Also: Workplace safety is connected to cost of care, and if a broken leg costs 10x as much to treat in the US, while simultaneously preventing the person from earning (and thus relying on benefits) then I believe the US would be a less than ideal place to experience that injury.

Just for the curious, here are some reports from respective governments. I am not submitting them as evidence.

US-BLS: ~3.5 deaths/100k https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf

UK-HSE: ~0.5 deaths/100k. https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/assets/docs/fatalinjuries....

No doubt the criteria for measurement differ in ways that prevent a direct comparison.
How long does it take for a bullet to reach 1500 yards? Around 2 seconds. How confident do you have to be in the movement of your target to hit them with a 2 second lead? Very. (Or you can follow the CIWS methodology and throw quite a few bullets at once)

The effective range isn't limited by the ballistics of the weapon (The 20 mm shells it fires will easily go 5+km), it's limited by actually hitting the damn thing you're aiming at.
There are only two types of ships:

Submarines and targets

http://www.johntreed.net/sittingducks.html
> That insulates you from the risk of a malicious update.

It also insulates you from critical security updates. Managing your own security is not without its risks.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28567973 - Sept 2021 (33 comments)

How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23927773 - July 2020 (134 comments)

How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19396563 - March 2019 (251 comments)

I vaguely recall other related threads on this if anyone can find them!
paying for content OMG!!!
And Microsoft's endless struggle to alienate long time users who'd be willing to put up with a lot in exchange for being allowed to keep old UI habits. In combination with large parts of steam libraries just working, it's almost a perfect storm.
I'm confused. Elon Musk says he is autistic (actually he says he has aspergers, which has been eliminated with DSM 5 and replaced with autism) , is there any evidence a high functioning autistic person like him "express and demonstrate challenges with understanding sarcasm, irony, nonverbal cues, idioms, figures of speech, etc".

This definition- of someone failing to understand idioms or figures of speech, sounds more like Lieutenant Commander Data on Star Trek than the meme twitter billionaire.

Is the definition of autism so broad as to have little practical meaning?
Apple does not have a giant advertising business.

And it's so minor compared to what Google does it's ridiculous to even compare the two.
Why would you ever unexpectedly need four bags in addition to your backpack or whatever? Or two for that matter.
Sniper rifles are firing a single shot, the bullet is smaller, and snipers can take significant time to prepare. I've heard of snipers firing a few hundred yards away from their target first to see exactly how their shot will be affected by drop and wind and only then aiming at their target. Sniper rifles have much less stress on them imposed by firing the cartridge than a Phalanx; a 12.7x99mm cartridge is nothing compared to 20x102mm. Finally, a sniper is firing a single carefully aimed shot; a Phalanx is firing 75 rounds a second from six rotating barrels.
Thanks! Yeah I really need to work on my low level security knowledge this stuff is fascinating when it isn't presented in the form of a crypto algorithim that is heirogylphics to me.
Why Hypersonic Missiles' Greatest Strength Also Makes Them Vulnerable (2023)
Some kindness could do you some good, if he asked it is because he didn’t get it, maybe English is not his first language or whatever it is, he didn’t unrestrained, so he asked. you don’t need to be an asshole. English is not my first language and occasionally I have to look for definitions.
I wasn't saying anything about Postgres not working on AWS but rather the alleged speed difference.
From a purely logical point of view - there's not much point to anything humans do.

Can you break down what the logic of pride should be? Any who determines what that should is. You seem to imply that there's an objective standard for that.
I'm not in the healthcare industry, so this is just a guess, but I think the biggest issue that causes some medical experts to want to retain long shifts is that the patient handoff between doctors for different shifts is handled so badly that they want to avoid it as much as humanly possible. It's sort of crazy, but they might genuinely think that tired doctors will do a better job than a rested doctor that doesn't have all of the patient details in their head.

I imagine that software for patient records sucks. Doctors can't easily read each others notes. Doctors don't have time to sit and discuss the patients too much to transfer knowledge. So a lot of knowledge about a patient's care vanishes every time a shift changes and a new doctor comes into the hospital.

I'm just wondering how can this handoff be improved?
Outer space. Degradation is different
That’s a hard argument to make, at least here in the UK, because it looks like the strain of restarting normal healthcare with a 2+ year backlog of untreated health issues will doom the NHS.

Also - you can argue that fewer covid precautions may have resulted in a collapsed healthcare system. However, in reality, the NHS occupancy rates for 2020-2021 were double-digit less than previous years.
Many supply constraints are “artificial”. It’s not surprising that the producer optimizes for maximum profit.
Forget all that.

