skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire American Medical Industrial Complex is designed to extract as much money from customers as possible.

Fun fact, therapy is usually not covered by Medicare at all( and when it is you can literally have a year wait). So you have a system in which working class person just have to get through it, and anyone with means will be told they have dozens of things wrong with them.

Better Help sells user information. The venture capitalist tech bros have a new market.

When I was at my lowest, broke , without any health insurance at all, I had a friend who listened to me complain about my latest eviction for hours at a time. That did more for me that any therapist ( who almost always watch the clock to cut you off ).

I plan to pay for her children to go to college. I make a tech bro salary and it's not a lot of money to me.

The Quest For Community and Tribe are great books on what's wrong with modern society. In my grandma's time the average person attended church ( I'm am atheist, but I value the community aspects), at least one social club, and she was a member of a union.

How many community connections does the average person have today ?
There are lots of spacecraft being built, they just aren't all human rated at the moment. I should mention that I'm including first stages here too because my point is that we have to build the stuff to work the organizational muscles so that we can build more similar stuff which is better performing later.

Rocket lab is launching electron a bunch, working on Neutron which will be a falcon 9 competitor, and is building spacecraft for their customers (e.g. they built some Martian orbiters that should get launched later this year).

Intuitive machines, the folks who built the most recent US lunar lander.

Blue origin is not exactly speedy, but they do fly their rockets semi-regularly now and New Glenn is supposed to fly later this year.

Northrup has a human-rated rocket that flies periodically.

And of course there's ULA.

And those are just the successful ones.

There's also:
Astra
ABL
Firefly
Relativity
Sierra Space

And probably some more that I'm not aware of.

That's a pretty long list of places that are working on these problems and paying American engineers to work on and think about these problems.
Usually if you let the prosecutor know up-front that you're not willing to cooperate they will tend to save themselves the hassle of trying. It can go wrong if they subpoena a belligerent witness, then they don't turn up on the day they're supposed to testify, and now the jury is empaneled and they start doing a dance where they demand the sheriff finds the witness, but then the clock runs out on holding the jury and it's a mistrial all round.
I'm with you, wish the supreme court agreed.
Ads dealers, who own social networks, are adept manipulators: they find your weaknesses and torture you psychologically until they break your will and make you a mindless ads user. Then those sorry doomscrollers aimlessly wander along the streets, and unable to resist the urge, use whatever ads they find on those streets. Most of the ads dealers are no better, and the ads they sell are mostly poison.
The IRS and the USGOV in general is much more lax on preventing citizens from having free money. I get tax return refunds I shouldn't, plenty of people cheat the system and get away with it. For profit insurance companies are harder to cheat. If an insurance company refuses a claim, what are you going to do? go to another insurance company that will do the same thing? If the government refuses a claim, you can vote for the other guy. The government is comprised of "we the people", so it is in the best interest of the people for it to take place of insurance companies, which are certainly not comprised of "we the people".

You should also understand that I am not suggesting that insurance companies should be banned. If you don't like the USGOV subsidy, you or your employer can still subsidize private insurance for you. But now, insurance companies have to compete with the government!
I visited LA a couple of years ago. The smog in that region was awful. Out of all of the cities to represent the United States. I can’t believe LA was picked as the spot to showcase on an international level.

A “4-year sprint” to make it “car free” is nothing more than a Potemkin Village in my opinion. International visitors will be greatly disappointed at how terrible this country’s public transportation infrastructure
>I also find programming extremely enjoyable

I that's a big gulf people don't appreciate. I don't enjoy programming. When I program a microcontroller for my hobby projects it's a means to an end. I would love a tool that takes in a natural language description of what I want and outputs code and LLMs are good at doing that for basic tasks.
"Internal Server Error" for me
I don't know in which world busses can "easily" "replace" taxis. They are almost two completely different things serving different people with different purposes/priorities.
The comment you're responding to is in the context of whether a government issued ID should be required _because that would cut down voter fraud_. Additionally, the context is that's it's being pushed by Republicans - that it would prevent Democrat voter fraud.

1 - Texas: Crystal Mason. Her conviction overturned. So, this is a bad case to quote. And, ID was irrelevant here. She wasn't pretending to be someone else.

2- North Carolina: Leslie McCrae Dowless. He's Republican committing voter fraud. Also, Dowless was charged with multiple counts related to illegal ballot handling - seemingly not something Voter ID would have helped with.

