skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starlink has about 4 million customers right now, but considering that Starlink is struggling with congestion in the US, there will be a gap of millions of rural US households who would be best served by fiber. And regardless, fiber is the best long-term internet access medium, because whatever latency problems fiber has now can be improved by changing the devices sending data through the fibers without replacing the fibers themselves.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/01/capacity-crunch-causes-m...
Correct. A graduate degree in economics is much closer to an applied math degree than something that resembles what we would traditionally consider social sciences.
That’s the crux of it. I didn’t visit with any of my insurer’s staff, like I did with my own doctor. How are they making treatment decisions without ever having seen the patient?
Otoh some medical providers like to over bill and over treat.
I dunno if it's unusual? I had mine done recently, 49 years old... seemed like a given that I was going to go under? (I'm pretty sure I prefer it that way?)

Also UHC fwiw, but went through my local provider group, etc...
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That's fair. And in that vein the current killing of the ceo can not rightfully be deemed a murder as no one have been convicted of such.

But then again, the society apparently defines the quality of a killing - only future history will tell if this is a murder, and thst can go back and forth a lot depending on public sentiment.
> Who cares about "the actual need of employers"?

99% of college students and 100% of college administrators whose schools will all cease to exist if they can't convince those students to enroll and pay tuition.
I imagine the extra complexity, parachute and release system weight, and risk would nix that.
He’s already come out saying he wants to remove EV subsidies after his company was able to get off the ground with them.

Age old pull-the-ladder-up!
I'm in US and I've had a single one. It was sedation which induces twilight sleep but I was definitely conscious. I've known many that have had them (ex-partner had stage 3 colon cancer and had/has them on the regular) and it was always sedation.
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I would transfer these people into making podcasts, self-published books, social media feeds, and other forms of content that are actually consumed. Trying to read one of these papers in an academic journal is mind numbing. The college model is way too expensive and has very little societal value vs. its cost
Light sedation is anesthesia.

> Anesthesia or anaesthesia is a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness that is induced for medical or veterinary purposes. It may include some or all of analgesia, paralysis, amnesia, and unconsciousness.

"General anesthesia" is probably what you're thinking, which is a specific form of anesthesia where someone is put to sleep.
>Starlink is very expensive though

Really? It's not always the cheapest option but seems pretty competitive with land-based broadband generally.

I agree with the broader point though. In my experience, Starlink seems plenty good enough for most consumers. Once you get above a certain level where you can do things like video calls and stream a couple of movies with reasonable reliability, most people are just fine.

I'm sure standards will increase over time but I'd probably be just fine if Starlink were my only option today. Even considered getting it as a backup but Xfinity has been reliable and good enough of late where I live that didn't seem worth it.
> Spreading my genes is the intrinsic value

That's not the way natural selection works. A gene either spreads in the population or not, and individuals are merely carriers of a particular gene. It is no more "your" gene than it is "your" flu virus that you spread when infected. The gene and the virus "use" you; you don't use them.

Of course, because genes, like a flu virus, use us as carriers, they can only spread if we help them spread, so if we come to think of genes that we and others carry as "our" genes then that helps those gene spread. But natural selection doesn't care about gene carriers beyond their role as carriers any more than a flu virus does.
Imagine you could use one of these

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/accelerator-optimized-...

A system with, say, 8 large GPUs could easily generate graphics for 24 or more players and support a complex world as in: something like

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

where you can walk through all the doors. A single SMP computer (kinda like couch multiplayer but with multiple screens attached) would run the whole thing which would put a limit on the player count, I can't see it exceeding 100 but the selling point would be the complexity of the world. If anybody could build a gaming cluster that could scale up to more players it would be Google.
People need to go to prison. Otherwise it's just the same, managers get their bonus, leave, company pays the fine, doesn't get back the bonus. Rinse and repeat.
Your argument is completely bogus for multiple reasons. Firstly, people are paying here for insurance, a lot. Secondly, it's the FDA's job to approve treatments which it does. Thirdly, we do not have a uniform privatized determination across the country of what is approvable or not by insurance companies. They deny numerous legitimate treatments and procedures at their whim.
You can give it a different name if you'd prefer. But those are human beings who don't have places to live.

And those are not all of the homeless. They are what Musk sees, because they are indeed very visible, especially in San Francisco. But he's making the classic tech-bro mistake of imagining that he knows everything, and what's not directly in front of his eyes doesn't matter.

