skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Canadians are generally very satisfied with the quality and availability of healthcare in Canada.

If any of us are it's because of the pervasive anti-American propaganda spewn about.

My GF is from the Czech Republic (where we currently are) and since we got here she's been getting all her standard check ups done. Here she can make an appointment only a day in advance (as opposed to weeks or months out in Canada), there's no wait time (in Canada you usually wait even with an appointment) and dental/drugs are included in Czech Republic (in Canada only the most basic care is included, everything else is extra and quite expensive).

Czech Republic is seen as a second-rate EU country (at least what I've heard of it) but health care here is so far ahead of Canada we might as well be a third world country.

Edit - I should add, even before observing European health care, I knew a shocking amount of people who've gone to the US and even Mexico specifically for medical treatment. Canada's health care is abysmal, our politicians just convince everyone that everything is OK because it's "free" (never mind that we pay European-level taxes for far worse care).

Also, I come from the richest (per capita) Canadian province with the best health-care funding, which in my experience is the best in Canada, but still lacking...
I wonder how to learn to cool down whenever you want. Going to be a HUGE advantage.
The Importance of Friendship for Alzheimer’s Patients
Arguably the iPad technology for viewing plastic plants in VR is more interesting than plastic plants in a room.

The author also seems to be very "unlucky" to have a relative who supposedly can't cope with normal live because of all the distractions.
> Many people incorrectly associate 'blockchain' == 'Bitcoin' with all the issues it has. So anything blockchain is bad / scam / pyramid ponzi / planet destroyer, proof-of-waste (PoW), piece-of-sh*t (PoS) etc.

The problem is that many people building blockchain projects mean "Blockchain" == "Ethereum", which is basically the same thing.
No, they don't. They still don't ensure data availability, consistency and you still have to trust the API provider, a third party. Web3 does away will all that. You just use the service.
It's a technical problem in that this shows the the VM for smart contracts is a mess. It should not be so easy to do such things.
We need to begin with a more modest interim goal: http://www.pavethehudson.org/
> Web3 is a grift.

> I am openly ignorant of recent innovations and make statements demonstrating I believe they don't exist.

Never change, HN.
Sure, but in that case I wouldn't test that the list contains exactly the 10 customers I expect, since that's not what the code is supposed to do. That's a shortcut you introduced while testing. I usually approach things like this with two assertions - that the size of the list under test increased by X, and that the newly created record(s) exist in the list.

After all, the code doesn't show the 10 most recent customers that purchased an item, it shows ALL customers. You could hide a pagination bug where only the first page of results functions if you wipe the database first.
Politicization of very consequential things is inevitable and desirable. If you say "don't politicize trade", and attempt to make it a technocratic matter about trade treaties and comparative advantage and such, you'd be rightly laughed out of the room. Why should a response to a pandemic be different?

To put another way: "de-politicize" simply means "don't discuss in the public realm".
A major failure point for me is devices simply not showing up as available.
> I don't understand where this bizarre notion comes from that if you commit a crime while not physically being in the country and not being that country's citizen, this somehow nullifies the crime and means you shouldn't be extradited.

Should we extradite Americans living in America to China if they mock Xi or dishonor Chinese heroes?
I am getting an `alert(1)` when visiting this site. This smells like cross-site scripting. Beware.
>Our health outcomes have plateaued

Healthcare is messy. That plateau might be the best we can accomplish given our current technology, science, healthcare, politics, and culture. It's not necessarily a measurement that always has to go up (like USA stocks).

If you want to put this on non-competitive systems, the USA has a competitive system and it is probably worse than Canada. If not completely worse, then certainly worse on major dimensions like cost and accessibility.

I'd be interested in what these health outcomes measured if you have a link handy.
Not a programming language, but I just installed Linux on an old laptop and plan to learn how to do my development work in Linux.

I've been a corporate C# programmer for years, working in Windows. But, I should be able to do a lot of my work in Linux now.
PAKE – Theory, Practice, Standardization and Real-World Lessons
I see no reason why the same addressing mode could not be used in both versions. This just seems like an optimization that has been made under the assumption that in the addressing mode

[reg1 + reg2 + disp]

reg2 refers to a signed integer (Which may result in the effective address being < reg1 if reg2 is negative).

Obviously you would not want to make the same assumption if reg2 refers to an unsigned integer, because if the most significant bit is set, it would result in an effective address below reg1, which is definitely not what we would expect from adding an unsigned integer.

But in this case, 64-bit addressing is being used, and the value of reg2 is a 32-bit integer which has been specifically zero-extended. We can make the assumption that [reg1 + reg2 + disp] can never result in an effective address below reg1 (assuming positive disp).

If you take the signed version, and replace the lines

movsxd rdi, edi
movsxd rcx, esi

with

movzx rdi, edi
movzx rcx, esi

I believe you will have something functionally equivalent to the unsigned version.

