skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Canadian, my experience with our health care system has not been great.

I had to wait almost a decade to get a family doctor.

Before I had a doctor, I had to wait 10+ hours in an emergency room whenever I needed a consultation or a prescription (which you need if you want to see a specialist). Now that I have a doctor, I can usually get an appointment with them within 1-2 months, and with a specialist within 6-12 months (after seeing my doctor). It guess it works if you're patient.

I once tried to get some vaccines before a trip to Asia. I called 2 public clinics and was told that I couldn't get a tetanus booster until 3 weeks later. I called a private clinic and they quoted me 3 x $200 for rabies (which was out of stock for a month) and 2 x $400 for Japanese encephalitis.

I decided to get them in Bangkok. I booked an appointment online, 2 days before arrival. I think I paid $100 in total for a tetanus shot, hepatitis A/B antibodies test, hepatitis B shot, Japanese encephalitis shots (2), rabies shots (2).

Of course, vision and dental are 100% out of pocket expenses.

I also find many drugs to be much cheaper in the US than in Canada. Some common drugs are 5x more expensive in Canada than in the US, when I look at GoodRx. The same seems to apply to blood tests.

However, I can't say I'm a fan of the US health care system. The obscenely inflated prices and the lack of price transparency puts those without insurance in a tough spot. I now wonder how COVID-19 affects those who rely on medical tourism for treatment.
Visually this website design reminds me a lot of Dekochari [1] and Dekotora [2]. Dekochari are highly decorated bicycles, and Dekotora highly decorated trucks.

All of them have this very bright, visually busy style that is, as the website says, very different than some imagine the Japanese aesthetics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekochari

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekotora
A startup that cares at all about energy efficiency of compute will use a public cloud service. They don't have inefficient (or any) UPS, some of them don't even have traditional HVAC, their power overheads are only about 10% compared to 100-300% for standard corporate datacenters, and whatever fixed overhead they suffer is amortized over all their customers.
High Paying Online Jobs – Learn and Do from Home
It's my personal gmail. Why make this page available if it doesn't work for normal gmail?
I am wondering how the subjects avoided oxygen toxicity (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity for example.)

Also, this is half of what needs to be checked. Does lengthening your telomeres have a measurable effect on your health?
People’s moods during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Heroines of Chaos Theory
Variscite has a great line-up of NXP based SoMs, at $25 and up. Quality BSPs and good support as well.
Same with "readable syntax". Nobody sets out to design something deliberately unreadable. It usually means that it conforms to the author's personal flavours and there's nothing wrong with that but the implied "everything else is unreadable" subtweet doesn't really help anything. Case in point:

each planets() (planet){
println("Hello " + planet + "!");
}

I bet that the double () () here leads to some pretty unreadable code outside of this happy path. But that's just my opinion, not some objective truth
Don’t worry, these gangly-armed cartoons are here to protect you from big tech
Don't. Just use your cloud's hosted database instead.
Study: Countering hate on social media
The state of insurance undercuts the quality of the services, actually. It raises costs, changes treatment decisions, and has generally warped our system towards one focused on lucrative, worse-outcome behavior on the part of doctors and hospitals. Much of this related to the putting off of preventative or early treatment due to OOP costs; people gamble that their conditions won't worsen so that they won't be forced to go into debt for treatment (if they can even access credit). Many lose that bet and end up having to pay orders of magnitude more for late treatment.

Speaking personally, I had surgery for a long-standing condition, which the surgery failed to correct. Under a different system, my issue might not have become chronic, I might have been able to make a better decision regarding the surgeon and surgery (e.g., getting a second opinion, follow-up imaging, etc.), and I would not have missed a follow-up appointment after losing my insurance. Because I'm an American, living under this system, the circumstances of my treatment and subsequent outcomes were drastically shifted towards unsatisfactory.
I'm the opposite. I get tired of sitting at my desk for 8 hours a day. I really like mixing it up during the day.

I also tend to do different types of work in different places.

* Coding - Desk with monitors
* Meetings - Table looking out of the house
* Writing - chilling out on a couch
Pick an ARCHITECTURE that make simple to do things in parallel.

People are saying that python and ruby can't do things in parallel in an easy way.

