skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, a colleague needed back surgery in the US and was able to get scheduled within 2 weeks. Our Canadian colleagues marveled at that speed.
Most of it is likely going to lawyers and health and malpractice insurance companies.
Has Whist implemented accessibility support for cloud tabs, e.g. by pushing the remote Chromium renderer's accessibility tree across the network?
> You are counting people that have never used cryptocurrency.

We are people too
The worst is a recruiter promising a "highly competitive salary" in a company that's "one of your competitors" that wants "your specific skills"

It feels like nine times out of ten "one of your competitors" means they are also a limited liability company, "your specific skills" means you know what a keyboard is, and "highly competitve salary" is $30k a year.

I have a very particular set of skills that I have acquired over a long career which are honed to a very narrow industry. I did have a genuine recruiter after me for a job which used a small subset of those skills, on 20% more than than I currently earn, but it was a second line support position rather than the various roles I play today. I couldn't face the prospect of working in such a confined environment.
I am aware of situations where ppl have crossed over legally into Mexico from the US to purchase insulin at a substantially reduced cost.
SCOTUS decision regarding coach prayer misconstrues the facts
A lot. Insulin is a category of human insulin analogs. Each analog has unique properties.

You can have the ‘old insulin’ for something like 25$ / 1k units. But it’s very hard to use relative to modern analogs, so people prefer modern analogs.

Edit: Minus points for facts that disrupt the narrative. I love it.
and since Big brand advertisers (that can't calculate ROI) are the biggest spenders, most ad dollar can not be attributed to purchasing behavior reliably and thus wasted. (queue the ebay 100% wasteful ad story)
Doesn’t like.

Cuba, of all places, have pretty great medical R&D?

Don’t think your statement means too much.
Yes, but worth remembering this is more than just cutting out capitalist's profit. This would need to involve running the medical sector better + pushing wages for doctors and other medical professionals down, but yeah the fact that US federal government spends more than the UK on healthcare per capita while not actually delivering healthcare to everyone is crazy
"Get better people" is not a talent strategy at scale unless you are also going to "pay them a lot more" which means that your corporate strategy also needs to include "make a ton of fucking money." Nice if you can pull it off, but the rest of the world needs to manage their companies too.
I wonder whether the continuing deterioration of the US' ability to provide medical care for normal people will lead to a rise in bio-hacking.

At some point, the technology needed to produce simple but effective medication for widespread illnesses must be feasible enough for many people.

And when you're detached from an affordable access to the medical system, you may not care about the potential shunning that results from DIY medication.
The costs of growing complexity cannot be exaggerated. Note there's a new effort to help create more effective government in CA that's worth checking out: https://effectivegovernmentca.org/
>One of my clients at a large bulge bracket said “if these people insist on not being in the office we may just outsource the job for a tenth of the comp”. I think more companies will take that view personally.

That's obviously an empty threat. If they could save 90% by outsourcing, they'd already have done it. The idea that the tech market rate is as high as it is because of good-hearted managers is absolutely laughable.
Why? Because successfully completing large infrastructure projects is - at best - a "lip service" priority for most people. But it is an actual priority for very few people.
That last has been basically tried, and you end up everyone always "exceeding expectations" unless you tie it to some sort of standardized testing (which has its own issues).

Your best bet may be removing the obstacles that people who want to do a good job encounter (for example, the best teachers seem to often leave higher paid public teaching jobs to go to private schools that pay less - investigate why?).
The word "demonization" is an apt description of the rhetoric being applied to this topic.
Disinformation is very common in traditional news media. This technology just democratizes this tool and allows anyone to engage in it.

There will probably be a net increase in disinformation, but citizens will likely also get better at being skeptical of currently unquestioned modes of disinformation.
I seem to remember the CVE database search utility on Mitre's web site stating something along the lines of "comparing the number of CVEs by platform shouldn't be used to draw conclusions".

Possibly a CYA-esque liability statement, but the principle seemed sound.
I stopped reading at "Incredibly, the state has not laid a single mile of track" for California High Speed rail, which is completely false. There are 119 miles under active construction and they've been putting down track since 2018.
> 1. There's virtually no nature within a 2 hour drive

Indiana Dunes National Park is less than an hour away! Don't get me wrong, I wish the region had mountains, but Indiana Dunes has both great forest trails and giant sand dunes you can climb to get a great view of Lake Michigan.
A phrase I've heard said: The rest of the world thinks of the USA in the same way that the USA thinks of Florida.
If you're near the Canadian border, I've heard some anecdotes about folks crossing to get cheaper insulin. I've not done it, though was on the fence about doing it.

