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> convenient that big corporations have money in their budget to massively spend on lobbyists while citizens' associations do not

I forgot about the impotence of Greenpeace, the NRA, the ACLU and EFF, of Susan B. Anthony.
I also tend to view it this way.
Last time I checked they were more like 400€ but maybe it has changed. I haven't looked at it in recent months.
How is there an argument of wrongdoing here when the regulatory approach for healthcare is still based around this idea that multiple anticompetitive arrangements (the price fixing between providers and "insurers") will somehow actually create competition? Like don't providers have to be standing alone as their own market independent of payer before one could say that UHC's actions here are specifically anti-competitive, rather than just the HMO system working as envisioned?
That's not important; it's just to establish that Amazon lobbyists are active. The reason they were banned is because of their refusal to attend the hearings. That is: "either fully participate or don't participate at all – you can't pick and choose what's convenient for you".

This is also what Amazon's reply addresses. I don't know if Amazon's claims that these meetings are "clearly one-sided and not designed to encourage constructive debate or objective scrutiny" are accurate.
How fun!

I read this, will respond once more.
Just comparing https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/discrimination with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination - it's pretty obvious that the definition with the most emotional baggage is dominant in many people's minds.

But it's perfectly correct to say that the NBA's player-selection process discriminates against short klutzes with poor stamina.

(IANAL - ...not a linguist - but I recall there being a technical term for people interpreting words and phrases so as to maximize their own emotional reactions to the assumed meanings.)
I was excited about a number of those things, but the production values on some of them (leaving the solar system, helicopter on mars) was pretty bad.
This seems like event sourcing with a nice tool to inspect, filter and visualize the event stream. The sampling rate idea is a decent tactic I hadn't heard of.
They don't have any credible competition.
Given the way United Healthcare is organized, with Optum as a second party that all claims or other billing issues is directed to, this allows them to very effectively point the finger at each other whenever there is a dispute. Optum in turn owns a lot of care providers including a ton of providers in my area. They have used this as a cudgel in the past, as someone I know was slammed with a bill during Optum's takeover of one of their providers. The Optum employee wouldn't provide any information about the charge and simply fired them as a patient for not paying it. Because Optum is buying up clinics left and right where we live this person has lost access to their PCP on multiple occasions as Optum buys more and more healthcare groups.

UHC and UnitedHealth group need to be broken up, and these incestuous relationships between insurance companies, private equity companies, and care providers need to be stopped by the SEC, because their only purpose is to exploit the wrapping up of care providers under one umbrella to extract more money for less work from people seeking essential services.
> Nintendo has no leg to stand on legally speaking, and there's a precedent waiting to happen.

IANAL, but my understanding is that while emulation is unambiguously legal in the US after Bleem vs. Sony, an emulator which decrypts games is maybe not legal under the DMCA circumvention rules, and those have never really been tested in the context of an emulator. The Bleem case happened shortly after the DMCA was enacted, but PS1 games weren't encrypted or otherwise protected from being read by anything besides a PS1 so Bleem didn't have to circumvent anything. That seems to be the angle Nintendo is taking here, that Yuzu is the equivalent of something like DeCSS since it has the ability to circumvent their DRM scheme.
The whole air has longer to travel thing is obviously hand waving a lot of different properties that are all combining to get better efficiencies. For example, don't forget the coanda effect and its contributions to the shape of a wing. Luckily we can always just return to the navier-stokes equations to help us out.
Xiaomi is better at being the New Apple than Apple is. Apple should be selling micro transportation appliances that fit into a higher urbanized environment. Extremely small cars would be the largest thing I would rent.
Plenty of large rom sites are still very actively used and trafficked today.
Cycling, maybe. Mountain biking anything of merit takes extreme skill.
If it's twice as expensive then the defendants would run out of money sooner right?

You would have to somehow set a limit of legal expenses, which seems... difficult.

You would have to win to get the common fund, you may not get that far if you have to pay into the fund and amount a defense.
Every bit of information that is stored in the DNS is serving one basic purpose: to allow connection to a string. Additions, like CAA or SPF are also consumed by programs to set some limits of a domain usage.

Every other record you mentioned never gained any adoption, simply because this "database" is meant to be used by programs, not humans. Sure, I may use SOA email to contact a DC, but this is exception, not a rule.

Therefore, from the perspective of a person that does DNS courses for technical staff, I conclude that average Joe will never be able to set TXT records properly, and professionals will not do it either because of the reasons I mentioned.

And while I encourage you to pursue your goal, adoption willy be close to none so I'm not so worried about that. Adoption of this will be much lover that adoption of HWINFO or LOC records (ignore RFC 8482, I mean user provided HWINFO data). Your proposal will be used by 50 people total, optimistically.

