skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I suspect the vast majority of engagement (and, spending) with the medical industry is non-emergency care. At least not emergency care required in the next hour or so. There are edge cases, but even considering most of what I've seen going to the emergency room there has been time to choose which hospital to head for.

Basically I think this is over-weighting the importance of emergency care. I don't have any stats on hand, but people entering the hospital system at ultra-short-notice is quite rare in my experience compared to having a bit of time to think. Most healthcare engagement seems to be for planned consultation, planned surgeries, emergencies but with hours to spare and then urgent emergencies. In about that order of frequency, and heavily weighted towards the first few cases.

2. People are more than capable of figuring out which of two options are cheaper. The ability of consumers to reject goods over tiny price differentials is legendary.

3. If people aren't up for the challenge of figuring out what to do in an emergency, then in a fair market you'd probably find the insurer starts to step in and assist. If the insurer has to compete for business, they have a very strong incentive to make sure their customers get good and cost-effective care.

4. And on food markets; those are distortions to the market, not limits on it's freedom. A free market can be distorted with subsidies and it is still free. The important factors are whether new providers can enter the market and whether they are allowed to compete on price and service quality.
I saw the space shuttle land once. From my perspective, it seemed to drop like a rock (fast!) and then as it got closer to the ground, it started "flying". I'd never seen anything like it.
You would be wrong. The closer documentation is to the code, the more likely it is to be seen, and to be updated. Reading and writing the docs are more common operations than “writing a new doc transformation tool” by at least 4 or 5 orders of magnitude; the ease of writing new doc transformation tools should not be the determining factor in a design.
I'd imagine over 70% of ssense.com is either hand made in Europe or Japan/South Korea, most of it will be quality materials.

https://en.adererror.com/product/sig-trs-tag-hoodie-zip-up-0...

A hoodie like this could last you 10 years easily if you took care of it, made in South Korea, tripe weight cotton.
Because homo sapiens survived and the others did not.

Homo Sapiens beat natural selection and became more generalized instead of more specialized...for whatever reason. In fact, there is no reason, really, unless you believe the Mesopotamians (ie: we were created as work slaves).
Definitions from Oxford Languages

plot armor

noun

used to refer to the phenomenon in fiction whereby the main character is allowed to survive dangerous situations because they are needed for the plot to continue.

"I do think that he can't die since the inevitable plot armor is far too thick"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_armor

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlotArmor
You probably want to check out the rest of his site, which is pretty much on par with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ciechanow.ski
Not only sites but more Neanderthal DNA also corresponds roughly with higher IQ in modern human populations. It's still very weak evidence though.
(Try boning a chimpanzee)

Dude. This isn’t evolution. Post Neanderthal humans were not far removed from Neanderthal.

As far as evolution goes Populations evolve. It’s not like there was Neanderthal and then big bang boom, modern smart human.
The issue is large corporations tend to go unharmed.This is in part because of the fallout from people loosing there jobs. Imagine all of google or uber getting fired. How many people loose livelihoods.
Which one is the kids bike? Which one is the bakfiets?
Well, confirmation bias. You are looking for news that confirm your perspective. Meanwhile renewable energy continues to grow in the US like in most places globally:

https://electrek.co/2024/02/27/us-renewables-2023-solar-in-t...
Apple should build a train.
I looked at testcontainers and ended up rolling my own version. One issue I had is that Docker is a very leaky abstraction. I needed to write one test and have it run in all these scenarios:

- on a Mac

- on a Linux VM

- in a Docker container on a Linux VM, with a Docker socket mounted

The networking for each of these is completely different. I had to make some opinionated choices to get code that could run in all cases. And running inside Docker prevented the test from being able to mount arbitrary files into the test containers, which turns out to be a requirement often. I ended up writing code to build a new image for each container, using ADD to inject files.

I also wanted all the tests to run in parallel and spit out readable logs from every container (properly associated with the correct test).

Not sure if any of these things have changed in testcontainers since I last looked, but these are the things I ran into. It took maybe a month of off and on tweaking, contrary to some people here claiming it can be done in an hour. As always, the devil is in the details.

edit: I did end up stealing ryuk. That thing can’t really be improved upon.
i imagine they think it's necessary in order for them to maintain power dynamic, but they aren't willing to convey that message. so they contrive creative "cover stories."
Sounds like some kind of protestant work ethic mentality: testing should be hard work, the harder writing your tests was the better your soul and the better your system.

