skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this even legitimate? The post as well as the "leaked" document look so dodgy.
Whatever the US does, it needs to realize that the artificially constricted supply of healthcare needs to be loosened. If we throw more money at consumers for healthcare while keeping the tight supply of doctors and hospitals constant, then you just end up paying more money for the same services. Prices go up, doctors, hospitals and insurers get richer, nobody else is better off.
The Aseprite homepage mentions Windows, Ubuntu/Linux, and macOS for their trial: https://www.aseprite.org/trial/

I assume that Aseprite runs on all these platforms.
It maybe more clear if you visualize the reflection as a pair of perpendicular reflections, first across the diameter (which is also across the center) and then internally reflecting the diameter (which is again also across the center.)

Two reflections with a common fixed point make a rotation around that fixed point (angle of reflection is double the angle between the reflection axes.).
Two perpendicular reflections make a 180 degree rotation around the intersection of the axes of rotation.
Ah yeah that’s what I wanted to write but I guess I didn’t want to put words in your mouth, and stuck to what I could be certain about happening. We do all this work to throw away the unneeded bits in one situation and when comparing it to a slightly different situation go “huh some of that garbage would be kinda nice here”
Fortran! Would be interested in your story on how you’re integrating Python and Fortran. That sounds very interesting
Isn't an ultimatum just a firing with extra steps?
I mean, fifteen years of Tory rule does that. Looks like it'll finally come to an end soon.

The UK has slightly higher life expectancy than the US, at less than half the cost (and yes, that's including taxes; https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm). People die waiting here, too; they're just bankrupt as a bonus.
Yeah, I think I’m still not fully trusting in that pipeline because running it twice could give me different results, even if they’re structured.
>diners are forced to sign up for some company to pay for all the meals.

What would happen if diners split their bills evenly every month?

What would happen if the company profit is legally capped as a percent of that bill?

I think these are the biggest factors.
In your whole country? Which one? I'm sad to hear it.
Everyone wants to be Mitchell Baker.
No catch. This is in the US, you can easily look it up. Its becoming a model that more primary care docs are adopting because there is immense overhead if you work with insurance companies. It ranges from the low end to the "concierge" doctor level where I have seen some charging in the thousands per month.

We still pay for consumables out of pocket including Rx medications. We still have a high deductible plan on top of this to cover emergencies/major illness. But I prefer this model as we get higher quality of care for roughly the same price as a non-high deductible plan.
Yeah, I can see why this sucks :/
Your underlying assumption is "any change is good change." That assumption is incorrect. I'm not saying we don't need change, but the kind of change Trump brings would make things worse.
The reasons for a lack of supply aren’t for lack of funding, so that points to the real problems.
How so?
If my boss tells me that I have to stop my out-of-work political activism or he he'll fire me, what would you call that?
Artificial geysers can compensate for our mineral shortages
Perhaps have it not scroll down as it generates the text? Invariably I have to scroll back to the top to start reading. You could have a mini-hud (growing line, with a small rectangle at the top showing the first page of text) which would let you see at a glance how much text is being generated, without interrupting reading. Or not; ChatGPT just keeps on vibrating the phone (iOS app) during text gen, with hovering arrow in the middle-bottom as a shortcut to jump to the end.
> That is not firing someone when they choose whether or not to stay.

That's only true if they left on their own accord. That isn't what happened.
I know, but Erlang is pretty different from Prolog in how you actually write it. Erlang is a functional, sometimes-imperative language with heavy concurrency emphasis. Prolog is a lot more "define rules and let the runtime figure out relations". The syntax is superficially similar, and I'm aware that Erlang's original interpreter was Prolog, but they're fundamentally pretty different in how you actually write it.

At least that's my understanding.
This point got me thinking:

> In general, there is perhaps a meaning-nonsense continuum that sentences can be placed along.

Some philosophers and linguists did say there is a difference between grammatically valid and nonsensical sentences. Chomsky's example was "Green ideas sleep furiously."

But I think the sentence just seems nonsensical because it presupposes that ideas can be green, and presuppositions are invariant under negation. Which means "Green ideas do not sleep furiously" still presupposes that ideas can be green. Since the presupposition is false (presupposition failure), the sentence itself is neither true nor false, just like a meaningless sentence with ill-formed grammar. But sentences with presupposition failure can be meaningful. E.g. "Mr Smith put his children to bed early", true or false? Neither, Mr Smith doesn't have children.

In case of grammatical "nonsensical" sentences without presupposition failure the issue seems to be that they are necessarily false. E.g. "Ideas are green" or "Gravity learns about regret". But that's not much different from saying "Bachelors are married", which is necessarily false, or "Bachelors are unmarried", which is necessarily true. They don't seem particularly nonsensical.

