skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have personal experience with fully private heathcare systems in other countries? I ask because reacting to criticism of your system with whataboutism concerning the US is not rational, that's a fallacious argument.

As for the US I'm not an expert but my gut feeling is that people compare apples to oranges just like with most of these international comparisons. Cost of living is much higher in the US first of all. Things are simply more expensive in general and American salaries are a lot higher for anyone moderately educated. No one I know who's moved to the US has any problems with insurance, they can simply afford it.

Now if you compare a government sponsored system in Germany with private insurance in the US, of course the former will be cheaper (be careful though, some of the real cost is hidden). But like mentioned you also get completely different treatment. Cost in the US could likely be cut by making the service worse. If you want to pay even less, have you looked at the Chinese system? Germans are massively overpaying in comparison to the PRC and it's ruining the middle class. /s Gotta sinophy your healthcare with 10 Yuan TCM pills for cancer treatments. Because cheap is apparently the goal when it comes to healthcare.

Btw, here's the kicker if you want to discuss price: With the top notch treatment you get in private South African clinics, people still pay less for their private insurance over there than the government mandated low quality one in Germany. I know because I've used both.
No one says that owners are not entitled to a piece of the revenue, obviously they are, and doubly so when they are also doing their own work for the company.

My point was that owners currently get a disproportionately large piece, and that the gap between what owners get vs what workers get has been widening with time. And not only is it widening, but it is doing so while the relative contributions to the business' success are often narrowing (give the huge increases in worker productivity in most domains).
One shock if you go back and forth between Javascript and, say, Java, is adjusting your library evaluation criteria.

It's not weird for a Java project to include a library that hasn't had any updates in 4+ years. Sometimes those sorts of libraries are even considered the standard for whatever thing they do.

Meanwhile in JS you have to assume a library with no releases in the last 6 months has already bitrotted to death.
Is that first sentence sarcastic? Anyway, these tax proposals are usually accompanied by an evenly distributed dividend that makes them revenue neutral. The net effect is that people who live close to work, don't fly, don't eat lots of produce from the other hemisphere, etc should be net gainers, and everyone else will pay more. In most categories, the rich will probably end up paying more on average, since they consume more.
Out of curiosity for someone who is Canadian, what’s the assumed pull? Historically it would be income and career opportunities, but the tide has turned on that quite significantly in the last 5-10 years. Outside of that, it’s safe, clean, people are friendly, there are nice things. With a middle of the road tech salary the price of internet is a non concern.

That said, Canadian politics and crony capitalism are a grind sometimes, but looking over the fence it’s not totally obvious that other systems aren’t trading one set of intractable problems for another.
To be clear, Ubuntu 22.04's Firefox is snap Firefox, with horrible performance, so systemd decision to end its misery could be justified.
Never said I trusted Proton, Fastmail, governments, lawyers, or coders. I queried whether open source code partly mitigates the questions raised by the OP. There’s a weird political undercurrent to your response that doesn’t quite match my comment.

There is some degree of trust involved in almost all online activities. Unless you’re personally in charge of this particular forum, you’re also trusting a specific authority. And even if you are the owner, you’re still relying on a number of protocols whose code I doubt you’ve personally audited.
I hope so, but I also heard enough reasons to not expect this. Many countries are still projecting population increases well until 2030 (sometimes even 2050?). The Netherlands predicts population will continue to rise well until 2070, despite fertility rate fluctuating between 1.5 and 1.7 for five decades now. It's pretty similar to Japan, and Japan has only just started decreasing in population.

There's also the cautionary tale of "there is enough housing, just not enough affordable housing", as well as VCs convincing governments to tear down homes in favor of other things, further reducing the number of homes.

Then again, there's the darker perspective that lack of medical staff / medicine will significantly lower the lifespan of several generations.
I went through something similar over decades with my migraines. "I don't believe you're in pain. Men don't get migraines." I heard, far too often.

This is not medical advice, but just what I would do in a similar situation.

I'd go in knowing I'm going to have to keep at this constantly until I'm on a treatment regimen that handled it well, for starters.

I can usually have mixed results speeding things up saying I'm ready to pay right now with a card for whatever medication/test. If someone's unavailable for scheduling then call around to every other place. Call out of the area if needed. Like you would call around for a dentist if you needed a root canal or crown asap.

Edit-Oh, also, the best time to call providers is 7-8 am on Monday or when ever they first open on their first day of the week. The worst time is anytime else, with within an hour of closing being a far maybe. But be persistent regardless, and especially if start of business Monday is too far away.

