skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Private medical care is in most circumstances illegal in Canada and they have large enough wait lists that people are dying in large numbers waiting for medical care. Medical tourism to Canada is a non-starter for Yanks.

Can you cite a source for people dying in "large" numbers waiting for medical care in Canada?
I have no problem downloading the ROMs of games I already own, the data is functionally identical, regardless of where I got the data from, from a physical Switch or off the internet.
It doesn't apply to private companies, which is probably why they outsource it.
That was a mini plot in Bill the Galactic Hero. A group of revolutionaries recruits Bill.

When they actually start a revolution, every single conspirator quietly leaves the crowd to join a hideout of the secret government agency they were working for.
You're describing The Man Who Was Thursday. Great novel!
Also, you don't get to live there.
Besides this use case, it has been supported on Windows Server configurations.
“Social safety net”

14% of people in UK are skipping meals because they can’t afford food right now.

https://theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/18/one-in-7-briton...
>Wouldn't it be almost impossible to hit a duplicate when the users each form their own question?

The embeddings approach would increase the likelyhood of finding the same question, even if phrased slightly differently.
> And it's not about Southern accents:

To be fair, they do make specific mention of (Germanic) "Southern states" which you could imagine that someone at a less reputable news outlet like Fox might gloss over in order to spin some bullshit.

"The Southern states have the highest share of speakers with distinct accent. The interaction term is positive, hinting at a lower penalty for Southern dialects.

(which, if I'm reading correctly, suggests that "Southern accents" actually hurt you less - at least in Germany?)

Also not reviewed but that seems an irrelevant nit compared with "it's talking about an entirely different country".

"[NBER working papers] have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications."
My mom has a parrot (would fly away in evening and then come back every morning to eat and then slowly stopped flying away and would stay overnight, so we decided to keep it) and it also has nightmares or something sometimes at night while sleeping. it would suddenly wake up very stressed, run around with feathers shaking etc.
Sounds like the normal Google business model to me
NFTs are so 2021
Of course, billing is by procedure done.

If you bring up a complaint, it's no longer a preventative check-up, it's addressing a complaint, which has a different billing code and different reimbursement.
I just shared that about my mom's parrot and then I came across your comment!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36101594
Awesome to see someone working on this. It is unfortunate that there are so many non-interoperable decentralized social media protocols.

Have you looked into Farcaster's or Secure Scuttlebutt protocols too?
Oh, wow. That takes me back to my first PC, an Amstrad PC1512 (dual 5¼"), which came with CGA and B/W monitor.

I tricked that baby out with additional RAM (640 kB really was enough for most people), a 32 MB HD on an ISA card, and, importantly in this context, a Hercules card. The latter was switchable, so you still could run CGA games, while enjoying the crisp text and line graphics of Hercules.
> Premise 2: No Quantum Shenanigans
> But for most of us, this is an easy premise to accept.

I'm baffled by this statement and wonder if that really is true, I would assume otherwise if you look outside the western IT bubble.

But even if you don't have religious reasons for rejecting this statement, how can you know that there aren't aspects to intelligence that we completely overlook (an unknown unknown) today?

The whole situation could look like the cargo cult situation, where we build something that looks like the real thing but we're far from understanding the real thing. Historically we've done this mistake again and again.

But I get that working like such premises were true might be necessary to make progress. And progress is basically iterating into the right direction.
You might enjoy G. K. Chesterton's 1908 novel The Man Who Was Thursday.[1]

Spoiler from the Wikipedia plot synopsis:

"In his efforts to thwart the council, Syme eventually discovers that five of the other six members are also undercover detectives; each was employed just as mysteriously and assigned to defeat the Council. They soon find out they were fighting each other and not real anarchists..."

In 1977, Philip K Dick took this up a notch in A Scanner Darkly[2], in which the drug-addled protagonist is unknowingly spying and informing on himself.

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday

[2] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanner_darkly
QUERY has nothing to do with the actual contents of the request body beyond "it is hashable text". That could be JSON, GraphQL, weird SQL cousins, or anything else.
And the link titles on hacker news are following the same trajectory that Reddit did about a decade ago. It's depressing.
Does that mean you've seen something similar lead to disbarment and prison time? What was it?

I would personally be surprised because I haven't seen that.
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I think the only sane model for openai wrappers is user's bring their own API key.
Portability is a thing.

(Works swell ok Steam Deck though.)
Not favourably to Emacs.
Much of this article appears to be taking advertising copy as gospel truth. There is an awful lot of snake oil in the "threat intelligence" space. Keep in mind that it's easy (and unverifiable) for these companies to allude to super important secret squirrel government contracts when trying to convince Fortune 500 CSOs to pay for their overpriced "dark web" scrapers.
I stopped paying attention to these sorts of stats when I realised it’s far more effective to focus on improving what I’m making in a way that doesn’t compromise other things I value in life (leisure time, location, type of work, etc) than it is worrying about what people in other economies make with no context.
Annual PSA checkups absolutely save lives.
> "One law we definitely need is to make sure people can't become genetic parents without their knowledge or consent," says Greely.