Of course, this same optimization could not apply if we were using uint64, but it could in the case of int64.

Either way, buggy code with no bounds checking is not a reliable method of determining what optimizations can be done in production.
this isn't just code for interacting with HN, but code included in the source code for a prog lang (factor)
I may be wrong but I am curious to know whether there is any correlation between spicy cuisine and a hot climate? There are some counter-examples ( e.g., certain northern Chinese cuisines are spicier than Cantonese) but typically spicier cuisines are associated with tropical countries.
I agree. Good old 2D would be perfect.
But why would you want your grade history to be public so that anybody can read it? And adjusting grades is a valuable feature, given that some teachers do really make legitimate grading mistakes that should be corrected.
Or maybe just poll for new input devices when the game is paused, or before the game starts.
Yeah, like he clearly said for the vaccinated
Show HN: Docker Makefiles for Ease and Convenience
The only way that you can solve it is on an individual level unless you are in a position of power. You have far less agency over the systemic issues than you have over your individual choices.
Thanks for the XSS Jo mama !
Can a real estate commission and friendship mix?
If only the American president at the time had been more responsible and less inflammatory it would have resulted in a lot less reflexive aggression - asian people beaten in the street included.

The CCP is not very responsible if they know and hide it or if they don't and refuse to look, but to their defense, it's also because it will be used and reused to their detriment (possibly deserved) if proven. Having a sound diplomatic strategy would have maybe helped convince them otherwise, but it was apparently more interesting to ALSO play down the virus in the U.S. for whatever reason and make absolutely clear that China would pay a dear price for it. So hard to blame China :s
Probably both at first. There are valid use cases where we could use a decentralized web (email, photo sharing, social networking) but there are a lot of issues that need to be worked out. And of course the incumbents will resist...governments will want to control it, companies won't want to lose their control.
Building codes are mostly at city/local level. We have to get this changed for every city. I am hoping once we get a few cities to adopt this, it will be easier to get other cities to adopt.

There are no federal/state building codes. There is a central authority (ICC), all cities start with ICC code and make modifications. We can also work with ICC, but the adoption cadence will be slow. ICC updates building codes yearly, but cities do not make yearly changes and every city does this differently.

We can with cities directly. Most city govts would be easier to approach and work with (we pay property taxes and live in the area!). We also have to work with ICC, its an international standard, we can think of all countries and not just US.
Thanks, going to review now
I know someone who claims to be a visual learner because he prefers video tutorials. But I say to him: no, I like pictures too, but what I can’t stand about videos is the person talking. I want to be able to scan things at my own (varying) pace, my mind wanders when listening to a single voice talk about something. I struggled with university lectures because of this. But I’ve learnt a lot from podcasts and have been an avid listener since ~2005 but only for ones where it’s a conversation between at least 2 people. I’ve tried and failed audiobooks due to it just being a single narration.
Why are bodybuilders using Synthol?
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Biggest jet engines ever made, at tree top level, running @ TOGA power.
Yeah, that woke up the neighbors.

Too bad this was at night. Would have been some wild Nest cam footage during the day.
...and now imagine how likely "all circuits are busy" would be in a network were half of the infrastructure was freshly nuked. A dedicated button for "give me a line, I'm the president!" doesn't seem that far fetched anymore. Who knows, if they spend enough time pondering communications availability in such dire circumstances someone might invent an internet!
Right, and none of what you mentioned is digital nor programmable. At least not to the user.
I'd like to use those scripts. Would you please share?
The default human condition is to be slightly bored much of the day. This is true now, this was true in hunter-gatherer societies.

These kind of traps are addictive to even otherwise happy and well-connected people; there are basically no subcultures on earth that has produced individuals who voluntarily abstain from social media (only cultures where such technology is banned entirely, like the Amish).
My attention has collapsed in recent times, but it's not because of mobiles. It's because I have three young kids. You literally have to keep your eye on them at all times so you stop them killing themselves.

Also, going from 8 hrs of sleep a night + 1 hr of intensive sport a day to 4-5 hrs of sleep a night and 1 hr of sport a year is an absolute mind killer.

When I was younger I could never imagine going into management, as I'm "not a multitasker". Turns out all I needed to do was to never focus on anything for more than 1 minute..
Fair enough, I wasn't sure about how much Japanese enjoyed chilies, in my limited experience (we have tons of sushi, ramen and Izakaya style joints here but relatively few Japanese people) Japanese food seems much milder than most other Asian cuisines.
And take every precaution possible against ticks. Untreated Lyme is debilitating.
> web0 = decentralisation

It’s already the thing, and it’s called Web 1.0. Oh, wait a second. This manifesto is from the same guy who basically stole the idea of indie web, called it “small web”, created poorly designed JS framework for it and made a website with big “please donate” button. Yep, seems legit.
Good stuff, really. I like the analogy between sugar, fat, salt and information, though infotainment may be a better term for the stuff we are addicted to.
Aren't vitamin deficits are basically a sign of malnutrition (with the exception of vitamins that the body creates itself, like vit. D)? What diet were you on before getting diagnosed?
The leading cause of toxic algae blooms like this is nutrient runoff.