I've seen plenty of projects that made oodles of mocks and fakes and unit tests and just sucked, outright didn't work at all in a way that would've been obvious if they'd done testcontainers-based integration tests or even just manual testing in prod. I would absolutely trust a project that was written in Haskell and had no tests, or only integration tests, ahead of one that had lots of unit tests. Indeed if anything I'd say the number of mocks/fakes is negatively correlated with the actual project quality.
Falcon 9 reached orbit on it's first attempt, so it didn't have failed experimental flights unless you count Falcon 1 as being it's experiments.
> There have been breaking changes, especially going from 2.x to 3.x.

That would be tolerable. That is what major version changes are for.

Crudly put Debian 11 to Debian 12 introduced breaking changes that I (from memory) tracked down to things introduced in 3.10 or 3.11

> I'm not sure what converting tabs to spaces had to do with Python.

This is a minor gripe but I do not like tabs, I like tab stops, so I convert tabs to the spaces required to reach a tab stop. Tabs are the syntax required for Python. A bunch of spaces are not enough.

Or do I have that horribly wrong (would not be the first time)

It is the breaking changes in version 3 that have made me an anti evangelist for Python. Not being able to run `mod-ui`, and friends in particular.

I dug around trying to make it work, and it was a mess. (Not mod-ui, love your work, but the Python).
Galton Board and Pascal's Triangle [video]
Doing this with home automation.
I get that there exist people who hate the noise and shadows of wind turbines. I've even seen some rare cases where the complaints were warranted since it literally caused a strobing effect in their houses throughout the day. I think a ban is a massive overreaction to these complaints, but I get it.

I don't get the solar bans, can someone please explain those to me? Even in the cases where it's just a land usage limit, why would anyone even ask for that? There is no way they banned it for no reason, there has to be something that motivated it right? But what about solar power could possibly have bothered anyone?? I'm not expecting Oil companies to be influencing county level politics here so there clearly is a nation wide pattern of individuals proposing these bans for some reason I'm not seeing.
Demis Hassabis (DeepMind CEO) Chatbots to AI Interview
"Demis Hassabis talks about how we have very little comprehension of what is coming. He specifically talks about how we can't wait until things change so radically that we are forced to confront them, but instead, need to start talking and planning now.

We can't possibly grasp how quick things will happen, Hassabis talks about how money will become irrelevant if advancements come like he thinks they will over the next decade. He thinks we will reach AGI within this decade, which will change everything that is foundational to our modern way of life."
CVS Caremark is also in on the scam. UHC seems quite clearly to be the good cop - low deductibles, wide network, good coverage - and CVS Caremark is the bad cop who changes my drug availability month to month, makes me jump through prior authorization hoops that go nowhere, and randomly covers or refuses to cover my kids’ ADHD medicine on a whim. So as soon as we find a medicine with availability, that works, CVS decides to terminate coverage and we - me, my wife, our kids, their doctor, the pharmacist - all start again from square 1.

I switched jobs recently and despite having a drug regime that worked well for me over an extended period and was also cost effective, CVS denied coverage (and required prior authorizations, that were all denied) for virtually every component of my prescription care. Now, about three months after the switch, it’s probably back up to 85%+ of what it was before, but there was a lot of bureaucracy between then and now - and all due to a change that was really purely administrative in nature.

Frustrating.
Avocado? Grilled eggplant? Shiitake? Greek or Ethiopian or Indian food can sneak a lot of veggies in me. I’m not a big fan of the sad side veggie that’s just steamed or something
Heading to the southern end of the state or are you wandering down toward Texas?
It’s true that light of different frequencies bends a different amount, but that’s not really what this simulation shows. This simulation shows that the lens forms an image of both light sources simultaneously, even though they are emitting at different frequencies. The light inside the lens looks uniformly mixed but still comes out in such a way that the two frequencies separate and form two distinct images.

Of course, you might consider it to be even more remarkable that two distinct images are formed even when the two lights are the same color, since then there is no longer any obvious way to distinguish the light from the two sources.
The compelling reason to shift to local/decentralized AI is that all of compute will soon be AI and that means your entire existence will go into it. The question you should ask yourself is do you want everything about you being handled by Sam Altman, Google, Microsoft, etc? Do you want all of your compute dependent on them always being up and do you want to trust their security team with your life? Do you want to still be using closed/centralized/hosted AI when truly open AI surpasses all of them in performance and capability. If you have children or family, do you want them putting their entire lives in the hands of those folks.

Decentralized AI will eventually become p2p and swarmed and then the true power of agents and collaboration will soar via AI.

Anyway, excuse the soap box, but there are zero valid reasons for supporting and paying centralized keepers of AI that rarely share, collaborate or give back to the community that made what they have possible.
New FCC Broadband Standards Should Consider Latency
No amount of vegetables makes up for a caloric surplus, though. What vegetables do generally quite well though is have low caloric density and generally high fiber which makes them very satiating without actually having many calories. You just physically will not feel like eating a bunch. Compare that to a bag of chips that basically is designed to make you want to crave another bite and overeat.
The problem of scraping content for models should be solved on a legal level. Trying to do it on a technical level is mostly futile, and wrong, because it actively makes legitimate uses worse.