Exactly when and how is consent given?

Going down this ethical train of thought, one could argue that sexual intercourse only implies consent for sexual intercourse, not consent for reproduction. If the requirement for consent implies a requirement for a written contract, then consent for sexual intercourse does not imply consent for reproduction. If the requirement for consent merely implies a requirement for a lack of coercion and allowing people to continue on with what they have found along the path of life, then surely one should be allowed to make do with the barber's garbage.

Eventually, the discussion should stop revolving around consent and start revolving around commitment. Women should have a right to expect men to decide whether or not to make a commitment by a certain deadline, and should have the power of the courts to hold men to that commitment, should it be made. And nobody should presume that celebrities are making a commitment (of any kind) to anyone who decides that a celebrity's trash is their treasure.
Where I’m from in the South, having a notably Southern accent is a tell that you grew up in a lower class family and area, and all that goes with it (like having less education). Obviously it doesn’t mean you’re stupid, but regarding education and workforce readiness (a lot of Southern communities have very low workforce participation rates, and almost no white collar jobs outside government) it’s a Bayes rule thing.

So I would dispute the causation here - it’s not the accent itself that reduces wages, but being from a poorer family without much exposure to the corporate world that does.

Though of course, even aspects of the mild accent I do have invite unwanted attention sometimes, so it’s no surprise people with much stronger accents would code switch and conceal it.
Venetians are pondering raising their entire city
Plus, new patient appointments are a 6-9 month wait where I am (suburban California) so it could take over 2 years to try 3 Primary care doctors.

We just got a doctor appointment now after scheduling in September. Went into the office and the receptionist explained “oh, sorry, Doctor X is busy and can’t make his appointment. Next available is in July.”

It’s always funny when people say “universal healthcare will have long wait times for doctors like in Europe!!” This is is currently happening in the USA.
If people are bothered by Emacs startup times they usually just use Emacs Daemon. I let systemd start it for me at boop, for example.
I used originally migrated to paid protonmail personal, for a while. Then i upgraded to enterprise to try out/demo out my usecase. Big mistake. I couldnt undo it. Finally waa able to.migrate to fastmail.

Proton drawbacks:
- NO autofwd emails
- expensive
- customer support is below avg

Fastmaul drawbacks:
- NO multidimensional hierarchy (NO folders+ labels allowed)
They were infected with SARS-CoV-2, they didn't get COVID-19.

I've poked at it on and off for years, but it does really annoy me how people mean the first when they say the second. It's been so bad for so long that few people actually understood Pfizer's press release for their vaccine back in 2020, which did distinguish between the two terms. Ended up in pretty regular arguments with people claiming "Pfizer said..." when Pfizer said no such thing, they just didn't understand what Pfizer did say. This includes media and politicians (not that I was arguing with them, but that they were also wrong and people were using them as sources).
Consider the demographic differences. In the northeast it appears private education, wealth, family pedigree, and family connections are major deal makers in life generally. An aristocracy. That is not a cultural norm outside the northeast even when family wealth is present. This cultural distinction creates identifiable exclusion.
As a parent, I’d be fucking

PISSED THE FUCK OFF

if the FBI had been investigating my kid for nothing like this. I would have an absolute fit. I would demand action from my senators and congress critters. I would sue so hard for civil rights violations against underage kids.
Nobody from the south would be caught dead in California? Mostly kidding.
They were very much in the console business for a long time.
Yes, but you're ignoring the population aspect.

Let's say an insurance company has 1M members, so if you screen everyone for diabetes each year, it 1M * $100 = $100M.

Or you don't screen everyone, but just pay the costs when they get so sick they are admitted. So it's 1M * 0.01% (diabetes that results in 30 days of hospitalization) * $300K = $30M

You just saved $70M by not screening everyone.

And it's not just private insurance companies that do this, government paid healthcare systems do too. It's just basic health economics. Of course, the goal is to include all costs, lost work, etc.

It's an entire field of study.

The thing is - when you look at how best to allocate healthcare dollars, what's great at a population level can suck at the individual level because you're just one patient out of millions.
>unions give people material power over their conditions

How's that working out for people's retirement age huh? Seems somehow it's still increasing.
Habits are not always preferences.

Political groups are lazy and/or inept and will assume such.
This will be great until we select away our natural ability to reproduce, and then the power goes out and nobody can reproduce anymore and humanity goes extinct in one generation
How is that less secure than a REST API Frontend to an SQL database, like PHPMyAdmin?