Those chronically homeless -- the drug addicts, the mentally ill -- are indeed hard to help. Just building more housing won't help them. Even giving them free places to live is often of limited utility. (Unlike the large majority of homeless, who will be able to use it to get back on their feet, and will only be homeless for weeks.) There are ways to help, but they won't be found by just guessing based on what's directly in front of you.
Their real component at minimum
Drinking 700 cans of Guinness on the best mountain
They found cancer in my colon during a follow-up for a ruptured appendix, several years before the age for recommended colonoscopies. I recently had one and asked they go light on the anesthesia, so I was in and out. They removed a polyp while I was awake and it was pretty uncomfortable. The idea that you shouldn’t even have that much anesthesia is insane. These people are morally bankrupt and frankly I don’t care what it takes to stop them.
You were not denied a colonoscopy, but anesthesia during a colonoscopy, which is not medically necessary[1]. Tough line to draw though.

1: https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speak....
This. The cognitive dissonance is jarring. And no "that's different!" is no argument. Like it or not, our government leads by example. And the example is not a good one.
Easy. They're going to continue to copy/paste Maslow's hierarchy of needs into a new PowerPoint like they've always done.

They've never needed new ideas before. Why start now?
>The article really assumes you know the acronym PNRG

Why would you be reading this article if you do not?

This is the type of critique given when writing for a general audience, not a scientific whitepaper.

(Fun fact: The AP style guide tells folks to write at an 8th grade level because that's reading level of the average American adult. 8th graders do not read white papers on cryptographic design, and when they do, they look up unknown acronyms just like big boys and girls do.)
If they don’t move during electroshock therapy your voltage is too low.
On the contrary, if the healthcare system in the US weren't such shit, more people would probably be going to primary care doctors and getting Preventative Care before it becomes an emergency, and requires a trip to the hospital.

But many people don't, because visiting a primary care / walk-in clinic / urgent care is expensive, so they ignore it, until it becomes un-ignorable. Now it's an ER visit.
Except the satellites are already up and functioning, the service is available today. We will look crazy for burying thousands of miles of wires to residential in the future.
The difference is that patients in the US are being denied by people lining their own pockets with the savings. In sane countries, there’s at least some basis of trying to do the most good with the resources at hand, which sometimes means denying care for person A because those resources would be better spent on person B. With private insurers in the US, it means denying care for person A because they think they can get away with it and it will increase their profits.
ETFs holding Bitcoin are now the largest holders, surpassing Satoshi Nakamoto
I read that as "on to a modem provider". That might be the way to go.
The funny thing is that all who enter the realm of politics magically
become instant expert "economists".

The UK's Rachel Reeves was suddenly falling over herself to associate
any scrap of experience she's had with "economics" [0].

All the actual scientists and hard business decision makers I know try
to distance themselves from such jibber-jabber.

[0] https://order-order.com/2024/10/24/rachel-reeves-bank-econom...
The Bonavita kettle lets you set in 1 def F (or C, if you prefer) increments, with some common presets. I've used it for making Chinese tea for years.
I frequently switch between three grind sizes, one for a single cup, one for a pot, and one for cold brew. With the Fellow Ode I can easily count clicks to insure I'm at the expected position. With out tactile markings on the dial and a tactile arrow to line up with markings there's no way to make the grind size reproducible as far as I know. I've never tried using stepless grinders for this reason so I may be wrong about how hard it is to dial in when blind.
I think it's a great idea. I wanted to do it myself many times and didn't have time for it. I hope it will shake this industry and help bring fees down.
> for the insurer to incur enormous colon cancer treatment expenses

This presupposes the insurer isn’t going to deny claims for that treatment, too.
New languages should make sure the default random() is cryptographically secure, and hide PRNGs behind weakrandom() or repeatablerandom() or something. Safe and slow defaults are better than fast and unsafe.
Although it should be noted that the anesthesia thing was dumb and bad. So maybe policy by mob justice isn’t a good thing.

https://www.vox.com/policy/390031/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shi...
Weird. It is obviously true. Also it is redundantly explained in the very next half sentence:

> But of course, the primes aren’t random. They’re completely determined,

Also this whole thread that this post started is so stupid.
Yes, mass media exists to manufacturer consent, and this shooter forced their hand.
That might have gotten them to stop bugging you, but I imagine your credit score still took a hit?
Agreed. France, Germany, and Japan have health systems similar to the ACA, with the following differences: insurance is nonprofit with an effective mandate, there's a national price list for medical services, and claim denials are prohibited for anything on the list. Germany has an especially effective digital system that guarantees payment within a week.

All three systems get better health results than the US, by measures like survival time after diagnosis of major disease. And all three spend a significantly lower percentage of their GDP on healthcare.