For all use cases, we have http invented already. Storage for http is also a solved problem.
To me the most intuitive and practical mental image is imagining two large bubbles of lower pressure above the wing that hold the wing up by suction (you can see those literally as condensation under certain conditions). As you increase the angle of attack the bubbles get larger and stronger, until the angle is so large that they “break off” and the wing stalls.
>UnitedHealth executives have said that Optum and UnitedHealthcare don’t favor one another

Yeah, that's laugh-out-loud levels of bullshit.

You think executives are just going to admit to facilitating what effectively is a form of racketeering?

NINJA EDIT: The Optum arm itself needs to be broken up into a bunch of smaller pieces. United Healthcare also needs to be broken up.
Ask HN: Resources for finding dotfiles and config files
Occasionally I want to pick up a new tool or alter my config for an existing one and typically need to read the docs to build a config myself or find examples piecemeal. Is there a resource out there with example dotfiles/config files for at least common tools that people upload?
It's happening more and more because interviewers are asking these questions.

They are looking for a nice story where I had conflict with my manager I used STAR to solve it and everybody was happy.

So interviewees have to prepare such stories, remember the details and adjust things to make them look good. Because saying "I don't really remember anything like that happening recently to me" or "We sat in stunned silence for a minute and went on with the meeting" doesn't cut it during interviews.

Maybe managers ask these "personal conflict" questions so much because that is a bigger part of their job. But for ICs (mostly anyway) they are pretty uncommon.
> I don't think Go or Java do.

Go's module system was specifically designed with this problem in mind: https://go.dev/blog/versioning-proposal

I think Java projects get around this when they have to with shading, but that's a bit clunky.
It took me 15 minutes from downloading Yuzu to playing Mario Kart on my PC. You're doing something wrong
I've worked in streaming before and something many don't realize is there are 10-15 different app platforms you need to build for (web, ios, android, roku, android tv, tvos, fire tv, xbox, playstation, etc, etc). So 10 app teams only get you ONE app across all of the platforms.
The dude wrote a book with at least 77 chapters. That set off my BS meter more than anything else.
(I am bias because I work on Fly.io)

Fly Machines are more powerful than Google Cloud Run IMO. You can treat them like cloud run, or manage them directly and implement your own Serverless model.

Our PaaS orchestration is implemented entirely I. The client CLI, and it manages Fly Machines directly: https://fly.io/docs/machines/
> he can claim it all as his intellectual property, which could be worth billions.

Let's pretend he does the impossible: what does this look like, in your opinion?
Compared to literally every single corporation worth US$ 10b+? Yes, pretty impotent I'd say.
It feels like a claim against free speech. Yuzu makes an emulator and states it can play Switch games. That is a statement. If others illegally trade binaries, that’s not the emulator’s fault. By attacking them, it feels like the only thing “wrong” was making the emulator available. Caveat - IANAL.
Yes, this video also had a great historical breakdown and context about what's going on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URoVKPVDKPU

Everything Wendover Productions makes is so helpful!
I thought the skills for building an engine and those for building software were largely the same? /s

Yes. They'll be letting a lot of people go. This smells like a controlled leak to signal that the company isn't experiencing cooling sales / services when that happens.
What's cool is that Erik actually acted on these complaints. Modal is, by far, my favorite developer tool ever and makes me hopeful not just for the future of software engineering but the entire tech industry.

If you're a naysayer in the comments, I would encourage you to go give it an honest try, and consider again why you think infra has to be done in harder ways.
I don't think that's the case. The games are copyrighted. The keys only need to constitute an effective anti-circumvention scheme (any technological measure that “effectively controls access” to a work) to be illegal to code for.
It's already like 70-75% fully automated by "ai"
Saturn.

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

And it wasn't entirely independent. Before that it was DeLorean? But he was kinda setup in a trap that put him into prison.
It could work, as it's pretty rare for IP addresses to be used directly and not through DNS, but that also defeats the purpose of the mechanism: it doesn't add anything of value if everyone is using DNS. Even malware writers will purchase several domain names (several for redundancy from government take downs) so that they can rotate command servers easily.
That is an obscured perspective. Yes, learning a skill takes time. Mastering a tool requires patience and time. Developing intuition, sharpening your instincts and gaining insight takes time.
Software development is a multi-faceted discipline. There are many different ways to become good at it.
The ultimate goal is not only achieving excellence in productivity but also gaining perspective on remaining happy.

The most important medium through which we convey ideas, information, and even emotions is text. Often, programmers place a greater emphasis on the formal language of precise and structured nature of programming languages. They may even become emotionally attached to a single programming language. Notoriously, most people overlook the importance of plain, simple, unstructured text. The value of taming the wild nature of plain text (even before programming languages) is underestimated.

Find Graydon Hoare's post "Always bet on text", it's revelatory.