3- Pennsylvania: 2020 - via https://www.ydr.com/in-depth/news/politics/elections/2022/08...

a) Bruce Bartman... serving five years on probation after he illegally voted for Trump

b) Melissa Ann Fisher of Bucks County recently was sentenced ... signed a mail ballot for her deceased mother: mail in issue AND public deaths should be remove you from the voting rolls. Not directly a voter ID issue.

c) Ralph Holloway Thurman of Chester County pleaded guilty... is a Republican

d) Robert Richard Lynn of Luzerne County pleaded guilty last year to completing an absentee ballot application and signing his deceased mother's name... Also absentee for deceased.

I'm not going to continue looking them up. Maryland is about voting in two states, so voter ID won't help that either. More about absentee ballots and more about absentee on behalf of deceased individuals. Voter ID on in-person voting is irrelevant to those cases.

It's republicans comitting fraud or cases where Voter ID won't directly help.
That's part of that comment's point.
I dont have an issue with it, I just didnt see the tie between disconnecting to be present for a social event and not being tracked.
You can't get around the laws of physics, but you can control the number of round trips necessary to render your website. With HTTP/3, you can deliver data to a client after just one RTT, and a 200-250 ms time-to-first-byte is still plenty fast for a CRUD app.
Suggestions from someone who hasn't used sub mm units in decades and is therefore out of practice: since the first section is supposed to orient us, remove the French =3mm bullet point, you never mention French again as far as I can see, so it's just trivia.
Instead, try to link the first 2 points - maybe express human hair in nm instead of um, so that we can then visualize an angstrom (something most people don't know about) in terms of human hair (something most folks do know). Don't make us convert nm and um our heads.
How is it different than the company making fake rhino horns to flood the market to fill the demand and reduce harm to real rhinos?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/06/10/fac...
Yeah? Governments can revoke the passport of criminals. Not sure why that would surprise anyone haha
> There’s a lot of evidence that exposure is required for immunity

Think about - immune system evolved over millions of years, is it plausible that it needed wild tribes of hunter gatherers to huddle in a nearly airtight box for 8 hours and infect each other to work
Well this person lives in the UK where such protections do not extend so I do not see such relevance to this topic. I would also be curious to find out if there is a difference between “account closed” and “account disabled indefinitely”.
> app serving all customers is supposed to satisfy the needs of all customers

Including customers who need to not give a bank permission to connect to nearby devices for totally undisclosed purposes.

This such customer has not been served.
The USA economy is unstoppable. The entire world agrees on this issue, that’s why investors from all over the world are pouring money into American investments and American financial instruments. The USA has the most dynamic and innovative economy in the world, and it has the strongest economic growth of any large economy.
100% this. most people do not realize that all those non-secrete messages from private chats and group chats are stored in database that people at telegram has access to.
"It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform."

What an utter ridiculous and misleading statement from the company that LITERALLY REFUSES to take down drug and malware shops from its platform.

There's tens of academic studies that have looked at this problem and many of them have Telegram as the worst offender.

Here's just one of the studies: https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/addressing-distributi...
As I’ve continued to read I realize the shuttle didn’t have ablative tiles, rather reusable heat dissipation tiles. Better aerodynamics, so maybe our glider should use this approach; the Si and C required are present in asteroids, but manufacturing is space could be challenging.
Agreed. NASA's budget got cut to such extreme degrees that compromises that looked to some like the program would get cheaper were made.
By that light, the artist that is painting using store-bought pigments instead of hand made, or brushing paints instead of reallocating molecules, or even better, atoms, is also using a black box.

I think OP has a point, and is about guiding the design, then overall structure and dynamic of the code. Nobody expects to write in Assembler or not using libraries, but making a concious decision on the design.

I have met few programmers, but many coders. For them coding is a job, and generally they don’t care about overall architecture, algorithm efficiency, and code elegance is limited to syntax-coloring-themes in their editor. I respect their existence, but generally they are building on top off somobody else’s effort.
Of course wood isnt eco friendly, do you think that stuff grows on trees? Its better to take that wood, process it into a pulp, add some industrial solvents, and then turn it into cardboard.
Genital-censorship laws in Japan are a fig leaf, barely ever upheld, afaik.

They are absolutely more relaxed with the type and amount of content getting published, and have been for a very long time. The likes of Miguel Angel Martin in Japan would be considered average, whereas in the west they shock the mainstream.

The anglosphere is still somewhat conditioned by the idea that comics are for kids; at the other end of the spectrum, the francosphere expects every comic to be an auteur-level masterpiece. East-Asians just see it as a product to sell: as long as they are correctly labelled, so that strong material ks not missold to kids, everything is fine.
But those things are all so cool though. Like... how could you not want to learn about them.

