skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the capitalist paradise of the United States, as I sit here, covered by top-of-the-line health insurance...

My wife needed 3 months to schedule a sleep doctor appointment, 3 months to schedule a minimally-invasive surgery (That manages to bill her, and the insurer wrong), and every time she needs a re-fill of her prescriptions, it's a complete fucking crap-shoot of whether or not:

1. The manufacturer managed to produce enough pills to fill its orders.

2. The pharmacy bothers to call her, to notify that the prescriptions are in.

3. That the prescriptions are actually in, and that she didn't waste her time walking to the grocery store.

Meanwhile, on my side of things, I end up watching my insurance get billed $750 for 5 minutes of a doctor's (And 15 minutes of his assistant's) time. This is truly the most humanitarian, efficient, and accountable medical system on the face of the planet.

> Canadians, on average, faced a four and a half month wait for medically necessary treatment after referral by a general practitioner.

'Medically necessary' is an irrelevant qualifier. All treatment is medically necessary, if it weren't, the GP wouldn't prescribe it, and Canada wouldn't pay for it.

The term you're looking for is 'Non-life-threatening'.
Is this a reference to something cyberpunky?
I have been using a System76 Darter Pro (max cpu and ram) with Pop!_OS 19.04 and it’s been a dream to use. My day to day workload includes docker, node.js services, Postgres, mongodb, and gis tasks. I get about 6 hours of battery life while working and about 8 or so when doing non-work tasks. It’s the real deal. I’m also driving a 4K monitor with the laptop display on as well. Smooth as butter. However, I’ve tried some modeling with Sweet Home 3D. That didn’t go so hot. The Darter can use thunderbolt external gpus though and I’ve been meaning to pick one up and see how well it works
I have no dongle issue (I rarely plug anything into my laptop), but the Touch Bar was terrible for me. I was finally able to use Karabiner to suppress escape (I mapped caps lock to esc which is more convenient anyway).

I can see the Touch Bar probably makes sense for people who look at the keyboard while they type, which might be a majority for all I know, but for touch typists it's at best worthless, and the accidentally triggering is terrible.
Is there a mobile carrier focusing on security?

something like what CF (and others) are doing with domains
Yes, but it will not give you anything new: The Wolfram Engine provides
full access to the Wolfram Language (just like Mathematica) via command line
access and executing Wolfram Language scripts.
A lot of music on that list is not specific for baby boomers. Even those baby boomer era artists like Bob Dylan and The Beatles are regarded as very important and influential figures in popular music. Not to mention that Mozart, Nirvana, Faith Hill and Bach are definitely not baby boomers era artists
> Agreed, the keyboard is awful.

I don't really get the hate for these keyboards. I benchmarked my typing speed on my 2019 MBP and a few other keyboards, I didn't notice any significant difference. Just a keyboard...
Yet another week and yet another blog on how hiring sucks in software engineering. For whats its worth, I took a phone interview at the company. Their feedback for me and my feedback for them are below

Feedback to interviewer.
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The interviewer was knowledgeable, smart but is unhelpful in guiding towards answers. I had started on correct path of using two pointers. When I got stuck, he expected me to resolve it myself. You can view it in two ways. Either he expects interviewee to solve end to end,(Employees must perform tasks on their own so we should not help). or we expect rockstar candidates who don't need any help. Depending on your company's reputation in market place, you need to decide what path you will take. Otherwise, you will be interviewing many many candidates before finding one you like(not one who can do the work). Also, There was no reason to make me compile the whole code. I had adequately demonstrated that I can write Java syntax(or that I cannot write Java syntax, depending on your expectations). When I write an algorithm or code and you want to test it in a interview setting, you must walk the code with me and evaluate a few cases. Or ask me to walk through the code with a few test cases. Its just a travesty if you expect me to use the "run" button. That just introduces additional complexity where I have to write absolutely correct syntax. In a real world job setting, I would have IDE support which shows compile errors as we type. There it is easy to complete compilable code in less amount of time.

