skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then why are there stories of Canadians crossing the border to seek care in the US?

Because they got the scrap to pay for it and they can't quite get what they're looking for in Canada. There are private clinics here, too, where you can pay out-of-pocket or maybe with private insurance for treatment where you haven't gotten a referral from your family doctor (PCP), but if you're looking for something specific and fast, you're in basically the same boat as any American.

For example, my wife got a referral from our family doctor to what would basically be some local ENT for surgery on something that wasn't at all life-threatening but still needed to be dealt with. I'm pretty sure people from all over Canada come to see him and he's internationally-renowned, which I've gathered from him being out of the office for a few weeks to work out in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. He's got all these plaques on his wall for teaching at the university here here and in Saudi Arabia and such. I'm sure he is the cream-of-the-crop given that he's going to the other side of the world to do his thing. He just happened to be the guy that she got to see with just regular provincial health insurance. Also a totally lovely dude.

Compare this, too, to the the whole debacle about Americans having to buy Canadian insulin ...

> I work with some Canadians in Toronto. They’re always complaining how terribly slow and inefficient their healthcare system is.

Well, it is slow and inefficient compared to most things when people expect to get everything on-demand, and it is probably worth complaining about. I'm pretty sure it's mainly because there's a doctor shortage crisis here and there's a lot of factors that go into why that's the case. But having grown up in the states where my family had very little money and I didn't go to the doctor at all for probably 10 years, I'm very glad to be here and get to go to the doctor at all.

> I am by no means defending the US healthcare system as good. It’s not - it’s terrible.

No worries--just saying that it can be hard to weigh salary vs. amenities (or necessities?!) and especially that things can be better than they are in the US :)

> I just wish that those here that want to see it improved/reformed would look across the Pacific, not the Atlantic (or the northern border) for what a truly good healthcare system looks like.

For sure. Now I'm curious about how it works and if there are any issues in funding or doctor supply like there are uh ... everywher eelse
A lot of these are good, but not sure how easy it is to do anymore with Jack Welch style management everywhere (thinking about #6 in particular). In my experience management sees the bench strength fading and becoming nothing, but then will do nothing to fix even if the wider industry is fading.
I saw one exploit where hikaru made the position very locked up, with essentially no way to progress the game without sacrificing. I don’t know if there are any exploits against alpha zero though.

I found the video: https://youtu.be/DTMnrUdd8Tw?si=dJxB1aq_TOfMPCk8
Thank you! That was a super-helpful response. I wasn't asking because I disagreed, but because I didn't fully understand what you were getting at. Now I do. Thanks!
Props for the Churchill democracy reference. And so true. This notation problem definitely exists for all synthesizers, not just modular ones, and probably at some level for all new electronic instruments (which are synths under the hood).
Yes, I had to shorten the title so it would fit the HN limit but the article says 13th and 14th gen i7s represent a significant portion of crashes as well.
I think your first link is revisionist history and rhetoric. IT isn't consistent with English common law, contemporary practice, or the other evidence.

If the information already included in your own Wikipedia links dont convince you of this, I wont be able to either.

Similarly, I don't buy the argument that it only restricts the federal government, not the states. The 10th amendment is clear that states are prohibited from infringing on some individual rights. This is obviously the case with the 6th through 8th,unless you think states and cities are free to conduct juryless trials and have cruel and unusual punishments
This quote might help - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%27s_elephant#Histo...

yes, a fun problem, but also a criticism of using to many parameters.
IMHO the difference between "skilled" or not is whether you know where to look for help without causing more problems, and even more importantly: when to look for help. Documentation might be all the help you need, and reading documentation definitely makes you skilled, but plenty of people don't know how to search for it!
Absolutely the worst advice ever!
Yeah, like I said, automation just applies a rigorous set of rules defined by policy, procedure, or even law. That's it. AI is the worst solution for insurance claims because it lacks the nuance and understanding needed to handle complex, real-world situations. Human judgment is essential to evaluate unique circumstances and provide fair outcomes.
I would have never known the On This Page option existed if you didn't say so now.

