skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stanford is absolutely not a safety net hospital. This is proof that even people with "good insurance" (especially since they are going to Stanford) are falling through the cracks regularly. UCSF General Hospital would be the safety net hospital in the area, though. Safety net hospitals are for the uninsured or poor typically.

Australia has no safety net hospitals, because everyone legally resident in Australia has health insurance. All hospitals in Australia have very high quality of care.

While we (Americans) may have comparable 5 year survival rates, it does not mean that there is not unnecessary death via the American system. There are deaths (mortality) and adverse conditions (morbidities) due to amenable and non-amenable medical errors in all healthcare systems in the world. The unique aspect about American healthcare is that there is another category that is not prevalent in other highly industrialized countries: mortalities and morbidities due to a lack of care (lack of ability to pay for care), which happens easily, even if you have money.

I can assure you that while we may have comparable 5 year survival rates, there’s more to the story here, and that there is so much unnecessary death in the US healthcare system.

I have studied health systems worldwide, country-to-country, via the open-access peer reviewed publications posted on HealthData.org.

I live abroad, basically over the American healthcare situation. I have 2 rare neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system plus type 1 diabetes (autoimmune and insulin-dependent).
If you drag the bar containing your playlists out into the main web view it adjusts the size of the artwork.
Appsmith looks incredible thank you for sharing.
Yes, well put. I'd take it further - in numerical code there is no real distinction /at all/ between closed form vs iterative solutions. Every type of numerical code is subject to truncation error; an iterative method with few moving parts may systematically converge to a more accurate result than the direct expression of a closed-form solution.

It's quite interesting to delve into how special functions like `sin` and the like are actually implemented and the lengths people go to to make them "correctly rounded" (see, for example, crlibm). Even something as simple as linear interpolation between two floating point endpoints can be quite subtle if you want an implementation that is exactly correctly rounded and also fast.
Can someone please explain this formulation "Black Indigenous and People of Color" (BIPOC)? It seems to have arisen out of the blue last year. It's redundant, since black people are also people of color. And, assuming indigenous means the people formerly known as American Indians or Native Americans, aren't they also considered POC? So why not just say "people of color"?
Turn it around and clearly establish and promise the time that belongs away from work, so the message is not just "get away from me" which makes anxiety and behaviours seeking reassurance that exacerbates the problem.

It's "our time starts at 5pm, dinner, and the rest of the evening".

Lunchtime walks together works for me too.
> existing chips for decades or maybe even centuries.

Chips experience solid-state diffusion, so I'd expect the expected survival probability of chips (ignoring any infant mortality effects) to go something like feature_size / sqrt( time ). If this is true, then I'd guess modern process nodes would have very low survival rates out at 100 years. Though, it's been over 20 years since I had any solid state chemistry, and most of my experience with diffusion modeling is in financial models, so take my wild guess with a grain of salt.
> Or worse, sending several containerfulls of stuff somewhere in anticipation of them maybe needing it soon

You're again making a lot of assumptions here. What do you mean with "sending several containerfulls of stuff somewhere"? Similarly with "This is of course very wasteful". First you assume that companies often send too much stuff, then use that as a basis that there's waste. You haven't substantiated the first assumption!

> and the high latency is the source of the waste.

Again, this entirely depends on the business (commodity) and circumstances! Further, you take this as a given, while you did _not_ substantiate this at all.

For loads of commodities the time spent on the vessel does _not_ matter. For others it might be a mix. Sometimes it's important that things arrive on a regular basis. Sometimes it's not important.

> So effectively what has happened in lean manufacturing and product development flow-based approaches

Lean manufacturing car companies are happily using container vessel to transport their car parts. I've already mentioned the latency argument is missing the point quite a bit: the scheduling is important. A factory that runs out of parts is way more important than the 2 weeks vs 4-6 weeks. If the 2 weeks cannot be trusted upon it won't work.

Further, substantiate your assumptions. I don't see anything referencing a particular business, the costs associated, etc. Just guesswork.
I had a high-school teacher who pointed out that the modern RP English accent isn't what Shakespeare would have spoken, and had us read aloud in a light (albeit butchered) Southern drawl instead. It had the desired startling effect on how I perceived the writing.
I've been using LineageOS since the good ol' CyanogenMod days and I am very grateful for how much work the developers put into it day in and day out.

Thanks to them, I managed to get rid of Google Apps in my day-to-day life almost[0] entirely and drastically improve privacy for me: Instead of Google Play Services I use MicroG[1] and instead of Play Store, I use Aurora Store[2] and F-Droid. For syncing files there is Syncthing[3] and for backups there is Seedvault[4]. To isolate apps I don't trust I use NetGuard[8] and Shelter[9] and practically no internet-facing app has access to my internal "SD card" on which my photos and documents reside. As a bonus, getting rid of GApps and using LineageOS has increased my phones' battery life and their overall lifetime tremendously. (I've only owned three smartphones in my entire life, the original T-Mobile G1, the HTC One M8 and the BQ Aquaris Pro.) I couldn't be happier.