Their feedback to me.
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The candidate had some ideas in the right direction, yet it appeared challenging to conceptualize an acceptable solution and implement end to end. The candidate understands CS fundamentals and I certainly see potential in the candidate. To continue practicing, the candidate can continue working with these algorithmic patterns: DFS/BFS greedy sliding window divide and conquer recursion dynamic programming. A popular site to practice algorithms is leetcode.com. To ensure practice conditions close to the interview setting, I encourage 1. Code in a notepad 2. Setup a timer 3. Talk during a practice 4. Create some psychological pressure, e.g. ask somebody to watch you during practice, record yourself on a video, etc.
> In a great-power conflict [...] the U.S. military is fucked anyway, but then, so is the opposing power. Perhaps that's the best we can hope for, because it's a pretty strong incentive not to start great-power conflicts in the first place.

Yes. That is indeed the concept of a (nuclear) deterrent.
This blog post conflates open source with a community development model.
just an example from my childhood like 20 years ago. maybe supply chain for rhubarb is awesome now, i don't know, i don't buy it..
I am curious if the difference is having such an organization as an option versus finding people off of the street. In that way, using a guild is one option, but they do not prevent you from using other options.
Zoom on Macs is so much more convenient than on Win10, even with aerozoom, I also tried the sysinternals zoom: no dice, Win10 usability is still kluncky. I got both and still use the 2015 Pro a lot more than the way more beefy oled-screen Dell.
New dasung E-ink monitor indiegogo campaign
> I'm from Maine originally, and it's been a constant battle lately to keep the Portland metro area from passing ballot initiatives that make sense in their little neck of the woods, but are insane when you get off the I-95 corridor.

I'm also from Maine, and this is true. And I agree that some redrawing is necessary, because the reason things work as you describe in Maine is tha the Portland metro area is almost half the state's poptulation. They kinda should get what they want if we're talking about this like it's a democracy. As you note, dividing things up and creating new levels of administration to better reflect this would be a real problem--'cause now Maine-minus-Portland opens their wallet and a couple flies fly out.

(I'm on the "federalism is broken" bandwagon, though, so, eh. I dunno.)
Funny you say that, because I wiped whatever was on my X1 Carbon and installed LTSC. Then I had to install the Lenovo touchpad driver because two finger scrolling didn’t work. But that installed a “synaptic touchpad enhancement” background task that was a marked battery hog. The touchpad driver would restart the service if it was killed, so I had to delete the executable. (It led to no apparent change in functionality and notably improved battery life.) at this point, we are solidly in “total crap” territory. I’ve had half a dozen Macs, and never do anything to it besides install the apps I use. I sometimes change the wallpaper, but not even necessarily that. Everything is perfect out of box.
What do you think about getpocket.com and flipboard.com? What are the cons of pinboard.in over the other two?
Same thing here (Intel NUC + NixOS).

Recently I purchased an HP Envy with and AMD chip for $550 USD and got myself used to sway + i3statusbar-rust. Everything is simple, can be backed up using git and I use at most 300mb of ram after boot. Computer startup is less than 10 seconds and shutdown is less than 3.

I think this is the third time I feel this way about computers. First one was when someone told me about Apache and Linux in 2000, second when I discovered postgis + geodjango in 2007.
could it be a machine translation from "chantage" to "blackmail" ? "chantage" in Dutch doesn't sound like it necessarily implies the target has committed a crime...
How does that work? Is the specialist sitting there with no patients, waiting for a call?
> I am not digging further. Self-reported.

You suggest those people actually felt more isolated despite feeling that they didn't?
Lots of places do this. Fidelity, for example, blocks withdrawals for a certain amount of time when some specific actions happen on an account. I believe address changes and adding people to your account with a certain level of access trigger the block.
I imagine it depends on the altitude of the object the laser is targeting. Say if there was a missile flying along the edge of the mesosphere vs a missile 1 km above ground.
What Tech Companies Pay Employees in 2019
You are not being forced to reveal anything :). That is coming from your standing POV that this data is yours.

