skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You get access to it when you need it IF you have paid for insurance. Otherwise, maybe you're on a bronze plan and whatever specialist you need to see costs $10K out of pocket, on top of the $30K in coverage you already have to pay just for base insurance.

When I was shopping, I didn't see any difference in coverage by changing the metal. I went with the Bronze, because it had the least total for monthly costs + out of pocket max, which in theory means if I don't use much, I pay less, and if I cap out, I pay less. The other metals make more sense, IMHO, if you have a lot of contact with the medical system, but not enough to hit the out of pocket max. Of course, employer based plans can be a lot better than marketplace plans, most/many marketplace plans don't over coverage out of your home area/state, where a lot of employer based plans have nationwide coverage. It's a mess.
I am saying you can't substitute any product or service. The way that a product or service is produced is relevant.

I'm producing free content that's competing for your attention with National Geographic right now. If I wanted to make a beer that competed with your favorite beer it would take months (at least) and a substantial investment before the first bottle arrived at a store near you.

Additionally, competition has different effects on different products. You can compete with educational content by making content that is more educational. You can also compete with it by making content that is less educational but more fun.

The specifics really matter here.
At least Singapore explicitly has in their Visa requirements that founding and selling a company is equivalent to a high level degree for their work visa requirements.

So many of these "talent" visa's don't look at talent at all.
I liked the Pebble Time Round because it was and still is way smaller than literally any other smartwatch (and most regular watches). I didn't love wearing watches in general but I didn't mind wearing the PTR. Even "small" smartwatches feel like a brick in comparison.
Missed a / at the end I'll repost
Without root it consumes more battery. Using DNS adblocking is more efficient. Like NextDNS or pi-hole.
I have been experiencing this for awhile. I think it is an utterly dumb policy.

They literally have an employee standing in front of the self-checkout asking to peer at your card to make sure it's really you.

Here is the thing, if I write a shopping list and give it to someone with a card to go buy the stuff for me, it is purchased by a member. Costco gets their money at the listed price. They don't have jurisdiction after it leaves the store.. imagine.. "sorry, I can't pour you a drink, this bottle was purchased at costco and you're not a member"..

So, if someone gives their card to a non-member, who cares? The card was paid for to begin with! It can only be used one at a time. And in today's world where covid is floating around.. maybe you don't want a sick person to go to the store to make purchases, except Costco wants to peer at the card.. but if that's what's required, then sick people will go to Costco to do shopping because they're not allowed to send their spouse or kid..

DUMB POLICY.
It took me 4 months to see an endocrinologist. Some things suck.
It would be a much more interesting story if that were the original sin.
Recent and related:

Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries permits - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505152 - June 2023 (583 comments)

Canada's new tech talent strategy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36506854 - June 2023 (78 comments)
If you want something simple and so cheap you don't have to worry about it then I can recommend the PineTime (< $30).

The OS is open source. The finish is good (though not high end materials but still water proofed), runs for multiple days and does phone notifications just fine.

It is very bare bones though.
Booming field that outsiders don't understand will continue to attract deadweight useless people.

Of course there's a bunch of people that can't find jobs, a CS degree is not a rigorous endeavour, there's no bar exam, no MCAT. Just a bunch of people who think it's a free lunch surprised they have to compete for it.
The healthcare system is not as solid as one might think. Getting family doctors in certain provinces is almost impossible - the waiting lists are months to years now. Seeing specialists, again 6-12 months wait time. If you are dying, yes you will get good care at the ER. But anything less urgent, you have to wait for hours to be seen. There is an acute shortage of doctors and nurses. And there is no proper solution being put forward by politicians. Some of them are focused on gutting the public healthcare system so that private players can move in and reap profits.
I ctrl-f'd that link for the words "X-ray" and "Xray". No results. Please quote the part that proves I'm wrong.
The word "everyone" is obviously hyperbole. Both games have developers. But the idea that microtransaction cash influences the allocation of developers and artists is pretty reasonable.
I first learnt about him from a very interesting book, "Three scientists and their Gods".

I think the chapter about him is excerpted in this Atlantic piece:

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/88apr/wright.ht...
> What I like about the Rust (and to a lesser extent, Go) approach to error handling is, you know up front if and what errors a function might return. And additionally, the compiler forces you to at least consider how you’re going to deal with it.

> By comparison, the python approach to dealing with exceptions is quite chunky

> try:
> function()
> except SomeException:
> # etc

> I think this, in fact, encourages just letting exceptions bubble up, rather than fussing about with handling them.

