skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because there are other things that go into healthcare that are accounted for in NHS funding such as hospices and elderly care.

The 83% in your link is the government spending on healthcare as % of total healthcare expenditure not the NHS budget as % of total expenditure.

The government funds other healthcare related expenses that aren’t direct NHS funding.
So, I'll use this to release my startup idea to solve spam. I am never going to build a startup at this point in my life, so I'm releasing this idea into the ether- maybe someone can make this happen :)

It's an email service/mailbox, let's call it inboundmail.com. You create your personal email there, let's say hash872@inboundmail.com. Every time you receive unsolicited spam to your 'real' Gmail or what have you, you respond with back with a stern GPDR/CCPA request that they delete your Gmail- and replace it with your unique, @inboundmail.com address. Within Inbound you can create any rules that you like to filter, block etc. This becomes your new 'public' address, like a Google Voice for email. Recruiters can spam you here, and so on. Revenue model? You charge senders to send x number of emails to inboundmail.com a month- the same way LinkedIn does.

In fact, speaking of LinkedIn- you could replace your personal email on file with LinkedIn, with your Inbound one. All LinkedIn messages get filtered to Inbound! Then you can sort, filter, auto-reply, block etc.

Could spammers just ignore Inbound and keep spamming your Gmail? Maybe, but I see the world going in a more regulated direction with GPDR/CCPA that makes this untenable. Once companies start paying some real fines, it'll be more difficult. 'Thanks Mr. Recruiter- please send future JDs to my Inbound email address', etc. You're in control. Thank you for coming to my TED talk
One thing I don't see mentioned is the horror of shipping for Windows. You'll need Windows to have the Edge runtime, which means you have to bundle it or install it as an add-on. People will complain about this, especially IT people, because Edge runtime runs some kind of stupid background service all the time for no clear reason. It's also brittle since you will have to constantly keep your installer up to date with new releases of the Edge runtime or use a fragile MS URL that could stop working at any time and that won't work behind some firewalls.

TL;DR: trying to use the native web view on Windows is horrible because there is no native web view and MS can't bundle software for their own platform.

Of course I suppose shipping any software for Windows is horrible...
OpenGL on macOS is so frustrating, that I and many other developers have basically abandoned it, and not in favor of using Metal--the easier alternative is to just no longer support Macs.

Yes, OpenGL on macOS is now implemented over Metal, but unfortunately a side effect of this is that implementation-level details that were critical to debugging and profiling OpenGL just no longer exist for tools to work with. Anything is possible? Maybe? I'm sure Apple Graphics engineers could make old tooling work with the new abstraction layer, but it's not happening.

Tooling investment is all on Metal now. But so much existing NON-LEGACY software relied on OpenGL.

So what do you do? You debug and perf test on Windows and Linux and hope that fixing issues there addresses concerns on macOS, and hopefully your problems aren't platform-specific.

This is how some graphics engineers, including myself, continue to ship for macOS while never touching it.

Edit: Also, Vulkan is a waste of time for anyone who isn't a large studio. No one wants to write this stuff. The most common argument is "You only write it once." No, you don't.

You have to support this stuff. If it were that easy,
bgfx would have been written in a month and it would have been considered "done" afterwards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...

>USA's military spending in 2021 hit $801bn a year, says the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. In comparison Russia's military spending in 2021 hit only $66bn.

US population: 329.5 million, Russian population: 144.1 million,

Per capita spending US: $24,600. Russia: $458

While I’m at it: US GDP: 20.94 trillion, 1.483 trillion

US military spending as percent of GDP: 3.8%, Russia: 4.5%

Now you can see how there is a way.
This might be stretching your definition a bit, but the earliest may be X.25 networks/PDNs (Telenet, Tymnet, etc.) or, even earlier, AlohaNET.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_data_network
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet
PDF.js does support decrypting password-protected documents on its own:

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/7967
Creating and Illustrating a children’s book with DALL-E in less than a week
10 years ago I had the idea to write a children’s book about the joy and difficulties of building something; That idea was there but the hassle and cost of illustration always prevented me from finishing the book.

Recently, Dall-E was launched and I excitedly used it for my children's book illustrations. You can see the result and also issues I faced such as maintaining a consistent art style and face removal.
I was curious and looked up reviews for Sceptre, but according to some discussions on Reddit, they have build quality issues. One of the threads [0] had a discussion on picture quality and build quality issues.

Another subreddit [1] even has an automoderator comment that says getting a smart TV and not hooking it up to the internet is the best option. The automoderator also writes that if one is certain about going non-Smart, then one should "look at a projector or a Commercial Display. A projector means you will also 100% need audio with it. A Commercial Display or Hospitality TV you could pay up to twice or even more for the same TV (or worse) without smart features."

