skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with almost everything you've written. The NHS is indeed treated like a sacred cow, and it is absolutely not world beating. I live in Switzerland, but am British, and I would infinitely prefer to get my medical care here and to pay for it. The French medical system has a better reputation than ours also.

Swiss medical insurance is actually quite strongly regulated and not like the US system at all. Extras are generally where insurance make money, like having a private room in a hospital instead of a ward.

Where I disagree is that a change of government will improve things, because I don't think 'more money' will magically solve all of the problems. As an example, GPs should be doing face to face appointments again as you say, and they should be on call for out of hours. Not for extra money, they're already highly paid. This is just part of the job - people aren't ill conveniently between 9-5 Mon-Fri. Before anyone says this is unfair, UK software engineer salaries look nothing like US ones most of the time, whereas doctors are 'raking it in'. Yes, being a doctor is a tough profession, undoubtedly, but getting into medical school is highly competitive and sought after. So you either want the status and money in exchange for unsocial hours and dealing with the sick and dying or you choose a different career.

I don't find it a convincing argument that 'this is all the fault of the tories' because I also had a problem with panic attacks when I lived in the UK under a labour government, and was also outright refused treatment because our local area had only adult facilities and I was 17.5 when it started. I've plenty of other stories, but this is mine.

Generally UK politics is polarised like the US and people who believe the conservatives' sole motive in life is to dance on the graves of the poor while watching a food bank burn are likely to be overrepresented online. Remember that austerity came on the heels of Gordon Brown trying to spend his way out of a recession, the same PM who as chancellor sold off the UK gold reserves at the bottom of gold value and tax raided a bunch of pensions. Labour are by no means perfect either, and unfortunately even governments have to budget.

Don't get me wrong, the tories have been the government for quite a while now. They've had time to improve things and they definitely haven't. I'm just saying the idea Labour will magically resolve NHS issues is a fallacy. I'd argue that the real issue is the short term/electoral driven policymaking with regards to the NHS - it is a sacred cow, and even the slightest mention of change could potentially be political suicide.
> You’re stoking more public fear by your “simple observation”. So either provide an alternative, or your potential implication is not important enough to merit a publication at this stage.

Irresponsible science journalism is stoking public fear, not actual researchers trying to do important work. Stop blocking the important work and go chastise the people really causing the problems.
I’d pay a premium to access teachers like your wife. I’m not against my children having whatever politics they come to through their experiences, but am very weary of biased presentation and indoctrination.
Sounds pretty typical for any country specific subreddit.
At least in my case, sports was my parent’s opportunity to socialize. It was never really about my interests or well being, they didn’t want to lose their contextual friends and contacts. It was so bad I was disallowed from doing speech and debate in high school.
Why don't you use a regular computer plugged to the TV? All you need is a wireless keyboard+trackpad combo.

With firefox and an ad blocker I don't have any youtube ads. Also netflix shows start faster on a browser than they did when I was using a chromecast.
You need to consider some of what sqlite is good at. Querying local sqlite is very fast. Much lower latency than querying postgres. It's also very reliable – a local file will always work better than a network service.

I'm pretty into Litestream/LiteFS. Here's what I'm after:

1. Operational simplicity. Fly.io devs run small app servers in a bunch of places. They're usually read heavy. Running network database servers gets very complicated, very fast. You need a DB node in each place your app server lives.

2. Graceful failure. When you scatter app servers around the world, internet weather causes problems for an app. I want my DB to be ok when that happens. Reads should continue to work, if they can. And writes should fail in a way that makes it obvious what's happening.

3. Good for caching. Most fullstack apps use Postgres and then layer in Redis/Memcached for caching. This is yet another moving part. sqlite has amazing performance for cache workloads.

These all make an embedded DB interesting. If Postgres fails, your app server needs to know that Postgres failed and then also fail. Same if you add Redis. If your embedded DB fails, it's obvious to the app server that something is awry.

Another thing I'm after is drop in usage without touching code. We run a lot of peoples' apps and have limited ability to have them add libraries or write new code. Almost all of their frameworks speak sqlite, though.

Adding clustering to sqlite is not perfect. There are still networks to deal with and things will still break. All it's doing is shifting complexity and giving us different levers to use to keep things reliable.
Yes, this is absolutely still true if you have access to a couple private trackers.
"Libertarian" is what anarchists - of the socialist variety - originally called themselves. And many still continue to do so, sometimes with qualifications that became necessary because the economic right tried to appropriate the term. Please don't assist them in furthering that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism
I had so much fun with this game as a kid
Sure you can, it will just be an estimate.

If you had the in depth data such a network provided, the estimate would likely be more accurate.