For back pain I'll try to outline some options for relief in the meantime:

-Try this shortly (20 minutes) and see whether it feels better/worse: Get something that does "far infrared" heat and try it on your neck/spine. You want to be careful to not overdo it on the heat though so use a towel between you and the heat and look for redness. Redness should be avoided. A low-cost/immediate way to try out far infrared are the instant hot packs sold at corner stores like Walgreens/CVS. Try to get the ones that are made with iron. They're basically a slow exothermic reaction that can last 8 hours+.

-Cold might work if hot doesn't.

-Lidocaine patches ("salonpass"/"icyhot") might help, too. Again, try temporarily (10-20 minutes) and see how you react to it. There are even sprays or gels (think, for sunburn) that can help locally fend off pain a little.

-A TENS unit has helped with muscle spasm pain for me before, too, but I had to leave it on the area for about an hour. Edit-look at some anatomy pictures for what muscles to target.

-A physical therapist might actually be able to help you. Look for good ones that are obviously kept up to date on things. I had one mixing ultra sound and TENS on my back and it helped immensely. The TENS made it so I could feel the ultrasound vibrations. You want to go to them to make sure you're doing stretches with proper form. X-Rays and such will help them know what to target.

Good luck, chronic pain in America is both common and not always treated equally.
I know how javascript works, I was writing javascript before JQuery was a thing.

The problem is, there's no ecosystem around plain javascript anymore. You either write everything yourself or, as OP discovered, have to work with NPM packages.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520573
Agreed on everything here, but I’d draw a distinction on automatic updates being the problem vs. selective or ephemeral updates.

Even if updates are opt-in, 99.9% of users are just going to click through and update. They’re not going to look at the diffs first.

The real problem is when an update can be targeted at a specific user and not leave a trace elsewhere. This removes the deterrent of potential public discovery, shaming, and loss of trust, which in practice is the best defense we have.

If you use a desktop client with signed updates that come from a ‘logicless’ third party CDN like S3 or Github, you can at least be sure that any update you download will also be downloaded by many other users, which greatly increases the risk of discovery for an insider who wants to snoop on your messages.
Do you mean extremist in some general sense or just the usual hardline FSF free software stance?
A lot of people can't afford the down payment to reduce the monthly payments. Plus the endless rumors of hedge funds buying up all the houses w cash to force renting, reduce supply.
No, I mean a fitness instructor. Or perhaps a "personal trainer". There are certain certifications that exist (And some people are both trainers and physical therapists).

In my (limited) experience, physical therapists tend to have much broader recommendations. Like a PT might tell you to walk an hour a day, but a trainer might recommend a specific kind of crunch that targets the actual muscles in question.

And to OP's point, PTs are very much ingrained in the US medical system and consuming their services can be a pain in itself.

But the guys who get professional athletes back on the field every week are for the most part just personal trainers with a master's level education in sports science. THOSE are the guys you want to help your back recover.
Yeah my medical info doesn't include nudes to my knowledge. It just says I have low cholesterol.
This a thousand times. The more nefarious hacks are done by state actors and professional groups.

For script kiddies, it's mostly for the lulz.
> I want to build a table, so I chomp a tree. You want to build a chair, and you chomp another tree. I want to build another table, so I must walk a longer distance to find a tree. If everyone cut trees, it will get harder to find one.

No coercion here. There is no force or threats of violence involved in these scenarios. Imposing a negative externality on someone is not necessarily coercion.

> Another person want to build a music instrument. He need some special kind of tree, with some specific size and age, so he want all of us to not cut that tree. Does he make a fence to protect the tree while it's growing? Does he hire a bodyguard for the tree?

That would likely be coercion. Unless he planted the tree, or acquired it by consensual means from its previous owner, he doesn't have any more right to the tree than anyone else. Although, I don't think it would be as bad as if he had taken the tree from someone who had already cut it down because in that case he would have deprived them of the product of the labour that went into cutting the tree down as well.
Work doesn't mean work correctly. And he also said that the warranty is void in such case. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1528879210500132866
Tool: https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj
I'm not satisfied at all, but I pay that (~$25) for 200Gb/s in Brazil.
The VRMs for the CPU have already been on the motherboard for a very long time, maybe always? CPUs operate at very low voltages with very high amps. For a lot of reasons, it makes sense to keep that as close to the processor as possible.
I expect motherboards could be more reliable if there was a standard 12v to 5v, 3.3v, 1.5v etc pluggable converter that they all used. It could cut down on E waste. Instead of having to discard an entire motherboard, the low voltage converter board could be swapped out and repaired/discarded. The same companies that make ATX power supplies could also make the discreet low voltage converters. ATX innards could be smaller, less wiring between components.

No that's silly, we should continue to use a design from 1995, itself replacing a design from 1981.
How to Fit into Startup Culture
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I mean VisualBasic for DOS. It was exactly what one would expect a VisualBasic to be - a visual draw-and-click RAD IDE for pseudographic windowed event-driven TUI apps. It apparently was rather exotic while QuickBasic/QBasic were very well known.
The Netherlands. There's some regulatory capture here, too, but uncapped fibre Internet and mobile plans are all reasonably-priced compared to Canada. (ok that's not saying much!)

