skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've read and heard that for a non-emergency appointments, the wait could sometimes be months. Is that also overstated?

Depends on where you are. I lived in the UK until last August and am now in the US. When I lived in London and Oxford I found the wait times to be very quick - in Oxford I could get non-emergency appointments the same day, possibly due to the high number of GPs and University hospitals. In London it was same week for everything I ever had an issue with. I believe in the less well-off areas, especially in the North of the country, there are areas with far lower staff numbers so the waiting time inflates. Worst-case scenarios in worst-case areas do have multiple-month waiting times nowadays.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-world-1-in-daily-covid-...
Good point from a global view. I'd like to see a little more international cooperation, leading towards a global standard, but we have many hurdles between here and there, especially involving trust between nations.
I moved to Europe from the Midwest near the beginning of my career (20 years ago).

It's very difficult to compare things like housing, social life and salary without knowing where you're coming from and where you're considering going. Countries in Europe have GDPs per capita ranging from under $5,000/year to over $100,000/year.

Really one of the few things you can say context-free is: you'll have more vacation in virtually any European country.

It's also very likely the healthcare, social systems (unemployment, day-care, etc.) and public transit will be saner. But again, you're comparing two very large, diverse places, and it's hard to reason about them in such generalities.
> The Topics API works by having your browser (Chrome) ... determine topics that “represent your top interests for that week based on your browsing history.” Chrome will “leverage a classifier model to map site hostnames to topics."For each week, the user’s top 5 topics are calculated using browsing information local to the browser ...

So Google now wants to create and run browser crawlers directly on our machines to create individual browsing profiles, and share this with Google and other "advertising" platforms "anonymously". That's not invasive at all. /s
must be the second order effects of said trauma
Seriously considered moving to London around Oct 2019 (WeWork Waterloo). But am glad I stayed US based. Still maintain contact with many US ex-pats in UK & EU. Very few of them have cut all ties to their native homeland. And if you ask them to be honest, they will admit to making "emergency runs" back to the states several times a year for everything from pharmaceuticals to tacos to extramarital affairs. Europe is civilized. America is a wilderness. That is sort of the common consensus. But I personally enjoy being in pristine Nature. It's a blank canvas on which to build a New World ;)
Possibly, but the implication here is that you aren't specifically exercising - you're just being more active as a byproduct of being in a different environment. The impetus to "reward" yourself for that behavior would seem to be lower.

On days that I go to an office, I don't (consciously) base my lunch decisions on whether I walked, took the train, or used a car service that morning, know what I mean?
Another technique is to transpose the left matrix so each dot product is scanned in row-order and hence more cache friendly.

Another one I tried ages ago is to use a single loop counter and "de-interleave" the bits to get what would normally be 3 distinct loop variables. For this you need to modify the entry in the result matrix rather than having it write-only. It has the effect of accessing like a z-order curve but in 3 dimensions. It's a bit of overhead, but you can also unroll say 8 iterations (2x2x2) which helps make up for it. This ends up making good use of both caches and even virtual memory if things don't fit in RAM. OTOH it tends to prefer sizes that are a power of 2.
Elbrus are not SPARC. They are developed by Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies(MCST) though, that's where your confusion comes from(and there were few SPARC machines under Elbrus brand, but that was a long time ago). They were basically design team for hire in the 90s and were named such to attract customers. Then Intel wanted to acquire them in mid-2000s, but ended up just hiring almost everyone and leaving company as an empty shell. Now they are doing their own ISA and it's very different from SPARC. For starters, they are the only ones who are doing VLIW in CPUs nowadays(outside of CPUs I can think of only one other company, Groq).
The unemployment rate, by definition, wouldn't capture people who are quitting the labor force entirely.
Foobar2000 has a special place in my heart. Back on an old 486 120MHz machine, WinAmp was too heavyweight to play MP3 files smoothly, but Foobar2000 had no issues.
> Why comment a code that's mapped to problem trivially observably

"trivially observable" is not a defined measurement however. What a piece of my code does may be perfectly obvious to me, but mystifying to someone else, or even to myself in 4 months. I am not advocating for half a page of comments before each top level definition, or trivial comments like `// this requests data from server` , but a single line of comments above each function or typedef isn't too much to ask.

> If some bug is encountered with new code, you can comment-out new code and uncomment-out old code quickly

I can also check out the commit where it was last changed, stash the info, and apply it to my dev branch. Same functionality, and less cruft in the code.
Yes Mac is a BSD but isn’t FreeBSD as it was forked two decades ago and has a completely different architecture. You wouldn’t say Dragonfly is FreeBSD, why would MacOS be?
I built something very similar for using DynamoDB as a VFS backing store for sqlite: https://github.com/psanford/donutdb
Designing a CPU is easy. Very easy, any grad student can do it. So why is Arm worth so much ?