There is no equivalent in any other communication technology for the social, communicative, cognitive and reflective complexity of a library full of books or an internet full of postings. Nothing else comes close.

One can spend many cycles learning tool after tool, jumping from one to another, newest, shiniest, "most innovative" thing that comes out, in attempt to find the most effective way, most productive way, most delightful way to gain power over text.

I myself spent years trying things like Evernote, OneNote, Google Keep, Notion, Workflowy, Apple Notes, Zoho Notebook, and countless other tools.

There were always some factors that made me switch. Initially I decided to learn Emacs, thinking it's just another code editor. It took me quite some time to master it to the point that I can now bravely try to implement some wildest ideas. I came for a specific tool for coding, instead, I found a world of incredible possibilities to manage text, any text, not just programming. All my notes, all my writing, my browser history, retrieving YouTube transcriptions, Anki cards, pdf annotations, emails, rss feeds, and of course, coding, all that I do in Emacs.

Why? Because it is not only extremely powerful and allows me to be immensely efficient. It also gives me enormous pleasure, allowing me to perform things my way. If frustration could be measured in wasted fiscal expenditure, Emacs would've saved me quite significant amount of money.

Yes, that long-term satisfaction and liberating power were not granted to me. I had to spend many hours, days, and months of learning until I felt empowered. But that is a lifetime investment that is unlikely to ever diminish. Even if Emacs itself becomes obsolete, the mindset it helped me develop will remain. I will never be the same again. No other highly specialized tool will sway me to pay for it or waste my time, unless it is as extendable as Emacs. And there's nothing today that comes even close. Anyone who says otherwise either doesn't know the limitations of their tools or is unaware of the capabilities of Emacs.
Ask HN: What is the SDL.h file in SuperTux?
Am looking at the repo for SuperTux as featured here in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39528726 and trying to understand how the cross platform aspect works. Am I correct in my thoughts that it's OpenGL based, using a cross platform library called Simple DirectMedia Layer aka SDL, found at https://www.libsdl.org?

I see a frequently occurring header file called SDL.h, but when I search the repo at https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux I can't find it.

What is SDL.h and why am I unable to locate it?

EDIT: /u/JohnFen pointed me in the right direction! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39531202
I mean Valve literally had a trailer with a nintendo emulator as an app installed... Valve doesn't need to do RND for its games because they can just use whatever is on steam that is playable on the deck plus a ton of games from nintendo consoles via emulators as a selling point.
At least here in Norway, if a Tesla is involved in anything, the headline will make sure to mention it.
That's not been my experience with the piano. I definitely forgot a lot. Maybe I never got the fundamentals set enough. It wasn't my lifelong passion either.

You don't forget how to ride a bike because the bike is doing most of the work. Because of physics, a bike stays better balanced when it is moving.

Compare that to say, pro racers, mountain bikers, trick riders, etc. there are significantly more skill involved in those than casually riding around.
It's like all cloud providers are in some cartel where they refuse to implement the most basic counter-bankruptcy features.

The request is very simple: max budget per month. Shut it down if it exceeds it. Implement it already and stop with the excuses.
> Semicolons should always be in your toolbelt; they can elevate a sentence's elegance and grace, improve and control the rhythm and clarity, and really improve readability.

You are a member of an ever-smaller group of people who feel that way. https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-melancholy-decline-of-the-se...

> In 2017, author Ben Blatt discovered that semicolon use dropped by about 70% from 1800 to 2000. The ghosts of several authors are now rejoicing. Writers like George Orwell, who called semicolons “an unnecessary stop”. Or Edgar Allan Poe, who preferred the dash. Or Kurt Vonnegut, who famously advised against their use, saying “All they do is show you’ve been to college.” The symbol is facing the same melancholy fate as the dodo, the dinosaur, and the Soviet Union. Extinction.
Great article, here is a Python notebook I created earlier to show you how you can capture such wide events:

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Y65qXXogoDgOnXFBDyF...
Go after all the healthcare giants. If people knew even half of how consolidated their treatment was, they would riot.

For those who don't know about the significant conflict of interest present here:

1. United is a health insurer that has to make payments for people's

2. United owns several physician networks (totaling 90,000 physicians), who then determine what your care should be—no conflict with the fact that they pay the bills...

3. United owns Optum, which determines how much your drugs are going to cost, and of course, who makes them—brand vs. generic, etc.

4. Optum runs its own mail order and specialty pharmacies. Optum also writes your care plans for many chronic diseases and ships medications all over the country.

5. Optum could require their own customers to use their care plans and software in order to receive medications at all, or mark up the price for anyone who doesn't.

Let's step through a workflow.

You, a patient on United, go to a physician for treatment. Later on, you get referred to a specialist, then get diagnosed with a chronic disease and need medication that you receive delivered monthly.