The monitoring of this sort is done by every energy company these days, just not public or interlinked.
The governments get lump values from the big companies instead.
No.

- iCloud 2FA is another Apple device.

- I don’t care enough about my Google account to have 2FA. Besides the occasional SMS.

- Microsoft 2FA is Microsoft Authenticator.
> Where is the difference between MS bundling IE with Windows and Apple forcing Webkit in all iOS browsers?

Monopoly.
> We're not trying to stoke fear, we're trying to see what's really happening.

Thanks for your hard work. Politics have entirely abducted reason on this topic. We all so clearly fear that the same certain thing may be true, so we are left doing nothing that matters.
Six months, worth it. The best thing you can do is create a product that you yourself want. Trust your instincts and don't doubt your vision. Ignore advice that isn't coming from an entrepreneur.
Huh, I did not know that. OK, legit to bitch for sure.

Maybe it is me then because if I am looking at the Earth zoomed out, I always reach for google earth, and perhaps I just never notice it when zoomed in using it for directions.

Thanks!
Earth might be little too thick for this but should work great on Moon, Mars.
This feels a bit too dismissive of human capability to me.

In the end all that "work something out" is emulating the counterparty in your own head given their actions and statements.

That emulation will certainly be very difficult when the counterparty is running on different hardware, but it's not impossible imo. And humans get to back propagate error into their emulation model too...

Find the pattern is still the paramount skill, something humans are good at, and will continue to be useful when the counterparty is an AI
You can mitigate this by using a VPN router. I have a little GL.Inet router I use that ensures all traffic is passed through the VPN. The only caveat is you can’t travel with it even though they’re advertised as ‘travel routers’. You could use it in a hotel if you don’t trust random Wi-Fi hotspots. All I need is a .OVPN config file which I upload in the router’s admin dashboard, copy and paste my username and password and I’m set. A nice feature is if the VPN connection drops, the router doesn’t leak your IP.
I can see a lot of that stuff recently, people just deny the obvious religious nature of such practices.

However, such religion can no longer be universal, since for most people habits are not defined through religion anymore.
Something that I've learned recently that we're very misinformed is the concept of the "lazy peasant". Apparently for most of history, people and communities were very often at the brink of death by starvation[1], so saving weeks of unrelated work that you can be spend on producing food is very likely a thing that more often than not would improve your survival chances greatly. Of course as you say "historical relevant" was also not a concept as well for the common folks.

[1] Sure it'd be very seasonal, where you could go few years in a row with excess of food! But excess food was "bad" as well, so then what people got that they worked in reducing producing the amount of food to prefer diversifying their crops to reduce risk of a big event wiping their whole farm.
There are many programming games, e.g. Robocode and Corewar come to mind. At some point, pick a game you like.

There are differences between Screeps and the others though: Screeps is a single persistent world (MMO) whereas in this one you will engage in individual 1-on-1 battles.
You never know when Huawei or China will start doing something similar. You could do better and not have your data sitting with any corporate or government entity. I love my private Nextcloud running on a Raspberry PI. It syncs all contacts, calendar, files, bookmarks, tasks, notes, phone location, and much for may family's degoogled phones and PC's. Own your data and systems.
> undoubtedly you'll consider leftist propaganda

Leftists always mis-attribute the causes of prosperity. The wikipedia article cites causes that are commonplace in other countries that had no miracle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_economic_miracle

Leftist economies have never experienced an economic miracle in any country.

East Germany, for example (compared with West Germany).
5th grade education for my children has one 45-minute “play” recess (which doesn’t involve direct teacher instruction) and one 1-hour Physical Education class lead by a gym teacher.

The rest of their day 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM is composed of maths, language, science, history, and technology education all done on paper or at purpose-designated computers. Next year they will receive their own devices.

The playing with blocks and Lincoln logs ended in kindergarten, with the introduction of spelling test and arithmetic quizzes in first grade, so I’m not sure if I’d characterize the work my childrens’ teachers do as “literally half of it is playing games/trying to have fun” or that “[h]alf the reason to be a teacher is because half the job is having fun.”

Seems like it is hard work, with both practical instruction directed toward 20-30 children with varying levels of discipline, interest, and abilities, and management of just as many if not more parents with similarly varying levels of discipline, interest, and abilities.

This is a public school in one of the largest state systems in the country (United States) so perhaps your experience is informed by something more niche.
I'll take the one with about a 1/4 the energy usage and proper tail calls in Javascript.

