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I was a chief Procurement officer at multiple tech companies and just hated sales calls. What I really want is a clear pricing structure and a list of documentation to look into.

For anyone tired of the sales pitch, feel free to reach out as I've built a company who takes care of the entire procurement cycle for you (including negotiations)
Can you elaborate on some of the technical details and motivation behind this service? Looks interesting, but I am unsure what you gain from it
This is what's called a slippery slope.

A capture card and HDMI cable together cost less than $100. Hiring someone will be at least an order of magnitude more expensive—and more so the more people you hire.
I know, is sad :( Tough choices must be made. Like many of our ancestors, we will have to migrate to better places and/or adapt. We'll do all we can to make it work. As personal advice, I will be buying my second home (when I'll be able to afford it) somewhere in a different country/region with different climate (and political) connotations. Avoid having all the eggs in the same basket. I think we should all have 2nd/3rd homes and also Airbnb them to be more efficient. If all would rent their 2nd/3rd homes the supply would exceed demand and the price would drop. I think we really need to use smart-locks remotely openable in a bigger scale. We could have a future of prosperity and abbundance with enough redundancy to accomodate for all the distasers we were not able to mitigate enough.
They’re being rhetorical for emphasis. No need to twist it into an ad hominem.
Right, but that's expensive too (initial outlay and maintenance) and needs to win a lot of efficiency before it pays off.
We also build with concrete. In the USA wood is very cheap and it's easier to work with, so you end up with a larger house at half the price of a concrete house. Also wooden houses have a "warmth" that is missing from bricks.

The way Americans look at it is: I can get a house twice as big for less. I'll just get insurance with the money I save.
Other sources say the house wasn’t a passive house but did have fire rated walls.

It seems like a lot of fire resistance can be created just by focusing on defensible space and having a concrete or metal fence. Then protecting the roof ventilation from fire (there are special screening materials that can be bought). Then using class A rated materials on the roof and then the exterior. Then metal framed windows instead of vinyl. Actually doesn't cost that much more- they should require it in building codes in these areas. The issue then is retrofit- insurers should probably require a defensible space in these high risk areas.

https://youtu.be/yZe-TlYxm9g?si=Uuqy6rhrhUb8l-_c
> The Military Rule imposed on Palestinian citizens until 1966

> Prime Minister Yair Lapid

Anterograde amnesia, is it?
Show HN: Interactive game teaching dark patterns in UX design
I built this educational game to help people identify and understand dark patterns in digital products. It features 10 interactive scenarios based on real-world examples.

The game includes:

• Interactive pattern recognition scenarios
• Explanations of psychological principles
• Simulated real-world examples with guided feedback

Built with Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind.

I'd especially appreciate feedback on the educational approach and scenario design.
Show HN: A calendar widget for shift workers
I work in the hospital and wanted a better calendar widget that let me: select only my work calendar, show the time until my next shift, and show how many shifts I have for the month. It's been useful to me, so I wanted to share it with everyone as a free widget on iOS.
Cool video. Reminded me of an old school Apple ad.

Does Widgens allow you to search via speech-to-text? I feel like the video, and the idea of "searching at the speed of thought", makes me think being able to just rattle stuff off verbally.
Was expecting the video game series.

This is much more interesting, actually.
Broadcom would be some horror scenario. Not your garden variety scary movie
Markets moved heavily to it (~7.5% pre-market) so just perhaps there is something to it. Link down for me now, not a shocker.
I’ve been a lurking fan of Zig for a while. Discovering they listen to IM and Bliss to code to just made me like their project even more.
It's intended to clarify and emphasize for readers
Back in 2010 the app store was the hot new thing and everyone had visions of how they would put on in their product. Most of them realized it was a stupid idea before they got around to writing code for it (much less release), but some of it escaped to the public.

Sometimes the idea of apps might make sense (this is arguable, but lets not go there) but the old buy it on a real computer (phone allowed) and then load it is correct.
I mean, yeah, it's a lot easier to build a rocket that only goes up.
It's part of the enshittification cycle. I'd been a Nikon camera user and figured I'd upgrade...reviewing Nikon, Cannon and Sony, the new startup...Sony was the only body at that pricepoint that also had a motor in the body to let older class have auto-focus...that was a feature the other two were gatekeeping at higher priced bodies.

Now that they're established, its time to chip away and add shareholder value.
This is mitigated if your initramfs + kernel are measured into the TPM, right?

