skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A healthcare system that I like quite a lot is the Belgian one, which is a nice mix between free market and socialised medicine. In Belgium the government sets standard rates for different kind of medicines and treatments. You pay 8% of your income towards a state health fund that refunds all your health-related spending up to the standard rate. You are free to choose where, when, and what treatment you get. You pay the cost up-front, and then you get refunded by the state. But you only get refunds up to a 'reasonable' rate. In practice most doctors demand little-more than that rate, and thus you get a full refund. You can also subscribe to a private health insurance if you want to get refunds for better options.
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Japan keeps its unemployment low in a very forceful way. There are a huge number of people employed for low pay doing low efficiency work, just to keep everyone working a job. For example, you might see someone telling pedestrians to watch their step near a construction site, and the voice announcing trains at the station might be a real person holding a microphone.
I developed Java backend systems on my 12" PowerBook G4, 867MHz, 256MB DRAM and it was fast.

Hardware is not the problem. Software is.

Software is getting slower faster than hardware is getting faster -- Wirth's Law.
I would expect 64GB of RAM, and not 16. The MacBook Pro 2016 is supposed to be a powerful laptop, not a cheap netbook.
The authors of the original Stochastic superoptimization paper performed some comparison with the outputs of gcc. You can find their results in this paper: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StanfordPL/stoke/develop/d...

This is on the same type of dataset, as admittedly, these methods still don't scale all that well to extremely large programs.
> I had a similar experience earlier this year in the U.K., and the contrast was significant - in the U.K. one feels like an irritation and an inconvenience. "Bloody hell, what's a patient doing here? This is a hospital!".

I'm 50. I remember what London was like way before Labour first got into power.

Lets look at today. Immigration is way out of control. London has probably 10 million people? It's busting at the seams.

I even travel to the south near the beach. Waiting for a doctor there? Sometimes up to a month.

I can remember when I would call a doctor and be seen the next day. Not any more.

The reason for the attitude is that doctors and nurses are at breaking point. I'm sorry if the down voters don't like hearing this but it's true.

Incidentally I voted to leave. But I think it's too late. We should have left before Labour got into power with Tony Blair. Like the Democrats in the US, they wanted immigrants from all over to change the political landscape and keep them in power. Regardless of native population.
France was ranked 1st in the world by WHO. The UK was ranked 18th. But France was also fourth in the world in per capita expenditures.

So they have socialised health care and they also fund it very generously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_rank...
I love the downvotes. It is fine to force 70 years old pensioners to clean toilets, but it is not ok to do that to young healthy men ;-)
Otoh, nobody spending $100k a month is paying full sticker price.
Analysis of sexual habits through the controversial Okcupid dataset in Python
That's actually also a health issue. In most EU countries you couldn't even stuff yourself with the crap that's allowed to be sold in the US.
Well ever since Thatcher i get the impression that the UK has been trying to dismantle the NHS. Supposedly one of the first things done in Scotland after getting more internal autonomy was to reverse the changes from back then.
I like the "Chad and Brad". That's a good proxy for the average developper in a corporation who barely understand more what he is doing than a hobbyist.

Inevitably, when the technology will have gone mainstream, programming a robot to do something will be done by a junior technician at some random anonymous supplier in a developping country who cannot even read the documentation because he doesn't speak a word of english. That's how you will end up with your cheap butler/cook robot purchased on amazon, chasing the house dog with a butcher knive shortly before dinner.

If Internet of Things teaches us anything...
What do you mean about the water situation in Texas? West Texas is not in drought: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?...

The problem with solar is that solar does not provide on-demand electricity. Solar and batteries can, but that is much more expensive than using oil.
Hi, I'm Paul Ward, CoolAntarctica.com is my site, I found my way here after seeing a traffic spike on that particular page. Interesting to see your comments and glad you find the photo archive interesting. It's been fascinating to compile, contacting all those people who sent in pictures from a range of bases and across 50+ years. It's still ongoing, any more pictures anyone wants to contribute are gratefully received, I've had a couple more offers on the basis of this inclusion already.
>There is little evaluation of physician so picking a hospital is very much a lottery, unless you know insiders who will tell you where to go and not to go.

There are always variations, obviously but in general we have pretty good doctors AFAIK. If anything we don't have enough of them. I'm not sure how it relates to the article though, would a more liberal system improve the average quality of hospitals? Are US hospitals and doctors offer better service that the french ones? I'm really asking, I honestly don't know about that.

>The system runs a massive financial deficit.