That being said, I've closely been following GrapheneOS[5] because I find its additional security guarantees very attractive. In fact, just a few hours ago my new Pixel 5 arrived and I'm looking forward to giving it a try. Though I already know I will miss MicroG… Maybe I'll end up building my own custom Android ROM, using Hashbang or RattlesnakeOS[6, 7]?

Overall, I don't really understand people who criticize Android for not being open while loudly claiming a "pure" Linux phone would be so much better. (There was yet another discussion here on HN just a few days ago.) Yes, Android is a not your typical open-source project and clearly in the hands of Google. Yes, most phone and chip manufacturers still haven't open-sourced their hardware binary blobs. We definitely have to fight these fights. But with a Linux phone I'd probably be struggling with window-manager-related bugs in the worst possible moments (say, an emergency call) and risk all my data getting stolen whenever I install a new app.

As much as I like Linux – I dabbled with it the first time almost two decades ago and have been using it as a daily driver for more than a decade – but its stability and security guarantees are orders of magnitude worse than Android's.

I secretly hope that Fuchsia will find its way to the desktop at some point and be able to replace my Linux system.

[0]: I still use Google Maps every now and then

[1]: https://microg.org . See https://lineage.microg.org/ for LineageOS images that come with MicroG pre-installed.

[2]: https://auroraoss.com/

[3]: https://syncthing.net

[4]: https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault

[5]: http://grapheneos.org/

[6]: https://github.com/hashbang/aosp-build

[7]: https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack/

[8]: https://netguard.me/

[9]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/
There is a blockchain-applied-to-anything-other-than-finance metaphor hidden in this truly sublime analogy.
Yes. Yet maybe the switches aren't VLAN aware either. Then – as far as I understand – VLANs would not have helped here either.
Can Israel's Eilat Become an Alternative to Suez Canal?
For that particular use case it may be better to pass a constructor reference / new instance supplier to not rely on reflection.
You used personal computer above. I'm not typing out "general purpose computing device" every time. I think most rational people don't consider their oven to be a personal computer even if it has computer controlled parts.

> Secondly can you please define general purpose computing device such that it doesn’t include my toaster, pressure/slow cooker, or oven?

Sure. I'll use my toaster oven as an example, a Panasonic NB-G110P. I'm assuming no hardware hacking obviously.

My toaster oven doesn't have any built in way to store or add storage for a users program. No support for a cassette drive or even a paper tape reader. It doesn't have any sort of way for the user to run "programs" or instructions in memory outside the predefined functions from the manufacturer like "Waffle mode" that are probably burned into ROM and immutable to the user. While it DOES unusually have TWO 8 segment LCD displays for output there is no way for the user to output results or perhaps inspect memory addresses for anything beyond seeing the time remaining in "Waffle mode" or the like.

An iPhone by contrast has storage for user programs, ways to load and run instructions not included or designed by the manufacturer but a third party, ways to output the results of those programs and allow users to interact with them in some ways.

You also don't need Apple's permission to create a program of your liking for iOS but you do need Apple's permission to distribute it in a fashion that's reasonable for the non-technically inclined.

Apple's lock on software is in my opinion just as gross as Apple's or John Deere's lock on hardware. It's the manufacturer imposing constraints on what I can do with my device for mainly their benefit. There's a small security benefit to this approach but in my view what Apple is getting out of the arrangement is far too much weighted in their favour.

You're right bootloaders should be unlocked. But if they're not going to provide drivers then they have to provide documentation that would allow drivers to be written by those that can and care to. Keep iOS locked if they want but give a reasonable way out.
Mostly configuration stored in the database (who configures the database) or 3rd party configuration services without an SLA and config files that are either present or not. Env vars are really simple since they are completely decoupled from the app and you can have default values for all of them. You just need a single class that loads all config on startup and you can go from there (or fail if you don't have the mandatory vars).
Show HN: Toll-or-Not - Should I take that toll road to save time?
Debating the impact of machine-created art
Clauses like that are really really hard. CC has the NC clause, which is problematic because it may not be clear what consists of commercial use and what doesn't. If a non-profit uses a picture for a fundraiser, is that commercial or not?

The thing that one of the parent comments suggested would actually be quite cool: An alternative license where the "applicants" could ask for permission to use a picture, stating how they will use it. If the author accepts (using a 1-button click), a license will automatically be granted. Everything would still remain free though. And certain use-cases could be allowed automatically (e.g. "personal use" or "use for a non-profit").

It would remove ambiguities (because an explicit permission is granted), but everyting would still remain royalty-free. Plus, the authors would learn how their photos are being used. (I'm happy to give out photos for free, but I'm also happy if people tell me where they're being used.)
The lines are always drawn vertically from the point of view of the viewport, so they're always aligned to pixels.

