skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bismarck did create the first public health system back then and the model is called the Bismarck Model. The NHS is nothing like that though and is based on what's called the Beveridge Model after the man who proposed it:

https://morningsignout.com/international-health-care-systems...

http://morningsignout.com/international-health-care-systems-...
I'm so glad this is the top comment.

Companies are for the benefit of people.

When companies become a detriment to public health and wellbeing they need to be regulated.
Lots of good infographics in the story. Was a busy year, big takeaway from the article is that these seasons are getting worse.
Since this is HN I'm guessing they work in tech, where 300k salaries (pre-tax) are common. Tax and SV living expenses use most of that, but you can still save a lot. You can save way more if you've got a high earning spouse.

The other key thing is investing in the stock market, specifically index funds which have a historical real return rate of 7%. Folks who invested since 2008 got way higher returns from a phenomenal bull run, but let's assume a more "conservative" 7% return.

Save 100k a year with 7% returns for 15 years and you have 2.5mil.

The flaw in that modeling is that your earnings typically peak later in your career, so OP may have made a lot of their money in the last few years from being a high level employee making 500k+ a year.
It's a matching routine for picking closely matched pairs of sensors for differential measurement.
Very much looks like it but IANAL
U.S. regulators implore banks to stop using LIBOR by end of 2021
Hey, you should just work harder. Work away your entire life and maybe you'll be able to afford a house too! Who knows, you might even get to buy 2 and start exploiting people poorer than you by asking them to pay to use a house you didn't build. The circle completes.
Well if you diy plumb it, worst possible outcome is that they rot isn't it? And that's already happening.
Hello again! I just came back to let you know that the new release is up and all of these problems have been solved :)
I'm working on a series called Learn OCaml the Hard Way(https://devpoga.org/tags/learn-ocaml-the-hard-way/) to learn about the underlying engineering work of OCaml. Please tell me if you have any suggestion on topics or direction.

Thanks.
Yes (and even more specific), the "Audience" tab https://handbook.clerky.com/audience says

>Finally, the content in this handbook is only relevant for Delaware C-corporations, as startups (as the term is used here) are typically Delaware C-corporations.
XNU is Not Unix.
Still unattainable for most, and even when it is it requires to slave your life away. Not enough for me.
Robotic Welding Without Programming
There are certain metrics that can be used.

Pieces developed onto unattacked squares, squares under control (because more attackers than defenders), undefended pieces, a balance of control on the white/black or both, open files, half open files, open diagonals, half open diagnals, pawn structures, doubled pawns, isoated pawns, pawn islands.

It's a nuanced thing, it's also largely how chess engines evaluate a position - it's not something humans can do because to do all of the above would take too long however strong players get an intuitive grasp of all of that and more and use it to assess a position.
I've been using Signal and WhatsApp for while on a lineageos + microg, it works perfectly fine without going through microg, i.e. I don't use push messages though (using the constant background notification from Signal and letting WhatsApp do whatever it does to work around the lack of push messages).

I guess it uses a bit more battery, but I haven't noticed it in my case (n == 1...).
Stop for a few minutes and just fix your attention on the "inevitability of death". Contemplate for a moment what would you do/think/value if you die in a month/week/day/hour?
Just going from the title: "normies" is a pretty derogative term, and lately has been further contaminated by its adoption by the alt-right, so I am not so sure it is the best term to use:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-were-wat...
EmacsConf: Traverse complex JSON structures with live feedback with counsel-jq
The source of much Python and general programming knowledge, including the venerable tkinter book. As far as I can tell, this happened just before Thanksgiving. Very sad to see this go.
Wait why does calling a crashing c function not crash the process?
Aeskulap was the best one, I used it successfully a couple of years ago, despite the home page making it look like abandonware.

http://www.nongnu.org/aeskulap/

Unfortunately it seems it's no longer available in Fedora repositories.
> Otherwise our electric cars will be running on coal.