I think the case of semi-nonsensical sentences like "Vibrations become chances" can be explained with their ambiguity, where it isn't clear whether there is some metaphorical interpretation of the sentence which could be true.
There are only a few places in America that you can do this - most doctors don't work on this plan.
I hesitate to wade into these kinds of conversations but a lot of what you wrote is inaccurate.

Shotguns have a limited range compared to rifles but it’s still at least 50 yards so it isn’t going to matter. People hunt deer with them, they aren’t like shotguns in video games. They can also use removable magazines and be as easy to reload as any other semi automatic firearm.

There is not a single difference between a “sniper rifle” and a hunting rifle.

Handguns are not meaningfully less lethal than rifles against unarmed targets at close range. The mass shooting at Virginia tech was one of the worst and was done with handguns.

> Assault rifles are rifles designed for killing humans (as opposed to hunting rifles)

Every type of firearm was designed for killing people. Today’s “hunting rifle” was the standard issue infantry weapon in WWI and WWII. Russia is still arming some soldiers with what you would call a hunting rifle in Ukraine right now.
> But why doesn't this happen to restaurants, or super markets or car mechanics?

There's plenty of examples against your case already in the comments against other points but the reason medical care is so damn expensive is the same reason your internet bill is so expensive (for poor quality): lack of choice.

You don't really have an option to haggle or shop around for the best plan when you broke a leg and are being rushed to the nearest hospital.

You made the choice on plan half year ago when you were healthy and you're in no state to have a calm discussion with the ambulance about what has the best price per value with your tibia jutting out of where your calf should be.
I think it's because Tesla's approach seems unsafe and/or misleading (to the people reacting negatively to it).
AMD and Intel Team Up for Open Alternative to Nvidia's NVLink
Typical libertarian response, falls apart at the first sign of complication.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_differen...
I'm happy to go through the pain of recovering every dollar from ripoffs that send "accidental wrong bills" as a business practice.

It's a matter of principle
That has been my insight as well.

I don't think PE is the problem here. We love to hear the negative stories but there are also lots of success stories.

From the healthcare industry, I believe the primary care model is broken. There is a nationwide shortage of primary care doctors, usually the ones wanting to get in primary care enjoy the touch on patients. The problem is what you outlined, to run a primary care practice you need to employ a number of people that creates overhead that now requires you to be very rigid in the practice to ensure you can both cover your expenses and still make a salary yourself.
The corners of the "parallelogram" in the diagram don't touch the circle at the top or bottom. So, those two corners wouldn't be right angles, but instead would be slightly obtuse - rather like this comment!
Could it be ... Uppsala kafferosteri [1]? But they seem to specialize in just that, dark roasts, so perhaps not.

[1]: https://uppsalakafferosteri.se/
How long will it be before I won't be able to post a comment like this online without providing my government ID?
> I’m gonna stop here before I start mocking geohot… I seriously can’t believe the journalists who wrote those early stories were willing to risk their lives like that…

I have a comma.ai in our minivan and it works great. Much better than Honda's built in lane following tech
I like my doctors just fine. They're great.

It's the $50k/year in insurance, copays, etc. I don't love.
Interesting! I didn't know this ... however, getting an MD is necessary to make someone ready to be a practising physician. In Ireland we seem to be drastically undersupplied with doctors - I had a couple of years recently where I was in my local ER quite a lot, and there were typically 2 doctors on duty, covering a catchment area of half a million people. Training more MDs seems like an important first step in increasing the supply
> So why now?

Presumably because “[PG] got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam“

> Why wasn't there more details when Altman left Y Combinator?

Why on earth should there be? If it was me I’d think it’s nobody else’s business and therefore be uninterested in sharing or explaining those details.

However once the world starts speculating and assuming something else happened, I can see why at some point it makes sense to provide some more detail to try to correct that, even if you’d rather not.
You're correct, turn out it I apparently mistakenly got it from Gplay. Deleted now and reinstalled from Fdroid.
Is that fun fact legitimate? I know that you can get a premium for copper (see: tweakers who rip out pipes in open buildings and sell it), but the ratio here seems improbable, at least.
Residency programs are hot bullshit, it's just more gatekeeping. There's no reason that a recent medical grad couldn't do the same shit they're having nurse practitioners do instead of doctors at 95% of all care facilities now. Currently we cram the entirety of someone's medical training in 5 really awful years, then call them "finished" and let them do whatever the fuck they want with limited oversight in a lot of cases. If other trades ran like that, the world would be literally falling apart.
Amazon planning large data center next to nuclear power station in Pennsylvania
Right, just like anybody can spin up their own copy of Myspace.
Monopolies most frequently form over either cornered resources (not the case here) or network effects (bingo).
Reddit has a term for this: Everyone Sucks Here (ESH)
If you're old enough, and not yet reduced to living-in-the-moment drooling, you notice that most political "journalism" is this sort of ephemeral click-bait. Full of weak but button-pushing reasons why the world is about to change in whatever way the author's theory du jour claims that it will...and somehow stay that way. But in a day, or week, or maybe a bit longer, it'll be just another page of bird-cage liner.

