skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a site out there that can link you up with reputable doctors in Canada and Mexico who take cash and who do high quality procedures at a fraction of American prices?

I know of people flying to India or Turkey for procedures, but do we have anything of the sort in North America to avoid the transoceanic flight?
In my time in the UK I never had any contact with the NHS - how do you imagine her experience in a British hospital?

Coming from Germany and now living in Denmark, I have full confidence in the systems here to handle it equally well (maybe with less than 8 people in a room though).
For complex current events, what primary sources of information do you read?
Most important realisation for me personally: keep emailing.

As an introverted dev trying to sell I often assume silence means they don't care and they hate me. I've learnt this is almost always wrong - the recipient is typically just busy or indecisive. Stay polite/respectful/human but keep at them and don't let the void kill you.

Still figuring out the details but getting over that was quite a profound feeling and has turned out pretty useful in life generally
From my experience, JVM can't do much when there's a deep stack.

I remember just refactoring all of foreach-loops/iterators into for-loops and got insane speedups.

Functions with inefficient iterations would get optimized if called directly but deep in the call stack and nothing happens.

These kinds of things are impossible with C++.

It's possible to write efficient Java but you have to not use some of the language features to do so.
Rebase isn't the only solution for such scenarios. Merging remote/master into the source branch will serve the same purpose.
I want a low latency handwriting tablet which can store and access all my data, including photos and videos. It does that now.

I also would love to be able to develop on it for times when I'm on the road or in the air (and not sitting in business class, so there's not enough room to open a laptop.

Basically all that is missing now is the ability to run dev tools and an ide of some sort. I'll even be unpicky about the ide...
All what your saying makes sense, but OP is just saying look, professionals are looking for a high powered computer in the form factor of an iPad. If you look at it that way Apple can still make their simple tablet but have a Pro version for Pros. There is a whole market that would love to do work on "a portable iMac"
How do you propose to find a cheaper hospital when is nearly impossible to get a hospital to tell you how much a procedure will cost before they do it?
Nevermind doing that while your kid is bleeding on the pavement.
I work at Google and mainly use Gerrit because of the products I work on and yes, Critique is miles better.
Thank you for the paper.

Of course proofs can be still correct, it's just that we cannot cope with infinites very well without talking about computational limits.

My argument was hyperbolic, I regret, but it was less about what's incorrect and more about what's incomplete. The aspirations of early mathematicians was to discover a platonic ideal. Instead of that we only got useful tools that are always* up for re-interpretation depending on context.

An example of this is that Euclid's fifth postulate, which be consistent with many other interpretations of geometry too, not just the single one originally intended. It turned into a tool of formal scaffolding instead of an omnipotent "truth". Going from absolute to relative in power.

*In cases where they involve infinites. Including simple expressions like "take N to be an integer"
This information would be significantly enhanced with when that last time was, and what country you were in at the time.
Wii U is also a great choice. Easily jailbroken and can support all Nintendo consoles excluding switch.

I now use a mister for my emulation for <= 16 but needs and love it.
Largely when polled the people are in favour of single payer healthcare so what gives if you believe that to be the case?
Well, most EU banks do not care about FPGA or PhDs, especially in subsidiaries. They're just building "apps" in Qlik, PowerBI or similar, using a workforce of a thousand people to interact with that.
The kicker is that not everyone can pay the grand and since you have 8 people in the ER making 5 stitches, there no one left to help anyone else.

So, it works for some people, but overall it’s a pretty shitty system.
One of my worst decisions as a developer was to build upon a component framework maintained by Google.

Material Components for the web is constantly introducing breaking changes that make building upon the framework a nightmare. Lately they've even set this expectation in the project description. The problem is that the components are rather buggy, so you must regularly update them to have upstream bugs fixed.

> Material Components Web tends to release breaking changes on a monthly basis, but follows semver so you can control when you incorporate them. We typically follow a 2-week release schedule which includes one major release per month with breaking changes, and intermediate patch releases with bug fixes.

https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...

The development team's decisions have been questionable [1][2][3], so consider this a warning in case you are tempted to use the project.

[1] https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...

[2] https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...

[3] https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...
Does anyone know with authority why apple is explicitly against allowing development ON the iPad?
I think this is an interesting post and agree with the ideas, however I do have something to point out about this section:

> What people desire from technology is well documented and can be summed up with a series of buzzwords. The difficulty isn’t knowing what society wants, it is knowing the path to get there.

Now I am one of those people who does desire this from tech products.

But admittedly, the general population ("people") does not care that much.

At least from my experience, people care more about the quality of the product and its ease of use. By far much more than the encryption of data etc...