Because it's only part of the problem. If Arm is so successful, it's (IMHO) because of software. Sure, they have world-class CPU designers. But in order to launch a new CPU, you need a full software ecosystem, as RISC V startups are discovering.

One other advantage of Arm is that it has strong anti-fragmentation measures in place. With enough money you can design your own cores, but in order to deviate from standard Arm architecture, you need Arm's signoff. This serves the first advantage: it keeps the software ecosystem value intact.
> You won't be buying million-dollar mansions on a European programmers salary

You won't be buying any decent apartment/house unless you move outside of city, buy a car and let go of all the benefits that comes with living in a European city.
>unless some magical productivity innovation or goods/services advance emerges

But there has been the development and deployment of a major productivity innovation over the last two years. It's called Zoom. Or WebEx/Teams/Meet/etc. And while it doesn't work for everybody, the fact that tens of millions of people suddenly have experience working and running their business remotely means that if it does work for someone, their efficiency goes up.
I like and use Winamp more (mostly out of inertia and the UI), but I'll reach for Foobar2000 when I need to tag or convert a lot of files.
US military in Europe declined for 30 years; crisis in Ukraine may reverse trend
I think this depends a lot on the culture. I've found (in Barcelona) that it was hard to integrate initially due to language barriers and lack of an existing local network to bootstrap from, but over time those issues have disappeared. 6 years in now, my social circle here is far larger and more diverse than my network in London where I was before.

You do need to somehow actively engage yourself with the community though to make this work. Strongly recommend working from a coworking as much as possible. It forces you to frequently meet new people, gives you day-to-day language practice, and really helps to build a network of small connections that eventually power your social life long-term.
I moved to UK from Europe and I wouldn’t really say NHS is convenient. It is universal healthcare and you are not facing a bankruptcy most of the time in case of a health condition. Preventative and diagnosis treatments are so slow. In case I need to see a GP, i must try reaching them at 8ish in the morning otherwise they will simply ignore you and tell, call tomorrow.
> Making it easier will result in even worse systems than YouTube's insane extralegal "copystrike" process which enables such abuses as police playing copyrighted songs to prevent people from sharing videos of them.

No, it'll make it easier for watchdogs to fight bullshit like this. A poorly rendered version of "Shake it Off" that just so happens to be played in the background of some police brutality is fair use - but guess where you have to go to claim fair use as a defense?

> If we keep going like this we'll rewind about 100 years to the status quo before the invention of computers. We'll have them but they'll be restricted to the point they're equivalent to old mass media. Their potential squandered in the name of keeping old industries alive. Everything the internet was meant to be, destroyed due to the surveillance and control necessary to enforce copyright.

People have been saying this for twenty years, and computers now have only become more capable. It was an exaggeration then and it's an exaggeration now.
Would you please give a link to how do make my phone gogle-free. thank you.
I moved from NYC to Berlin about a decade ago, in my mid 20s. I'm never going back and I'm glad I made this call back then. I would say the older you are the harder it is to adjust. I had a blast, while people I know who moved in their 30s have it much tougher.

I miss America's food and diversity and dynamism. It took being here to learn that those things are real. I also miss true deep wilderness, something much rarer in Western Europe.

What have I gained? A saner, simpler, more human-scale life. Pleasure. Security. Not having to hustle. Most of the misery I see in my friends and family in the US has material causes that barely exist here. Especially everything having to do with young children.
> We should have never allowed them

What does this mean?
As noted elsewhere: um, yeah, all the data is available, for free.

But in regards to the James Webb: I don’t think you’re going to find the raw images to be particularly compelling. It is imaging in the infrared spectrum. So it’s going to require a fair bit of processing to get a reasonable monochrome image out of that data.
IF you're looking to get into cardio I would recommend:

- Treadmill on an Incline of 11 and then depending on your level of comfort, put the walking speed to 3 and do quick sprints for 30seconds or longer. Rest and repeat. This is something that keeps me entertained and also is really tough, I will try to do this for 15 minutes.

Since you are focused on lowering your resting heart rate, I would look into Heart Rate Training, where your focus is to keep your heart rate below a threshold and as you continue running you will be able to run faster below that threshold. This also helps with Preventing Injuries which has always happened when I tried to rush my progress: https://marathonhandbook.com/heart-rate-training-zones-for-r...