1. They increase the attack surface of the operating system 2. They have routinely been transferred to (for money) or taken over by malicious entities 3. Often they subtly break things in ways that are fine for expert users but which result in support reach out by others

The whole web browser thing is a mess.
Thank you!

I guess I can make myself more clear - the good thing about CSS is not the way it does layouts, but that it can do layouts on almost any device.

You can come up with a better system that runs on your own machine (1 unit of effort), but then you have to convince everyone and their dog to adopt your new standard (1 billion units of effort).
Yep, I saw the text when using Raw Copy 1.3 and it had a hex dump of the Amiga Memory and you could scroll through the ROM area.

They got in a trouble with that and it was removed from future releases.
This is an impressive effort, no doubt. And Python packaging is in a woeful state. But I'm sorry, the last thing the ecosystem needs it another alternative!

https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2023/01/15/how-to-improve-pyth...
https://xkcd.com/927/
Compiling Rust is testing
I haven't run into no-network situation with Uber ever since every airport has wifi nowadays, but in that situation with no network, how does local on-device Uber data help to book a ride?
Why would one throw their trash in the trunk??
he did everything out of order, contributing significantly to his woes.

You need to get the permits straightened out before you touch anything. And you also need to tell your neighbors (all the directly adjacent ones) what you plan on doing. Then, once you are building, you're actually in a much stronger position to go back to the permitting office and argue about what you can actually do.

None of this is to defend SF- it's just practical points about how to achieve your goals with less stress.
"Secondly, in my experience and others I've read - autistic individuals seem to often do much better at understanding each other. I mean this in two ways: autists are often better at understanding other autists than they are at understanding neurotypicals, but also in many cases autists may be better at understanding other autists than neurotypicals are at understanding autists."

This is an interesting point.

"With this framing you could just as well say neurotypicals lack a theory of mind. Largely we don't do that because there are more neurotypicals than autists."

I think the really interesting result would result from testing this.

i.e. because of prior knowledge, neurotypicals model the default person as neurotypical.

However, knowing whether the second party is neurotypical or autistic, can a neurotypical person model their second party's mental states better than an autist, or worse?
There are many reasons to have a parking app.

You can extend your parking time, find closest parking meters, download tax invoices for businesses etc.

All of these are much faster to do on a native app than a clunky mobile web site.
`LTO-9 Cloud Storage` `Affordable long term archival.` `for safely storing large sequential data` `instead of S3 Glacier`

A 10-pack of LTO-9 tape cartridges, so 180TB, can be found for ~$400. Glacier storage is used for petabyte-scale datasets you might only add chunks to years then read sequentially one time to train your next LLM. It's not for random access like a hard drive.
The Onion both-sides it: https://www.theonion.com/liberal-conspiracy-theorists-claim-...
Right. Google is incentivized to push PWAs and other forms of cross-platform mobile app development (hence Flutter).

How often will the hot new app from some SV startup launch for iOS first with no Android app? Resource strapped companies that have to prioritize one platform will tend to pick iOS and that hurts Android (but is obviously good for Apple)
Yikes. I occasionally forget bags, and appreciate that we can get paper bags here for 20-25 cents. I also reuse those paper bags once or twice, and then use them for collecting compost on my countertop, and then throw the whole bag in the big city compost bin. This system means I don't need to clean or line a proper countertop compost container.
The author confuses development for an Apple platform with using Apple's service API in development, and suggests to write for web instead. If you can use Apple Music API in web development (I don't know if you can) then you'll face exactly same issues as described, because the problem is this service's API.
Syncthing not only does block-level sync, it does it in a distributed fashion.

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/syncing.html
Bourdain was awesome. His shows "No Reservations" and "Parts Unknown" are full of interesting, thought-provoking explorations of the culinary world, all over the world. I wish he were still around to share that with us.
Bourdain was a gem. His style of writing reminds me of the beats...

It should be noted that Bourdain later walked back some of this advice years later -- as the population became more aware of what they eat, the industry adapted.
I'm on the fence. While I think some of these features should be absolutely not part of a browser's scope, I think there will always be legitimate use cases.

What I'm absolutely convinced of is for better controls. A little more than a year ago, our government required the banking industry to know their users' locations for some reason. So now the banks ask for my location, otherwise I can't login.

While on a mobile device it would be quite hard to give them a fake location without rooting/jailbreaking, in my browser I could find a reputable, open source extension [1] that helps me protect my privacy.

These kind of controls should be part of each of these features, without risking installing an extension with nefarious intent.

1: https://github.com/chatziko/location-guard
If you're there by car you can't convince me you actually *need* bags.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

— George Carlin

You get that when I was on the other side of that 2 way mirror one of the qualifications to be a user was "can you use a mouse". As late as 2005 people being able to navigate a basic web form was quite the challenge.