With modern coal plants, that isn't _too_ bad actually. Modern coal plants reach 46% efficiency[0], compared to the 30-35% for modern passenger cars (older cars = less efficient). This is a 30-50% [1] efficiency gain, while also emitting 30-45% more CO2 for the same amount of energy released (gasoline vs bituminous coal and anthracite, for diesel it's 25-40%).

So, depending on the coal burned, the efficiency of the car that is replaced, and the coal plant making the electricity, you could quite reasonably have a lower carbon footprint by driving a car 100% on coal-powered electricity instead of gasoline or diesel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_power_station#Thermal_...
[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=73&t=11
I'm using e.foundation for a while now on my Moto G3 (osprey) and it's working ok despite a few camera/gallery crashes here and there.

The only thing I'm not really fond of, is that the apps come from an opaque source (https://info.cleanapk.org/). I also found no information on how those apps are signed, and how this is checked. Upon asking them, someone pointed me to a git commit where an outdated public key of F-Droid was used.
>new hug-a-Linux image

I have a little secret for you...Microsoft didn't change one bit since Palmer.
Pretty cool, check out my profile: https://spacehey.com/t0m
Show HN: Keenforms – Form Builder with No-Code Rules Engine
Math seems difficult because it takes time and energy. Many people don't experience sufficient time to "get" math lessons, and they fall behind as the teacher moves on. Many move on to study more complex concepts with a shaky foundation. We often end up with a weak structure that is doomed to collapse at some point.
Good article. I've always argued that blind ?-style shortcircuiting in Rust is extreme code smell and guaranteed pain for future production outages, and that it's not an actual solution to error the handling problem (which seems to come up often in Rust/Go flamewars). And I'm glad that this idea is picking up traction.

Error handling is hard, Go doesn't hide the complexity, but a lot of other languages try to handwave the complexity away. Either way, programmers are by default lazy, and you end up with "Error 500: connection refused".
The cloud "just" uses davx5, which you can ignore, or use to sync to your own nextcloud server, or you can create an account on their nextcloud instance.

I obviously use my own nextcloud.

Some mircrog stuff is enabled by default, which means it does allow apps to talk to Google for eg. push messages. It's not much work to disable, though.
The interesting thing is it's all one industry. Has that ever happened before? Oil was pretty dominant for a while, but nothing like this.
> working with async Rust is not as simple as writing regular Rust code

Working with async Rust is very simple if you are not writing futures yourself. Tokio and async-std provide api's that mirror std except for the fact that you have to add `.await` to the end of the operation and add the `async` keyword to your function. With proc-macros, `async main` is just a matter of adding a small annotation to the top of the function. Async functions in traits are blocked due to compiler limitations, but `async-trait` makes it easy. What part of async Rust is more complicated than synchronous Rust?

> and it just doesn't provide you the same features as Elixir Processes do.

Can you explain this? How is tokio's `task` different then elixir processes? From the tokio docs:

> Another name for this general pattern is green threads. If you are familiar with Go's goroutines, Kotlin's coroutines, or Erlang's processes, you can think of Tokio's tasks as something similar.
But I bet the quality of health care available to you exceeds the imagination of those kings and emperors.

The probability of fathering 12 children, if anything, is probably inversely proportional to your wealth, these days.

Not sure owning and tending thousands of hectares of land has much utility in and of itself. It was a proxy for generating wealth, like someone owning a lot of equities today. But the question is what utility was available to purchase with that wealth?

Granted kings and emperors in some ways were better off in some ways than the median wage earners today, but not in others.
Adam, if you’re reading this, I wish you all the best and hope you do succeed in keeping with the plan. With any diet, all that matters is whether you’re able to transform it into a lifestyle change.

I know it’s not easy to do this and expose yourself on the web for others to see and read what you are and what you’re trying. But your courage and updates will hopefully inspire someone else.