The leading cause of nutrient runoff is over-fertilization of industrialized farmland.

I've never heard of climate change associated with these until now, but I've only worked tangentially with these phenomenon, and am not an expert.
And the problem is centralization, which facilitates censorship and totalitarian control.

That nobody cares does not imply that it doesn't matter.

I don't want to bash China specifically, it just happens to be the first example that comes to my mind. So for example nobody cares that millions of Uyghurs are being enslaved in China, but that does not imply that it is not important. (Or take the example of Assange I mentioned - nobody cares that the UK locked him away without good cause).

Also most people don't really care about economics or how money or the stock market works. They just find themselves suddenly with a devalued currency or out of a job.
I'm surprised that Chronic Wasting Disease (a prion disease similar to CJD or BSE but found in wild and farmed deer, moose etc) isn't mentioned. A quick search however brings up this article linking prion disease, sewage sludge pollution and these cases.

https://www.cp24.com/news/ask-questions-but-don-t-panic-abou...
The entire way the old media reports on the new media is unironical scaremongering about how the internet is hacking the fear response of your amygdala. They should instead be positive and publish articles like "Here are 10 youtube channels that go into more depth that the master program of any university".
The holidays are difficult for some but there are ways to give comfort to someone, or even to comfort yourself when feeling down.
Especially in Northern Ireland, “haych” tends to be used by those from Catholic communities, and “aych” by those from Protestant communities.
I specifically wanted to avoid the LUA support. As soon as we get there I'd rather go with Ruby and Rakefiles.
This 100%. Consuming media is an escape from reality, an escape from right now.
I would say that your attention has improved rather than collapsed, it is now again focused on the real world around you instead of on a virtual window into a world that isn't really there.
I think they're assuming only one functional moon base at a time, that is to say, whoever has the moon trebuchet isn't subject to MAD.

Not sure I buy it, but if it were taken seriously it could certainly light a fire under the collective keisters of the world's superpowers.
There have been no documented case of contagion from contaminated surfaces. This is the hard science, fogging based on what if is not, it is theater indeed.
I have no issue with the lack of unsigned - that's ok. It's a trivial workaround, as it's rare enough. However the lack of 64bit indices over memory mapped files blows indeed, with no easy (performant) replacement. It's doable but it'd require a shim over an array of ByteBuffer with the double indirection and pretty much inability for the JIT to optimize away all the bound checks.
Science does not in general parallelize like that.
<3 to Simon Hradecky for all his hard work over the years.
Such a great AV safety resource.
General American (or at least my version of it) replaces the t in butter with an alveolar tap.
I assume that when people say alive related to viruses in the environment, they mean viable
Building and packaging desktop apps is a huge pain, and a maintenance nightmare.

Ask anyone who does it. Fixpack releases, bug fixes, packaging and dependency management over N operating systems... it's a special he'll.
Now, do it in the browser and you can update the page without notifying anyone, making a formal release or jumping thru many flaming hoops
Reminds me of this one: Say “beer can” with a British accent. You just said “bacon” in a Jamaican accent.
Though, in idiomatic Rust I did not find the use of unsigned as mentioned in the article, signed for indexes is the norm.
> the capn proto tool page doesn't seem to document how the text format works (or at least I couldn't find any examples). It looks more like a diagnostic tool, not a first-class citizen.

Cap'n Proto's text format works pretty much exactly like Protobuf's. You can use it in all the same ways.
You also get people with rental cars who just aren't familiar with the area at all. One would think that people would have the sense not to try to drive the Sierras on a back road in the winter--much less a major snowstorm. But if you live in the Southeast US, maybe not.

See also Death Valley Germans. https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu... (And that wasn't even GPS-related.)

I do sense though that people who grew up with GPS are more likely to follow it blindly and not do any other sort of route planning than people who are older. And I confess that I'm much less religious about carrying maps around than I used to be.
Decentralization itself is what gets you availability, not the blockchain structure. A consensus algorithm is what gets you consistency, not a blockchain structure. There's no need to store your data in the most wasteful way to store data and perform compute to get these features.

And "zero trust" is a myth. We can see that from the $7.7 BILLION in fraud that has been committed in crypto markets in just the last year. https://www.zdnet.com/article/scammers-grabbed-7-7-billion-w...
Sure. And then, at the end of every youtube video a whole slew of totally unrelated trashy videos that are perfectly produced to produce maximum engagement and eye candy will hijack your attention and steal another 3 hours before you even notice that they're gone because of the in-your-face nature of the recommendations.