This doesnt mean I don't think companies should make efforts in this direction, but I think it's important not to project these aspirations to more mainstream people who don't care
I carry water to douse the flame you hold.
F/OSS isn't so sustainable after all, as in can't sustain itself unless being dominated by a corp.
> If that is capitalism

its certainly not free market capitalism. part of the problem is that the government makes it illegal to turn away ER patients. maybe you think thats moral or maybe you dont, but the point is that an ostensibly free market becomes corrupted with outside influences like this. you cant create a system designed for the free market to be the mistake fixer and then make the market not free and not expect bad mistakes.

i think this is the greatest failure mode for america: pretending non-free markets are free. in some cases, its the worst of both worlds by a very large margin.
If something happens to you, or your partner, your mom, your children, your friends, on even your neighbors that you don't really care about but don't want them to struggle because it's nice to live in a society with healthy people around you.
Exhibit 98343553578 of the US healthcare system being a mess people drown in.

The open question is how to peacefully, durably and quickly transition from this mess to decent healthcare for all.
There is no problem with Vscode. It's pylance refuse to run on non Microsoft build of VsCode.
"Cope with their limitations"? Many people actively enjoy living in busy cities, and I would not voluntarily move to a place that's not Alpha- or higher on this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization_and_World_Cities...
Blimey I thought my tooth surgeon is expensive... Where I live fitting in titanium implant (which is a surgery on its own rights) costs 1/10th of what they paid...
You can understand or not understand something -- it has 0 to do with your nationality. "As a Canadian" is just nonsense. It doesn't bring much to the table.

"As a Canadian doctor" is authority. You often find this with appeals from "As a mother" -- it's just a fallacy.
> But why would anyone want to develop on an iPad - on a sofa or anywhere? You will need a keyboard anyway, and by the time you've added that you may as well just get a MacBook Air and use the device emulation in Xcode instead of trying to run natively

Because then I wouldn't need to own a laptop. I prefer work on a desktop most of the time, and I already own an iPad Pro. It seems silly that I need to own a third device for what basically amounts to company policy. And the advantage the iPad has is that the keyboard is detachable. When I'm just browsing the internet or watching Netflix I can remove it and hold the device in my hands—something I can't do with a laptop.

> Sideloading will never happen - not because of money, but because it makes no sense to destroy the security model for 95% of users just because 5% of users want to run as root, or some nearly-but-not-quite approximation.

There's no reason it couldn't be buried in settings and approved on a per-developer basis. This is how it already works for enterprise apps: you install the app via a browser, but then you have to go to Settings to confirm you trust the distribution certificate used. The only change required would be to allow any developer cert rather than just those belonging to the enterprise programme. This is essentially exactly how notarised apps work on the Mac.
> Interfaces in other programs often don't have searchable content

Don't even mention the luxury of "searchable", isn't it just frustrating that Windows still forbids you from selecting and copying text on a message box? If a program displays an error message, you have to transcribe everything by hand before you can do a web search...
That isn't really a problem, that is how most in Scandinavia thinks about it, and we are among the happiest places on earth. See this article for example, it is based on the book "Society Without God".

> Social conformity or not, Mr. Zuckerman was deeply impressed with the matter-of-fact way in which many of his interviewees spoke of death, without fear or anxiety, and their notable lack of existential searching for any ultimate meaning of life.

> A long list of thinkers, both believers and nonbelievers, have posited something like an innate religious instinct. Confronted by the mystery of death or the puzzle of life’s ultimate meaning, humans are said to be hard-wired to turn to religion or something like it. Based on his experience in Scandinavia, Mr. Zuckerman disagrees.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/us/28beliefs.html
There are many companies where ex Googlers have made an impact as founders or senior engineering leaders. Your anecdata has many counters.
We are talking about consoles here, Nintendo sells consoles since 1977 and was founded in 1889.

I guess one or other product failure can be excused, however I would bet you are an unhappy Wii U owner.
I don't think they were saying to actually go bankrupt, just to threaten the bank with the possibility of getting nothing out of you.
The states are riddled with obesity, depression and overworking - still I think health care should be evaluated on the actual structures and services available, not on aggregates statistics that depend on a lot more.

My wife on NHS (UK) gave birth on a sofa with pretty much no equipment - and they conveniently missed the time when epidural could be administered.
Waiting times are bonkers.
And NHS was touted as a best system in the world in 2018.

It's just political propaganda if you ask me.
> The idea that this is a free market system is patently false The cost is not $19k , it is whatever the billing department decides to surprise the patient with.

Totally agree. And even if the billing department could tell you the price, which they can’t, is the dad supposed to call around for quotes while the kid bleeds?
Same happened in Italy to a friend from latin-america, traveling as tourist.

She left the hospital with a smile, impressed how easy and friendly people were. Nothing serious so nothing to pay. She was very worried and they even managed to make her smile.