This does limit the rotation allowed before the user starts to notice!
All tests done over wired Ethernet on a controlled cable system node. I’m not at all surprised that 5 Mbps was sufficient.

Most people’s issues with poor video call quality aren’t related to the last mile bandwidth, but instead to poor WiFi connections in the house. I’ve been pulling Ethernet cables through my house to fix this and it’s made a big difference. It also makes everyone else’s WiFi connections marginally better when I’m no longer competing for the airwaves.

A secondary issue is overloaded neighborhood cable termination nodes. Comcast is pretty slow at node splitting, leaving nodes overloaded for months on end with no alternatives available for people in areas where it’s Comcast or bust.

There’s issues aplenty, but it’s not with sufficiently provisioned 3 or 5 Mbps upload bandwidth.
The author suggests that knowing poetry's rules, and the history of how poets have broken those rules, can help people "get" poetry. I'm skeptical that cerebral understanding alone can help much. On the rare occasion that I've "gotten" a poem, it never happened through reason. If I tried analyzing while reading it I don't think the getting could have happened at all.

As stated I don't get many poems, but I feel that cultivating the ability to get them probably has something to do with: 1) awareness of your own emotional state in the present moment; it's the needed reference point to connect with the poet's state at time of writing 2) awareness of your accumulated life experience -- it's the material you reference to make sense of the poem 3) sensitivity to the sounds & rhythms of words 4) a broad perspective on life that includes awareness of its ultimate frame -- death; Spanish poet Lorca wrote about a creative force called 'duende' that arises from experience of the darker side of life; I think such experience may also give rise to a receptiveness to and appreciation of the more significant things conveyed in poetry and other arts 5) desire and ability to connect content of a poem to other things, be they other poems, history, the poet's personal history or whatever; poems are not islands, they have contexts, and your moment of reading one also has a context consisting of your personal intellectual history and current mental and emotional state, among other things.
I wish I could donate a phone to a developer in order to get them to support it. I had bad luck with unofficial roms.
the slug is literally "/hotel-music/"
The promo for Pro1X makes privacy claims but doesn't Ubuntu collect telemetry data from their OSes?

As to the phone, at first I thought the mechanical keyboard is useless, however I can think of situations where on-screen keyboard would cover too much of screen real-estate. External keyboard lets you see more, unobstructed.
Given automation it's not far off what's possible. Obviously you'd have multiple tracks for slower parts and loading/unloading.

Main problems would be politics and mountains.
The 18T Dollar Question of Blockchain Adoption by Governments
The article is wrong. The 14 day limit applies only to working from a different country than the one your job is based in. Partial WFH is very much still on the table for the foreseeable future as far as we know.
Then the author should only be making the claim against consensus for validation. Why would a private org need a public consensus, that is obvious. Take a look at Amazon QLDB, enterprises can make use of blockchains because sql doesn't connect the dots as well. Developers have to write the code that creates the connections between data. Blockchain has dots that are already connected in a sense, that's how it already is. Now it's more than a log, it is a real representation, because of the age, kind of like domain names. Their value increases over time though they are the same thing and only exist digitally or ina database.
Yes. If you package software up for deployment on some server (i.e. you use something like Docker), environment variables are the easiest/only configuration mechanism at your disposal. Packages that don't support this, need some workarounds (e.g. dockerize to template some config file using environment variables) to be packaged up; which is annoying and extra work. Decent server software comes prepackaged in docker form these days. Which means environment variables are the way you control those unless you want to force your users to create their own docker containers just so they can fiddle with config files, which is a bit user hostile.

Dedicated configuration files only make sense if you assume a writable file system is there. Which is a broken assumption on many containerized environments. There is a lot of legacy software that works that way of course. Some software allows doing configuration via config files and then allows overriding keys in those files with some naming convention via environment variables. That's a good compromise since that allows you to package up sane defaults that you override as needed via the environment. It does not have to be an either or type thing.

Another common pattern is to allow overriding configuration via commandline arguments, which you can then gather in an environment variable and inject via docker. I do this a lot with JVM based software where we have a lot of -D options to override specific configuration value defaults via docker. Less clean than just having dedicated environment variables in the docker file but it works.
Oh, the 'woo' thing was really big in the Ruby on Rails community as well.. it was very culty back in the 2000s.
Yes, always. I can immediately notice the difference when I type on lets a gnome terminal vs. xterm. But it's not only related to terminals. I have the same issue with editors. For example, the Atom editor is unbearable slow, VSCode is slow, Vim with a few plugins (incl. syntax highlighting and the like) is okayish and plain vi is fast. At least that's how I experience it. I decided to go with vim + plugins, because it provides the best tradeoff in terms of features and latency.
Didn't we just pass peak Clubhouse? Feels like it had the exact half-life of Zoom parties.
Legal behaviour but scummy behaviour.