While technically true, it is also pretty much irrelevant, since we have multithreading.
Picking a random example, the google.com home pages for English and Japanese are not very different:

https://www.google.com/?hl=en

https://www.google.com/?hl=ja

They're almost identical except the English page includes links to Google Store and information about "Carbon neutral since 2007". The English page's "About" link is in the upper left corner of the page. The Japanese page's "About" link is in the page footer.
Same issue with other 1980s custom hardware like mini-super scientific computers. It would take 3+ years for a new hardware generation. Intel or Motorola would have at least three generations in that span and nearly catch up for a fraction of the engineering cost. Companies like Convex, Masspar and Thinking Machines rarely made it to their 3rd hardware generation.
We’re a startup and focussed on easy horizontal scalability early on. From a management point of view premature optimizations are cost intensive, especially while we’re still figuring out what our product is and how it works. At the end there are a lot of changes all the time to functionality and implementation and optimizations early get wasted very quickly. We rather purchase new servers. A powerful server cost 100 USD/month and wehe development team can focus on implementing features and functionality which moves our product forwar d, optimizations are opportunity losses at the beginning of a product. Of course, as soon as bad performance impacts user experience it’s a different story and also if you start to have hundreds or thousands of servers but then you’ll know what your product is doing and changes become smaller, focused and code optimizations start to make sense.
> Who gets to decide what definition of morals Facebook should use to answer these questions?

Everyone individually, and each can then express their opinion on Facebook’s moral status, and decide otherwise whether and how to engage with Facebook, based on whether and to what extent Facebook aligns with each individual’s moral standards.
Really nice work. It was easy to integrated this library into my own project. Looking forward to see some WebXR support in the future.

Example link: https://conze.pt/explore/Pyrenees?l=en&t=link&s=true&i=12431...
If you've optimized something 2-5 times, you've done something smart. But if you've optimized something 100 times, you've stopped doing something really stupid.
Openshift years ago at least (last time I looked) - SHUDDER! I couldn't believe it was what big business / enterprise was standardizing on as best in class. It looks like it's now Kube / Docker connected, but back then I think it did it's own thing?

The cost in time / $ / config to maintain and operate at the time was not pretty (all this no doubt has changed a lot).
Can someone explain what this means in layman's terms? What significance does this have?
Our neighbors drive from California to Mexico for dental work. Often. They have Medicare, additional coverage from a union, and Kaiser.
Video replaced flash movies and nothing replaced flash games, there's just a hole.
Yep: “ Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) telomeres length and senescence were assessed”

PBMCs = lymphocytes and monocytes
You now have 15+ potential opponents with standing armies big enough to win against anybody, but standing army of USA.

Attack them all, fully knowing that it will be a lottery of whose military will be more intact after?

Those who do, will be double idiots. Once for not shooting first, second for shooting last.
Since a few months, I use Fira Code for my terminal and I like it very much.
I believe it's not just a Japanese thing but Asian in general, but I fail to understand the reasons. Some 16 years ago at a company I worked with we were testing some mini industrial PC and embedded boards for a project, so we had to download lots of documentation from the manufacturers site which was located in Taiwan. Those weren't home or business PC boards, their site target audience would be mostly engineers and technicians but it was anyway ridden with Flash blinking buttons and heavy (albeit minimalistic, still awful) graphics for everything where a highlighted text link would suffice.
That site was a nightmare to use, and the slow bandwidth when connecting there from the EU certainly didn't help.
But there weren't lots of ads, quite the opposite, they used Flash and blinky objects extensively like their page had to draw more attention on a multi screen wall against other pages, just like a billboard. They weren't alone however as I recall having seen in the past other Asian manufacturers technical sites doing essentially the same thing.
I've still run into issues where an external service took approx 1 second per call. We had 20 threads on each docker container running Python. We had a lot of web requests.

It regularly took down the multithreaded python instance.

The solution we went with was to put all the different web requests into 2 flask servers and then take the output of all those different web requests and make one big request tot the django instance that had all the business logic.

If memory serves, we only had 2 flask instances handling all the traffic that the old array of django servers.

Async pays dividends.
Had similar and switched to a cheap used desktop. I was running Home Assistant [1] and my guess is the constant writing of state history into the database slowly killed the card.

[1]: https://www.home-assistant.io/
I'm a Google Fi user. To be able to make and receive voice calls from my desktop I'll have to sign into 'messages' which forces the sms part as well. I prefer to not receive sms on desktop but love voice calls.
Ask HN: Product Manager, what dream tool are you missing? I'll build it for free
It's the same at the Paris Montmartre cemetery.
Maybe. Building things to scale horizontally tends to have a lot of inherent overhead: a lot of fine locking, serialization, consensus, messaging, intermediate representations and storage, etc. Sure it increases the top-end of where you can go, but it can be a huge penalty.
Both Microsoft and Google dropped the ball bigtime by letting WhatsApp take the whole international messaging market.

I remember how refreshingly easy to use Whatsapp was when it came out. It was such a pain to transfer contacts and images and whatnot before, and having to worry about international MMS/SMS charges. Then this tiny little app comes along and blows all the others away by simple requiring phone number verification.
bbdog is correct to point out that rationing is mostly economic.

I do agree that there should be a humanitarian component to it.