Edit: never mind, I think it's still vulnerable.
Only disabling it in Canada sounds like a legal or licensing issue. Still Samsung’s fault for not working that out ahead of time, but probably not a cash grab.
The NHL Just Can't Get Social Media Right
Oklahoma is full of lowest bidder builders. Living in OK I rarely see a house built in the last 10 years that looks like it was built to last. Yet another thing Americans don't seem to care about anymore.
Perhaps IP law has jumped the shark.
I'm not from the UK, but wasn't there also a cake Vs biscuits thing for tax reasons?
I am having trouble making sense the word "parks" in the title. Is "GM parks" an entity, or is this a mistake and "parks" is just an extra verb in there?
If an app tries to detect that I have root or a non-stock OS, I will give it a 1-star review on Google Play 100% of the time. Everyone who has a rooted device should do this.
During COVID, I was able to set up my 5DS (a ~10yo model now) as a webcam for free. Did they stop supporting the software they released to do that or just paywalled it?
> healthcare specifically

Yes, it is deeply unethical that someone can be bankrupted and become homeless because of a treatable condition because the "market" has decided a price for the service that is astronomical without insurance, while at the same time tying insurance to employment, dividing up insurance markets, and making coverage subject to inscrutable, unappealable decisions made by people sitting behind desks in a completely different part of the country, while the leadership of said organizations and investors make higher profits than ever. It is deeply unethical that a CEO can make tens of millions of dollars--which for most regular people is several lifetimes worth of earnings--in a single year, while dealing in a market that regularly denies coverage to people who then suffer, are financially ruined, and die.

It's not the same as making a better CPU for more money. Not. At. All.
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There are so many cool projects using Zig already. Very excited for its future!
Linux KMS Testing Improvements
I remember when I was first getting started in the industry the big fear of the time was that offshoring was going to take all of our jobs and drive down the salaries of those that remained. In fact the opposite happened: it was in the next 10 years that salaries ballooned and tech had a hiring bubble.

Companies always want to reduce staff and bad companies always try to do so before the solution has really proven itself. That's what we're seeing now. But having deep experience with these tools over many years, I'm very confident that this will backfire on companies in the medium term and create even more work for human developers who will need to come in and clean up what was left behind.

(Incidentally, this also happened with offshoring— many companies ended up with large convoluted code bases that they didn't understand and that almost did what they wanted but were wrong in important ways. These companies needed local engineers to untangle the mess and get things back on track.)
Yes it fits the definition of the word, but not the context in which it was brought up here.
Heating is more costly if you use technology created for cooling. When you try to cool a cold space in order to heat hot space, you will have a bad time. You could use electric heater for heating, it should have no problems with heating, but will use more electricity. Or you could use something actually cheaper, like wood or fossil fuels. If you use more expensive method (like electricity) it will be more expensive.
devil's advocate, but this is not "using the cameras as intended". This is a camera for photography, I don't think a common person would see it and think "this is intended as a webcam".

On the one hand, perhaps this fixed software should be a one-time purchase and not a subscription. However, if this software was provided for free, what incentive would the management at Cannon have for investing into updating the software for MacOS when it inevitably breaks? I think there is a small subset of users using this camera as a webcam, and frankly I'm surprised Cannon even has an official app.
The AWS Management Console supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple accounts
You could Google it and find out.
the original OP is claiming that the healthcare industry is too profitable. So you have to compare it to something to see if it is too profitable.
One of the most useful tools in my arsenal, is Sim Daltonism[0]. It's Apple-only, but I'm sure there are similar tools for Windows and Android.

[0] https://michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism/
The broader question of why companies are able to keep pushing us ever closer to the maximum we’d conceivably be willing to pay for a given good, is probably best answered with “we stopped trust-busting a few decades ago, so competition sucks and keeps getting worse”.
>People making tens of billions by applying formulas to spreadsheets and shuffling other people’s money around doesn’t sit right with most people.

The federal government will pay you $4.4 billion a year[1] if you lend them a trillion dollars, no "shuffling money around" required.

[1] current 5-year treasury yields
My understanding is that there are areas which are noted as being possible debris zones across the flight path, but that aircraft are not specifically told to avoid those areas unless there an actual event to which to respond.