Try not to get disappointed if you hit a plateau in your weight loss journey. It’s not very difficult to lose the first few (or few tens of) pounds, but later it may seem more and more of an uphill battle (depending on many factors). Just stick to the program and keep working on it.
Ah I might be seeing a fallback font then.
I don't think the graveyard of Android privacy forks is that big? All I can think of is CopperheadOS which died because it was company-backed. You could argue CyanogenMod died, though really it's still well alive in LineageOS. (and CyanogenMod wasn't really privacy-focused)

I have a very high respect for all the work that's been done on the various GNU/Linux mobile distributions, but it's still so far away from Android wrt usability...

I agree there is something weird about fighting Google with Android, but still it makes perfect sense.

From a business or engineering PoV, you want best features for the fastest MVP. Android gives you just that. Actually it goes way beyond, /e/ didn't do much of engineering, they mostly re-used what's done by the Android FLOSS community. (Honestly I don't really like /e/ because they basically don't give anything back to the community but well).

If /e/ is ever successful, they can hire many engineers to actually fork Android to have their own. That's what Android did for Linux in the first place anyway! Most OEMs have a lot of changes to their Android, even though they keep using Google apps, and they are just fine. I'm pretty sure that Samsung have an order of magnitude more changes in Android than LineageOS (which /e/ is a pretty direct fork of), and they maintain it just fine.
Recursion Visualization [video]
Related:

"The Bible is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"

-Martin Marty
I think while you don't have "FU money" it's important for money to be the main focus of your life

You may feel very differently when you are looking back on your life near the end of it.
How about removing obsolete stuff from 86x CPUs to make the platform perform better? If someone need to execute old programs/OSes they can use emulators for that...
Out of curiosity what do you do and where did you move?
Another cool trick - use ephemeral memory SQLite database during unit tests:

conn = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")

But also run against your prod-like database (Postgres/MySQL etc.) later in the CI pipe to catch idiosyncratic database problems.
> > This claim is incorrect and does not take into account the spike in raw death count from all causes compared to previous years.

> Am I the only person confused with the language here? What is the difference between "Total deaths per age category" and "total raw death count"?

The article has multiple items of incorrect analysis.

One is that having constant percentages of deaths per age category, does not show that the death count is itself constant.

A separate one is that the claim that “total death numbers are not above normal death numbers” is factually incorrect.

While reading the link, and before reading the retractation, I made myself these exact remarks. One thing I saw in the article, which the retractation implies, but does not emphasize, is that this assertion:

> Briand also noted that 50,000 to 70,000 deaths are seen both before and after COVID-19, indicating that this number of
deaths was normal long before COVID-19

… is a non-sequitur. The fact that a large number of deaths has been reached in the past, does not imply that it being reached with COVID-19 is normal.
So I am very fascinated by both languages and work in Elixir professionally, with a pretty minimal knowledge of Rust. I was just wondering what the motivation for creating this project was rather than just writing the application in Elixir with NIFs in Rust whenever higher performance is needed?
Do you feel that the writing course you mentioned helped improve your writing? Udemy can be pretty hit or miss and I'd like to get my blog going!
“So, friends, every day do something/ that won’t compute.” — Wendell Berry, Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

https://www.context.org/iclib/ic30/berry/
I don't see it as a compromise. Using Wasm allows for some really nice properties, like compiling once and running on any operating system and CPU architecture. Lunatic JIT compiles this code either way to machine code so the performance hit should not be too big.

When you say "implementing it as a Rust runtime target", I assume you mean targeting x86/64. In this case it would be impossible to provide fault tolerance. The sandboxing capability of Wasm is necessary to separate one processes memory from another.
Look at how much money people in silicon valley earn on average, then check how much it cost to live there, they're all rich by my standards, because I live in a rural area in another country.

What they can do with their wealth where I am is _VASTLY_ different from what they can do where they are. They're basically median wealthy among themselves, and they still have to go to work like everybody else, the numbers they're pulling seem impressive only at first.