I just found the find on page option in the share menu recently after a couple years of iPhone.

I don’t share with that at all, and I don’t share with my home screen either.

Why are Apple’s gestures and menus so undiscoverable?
Modern AT&T isn't really Ma Bell, it's SBC who bought AT&T and kept the AT&T name. That's why AT&T is based in Dallas and not New Jersey.

Ma Bell today is really AT&T, Verizon and parts of Lumen, Frontier and Consolidated.

AT&T also is worth less than Verizon due to bad mergers (DirecTV and non-cable Time Warner) which added a lot of debt, money that should've been used for fiber and 5G or even a bidding war against T-Mobile for Sprint if you had to buy your competitor.
I believe choice three covers this possibility so, yes, I explicitly considered it and gave my view that I think the other two choices, in my opinion, likely dwarf the third. Further, I think the Snowden leaks and google privacy abuses are likely linked. It isn't that people don't care, it is that they don't believe their choice matters or that there will be protections if they take the other choice. If your privacy is going to be abused weather you use the feature or not, why not use the feature? It is the only rational 'choice'. Things like the Snowden leaks show that there is, unfortunately, likely a lot of truth to this view.
Wi-Fi radios can be similarly identified, "Wi-Fi device identification based on multi-domain physical layer fingerprint" (2023), https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01403...

> A possible solution for authenticating IoT devices with limited computing resources when accessing wireless networks is to extract a unique and unclonable identifier of the device.. The effectiveness of the physical layer fingerprint lies in the subtle random differences that occur during the manufacturing process of the device.. The accuracy of Wi-Fi device identification based on physical layer fingerprint features.. can reach 98% for 15 different types of IoT Wi-Fi devices, and 90.76% for 10 network cards, having smaller differences in manufacturing, with the same type of chips.

Of course, if Auto-Join is enabled, the client device broadcasts the Wi-Fi access points it has previously joined, which can be informative without an SDR.
> Over 92% of Americans have health coverage.

How many choose to use it, though, and specifically, how many are afraid to use it because of cost? I'd count "waiting for an appointment/life to line up to see someone 'in network'" that as "lucky enough to get treatment"

> I can also see practically any specialist next week....

It can be similarly the case in Canada if you pay out-of-pocket or with private insurance or travel, and people do the same in the US too.
I sort of agree, but this ignores a more realistic problem. In areas where demand for units (things or services) isn’t likely to grow at least proportionally to price drops, the introduction of a tool which makes one person 3x as productive will drive down wages and force people out of the profession.
https://longbets.org/362/

> “Over a ten-year period commencing on January 1, 2008, and ending on December 31, 2017, the S&P 500 will outperform a portfolio of funds of hedge funds, when performance is measured on a basis net of fees, costs and expenses.”

Predictor: Warren Buffett | Challenger: Protege Partners, LLC

https://longnow.org/ideas/warren-buffett-wins-million-dollar... (“Warren Buffett Wins Multi-Million Dollar Long Bet”)
I don't drink any more. I quit because it was causing noticeable issues in my relationships, my career, and my mental and physical health. So before I say anything else, I want to say that I'm in no position to judge anyone else's drinking.

That said, having talked to a good amount of people about their relationships with alcohol, I think a lot of people trying to moderate would get a lot out of doing an honest risk/reward analysis of moderating. The rewards of moderating are just not that great:

- You get to drink something that tastes interesting (do you even like the taste?).

- You get a slight buzz (do you actually want a slight buzz? Or do you actually just want to get drunk?).

- You get to do the same thing as other people in a social situation (does being slightly buzzed actually make you feel more comfortable around people, or do you need to be actually drunk for that to happen?).

The risks can be horrific. I'm not going to enumerate them all, they're fairly well-known. What I will say is that even the "minor" effects, like depression, saying something awkward and hurting a relationship, or feeling hung over at work, are more than bad enough to outweigh the upsides. You don't have to kill someone drunk driving to stop drinking.