However, I'm not sure how reliable that automoderated comment on r/4kTV is.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/hometheater/comments/a25d5m/are_sce...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/4kTV/comments/qt9wvf/nonsmart_tvs/
I have been doing this for over 15 years. The only original component at this point is the case. My strategy has been:

1) buy modern motherboard w/ cpu and memory at mid point

2) year or two later, max out memory

3) another two years later, i buy most powerful cpu that is supported by motherboard

4) repeat from step 1

I also upgrade hdds / video cards as needed. It seems these components are upgraded more frequently than mb / cpu / memory. Though, my video card has been plenty fast for a few years now, probably because I don't play as demanding games any more. I also didn't skimp on the power supply and it's been performing well. I use a UPS to make sure the power stays clean.

When upgrading the motherboard, I also evaluate the technology space to see if it makes sense to upgrade any other components. For instance, I may buy into NVMe in the next cycle depending on what my research reveals.

I'm still hanging on to Windows 7. I'll probably upgrade that in the next cycle but it's been smooth. I use VMware for software that needs newer version of Windows.
Admitting your stance is lunacy isn't a defense. You should instead ponder why you believe absurdities.

"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities" - Voltaire (ish). This is the most important quote about how to live in the world. It explains Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, but also the mass rape done by the Catholic Church, 9/11, the current climate change crisis, and on and on. It's the Grand Unified Theory of atrocities.
Having lived both in Estonia and Belgium, I think this is just an initial attraction. Estonia is a strange country. While the tech-sector is booming, other sectors are struggling. Average blue collar jobs pay is similar to few 3rd world countries. The ageing population coupled with slow birth rate, brings other problems for the state. Health service sector is deteriorating with almost all health professionals eyeing to migrate to West Europe and USA or even Finland. Public infrastructure is bad, don't even have to go more than 10km outside of Tallinn center to notice it. The tech and startup scene is indeed one of the best in Europe, but the tech utopia fascination will wear off in few years unless you succeed in becoming filthy rich. On the long run, you will start noticing the overall quality of life is much much better in Belgium.
I quit my salaried job and now I work at a lingerie store.

The staffing issues at the lower level of society mean that the wages are actually going up - I make 15/hr and could ask for more. (I don't plan on staying long term so I probably WON'T, but I'd get it). Which is around 31k/yr compared to the 50k I was making (unlike most people here, I don't work in tech - I might change that, I don't know). It's doable short-term with some savings as a cushion while I mentally recuperate and lets me be picky about what I jump into next.

The types of jobs that are hemorrhaging people are office jobs paying in the mid 5 figures in my experience, and one component is that now those people can walk and pick up a job in the service industry and not completely lose everything. A 20% paycut is easier to swallow than a 60-70% one.

We've also gotten good at reducing our expenses.
> Can you imagine Google trying to support repairing a Chromebook?

iFixit has Chromebook guides. Hobbyist communities and niche boutique repair shops arise to fit the needs.

https://www.ifixit.com/Search?query=chromebook
Not if you have a Corsair One like the article author.

On that particular model, even updating the SSD is a pain in the ass since (IIRC) the 2.5in one is at the bottom of the case and the m.2 is on the back of the motherboard which has been perfectly engineered to fit in that case.

It also uses water-cooling on the CPU and for the upper models the GPU, using a custom loop that was created specifically to fit in the tight dimensions of the case. So good luck upgrading either the CPU or GPU easily.
NCP/TCP Transition Plan (1981)
They have some agency, but they're not independent from their academic advisors.

Given the volume of emails I get (and their disproportionate sources from a handful of the same universities) over 5+ years, I'm inclined to believe that there are a handful of advisors that push their students to do these surveys as "easy" research.
> I have a setup for various chemicals in my back yard

Could you share any more information about this?
Take a step back and reread the article and the comments you are replying to.
I have to agree, it's like building legos except you're getting paid $1k to do it (saving on prebuilts!) although of course there can be good prebuilts as well.. but in my experience they're usually cutting corners somewhere.
Have you try contacting Google Cloud support teams? What did they say? I found this path https://cloud.google.com/support/billing
At the time I implemented the versioning using separate trees on top of the Radix tree. Today I would augment the tree with t he versioned nodes, and would use a Concurrent Adaptive Radix Tree for the base tree. This would allow high concurrency. Then at the base of the tree I would store a temporal link to each tree modification, so that you could access the changes in time order!