Source: The Healing of America by T.R. Reid.
Fair point though I would make a counterargument that with or without those subsidies, those satellites are still going up to space so wouldn't it be better to offer the service to as many folks as possible so that the most people get the benefit of satellites and we while we wouldn't offset the costs of putting sats up in space, at least we can offset the per-capita cost.
So you want grandma to suffer for you. How very selfish.
The US spends the most budget per patient for the least amount of care, the rest goes into inefficiency and profit (a second kind of inefficiency).

Medicare per-capita spending is more than NHS per capita spending, but the NHS covers everyone.

Of course healthcare is denied in any system (in other systems this is triage), but nowhere to the level United Health does it: over 30%, it's on a completely different scale.
100% this. I had almost the exact same experience and lessons learned.
Ah yes. That's what I get for touch-typing... Thanks.
If you’re shot, and I pull up a chair and watch you die without saying a word or helping in any way, especially if I get paid extra for refusing, I’m not sure if I’d call it murder, exactly, but I bet your family and friends would describe me as a killer.
Switzerland plans revamp of Cold War-era nuclear bunker network
It is extremely common in the US. The only people who get colonoscopies without any sedation are those who want to be able to drive themselves home afterward.

We have people - covered in tattoos - who insist that they are terrified of needles. And that they want drugs before any even mildly painful procedure, like placing an IV.
Except we won't, because the satellites are wildly over congested and wires are, frankly, far more reliable.
The flair 58 is 600+. So it's slightly more, but from a new manufacturer and has a unique design. I expected it to be at least a $1000, so I think it's definitely price competitive. Though I'd hold off until reviews come in.
> I've done a colonoscopy without anesthesia before... it was a non-event. This is pretty common from what I understand elsewhere in the world. Americans are just super uncomfortable with their bodies so I guess we prefer being put under?

It depends on what they do while they’re in there. If they’re just taking pictures then it’s fine. If they find anything they usually cut it out immediately. I can tell you from experience that having a piece of inflamed colon cut of and cauterized while you’re conscious isn’t a “non-event” as cool as it might be to watch on the monitor.
The `-c` flag enables a fast "clone" of the file on APFS, Apple's current filesystem.

That operation is very fast, as it is like a directory entry adding another pointer to the existing data. But unlike a simple "hard link", any future modifications to this clone will write distinct data blocks to.the filesystem: the original and the clone are independent files, they just share any blocks that store data in common.
Just washing the grounds out but takes time to cool the moka down. I guess I could leave the grounds in and clean it the next day but that idea is icky to me.

I preheat the moka with hot water and fill it with hot water from jug to reduce time to brew (necessary due to stove setup).
> I was just denied a colonoscopy as not medically necessary by UHC, coincidentally three days before their CEO was killed, because they don't want me to have anesthesia to do it; they argue I should be awake.

It sounds like something is getting lost in translation. Presence or absence of anesthesia does not change the medical necessity of the procedure.

> I'm 45. Colonoscopies are a thing. I had a friend die at 52 two years ago after he was diagnosed with stage IV during his first colonoscopy.

Without wading into the specifics of your situation, there's not great evidence justifying colonoscopy for normal people without family history at age 45. The USPSTF just kinda lowered the threshold based on crappy (pun not intended) observational data. And if you look at their recommendations, they actually don't recommend colonoscopy, specifically -- they just recommend "screening" [1] which includes FIT, DNA testing (again: not great evidence here), or flex sig, which is done without anesthesia, and all of which are cheaper than colonoscopy. It's a huge debate.

Anyway, I absolutely don't want to reflexively defend the health insurance industry in the US, but one the reasons we have skyrocketing health care costs in this country is because people are doing expensive procedures when cheaper ones would suffice.

[1] https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recomme...
Geography, sociology, anthropology for starters. Take a read about postmodern epistemologies. See how many papers draw on "pure theory". I even saw this in my required coursework prior to dropping out of a PhD in urban planning.
"Why should my treatment be limited?"
If it bothers you that much make an alias. In your .profile or .bashrc (or whatever your shell reads at startup):

alias cp=“cp -c”

Or give it another name if you like.
You're conveniently leaving out the fact that his council recommended he expel Bin Laden and AQ , and he refused.

>On 21 September, Muhammad Umar rejected both Bush's demands and the advice of the council, again denying that bin Laden was responsible for 9/11.

Again, some lunatic from your country just attacks the world's strongest military power, killing ~ 3,000 people, and you refuse? The Taliban deserve exactly what they got.

The only mistake we made in Afghanistan was trying to build a 'nation' out of a geographic collection of hill tribes. We should have locked down the porous Afghan border and let SF and northern alliance troops declare open season. As it stands we didn't so much 'lose' the Afghan war as lose interest in imposing democracy on a people that had no desire for it.
You mean, like alchemy, sorcery, or perhaps homeopathy?
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MessagEase has been my go-to for years. I swapped this year to thumb-key when MessagEase went to a subscription.

