skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK a few years back a statue of a slave trader was thrown into the river in Bristol, and the people charged were acquitted in what is commonly considered to be a case of jury nullificaiton.

Now, it's definitely true that getting a jury to nullify a murder charge is significantly different, but I'd argue there is a lot more anger about the healthcare system and CEOs making huge profits from human suffering in the US than there was about that statue, and much more generally too.

You also have a climate where a convicted felon just got made president, and another in a long line of presidents pardoning people they have close personal relationships too with clear conflict of interest. If you wanted to pick a moment where people in the US were losing faith in the justice system, now seems like a good choice, and if you believe the system is rigged, are you going to judge it on technicalities, or how you feel?

Do I think it is likely? No.

"No world it could happen", "delusional", and "won't happen"? I wouldn't be so sure.
"internet bubbles" don't exist solely on the Internet, they exist in the minds of people spending a lot of time on the internet on certain sites. They manifest on the Internet commonly. But they also manifest in the "real world" when those people communicate with others.

Go ahead and deceive yourself that you're not in an echo chamber.

I'm sure that will help you understand reality better.
So if an employer posts a ghost job, does that become wire fraud?

And if the employer posts a real job but the candidate doesn’t get a response, or is immediately rejected, will the employer get accused of wire fraud?

Sounds like a nightmare for employers.
Why do JavaScript programmers call ini files "environment variables" ?
> When you’re poor, it’s not changing what you can do with your life. You were never able to go to dinner or on vacation.

When you're poor and child-less, you can still sleep in on weekends, watch Netflix/game all day/night or whatever other (cheap) hobby you have. It's even possible to do a decent amount of travelling on a very tight budget these days (low-cost airlines, couchsurfing...). All things considered, today is not a bad time to be a poor person in terms of being able to have fun.

I think even for middle class, the main cost is actually the time rather than the monetary cost.

But I do agree that opportunity cost is the right framing.
The policies consist largely of guidelines regarding what the most cost-effective treatment option for a condition is likely to be. Good insurance companies do try and discuss with providers rather than firing off denial letters willy-nilly, but of course that still ends up being a conflict where your insurance might not let you have the treatment your doctor thinks is best.

This conflict is why I've always subscribed to Kaiser when I have the option. It's much less headache for me if there's no distinction between what a doctor wants to prescribe me and what they're allowed to prescribe. (Would I feel differently if I needed some crazy custom treatment protocol? Perhaps.)
I don’t know the numbers off the top of my head, but most likely substantially more of the money is from industry. However, just answering that requires really carefully defining the question- because much academic research that happens to lead to new drugs or drug targets is basic medical and biology research- do you also include all biological research that does not turn out this way? On the industry side do you include all biotech startups hoping to sell to big pharmaceutical companies including the majority that do not?

Clinical trials are incredibly expensive but also comparatively straightforward and require a very different set of facilities and skills from basic research. Pharma mostly could not recruit away the people with these skills from academia- they can’t offer the same freedom and job security, but the academics often found startups they work for on the side and ultimately sell to pharma if it works out. So comparing money spent isn’t the entire picture of relative contribution- as they are each doing parts the other is not equipped for.
um, that's kind of....the diametric opposite of what a majority, somewhat historic in the context that no Republican president has won the popular vote in 20 years, of Americans just voted for.

Look forward to alarming levels of healthcare privatization in the next four years unfortunately with players like Dr Oz (who is explicitly looking to make Medicare Advantage more the default) and Jay Bhattacharya in leading key healthcare roles

https://prospect.org/health/2024-11-26-dr-oz-stealth-destruc...

> A key part of that strategy is to expand the private Medicare Advantage program and push more and more Medicare recipients into it, leading to a death spiral of traditional public Medicare. The details are spelled out in the Project 2025 blueprint.
Yes these were things we lost, but 'we' as in anytime in past 500 years. You just experienced it yourself for your line.

What was gained is meaningless to some, and next to everything to others. I don't fucking ever have to deal with anybody's crap I don't want to. It feels amazing, simple yet right way to live a life. How shitty my life would be if I had to accept and constantly tolerate people in family circle that for example aren't good people, moral ones or just an emotional vampire. Or brutally incompatible with me in any other way. I see it in peers sucking it up over and over, oh boy do they hate relative X from their or spouse's family tree, yet since they live nearby frequent meetings are unavoidable. For some blood is sacred and above else, I don't see it that way if relationships are not at least a bit mutually beneficial.

Freedom, man, to do what you want with your life, that's a wonderful thing. Freedom to form new bonds with literally anybody in this world, as you please. Great friendships trump most of blood relationships, all if you want. Also, people change over time and common ground is getting usually smaller and smaller every year. I'd gladly give it to my kids over some tighter knit family ties with people of variable quality with highly questionable views on life, who raised their own kids only so-so and it shows later on.