Look at it from the perspective the data is not anyone's to start. The data is something you played a role in creating but you do not own. Next, how do you decide who controls and gets access to which parts of the data and what are the reasons behind that?

Data that identifies you might own and keep private.

Data that can help the manufacturer improve the product/services they might get.

Data that can help society/gov they might get.
Maybe first move to using Microsoft apps online?
It's about as bad as any other technology. I bet therapy gets a lot easier when I can write my anxiety reduction function for myself.
Noble? Maybe... I'd say it's dishonest at best. If the USPS failed on its own, there might be a point to the argument that the government is inefficient. But when lawmakers destroy something and then claim that it destroyed itself and therefore we must destroy everything else, it doesn't quite seem right.

It's like smashing a window with a baseball bat to prove glass is easily breakable. Yes the glass broke, that's why you don't hit it with a baseball bat. Rather than replacing the windows with brick, how about just not hitting it with a baseball bat? If you want to prove how easily breakable the glass is, let is break (or not) on its own.
> But I think far more mathematicians point to ZFC, not type theory, as the foundations of mathematics.

Most mathematicians spend very little time thinking about the foundations of mathematics though, so I'd take that with a grain of salt. ;)

Seriously though, I think the statement that "all of modern mathematics can be formalized in ZFC" is probably wrong. There have been attempts to do just that (e.g., Bourbaki), but they invariably failed and ended up with extensions of ZFC (e.g., for category theory) or just silently started using higher-order logic.

Type theory seems to be a lot more practical. Both because it is explicitly designed to be an open system (a closed system must fail eventually due to Gödel arguments) and because similar formalization efforts go a lot more smoothly. For example, compare the treatment of category theory in the HoTT book with any introductory text using set theory.
Good lord, I knew the newer Lenovo models were underwhelming but that's their flagship premium model. That's utterly unacceptable.
A singular example of 'having to wait for a few minutes' in Home Depot doesn't really help make your case.

Whatever we might not like about the 'Big Box' nature of it ... 'Home Depot' is actually an excruciatingly example of that which is articulated in the article.

HD is this massive place where you can buy a gazillion different types of products (and services); there is an amazing degree of variety and specialization in every little aspect of it all.

Home Depot is in many ways a luxury store of the suburban middle class, a blatant example of the massive surpluses inherent in the modern economy. It's a testament to a lot of things. It's a kind of 'bourgeois for the masses'.

Consider for a moment that such a thing doesn't even exist in Europe! Now, most of this is cultural, in that, for a variety of historical reasons, they don't have that 'DOY' kind of culture; but make no mistake, it's also economic. People generally don't have the garage space (or a garage/shed) in which to store all of the semi useful bounty they collect from such a place. And neither the income to support it.

If HD were a place wherein it was impossible to get service, where staff 'knew nothing' and it was a desperately terrible business, then I think there'd be a point to be made but as it stands ... 'having to wait in line once for something' is almost crossing the line into entitlement.

And of course, the reason lines existed in the Soviet Union is something else entirely, and so the comparison is problematic to begin with.

Education and Health Services are 'problem areas' for capitalism, at least in the American sense, but I suggest with some meaningful reforms, it could work out. A handful of European nations have 'somewhat/mostly private' though still 'socialized' systems that work well.

"He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, "there would be a revolution.". This is really a historical statement. If we can move past issues of national pride and the 'we are better / I told you so' jingoisms, there's a lot to be learned from this. In fact, so few statements communicate so much.
> "Research using the UCLA Loneliness Scale and Meaning in Life Questionnaire has shown that more loneliness is associated with less meaning. This makes sense, given our deeply rooted need for belonging. By volunteering for social causes that are important to us, we can gain a sense of purpose, which in turn may shield us from negative health outcomes. For example, purpose in life has been linked to a reduced likelihood of stroke and greater psychological well-being."