Letting exceptions bubble up is usually the right thing to do. Handle them centrally, e.g. in middleware for a web application.
I was trying to be funny. PR stands for public relations.
Someone must know what I mean, hence the downvote lol
After pandemic Canadian health started to noticed how much they messed up during and the PR machine started an error correction course, so you probably got the benefit of that. I'm glad that you did, but it's not the same experience for everyone. It's good to be grateful but terrible to bring down others who don't receive the same thing as liars or ignorant.
All I want is an analog watch that shades the face of the watch when I have calendar events coming up. That's it. No screen, no pings, no nothing. Just the ability to check my watch and see how long till my next appointment. Unfortunately, [this kickstarter watch](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1540240985/calendar-wat...) is now dead.
I've worked as a software engineer both in Canada and in the US. The taxes were no different and I got far more for my taxes in Canada than I did in the US.
Canada's population just hit 40m this week. Still small compared to the US, but it is no longer in the 30s :)
For tech workers absolutely not, this is insane.
Is that what happened in this case? If not, why say it?
That's how it was. If you took it to use as identification of your name, they would say don't tell anyone your health status, at that time it was not something you share at all. In your wallet, you would place it at the back, or memorize it so nobody knows you have one.

Only recently, late 2000s did they start accepting it at bars and such.
Wow! I’m just a normal person here. Could someone explain how that’s making the sound from the AM station like it’s a speaker?
It only rounds to zero if you are uninformed.

Consider updating your priors on this topic
tech workers in US generally have very good health insurance provided by employer which means access to better and faster care than in Canada
> Which we seldom due on most C++ projects, we rather rely on binary libraries and build only our own code.

Depends on the project. Many commercial projects do vendor dependencies and build them too, because you can't rely on the OS version. Especially on Windows or with more niche dependencies.

Just compiling Boost takes 15 minutes - more than any Rust project I've ever compiled.

Not sure what you mean about multiple toolchains.
Presumably wait times in the US are made shorter by the fact that many people can't afford medical treatment at all. If it's expensive then it's less accessible, or inaccessible, by definition.
Thank you - was really trying to understand why OC was being sniped at with a Grand Theft Auto reference (much less what the ref was supposed to imply...)
The impression I've always had of Canada is there simply isn't enough country to sustain their level of socialism. Conservatism can be important esp. when trying to conserve resources.

Specifically, despite having higher population per square mile than the US (1 person per 10 miles compared to 1 person per 80 miles), they have about the 6th of the population, and fewer major city centers (about 10 > 500k in Canada versus about 30 > 500k in the US).

Fewer large city centers translates to fewer tech companies, more competition for housing hence home and rent increases, less reliable health care, and of the fewer tech companies that do exist they have a smaller market, hence lower pay.

Climate/terrain is also a huge issue, large portions of their provinces are either frozen tundra or "back-woods-y", which is great if you want to live on a farm or go long-distance skiing or sledding, but pretty poor for building population centers. I wouldn't want to be living there right now with the recent outbreaks of fires and smoke/smog, either (not all their fault, but).

This is not a set of problem unique to Canada, either - depending on where you live in the US the health care system can be equally or worse broken, thanks to localized over-population or under-population - e.g. Maine/Alaska have a lot of problems with being both poor and barren states with mostly tourism for industry, and simultaneously absurdly expensive to live in due to their tourism, states like NYC and SoCal suffer extreme over-population that necessitates small fortunes to even maintain a meager lifestyle and drive out lower-class workers, and on the flip side overly conservative states like Texas suffer from rampant corruption and as a result healthcare and utilities are generally some mix of unsafe, unaffordable, in-accessible, outside of the large city centers (and now in some cases illegal thanks to recent political events in the US).
So in absolute terms, you took a paycut, and in relative terms, you still had to pay more? I hope you really like Canada, because that sounds like a bitch slap to say the least.
There are many dimensions by which to compare healthcare systems (e.g. availability of care, cost, quality, speed) and different samples and statistics to consider (means, medians, 10th-percentiles, different demographic groups e.g. different races, different worker groups e.g. tech workers).

It's complex, but overall the US system is better than Canada's. It's not as clear cut comparing the US to some European countries, but with Canada it's mostly clear cut. And it's especially clear cut for tech workers. If you work in tech, you're highly likely to have very good coverage through your employer, you will almost surely experience much better availability and speed of care, probably better quality, and the extra out-of-pocket costs are absolutely dwarfed by the superior pay in the US.
I can't stand when MSM news sites use links with anchor text that appears to direct you to some underlying source material, but with an href that actually just takes you to another article on their website.
postgres -> pg_graphl -> graphql_codegen

^ my preferred alternative to ORMs
If I switch to another chanell during ad on TV, is it theft?

AdBlockers just saves a lot of your time and keep you sane during content consumption.
The issue with iPhone batteries was one of communication — what they were doing, they still do, as do all smartphone manufactures, because it’s just a downside of lithium batteries.

> the no-iCloud experience

What?

> The way regular Bluetooth headsets work fine, but AirPods work better.