Seriously though, I guess I'm just kind of uncomfortable with "treating inference implementation like a VM" as you put it. It seems like a bad idea. We are turning implementation details into user interfaces in a space that is undergoing such rapid and extreme change. Like people spent a lot of time learning the stable diffusion web ui, and then flux came out and upended the whole space. But maybe foundational knowledge isn't as valuable as I'm thinking and its fine that people just re-learn whatever UIs emerge, I don't know.
The Lost Treehouse Tribes of the Rainforest
Only in America would people think a “65 mile commute” is a “doddle”.

Absolutely insane.
> Serve Stale Content While Revalidating (Not Working as Expected)

> This is the only thing that I was not able to figure out.

For good reason, because (at the last time I tried this earlier this year) Cloudflare documents stale-while-revalidate as if it's supported [1], but it isn't [2], [3].

Cloudflare instead has a different behaviour [4], [5] which helps in some circumstances but not all.

I use Fastly's free CDN plan to get round this.

1. https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/concepts/revalidatio...

2. https://community.cloudflare.com/t/support-for-stale-while-r...

3. https://community.cloudflare.com/t/when-will-cloudflare-full...

4. https://kerkour.com/cloudflare-stale-while-revalidate

5. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48124415/does-cloudflare...
I fucked up my taxes one year. I filled out the form letting them know I had made a mistake and paying the amount and that was the end of that.
Amazing! :) Thank you so much for your hard work! It plays really well
I'm developing Weavus (https://weavus.app) as a way to take my events away from facebook. It's a social app (mobile only for now) where events are the main element and the home screen shows your upcoming events. The philosophy is no feed, no ads, no addiction, just your real social life.

The idea is also to merge in a single app many needs of events, like group chats, photo albums, expenses splitting, and I'm planning to add more. I realized groups have similar needs to events, so I added them as well (think small private groups, not massive communities).

All of this is stil very early in development and it definitely needs some more work before a Show HN, but we've found it very useful for weekends and holidays already.

Consider it an open beta, so feel free to give it a try and give me your honest feedback :)
Oh I can't realize I overreacted and correct it before it triggers more people? Instead, I gotta let it sit out there and get harassed in perpetuity?

This wasn't vandalism. I don't owe you anything. Get a life.
Huh, I guess academia.edu does something weird with the PDF-specific links where it can't be revisited by someone else. Anyway, here's a link to the page where you can read the PDF: https://www.academia.edu/34217915/Why_study_time_does_not_pr...
It'll be car free but take 2 hours to get anywhere (my experience with LA traffic/transit)
You need to jailbreak the ipad and the path you will tread will be a bit unsupported, but its possible.

https://worthdoingbadly.com/hv/
Very few companies survive Robotics projects, as the public has decades of unrealistic expectations from entertainment media.

If the plan is an unconstrained general purpose use-case design, than the reality of the processing power needed to do simple tasks will quickly hit the product.

If the board is serious, than just purchase the universal-robots.com company. Then add whatever branding and software you thought was useful on top of the existing platform.

Making a profitable Robotics company is hard, as they are not generally a consumer product.

I'd try Apple branded appliances, and you know people would buy a talking toaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

Best of luck =)
> security is necessary for business

It's not, though, that's the thing you aren't picking up. Managing risk to the tolerances necessary to make money is necessary for business. That's what's being done.

You say that it's about the long term, but within epsilon of nobody has gone out of business or even been seriously impacted by bad security posture. Experian gets wrecked on the regular, but it's not going out of business. Azure springs holes regularly enough that Corey Quinn has an ongoing schtick about it, but Microsoft isn't going out of business, either.

If you want security to be necessary for business, you need to make failing to operate securely a legitimate threat to an organization. Waiting for consumers to act collectively means you'll die of old age before seeing a twitch, so you're really talking about legislation. I would be in favor of this, to be clear--I think we as an industry are bad at cybersecurity, terrible even. But I'm describing what is, not what ought.
I thought this was going to be just a big "NO." like the are we X yet? pages.
I don't buy that the cost was unsustainable. All that money being spent was going directly into the American economy and was stimulating technological development all over the country.

The story that NASA was too expensive during Apollo sounds like political spin to me.
So I have started creating a new keyboard layout based on Dvorak; but more a text generation and expansion engine, with snippets or abbreviations in vim.

Initially also on Emacs as a minor mode, the concept is to write in a shorthand of greek letters, mapped like to a Dvorak distribution, that stand there as a code, as variables or latent values, expanded upon a key combination to one of several languages: German, Hebrew or Yiddish. Text can stay code-mixed indefinitely. The greek letters are a preform, condensed by layers of translation and transliteration, a hybrid con, and the keyboard layout itself, dynamic and not static, is dual: for every greek letter in the layout correpsonds a hebrew letter or diphtong or diacritic mark etc. It is a merge and disambiguation of both Dvorak/Programmer Dvorak and Yiddish Klal.