Think those are related? I think they are. Who knows. I just respect tail call elimination.
“Content blockers” are merely a relatively short list of patterns that Safari itself will exclude. It’s nothing like uBlock Origin in power and flexibility and lets far too much through.
Bikes are frequently stolen here in Copenhagen. But bikes are just so convenient that we just go buy a new one right away. Also, bike insurance/bike subscription is pretty common.
The argument was Google cannot be legally compelled to do so (hence the violation), but they are voluntarily doing so while some others do not.
Google photos has a mode that will auto backup all received whatsapp images. In that case she could face the same problem.
What does FSD even means?? There is no mention of that in the author’s thread. Please stop with acronyms!
> Some school systems offer 'gold plated' healthcare plans

So? If you want good teachers--or at, some point, any teachers--you need to offer working conditions that are good enough to attract them, just like any other job.

Spending on benefits "instead of" education is a false dichotomy; in fact, I'd say that's the central thesis of the article.
Instead of spin I would be leaning more towards rails on a mountain but this requires more space but should be much more easier on payload
Rare toxic algae behind fish deaths in river Oder, say researchers
If you like minimal dependencies another one to take a peek at may be acme.sh [1]. It depends on bash, openssl and curl. It seems to work fine in ash as well. It has code to handle most API's and most importantly to me is the great documentation.

In the same spirit of minimal and light weight there is also testssh.sh [2] for testing TLS on HTTPS/SMTPS servers that also depends on bash and openssl.

[1] - https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh

[2] - https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh
This is a civil case—not criminal. The father would be suing Google, not the government suing the father for a crime.
Bookchin's libertarian municipalism is largely a terminological rebranding of some things that were considered a part of the overall anarchist culture.
I wouldn’t want private pictures I took just for a doctor to be synced with the cloud provider. It’s not like any of the cloud providers are HIPAA compliant.
I have to point out the public telephone company one in France: the Minitel [1]. This really could have achieved global interconnectivity, but for the stupidity of telephone companies.

Minitel was a terminal you could rent from the phone company, and its original intent was to reduce the need for human information operators. It was available in 1982. But it grew to have all sorts of services on it, even a dating service.

It wasn't a "fraction of a fraction of a fraction" of the population, either - there were millions in use. I saw one in 1989. I even mention Minitel in The Big Bucks (https://www.albertcory.io/the-big-bucks), only mildly satirically.

They "solved" the money problem: the charges would appear on your monthly phone bill. The execs were actually embarrassed that there were things like dating services -- that wasn't their plan at all.

So what do I mean by "the stupidity of telephone companies"? All the other phone companies in the world, who were already connected both physically and administratively (through CCITT) could have easily jumped on it and made their systems interoperate. They already did through phone calls and payments between each other.

They didn't see it, or if they did, they let the perfect be the enemy of the good. There were infinitely many papers on the "proper" way to do "videotex."

Would a global "internet" run by the phone companies be better than what we have? Discuss.

[1] https://history-computer.com/minitel/
Unsurprisingly and once again, the Fools Self Driving (FSD) scam raises prices on their customers towards a product that is beyond broken and doesn't work.

It is gotten so bad that even the noble and devoted Telsa fans would do anything to defend this contraption, even if it meant risking the lives of their own children, they will still do it for Twitter points, or for their lord and saviour techno-king Elon to notice them.

Who is going to finally tell the Tesla FSD fans that the piped piper (Elon) has repeatedly over promised and scammed his own fans and customers using FSD to the same tune?
I'll give raindrop.io a try next week to see if it meets my needs, but I think in the end I'll have to roll my own since there are some features I want that I simply haven't found in any bookmark app or extension.

Some of these are

-pin bookmarks or folders and sort the rest of bookmarks in that folder

-search bookmarks by name or tag in a group of folders

-have something like sessions where only a custom groups of folders are visible
What is a required by law or your power corporation smart power meter? :) Are you sure we don't do that?

(Water meters more often than not as well.)

What are the chances your gas station does not record the plates and gas purchase data together?
Or the credit card number. Or perhaps even driver's license number in some places.

Etc. Ad nauseam.

The data is just not directly available to either the consumer or the government. That does not make for good privacy though.
This is great! Runs a lot faster than on the Apple II back in the day, too.
That's not what fascism is. Fascism is hyper nationalism where everything is done in service of the nation state. Private entities only exist insofar as they are extensions of the state.

What you're describing here is more like a cyberpunk corporatocracy, where corporations hold so much power independent of the state, that they are able to exercise their own arbitrary decisions extrajudicially, while still maintaining so much power over people so as to completely control their lives.

In fact, here you can see that the person was exonerated by the state but punished by the corporation. In fascism, nothing supercedes the state.
I'm not sure this is a very strong defence of how the Government has managed the NHS since then, though is it?