Just to be clear - I've experienced most if not all you wrote. It was good. All non-good easily trumps it so thus my opinion on the matters. My kids are growing in very different world than I grew up in, that one is long gone. I look at it as a package with + and -, liking current package more.
For those looking for applications outside crypto, this might also be interesting: https://docs.ezkl.xyz/

It's similar to Succinct but for proofs of ML models instead of RISCV. So you could generate a proof on some private data, on your computer or in a trusted environment, and submit the proof to show that you pass a fraud check without revealing any of your data.
The article gives reasons, but it sounds to me like gzip was retained mainly because it is in use. I don’t have a horse in this race, but if only Zstd were left I would feel like even more simplification was accomplished.

Everybody has their own tiny preference for one of the other but really… if it’s not embedded what is the impact?

> - GZIP is tried and tested, and is still one of the fastest at decompression time, although the compression ratio is not very high; moreover, Fedora is already shipping EFI zboot kernels for arm64 that use GZIP, and QEMU implements direct support for it when booting a kernel without firmware loaded;

> - ZSTD has a very high compression ratio (although not the highest), and is almost as fast as GZIP at decompression time.
I don't understand why Texans get so insecure when people rightfully point out the issues with their infrastructure.
All that complexity, for what?
I'd much rather follow Germany's model of healthcare (which is privatized) than the UK or Italy's (which is nationalized), having experienced all three and the US's.
This is why I groan when people talk about, say, how the government needs to "incentivize" increased building volume in order to solve the housing crisis. If you accept the argument that there's a shortage of physical units (and not just a shortage of affordable units that haven't been converted to rentals, or just simply kept off the market)... the real estate market is never going to kneecap itself. No matter how much money we give them. The government needs to start building houses. Directly. Whatever loss is incurred will pale in comparison to the costs (social and otherwise) of another few decades of paying private corporations not to solve the problem.

We REALLY should have learned our lesson after what happened with the broadband rollout in the early 2000s.
In this case the algorithm can determine broad classes like "rural" or "city", and aside from those classes the generated images have little connection with the audio. I think most DL researchers would agree that this is low-effort stuff, and therefore not publish-worthy. In addition to this the word "accurate" in the title is misleading.
When I worked on it, there was no other way to check if a configuration could be set. I remember suggesting to kernel folks to add some another way, in particular 'cause sometimes we had to allocate some massive buffer just to be told you had to composite.

Also, you could not cache a config as valid. The configuration validity depends on the current state of the display controller. For example, if a configuration of planes on one CRTC can be set might depend on how much bandwidth is currently required by another one. I remember having to get rid of framebuffer compression on one monitor if another monitor had a resolution above a certain threshold.

Planes rotation property can be 0,90, 180 and 270, you can also flip them: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/gpu/drm-kms.html#c.drm.... If I remember correctly I implemented/upstreamed a few of these properties support for Rockchip display controllers.

If you can rotate a specific buffer will likely depend on your display controller plus if it's tiled or not though, since rotating a linear buffer is going to destroy BW.

If you are writing code only for one specific display controller you can look at the drivers and just figure out which configs are ok.

If your DP supports it, you don't need to GPU composite for screenshots, you can use the write back connector.
What should Cloudflare build next? – a thread
> let’s hope this can be a rallying call to end privatization of healthcare

It would be pretty funny if it ends up being another Shinzo Abe moment where the predominant takeaway is "wait a sec, that murderer kind of had a point".
> The vast majority of my belief system is or can trivially be peer-reviewed and reproduced.

Not possible for you to know (more Faith...watch out for misdirection though).

> but it's far less egregious than "sky-daddy says I should love, honor, and obey him - and most crucially give him MONEY as the almighty is somehow perpetually short on cash - so I can be saved".

I will resist the urge to make up something about Your Kind and represent it as True.

> Wait, what am I going to be saved from, you say?

How about: yourselves?
The system I'd love to have a better understanding of is the one TiVo deployed for the transmission of data to their boxes in the early 2000s.

They would buy a 30 minute paid programming in the early hours on cable TV networks under the name "Teleworld Paid Programming". The box would tune the channel, record the show, and then decode the data from the recording.

I always thought there was something interesting there, as the process would need to survive the MPEG encode/decode process on the TiVo itself in addition to whatever they needed to do the broadcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfUgT2YoPzI
This happened to one of my previous Xiamoi Phones too. Apparently the Flash Storage degrades over time, which makes everything that uses I/O super slow. For instance, starting Firefox took almost a minute, but it was usable as soon as all needed data was available in RAM. This is a known issue in the respective community, and sadly kills devices that would still be usable with the latest Android thanks to Custom Roms.
It's about the intention of who inserted that keyword into the page.
Juliet: The Sister Language of Julia for Motion Programming
An Italian town that built its own sun (2021)
Within the US, could you have a cooperative-style insurance scheme that pays any excess to its members?