(For a while, back around 2000, I kept my backissues of a very upscale, expensive, and "educated" weekly newsmagazine, to see if any of their weekly columnists could usefully predict the future. Hahahaha - NOPE.)
> They can and will tell future employers that you suck and aren’t eligible for rehire though.

I believe that's increasingly uncommon, I believe due to legal risk. I think it's usually the case that HR will only verify the bare objective facts of employment: dates of service, title, salary, etc.

I also know of at least one company where policy states everyone who leaves involuntarily is not eligible for rehire, and that includes people who were laid off due to downsizing/site closures/etc. So "not eligible for rehire" my not indicate any performance or behavioral issues.
> not of access to capital

I think I get what you mean with this, but I'm not sure I follow it completely.

Banks are able to extend large amounts of credit that are backed by a small percentage of the credit offered. People are generally bad with money and will take what the bank offers them if they think they can afford the monthly figure. The bank and it's lending practices therefore seem to have an (indirect?) influence on how much money someone has to pay for a house, and therefore what houses sell for in the market. Whether all this does is reveal a houses true value in the market, as opposed to artificially increasing it, I'm not sure.
Has been figured out a long time ago, see other countries. It doesn't even need to be state owned, see Japan.
> There must be short term pain

This is medicine. That short term pain means more people die than would have before.

When specialists quit, who replaces them? You need to be trained - just book learning and shadowing during an MD is not enough.

> everyone already in the industry needs to work even harder to do that

Everyone in the industry is already working hard.

The average physician works around a 50 hour weeks but 25% work 61-80 hour weeks [0].

It's already teetering on the brink due to burnout.

[0] - https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-healt...
How to Investigate the Federal Government
That's not the case with other engines able to keep the booted app in memory to handle several requests (FPM doesn't support this).
Love it! I like that the site is straight to action, but I think it could really benefit from a walkthrough. Here’s an idea!

It would be great if we had an introduction to the site right in the prompt! to help understand its main purpose right from the start.

It'll be great if the first thing you see is [Explain what "delve into" is] as a prompt suggestion. Next, it will reply with, "It’s for exploring topics deeply, similar to going down "rabbit holes" where one interesting thing leads to another. Here are some examples ..."

Then, you guide the user through the functions step-by-step. Something like, "Click on option X to start a new thread, then choose from the suggested prompts or create your own. Follow the flow to see related threads and dive even deeper."
Whether convoy supporters think I'm right or not doesn't particularly matter to me. You all have an internet connection, look it up. It's not hard to find.

Edit - a friend provided me with the following article. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027642231166...

Enjoy
> React was a blessing for the few creating apps that needed more than jquery, and that AngularJS 1 couldn't handle for perfs reason.

performance was the least attractive reason for adopting React. React introduced composition as the default way of thinking about UIs to the web. You created components and used them to build more complex components. Data was immutable and flowed in one direction (parent component -> child component).

Comparing the above to ng with its dependency injection, MVC style approach to UIs, that used HTML based annotations and tags to sprinkle in functionality (`ng-if` baby) -- it was a much more simple way to build web applications.

React's style of building UIs has largely won. Vue, etc. all follow this component with composition view of the world.

> React sucked for years, with a terrible doc, a crippling webpack experience and breaking compact all the time.

Webpack has nothing to do with React. React has always had good documentation. The reason the documentation was good in the beginning was because the API surface area was tiny compared to Backbone, Ember, ng, etc..

I'm not going to go point by point here. You sound like you have a very superficial understanding of the space.

I'm going to hard pass on clicking a marketing link to your blog.
What country are you in? In the US, it's much easier to get a job while you have a job, sounds stupid but it's true. So I would take a reasonably relevant to CS/Dev/IT jobs and look for another while building your resume.
They likely mean some of the numerical packages that call out to BLAS/LAPACK or whatever as all that was originally written in Fortran. I think a lot has been converted to C now.
And yet here he is talking about how he was making the decisions.
You’re assuming “it’s a violation of trust!” is the hazard in this situation but that’s a very shallow, naive understanding of why having two “partners” is almost universally frowned upon. See the sibling comment for a full write-up.