Find someone far removed from tech and ask them if they have used ChatGPT.

That IQ 90 user stressed out of their mind isnt that far from reality. Go look at the "bad/poor/low quality" content on Facebook, or YouTube or if your brave tick tock. That is the person you're writing an app for.
We got a new video system at a work that is a bit beyond my knowledge, but the files it puts out are very big (read the Apple ProRes whitepaper to figure out which option on this system would give us the smallest video files). I've owned Apple's Compressor on my own Mac for years now and never used it, and even it's a bit less intuitive than I'd like.
And especially Bookmarklets are underrated. They can do many things where no extensions are necessary.
Thanks for the advice jahewson and mnvrth. I have developed a few SwiftUI apps, so React may be similar.
Sadly I am not good at it and probably need those first 8 trainer levels
I don't know what vscode's plugin architecture is like but I imagine it's just that Vim's is extremely powerful and, you know, with great power comes great responsibility and all that. Unfortunately, many vim plugin authors are not responsible, or don't realize they aren't being so.
HN gets a very biased view of psychology and other social sciences. All the articles talk about failures - a confirmation bias, a sort of media crusade that many on HN seem to participate in. It also serves the cause of those who want to tear down any institution in the way of the uber-capitalists (including all of social sciences, journalism, and anything that might provide an alternative or critical narrative), and any institution that doesn't serve them directly - college, of course, is now only good for training people to make more money for the uber-capitalists. What good is philosophy or psychology?

Psychology also has many successes - including some incredible ones for people I know, whose lives have been changed. It can provide great insight into the world.

An easy target is that social science results are not as reliable as natural science results, but that's not apples-to-apples at all:

Natural sciences' domain of problems is those that can be solved using the scientific method; if you can't gather objective, falsifiable, reproducible, etc. data, you don't do it.

Social sciences' domain of problems is those that need to be solved, no matter what: People are sick; we must come up with the best solution we can, using the scientific method as far as possible. What social sciences study - humanity - is far more challenging than, for example, fluid movement. There is not always objective, falsifiable, reproducible, etc. data to be had, so you do the best you can and, using your gathered data and expertise, provide the best known solution.
I get your point here, but here's mine.

When push comes to shove, a bit more pay won't motivate someone as much as having a feeling about the work will.

I feel guilty because I have a passion for software development but once pushed it away because I felt it was causing me social ostracization I couldn't afford (this was long before the Web exploded and "legitimized" the software developer). While doing things that were not-software, I kept getting dropped "hints" that I was on the wrong path (there is no rational way to explain this unfortunately), so I decided to hop back in (conveniently, right when the Web was starting to take off). I've been there ever since.

My S.O. is artistic but found no way to monetize that so she now does what amounts to "admin and logistical planning work for highly-paid traders", and she hates it. She complains about it all the time, especially after every business day, and she brings much stress into our relationship as a result. I spent a while trying to encourage her to push back into creative work but it just wasn't sticking- turns out that she had an evil woman manager once who kept completely shooting down her work and I think she resolved then to never let her feelings get near work ever again. My attitude towards that situation, was I in those shoes (having grown up ostracized for what I believed in and cared about, and then later vindicated) would have been to tell that woman to EABOD and I would have tried creative work elsewhere.

I have to wonder how many people out there are just going through the motions at their jobs because of something like this. And you're absolutely right- I AM privileged... but if it was possible for this to be more common, I wouldn't be. I really wish that something like my experience would happen to everyone. Would something like UBI enable more people to find "their life's work" before they get stuck in a rut that just happens to pay the bills, I wonder? How much potential economic growth are we actually missing out on, here?

You know how when you shake a bunch of different shapes on a sieve with similarly-shaped holes, you get more falling through the sieve (i.e. finding their happier job)? And when you stop shaking, whatever shape happens to be over whatever hole is the one they rest in? What do we need to do to add more "shakeability" to the market so that more people can try more things relatively safely (financially)?

My life DOES have a lot of other drawbacks that I won't get into (which probably serve to level the overall privilege I'm experiencing), but this is not one of them.

I really do wish it on everyone.
Same on all fronts. Mom died March 2020, a week before COVID lockdowns. The wake for her we had at our house was the last social engagement I experienced for at least a year.
Anthony Bourdain walked back his Monday fish advice in one of his later books.
Well now I know it's fake. LTO drives might be a few bucks per TB but enterprise grade hard drives sure aren't.
Transformers use magnetic fields to transform electricity.

That's why Tesla's AC system beat out Edison's DC system.