Also, I know that some makers ( Eli Lilly in particular ) also offer need-based aid programs to provide insulin. If you reach out to them and they're manufacturing, I believe you can get the insulin at near free if not free. ( This is also true for many medications that fall into the commonly-used category, you can explore manufacturer sites to see if they provide aid for a particular drug that is in your list )
Naturally, the teacher won't be in charge of evaluating their own students.
Chinese officials stop bank run using Covid health code system
>>there's no incentive currently for the US government to be efficient.

This is also true in many large corporations - I have worked for a few - and the inefficiencies and waste is mind-boggling to someone that mostly works for small and mid-sized business that actually like to watch their pennies. If you are a manager, and you are given a budget, you make dam sure you spend 100% of it by the end of the year, even if you have to basically throw it away on some useless spend. There is zero incentive to save money - if you do, you will see your budget cut for the next year too, or criticized/penalized for having asked for more than you needed. Last thing you want to do is bring in your project under budget; wouldn't have believed it if I haven't seen it played out this way time and time again.
Snarky comments only work when you are factually correct.

Modern insulin analogs were not invented 100 years ago.
Thank you! Feel free to ping me on Github/Discord if you run into any issues, always looking to make it better :)
Nordic countries are doing just fine. We have a 230 volt 8A plug for most cars anyway, because ICE cars need it for their block and cabin heaters 50% of the year. And this is not just detached housing, apartment buildings have it too.

That's enough to charge about 80-100km of range every night easily. If the cabling is done this millennium you can go to 10-12A single phase.
> As long as a fair chunk of the profits are channeled to effective altruism causes (which I think is the status quo?)

That's one heck of a qualification without a citation. The "altruism causes" channeled to would need to somehow outweigh the massive costs in terms of CO2 footprint and the loss of savings/security of an untold number of regular people (your "low-information gamblers") who bought into a big ponzi scheme.

They can't be made whole (though society will definitionally pay for the subset who lost a significant portion of their life savings), but seems pretty legit to point a finger at those who scammed them.
Part of security is sucking up the consequences of getting locked out.
If they make it too hard to provide travel and other assistance the companies might just move, as their staff is going to. Only those who want to work under sharia law will remain.
if you were optimizing for success for a whole species, do you see how going for fast iterations and throwing out old code could appear as a strategy?
hopefully you'll forgive my pedantry - "union all" is vertical concat - "union" without the "all" gives you the distinct list
Not sure what you're claiming here...

Repeatable read isolation creates read locks so that other transactions cannot write to those records. Of course our own transaction has to first wait for outstanding writes to those records to commit before starting.

Best as I know the goal is not to prevent one's own transaction from updating the records we read; the read locks will just get upgraded to write locks.
I just don't understand why some people are so keen on making in-person or hybrid work, it won't in the long run because you are competing with companies that doesn't have the overhead of an office, HR, logistics etc. This is the new normal, you either accept it or keep trying to go back to what will never be going forward.

I also don't really believe people claiming they are losing productivity in WFH, its most likely that they were never productive to begin with and its becoming magnified.

The latter group often expresses it emotional terms like : not having human interactions, missing out on watercooler talks, acknowledgement. Perhaps these emotions are being surfaced because there is nothing to hide behind anymore.
While Insulin is not on the list some other medications for diabetes are available for cheap here: https://costplusdrugs.com/medications/categories/diabetes/
Couple things I try to keep in mind when giving PR feedback specifically.

0) Give feedback with respect and just like as if I were sitting with someone face to face telling them these things. And keep it about the code, not the author.

1) Remember that I could always be wrong (whether from misreading something, not having the whole pictures, etc. - many reasons my suggestion may not be the right one).

2) Communicate how strongly I feel about a change - I use `nit:` to indicate opinions or annoyances that are basically "I wouldn't do it this way, but up to you whether to change it", slightly stronger language for things I think require changes, up to "I feel strongly about this, let's chat about it" for things I would not approve the PR before they (or my mind) are changed.

3) Phrase as requests and/or suggestions (could, would, prefer) over command (do X)

4) As others have mentioned, give the reasoning. Personally, I prefer request first, reasoning second, but I see many people expressing preference for it the other way. My reasoning is that, while the reviewee may read the reasoning once, the request is what they may come back for when fixing things, so ensure it is the first thing seen so someone doesn't have to parse through the reasoning again to find the specific request.