In Canada, it's the other extreme: everyone is treated identically (theoretically) no matter what and it's illegal to sell medical services in most cases. The way 'around' the problem is to hunt down good doctors through the network and word of mouth. Literally the Golf Club is where you find out who the best docs are, and then you apply with them and hope you have enough clout/status that they take you on as a patient, because otherwise you just get 'stand in line at the clinics'. Doctors have their own hierarchy/status, and you want one on the 'inside'.
I agree there'd be a winnowing out of the lower quality folks, and a flight to established brand quality. But in theory you could say your accountant or attorney doesn't achieve anything for their billable hours- doesn't kill the professional services model.

Also, 20 hours of a recruiter's time at $50 an hour is not a major expense for a company. If they underperform, just don't use them next time
From the article - every 20 minutes they used a mask with (normal) air, from what I remember reading it a couple of days ago.
Podman 2.1 supports CNI networks (`podman network create`), so it might be worthful now
Through United I was paying $1300 a month with a $5000 individual deductible for a family plan (only included routine pediatric dental). $80 specialist copays, $40 routine visits. ER care is only covered a certain % no matter what it is and there’s an additional $250 deductible just for walking into the hospital.

Still paid roughly $8000 out of pocket for a natural child birth and prenatal care.

It was so bad I took a full time job just for the insurance.
I can only imagine the horror it must be to be maintaining mac x86 software that turns out to not work with Rosetta
(Like some of the examples listed).

I do windows desktop work and try to picture what would happen if our customers were suddenly moving to Win10 on Arm and expecting our software to work. We have dozens and dozens of third party binary dependencies, each of which could turn out to be the one that doesn’t translate. Not all of them could realistically be replaced or updated. The situation would basically be one where Microsoft had announced the death of our software and probably business.
Scala's implicit resolution algorithm is O(n!)
https://jmp.chat/ supports both MMS and group texting, so it would give you the full Google Voice feature set. I'm not aware of any other service like this that supports group texting - most other services silently ignore group texts, so just be aware of that.

There's also https://wiki.soprani.ca/VonageSetup if you want to host the alternative yourself (though it doesn't support group texting).
To godelski point yes there is low level stuff that really isn't a concern except to jandrese's point it's political. If I walk out of a reactor room and my gloves from my contamination suit pop too high they get put in a bag that is marked nuclear waste.

Granted the too high mark could still be perfectly fine to throw into a landfill and not impact anything, but nobody wants that in their neighborhood.

As to high level stuff which is what you are asking about, the spent stuff is really hot. To recycle, it would need to cool down first. Commercial plants place that in cooling pools, which is kind of bad if you have a Tsunami hit your plant (Japan), our something else.

So as to the waste element think I have 2% enriched object that is 100 cubic meters. The same in a highly enriched say 90% would only be about 2 cubic meters. This means my pools would be smaller, my overall size is smaller, and I can contain the smaller pool easier preventing the release.

On the politics side the idea of highly enriched is dangerous because it could be used for other purposes, however when those decisions were made I don't think anyone every imagined the concept of a dirty bomb in which enrichment is really going to matter one bit.
Ask HN: Did you attend KubeCon? How was it?  What were your takeaways?
With KubeCon NA ending today, wondering what everyone thought of the conference.
Yes, the type signature for JSON.parse() isn't inferred/deduced, it's explicit in lib.es5.d.ts (imported from lib.d.ts):

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/master/lib/lib....

You could provide your own lib.d.ts with `unknown` type returned for JSON.parse. I'm almost surprised there isn't a standard stricter lib.d.ts, though I suppose that linters fill enough of those needs with their rulesets.

Looking at GitHub issues surrounding it, it doesn't appear that there has been an explicit ask to switch the type signature to use `unknown`, probably the next closest was this one, where `unknown` is mentioned in a comment as a possibility but the comment is not addressed in follow up discussion: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/26993

It would be a big breaking change though at this point, so they would probably be hesitant to do so. I thought I saw somewhere there was a proposal to add it as a compiler flag to treat all uses of `any` in lib.d.ts as `unknown`, but I have no idea what happened to that proposal and quick searches don't turn up anything.
Facebook Removed 180 Million Election Posts
Isn’t dialpad much older than google voice? I remember using it for free, with my dialup connection, to call relatives in the US. Early 2000s
A. It's not a true win-win. He is not creating and selling extra treatment capacity. The time he spends in his private practice is the time he would have otherwise spent in the hospital. The same number of patients end up receiving the same number of services. But now, instead of need and urgency determining who gets the services first, it's money.

B. It is not a loophole. The federal government fines provinces who don't rein in private billing. British Columbia loses millions of dollars in Canada Health Transfer every year because of lax enforcement though. BC lost $15.9 million in 2018 and was on track to lose $32 million in 2019, but they started enforcing the law better.

https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/Resear...?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/extra-billin...
It's very relevant if the external webservice calls take long enough.