That pans out to:

United pays United, who refers you to United, that forwards you to Optum (owned by United), who gets paid by United. Each and every month.

Let's say you find a better deal for your medication at another pharmacy. Too bad, its not going to be in your network and Optum will no longer cover it.

How is a health system or an independent supposed to compete with that level of integration?

This, of course, does not result in any savings or quality of life improvement for the patient or the physician. United and Optum charge the same prices as everyone else, or more.
Remind me of the last time corporations got a Constitutional amendment passed?

Have you met a lawmaker, or been involved in the passage of a law? The state of civics education in America is such that a minority of folks understand the first rule of politics: showing up is half the battle. Unfortunately, pitching nihilism is a good way to keep the other side from bothering.
That ability can be used as interoperaton in order to emulate the Switch properly for personal needs.
Charming. I’m afraid you’ll find me immune to this disease.
It's even more confusing when libertarians decide a few days after insisting that there was no such thing as a market failure that the canonical examples of market failures are actually something they strongly believe the government must step in to regulate because the market can't do it...

(I imagine the libertarians campaigning to abolish government involvement in product and environmental regulation would also be confused by the insistence they absolutely believe that the role of the government is to protect the environment and regulate products. Next minute you'll be telling me poor people deserve medical treatment!)
> original project (a bus)

This is actually insane to me. Like bonkers, even. The MBA types are surely the source of that idea. From a brand perspective, the only car that ever truly made sense for Apple to make was something at least resembling a supercar. They could have made do with a Telsa Model S kind of car perhaps, but I'm shocked that a brand-conscious company like Apple thought a bus was the best bet as an initial product.

First impressions are vitally important. In my opinion, a car brand can go from making high performance cars to more "practical" vehicles once they've established their brand, but not the other way around. Slapping an Apple badge on a Corolla isn't going to work. Steve Jobs said it best, paraphrasing "We want to build computers that customers would want to lick.". If Apple wants to be a legitimate car company that enthusiasts like, they'd have to build a car those people would lick. Not a bus...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC-8P-sapHw

This guy has a lot of really great videos on how to practice smarter and has a lot of answers to dumb questions that you don't really wanna ask. I hope it helps.
Hey all.

I've been in the market for a milling machine for a while now and I just came across the KS for the Coast Runner CR-1. It seems pretty interesting for a desktop CNC, especially the CAM assist thing, but I'm not really sure if that's enough to beat other options like the Carvera or Bantam Explorer. The Carvera seems to have more functionality and the Bantam is much more compact, but the CR-1 is way cheaper than both.

Anybody have any thoughts on this?
Unfortunately, your brain will have been trained to ignore all comments by the 100 other completely useless comments that do nothing but add noise.

If the tool generated that one comment without generating any useless comments, then it might be worth using.
Dept of Commerce Issues Request for Comment on Open Source AI
Yup! Not every provider is classified as a Covered Entity and not every healthcare business is classified as a Business Associate. It's where the nuances of HIPAA law come into play.

For example, you could be a medical app that processes pages and pages of medical data from an individual, but if you're not doing it on behalf of a Covered Entity, then you won't be subject to HIPAA.

In cases like these, as well as certain therapist examples and other scenarios described in the final article you provided, HIPAA is not applicable. It's still good practice to have proper security measures in place, since there could be other governing bodies regulating you (e.g. the FTC, https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2018/10/...), but you're not regulated under HIPAA.
I fail to see any legitimate use case for getting around protections that web dm developers put in to help prevent this.
Asking out of almost total ignorance of this field, what prevents someone from running a script that sets their agent to a phone browser and then sending fake gyro data? Surely there's a way to emulate enough to make it look like a phone that's being held by someone, right? We can do realistic camera shake in blender to the point where something looks like it's being held by a person, why couldn't we fake minute movements like the device is held?

Why do we even need an actual device? We can emulate if we even need to and set our headers to look like we're coming from a device browser.
I definitely agree that Apple will optimize their SOC, but IMO their best solution is to just copy Nvidia's homework. Dedicated inferencing hardware is power-hungry and rarely any better than the beefed-up GPU or even a RISC CPU core at a decent clock speed. Integrating AI at the GPU-level lets you get dual-purpose functionality out of the same silicon; it's what Nvidia has built towards since they started shipping CUDA.

> besides the Nvidia bubble, which is late-days

The Nvidia bubble might just be beginning, if we keep relying on phrases like "training agnostic" to pay our dividends.
Sure, but what's harder? I'm looking for examples.
I can see the complete absence as being more realistic than a partial or limited presence. If there were a Dune-style Butlerian Jihad, AI could be banned altogether.
Came here to write the same thing :)
Azure has mostly implemented this now. ACI was a single instance, but they have scalable Container Apps now. These are just a dumbed down abstraction hiding a managed Kubernetes cluster beneath that you never interact with directly.