I really don't know if it may seem useful to someone, but I've been itching writing a bit jargon in a system like this for some weeks.
You can bike a long ways in two hours! With an e bike 40-50 km:
The US led nuclear arms-reduction treaties for a long time, it's not hard to see them trying to put the genie back in the bottle. On top of that, a lot of standoff-range nuclear weapons rely on old or outright retired technology that has to be succeeded somehow. Compared to Russia or China, the United States doesn't really have the motivation to develop nuclear tech like they did in the 60s.

US military doctrine doesn't rely on "red button" politics anymore, too. Putin draws lines in the sand wherever his enemies step, but even he doesn't want to commit to what he suggests. Modern militaries would rather rely on tactical operations than insist on fearmongering through big-stick diplomacy. This is doubly true for the modern United States, where nuclear weaponry is treated as an enemy of globalist policy.
Do you mean baseball, football, tag, board games, cross words, Sudoku, Dungeons and Dragons, or something else? There are many games that are not electronic. So, what separates those athletic and paper games from electronic games? Automation.
I suspect this highlights are more serious issue which is that most of our training methods are not adaptive. They work well only if the students arrives at the right phase in their understanding and otherwise make poor use of everyone's time. Yet assuming the student has something to learn, and the teacher knows about it, this does not have to be the case.

One discussion of training I found eye opening was Pat McNamara's thoughts on what I believe he said was called "skills-based training" versus "performance-based training". With skills-based training, instructor start out the training session with the idea in mind to cover certain skills. A lesson is successful if it covers the skills the instructor wanted to cover. Performance-based training is geared towards improving the students' performance, so skills are introduced based on the students' actual level of ability and the relevance of training in a particular skill for improving their performance.

One motivation for adopting performance-based training is the lack of success of skills-based training in many contexts. Why is skills-based training sometimes unsuccessful? One reason is that the skills may be too hard -- the instructor chooses the skills with imperfect information on the students' level, and they choose the wrong skills. The students receive the training but their abilities do not actually improve; they don't know what's going on. Another reason can be that the skills are too easy -- the students receive the training and actually meet all the standards, but it doesn't actually help them get better.

Pat McNamara discusses these concepts in the context of being a shooting instructor for police departments and military units. It seems that one often doesn't know what these units know before one shows up, and the officers and soldiers in any one unit can be quite different individually, so the instructor has frequent occasion to think about the relationship between what they planned to teach and what they actually did when prompted by the students' questions and challenges.
It’s valid in the UK where this person is limited to their rights. Sure people should have right to information collected about themselves but a lot of countries don’t extend that right. Perhaps in a different reality or in 10-15 years time things will change. Not while Zuck is sucking people dry of their data and people use Facebook because they see identity as a valid reason to give up their freedoms so they can sell something to someone they’ll never communicate with again.
> Funding the government must be done by force for it to work.

Since the U.S. issues its own fiat currency, revenue isn't necessary to fund expenditures—the government can create new money as needed. Also, since the Constitution explicitly grants the power to issue and regulate money to Congress, it has long been argued that an independent central bank like the Federal Reserve is unconstitutional.
Yes it is. I don’t recall when and if I check out the list of UFO sightings on Wikipedia but I’m very aware of the problem.

In the English wiki it’s a group “Guerilla Skepticism” which dominates the field on esoteric content and much more.

In Germany we have the same situation and very likely every language has the same issue.

The bigger pictures is that the whole content from Wikipedia gets fed into the AIs and then it answers you practically the strongly moderates censored misleading content from Wikipedia.

The very disappointing thing is that nobody can’t to anything about the mods in Wikipedia, they dominate the place.
The world ending would be less treacherous than living each day with the fear of it. Yeah, the cure is just to live in the moment. This is a coping technique. Kids need to be taught this stuff in school.
Makes you wonder if that sort of dynamic between generations is ever going to be something that can be overcome. Maybe if humanity cures aging.
Love the idea and I see multiple people working on what I hope can be the future of meetup.com. Good luck!
The rumors saying Strix Halo will be a multi-chip product are saying it's re-using the existing Zen5 CPU chiplets from the desktop and server parts and just replacing the IO die with one that has a vastly larger iGPU and double the DRAM controllers. So they might be able to save a bit of power with more advanced packaging that puts the chiplets right next to each other, but it'll still be the same IF links that are power-hungry on the desktop parts.
> some people's brains just don't like math

Sounds like perverse socialization to me. What actually justifies this claim? Do some people's brains "just not like reading?" Do some people's brains "just not like music?" There's nothing special about math here.