If my understanding is correct, it seems sensible at least in a hand-wavy way: you have a few places where things are more likely to come down either unplanned or planned (immediately around the launch site and at the planned deorbit area), but then you have a wide swath of the world where, in a relatively localized area, you -might- have something come down with some warning that it will (just because the time it takes to get from altitude to where aircraft are). You close the priority areas, but you don't close the less likely areas pro-actively, but only do so reactively, it seems you'd achieve a balance between aircraft safety and air service disruptions.
Oh honey, xe are visibly queer. None of the above is new to xe, as a matter of survival. And a matter of sanity, as xe were raised to believe that the world was created from whole cloth six thousands years ago and that dinosaurs either lived with humans or were an invention of the devil.

There are no such things as atheist beliefs any more than there are a-unicorn beliefs, even if many things have been done in its name. The same goes for evolution. And no, communism isn't any more inherently atheistic than German fascism was inherently Catholic (it certainly wasn't atheistic) nor US democracy inherently Protestant. Anyone doing anything "in the name of evolution" is projecting their own hate and small-mindedness onto whatever convenient vocabulary at hand, as has happened over and over and over long before science. Avoid confusing belief with confidence in replicability, not when only one was sufficient for humanity to reach the moon.

No, as a science-minded secular materialistic atheist, xe are burdened with expecting nuance, detail, precision, specificity, and consistency of xirselves and in xir communications. But xe also expect the same of others in kind. Tell xe again how belief will save you from junk forensic science if you are ever accused falsely of a crime? Because actual science has no patience with such nonsense whereas xir original point still stands. We can resume this discussion after that.
git switch is too new and its man page says "THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE."
Fair point about the Linux CLI, especially the lack of a comprehensive stdlib. As for the syntax sugar and code terseness, maybe it's just me, but I prefer verbosity over compactness. Surely it takes more time to write and read, but personally it makes it more readable for me.
They are using "parks" to mean "settles"
And also, they are an "on your face" depiction of the dehumanization of the Holocaust victims...
It's how the register rolls.

What they mean is, they parked it, like a car, put a stop to, ceased movement.
If it can run a desktop linux environment it's a PC. That said it probably should only count if the preinstalled software is Linux and not some games OS.
Wood is way cheaper and more available at large scale here than in Europe.
Well, is there any camera that allow you do just that?
Wait, they were sending geo location data to LexusNexus?! That is crazy. If you haven't seen the inside of LexusNexus, it is a stalkers paradise. I got a glimpse when I talked to some guys about helping them with some python automation. Turned out they use LexusNexus to figure out who to buy mineral rights from for fracking nat gas. They gloated how they used deep personal data to do thing like play spouses against each other as they are going through a divorce. I walked away because of basic human values and ethics I feel need to be upheld
I'm trying to work out how what you're describing works, first I have to understand you before I can form an opinion on it :)...

Ok, I get how you want to value risk, independent actuaries. I suppose, there's some bias there as insurers might lean on them to adjust the risk to be more favourable to them and as they'll be repeat business, they're likely to comply, but let's assume we find some really honest ones.

So given say a pool of people with similar risk profiles, say young professionals in high earning careers, and you calculate that they're effective risk is the same so you pool them together.

Now, what do you believe an insurer would insure them against? And of the things, what would not take them out of the pool they've been placed in and put them into a different, perhaps smaller pool?
That's clearly not user friendly. Users cannot predict the amount of overshoot. So we are back to square one. The user could wake up to a $1,000 bill or $10,000 bill and all data deleted, and the cloud provider can just say "oh we run our billing limit enforcer job on an hourly cron schedule but your account requested many machines very quickly so you still incurred $10,000 worth of charges." A precise billing limit is impossible, and a fuzzy billing limit with a precise error bound is the same thing and also impossible. Now we are back to a fuzzy billing limit with an unknown error bound.
"It's also why houses typically don't have attics anymore."

As someone who framed houses as a job and designed and built three of my own I disagree with your take on attics.

It is common for houses not to have an attic because builders must build cheap to compete. Attic space can be cheap square footage, but it has to be part of the plan from the beginning and is difficult to make it an option to pick.

You can indeed have an attic with "attic trusses". They are still built out of dimensional lumber and stamped connectors - the bottom chord will be much larger. I've seen them span 36', not sure what the limit is.

On one house, to do a partial attic was only $2000 extra for the trusses. Attics present other problems/expenses too, like additional stairs. (Many plans didn't have a place where extra stairs can be added as an option AND work with the truss layout.