On another note, fibre is head and shoulders better than cable for latency. I can type on my computer in OVH Montreal and it feels like it's under my desk!
Genuinely curious why the increasing money supply is not on this list.
Majority homeownership is a post-1950s thing in the US, corresponding with the beginning of the big drop in the fertility rate; the (temporary) late 1980s surge in homeownership corresponded to the start of the big drop in family formation; the recent drop is from an extremely short term spike and is still above where the late-1980s surge started.

While at any given time homeowners may be more likely than their age-peer contemporaries to start families, aggregate homeownership rates don't show any sign of being a positive contributor to family formation.
It depends on the tests. Urgent care centers can sometimes get you seen more quickly and do more tests on site. Scheduling the other tests at outpatient facilities that strictly do them (like Akumin) can have better prices and schedules.

None of this is a perfect solution though. It can take time to find the issue. Going to places with a high reputation for the area of the issue can get faster results.

Just recently I had an xray, blood work, and an ultrasound for unexplained swelling in my chest and armpit. They still don't know what it is and don't care to investigate farther. The only theory I have to go on is that it may be a medium/long term reaction to the Covid vaccine. I didn't even think of that until the ultrasound tech ask which side I got my shots on. Apparently short term swelling like this is normal enough that women are told not to get mammograms for some time (weeks) after receiving it. Additional research found this, which sounds very similar but in a different location.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35049235/

At least it's not cancer. Although I'm hesitant to truly believe that until a cause is found.
The vape that managed to get me off cigarettes was the Juul2, I'm still tempted by the real thing occasionally and Juul has its share of issues regarding cartridge disposal and advertising to kids. But the experience is significantly better then the other ones I tried over a 2-3 year period
Private healthcare in the UK would have many of the problems you identify with the NHS if it couldn't pass anything difficult to the NHS.
make a filter for mentions vs description - many creators are cross linking other videos for users to checkout which are coming up in results

Very useful website - thank you for the service
It might not be worth for everything, but extremely simple queries on extremely simple schemas would not be the goal here.
> If people stop believing housing is a good investment then prices will fall.

People need something to live in though, and as long as the demand for places to live is higher than the supply, rents and purchase prices will keep going up.
I know they'll probably help people out in this case, but who's generally responsible if there's an unusual wait and you miss your flight?

If you expect the usual 5 mins and there's suddenly 60, for example?
I've wanted to do a micropayment/paywall system where all the money went to select non-profit options.. paywalls, but not for the host. Paywalls for the world (hunger, climate, etc). Could possibly even have a crypto funnel.
In the times of GDPR and CCPA, there is no excuse for not having a simple way to delete your data. You should be able to revoke consent and remove your data as easily as you provided consent.
Infirmity
That's not always true - Hyperoptic for example runs it's own at least between cabinet and building, I don't know about after the cabinet. I also don't care, it doesn't matter to me? Price and performance do.

> The different companies can offer the same service in different ways but ultimately there's little difference between them because they're all reselling what is substantially the same thing.

Yes that was exactly my point. They're about as different as they can be, what's the problem.
Highly recommend this as I have one to. The issue though is there are limits as to what they can do. If you have an issue that is above their capabilities you'll be referred to a specialist.

This is the part that stinks as then you'll be bundled in waiting for the specialist to contact you, run their tests, and normally in a larger hospital group. So you'll be treated as a number again.
That seemed pretty obvious the first time I saw it, but I figured maybe I was over-estimating the issue. I mean, here's this darling company with a product everyone's excited about. Surely they must have thought about that!

I guess they did not think about that.
I'm trying to wrap my head around the amount of money the tobacco corporations pumped into show business. Luckily public smoking ban cut off this cancer and now the only way for Philip Morris and other cunts is way down into the abyss.
everyone so fucking noble these days...even a hacker is mr.right

lololol
Did I read this article wrong? Are hands a metaphor for something? A lot of people can't and/or eventually won't be able to use their hands. This was as true in 2011 as it is now.
> Anecdotal: my wife and I are waiting for a home to start a family

Sure, some people do that, but there are race and economic class biases to it, and both the races and economic classes biased to it are shrinking as a share of the population.
Show HN: Saliency-Aware Video Cropping in Browser
A simple app to crop horizontal videos to vertical videos without losing video context. This happens all in your browser, no server involved.
https://github.com/src200/vertical-video
Property is enforced by the government and its social contract exactly the same way that taxation is.