Multithreading just increases your technical max concurrent request up to the size of your multithreading maximum.

Async lets the computer do _anything else_ while it's waiting for the request.

If you're handling thousands of concurrent requests, you need thousands of threads available ... or, 10s or hundreds of threads with async available (your mileage may vary).
That's ridiculous. First off, I'm sure he's already put things in place in case he is suddenly unable to work, like if he gets sick or dies. Secondly, I doubt they would lose all their value if he left.

If Jeff stepped down today, he'd still be a billionaire, and besides he can just sell some stock first. He's probably already got a few 10s of millions just sitting around in cash "just in case"
I'll be presenting a video on D's prototype ownership/borrowing system tomorrow at 14:00 UTC.

https://dconf.org/2020/online/index.html#schedule

https://dlang.org/blog/2020/11/20/dconf-online-2020-how-to-p...

It's free to participate!
> Why does it feel like no other software company has these sort of branding issues?

Ha, I was thinking this the other day as I was looking at Google Wallet / Google Pay / Android Pay and all the various permutations it has been through.

Play store hasn't been renamed in a while, though. I guess its next.
Amazon can probably get volume discount, and sell with a nice margin to their gigantic customer base who will not care to reach for MongoDB cloud?

idk
+1 Yes, there is no comparison, touchpads are way better on Mac, it's too bad that they have become such poor development machines (docker on mac is a garbage barge)
Mammoth Telescope (2009)
Apart from the fact that this is a somewhat niche complaint (and that has been covered by many other comments), I in general am still flabbergasted to this day that the basic promise of source code -- compile it under a different machine and platform and it should work -- somehow doesn't hold.

But I know that's not the fault of the tooling. Sometimes it's the fault of the OS / framework vendor for aggressively deprecating stuff (like Apple does). But most of the time my observation has been that a lot of companies simply won't budge and won't even hire an intern to try and recompile their app for the new platform. Sad.
It’s now possible to mount a docker compatible socket inside the container using podman.
They gave you three pods for free until they moved to Openshift 3. I ran an entire startup five years using them without paying a single penny. A nice Heroku alternative. (Iot control server, so basically no load)
Yes, that's true but beware of the fact it only works this way if your code is 0%-serial, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law for the math. By the way, this law is why supercomputers like Fugaku https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVsFFojdq3c simply have no other way than optimizing their code. 0.1% serial code means that a code running on 160000 CPUs will be just 1000x faster than the code running on a single CPU.

Further, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s_law may be more appropriate here as it is common for the app requirements grow with the performance increase of the compute hardware.

Edit: bottom line is that the conclusions of the article are dangerous. Reducing the controller method exec time by 10x is not likely to allow your system to process 10x RPS by itself, the cost and product backlog delay caused by a perf optimisation project may not be acceptable etc. But beware that slow code in the critical path of your distributed/parallel system such as kernel code, event loop code, transaction commit code, distributed consensus protocol implementation can make your system unscalable beyond N factor (whether it is cores or servers). You can surely add 100xN nodes but it won't help.
Are you trying to use cache-from? This is explicitly not supported:

> --cache-from

> Images to utilize as potential cache sources. Podman does not currently support caching so this is a NOOP.
I was developing casual games (Backgammon, Spades) around the time the Mersenne Twister came out and it looked new and shiny and cool so I adopted it for my random number generator. I ran 10s of millions of dice rolls and card shuffles through it and the results seemed good. Oh well.
Is no one else sick of these nonsense titles?
>>Just curious, as I’m looking to upgrade the processor that I bought - are AMD processors widely known as being better than Intel?

Basically AMD did a full redesign of their processors when they introduced their Ryzen CPU line. That and Intel's problems in manufacturing has resulted in AMD chips beating Intel on price, performance, and temperature.

AMD's high end desktop chips literally perform better than Intel's top commercial Xenon.
OK, uh...

Slice 25% off the numbers I said, which assumed an overhead of 50% instead of your suggested 10%. It doesn't change the point at all.
That is way cool, the question is can someone compare the perf on a normal mac/arm application with it on/off?

Presumably its a hit, otherwise they would have just left it on. I guess its more a question of whether its a .5% hit or a 10% hit.
Why’s it so hot today?

何でこんなに暑いの今日？

Where in the US are you from?

出身は米国の何処ですか?

Japanese sentences are usually shorter than the english translation.
>And on top of that private practices are straight out illegal.

>I was lucky to be be able to go to a private clinic, paid $50 and was done.

I'm sorry, but can you expand on this? Did you go to an illegal clinic?
They're in the process of opening it up to individuals, but it hasn't formally been announced as generally available.
I forget the exact details, but my guess is I made my own DSLs and then "executed" them.

Something like:

https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/#grammar%0A%20inferr......