I… I don’t see how this is apple’s fault. Bluetooth, as a standard, is obviously limiting. Apple, making both headphones and the devices that play audio, had an opportunity to offer a better product to their customers if you use other apple devices. That’s fine, and I would argue, eminently reasonable. I just don’t get what you’re driving at here, would love to hear more.

The reason I like apple is that, in vague general terms, their interests as a company often align with my interests as a consumer.

Yes, you can argue that apple has made changes in safari detrimental to google for business reasons. But shit, I’m happy about that. The less data my phone silently sends off to google, the better.

Maybe I’ve just fallen for their ploy, but I do actually really like the apple products I own (and I often try the non-apple alternatives because I love tech). No company is perfect, and I know they aren’t my friend or don’t care about me. But until I feel apples interests diverge from my own significantly, I’ll find alternatives.
Yeah, my first thought after reading the article was something like, "so I guess everyone will have to start grabbing phone/SMS apps out of F-Droid now". Annoying, but not that big of a deal, and I suspect the replacements will be better anyways. Worst case, the community and/or individual ROMs just fork the old AOSP versions, which has happened before as Google abandons things.
Another enthusiastic Bangle.js user here: I had the original and used it, programmed it until the strap (integrated into the body) broke.

Apparently you can actually connect it to phone notifications using gadgetbridge[0] but I didn't have much success when I tried it. The BLE was a little flaky at the best of times (pairing to a PC for programming failed more often than I'd like).

[0] https://www.espruino.com/Gadgetbridge
Are you an expert on carbon fiber or nondestructive testing and monitoring of carbon fiber? What is your personal experience building submersibles or aircraft?
Sadly, from all the car traffic, the vast majority agrees.
You are in Victoria!
paypal has been broken for 20 years
They Fool Ya (Live)
Where in the US are taxes as high as Canada's? My taxes in the US are significantly lower, and I live in the state with the highest state tax.
It still exists.

F-Droid also has alternative dialers, so I don't see how this is a big issue.
Huh, this turned into a wee-hours rant. Sorry. I hope the extra information in it makes up for that.

The Ars article focused on the NANOGrav raft of papers; NANOGrav is just one of the several pulsar timing array collaborations that are in this synchronized un-embargoing of papers. There is substantial overlap between, say, the NANOGrav papers in the Ars Technica article and the joint InPTA/EPTA set which includes https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16225
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16214 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16226 but also enough non-overlap to encourage reading all of them (and to refresh one's foundational knowledge by consulting e.g. Burke-Spolaor et al 2019 "The astrophysics of nanohertz gravitational waves", <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00159-019-0115-7>).

Unfortunately I find myself griping about a focus on -- to be rude -- only the USA-based-institutions-dominated collaboration (<https://nanograv.org/collaboration/partner-institutions>, although of course there are non-USA and non-North American institutions and researchers in that collab too). Relatively USA-institution-light collabs will chase press attention in different markets and in different ways, of course, but there is scant sign of them in the Ars article (which at least names and links to IPTA) or in the WaPo one (which only lists "Europe, India, Australia and China", not naming the actual collabs).

The inter-collab two year plan on synchronization of paper releases (the "3P+ agreement") itself is something of a story; I wonder if it's going to get much attention in anyone's press.

That said, I don't mind either Ouellette's or Achenbach & Jaggard's reporting. I think they serve amateur enthusiasts well enough that their summaries of the results and science don't need to be nitpicked. Other than that both articles use the unhelpful cliché "fabric of space[-]time" (the latter also has "fabric of the cosmos", "fabric of space and time", because variety is important right?), grrrrrrrr.
Yeah right, because the spammers cared for facts.
> Look at all the "adult" men today, especially in America for some reason, whose desks are littered with action figures and whose offices contain a shrine to comic book superheros and Star Wars/Trek that would put the Sistine Chapel to shame.

Eh. I've adulted plenty, sir. I've started companies, I'm the father of 3 boys, and now I run a program at a nonprofit and I'm responsible for the safety and well-being of a lot of youth.

But I still like watching Mobile Suit Gundam, building plastic models, and playing SNES games on my MiSTer. And that's OK: maybe you don't find meaning in it and maybe you view it as childish. But I find enjoyment in these simple things and don't need to eviscerate them to prove how grown up I am.