I'm not an absolutist, and I actually really disagree with the fear-of-drinking-based "abstinence only" approach of AA; I think that's helpful for some people, but I think a lot more people can just quit because they want better for themselves, without all the absolutism. I also don't believe in some sort of "alcoholic"/"not an alcoholic" dichotomy. I think it's quite possible for some people who drink too much to moderate. But if moderating is hard for you, why do something hard for questionable benefit when the risk is potentially catastrophic?
An even bigger and underappreciated bonus of dealing with objects is that you're working at the correct abstraction layer. Using templates that glue string together is doing the Wrong Thing, and this is how you get XSS (or outside of HTML, injection class vulnerabilities specific to what you're writing, e.g. SQL injection when gluing strings into queries).
> One tip I noticed, if Roger should comment on what I'm about to say then say "hey roger" at the start of the piece not " what do you think roger" at the end. :)

I do this without thinking. I even add some fluff or delay between the "hey roger" so that Roger has time to context-switch before I ask the question because you know everyone is multitasking during these meetings.
Kind of seems like both Motherboard and Chip manufacturers are pushing the higher end processors a bit too close to the limit.
As easy as it'd be to point at motherboards pushing all-core boosts and bumping power limits and/or boost durations up 50%+, these 13/14 gen chips also act up (though less often) on Workstation/Server boards.

My recent AMD build (5950x) also had a similar high-end part instability where it would lock up under Linux when downclocking to a very low idle. Replaced the processor but it still needed a small voltage bump to keep stable.
> and encrypt your passwords at rest

I haven't turned off my desktop this year. How does encryption at rest help?
I was 100% remote for a decade before covid. My secret was always writing things down. Making sure emails were complete and self explanatory. The trick here is to avoid back and forth and do due diligence to capture requirements (and expectations) in writing.

It is natural for managers to drop new details in voice chat sessions. This can get out of hand, as it causes ambiguity (for which you will be responsible.)

Keeping a log of your time for your own purposes, down to 15 minute intervals will help especially when getting started (even if you're not billing hourly.) Doing so will help you grasp your own efficiency.

Take full responsibility for clarity.

And keep getting the work done!

That's it!
The only feature temp mail service should focus on having tons of domains.

Many temp mail domains are blacklisted. only way to get around is rotating the domain name everyday.

I will give it a try.
The Fall of Rome
https://www.studentsofhistory.com/ideologies-flip-Democratic...
matrix is like IRC + obligatory GPG.

most new users keep losing identity because they have no idea they are using vector.im as their "nicksrv" of sorts and that their recovery code and password are not their session key. it's a disaster.

but having webapp and phone apps help adoption.
Great, now name the institutions of power the left currently hold.
They used to be called “expert systems.”
I just now opened and browsed threads.net without logging in.
I witnessed a similar one. The big box had an emergency power-off switch in back that stuck out. Our operator was dealing with cabling behind the big box, and when he stood up, his belt caught the switch. Oops.
The raw WebGPUAPI is geared towards infrastructure type of usage, eg ML compilers, game engines, etc and is pretty verbose for application and research use cases.

Under examples/, for pedagogical purposes + help contributors understand what happens with WebGPU under the hood, I actually included an example of invoking the same GELU kernel as in the hello world example without gpu.cpp. It looks like this and is ~ 400+ LoC and also will take several minutes to build Dawn:

https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/gpu.cpp/blob/main/examples/we...

A goal of gpu.cpp is to make the power of webgpu much less painful to integrate into a project without having to jump through as many hoops (+ also sets up the prebuilt shared library so builds are instantaneous and painless instead of reams of cmake hassles + 5-10 minutes of waiting for dawn to build):

https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/gpu.cpp/blob/main/examples/he...
The Marriage Market
But you still need an iPhone somewhere right? Can't just use the watch on its own?