I don’t think anyone suggests we all open our databases to the web; but if you choose to do so, or if you happen to work on a modern database, like Elasticsearch or CouchDB, which accept queries via HTTP, now there’s a better way to implement queries in regard to caching.

That being said: I’ve been wondering for a long time what a backend API could look like that used SQL instead of JSON as the query format - not to pass it to the database verbatim, but with an application layer that speaks SQL, applies business logic, queries the database, and responds in SQL. That would save a lot of reinvented wheels in terms of filtering, ordering, joining, and so on, and give developers a query language they already know. And suddenly, having a QUERY method available sounds useful, too :)
Which speaks to his point, once upon a time Sega would hog their IPs for their console and arcade games.

They changed their strat abt a decade ago.
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> What, so the grid is indestructible but organising diesel for busses is an impossible task?

No, grids fail locally quite often and that's easier to manage. A large scale outage where you need to move thousands of people, and know who/where they are in the first place, with plans not fully tested for a decade at a time however is going to fail in many ways, especially when communication is also impacted. Maintaining the plans, training, supplies, etc long term is also not trivial.

Community can step us locally in many ways, but not as state-wide solution.

> be managed in an emergency fashion a lot more cheaply than raising power prices by 33% across the board

There an assumption that it will be effective at scale. And that the price increase would be required. (I've seen quite a few sources saying proper maintenance would be cheaper than dealing with the fallout)
Although this article definitely some weird "modern academic" aspects, overall I feel like many of the commenters here are being uncharitable towards the author.

Epictetus is by far my favourite of the Stoics I've read. The Enchiridion is short, acerbic, enlightening and funny. You don't get that much in philosophy, and I think that author clearly appreciates that.

That said, in the end I think Nietzsche is right in his criticism: Stoicism works, but it limits one's capacity for joy because to tools you use to combat negative emotion unintentionally, but necessarily, limit positive emotion.

I practiced Stoicism pretty seriously for a few years and it definitely improved my life, but once you've used it to build a solid emotional foundation, the Stoic tactics (which essentially involve always watching yourself for deviations from the Stoic path) limit your ability to experience extremes of joy.

There are elements of Stoicism (like negative visualisation) that are easy to integrate into life and are pretty much only positive, but for me, full-blown Stoicism is something I only bring out when I need to re-establish that solid baseline.
I think 2x 1 Gb/s symmetric home fibers + SuperMicro 12x SATA Atom Mini-ITX with Samsung drives can solve this fairly cheaply and durably depending on write intensity.

That said above 80 TB is looking hard for eternity, unless you can provide backup power and endure noise of spinning drives.
For a long time, I held off using Hotwire in my Rails apps, because I didn't understand it, and because I found the official documentation hard to digest.

So I decided to write the guide I wish I had when I was learning Hotwire.

The sample app we build isn't pretty, but it's the simplest possible app I could come up with to help illustrate all the different parts of Hotwire, and how they link together.

By the end of the guide, you'll know how to use `turbo_stream_from`, `broadcasts_to` and `turbo_frame_tag` to build a live frontend — all done with Hotwire, no extra JS required.

I hope you find this resource useful! If you can think of any improvements share them with me. I'm also happy to answer any questions you might have.
this! finally advice that includes some specific online things not just generic "pick up the phone and cold-call local businesses".

Another online possibility: throw up some Amazon (or similar) affiliate links to products and services, maybe even based on what people type (if that's accessible).

And next to them "opt out of the ads" link that goes to a donations website, to get fancy. Helps clear the conscience about having the ads in the first place.
So you advocate avoiding doctors and prescriptions unless you break a leg? Good luck when you get one of the many things modern medicine does treat pretty well.

Your criticism of it may have some truth to it, possibly particularly when applied to the US, but the conclusions you draw from them are foolish.

And you'll drop them like they're nothing when you get a bacterial infection your body can't deal with, the likelihood of which will increase in the second half of your life. Or maybe you won't, and die much earlier than necessary. We just had this discussion on a societal level.
Yeah, Copilot serves this purpose wonderfully—I've actually started writing documentation straight in VSCode and even occasionally things like certain emails, Jira tickets, or just general notes pertaining to anything vaguely technical, solely because Copilot is quite good at acting as a technical writing assistant.

Since it's just OpenAI's text completion model with a code finetune and without the chat/assistant RLHF, it works much better as an "advanced autocomplete" than ChatGPT or even OpenAI's Turbo model via their API. I can be much more surgical with how I use it (often accepting just a few words at a time), and it's good at following my usual tone.
I believe the Hackage.nix library [1] has a solution to this problem, specifically for Haskell packages.

The `text` package [2] has many major, minor, and fix versions. Many of these versions are still required by projects. However, the current Nix Packages only has one version [3], and maybe a second version under a different name.

Hackage.nix will provide any version of `text` published on Hackage.