Wouldn't it be great if all youtube did was just store and replay videos? But it doesn't, it's an engagement and advertising dollars slot machine.
or target your sattelite-laser on it, no atmosphere to make it useless on the moon...
Interesting what happens when doctors no longer work for you, but can only work for the government monopoly.
Plenty of games were made using plain C and even Assembler.

What is really needed are not objects in a OOP sense, but a way to make a mutable, composite data type. Else you would have to pass tens of arguments to even simplest of functions.
The best place to learn this is

:help Lua
Many of the natural areas in Florida are maintained with the use glyphosate. Assumption now is pollution is everywhere.
I completely agree with you, but the dotcom ideas you used as examples were ironically great ideas.

Grocery delivery is the future (or at least a huge, lucrative chunk of it) and a lot of people do buy pet products online and sometimes even in a subscription model. Chewy.com is a huge business.
May I suggest you look into grype[0], or some other similar tool? It can be used to scan images for vulnerabilities. You'll probably find a bunch of vulnerabilities that aren't likely to actually affect you, but still, at least you'll know they're in the images you're running. And maybe you'll start using things like docker-slim[1] on your own images to get rid of those vulnerabilities you do find.

[0]: https://github.com/anchore/grype

[1]: https://github.com/docker-slim/docker-slim
Anyone else remember their local phone company charging than extra $10/month for the privilege of using DF? This is why my family stuck to pulse dialing for a long time.
I don't think that the context of that fragment really applies here.
As far as I know blockchain/crypto/... projects are not structured in a graph-like way like our much loved web.

So web3 is more tree0
Yes, two years after the fact.

It’s like saying, after Snowden released his trove of documents, what government secret data collection? look, here’s what Snowden showed us, it’s not secret!

We need open discussion at all times not only after we “get permission”.

When we had the ricin incident in the 2000s people openly discussed the possibility of a lab insider being the source any it wasn’t censored by the media.
Still living 3 years longer then the Americans.
I recently built an interactive visualisation [1] to explore dependent probabilities in terms of area and side length of rectangles.

[1]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/stochastic/
This is very sketchy.
The guy came in with an agenda.
He wrote the book first, then raised money to do the research to prove his hypothesis and finally failed to do so.
Now apparently they're shutting down and we are non the wiser.

All these studies can be explained by the long known effect that changing diets makes you use more energy temporarily.
There might also be some truth to the old story that reducing your calories is easier when eating salad and chicken than when eating cake and ice cream.

How disappointing.
As a rule of thumb, former British colonies like India, Australia and Singapore tend to favo(u)r British spellings, while other countries tend to go with American spellings.
The actual SDL fix was even simpler, they now just check if the mtime of the /dev/input directory changed:
https://github.com/spurious/SDL-mirror/commit/59728f9802c786...
I don't get that one. Cars are mostly fine if they don't pollute. They'd just be large bicycles. Why do you think the concept of automated personal transport is "the problem" ?

I think for instance we can't possibly build enough railway and bus network to serve every inch of the territory and it's simply to allow fast speed individual transport to distribute the load. It can be even automated with no pilot control, but it's impossible to schedule-base every location in a city without displacing people, rebuilding cities entirely around specific common transport etc. In Europe and Asia, where we build a lot of cities organically, it seems silly. In the US, where cars are even MORE prevalent to the point cities are built for them rather than humans, it will never disappear.
Recently my son (8) was talking about how cool his uncles vr headset is and made the leap to what if that was in your brain! I was impressed he made that connection. Then I reminded him how all the games on his iPad forced him to watch ads, wouldn’t that be a similar situation, only in his brain? His eyes got wide then he got a disgusted look on his face. He agreed that would suck.

I personally think there have always been distractions, maybe what’s different now is how some people get positive validation from their social media interactions, certainly an author would. A lot of people don’t though.
Wonderful article, I knew some of this but learned a lot more.
There's a correlation for sure, chilies also only grow in relatively warm weather, but the fact they spread so far in the first place is testamount to their appeal.

They're so popular in so many countries that people forget they originated only in the new world...
Where could one learn more about the Entity Component system as described in the article? Is it as simple as an object contains an array of components?
It was more your phrasing reminded me of that quote. Agreed it’s not really relevant, other than as yet more distraction.
> Tell me how to solve decentralized consensus without having a blockchain, and I'll be the first to drop all my work with it.

I doubt you will, but you asked, so: byzantine Paxos.

The point of the person you are responding to is that solving decentralized consensus is only an academic exercise. If your country wants to prevent your from participating in an economy, it can; the only recourse is political.
Don't vape then. If someone in public is vaping near you, walk away.
I don't know it but I don't have to. I don't have to prove a negative. It's on you to show that it is harmful, otherwise it isn't.