If you really really really want a technical mitigation in addition to a legal one, then paywalls are vastly better than incredibly messy and problematic heuristic bot-detection. There's a huge payment problem for content anyway, so paywalls would mitigate or solve many other problems in addition to the AI-training-data one.
Yeah the problem with Java and a language like Kotlin is it has so many language features. Meaning programmers can do lots of hard to understand things.

I've been coding in C recently and really enjoy the limitations. Usually there's only one way to do something.
>We will watch the original instead, dubbed movies don't have a soul

I disagree. It's all about the quality of the voice actors and the effort put into localisation.

Having grown up on Dutch dubs of many cartoons, I honestly find the Dutch voice actor of Spongebob better than the original. I'm missing the extra energy that the Dutch VA seems to have put into the voice when I hear the original, even if the original is very good. Though text on screen isn't translated, puns and references are, sometimes overhauled completely.

The talent pool for Dutch voice actors isn't as big as I would've liked (you often hear the same five VAs in every show on a given channel), but some of them really put in the work. Many of them only do kids TV and commercials (really freaked me out to hear Ash Ketchum try to sell me soap one day) and not every VA is as good/paid enough/gets decent scripts, but there are some real gems to be found in dubs.

Last year I found out how Ukrainian dubs work and I was astounded by how weird the experience was. I'm used to dubs having only the voice track swapped out, but the Ukrainian shows seemed to just have the acties talk over the original show, like this AI tool does, and I honestly can't imagine ever getting into a show that's dubbed like that. I assume people get used to this, but I found it rather annoying.

Blanket statements like "dubs have no soul" serve nobody. There are good dubs and there are bad dubs, and the ratio will probably differ depending on the language you're talking about. Dismissing all dubs ignores the real heart and soul some dubbing teams have put into their works. That doesn't mean I disagree with the idea of exposing kids to more languages, but I wouldn't expect kids to learn much from just TV shows and movies in the first place.
A Few Ledger Aliases
That's incorrect. The fact that the internet is not a community is not a problem - it's objectively correct and morally desirable. It's neither possible, nor desirable, nor good, to treat the internet as a community. It isn't, and we wouldn't want it to be in the first place, just like we wouldn't want all the nations of the world to be fused together.
That's really splitting hairs. Crucifixes, holy water, and communion wafers are symbols from formal, organized Christianity, of which Catholicism is the most prominent example.

It's also a sneaky, underhanded way to make a point. The shell game of argument tactics.
because telling people to exercise is politically correct but telling people to eat less (a form of dieting) is not even if it is the more important recommendation
It's because liberals like green energy and so conservatives must oppose it. It's an identity thing essentially; no more complicated than that. I've got a co-worker who lives in Bandera, TX where this is currently a conflict.
Other Languages: It's easy to Start projects. Rust: It's easy to Finish them [video]
Keep in mind that he has git on the server already.

He can revert them even more simply and using the occasional 'git push' means he has an "offsite-backup".

If the server itself is vanilla rebuilding/cloning it is trivial.
I thought things were bouncing back out there?

Do some degree they have started to in NYC.
Israel did 200 airstrikes on schools already. What are you doing about it now that you wouldn't be doing if it were AI?
This is just CarPlay or Android Auto though.

> What if cars legitimately came with VisionPro type headsets

Or what if the people who wanted that just bought their headset of choice?

> What if apple encourages people fr.shifting away by car ownership by making it easier to jump into a car and have it show all your customizations (lighting, adjustments, heads up display arrangements).

Question: when you get into someone else's car, is the first thing you notice the lighting, or is it how clean it is?
> Yeah, and typically you'd run them after you run unit and integration tests. If I have 10 libraries to test that have database access, I have to run 10 database containers simultaneously every few minutes as part of the development process? That's overkill.

If it's actually causing you problems, then by all means replace some of them with more lightweight tests, at the cost of some test environment faithfulness. But don't optimise prematurely.
Heavy elements like gold and platinum sank to the center of the earth's core while the whole planet was molten and this is why they are rare near the crust. Asteroids have never been entirely molten, and as such have valuable heavy elements dispersed relatively evenly throughout. In other words, much higher concentrations of valuable elements are expected to be available much closer to the surface of asteroids than on Earth.
It looks correct to me?
Fuel pumps are one of the most important design considerations of a rocket. When people talk about a rocket's specs, it's often going to be in the approximate order of thrust, efficiency (called ISP), fuel, and then what kind of fuel pump it has, aka its cycle

https://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-engine-cycles/
Not on prod, but I did a startup in Go and used a droplet running NixOS as my dev machine.