Very, very interested in chatting further about this!
The even more simpler explanation is that it's both.
Stealing My Own Games
I've posted a shorter version of this story before. Now that I finally got the time to set up my blog and work past the sitelock I'm hoping a few more people will get a laugh out of this!
I was hoping for something more specific heh
Call me crazy, but I think it's only a matter of time before windows in our living spaces will be monitors with overlaid ads. The in-app purchase will be "allowing us" to remove the ads so we can look at the view in peace.

In the meantime, all my TVs never see the light of WiFi and have ROKU sticks.
To all intents and purposes, yes, it is. You're naïve if think anyone offering "free" delivery hasn’t factored it into the overall pricing.

Typo: s/has/hasn’t/
> To delve a little deeper, this statement shows that it's still a _choice_, even though the choice is apparently a refutation of choice, which is interesting.

Worldviews and beliefs are answers we come up with to the difficult questions that life asks. If you've done any work to come up with those answers, then your beliefs are built on top of a lot of observations, introspection, and analysis. For me to change my beliefs I would need to discover some kind of mistake I've made in my work or some important piece of information I was missing. How can you casually choose a different belief set unless your original beliefs were not built on anything substantial to start with?
Wow this is great, thanks for posting this!
lol. trying to get an actual human being at google to talk to you is an insane task if you’re not a substantial sized account.
> How can someone get started writing a database these days?

Take my class. It starts next week: https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/
Lol. Unfortunately only /dev/null is truly web scale :) !
This is an odd hobby horse. I’m neutral on a birth rate increase but this smacks of treating symptoms of economic stress.

If you’re in a situation as a society where your income as real purchase power is rising then the solution to this problem is to buy another car (which people do anyway) or outsource your transport. At one point the author mentions some people dislike minivans. If avoiding minivans and SUVs is the reason to avoid a third child, I doubt their heart was in it. Most of the top ten vehicles sold this year are large, expensive, SUVs and Trucks.

That’s not the situation we’re in as a country.

Housing is a larger expense and more broadly felt problem than car seats. There are some comparable increases in birth rate linked to decreases in home prices i the linked NBER paper.

Real Wages are flat for most.

Is that car seat really the deal breaker if the rest of expenses for a third child can’t be covered?

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g39628015/best-selling-car...

https://www.nber.org/papers/w17485

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/09041...

https://money.com/child-care-costs-declining-birth-rate/
JavaScript Framework Benchmarks
Ran into the same exact thing at CircleCI.

Me: My builds are really slow

CircleCI: Here are a few very low effort answers

Me: git checkout is taking literally 60 seconds, but it takes 3 seconds locally, why?

CircleCI: Mumble Mumble.

They charge per minute, so why would they care if builds are slow? Was about a year of this getting worse and worse, till I finally cancelled the service last week and built my own server in my basement.

I know get 200% faster builds, and the hardware payback time is not very long (6 months of my CircleCI bill?).

I think it's a huge red flag anytime the metric you care about is something that being "worse" makes the provider more money.
Or the other way around… I’m a developer and hardware engineer and use an M1 Mini as my primary machine.
Verify USDC Balance and NFT Meta Data with Proof
Couldn't you just pre-multiply the projection matrix to remap the Z range from [-1,1] to [0,1]?
What alcohol does to your body, brain and health [video]
Switching to private pensions is difficult because it would only work for the younger part of the population who would still have enough time to save/invest money for their pension, but the state would still have to finance the pensions for the older half for a couple of decades, without getting fresh money in from the younger half. This is made even more difficult by an aging demographics.
Close. Product pricing is based on a variety of perceived factors (value, cost of change, risk of loss, etc.)
I wonder if you could run this same analysis with condoms and argue that the increased STDs are worth the increased birth rate.
That doesn't negate my original point.
Aahhh! This is something I am interested in as well.

I don't have a definite answer but a few vintage points and directions in which you can start your journey and find more stuff from there

- https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/

- https://textfiles.com/

If you are searching for Pre Main stream internet, you can start with BBS Documentary

- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7nj3G6Jpv2G6Gp6NvN1k...

If you are looking for collaborators on this project then, I'd love to join and make this a thing (:
>There is no threat, unless you do exactly what I say.

You do your taxes every year so you can avoid jail time. But you won't simply call out to Jesus Christ with a true heart and ask for salvation?

Think about it! That's all it takes!
It's fascinating how deeply automobiles affect every aspect of our lives to the point where seatbelt vs safety seat even matters. To consider a world without significant car commuting each day seems insane to most people because it's what we grew up with and take for granted, as our population grows and new suburbs expand outwards we just need more roads and more cars. What are the alternatives? A different approach to society and urban planning that minimised commute distance between essential locations within cohorts would surely result in far fewer road fatalities but it does seem like few people are willing to make the lifestyle changes needed.
Yeah these threads pop up on HN all the time and everyone starts talking about apple tv and roku whatever and I think they're all... pretty dumb.