It's still pretty massive but it's steadily shrinking these past few years, although parts of it might be caused by degrading the service slightly.

The government plans for a balanced budget in 2017, although the opposition says it's not completely true: http://www.publicsenat.fr/lcp/politique/budget-securite-soci...

This article gives a good overview of the situation as far as I can tell: http://www.lemonde.fr/financement-de-la-sante/article/2016/0...

>Like many centralised etatic system (and particularly in France), friends in the right places, political affiliation and freemasonry are more important drivers for a career than medecine.

What does that even mean? You went full tinfoil here. Whose career are you talking about anyway? Do you have any source?
Possible but hard because:

1. OSs are generally unaware of the details of memory controller configuration, everything is preconfigured by firmware. Apple's vertical integration could help here, but they would probably need help from Intel and it would work only in OSX.

2. It's not the case that if you install four 8GB sticks they will be mapped at 0-8G, 8-16G, etc. and the OS can simply move data from one area to another. For performance, data are striped RAID0-style across all modules. They would have to disable this.

3. I don't know if OSX supports non-identity VM-mapping of kernel memory pages. Linux for example doesn't afaik. Without this it's impossible to move arbitrary kernel objects because you can't find and update all pointers pointing to them.
I guess it can be attributed to work conditions of health care professionals in both systems. May be they are better paid and not overworked and hence have a better attitude towards patients under their care as a result.
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Ok then, what about countries such as Canada or Germany? Universal healthcare, stable debt levels.
What do you mean, "indigenous lands"? Texas, especially west Texas, doesn't have these conflicts.
Diet and demographics. If you compare European countries to individual states you'll find we have comparable rates for many if not most of our states.
Of course, this is perfectly normal in the developed world.

My brother broke his leg horribly a few years ago. Ambulance, helicopter, plane, 3 surgeries, a month in hospital, steel plates, etc. etc.

In Australia, you don't pay a cent out of pocket for that, it's all covered with taxes.

Similar story in Canada too. Even little stuff like I broke my nose - into hospital, xrays, time with dr to straighten, appointment a few days later to check, etc. All free.

The difference is simply that Health Care is run for profit in the USA. Someone wants to profit off your health (or lack thereof) so you must pay a lot of money to line their pockets. Some story for Higher education, incarceration, etc.
Ironically, they're all up for small-scale socialism, aka 'insurance'.
That's not how it works.

You pay nothing on the first 9700€

You pay 14% on the money you make above that, that is 14% of ~17k€

You then pay 30% on the money above that, that is 30% of the extra 5k.
Why should you worry about imaginary Internet points? If your opinion can stand in it's own no matter how controversial, post it.

Being civil isn't being "politically incorrect" online or offline. If you say something that might get you punched in the face (literally or metaphorically), don't be surprised when you do get punched in the face.
Is there going to be a permissions system where I can specifically choose which set of APIs I allow to dispose to each extension?
http://thruglassxfer.com/ (click "technical") did this too.
The Atari ST was released (in 1984) before the Amiga 1000 (in 1985) and was designed around being a low cost 16-bit computer. The Amiga 500, which was a much closer competitor to the Atari ST in terms of target market, was released in 1987. Back at that time, 2 to 3 years was a big jump in terms of the processing performance you could get for your money.

Sadly (I say this as an Amiga fan), the Paula sound chip was never upgraded, I believe it's the same in all Amigas, even the AGA ones. In some ways it's a testament to the capabilities of the Paula sound chip, but it's also just another example of Commodore squandering their technological lead. There were plans to go down the DSP route with the A3000+, but that machine never materialised, leaving the Atari Falcon as the best sounding 16-bit computer (IMO, of course).
Note that this uses Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling rather than the Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) of AlphaGo, although the latter might also be interesting to try.

I suppose one disadvantage of naive MCTS is that if it made a supoptimal decision near the root, correcting that mistake would require relearning the rest of the program from scratch.

Maybe there could be some bidirectional variant of MCTS, where you search from both the beginning and the end of the program and join the two fragments in the middle. If the two trees work independently, can they still learn to find the optimal solution?
Competition is not the issue, it's private healthcare itself. There is not a single country I know of where private healthcare works.
$30,000 is a very European estimate. It costs between $90,000 and ~$200,000 out of pocket in the US for a bypass surgery. Probably more for the guy in the article given the extreme nature of the situation/complications that arose.
Germany introduced national health care in 1883 but I'm sure we'll see how unsustainable it is any day now.
The impression i get about US healthcare is that there is a vicious cycle of insurance agency haggling and hospital profits.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Why, acc to you, is Kubernetes on AWS a non-starter? Is it too difficult to setup? Or maintain? Or simply isn't the first class citizen, like it's on GCP?

