skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding Europe, which I happen to have friends all over: it's not exactly as rosy.

European countries do have more doctors per capita, which is good.

They don't have nearly as much resources in the system, though. Come to a doctor with a bad cough, get a prescription for Paracetamol. You got to have a pretty bad infection to get a prescription for an antibiotic. Endure a long discussion with a doctor to renew an antidepressant prescription made in another country.

Lines are pretty long, too. Wait for two weeks to get an appointment about your coughing and sneezing. Have a deteriorating chronic condition and be prescribed painkillers and be told to wait for a year. You're not yet feeling so bad as the people who are currently being treated and who take up the capacity; these people also waited a long time.

All are examples from my friends dealing with the health systems of Netherlands, Sweden, Germany.

The US system has a ton of issues, but I still take it over these European systems. Have I been floored by medical bills? Yes, from my dentist, from my wife's heart surgery. But I somehow managed — and we both received instant, high-quality help.

Even the Russian system is better, or used to be back in the day. You could buy local insurance, and the choice was reasonably wide. You could pay upfront in cash, and the sums were manageable — Moscow definitely not being a cheap city, more expensive than many EU capitals.

Of course, I'm talking from a perspective of a well-earning software engineer who lives in metropolises, not in countryside. Still I think that either system has downsides, and the European systems are not superior, but just suck differently.
Honey in tea is very common.
I take the more charitable perspective that the receipt checkers are validating the cashiers' work, and that it is part of the "membership" bargain.
Dupe by you less than 24 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21046564
Remember, the rationale for the existence of patents is to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", not to reward people with monopolies, which is the mechanism.

This is one of several related reasons why I hate the term "intellectual property". Ideas are not property, and shoving them into a property-rights framework and thinking of them as such leads to all sorts of perverse results.
Where are you getting 1% monthly? I’m getting like 2% yearly from Ally.
> The bankers aren't bumfuzzled or victims of circumstance, they're just not optimizing for public good or the stability of the system

Even with all the nonidealities of the USA financial system, it is still pretty darn stable. If you've visit other parts of the world, it is apparent that the USA financial system (and political system, notwithstanding media reports) is among the most stable in the world. This is why companies around the world seek financing in the USA and want to float their shares on NYSE and NASDAQ.

Is there room for improvement? Absolutely.
The FTC needs to come down hard on this. Extremely hard.

This isn't just a trick, it's outright fraud. They're playing with people's emotions and not just giving them nothing - they're abusing people's most basic need of feeling loved.

Think about how vulnerable people become when they're searching for love. And then this corporate giant comes in with an army of psychologists, A/B tests, and analysts to figure out how to best extract their pound of flesh and offer nothing in return.

Forgive me for saying this, but fuck Match.com. The FTC should evaporate half their liquid assets / market cap in fines.
China is the largest polluter of the planet, and it's not even close.

And it's not because they're poor, it's that culturally, they don't seem to give a shit. The higher their standard of living becomes, the more they pollute.

Maybe, someday, they'll change. I hope so. For now, though, the only countries that care about the environment enough to pass laws preventing its destruction are in the West. People who care about the environment should spend their money accordingly.
Measures of speed can make no sense even when you allow for time :)

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

In the same way speed depends entirely on your frame of reference, so does our perception of time.
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It sounds completely different, like miles vs. meters.
This is bad, but most "paper" tea bags still include plastic in their manufacture as part of the heat sealing. English article about which brands do and don't here, note that it's all the mass market brands that include plastic, so that's most of the market.

https://www.countryliving.com/uk/create/food-and-drink/news/...
What I can see on the other hand is some packages end up being dropped into the PCB and soldered at the sides.

That's been done for at least 30 years:

https://www.keesvandersanden.nl/calculators/hp32sii_repair.p...
An old-school style pixel-art personal Website
> "you only get one chance to make a first impression."

Yeah this always weighs upon my mind, to the point where sometimes I don't move ("perfect is the enemy of good", you can find a quote from all sides of a situation).

I think the ideal use case for a MVP is exposing it to a limited subset of users. These can be internal staff first, friends and family, or the noisy but helpful people who file a load of issues with you for another version/product. I think releasing a MVP to the whole world can be a big mistake, there are so many games out there I can't play them all. Some are fully realised in early access but others get a quick look then I never go back, even years later.
Then when you will have to change or debug the same code instead of writing new, you will have to spend more time understanding what variable is the source of a state change, for example inside a loop. That is more of a waste of time to me.
I suppose that the amount of doctors graduating each year is below the supply-demand equilibrium, and this us because the artificial supply-side limitation. Most doctors are overworked, despite their very high throughput and medical offices' efficiency.