I did think about this, but battery life is pretty bad if you actually use the watch throughout the day and I now need a whole train of devices instead of just an earpiece.
AI (language models) are already being combined with basic algorithms as you say to solve issues like not being able to “do” math.
> 1. The benchmark for hedge funds is not the sp500, it’s the bond market

There is not _a_ benchmark for "hedge funds" as they are not really _a_ thing.

In some cases S&P 500 may be an appropriate benchmark. Unless Bill Ackman is not a true hedge fund manager, I guess. "In 2023, Pershing Square’s 20th year, Pershing Square Holdings generated strong NAV performance of 26.7% versus 26.3% for our principal benchmark, the S&P 500 index."
That's nice. Our city uses .org, but even small technical tasks takes them forever - I expect a huge mess until they finally transition successfully!
Did Tucker Carlson see the 8 attempted assassinations of former president Obama?
This is likely to be personal incompatibility with Roland’s style, but I’ve always found Roland user interface designs to be inscrutable banks of deep menus, arbitrary buttons, tiny screens, and “wizard” style branching between wholly disparate aesthetic presets that change everything at once. I have never been able to intuit and memorize Roland gear well enough to customize according to my own mental models. The idea that anything Roland would be held aloft as “well thought out” by somebody is baffling to me.

Roland’s popularity and success speaks for itself so there’s no need to prove anything. Their UIs are just completely at odds with my personal creative flow.

Back in the late 90s I mixed an entire album on a VS-880 (with good results, it sold a couple thousand copies and got decent college radio airplay) so I’ve definitely given them a chance and gotten the full experience — but that damn thing fought me relentlessly. None of the motions I learned stuck with me.

I feel the same way about a lot of hardware electronic gear (I was utterly defeated by an Akai sampler around the same time). The exceptions are the interfaces that hew to a consistent theoretical model and emphasize tweaking of individual parameters rather than selection of presets. I was highly productive within the Logic Audio environment; I had good impressions of the Nord Modular and its GUI software.

Any Roland-style modeling of modular synthesis is likely to leave me behind. Glad it works for you and many others, though!
Bun has a built-in Jest-compatible test runner https://bun.sh/docs/cli/test
How A 'boring' Arctic town became Europe's Capital of Culture
Adequate for my purposes. The whole point of owning it is that I have a very light-duty relationship with the phone: music/podcast, maps, some food delivery and ride share, and some messaging when I'm not at my laptop. I don't read stuff on it, let alone browse the web or doomscroll social media.

So when I'm at home it can easily last a couple days. If I'm traveling by air, or other rare occasions where my phone gets heavy use, I have a slap-pack battery to stretch it out. I'm more likely to resort to that if I'm traveling and I forget to charge it: it's obviously not as much battery as a bigger phone, but for 99% of days, it's more than fine.

It serves my purposes, and fits in more pockets than the big bricks do. I wish Apple would learn to count as low as several million, and go back to accommodating the smolphone niche, but their current policy seems to be that if a product doesn't sell enough units to supply one to every resident of a mid-sized European country, it isn't worth manufacturing. Pity.
Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator
Who Is/Was Spying on Canadian MP Michael David Chong?
Hey this is nice! This comment stuck out to me:

> Westwood Online (WOL) doesn't work anymore, so you can't play multiplayer except through LAN

I loved Command & Conquer in my younger years and I know a small bit about Westwood Online from the client side.

If I recall XWIS.net did a lot of support after WOL went offline! It might be worth the author reaching out to the niche developer community there, although I think it's truly dying out. If I recall, the work that XWIS guys did ended up getting recognition from EA and they did a lot of help to continue WOL support for C&C Renegade.

There's also FreeRA project that is the direct ancestor of several of the recent re-releases of C&C on eg Steam. They might also be able to help get WOL working.

I say this because WOL was pushed as its own library, and so a replacement of the library will probably be fairly easy compared to (re-)reverse-engineering the WOL stack.