I believe these days most insurance companies farm out most of the risk to reinsurers anyway, so you could do it at a relatively small scale.
> even with "good insurance", there is a high likelihood that getting cancer will mean someone's life savings will be vaporized and replaced with bankruptcy levels of medical debt

Only in the US....
Show HN: The Modern New Tab Page
I spent a lot of time looking for a good customizable new tab extension but couldn’t find one, so I decided to make my own. It’s built with developers in mind, feedback is welcome.
I am perfectly fine with it.

The HN (and other "intellectual" online spaces) guidelines are a big part of The Problem.
While discovering emulators recently and playing a few older games and just enjoying it immensely, I've asked myself if it's not a bit unfortunate, or suspicious, or misleading, the way the world of software and hardware is split into two so neatly by this word, "retro", and other unfortunate terminology ("AAA games", etc).

It suggests that systems or games from the past are somehow by definition less good. And that one would have to have a "hobby" or "interest" to possibly want to spend time with them. That the experience is somehow lesser.

The quietly radical thought I've been entertaining recently is that maybe "retro-computing" people have more of a right to be considered computer enthusiasts than the usual crowd you'd associate with that category, and similarly, maybe "retro-gamers" are more "gamer" than the "gamers" themselves.

Picture the two archetypes - the person who regularly investigates the near-infinite cave of treasures which is all the games humanity has produced the last 50 years (as well as sometimes some of the more modern games), or someone who plays exclusively "AAA-rated" games released the previous year, who never ventures outside of the ps or xbox store, who owns a ton of skins, and follows a few YTers who talk about games?

Who is more of an "enthusiast"? Whose fondness and engagement is more open-minded, fresher, "younger"? Who knows more? Who has more respect for the games, the developers, the hardware and software world?
“ And as children get viewed as a selfish luxury”
I never quite understood this. Who exactly will pay into social security to benefit the next crop of retirees that seem to think it’s selfish to have kids?
College enrollment is falling at a 'concerning' rate, new data reveals
Why is that relevant? The important piece of information is operating a business at low profit margins is hard (obviously because a zero or negative profit margin is a charity and not a business).

People working for software companies with enormous lock in pricing their products (and we can talk about Epic healthcare software’s profit margins here) complaining about profits earned by businesses under much more competitive pressure is funny, because they obviously would have no better solution than what the executives of the business barely eking out a profit are doing.

And on top of that, all insurance pricing has to be approved by the government.

The conclusion is only that people like to complain. They complain about high premiums/deductible, they complain about prior authorizations, they complain about fraud, they complain about denied coverage.

And then they will still choose to purchase from the company offering the lowest premiums.
I recently hosted a retro computing get-together of a few old buddies I met through the Commodore 64 BBSs and demo/cracking groups. I haven't seen them for about 30 years. One of the guys still had some old C64 disks that supposedly had some of my old source code on it for an intro I wrote for his cracking group. Well, I bought a refurb Commodore 1541 disk drive, we got a USB adapter and proceeded to pull stuff off those old disks. We also attempted to revive my old non-functioning C64 that I've been hanging on to for decades. There was stuff on those disks that I had no remembrance of creating.

It was a lot of fun. It brought back old memories of us in our late teens in the 1980s, when we used to meet up regularly for "copy parties" and demo coding parties. I would absolutely do it again. We had a great time looking at old and new demos while the 1541 whirred in the background. There's still so much going on with the Commodore 64, people are still pushing it past its known limits (See https://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?platform%5B%5D=Commodore+... ).
Great article that does justice to the complexity and nuances of the system.

From the underlying report that's cited [0]:

>> We include uncorrected coding intensity and favorable selection in our analysis so that the MA
and FFS populations are comparable. Because benchmarks do not account for these adjustments,
it is also unlikely that plan bids assume the effects of uncorrected coding and favorable selection. With these adjustments, we project that benchmarks in 2024 are 132 percent of [traditional Medicare fee-for-service / FFS] spending (i.e., the amount that would have been spent on MA enrollees if they were in FFS).

>> Overall, plan bids — 14 percent of which are projected to be nonmedical expenses for administration and profit — in 2024 are an estimated 101 percent of FFS spending.

>> Thus, though MA plans have lower medical costs than FFS, these projected efficiencies are offset by plans’ projected administration costs and profits.