You didn't see a connection between people suffering from a lack of meaning and purpose and the decline of an institution that basically specializes in that? Note that no one (here) is saying "church provides the correct meaning/purpose" or even "church provides a good meaning or purpose." Just that churches are out there specifically and directly trying to provide meaning and purpose.

Another angle is that churches often engage in volunteer work. Much more so than your average softball team or book club. If the secret sauce of preventing loneliness is the purpose/meaning/"je n'ais se quoi" of volunteering specifically - churches are/were major players in that space. Even if that connection was coincidental there's a possible link between the decline of church engagement and the rise of loneliness.

Anyway, I'm not the OP. Maybe they thought they were typing in another window and it ended up here, but these are some the connections I was thinking about / reasons I upvoted.
I saw this 25 years ago in Digitalk's Visual Smalltalk Enterprise with the PART Workbench. I've often wondered why this hasn't gone anywhere (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Smalltalk_Enterprise). Maybe it's the culture of free development software that started around that time?
well what everyone seems to be missing here is this: we don't have a choice. the alternatives are not better. so apple has no incentive to make its products better, in fact there is incentive to make them worse in order to cut costs and increase revenues (a luxury afforded by the lack of comptetition). the profit margins on dongles are probably much greater than on anything in the system. until something comes along to seriously challenge their monopoly, or apple discovers the kind of pride it had under jobs, it will continue to get worse (at least for us folk who actually use these machines to their potential. there is clearly a market for which they are stylish instagram viewers). this is a great opportunity for MS, who is heavily courting developers. now with linux subsystem et all and all that's left is to close the trackpad gap. apple can fade away into irrelevance.
That's interesting, I did not know it was possible to have a coinbase acct without working google authenticator.

I found out the hard way it takes over a week of time and multiple verifications and contacts to reset my authenticator when my old phone was broken; as it should be.
FWIW, not resting your hand/wrist but keeping your hand parallel to the floor will reduce your chance of inflaming your carpal tunnel.

Consider the large touch pad a gift from Apple in this regard :-)...
Many churches, if not most, have regular outreach and/or community service activities. It's easy to make an assumption that everyone is aware of this. But I can see how it might come off as a non sequitur.
Covfefe.
It's a pity they couldn't continue to pack those into production iPods (I'm sure it would've been too costly). There's a handful of albums within that group I already own, and a good number that I wouldn't necessarily buy, but would definitely listen to if it were freely included.
And a $20 mouse is leagues above any touchpad.
I've worked and lived in Singapore for two years and haven't encountered it yet.
Coinbase should not allow your phone number to be used for 2FA.
You are not being forced to reveal anything, that data might not be your data and thus not your decision to reveal aspects of it.
The biggest imbalance in tech is caused by economic status. I wouldn't call a policy that prioritizes gender and sex over poverty as fair. Seems far from that.
I am a Unitarian Universalist and an athiest, married to a seminarian in the religion. Happy to answer questions about UU and what it's like. It has definitely made me far less lonely to belong to the UU community, and I don't feel pressured to "believe" anything I don't want to.
Sorry to say, but you should have bought a Dell or Lenovo. -- On the other hand I think something is wrong with your Asus, this can't be.
> Glenn Gould playing Bach, Bob Marley, Nirvana or the Beatles

One of these things is not like the others :) Yes, there's some great music included but it's a very cliche and unsurprising collection. Certainly not "think different" style.
May suggest running Ubuntu in a VM for a while, see how it works for you? Not that that will help address driver issues.

Fwiw, it's my current setup - I'm currently trying to decide between installing it outside the VM, or migrating to a cloud desktop.

Unix still isn't a great desktop, but, as the alternatives get worse, it's coming into its own.
Please do not do doxx, nor take up pitchforks -- not in this case, nor in any other.