This gives doctors a way to pay out their colossal student debt, though!
Unrelated, but I'm thinking about using one or more dating sites. Which ones do people here use, and what are your thoughts/observations?
There's nothing inherently wrong with wanting a language to ape a solid aspect of another nature. For all you know (chain) OP _wants_ to write Nim but needs memory safety.
Consumer banks barely pay anything. It’s awful. I moved all my long term cash to online banks and investment accounts.
Oh I know but I like enjoying life with them even more! :)
Did you have any flags or flyers making it clear you were open? I've walked past more than one cafe with enough tinting on the window that I'd have no idea they are open, but they put an A-frame, flag, or something else outside to make it clear they are.

It's pretty cheap compared to the alternative.
The "capacitor plague" is such a common problem, and there was a notorious run of bad ones with a defective electrolyte from the late 90s to mid 2000s, that there is even a site dedicated to it: badcaps.net

There is an extremely detailed article about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
The good ole days
Start a New Union for Tech Workers. Please
I agree and will add that all dating apps do things like this. They prey on lonely people using false hope.

Tinder even introduced paid “boosts” (pay to be shown to users who otherwise might never see you), which is identical to a slot machine.
FTA:

> What WARP Is Not

> From a technical perspective, WARP is a VPN. But it is designed for a very different audience than a traditional VPN. WARP is not designed to allow you to access geo-restricted content when you’re traveling. It will not hide your IP address from the websites you visit. If you’re looking for that kind of high-security protection then a traditional VPN or a service like Tor are likely better choices for you.
There is one flavour from T2 that's the best tea I have ever had. Too bad it costs $50 for their small box.
Once you are a sufficiently powerful and influential entity, you write your own entitlements and the government delivers them. We saw this clearly in 2008 and 2009.
I probably was developed by half a dozen people. Was sold for half a billion!
The difference is that one (nuclear) can deliver energy consistently, while the other (wind/solar) simply cannot. Wind/solar just aren’t comparable at this point. If an energy source isn’t producing energy when you need it, it isn’t an energy source.

As GP said, nuclear is the only option.
TFA is a bit imprecise with the wording, so it's not exactly clear to me, but from what I understand, there's two different things that could be happening.

In one case, a dating site company internally creates fake profiles and/or operates bots which cause the fake profiles to interact with real potential users in an attempt to get them to sign up. This is like what AM did on their site, where there weren't actually very many women on the site at all.

Alternatively, a dating site can be rife with scammers who have themselves created fake profiles on the site and are messaging potential victims. For example, I read that Tinder used to be particularly rife with bot accounts that would message obviously bot-y greetings to attempt to get a user to click an external link (to what end, I'm not sure).

In the second case, dating sites may have a somewhat symbiotic relationship with the scammers, who create appealing looking profiles and make the site seem to have more activity than it really does. But the real users are potentially being targeted for fraud / scams, so this is just as--if not even more--egregious than the false marketing fake account scam, because at least the company bots aren't trying to convince you to share your bank account number.

It's not entirely clear to me if this is a case of #1 or #2, but it seems like it's #2. And because Match wouldn't even let potential users read the message (or see who it was from?) before signing up, the bot accounts would provide a significant signup boost to users thinking they had a potential match waiting for them on the site.

If it is #2, then the immediate question is how prevalent was this, and did Match take action to close bot accounts that were reported / flagged as such. Any social network will have at least some bad actors, and the platform should be judged on how they respond and defend against those actors, not whether they existed at all. I think TFA does not provide enough information to reach a conclusion.
I met my wife on Tinder 6 years ago, but YMMV
On our website, custom domains are usually an employer domain and are rarely scammers.
No, but alternatives and transparent pricing allow us to weigh alternatives and to have an adult conversation about all of us will die someday (save singularity). Then we get to negotiate about what it's worth to extend that date of death forward 1, 2 .. N days for $N .

Next we look to that "scorecard" (bank account) which is the value provided but not called upon and get to see if we can call in enough "favors" to afford the healthcare
It absolutely does happen. If you stop eating carbs for several days, you will go into ketosis. You can tell because your glycogen will be depleted, temporarily dropping your weight by a few pounds in a short time period. Also, your breath and urine will start to smell. If this isn't ketosis, then what is it?
The main difference is that VPNs mask your IP address, while Warp does not. If you're using a VPN for online privacy, Warp would not be an adequate replacement.
This project was helped along with encouragement from people on HN.
I drink a lot of tea and my dealer of choice is uptontea.com (by coincidence I ordered $80 of tea today). Pretty much everything they have is high quality. I prefer Darjeeling black teas; try one of the cheaper blends to see if you like it. Get a good $5 strainer and you'll be good to go.
Be careful with changing X1E's BIOS settings (there have been reports of bricked machines) that you might want to configure graphics card(s) etc. for Linux. Hopefully, Gen2 is better in this sense (I have X1E Gen1, also with 64GB RAM :-), but "better safe than sorry". I would suggest you to review relevant Reddit forum (https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad), which has a lot of useful information (including some on Linux themes). Best of luck!
I've had great luck with Scruff, and have had friends who have done well with bumble
It can act as a cure. I have some in-laws who are better than ever since they've been forced to adhere to some strict timings around school and childcare.
Satellite will gain hi-res view of greenhouse effect
Short answer? They are all trash and the space is ripe for disruption. The best of the bunch is probably Hinge, Bumble, and Coffee Meets Bagel.