The human psychological and interpersonal aspect is the real hazard. You either A) don’t find two other people that can emotionally handle it or B) do find two other people that can emotionally handle it but suffer from the trauma they’ve experienced that numbed them enough to be able to emotionally handle it, which is a hazard in itself. Either way, it just doesn’t work in the long run.
Please enlighten me, how are the color "grades" different from just a bunch of filters? Granted they have sleek marketing. But why is this app supposedly worth $10 (or $20 when not on sale)? Don't all free camera apps support filters for hdr videos?
I agree with you but it's maybe worth pointing out it's even worse than your example.

It's as if not only was there a cap on the number of waiters, there were strict regulations about how you got your food, and that there couldn't be restaurants where you serve yourself, have buffets, or even that you could feed yourself cooked meals at home without going to a restaurant. All the menus have to be approved by a national food association etc etc etc.

There's so many factors involved in healthcare problems in the US it's impossible to pin it on just one thing or even a couple of things. I also feel like the public discourse seems to be largely out of sync with just how much change is needed to how things are done.

I kind of thought the pandemic might have created an emergency situation that would have leveled the status quo and allowed for a restructuring of things along the lines that's needed, but its seemed like it just barely held on and then went back to things as usual.
>> But why doesn't this happen to restaurants, or super markets or car mechanics?

It also happens to restaurants with much more sever outcomes

Private Equity bought Sears, sold the land under Seas to thmeselves, charged Sears exorbitant rent and eventually bankrupted the company. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/sears-lawsuit-lampert-1.510...

Red Lobster also filed for bankruptcy for similar real estate deal related reasons .
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bad-real-estate-deal-not-1730...
The catch is it doesn't cover anything outside of primary care.

If you're healthy and have a catastrophic plan as a backup if you get cancer, it can work. If you've got chronic issues, expensive medications, etc. it doesn't.
Oddly enough, the fact that you want to work for a FAANG company might make you less attractive as a candidate, though don't let that dissuade you from applying.

Secondly, front-end development from a pure programming perspective is less stable (with the rise of AI-assisted development) than the ability to communicate with stakeholders; you may have a superpower that you are in fact under-selling.

Open-source projects are probably your best opportunity to demonstrate your skillset, with NDA-free client projects your second-best opportunity.
One of these days I should write a book about it.

Question: It's 2 am, a dead opossum is stuck in the main drain for the property and the water is rising during a once in a decade storm. What do you do?

Answer: Wade neck deep into the water, with a stoner tripping on mushroom holding a light, then stab it with a crowbar until the water pressure flushes it down.
Paul Graham really likes hearing himself soeak, so it's weird he was quiet on this until now. One would have assumed that he was tired of hearing this way back last year. And his previous statements have indeed pointed more to it being a forceful split.
Maybe that explains an experience I had when I was at Kubecon in Valencia a few years ago. The free coffee was some of the worst coffee I've ever had. It was filtered coffee, so not even very strong, but very bitter and tasted deeply burned. It was hard to drink, and every attendee seemed to agree. The huge line at a Nespresso counter was also pretty good proof of the general feeling about the coffee.

I'd rather have the brownish water they called coffee in the US office any day.
> "Can I somehow put a tracking device on my young child?" is a question I've thought about for decades

Good for you and those like you, it's nice when something long-awaited finally drops. I was speaking of the people who, if prompted 20y ago, would have said "that's creepy" but are now cool to track their kids, set up cameras around their house that are controlled by 3rd parties, and be cool with a firm tracking everything they watch, etc.
It's interesting to observe how foreign writing systems fit the needs of the languages they are were designed to record.

Korean Hangeul is the gold standard here. Letter shapes represent their articulation and harmony and modify in regular ways to represent related pronunciations. You find similar observations in the writing systems for Arabic, Hindi, and Chinese. In the case of Cyrillic, it's that vowels come in soft and hard pairs.

Perhaps it's bias, but the Latin alphabet seems unopinionated by comparison. It has a good spread of characters for consonants and vowels and is amenable to diacritics or even novel characters. The only thing it's seriously lacking is a good way to transcribe tones. Chinese characters are great for writing a language with a near-1:1 morpheme:syllable correspondence, but its adaptation to write Japanese was famously clumsy.
What does it mean to be officially retired in the YC firm world view anyway... if you have a significant ownership stake are you actually ever really retired? Are major decisions not vetted by the stakeholders? YC was founded by JL and PG (I'd assume equally). And this decision is now described as a JL decision.

Anyway, there's a Hollywood movie in this drama... maybe I'll write a script using ChatGPT... :)
Are you able to connect to Carplay?
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Tesla is still years behind Waymo: "FSD 12.3 seems superior to Waymo’s technology circa 2018, it’s not as good as Waymo’s technology at the end of 2020"

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/on-self-driving-waymo-i...
My roadmap is to find new ways to abuse it.
Karen, eh? Schwartz, eh?