One of the things that has really helped me lately has been a proper warmup before working out. Sitting all day makes my hips and glutes super tight, so unlocking them has really helped with injury prevention as well.

- Stair climbers are my next go to for a hard but great workout.
- Ellipticals are also easy on the knees but are a little boring for me.
> Also the quality of the NHS is pretty bad. The NHS being great is the usual state backed propaganda you can hear in a lot of other European countries.

Not really. The NHS itself and the various NHS trusts have been continuously drained of funding over the past few decades. The NHS runs on a shoestring.

If you want things to improve, Tory cuts need to be rolled back.
It wouldn't be so bad if we outsourced to countries that are ideologically compatible with the West. The problem is China. Not outsourcing itself.
Hey there French/American here I’ve moved from nyc to puerto Rico and in the past two years I’ve been in Estonia. AMA
Nowhere near 10-15% of people are quitting to stay home.
hacker news is the perfect place to come to if you're thinking "is NextCloud the best solution here? Are there others?" because people will tell you.

But looking at these comments, it seems as though NextCloud is, far and away, the preferred choice.
The wait for non emergency treatment on the NHS can certainly be long, and COVID has made that worse. But if you're a software developer you can afford to buy or be provided decent private cover to buy your way round the queue - and since the NHS is there to cover all the difficult cases, the private insurance is much cheaper and far less likely to engage in scammy billing.
Mark Cuban launches online pharmacy aimed at lowering generic drug prices
Has Apple had any USB chargers prior to the USB C ones on recent macs? I think in the past it was all magsafe on macs and lightning or the 30 pin thing on iPhones.
Private health insurance is a bit of a scam for anything serious in the UK though - they don't have the ability to do anything out of the ordinary or complex and send you to the NHS hospitals when they are out of their depth.
Thats a pity, is that due to the architecture of sharing a V8 runtime with other customers workers? How is this different from V8 in Chrome and shared buffers?
`A southern man don't need him 'round anyhow`
I recall seeing a full-sized mockup of the James Webb at the South by Southwest about ten years ago. It was accompanied by a small traveling exhibit about the mission and some folks from a NASA (or Northrup?) education team to answer questions. They had been taking it to cities and museums across the country.

Not sure where it is now or if there are multiple full-sized mockups, but I wouldn't be surprised if one ends up in the public collection at Udvar-Hazy Smithsonian Annex where many big NASA toys end up.
So I recently watched a video on this. Black tea is fermented green tea, Europeans did not know this before getting that knowledge through a spy. Europeans "stole" everything regarding the production of tea, and poached a few Chinese tea masters along with it.
I think you’re getting a bit too caught up with wether it’s possible to walk to the grocery store for most Americans.

I think you can agree that in most places, if you are walking to get groceries, you are either living in a well to do area, or you are forced to because you can’t afford a car, and it isn’t a pleasant experience.
That is very concerning. I'd still follow Hanlon's Razor: Never Attribute to Malice That Which is Adequately Explained by Stupidity. The Mayo Clinic has less excuse but the health care folks not entering your MIL's data I can definitely semi-understand based on what the emergency rooms looked like at that time. Still not acceptable to not get it right after you repeatedly reminded them though!

I kind of disagree that "Any answer will only undermine that goal" because giving both the bad news of side effects with the good news of the efficacy of the vaccine strengthens trust in science and the people doing this research. But I see your point because the average person WILL probably say "I'll take my chances with covid because I (or my kids) will be fine" vs. 1 .001% chance of heart damage.

I appreciate the dialog about this and thanks for giving your story.
I've tried some games on Steam like Crying Suns or Bad North. There's something that makes them feel so mechanical. Sure, they might have great, stylized graphics and nice dialogue in places. But it feels like somebody took Star Control 2 or some other earlier games, simplified some aspect to a formula and then someone took the formula and made a game based on that, not having played the original.

For example, in Crying Suns there are three kind of fighters you can deploy. A kills B, B kills C, C kills A. Does everything always boil down into this? It's just not fun. It's a lazy gaming trope.

In Bad North, every map is procedurally generated. It just gets old after the first few ones.
It is a time tested political tool to capture power by redefining the narrative. It's very effective as is the other strategy of manufacturing crises like the teaching of critical race theory in K-12 school or having to wear masks in schools.
For me it was most important to get books in my field in german, read them slowly and learn all the buzzterms and experssion. Some books you can read without really understanding them, e.g. some best selling paper back without any weight too it. I haven't worked in Germany but it's a perfect country to learn by reading books
The downside is, Berlin is not really integrated into Germany.
I'm your body double (5'10", wear 30/30 pants). I run (1:46 HM) and I lift (1.5x bw bench, 2x bw squat). My RHR is low 50s.