But like I said, getting a date off these apps is like pulling teeth. I've reverted to asking girls out in person at coffee shops, social gatherings, etc. Even if you get rejected, it at least makes for a good story.
I feel bad for your friends. They come to you often for good steakhouse recommendations and instead of pointing them to the restaurant with the best food and great service except on Valentine's Day, you send them down the block to the mediocre place in an effort to pay this place back. One of your friends might catch on and stop asking for recommendations, or worse, start giving you bad ones as well.

As for your second example, I don't find this to be good customer service. You paid for an upgrade and didn't get it. It's not just about the incremental upgrade. You could have booked elsewhere and the upgrade was part of that decision. The sum of the parts is greater than the whole sometimes. They could have done better than a refund on the delta and some booze.
As someone mentioned here the other day, reader mode on safari, or any other browser with it, can get around to seeing the article. Just lose out on images and stuff.
Bulge, or even just burst open and start leaking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Al-Elko-bad-caps-Wiki-07-...
whoa, calm down. The post makes it sound like low-discrepancy sampling is a recent development, and 'rbkillea is pointing out that it is 30 years old.

That's it, no need to attribute malice anywhere. I think you are reading way too much into 'rbkillea's comments.
I thought that stereotype was out the door with Billy Dee Williams and Colt 45 ads but OK.
It really depends on what flavor of spam you’re trying to date.
The worst part is that match owns pretty much all other dating apps- tinder, Okcupid, pof etc.
> I wonder what the motivation is here

Less state subsidy for electronic crap exports.
Instagram is mass hypnosis induced through infinite scrolling, a suggestive state allowing bidders to speak to our worst fears and insecurities while offering false hope for redemption through consumer spending. Instagram is a cancer on our culture and must be eliminated.
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What would you change if you were to build a new dating app to disrupt the market?
> They can request video from users, but there is no requirement it be given up and the request can be denied.

If you refuse they have a deal with amazon to hand it over to them anyway.

"However, he noted, there is a workaround if a resident happens to reject a police request. If the community member doesn’t want to supply a Ring video that seems vital to a local law enforcement investigation, police can contact Amazon, which will then essentially “subpoena” the video.

“If we ask within 60 days of the recording and as long as it’s been uploaded to the cloud, then Ring can take it out of the cloud and send it to us legally so that we can use it as part of our investigation,” he said."

source: https://www.govtech.com/security/Amazons-Ring-Video-Camera-A...

Amazon can pretty much do whatever they want with your video feed including publish views from your doorstep on social media without your permission: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/amazon-ring-d...

Police have also shown up at people's doors to intimidate them into handing over videos.

"Police have also told CNET in the past that they've shown up at known Ring users' doorsteps to request footage in person if the online requests don't pan out."

source: https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-ring-wants-police-to-keep-t...

This shouldn't surprise you though. Basically any scrap of data you give to companies like apple google and amazon will be sucked up by the government at some level. Just the other day there was an article about how companies are hit with national security letters forbidding them from saying anything about the data collection going on, but we've known since Snowden's leaks that the NSA was collecting data from those companies already.
Reminds me of Linaro conference from years back with every single Chinese dude (allwinner, rockchip, mediatek) rocking iphone.
The paragraphs beginning where they discuss Hydras is pretty much precisely what Valentino Braitenberg was getting at with his thought experiment Vehicles.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/vehicles

I've been studying this area since the 80's, so for me it is particularly exciting to see the concepts show up in less theoretical formats.
Bose has had glasses like these in Best Buy for maybe six months. Granted, not integrated with Alexa. Coincidence? It might cost them relatively little to produce and take a shot here.
From the consumer perspective, calorie needs are stable and predictable, fundamentally different from what insurance is for.