Or does it just make sense to stick with GCP since K8s has Google's blessing?

Or...
IMO the US health system needs stricter regulation. Switzerland is doing fine with a system very similar to Obamacare, with one important difference: Item prices for health services and goods are regulated by the government. Yes I know, small rich country yada yada - but if you look at it a bit more closely, the average Swiss is not that different from the average American - GDP per capita, median income, most live in diverse but smallish cities, lots of cars, lots of guns, high (but still way lower) health spending, all quite comparable - except Swiss have one of the highest life expectancies and can expect treatment for everything treatable while for many Americans this seems to become some sort of raindance.
In the UK (Wales) I got to see a hospital, a relative-in-law was terminally ill. The hospital was like a knock off slaughterhouse with thick dust everywhere and blood stains on the walls that stayed for weeks. After that I decided to get a check up every time before I go to the UK to not need the hospital there. I hope not all hospitals are like that there.
I'm not sure if they're better paid, but I did get the impression they were infinitely happier than their British equivalents - quality of life probably accounts for an awful lot. I don't know though, I'm basing my assumption off a few French medics I know who definitely don't make great money, but do have some pretty great quality of living - near Swiss border, one has a cabin in the woods and a fishing pond, the other paraglides seemingly non-stop. I think there's a different approach to on/off in France, and working hours are definitely far more strictly limited.
Just to give a different perspective, I think it's fair to say French people are very worried that healthcare quality is decreasing. I don't know if it's really the case but in any case, the system is far from being perfect.

For one thing, some care are very expensive, like dental crowns and implants. In the article, the author says he had to pay 1300 euros for 47 days in the hospital. You're likely to pay more for one dental implant, unless you have a very good insurance in addition to the regular social security (most people don't).

If you have to go to the ER and if you don't have a life threatening condition, expect to wait many hours in an overcrowded waiting room. Moreover, to see some specialists (e.g. eye doctor), you may have to wait for months to get an appointment. The list goes on...
See my sister comment, see Switzerland.
I heard an argument some time that European healthcare and health R&D is indirectly subsidised by the US. The mechanism at works is 1) US consumers are ripped off by pharma; 2) pharma's higher profits lead to higher investment in R&D; 3) everyone profits from that and in the European case negotiate lower prices. I've always wondered to what extent this is true.
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>I-don't-want-to-pay-for-others != I will not insure my health.

But it is. Insurance works by pooling money from a group of people where only few are going to use it.

>People never ask "So, what does this drug/treatment cost?" but rather "Do you accept my insurance?"

Which makes sense, as survival and physical and mental well-being are humans primary needs.
Oil is a finite resource, this does not mean we will suddenly use it all up. Instead the cost of extraction will continue to rise until alternatives displace oil. Getting ahead of that transistion has a lot of value just look at companies like Kodak who missed shifts like these.
This work should be read in context of prior work, STOKE: http://stoke.stanford.edu/

This work outperforms STOKE, and STOKE outperformed existing methods including GCC, LLVM, ICC, traditional superoptimization, expert human, etc. That's why comparison with existing methods are omitted.

This work is also limited to Hacker's Delight and automatically generated programs, but so was STOKE. But STOKE readily extended to computational kernels in libm, BLAS, OpenSSL, ray tracer, computational fluid dynamics, etc. You can read about them on the link above. The next step would be applying the improvements to other STOKE tasks and more.

STOKE is an open source.
Most people here are Muricans, they (you?) cannot easily and massively get rid of a more than century old culture based on individualism, short-term thinking, greediness, "bigger is greater" applied to every single aspect of life and society, and oil.
There is no restriction as to where pictures come from or who can join the database personnel lists. Rather than have pages for everywhere that will often remain empty I open up sections as and when people contact me for their base/s and their time in Antarctica. The reason it's USA and UK is that is where people have so far contacted me from, which is unsurprising I guess for an English language website. If you wish to send your details or pictures I will be happy to include them (as long as the pics are reasonable quality!), I only have what people choose to send.
I said it wouldn't be a popular sentiment. But as they say, democracy is two wolves and one sheep deciding on what to have for dinner.

Some rise above it, but human nature is inherently selfish. These 70 year olds have grandchildren too, and they're smart enough to play the politics game so I am sure they understand the overwhelming science on this issue, yet they clearly just don't care. And this election makes clear that we can't rely on the voting base to be well informed.