5) Provide examples if it's clearer to communicate that way as compared to writing it out.
Mostly right except for kids. All up and down the org chart at my firm there’s been interruptions by children haha. Also, sometimes things just happen no matter who you are. There was a US Supreme Court hearing over video chat and someone on the call flushed a toilet.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/05/06/politics/toilet-flush-sup...
Indistinguishable, my shiny metal a**. Your general politeness is a dead giveaway.
There are two types of Diabetes...type 1 and 2. I don't agree with your comment on reducing obesity as Type 1 is a much different disease than Type 2.
The total estimated cost has increased by 44 Billion. Only ~10 billion has been spent on the project so far.
Pikes Peak (especially in an electric car where altitude doesn't matter) is primarily a test of the driver. 156 corners in 12 miles is incredibly hard to learn and there are almost no safety barriers (or reference braking points). The goodwood hillclimb is simply not in the same category of complexity or challenge as Pikes Peak, which stands alone as the toughest and most dangerous hillclimb event in all of motorsport.

Pikes Peak is also extremely bumpy and was only paved all the way to the top in 2011. A car like the Speirling relying on fans for downforce would really struggle to maintain grip throughout a Pikes Peak run as each bump would cause a momentary loss of aero (not dissimilar to this season's F1 porpoising issue, just bigger and worse)
The idea is to randomly assign the students to teachers. Sometimes teachers will get students who will never reach grade level, and sometimes students who will effortlessly achieve. By being random, it evens the opportunity out.
That is not my point. I mean the point is that many people who chose to own IOS did that because of privacy and security it provides as the current apple ecosystem. It is like choosing a private school with a restrict rules and code of conduct over another private school with more open rules (options) since you pay for your phone anyway.
Spring is framework, it is not part of language itself. It is part of ecosystem around java. Neither spring nor Java EE promised to be low code. It used xml for configuration, but not because it would somehow aimed to be low code.

Generics are nowhere near to being similar to C++ templating. Also, I never understood hate of checked exceptions that invariably comes from people who dont use Java. They don't bother much and have their place.

There was no major hype about Java being faster then C or C++ in its origin. They quite explicitly talked about sacrificing speed for other properties. Java however got faster in later developments.
There was no mobile at the time.
Yeah I hear you though note that given how backwards, arcane, obsolete and convoluted the way we plan for and agree upon future urban development is, there's really a TON of opportunity to BOTH better listen to residents and actually get things built.

See my friends startup InCitu.us for a great example of the opportunity for win/wins in the space: https://www.incitu.us/
Hard disagree. The operational overhead of RDBMS and specifically their inherent reliance on a single primary node makes them, in my opinion, a bad place to start your architecture.

I want to be able to treat the servers in my database tier as cattle instead of pets and RDBMSs don't fit this paradigm well. Either NoSQL or NewSQL databases are, in my opinion, a much better place to start.

I feel like RDBMSs being the "default" option is because most people have worked with them in the past and already understand them. It doesn't mean they are the best tool for the job or even the tool most likely to solve the unknown problems you'll encounter in the future.
I’ve introduced Must, Should, Could at every company I’ve been at (except the one where I picked it up myself) and it works wonders.

Prefix every suggestion with M, S or C and then just write the suggested change as a plain statement. The prefix handles the severity and importance without you having to worry about tone.

Coulds can be ignored by the coder author with no explanation as to why they are ignoring but if they have time or want to implement the change then they can.
Shoulds can only be ignored with a reason and the reviewer has to agree or the change should be made.
Musts have to be implemented and should be used rarely. The only person who can over rule a must is a department head, lead or CTO type person.

This massively reduces friction in the CR process.

Article here: https://allthecode.co/blog/post/how-to-get-better-at-code-re...
I agree that e2e encryption is becoming more widespread and "user friendly".

However, the friendliness seems inversely proportional with the ability of the users to detect that their tool is failing/corrupted/hacked/etc. So while we might have more widespread tools, we also have a more widespread ability to give a false sense of security.
Competency? The system is working as intended, it prioritizes the needs of capital flowing to the elites. You must come from somewhere else, one that places citizens on a slightly higher strata than the US does.
They definitely do link re-writing. As to what use they make of the original href attributes, I don't know.
Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar. We don't want flamewar here generally and the religious sort is particularly pernicious and also particularly avoidable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31885625.
A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence – Yann LeCun
"Any given toilet" is doing a lot of work there. Governments actually know how much people generally need to go to the bathroom. In fact, in many places, you can't get a license to host a large public event without providing toilets. But when it comes to public transit and downtown cores where that very same government has a very good handle on how many people are expected to be hanging around on an average/peak day, no need for toilets whatsoever!
> Box<dyn Error> or anyhow::Error in these cases ergonomically

This comes at the cost of losing the precise information what error-types could occur and makes it harder to read the code compared to a language that can use its typesystem to model that.

> Your second point is dubious; I've never seen any crate use anything other than Result.

Maybe. And you also barely see something like Result being used in Python. Is that because Result is bad? No. It is because it is _hard_ to use Result in Python, both of the lack of ergonomy compared to e.g. exceptions and also because it's not standard and people will look at you funny.