This was in Verona, Italy some years ago, in the ER of Borgo Roma. It was late night and just a short queue to wait. It has been a great human experience and we will be always grateful to the doctors there.
Perverse interaction with insurance companies. Insurance companies have list of prices for operations. If the hospitals rate is higher than their price they have negotiated only to pay their list price. On other hand if the hospital price is lower they only get that much. So logical result is that hospitals maximise their prices to always be above what insurance is willing to pay. And then they can just negotiate lower rate for someone promising to pay in cash, which could be fraction.

That is my understanding from Europe. From outside the logical way would be to mandate single pricing structure and ban any direct discounts.
I built the Long Leaf Pine Slate, and you can too
> We're talking about emergency medical treatment for a child. You think there's time to search around for the best price?

Exactly, this child got the emergency treatment. His dad wasn't asked to pay 19k upfront.

I write all this because I was born in a country where all medical treatment is free for everyone.

Guess what? It's super low quality. Doctors got paid less than in McDonald's. If you have a serious problems you literally have to search for a right doctor. It might be someone not even in your large town. And, you pay upfront! So, I'd rather live broke than die because no one even treats me.
Whether or not you should outsource your Digital Transformation Projects?
This is downright silly -improvements in material science, like inventing stainless steel, immediately levels up all industries in all of civilisation, from heavy industry to street furniture to cuttlery.

Faster GPU's do not directly improve life of an average Joe, they might enable some second order effect, like research or production of educational videos, etc. But the effects are much smaller and you can only equate the two if you are living in fantasy land
That is reporting on the same Times source my link referenced, which doesn't actually say Obama started the practice.
> $19k is the cost for the US stitches and anesthesia.

No it's not. $19k is what that hospital arbitrarily chose to charge for stitches and anaesthesia. What it actually cost the hospital was significantly less. Several orders of magnitude less I'd wager.

The fact that the insurer was able to negotiate a payment of ~36% (less than half the original price) and the hospital still had enough margin to be profitable should be telling.

> I'm not a fan of this system but it works. Isn't the US the #1 medical care quality country?

No. Not even remotely. It's 36th in the world as ranked by WHO. It is, however, ranked #1 in the world for the most expensive healthcare system. And by some margin too. I don't consider that a placement to be proud about either.
Arcan 0.6 Display Server Adds Network Transparency, XWayland Client Isolation
So, if your app takes off on a college campus, you’d block them?
I am not sure it is true that iPad did not realize its potential. I have seen a lot of people who are uncomfortable with a regular computer who can finally get stuff done with an iPad.

But it may be true that an iPad Pro could be a lot more.

Personally I think iPads was too big of a success. For that reason I never use them any more. It made my kids and me addicted. They are too portable, versatile and engaging.
> the AML/KYC insanity

Just finished reading about this and I completely agree. I can't imagine having a company and being literally obligated by law to violate everything I personally believe in about privacy and freedom just to help the government be even more efficient at marginalizing people.
> but if I had a choice of going to a UK hospital for free, or paying a grand to know my daughter will be perfectly cared for, assuming I had that grand, I'd rather pay.

Lol. It’s not like the doctors are dumber or do poorer quality work when it’s socialized. I doubt having $1k skimmed by some middleman got you better care than we’d get in Canada.
The absence of creative personal sites is less about the lack of FrontPage than the abundance of outlets like Facebook, Medium, or Tumblr. Before, if you wanted to say something, you had to create your own site, with all the work that entailed. Now you just have to create an account.
Electromagnetism using geometric algebra versus components
From job ads I saw a year ago, there's at least one company in London doing HFT Rust.

Also, if memory serves, one of Lawrey's ex-colleagues has written his own version of Chronicle in D that's being used somewhere too.
The article mentions VR.

The fantastic low price of the Oculus Quest 2 VR device is not real. It's heavily subsidized by Facebook, who wants to be the dominant player in the market and makes money by selling your data and eyeballs to advertisers.
Click bait title. Understand the requirements. Learn the commands capabilities and drawbacks. Implement as needed. Rebasing can be superbly useful, and submodules can too. Which I utilize both to great success. Don't give me this "never use" bull shit.
Anyone has experience/review on this, looks promising.
There are some serious lobbying at the EC level to implement private health insurance and replace state/mutual health insurance.

Right now the focus is on the people and freight rail transport system but it's happening.
depending on your family interest, you have: https://github.com/0x90n/InfoSec-Black-Friday
A reference to feudalism is a bit strange there, but I'll weigh in with the observation that in Australia it's comparably challenging to understand.