It's a valid concern that one voter only has to worry about their decisions for the next five years, but the rest have to for the next sixty years. Yet we have no problem with prioritizing based on life expectancy when it comes to organ donor recipients, charging more for life insurance based on age, etc.

Further, voting is already inherently unfair and weighted based on where you live thanks to the electoral college and every state getting two EC votes automatically. Some states result in voters having four times the voting power of people in other states. That and all the people living in guaranteed blue (California) or red (Texas) states effectively have no vote in practice. The same is even more true of senate representation, with two senators for every state, regardless of population.

You look at something like marriage equality, and per Pew research, 71% of millenials approve yet only 38% of the silent generation do. Yet the issue has a serious chance of being reversed due to Trump's inevitable Supreme Court picks. And our generation will be stuck with the fallout of that (and every other social issue that's bound to come up in the future) for likely 40+ years.

Look, I'm aging too. I'll be old soon. What I'm saying will already affect me as well. But this is just a matter of basic fairness.

This administration is going to push us well over the edge on carbon emissions. Our grandchildren and beyond will pay dearly for the harm that's going to be done. Those responsible will be long gone by then. That is not fair.
Huh, i had forgotten that Alan Cox participated.
This is a fantastic talk about Stoicism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seLLJP3H1FU
> the unfounded/theoretical fears of a few folks.

It's not at all theoretical. Postal voting is heavily restricted in Northern Ireland due to past history of paramilitary organisations influencing voter behaviour.

One needs to provide an attested reason for not attending the polling station:

http://www.eoni.org.uk/Vote/Voting-by-post-or-proxy/Voting-b...

You must provide a reason why you cannot reasonably be expected to vote in person at your polling place on polling day. You must provide exact dates and locations (if applicable) or the application may be rejected on the grounds that not enough detail about the reason has been provided.
He did not. He did not propose to reduce young people voting weight.
To me it sounds like yet another attempt by materialism to get to grips with a non materialist view.

We all know at some level that the universe is not just full of "dumb rocks" (quoting Alan Watts). Evolution CAN coexist with the unknown. We're all mapping a sandbox from the inside, so to speak.

Evolution is a thing, physics is a thing, and it can all happen in consciousness.

But the notion of "god" and "intelligent universe" are so loaded these days, that a materialist has to find all kind of funny ways around it.

I think it's valuable, to try to express old ideas in a more modern language... But let's be honest theories like the "universe is a imulation", or that intelligence somehow pertains to alien life ... are just ways to postpone the hard problem of consciousness.

Potentially related:

The Physicalist Worldview as Neurotic Ego-Defense Mechanism

http://realitysandwich.com/320896/the-physicalist-worldview-...
There's another way to look at it that I don't think the USA will be ready to understand any time soon: Universal health and education are (key parts of) freedom.

You can even put a market spin on it: None of the risks involved in starting a small business in Australia have to do with health care for myself, or for people who might consider joining my small business as employees.

I've never felt as if I'm giving up autonomy or surrendering to the yoke of the state or whatever. Public universal health care gives me freedom. From and for so many things.
Could you elaborate?
I thought the difference between leptonic and hadronic colliders was only in the beam & resulting signal purity?

Smashing an electron and a positron together produces pure energy to be converted into matter. It could generate photons or it could generate Hadrons just as likely could it not (as long as all quantum numbers are conserved)?
I'm not familiar with the ThinkPad T460, but the T560 has two batteries. If you need longer life, upgrading the second battery from 47WHr to 72WHr costs an extra £12.
US has 75% higher infant mortality than France which has a real impact on life expectancy.
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The fundamental problem to solve, though, is getting money back out of medicine. American doctors get paid ridiculous amounts more than doctors in other developed nations. If you want affordable medicine, then medical salaries are going to have to take a hit, so you can afford more staff overall.

An example of how much money is in the system: I was talking to a nurse in the US whose adult son had a series of mental illnesses. She was going to see a specialist neurologist about one of them. "Why not ask him about all of them?", asks I. Turns out that in the US, it's quite common for specialists to specialise into a single syndrome, and will happily reject similar things in their field that aren't their specialty. I was horrified - here are people that take a decade and a half of training, all to become a glorified lookup table. I used to work in a neuro lab myself, and while I could see a motor neuron specialist perhaps referring on a brain problem to someone more suitable, the idea that any of the doctors would only take patients with a single, prediagnosed syndrome... was just alien.

But in the US you can do that, and get ridiculous amounts of money for it.