I love the ability to quickly copy, paste, select-all, type special characters, etc., all without having to do anything complicated. It took me a little bit of time to get used to the layout, but now I type exactly what I want, as I want it, without any auto-correct or automation needed. I make few errors and love the whole way of doing it. QWERTY makes very little sense on such a small screen, but it's what people know.
Computer science is also pretty embarrassing as a field of science: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359147521_Reproduci... Based on this result (0%), New Zealand may as well dispose of all computer science studies as well.

That paper investigates whether papers are well-formed such that the results can be reproducible. That's fair - many research papers today are vaguely written with insufficient information. However, that's not the issue at hand. The issue here is that, even with a perfect paper, social sciences are unable to produce replicable results.
> PNRG

You sure about that?
Extremely cool, thanks for sharing!
unresolved coup leading to another coup; then civil war...
A tale as old as time.
That page is self-contradicting in a stupid way.

> You can put every quantity in the world on a scale from -10 to +10, where 0 is human-scale, and every number higher means 10x more

> [...], and ↑9 is the Sun. It doesn’t get much bigger than that unless you’re doing astrophysics.

So, which one is it?
Why did Proton and SelfPrivacy use Random instead of Random.secure?

DTD is local host or over SSH due to the unecrypted websocket.

Browsers block unsecure WS over HTTPS. The key generated is for tagging multiple instances per IDE not security.

Random is instant and is used for runtime collision prevention and performance especially UI, not uniqueness, PRNG is not truly random anyways.

Random.secure has a large overhead accessing OS entropy and isn't always supported. [1]

Go 'math/rand', python 'Random', C# 'Random' to name a few are also not unique or safe for crypto.

Their secure equivalents: Go 'crypto/rand', Python 'SystemRandom', C# 'RNGCryptoServiceProvider'.

This isn't a Dart or Flutter issue [0]:

"A generator of random bool, int, or double values.

The default implementation supplies a stream of pseudo-random bits that are not suitable for cryptographic purposes.

Use the Random.secure constructor for cryptographic purposes."

[0] https://api.dart.dev/dart-math/Random-class.html
[1] https://api.dart.dev/dart-math/Random/Random.secure.html
They ran fiber down the street connecting to the street my grandparents are on, but didn’t go down theirs. But of course they’ll gladly charge more for “up to” 50mbit when it’s only 25 on a good day. They’re all criminal.
Universal healthcare would be a Christian duty then? How's that working out?
i was actually confused about this for a long time - i always thought my colonoscopies were "general" because i... couldn't remember anything, but all of them were really just propofol "twilight," which is just a deep sleep, i guess? i only learned this when i got a real surgery and had to actually go under general, it's a much more involved thing where you're essentially put in a coma
Murder is by definition an unlawful homicide. This isn’t just pedantry; it’s the most parsimonious explanation for why someone would support the death penalty and object to something like the assassination.
Also here's a previous discussion (197 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42272927
I’ve thought about this quite a bit. I don’t think this possible. Draws happen when two players are very closely matched that the difference in their play is not large enough to lead to a definite outcome. Currently in chess, 2800 like Magnus would draw say 70% of the time against a 2600 and win the rest (making up numbers here). The only way to solve this problem, is if the game magnifies differences in capability and enables a certain side to win. Making a game that does this, is probably very hard and would not look anything like chess.

Any other solution would face the same issue that chess faces now. For example let us say, we imbalance the sides a bit more so that white has a more definitive advantage. That just means that players will alternate winning and you’ll have to play a lot of games before anything definitive happens. In a technical sense there may not be draws, but if it just alternates 1-0, 0-1 and so on, is it better than 0.5-0.5 and so?

Shogi allows early momentum to snowball (since a captured piece is your piece). This means white has a much more definitive advantage in Shogi as white has the tempo, so I don’t think Shogi will fix anything, it will just cause see-saws. In fact I think fixing this chess issue, is far harder than it looks, and may require coordination to move all chess players to a new tactical game that magnifies differences in playing capability far more than chess which already magnifies it quite a bit.
Seems like this might infringe the trademark belonging to the legal tech company Clio.
Murder isn't the same as homicide. By definition the death penalty isn't murder, because it's state sanctioned. Self defense, another example of legal killing, also isn't murder and most people who are against murder would consider a death in self defense to be justified and not murder.
Source? I'm from Italy, where everybody's using them, but never heard of a single one exploding. Maybe you can find an isolated case, but I'm confident it's extremely rare. There's a safety valve to release pressure after all, and if you use the Moka correctly the valve never has to engage.