>> In total, we project that plans will offer the standard Medicare benefit at about the same cost as FFS in 2024, which implies that the majority of extra benefits for MA enrollees are not financed by plans offering the benefit at lower costs than FFS, but rather by the taxpayers and beneficiaries who fund the program. Overall, we estimate that coding and selection cause MA payments to be 22 percentage points above FFS spending in 2024. That difference translates into MA payments that are a projected $83 billion above FFS spending in 2024.

[0] p373 https://www.medpac.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mar24_Ch12...
I’d like to see Cloudflare offer stuff people can install on a personal website.

Also a following on the fediverse or Bluesky
The therapy described in the article would not be allowed in Brazil

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/12/7/2672
I'm guessing part of the embarrassment is from this part:

> which the manufacturer claimed ‘could not be fixed’

which Mark definitively proved wrong. But also, he doesn't have to explicitly disparage the equipment if people can just look at it and make their own conclusions. Even if the actual design is sound (I'm not remotely qualified to judge), you have to admit it looks a bit janky.

As for valid copyright claims, you're probably looking for reason where none exists.
I find it highly annoying that these rather powerful handheld smartphone computers don't have decent port access for use with instrumentation, etc.

A huge range of features comes to mind from Geiger counters, oscilloscopes, sound level measurement, light intensity, etc , etc. The potential to expand the smartphone capability is enormous yet no manufacturer has tackled it. Why not?

Why aren't there multiple USB ports? By now why don't all phones use USB-3? Why isn't there general purpose D/A and A/D ports/outputs for instrumentation? Why don't they include a GPIB-like bus to connect to things? Why can't we use the screen as an oscilloscope with a bandwidth of say 100MHz?

Of course not everyone needs these features but the smartphone stands out as an ideal device for use in instrumentation and measurement and data collection (of the other kind).

I find it amazing that no smartphone manufacturer has
branched out into this field. Such potential and no one is servicing it. Phone manufacturers are missing out by not servicing this scientific/techie measurement market.

Why, say, doesn't Fairphone provide a range of interchangeable ports/modules that can changed for different functions, to add additional sensors, etc.?
Maybe GDP in german or dutch?
> um, that's kind of....the diametric opposite of what an overwhelming majority of Americans just voted for.

Not really. ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, and VA's health insurance programs are all extremely popular among voters.

There are lots of issues on the ballot, and approximately no one was voting for Trump's nonexistent "concept of a plan" for healthcare. Feel free to post evidence of "an overwhelming majority" of people voting for Trump's healthcare plan to back up your initial claim, if you'd like.

By the way, the popular vote had less than a 1.5% margin. There was no "overwhelming majority" in any sense.

This was the 49th largest "overwhelming majority" victory ever by popular vote and the 44th largest victory by Electoral College vote. That is to say: an extremely tight race by any measure.
One simple application is making blockchains vastly more scalable.

For a blockchain to be secure you have to store each transaction on chain, with enough information so everyone can verify that it's valid. Normally this means storing the sender's signature, which is bulky.

With ZK, you can bundle up thousands of transactions, skip all the signatures, and include a single 256-bit proof that all the transactions had valid signatures.
Could be a swede who meant "GDP" (BNP = BruttoNationalProdukten = Gross Domestic Product)
> they haven't yet released a version where they allow specifying the Go toolchain version

Devenv's maintainers are friendly and responsive when it comes to contributions from downstream, and like 90% of the devenv repo is plain ol' Nix code written in idioms that are common in the community.

I mention it because my team has hit some papercuts as well, but I've been really happy with how easy it's proven to address them. :)
I hope other countries take action soon. It's deeply irresponsible how we allow advertisements and Big Sugar/Fast Food companies to exploit colorful cartoon characters and misleading health claims to hook people—especially children—on excessive sugar and fat consumption. This not only fosters unhealthy eating habits but also conditions them to crave specific branded flavors from an early age.
This is a straw man argument. Yes they shouldn't deny a prescription if your doctor says you need it.

What I'm talking about is capping the costs of a supporting doctor for a surgical procedure. From my quick research, there is no significant cost basis for surgery running longer than planned besides the anesthesiologist's time. So the doctor would make $400k instead of $500k per year.

Here is some perspective. The anesthesiologist's bill for my wife's colonoscopy in 2023 was $2k. This is a routine procedure that takes less than an hour. Also, the place was just filled with patients and there was one guy handling them all.
I cofounded a company doing also this [1] you can check the repositories [2].

[1] https://bitvmx.org

[2] https://github.com/FairgateLabs
Guessing that a ultrasonic microphone from a bioaccoustics site should fit the bill - otherwise, what could researchers pick themselves?

This one, for example, picks up to 200kHz for €1050:

https://avisoft.com/ultrasound-microphones/cm24-cmpa/
It's not like you have a choice other than buying what you want to buy