One downside is that `text` is not pulled from Nix Packages. The project's specific version of `text` must be cached elsewhere, or built from source. So it is slower.

[1] https://github.com/input-output-hk/hackage.nix
[2] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/text
[3] https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=22.11&show=haskell...
Another point for my favourite HN mobile client. HACK is also available for iOS on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-reader/id...
> project Microsoft's 1,500-person research team had been working on for decades said, "OpenAI built this with 250 people

One team was focused on the result while the other on the process and politics. Just my guess. Now Google and Meta are refocusing their teams as well.
> I wonder how this trend plays out in the long run. I.e. how many of the 0.3% were due to die in the next few years because of existing health conditions?

Assuming the cause is covid and it matches the past three years, like 80-90% of them. The average age of covid deaths has always been above the average life expectancy.
A piece of old paper with some words won’t do anything, we need to ensure the government listens to those words. Lately, I feel like there isn’t much we can do that’s not radical to get them to listen.
That's why they're caching the body of requests with a new method.

New and clearly distinct type of requests, new practices.

It isn't just the size of the request that makes people not want to put them in the query string, it's use of the query string over decades.
That sounds more likely, especially given the stats later in the article:

> Another recent study found that 38% of job seekers admitted to "softening" their regional accents during interviews because of negative stereotypes.

> This study by the Writing Tips Institute found that applicants with a Southern accent were the fourth most likely to change their voice. People from Western New England, South Midland and New Jersey were the most likely to alter their accents.

It just sounds like people with Southern accents and their guidance counselors haven't figured it out yet.
Y’all is just a great word though, I grew up in the southwest and my family was from the Midwest, but I use y’all. It’s just fun to say!
You think you’ll have freedom to make your own decisions when millions of others are doing the same?

I think you’ll just have a natural disaster and a man-made disaster as people start shooting over toilet paper.

Look how they acted over haircuts. Look how 3 years later people are shooting folks who use their driveway to turn around.

Americans have a huge credibility issue, and act like god damn chimps flinging shit in the best of times.

You and too many others are afflicted with the idea you live in a vacuum. Your mind palace doesn’t exist to me.
No, not moral ownership. De facto ownership. I never talked anything about morality. The fact is Russia took Crimea by force and is physically occupying it. The only way to get it back is by force. Until they Russia unquestionably owns Crimea. Saying “it’s not fair!” will not change the fact that Russia is currently owning Crimea.
Well, what's the point of comparing anything? What's the point of contextualizing? Perhaps it gives us a fuller understanding of the world. It is worth recognizing that most people outside of East Asia are basically unaware of the fact that Imperial Japan killed perhaps 20M civilians in its wars of aggression.
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My point is pretty simple. Musk should allow Ukraine to use Starlink in Crimea.

Do you agree, or disagree?

You have a way of dancing around my point. So lets be as short and direct as possible.'

> I destroyed that argument with words from Ukrainian officials themselves.

Cool. So... it wouldn't be so hard for Musk to enable Crimean access to Starlink? Argue all you want, but the Ukrainians are waiting. And whenever Mr. Musk supporters go on wild tangents about why Russia is the true owner of Crimea or some other crap like that, you only hurt the argument and further prove Mr. Musk's pro-Russian sympathies.
Portable mode has a reduced resolution and so potentially better performance. (on the real device at least)
No. Instead I will convince you in opposition to HTTP.

Switching from HTTP to WebSockets across the board increased the test automation in my app 7x. This also simplified a massive amount of administration and maintenance in my application regarding micro services.

HTTP2 is better than HTTP for downloading many assets simultaneously, but if you want your web application to be fast you need to bundle assets as much as possible there are fewer things to need in parallel.
https://archive.is/vC9sJ
Charge for it. Simply charge each user $1 and cover your costs. Sounds like it's a fun tool but if you want to sustain it then get people to pay.
> So what was the correct policy exactly?

Here's one easy one: Don't use medical jargon in news/media. For example, they shouldn't have called it a "novel coronavirus". It means something specific and totally different in a medical context as it does to the layperson, and I expect it was a huge part of the overreaction.
IMHO that’s one of the main benefits of following the Model-View-ViewModel architecture pattern for GUIs. You can have all the models and viewmodels defined in a platform agnostic library, and your views are the only thing to implement in a platform specific way. The core library can be implemented in any language, you just need a way to call methods and setters when the user interacts, and handle update events to update the UI.
>but it's a bit hard to know what to do with them except inform one's own crackpot theories about psychology and civilization.

But that's exactly what you're supposed to do with it! Personal crackpot theories are beautiful in a way that no mainstream ideology will ever be. More useful, too - as they're attuned to one's own lived experiences in this world, and not to the ideal spherical rational agent in a vacuum that the bean-counters assume.