I'm currently 180lbs and trying to put on more muscle mass. I'm still pretty lean, with ab veins and shoulder striations.

I've only ever been out of the overweight category (<174) once in my life. I felt sapped of energy and looked gaunt, with veins popping everywhere.

That is a super interesting observation about inseam length mattering. I had never considered that and I have always looked with amazement at people my height who seem muscular yet weigh in the 150s. I always thought I was doing something wrong.
Knew it was a serpentza link before I clicked on it. You can make your own conclusions but I don't really see him as anything more than a clickbaiter. He lives in the US now and has said that the US is the only society without true racism, if you want to get a sense of his biases.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Expatshame/comments/nlxlxs/serpentz...
> at least they're not on the brink of civil war here

I realized that this answer might be pretty biased after reading this inaccurate statement
Website is returning an error. Here's a web archive link

https://web.archive.org/web/20220125124520/https://www.rmcyb...
I'm curious too, but haven't looked into it. There's this:

https://codereview.chromium.org/2914913002/

And I do know that in general, Chrome is perceived as a resource hog on the Mac, at the expense of great performance. I'm guessing it hasn't been made easy.
Their comment was incredibly mild, and also accurate. Ironic that you're trying to convince people that Europeans are humble and kind.
When you have a fixed mindset, have chosen a side in a debate, and actively participate in a story where you have a vested self-interest, you cease to become what this community loves about you -- the impartial gardener of HN. At this point, you've become a YC defender and have abandoned your post as someone who could serve as a balanced arbiter. Surely, there are other people at YC who could comment on such matters for stories like this. That would be far, far better for you and HN (and probably YC too).
I recently tried searching for the name of my main open source package on Google Scholar and was delighted to find it had been referenced by a few papers! I recommend doing that with your own projects, you never know what you might find.
Vienna is one of the nicest and wealthiest cities in Europe.

LA is a car-centric sprawling cesspool. Even for the US, it’s uniquely terrible.

If you’d moved to some of the less desirable locations in Europe, you’d probably find them to be a shithole, too.

Your lack of perspective (“how much of a shithole the USA really is”) is something I’d only expect from someone half your age on their first backpacking tour of Europe.
anacron has
@roboot, I use it in my cron.d/

It will also run things that were scheduled to run when the server was turned off.
> having a car is much easier and more convenient.

Ah, I see you didn’t live in Germany.
This is actually a really good problem. How to keep secrets in javascript from browser clients? Most simply don't bother and store every thing server side. But for games like wordle, if you wanted it to be pro level multiplayer competitive, you'd need some punk-busting tech in there ;)
> 3 million requests a month with absolutely no issues and seriously low CPU load

That's just under 1 request per second, so I can't say I'm surprised. Even if traffic is spiky that would leave you with a lot of headroom!
> For how far north everything is, Europe is positively _balmy_!

Thanks to the Gulf Stream. One potential risk of climate change is that if the circulation patterns are disrupted, our nice supply of warm water from the Atlantic might cease and it would actually get locally colder.
> the charges were dropped on the basis of legal technicality

Charges can only exist on the basis of legal technicality. That’s how law works.

What you are describing is guilt by association with China. It is not illegal to work to promote scientific collaboration with China. It is not illegal to participate in advancing Chinese scientific interests. Some people might consider these things immoral. Some people might not.

Clearly the prosecutor felt as you do, that because Dr Chen’s work involved advancing Chinese scientific interests, he must be some kind of spy or traitor. If you remove the preconception of guilt by association with China, you might realize it’s possible to want to do science, even science funded by a foreign country and advancing that countries interests, and not automatically be some kind of traitor or spy.
VSCode is basically the poster child for electron apps. But yes, it's still pretty heavy. If you have a lot of projects open it gets heavier.

It is well optimized for what it is though, so the tradeoff of performance for functionality generally isn't a question.
Cool idea, I started following your Twitter account.
Except that's a totally different scenario, where the different parties have different interests and thus don't agree on whether to keep the fence, not one where we don't know why the fence exists.
Wow, high roller. Talk about vain. I wasn't talking about money.
In fact, it is the plot of a horror film:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Days_Later
That doesn't feel like a reasonable response... How's anormal person supposed to know what DMZ subnet would means?
Like most drugs, finding and sticking to the right dose is made more difficult by ever-increasing tolerance.

I'm not saying there's no way around the insomnia problem with proper planning and self-control, but for me the easiest solution was just stop taking it.
What's the antidote? There can be new names for anything, but it's hard to get them to stick.
Good luck with apartment search!