I also have a headless 64GB mini computer I ssh into at work currently. Because my 32GB isn't enough for our codebase. It being headless gives me a few free gigs of RAM to boot.

I always programmed on a server via ssh in college. And then partway through my time at Amazon, they gave us all cloud desktops. It just feels like home.
Mailman 3 is written in Python using Django.

It is a case in point in my argument "NOT Python"

Mailman 1 was written in 40k lines of Perl (Another sin, Perl too is a scripting language not an application development language, but I digress)

Mailman 3 required me to upgrade a VPS to 2GB to get it to run. People (I forget who) tell me it is the installation part of installing Django - which is Python- that hogs the memory. As if I care. The waste is staggering.

I think we should all stop using Python

" It's pleasant to write and allows devs to get things done quickly. " Perhaps, for short lasting and small things. But people are building cathedrals out of this.

" It's pleasant to write and allows devs to get things done quickly. "

Use Lisp
That's great to hear! I'll keep an eye out, and hoping all's well in the meantime.
That's not a bus though.
If you use Deep Neural Nets, even for Computer Vision, it's still Deep Learning, and can be categorized as AI.
There is actually the opposite problem now with Google Maps, where you'll be traveling happily on a route and it will tell you "we found a route that's 20 seconds faster by taking you down a road you want to avoid, take your eyes off the road to press a button on your phone immediately or else we're swapping you to it!"

And even if you're at a place where you can safely hit the button, it keeps trying to do it over and over again every time you pass a new exit that can take you to the new route it's trying to foist on you.

As far as I can tell there's no way to make it opt-in, configure it so that it only swaps you if it's a big time savings, or turn it off completely. The only suggestion I find online is to turn off mobile data which means that you then lose real-time traffic updates entirely.
> Yeah that's how Cloudflare can reach total control over the Internet. With thunderous applause by people that should know better.

This is an emotionally-manipulative, anti-intellectual comment that certainly does not belong on HN. There's no intellectual curiosity or value in this comment - just scoffing, predictions of doom, manipulative statements like "I know that my position is outright blasphemous in this day and age", and other drivel that belongs on Reddit, not here.
Perhaps you are misreading my comment?

I didn't raise the 'should/should not part' at all, you are the one who raised the point. I'm focused on actual facts and possibilities in this comment chain.
I do for some personal things that I don’t care if it breaks. It’s a lot easier than trying to do it the “right” way especially with the vscode ssh integration.
And /Applications, and /System/Applications, even though if you open them in Finder, you'll see the two combined.
A good portion of compensation is in stock. There is nothing wrong with it per se. It shows up on the income statement as an expense - all good. But then when people quote "operating cashflow" the company has added back that expense because it wasn't in cash. So the quoted operating cashflow (which in theory should be "real") becomes more fake from an economic viewpoint.

It's not bad, you just have to be aware of it. It's in the k - right there in the income statement (the opex lines will all have some % which is equity) and cashflow statement (the operating cashflow calc explicitly has a line for it).
You think wrong, then. Making an offer that is out of the market range is very standard in a negotiation (even if you don’t think it’s very fair).
I’ve used it with podman before, worked fine
That situation was (is?) absolutely mind-boggling. I personally know government employees that were being underpaid with no recourse for months on end because the software wasn't working and the government apparently had no alternate way to pay. Some people weren't getting paid at all. And as you quoted, it affected 80% of the workforce, hundreds of thousands of people.
Nice I made a similar self hosted AI bot for a hackathon last year with iMessage and ollama

https://youtu.be/rlD4FtIXV8E
Not really true. United's long play is with medicare advantage. They plan to add an insane 450k new members by 2024.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2023/11/28/unitedhe...

https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/unitedhealths-med...

This is a great example why United was the sole insurer who was able to absorb the Medicare cuts while everyone else is shedding their MA exposure.
Back in the 90s, we did it a bit like that... only we didn't have git, most of us didn't even know about the VCS that did exist. Before doing something serious, I'd make a manual backup before just editing files directly on prod through SSH. Alarmed? At least I said SSH, and not telnet...
The American SST was cancelled because of the sonic boom problem.
MA plans complicate this. There's a reason why everyone but United is getting out of the MA space, because united is growing despite medicare cutting payments.
That's what hiring cheap and asking leetcode gets you.
As a subsidiary of Geely it seems unlikely Polestar would be available, but perhaps one of the US-based EV startups like Rivian, Lucid or Fisker would be interested. I am not sure how that would work with the Apple brand though.