Or should I read this as a veiled appeal for Corbyn to return as the leader of the Opposition for another try? (In which case I'll take my leave.)
One option is that companies with sufficiently widespread services can't close your account or block you without due process. And restrict the ability of a ban to spread between services of such a company.
I live in a US city with a metropolitan population of about 600,000. The largest provider in town is a university hospital with a sprawling set of clinics that employs 1850 physicians and 21,000 staff. I have pay for insurance that provides the best coverage in my area.

Last September I asked for an appointment with my GP before the end of the year. The first appointment was on January 3. I took the appointment. In October they called to reschedule that appointment. I could take a video appointment another time in early January or an in person visit in June. I took the virtual appointment. Rather than charging a $200 facility fee, they charged a $70 for the telecommunications that were pretty much the same as a zoom call. My insurance would have covered the room charge as required by law. They refused to pay the telecom charge.

Last December my GP ordered a routine screening procedure at my request. I was hoping to have that complete before my January visit so we could discuss any interesting results. In July the clinic that performs that procedure called to schedule the procedure which is scheduled to happen this week.

For this procedure, the clinic is requiring a negative Covid test. They scheduled this test at the one place that they provide these proactive tests. This is a drive through test site that is a 25 minute drive each way from my home. They provided an estimate of the costs for this test. That is $399, which (before taxes) would be earned in 23 hours by someone making the median wage in my city. My insurance company doesn’t think the Covid test is medically necessary so will not cover it. I canceled that Covid test appointment and got a free test at a more convenient location from public health.
Haha yeah, in Europe there are often naked children running around at the beach. In Germany, there are places (especially lakes) where everyone is walking around, swimming and sunbathing naked - Sometimes the whole family. For me it was quite a shock initially but now I think it's fine.
Paranoid is one of the best rock albums ever recorded. Not a bad track on it and all the songs hold up in a way that most of their contemporaries can't hold a candle to. Ozzy himself is a living legend and his output is remarkably consistent (obviously some stinkers but still, to be in Sabbath and then go on to such a successful 'solo' career is a hell of a run.)
> I wasn't there, but the internet presumably had value before the www, by having email, ftp and usenet.

As someone who was barely there, it was largely a standardized client problem. That's why NSCA Mosaic and later Netscape Navigator were so important.

The Internet provided transport... but for what?

To GP's standardization point, the Internet wouldn't have been successful if every server required you to have a different client to talk a different protocol. (The landscape was very different than that in which mobile apps now live)

Web protocols + a client browser that understood them = palatable UX
Mass-scale modulation of egos is super-duper helpful for making sure lots of people serve and worship your non-modulated ego IME.
MS research is an interesting case. From my memory they did support some theoretical research in non-linear stat mech a few years back (i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oded_Schramm worked there and he was certainly doing pure research), they also let https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Freedman spend time doing his topology research even though it probably aint going to lead to a quantum computer :) Google however seems mainly to support research in ML/DL with applications the end result, yes it's research, but I wouldn't call it greenfield research like what occurred at Bell Labs (i.e. discovery of microwave background radiation).
I agree.

Like many people, I draw a distinction between religion (read: organized religion) and spirituality. From what I can see, religion can have the effect of hardening the ego, by creating an us-vs-them mindset. As an American, I see this as perhaps the fundamental dynamic driving our country at a national level, both in domestic politics and foreign policy.

On a personal level, I was raised in a very religious household. In our particular fundamentalist Baptist church, there were strains of ego minimization, in the sense of subordinating the individual to the identity and outlook of the group. But within that identity, I saw ego maximization, in the sense of the feelings of superiority of our creed.

As I became alienated from organized Christianity and its dogma, I've found that I am thankful for many of the ego minimizing aspects. And now, as a parent, I'm interested in the ways in which I can raise my children to have these benefits, without all the harms I experienced and see from organized religion.

Incidentally, I just read all of the books from Arbinger Institute: Leadership and Self-Deception, The Anatomy of Peace, and The Outward Mindset. The Arbinger Institute was founded by Latter-Day Saints folks, and while I definitely register the vibes of Christian thought, they are fundamentally secular books, devoid of dogma. I do think it's very possible to draw from the more positive, ego-dissolving parts of religious spirituality and teaching, while rejecting the divisive parts.

Completely aside from the ego conversation, another thing I have noticed about raising kids outside of a church is that my family lacks the same community that the Baptist church my household growing up attended. I think this is one of the major functions of organized religion. Provided you can remain in good standing with the church, you get a community, which serves all sorts of useful functions. Outside of a church, you have to manually find this, through friendships and other organizations. But there's big replacement cost to everything a church community gives you "batteries included". I'm very pro secular society, but I don't think we've come up with great answers to this problem, leading to potentially catastrophic levels of social fragmentation and susceptibility to cult-like online movements.
"OK Boomer" is only relevant when the person doesn't disclose it. Pretty meaningless here.