(And now and then, my boys catch enthusiasm for these things, and we can experience them together which is really awesome, too).
SP had nothing to do with vaporwave. He was starting a music career, but his album was very good. This was a problem because vaporwave was political music in a post-political world; it was never supposed to exist. Vaporwave was an unlikely and fragile cultural phenomenon, dependent on the ephemeral presence thing. SP just kinda ruined that. Everything after was an imitation; hence why this article acknowledges the Marxism faded.
I believe they started archiving reddit stuff in 2021, in reaction to a different PR disaster. There was definitely a huge push to archive more and faster in the last month though.
Relative to the cost of living, the pay is peanuts. You live in the GTA paying SF like rent, but paid 1/5 of the salary.
Agree. I spent quite a lot of effort at a previous role trying to convince junior developers to stop using except pretty much everywhere and just let the program explode, because that's really what you want most of the time. The problem is that sometimes in Python exceptions can be used for control flow, or for things that are reasonably common. In that case, it's very useful to know ahead of time what errors might be returned.
There are open source alternatives available (e.g. on F-Droid). So I don't see why this is such a big issue.
> I get a bunch of sites that just list a dozen terrible Amazon products with affiliate links to each. [...] maybe they've cleaned up lately

The faucet turned off in 2020, when Amazon reduced affiliate payouts for many products [1] and cut off third-party affiliate networks [2]. There are still a lot of those sites around, but there's no longer the same level of incentives for them to be created.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/14/amazon-slashes-commission-ra...

[2]: https://www.adexchanger.com/ecommerce-2/amazon-removes-third...
That's correct, if a doctor has ordered an X-Ray for you, you can walk into a lab and get it right away. The GP made up that specific example and it was wrong but I think their broader point is correct that there is a severe lack of access to basic health services in Canada. In British Columbia, about 25% of the population has no access to a family doctor, and an other 35% or so report being unable to easily book an appointment with them. Wait times to see a specialist actually are many months, and doctors are reluctant to give any referrals to them. In fact, it is difficult to get doctors to take anything seriously. IME they do very little proactive work and getting them to think critically about what could be the underlying cause of an issue rather than just telling you to try Tylenol is very difficult. There is zero recourse and you can't go to a different doctor because it's impossible to find a family doctor these days, at least in the Vancouver area. I've called dozens of practices within a couple hours of Vancouver and none are taking patients. Many literally turn off their phones and don't answer them anymore because it's easier to only have patients email them. There are no consequences for bad service because again, you have no choice, and of course they don't care about negative reviews.

It's common for doctors to have a "single issue per visit" policy these days, which is completely ridiculous because obviously a patient's entire overall condition should be taken into consideration when deciding on a strategy to address issues. And patients are not themselves medical professionals, they are not really in a position to say that two different symptoms are actually unconnected. But doctors are paid by the government on a per-appointment basis so they want to churn through as many as possible. They want you out the door ASAP.

We basically are dealing with third world level of care in this country, and Canadians accept it because "at least we're not America". Even middle class Canadians are being forced to travel to the US to receive basic services in a timely manner.
I was responding to this aside, not the question:

> whether they're completely treating federal roads separately or using it for the total, etc

The tax does not distinguish types of road, much like a gas tax does not.
I've had a few decidedly negative interactions with them. Perhaps I just got unlucky but it always felt as though they were on some kind of power trip. I'm hopeful the silver lining here will be that some of them leave.
Because immigrants come here for a good culture but the people who built it are gone which makes Toronto a regular boring city.

We leave where we came from because we hear ideas of how great it is and different from where we are leaving.
I agree and quite frankly it's a travesty and a moral failing of society with all the horseshoers that are now in the unemployment line because those damn automobiles and Mr. Ford.
why do you care about productivity?
Scuba Careers: Becoming an Underwater Archeologist
For me, advertising is basically proof that product is not good enough to be sold by its quality.

Good product is ad by itself.
I’ve seen ads about it, pretty cool! But lots of comments about its inner workings being something you can buy on eBay.

Forgot the name of that component tho.
The Amazfit ones are fine, I get the reliability concern but when it's 1/4 the price of a Garmin you can buy one and buy another if it breaks. I don't really get the complaint about it being "too simple" - isn't that exactly what he was after?

Like MP3 players 10-20 years ago, I suspect there's "a market" for a simple smartwatch, but not a very profitable market. So your choice will be the expensive Apple version (and maybe a couple of other luxury brands) or the basic no-name Chinese manufacturer version.
This is obviously not what people mean when they use the word. You've "resolved" the difficulty by just avoiding it.
Absolutely. I know a few people planning an internal transfer within their companies to move to the US from Canada. The high cost of housing, the terrible winters and the inadequate healthcare have become unbearable.
> the amount it currently has is too many, the amount it needs to have is fewer than the amount it currently has

we can't define what "the amount it needs" is, and we don't know what Apple's definition of "the amount it needs" is. So this is ultimately a fruitless argument.
Ah. One of his masterpieces the Fredkin gate: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin_gate
That's an improvement over Canada's system, here we don't have a choice to pay money for important procedures, we just have to do without.
They're just saying they've stopped maintaining it, I'm pretty sure that puts these apps in the same situation as the Android 2 style music player that's still part of AOSP.