Edit:

Oh, as I continue reading the post, it goes on to discuss how the WOL component is also fixed. Extra nice!
For folks who lean more Republican - there's also an excellent series of lectures by Rick Roderick on youtube.

Just be aware that these people have failed to produce any original philosophical thought of their own - they are philosophy historians, rather than philosophers.
> It feels like the current system is the Imperial system and somewhere ought to be the SI metric system.

Any reason for that beyond “feeling?” And are you very deeply familiar with how the current system resolves differences between the single chromatic and 12 diatonic scales?

Full disclosure here: I’m a pianist who can generally sight read nearly anything (that’s well-edited) put in front of me, to the point of having music directed opera and theater for a living for a while, rather than using my CS and math degrees immediately after earning them from UNC.

I’ve also created an app, BeatScratch (https://beatscratch.io) that, among other things, attempts to resolve some of the challenges of editing (which I’d argue, again, really involves understanding how musical notation maps chromatic and diatonic scales between each other - ie “picking the best sequence of flats and sharps automatically to maximize readability”).

To me, a lot of these “musical notation is outdated” arguments seem the same as “there will soon be no need for programmers; AI can write all our code,” or those arguments insisting some “visual programming” paradigm should replace languages like Rust and Python.

That is to say… they’re arguments made by people who don’t really understand why the existing systems work the way they do and have done so successfully for decades (or centuries).
Do you have any such "alternatives" in mind, apart from Desktop GUI software?
I think your point would be filed using the third rule. Jack Welch style management concerns might ought to be considered irrelevant.
Laughs in 7945HX and RTX 4090 Mobile

I guess I feel better about how much heat this thing puts out and the occasional crash I get from it when it's hot...
Yes.

I think the rhetoric and metapolitics the left is engaging in is dangerous, this event case in point. Do I have to quote the people in this very thread calling him proto-hitler?

Also seeing you smug asshats, here and in real life, taken down a notch is very much in my interest.
Since iOS Control Center no longer turns off (only disconnects) radios, a shortcut/automation can be linked to a Control Center button (e.g. low power mode) status, to control radio power with a single tap.
I would not enjoy the OS that he describes as his preference. In particular, these are the aspects of his vision that I find objectionable:

> 4. Everything should be cryptographically measured, so that remote attestation is supported for as much software shipped on the OS as possible.

Just no. Remote attestation is an unacceptable concept for me, full stop.

> 6. Everything should be self-updating. Today we know that software is never bug-free, and thus requires a continuous update cycle. Not only the OS itself, but also any extensions, services and apps running on it.

Be able to? Sure, I don't object to that. But I have learned that I, personally, really hate continuously-updating software, so being able to avoid it and do manual updates instead is mandatory. Continuous updates are one of the reasons why I don't use SaaS.

> 11. Things should not require explicit installation. i.e. every image should be a live image. For installation it should be sufficient to dd an OS image onto disk. Thus, strong focus on "instantiate on first boot", rather than "instantiate before first boot".

This isn't a strong objection for me, but I really do want things to require explicit installation rather than something like dd'ing an image. I value the ability to customize installations to fit my way of doing things.

The rest of his design goals seem relatively benign to me, although a number of them are things I don't consider important at all.

I simply don't understand what he means by this:

> 5. Everything should be self descriptive, have single sources of truths that are closely attached to the object itself, instead of stored externally.

A tangential note:

> Given that on Linux flatpak (or on servers OCI containers) are the established format that pretty much won they are probably the way to go.

I really dislike flatpaks and similar, personally. I suppose that I could live with a requirement to use them, but it would be very irritating. I suppose I could also work around the issue by building everything from source rather than using prebuilt binaries. I'd prefer to be able to ignore the entire issue from the get-go, though.

All in all, considering how much I dislike about the systemd way of doing things, I was pleasantly surprised that I found most of what he said here to be reasonably unobjectionable. Much of it is stuff that I don't particularly desire, but wouldn't make me angry at its existence (although some of it would increase the irritation level a bit just because of the extra complexity it brings).