HDMI + Computer is just the best answer. Works in hotels just fine. I'm not aware of any smart TVs that push ads over your connected devices feed even if you do let them update for no good reason. Keyboard and mouse is better than remotes. Web search is the best search. You can use streaming sites. It's basically free. You can... use it as a living room computer. Hit up spotify and now it's also your sound controller. Have browser tabs. Play videogames.
Totally, our $30,000,000,000,000 in government debt got us some measurement data that is barely a passing grade (~1/3 incorrect data). They kind of dropped the ball after that but a private company was able to clean the data and make it neat visualization that got up votes on HN.

My faith in the government is restored.
This is probably the best thing you can do if they're using third party "hosted" sending infrastructure - the host will carefully monitor each tenant's spam rate, and terminate relationships with customers that have a high number of spam reports (as it harms their deliverability as a provider).

It's not ideal, but it should start to impact their ability or willingness to send out cold unsolicited sales messages.
> Half of the questions ask about going on vacation, maybe we are seeing that people who have enough time to “go abroad” twice a year live longer, I would believe that.

First of all, they explicitly mention controlling for income disparity. Second, the questions seemed reasonable to me. One for sunbathing in summer, one for sunbathing in winter which mentions travel, one for tanning beds, and one for specifically about vacationing in sunny places.

Keep in mind the context. This study was not designed to answer "is sunlight good for you" or "do people who sunbathe a lot live longer". AFAICT it was designed to answer "is avoiding sunlight bad for you." Those questions seem reasonable to suss out how much someone seeks/avoids sun exposure. There might be better ones, but it seems hubristic to just assume so, so casually.

> The study didn’t include any men!!!

I don't know why they limited the study to women. I assumed it was to make it easier to control for confounds, but they could've had some other reason. Maybe sunscreen ads are mostly targeted towards women in Sweden, and they thought a larger number of women would turn out to be sun-avoiders. In any event, this isn't a problem with the study, this is just complaining that they studied something different than what you're interested in knowing.

> [differences between the most-sun and least-sun in education, exercise, age, etc]

Of course there were differences, those things correlate with pretty much everything worth studying. Are you saying that the authors didn't control for them (then why collect data on them and include it?), or that they did so badly (why do you think that), or something else?

> I appreciate the work the authors did, but remain unconvinced that it is sunlight that caused lower mortality in their study.

I don't think epidemiological studies ever prove that anything causes anything, we're talking about correlations here. The conclusion was that avoiding sun is associated with higher all-cause mortality among women. I'll believe that until there's a reason not to.
Snowflake increases performance all the time and their customers just use more of it.
The sheer amount of Youtube videos showing someone building a PC makes it much easier than it was in the pre- youtube days- you can follow along with the people in the video as they are building their PC. If you buy a popular case you can probably find a video of someone working with that exact case.
I'm not excusing Russian anything and Im not repeating any propaganda.

I'm explaining that war, gas crisis and 18% inflation was a predictable and deliberately chosen path that wasnt hard to avoid if we'd wanted to - simply by withdrawing an invitation.

You didnt want to avoid this scenario and consider withdrawing this invitation and "denying ukraine that right". I get that.
Very interesting license structure: https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/blob/main/LICENSE
Even that won't protect you from being banned if Google ever infers that the two accounts are related.

I just refuse to use Google for anything other than mail at this point.
TL DR for comments:
Apple damned if it does and damned if it doesn't
Yup! That's how most people run Headway right now. You can probably get by with around 2GB of RAM for a medium-sized metro, possibly even less.

Also for full-planet requirements, the OVH box running maps.earth has 64GB of RAM and 6 physical cores and is really struggling right now. Load average is about 40, most its CPU time is spent on the Valhalla service. Really enjoying watching the metrics right now :)
Well said. I'd also add a cynical note that the recurring revenue model is incentivized to keep the gremlins around not just because of the impact to metered costs, but also because off-ramping is that much more difficult once engineers implement workaround/solutions to mitigate the impact of those smells.

Just another way that vendor lock-in occurs (intentionally or otherwise).
They aren’t exclusive. They also have perverse incentives to leave optimization gremlins in, even if they are very low hanging fruit to remove. They also have the incentive to not document them well.
> Insurance is a "smoothing" tool, it lets you break a $5k lump expense out into $50/mo payments, it's not free money.

This is called a loan. Insurance "smooths" across the population, because not everybody breaks their laptop.

Of course you pay more after renewal when you make a claim (because you've shown yourself to be at risk for breaking laptops), but if you are able to make an insurance claim for something you generally do better in the long run making that claim than not - that's the entire point of insurance, nobody would get it if it was a net negative when you had to use it.