From the supply chain’s perspective, there is a very sophisticated insurance system to smooth out issues with crop yields, weather, etc. called the commodity futures market.
I can vouch for Bumble and making an arse for yourself in public. They both have worked for me with varying success. My significant other was entrapped on Bumble (/s)
What do the houseplants think about that?
Lately I've been trying just disabling Javascript in the dev console, and that seems to be working pretty well!
What a nonsense you have there. :D
PHP is a public remote shell. Why is this in the news?
I too can't stand typical ball strainers and use a big one taken from an Ikea tea pot. It fits most mugs perfectly filling up almost the whole space inside.
The Interrogation of George V [video]
It seems fair that you should have to pay some kind of fee to reserve useful ideas. If you don't have the ability to turn ideas in to reality then they should be given to someone else who can pay the purchase price.
Juicy part from the actual complaint.

Since at least 2013, Defendant has maintained the following five deceptive or
unfair practices to induce consumers to subscribe to Match.com and to keep them subscribed.

First, until mid-2018, Defendant sent consumers misleading advertisements that tout
communications from persons Defendant identified as potentially fraudulent users of Match.com
and led consumers to believe that the communications are from persons interested in establishing
a dating relationship with them.

Second, until mid-2018, Defendant exposed consumers to the
risk of fraud by providing recent subscribers access to communications that Defendant knew
were likely to have been sent by persons engaging in fraud.

Third, until mid-2019, Defendant
guaranteed certain consumers a free six-month subscription renewal if they fail to “meet
someone special” but failed to disclose the requirements of its “guarantee” adequately.

Fourth,
Defendant has misled consumers with a confusing and cumbersome cancellation process that
causes consumers to believe they have canceled their subscriptions when they have not.

Fifth,
until mid-2019, when consumers disputed charges relating to any of these practices and lose the
dispute, Defendant denied consumers access to paid-for services. [1]

[1]https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/match_-_com...
I know that hobbyists do this on vintage equipment, repairing '80s home computers and such. But is it at all common at scale with recent motherboards? I find it hard to believe that any substantial percentage of 2010s motherboards that fail are being diagnosed, repaired, and put back into service.
He's got a couple of videos using it in different ways and it doesn't look like it would be too difficult to brace a lock in some way to use it, like using the tension in the chain or hasp it hangs from. But you're right, in some circumstances it probably would work. Seems dangerous though, both in debris flying off and even more so since it looks like a gun.
> If Mozilla cares about privacy and consent

It's pretty clear they don't care about consent, since there is no opt-in to this.

It's also questionable as to whether they care about privacy, by funneling ALL of their users' DNS through one for-profit company.
A tuple is a product type, an enum is a sum type.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe because you can't spell "there?" ;)
"Oracle" and "free" in the same sentence? Has hell finally frozen over?
This article is unreadable on mobile with popups and scroll injection.
Also Amazon (or to be fair any Internet book indexing service such as Google) allows me to know about books that I would almost certainly never have known existed in Barnes&Noble days.
It's right there in the article... which you read... right?

> DNS over HTTPS meanwhile encrypts DNS queries going over the network, which means that no one between you and the DoH server can see your DNS queries or modify the DNS responses.
No idea, but one difference I noticed with your examples are that the names are adjectives modifying a generic math term, but "abelian" is the whole label. (e.g. "abelian" vs. "Abelian group")
It's like somebody dared amazon to put a mic into every new item they sell.

The TV remote has a mic.
The outlet has a mic.
The earbuds have mic(s).

and so on.

I mean, I get it, they want me to talk to Alexa, so it can figure out how to sell me more junk.

But seriously, I do not understand the desire to be listened to 24/7. I do not want a live mic in my home, nor in my pocket when I run, nor anywhere else it's not necessary.
Is that on a per capita basis? Because it is not really fair if it is not.

Also, the Chinese might argue that the West outsources their industrial pollution to China.
Overleverage == self regulation
In Thailand they have supercar/superbike parkings outside malls.
That poor guy in Huntington Park who can't quite reach the other devices.
Human nature.
What do you normally eat? And do you drink any beverages throughout the day?
No, we avoid friday releases, as we aren't paid to provide weekend support. Every second friday we dedicate to cleanup activities (which is a lot more fun than it sounds, because we use it to improve parts of our stack, little things that were bugging us)
They can intercept DNS, they can snoop on cert names, they can monitor any unencrypted traffic (you'd be surprised how much there is even when you think you're hitting every site with HTTPS..)
I wouldn't use the term 'arms race' because that implies each side can continue to escalate.

A better way of looking at it is that there are bugs that leak information in browsers, and sites like the NYT are spending developer effort to discover those bugs and publish them (in the form of javascript) so that browser developers can fix them. The browser developers will eventually win this one.
I think it's a fatal flaw in the dating site business model, to be honest. Their incentive is for you to stay on the site for as long as possible. If you could find a relationship quickly and then they would leave the site quickly. This would reduce the amount of ad and subscription revenue, in addition to reducing the size of the pool of "potential matches", discouraging those who have more trouble finding someone.