I'm not talking about being fair or not, only that for the current economic system to work, you need equality of resources. I'm not saying it's a good thing, just, it's how it works. I'm all for changing that, I totally expected it to have been figured out already by the time I reached adulthood, but there are no flying cars (1)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Where-My-Flying-Car-Memoir-ebook/dp/B...
G.M. Scales Down Nikola Deal
I've struggled with the same issue. The keys, as I've learned them, is to a) get to a place where you can invest up front in reducing your cost of living in the medium-long term, b) run like hell from the hedonic treadmill of trying to keep up with your peers' poor financial decisions, c) look carefully at what parts of your "decent lifestyle" make you truly happier, which parts are performative, and for which parts you can replace spending with effort without a loss of quality (for example, you can learn to cook very nice food, at a much higher quality than you will get at a restaurant for much less money; there's also no better feeling than feeding your friends).

Keep in mind that the lifestyle changes you make now pay off more than double, by helping you save faster, by having those savings accumulate interest/earn you money, and by reducing the amount of money you need to sustain retirement indefinitely.

Finally, make compounding growth your friend, not your enemy. Kill debt ASAP, and start socking away as much of your money as you can in a growth-bearing account. If you can reliably save 50% of your income in an account that beats inflation by 4%, you can support your lifestyle indefinitely on growth after 17 years.
I've used this recipe for years, and it produces great chips.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.food.com/amp/recipe/mc-dona...
Yeah, misleading title. Article seems to suggest something bigger and then it's just some niche crap nobody cares about, pure clickbait.
We need to work for a sabbath that relativizes work across all classes and gives us a joyous reason to celebrate. Work and escapism alone makes Jack a dull boy.

Impostor syndrome is likely grasping at wind. Nobody's going to tell you, you're in a valid life position. That validation is not graspable, because it's not coming.
In this context, it's a really impressive work! Can you tell us more?
RNA vaccines have a huge potential in treating cancer as well. Basically, you can whip up a personalized vaccine which wakes the immune system up to the fact that it has a growing tumor on its hands.

So far, the success rate is very far from 100 per cent, but the therapy sometimes works even in patients with severe late stage metastatized cancer and, in all likelihood, we will learn how to use it better in coming years.

This progress could save way more lives down the line than just those at risk with Covid.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03072-8
The house is a real physical thing. Obligations, debt, bankruptcies, these are all abstractions. Ideally the abstractions should lead to the real physical things being taken care of. If they don't, something may be wrong with the abstractions. But we should be clear that there will always be some waste, so the question is if waste is higher than it needs to be.
> Apple doesn't really have any interest in making it easier for people to use Macs for anything that doesn't benefit their closed ecosystem - they are still ok with you using it for open source or enterprise work so long as they don't have to do anything special. That part of their stance has been very consistent.

Besides being used internally as mentioned, making the Alpha Geeks (to use Tim O'Reilly's phrase) happy would be prudent for their continued success. If the Alpha Geeks aren't using your product, they will not recommended it to their friends when asked for computer advise, and it will not be installed in relatives' home where the Alpha Geeks tend to do tech support.

The Alpha Geeks was how Apple probably got more popular that PCs in the first place, and they may now have a lot/enough inertial to keep moving forward, but Microsoft and PCs used to be the 800-pound (400 kg) gorilla, and they're less so now.

There's a lot of Unix-y stuff being used in academy, research, and HPC: plenty of folks there would be just as willing to switch to a PC with Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS (which run the world's HPC clusters) if macOS gets in the way of their workflow if Homebrew or Macports don't work.
I hadn't actually found the original source material! I've amended my post to considerably tone down my accusations since it appears I was working with an incomplete picture of what the original presentation was. After an initial flicking through of the presentation it definitely appears that this is more nuanced than what I was working with and what has been reported on!
Sorry, I did consider it, but knowing that HN now populates the first /<name> as well as the domain for some known sites where it's meaningful, such as GitHub, I opted for the issue's title alone.
Great point, I've seen before in youtube videos how much of a difference makes.