Should big tech be deciding who gets a free trial?
Perl's documentation is/was fantastic. On top of it there were some of the best books that covered it.
Is that meant to be read literally?!
Another one I just remembered: "automaton/automata".

This site lets you search for English words by suffix, and the only words it can find ending in "-omenon" are "phenomenon" and... "superphenomon". What a phenomenal result.

https://www.litscape.com/word_tools/ends_with.php
Listen to rap. Poetry and music have always been intertwined, and most poetry throughout history is written to be performed, not read on paper. A rap verse is much closer to the genre of Shakespeare and Homer than any free-verse poetry on paper.
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I hope I don't get downvoted, but I think the OP has a point. Command line arguments will do, and perhaps even be better.

Why are there so many harsh comments about this post?
Is there an archive of the whole collection? My internet is unreliable and I usually try to get everything offline.
The slug for the article in the url is `hotel-music`. So you can kind of deduct what's it going to be in the end. I thought it was still nice.
I think donw was talking about the much more gray-area part of HIBP: obtaining the lists of leaked passwords, in order to hash each one and store the hashes.
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I own a mi pad 1 and its running miui with android 3 or 4 I think.

Newpipe works but barely. Same for other stuff. Last year I got China rom I guess but that changed the ui.

Can you point me where to get started? I would love to use this device as its currently just a dump tablet with limited features.
I bought 500 records over the last decade.

I have 300 dvds/blurays. Plus about 12TB of video on my plex server.

1tb of music on the same server

About 450 books, 300 of which I havent read

Unfortunately there isn't really any mags or papers I like/trust to subscribe to, for more current stuff.

But regardless... I'd be OK.

I plan to retire to a cabin in the moutains and have minimal connectivity to the outside world anyways. Been saving for it for 10 years now.
But making renewable energy boats is very hard, whereas renewable energy trains is much easier
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>This chestnut 'home has too many distractions' line is getting old.

And yet in my home it's accurate. Of course, your mileage may vary.

Where I work, it's like a library. Quiet, serene, productive, but tense.

At home it's noisy, disjointed, non-productive [hey look, I'm on HN!], and full of disruptions [slack, 5+ zoom meetings per day, kids screaming [Brother keeps hitting me!!!], and wife trying to live her life [TV, music, etc...]. But it's relaxed.

I prefer working from home, I feel like it's better, but there is a lot that can be improved.
Proving once again that it's not the devices that are slow but the stuff running on it
As the article shows, you can run 10 concurrent video calling sessions over 5 Mbps upload. That’s hardly “I’m going to have a conference call, could you not use the internet”.

There’s plenty of use cases for higher upload bandwidth, some of which you mentioned, but VCs on current generation laptops isn’t one of them.

A bigger issue is over reliance on WiFi in dense neighborhoods or through multiple walls. A better or more widely deployed in-unit wired network technology would be more impactful for a lot of people. I wish cat6 Ethernet was standard in construction, but in the US at least it seems to not be still. Our building was renovated in 2009 and has plenty of coaxial connections: 3 in the living room and 1 per bedroom, but no Ethernet. I’ve been slowly adding Ethernet to the coax plates, but it’s a real pain in the tail to do in an already built building.
What is the advantage of the slideout keyboard? It might save some pixels while you type, but it looks very uncomfortable.
I'd guess so. We went 4? years ago, in late January.

Every site off the southern side of the ring road had 4-5 tour buses full of tourists, plus assorted individual cars. It wasn't crowded to the point of annoyance, but it was close. What was annoying was poor behavior by many tourists - stepping inside the chains and touching water at Geysir, going into the "caldera" of Kerid Crater, and going near the water at Reynisfjara Beach. All despite many signs in many languages. And poor tour guides chasing the idiots back to safety.

I'd guess if we went north, it would have been relatively quiet, but we only had 4 days, so based out of a flat in Reykjavik.
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> cars are never designed to drive in reverse.

that's just plain wrong, friend.
> The kind of people who like science are often the kind of people who crave certainty.

Just to clarify - are you implying scientists crave certainty, or non-scientists who enjoy reading about science crave certainty?

The life scientists I know are the people in my life who are the most comfortable with uncertainty, or at least can recognize how uncertain the world can be. Perhaps they crave quantifying the uncertainty? But they certainly understand, respect, and live with uncertainty.
> Now we can all have it, and if you want to share your interests in it, stop yucking their yum.

I don't think the author is talking to the people enjoying what he (derisively) called Instapoems. Those people like what they like and don't feel bad about it.

The author, on the other hand, laid out 3500 words in a New Criterion article to reassure those who aspire to be the type of person who enjoys "real" poetry that they are on the right path. The readers of this are there for the yucking.