So why is pretty much everyone in Rust using Result? Because using your own error-type causes exactly the problems that I mentioned (and more). So no matter how you look at it - this is a shortcoming of Rust and hopefully something that the Rust team will improve in the future. (E.g. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/324)
Google Hangouts is shutting down in November
Really? Try using the new "match/case" keywords. Understand all of the most used cases.

Try using a walrus operator in a multi-line if/elif statement or a complex comprehension.

Try to understand the subtleties of the new dictionary merge operator.

And the best one, try learning the typing annotations.

All this on top of already complex OOP class system.

Good luck.
>the database is almost always the main cause of any performance issues

I would be careful with the term "cause". There is a symbiotic relationship between the application and the database. Or, if talking to a DBA...a database and its applications. Most databases can store any sets of arbitrary information...but how they are stored (read: structure) must take into account how the data is to be used. When the database designer can be told up-front (by the app dev team) considerations can be made to optimize performance along whatever vector is most desired (e.g. read speed, write speed, consistency, concurrency, etc). Most database performance issues result when these considerations are left out. Related: Just because a query works (ie. returns the right data) does not mean it's the best query.
I half wonder if you live in my city because your description matches it to a tee, but I bet this is happening in cities all over the country.

As for why they care about NIMBYs so much - it is because our current class of politicians aim to be career politicians. Therefore, they look to remain in power at all costs, and part of that means not pissing off the most vocal members of their community.

What we need is real leadership from politicians who are willing to stake their tenure in office on pushing projects through.
FYI: Trademarks are a thing - international registration is really expensive, though, and then you've also got to be ready and have the resources required to defend it legally.
We'll look into it, our team cares heavily about privacy and if we judge that this is a valuable way to protect our users we will definitely implement it
Notice the post is 10 years old and some of the complaints can get solved with the config `submodule.recurse true` https://stackoverflow.com/a/49427199
That debt is after federal transfers, though.

Illinois loses a net of $4.7k/year/person to federal transfers[1]. Get rid of that and they could pay off their full debt in a few years.

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/donor-state...
That's what countered the claim that Windows+IE were 'one product' as opposed to separate, right?

Outside of legal-land this seems like a BS argument, and even more so now. But legal-land is what matter first I suppose.
The US needs dramatic, progressive change, but instead we're failing and regressing in so many ways and places. I expect cascading failures to continually compound.
I assume the parent comment refers to this, to save others googling "git repo"..

https://github.com/GerritCodeReview/git-repo
Yep, doctors in the US make anywhere from 2-5x that of doctors in the UK. Take a look at these salaries posted by the NHS [1]. Nurses make more too. It's very common for RNs in California to make upwards of $50/h even starting out, which works out to more than the specialized doctor pay in the NHS link.

Student loan debt isn't even a big factor in this because of the sheer size of the salary gap. $500k loan gets paid off fast when you make $300k+, and you get that salary for life whereas the loan only weighs you down for the first 5-10 years.

[1] https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/doctors/pay-d...
Why is that above grade anyway ?
*rest of the world on twitter

Scoreboard says people still want to move to the US
Wow! Congratulations y'all! I love this, especially for building Webflow apps
I'm pretty sure this comment won't be appreciated, but the amount of government intervention in the market with respect to healthcare in the United States makes it one of our most highly regulated industries, if not the most highly regulated. Some would say that crying "market failure" isn't a legitimate criticism.
But it is far from universal. My daughter needs to see a pediatric gastroenterologist in Oregon, she isn't scheduled for an appointment until December (we were told this in May). So she has to wait ~7 months?

You can find a case of someone getting into a specialist or a surgery within 2 weeks in the US, but you can also find the opposite.
> are we certain that allowing multiple browsers on iOS would mean Chrome dominance?

Yes. From Google's apps already asking you to open links in Chrome to Google actively sabotaging competition https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871231792455686
Her short-acting insulin, Lispro, costs $70.22 for 1 vial, which lasts her about 30 days.

That's not far off from what I pay in Canada, assuming we're talking a standard 1000 U vial. I thought insulin was typically around 5x that price in the USA.
> The primary market says nothing about how successful cryptocurrency is, just how lucrative it is.

So, booming one might say? Like in a boom town? Where nobody actually cares what product is being exported just that they can get paid a lot for it?
I've honestly never understood why people have such a distaste for SQL. SQL and Linux/Unix have been the biggest constants of my entire programming career to this point (20ish years). I always know I can count on them.
I thought this was one of the medications Mark Cuban started https://costplusdrugs.com/medications/categories/diabetes/ to address but I don't see if listed there unfortunately.