The author's recipe does suggest doing exactly that:

Beef Tallow French Fries
Adapted From “McMenu: Do-It-Yourself McDonald’s Restaurant Recipes”
Yields two medium-sized orders of fries.

2 large russet potatoes

¼ cup white sugar

2 tablespoons white corn syrup (Karo)

1–2 cups hot water

6 cups Crisco shortening

¼ cup beef tallow

Salt to taste

1. Peel the potatoes and cut them into shoestrings. They should be about ¼ inch x ¼ inch in thickness and about 4 inches to 6 inches long.

2. In a large mixing bowl, combine the sugar, corn syrup, and hot water. Stir to dissolve the sugar. Place the potatoes into the bowl of the sugar-water and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

3. While they’re soaking, pack the shortening into a deep-fryer. If you don’t have a deep-fryer, any sauce pot or dutch oven will suffice as long as you have an appropriate thermometer. Heat on the highest setting until the shortening has liquefied and reads between 375° and 400° F.

4. Drain the potatoes then dump them into the fryer (be careful, it will be ferocious). Nudge them around to make sure they don’t stick to one another. After 1 to 1 ½ minutes, transfer the potatoes to a paper towel–lined plate. Let them cool 8 to 10 minutes in the refrigerator.

5. While they’re cooling, add the beef tallow to the hot shortening and bring temperature back to between 375° and 400° F.

6. Add the potatoes and deep-fry again for 5 to 7 minutes or until golden brown. Again, nudge lightly to keep them from becoming one mega-fry. Remove and place them in a large bowl, sprinkling generously with salt and tossing to mix the salt evenly. Serve hot and enjoy.
Good point but one additional advantage on mobile is the app stores. Currently apps are (supposed to be) rejected if they ask for more permission than their app requires. The problem is that the permissions themselves are too broad. If permissions were divided between regular permissions and super permissions where the latter were flagged for extra approval time and care in approval, it seems like you could have a scalable system vetting the handful of apps that risk asking for them.

Additionally it seems like you could design proper super warnings that get adhered to. Do you know of any interesting examples of really severe/gated warnings that are consistently ignored? If you try to visit a website with a bad certificate, for example, it's almost impossible to get to it.
I'm not sure whether people understand just how big of a problem this is. Resilient economies are well-balanced economies. When Big Tech falls - and it will eventually fall, because no industry is immune to corrections or busts - - the effect on the wider economy will be all the greater. The greater a share of the stock market that Big Tech holds, the larger the blast radius their failure will impose on the wider economy.

That FAANG constitutes such a large part of major market indices communicates a failure on the part of regulators. Not just the kind of regulation that technologists care about, i.e. protecting free software and open access, but economic regulation as well, that tries to smooth out the business boom and bust cycles and care about the health of the wider American economy.
Broaden your perspective through the daily practice of befriending a tree
Infections peaked before the lockdown according to King's College London's ZOE study (1). Exactly the same for the first lockdown. (2) Infections in most of Western Europe are decreasing at the same time regardless of measures taken or when they were taken. (3)

In a Spanish serological study, people staying home were found to be more infected than those who were essential workers and had to go to work. (4)

Hopefully at some point we will understand that the virus will follow its own curve regardless of what we try to do, after it has implanted in a country. Once it's coronavirus season again, infections will start rising again. It's taboo to say so for some reason...

A fun one for bonus: Six of 12 men wintering at an isolated Antarctic base sequentially developed symptoms and signs of a common cold after 17 weeks of complete isolation (5). If the virus can still spread after 17 weeks of complete isolation in an Antarctic base, it's foolish to think we can suppress coronavirus anywhere now that's it's endemic.

(1) https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-second-wave-appears-... — (2) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/04/coronavirus-infe... —
(3) https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS... — (4) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... — (5) https://www.jstor.org/stable/3862013