HVAC is another issue. You either end up with a second system for the attic or need to have space in the floor below to run ducts to the attic space. Again, most of your cookie cutter plans didn't leave a space for this. When walking my HVAC guy through my house to plan ducts he asked how much of this closet he could have for ducts. I told him "as much as you need to make it work correctly". From the look on his face you'd think he won the lottery. He replied "no one ever says that!".

Attic spaces require different insulation techniques, they aren't difficult, but cookie cutters don't like different.

I've used attic trusses on 2 of 3 houses. The one where I didn't was because stairs, HVAC and I didn't need more space (full extra height basement, daylight windows - that was enough).
Heh, you’ve fallen into the exact trap I was trying to expose, which is why I chose addresses as an illustration point :)

The first step with anything address-y is to try and nail down exactly what an address is in the project context. Quick example - property shells, a building at 1-2 Street Name that contains a bunch of flats, but doesn’t itself have residents or its own postal delivery point. They’re mega useful for an address autocomplete (sadly, the vast majority of geocoders are trash for the uk’s addresses), are they sth people should be able to use (without a flat number etc.) for their driving license? Probably not. Commercial venues? Maybe, what about pubs? Ok, so dual-use maybe, but man this stuff gets painful in a hurry.

Next up - historic addresses and how’re you going to link ‘em all together. It’s nasty, edge-case-strewn work - and for the most part, unavoidably so. It’s why people get their backs up when someone dismisses it out of turn, cos if they have worked with it in the past, they’d qualify anything they wrote with: * presuming a well-formed address source + pipeline.

Edit: for what it’s worth, companies house only lists corporate entities and partnerships as defined in whatever act of parliament. Self employed etc can call themselves whatever - and do! - and the only record of it can be as vague as a nondescript line from the VOA.
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I went on LinkedIn this morning and I saw four posts from people talking about how good Rust was compared to other languages and then a bunch of comments from people with crab emojis in their names. Four. Its community is insanely cult like, I have never come across it before (maybe some Lisp-evangelicals, but they are individuals and not entire groups).
not a deal breaker
What? What earthquake zone in Europe is similar to the fault lines in California? We are talking about entire cities wiped out by earthquakes just 120 years ago.
I changed "Gov't" to "Gov" to fit the character limit.
Having indices doesn’t guarantee anything is cached, it just means that fetching tuples is often faster. And unless you have a covering index, you’re still going to have to hit the heap (which itself might also be partially or fully cached). Even then, you still might have to hit the heap to determine tuple visibility, if the pages are being frequently updated.

Also, Postgres has supported parallel scans for quite a long time, so single-core performance isn’t necessarily the dominating factor.
Oh! Xir entire software developer career has been built on skills xe taught xirselves from childhood (never took a CS course in college; majored in fine arts) so this sounds absolutely perfect! Probably would have crushed it there back in the day, too. Thank you!
> Insurance that is able to quantify risks precisely and set prices individually based on that is useless.

This is simply untrue.

This may be true for health insurance, because there is a strong moral case to be made that is unfair and illiberal to make people pay more for genetics or simple bad luck that result in them being likely to need more health care.

It is not true for home insurance, where people can choose where to live and choose what kind of housing to live in.

The purpose of home insurance is to reduce time-based variance for disaster, not for people in low-risk properties to subsidize people in high-risk properties.

It is not "solidarity" for someone in a steel-and-concrete house with a metal roof who clears brush and trees from around their house to subsidize someone who lives in wooden mansion who doesn't take any fire precautions. It is a perverse incentive.

> If it has to make any profits - or at least pay salaries - it's guaranteed to be a bad deal for everyone.

Again, it is not the purpose of insurance for it to be positive expected value for people in high risk homes! It is expected for insurance to be negative expected value. The point is to reduce variance.
think of it as each country being its own company, contracting out to a local software house which may have different ideas of what security means
You're assigning a single mind to a group of uncoordinated actors to create a hypocrisy that probably doesn't exist in any specific individual.

It looks like a loophole, it
could be in the textbook describing them. You have a law that establishes a rule, then creates a small exception that in effect opts out of the rule entirely. The people who want this provision eliminated don't know it was intended. That's pretty in the weeds of congress' internal negotiations
It’s a verb, to park, as in to put something in a particular place and leave it there. Here, it means that they’ve settled the claims, promised to behave in the future, and they’re moving on. It is very awkward and seems impossible to understand without reading more. Maybe it makes more sense to the British.
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