We can hear someone's report of a terrible experience, and think about the problem, and provide support to that person.

However, judgment and sentencing of some other person has very different standards of proof and process.
How San Francisco Broke America’s Heart
Most NVMe drives use 4 lanes.
Like I said, you are not being forced, it isn't your data to start with is a different POV to approach this from. You are stuck in the mindset that because you are somehow related to the data you get ownership.
Additional use case: I sometimes give prerelease versions a try to report bugs, without intending to use it as my default browser (especially if bugs are blockers). It's nice to be able to get back to my regular install in that case.
I don’t see C++ support mentioned, any particular reason it is ignored?
Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight (2009)
Any recommendation on a good adblocking extension for Safari on MacOS? I've been using KaBlock but I've not found a great source that meaningfully compares the existing options.
Imo HN needs to be reminded as much as possible that not all of programming is web-apps.

Its very common here in comments (and articles) for the two to be synonymous.
But I have the impression this does not work so well with younger people

They're usually in their own groups also they try different pubs every time so not really regulars (except for bigger club type places)

Local pub seems to be more the older people
> If they hold unorthodox, potentially objectionable opinions, but there's no evidence that they're going to violate the code of conduct...

But the orthodoxy is generally sincere in wanting to promote their preferred behavior, e.g. diversity or inclusivity, so they tend to write it into the code of conduct.
> it controls a large share of the "commons" where political speech takes place

"The commons" are not controlled by Facebook; people choose to use Facebook willingly, and wherever people are having conversations so will politics inevitably emerge. If people decided to have conversations on hacker news and reddit instead of Facebook that is where the political discussion would be and there is literally nothing Facebook could do about it. The fact that Facebook does not control the commons is precisely why they work so hard to engineer addictive engagement patterns: if they don't keep people hooked they will go elsewhere because there are hundreds of options and none of them cost the users any money.

> the ability of people to meaningfully participate in the political debate could very easily result in real world violence,

I think most people would agree that the existence of Facebook has done more to increase the potential for violence between opposing groups than reduce it, but even if that wasn't the case, people can still meaningfully participate in political debate without Facebook.
Moral of the story: Strike first, strike hard, no mercy?

More reasonably but still on the aggressive side, does this mean that now we have to publicly announce when speaker invitations are rescinded to get ahead of the story?
Graph of Thrones – 8yrs of scripts show a shift in the writing in S7-8
FYI: After downloading and installing a 3GB executable, the software needs to be activated with a developer ID. Knowing that could've saved me the trouble.
> the Facebook mobile app harvests and packages eight different categories of information for use by over 100 different telecom companies in over 50 different countries around the world, including usage data from the phones of children as young as 13.

This is not only creepy, but appears to be highly illegal. A clear violation of the 4th Amendment.
The article isn't called "Volunteering: Literally The Only Solution to Loneliness". It's a solution to loneliness, and one that happens to have positive externalities that accompany it. You can think that sports are a good way to combat loneliness without vehemently disagreeing that volunteering is a solution as well.
In capitalism many people get paid without work (they get paid for having capital).
As I mentioned on another comment: I am a Unitarian Universalist and an athiest, married to a seminarian in the religion. Happy to answer questions about UU and what it's like. It has definitely made me far less lonely to belong to the UU community, and I don't feel pressured to "believe" anything I don't want to.
For years, I attended church with a girlfriend, despite not believing as they do. Many were very accepting, particularly the church officiate - gf + I went out to lunch with him weekly for debates. 4 years and no one convinced the other of anything but it definitely refined my own arguments. No church member ever complained of an extra atheist's hand when volunteering.
It's not an either or...

Our supermarkets have lots of regulation ranging from what food may contain, how it is produced, to how it may be markedet.
Churches also do this in an intergenerational fashion. My office does volunteer work, but my kids and my parents don't take part. That's a hard bit to replicate in other groups even if those groups are actively engaged in charity.