I think in almost any western country (and many non-western) 'free' (or close to) healthcare is a basic right of citizenship, so it's extremely difficult to try to comprehend how 20-40% of the average person's salary could be consumed by treating a child's minor accident.
Not a hardware engineer, but I've dabbled a bit with very basic CPU design using an open source Verilog compiler and simulator (specifically, Icarus Verilog). Just out of curiosity, what do proprietary tools in this space offer that open source ones don't?
Yeah, to make this stuff work well, you normally need lots of data, so consumer tech is mostly where you see successes.

If the data isn't being logged by automated systems daily, then you probably don't have enough to make these kinds of things work.

In smaller data environments, rules are going to perform much, much better (but still require the domain expertise, which isn't cheap).
What engages you with them? Asking out of curiosity, I've never owned one or used one extensively. (And I don't habitually buy electronics just because)
The notorious film Reefer Madness was actually privately financed by a church group.

As an example of how forbidding something can make it attractive, it was re-cut into an "exploitation" film...
Squarespace is pretty good for this to be honest.
It seems like the best approach would be to put it in one of the corners. Then you could hold it in portrait or landscape without covering it with your hands.
TIL: eBPF Is Awesome
oh wow. that is literally better than what i had imagined. great price point too.
It seems that everyone implementing their own string library (including, eh, antirez) thinks masquerading pointers is cute, but in my opinion and experience it's very dangerous because it requires a specific coding convention that can't be checked by compilers. SDS is no exception to this problem:

sds a = sdsnew("hell");
sds b = a;
a = sdscat(a, "o"); // this invalidates b

Masqueraded pointers are inherently linear (or affine if you are pedantic). Any length-changing updates to such pointers can potentially reallocate them, so any value can't be "updated" more than once; values should be consumed and returned by many operations. No typical C types behave like this: primitive values or structs can be updated by assignments and pointers can be updated by dereference. C doesn't support linear types and, while normal pointers do need care, masqueraded pointers need much more care to use correctly. Yes, you can replicate the same bug with normal pointers by replacing the third like to `free(a);`, but you wouldn't expect a bug for non-destructive operations. (Put in the other way, masqueraded pointers make many otherwise non-destructive operations destructive.)

While technically not a string library, this and the strict-aliasing issue for type-generic routines prompted me to write my own small extensible vector library [1] years ago.

[1] https://gist.github.com/lifthrasiir/4422136
My personal favorite was the $2000 copay, like healthcare is the same as car insurance where you might forgo the repair of a dent.
I notice that their laptop chargers are not using the now-ubiquitous and standards compliant USB-C interface. I currently work with a ThinkPad X280 and a MPB, both of which use a USB-C port. Seems like an odd decision on Purism's part, especially give that the charging method used for the Librem 5. Nice looking kit otherwise.
> There is also the mangle-use-repair choice.

Which is problematic for thread safety and depending on the source of the string (constant) may not be possible.
I know you are getting downvoted and I know why! But everything you said is the truth. You have my upvote!
Yeah the Solaris/x86 releases were really inconsistent, with Sun dropping support at various times and then reinstating it later.

NCR MPRAS was the oddest duck I ever had to support - fairly vanilla SVR4, but there was bits of NetBSD code cut and pasted in (eg. some of arp cache code, or at least the header files). It was used for running a Teradata data warehousing solution for a poker machine/lottery corporation I worked for. I actually managed to get gcc 2.95.2+binutils running on it and managed to compile and package up a lot of GNU utilities etc for it.
I never used Dreamweaver but I did use Adobe GoLive for a time. As I recollect it was better than doing things by hand (or I wouldn't have used it) but it generated such complex and ugly HTML that you were effectively locked into the tool. The HTML was such a mess that doing hand patching was very hard.
You can still open websites with word processors.

I'm always amazed libreoffice doesn't just pack up and call it quits when you ask it to open something like reddit or news.google.com. Just type in the full URL with the protocol in the file open dialog and it will put in a noble but ultimately futile effort.
Researchers develop a computer model to optimize vaccinations
unless you could somehow leverage distributed computing. for instance, the shell "laptop" has a couple cores that can seamlessly modularly enhance the capabilities of the phone. I don't believe such a functionality exists as of yet.
I really liked the discussion of shareholder value. I feel that this is the main escape hatch for justifying unethical behavior in Silicon Valley 2020.
I wish people were treated more like machines.

Big expensive machines, which require training to operate, and have big manuals full of pages and pages of "Danger: failure to follow correct operating procedures may lead to injury or death."

I would really love to have a custom manual showing correct min/max/optimal operating parameters for sleep, warmth, hugs, food, etc. Especially if people would have to keep to it.

And then instead of getting angry when someone doesn't do what they want (or getting angry at themselves for failing) , people would have to accept that they violated the commonly accepted operating procedures -thereby exceeding the tolerances of the system- and should do better next time.

Wouldn't that be a huge improvement over how things work now?