You didn't actually agree in a mutual contract with everyone when you "traded" your property, except for the agreements the government upholds with its system of laws that forms the social contract and taxation is a clause in that contract.
There's also the physical tests of the motors being able to withstand the wind force loading.

And no it's not designed to work at high speeds. People keep confusing "designed to work at" with "possible to use outside of recommended conditions".

The system being deployed on airplanes is somewhat different than the one being sold to consumers.
It's not even the right font, unless you're using custom CSS. The Hacker News stylesheet calls for "Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif", and your PC renders a serif font instead. Something's wrong with your fontconfig setup.

What's your distro?
As someone who quit smoking using vapes, and has recently kicked vapes after a good five years – it's all in the vape. If someone was selling you based on "cloud-size", they were the wrong person to be talking to. They were a vape enthusiast. You're not looking for the "best" vape experience, you're looking for the vape experience that is closest to smoking.

For this, you'll actually want to go with one of the Big Tobacco-backed vapes, because it's also what they want – the closest thing to smoking. I suggest Juul or Vuse, both of which are backed by Big Tobacco, contain nicotine salts (fast acting like smoking), and have a similar draw and lung hit to cigarettes with smaller vapour than other devices.

You'll also completely avoid refilling and everything, as they're "closed pod" systems.

For five years, I considered (ritual aside, as you can do it discretely essentially anywhere) vaping to be superior to smoking in every way. Good luck.
One of the things I only recently learned is modern power supply’s aren’t using the transformer to knock down “raw mains” 60hz AC. Modern switch mode PSU’s in-fact rectify the AC to DC and then chop it up at a much higher frequency.

By using a higher frequency, the transformer can be much smaller and more efficient. If they were doing mains 60hz AC the transformer would be substantially larger.

I forget if they also step the supply side DC voltage up too…
You can get 90 degree adapters for the motherboard power connector and PCI, and low profile ram. the issue then is getting a low profile heatsink for the CPU. There are waterblocks but not many with edge ports.

There are also boards like this that have the RAM mounted flat, a lower profile set of ports on the back, and take in 19v DC: https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/IMB-193
Wayfair and Spotify use machine learning to engage customers
You're kidding, right? Just going through the Concepts of webpack doesn't even scratch the surface - and will arguably leave many unsuspecting devs more confused than before, by e.g. still insisting on calling itself a "module bundler". You're a build system, ffs!
I think the "new" feature is doing it via the console, instead of manually redriving the messages.

Used it recently, great improvement:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/enhanced-dlq-management-sqs...
When r/conspiracy is true
In Eastern Europe they often advertise the make and model (and some weird specs like Teslas) on their web site, if it's a good one
Oh man. Same here. It’s just such a social activity. I stopped smoking when I moved to the US since it’s just difficult to smoke here and nobody else smokes. However, whenever I go back to the Balkans I revert back to my old habits quickly. I can’t resist it when I’m having a coffee or a drink with someone else who smokes.
Possibly, but then again, if one's aim is to replace C with Zig in the future perhaps completely, because SQLite became de-facto standard file format for many applications (see OGC GeoPackage for example), you might need some implementation of SQLite for that. If a file format is going to stick for decades, you'll definitely get other implementations of that file format sooner or later in environments that can't or don't want to use C.
Going to reference some 90s stoner movie, I forget which one. Stoner is at an NA meeting "Weed!? You ever suck dick for weed?"

No one is going to rob their parents, break into a business at night, or suck dick to check their Facebook feed.

You might miss it, but that's not an addiction.
This monopoly is actually disrupted in the province of Saskatchewan where there exists a government-owned telecom provider, SaskTel.

The existence of this provider has driven down prices from the big 3 (Telus, Bell, Rogers) because they have to compete with the offerings of this reasonably priced provider that isn't driven by profit.

I use Teksavvy in Ontario because they truly have the interest of consumers in mind. I've actually had them lower my bill after they were allowed to cut costs due to CRTC regulations. Unfortunately these regulations are being attacked by the current head of the CRTC who is a plug for the big 3.

It's a really sad state of affairs in Canada. All we can do is keep supporting companies that fight for the consumer.
I finally ditched cigarettes almost entirely. Saltnics with the right dosage: for me it's about 5mg/ml. Resistance about 1.2ohm. This lasts much longer than non-salt nic. I carry a 15mah stick with pods. I have two so that I always hve one charged.

I still smoke cigarettes when I go fishing. But I can drink beer or coffe just fine with the vapestick.
Downvotes? Why? This is like sustainable development 101, nothing controversial.
"and the facility doing the scans typically won't be upfront with what machines they're using."

All one has to do is ask. I've even had scheduling assistants ask me what power of machine the doctor wanted.
A plane ticket doesn’t come with a work permit.
Are we REALLY still complaining about systemd? Systemd has been one of the best things to happen to Linux.