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Exactly. They didn't have enough resources to take care of everybody in the timeline all those patients wanted to, so everybody got put on a waiting list and knee surgeries where rationed out based on needs and available resources based on some opaque system.
You might not remember a lot of the specifics. But I am sure you remember that you did a lot of sitting and a lot of listening (2 of the 3 surprising findings of the article).
I also support the FCC Title 2 rules for net neutrality. There is no way these corporations will do the right thing without gov't oversight. Given an opportunity to put profits before people they have ALWAYS chosen profit.
Yes, I have the exact same feeling. I like seeing all the places I've been, but I hate that google also sees all the places I've been.

I've recently installed Owntracks on my phone and have started logging all my location updates, so soon I may be able to just drop the google location tracking.
I was looking for an app like this for my son. He started with "My Singing Monsters" and some music lessons at school, but when I tried to get him into Garage Band it was too much for a beginner.

Thank you to the creator ... I will show it to him later today. I am not sure how far he can take it, but I like what I have seen so far.

Also, if anyone has other suggestions for music-making apps for tween kids I am all ears ...
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You can actually get some useful NN performance if you do this sort of thing in the browser but using shaders in WebGL for doing the calculations on the GPU. There is a Keras JS if you have already trained a net.. I think it uses the GPU. https://transcranial.github.io/keras-js/
No it is a resolution problem and a distance-from-the-tv problem. Text is basically unreadable, or if it's large enough to be readable, you can hardly fit anything on the screen
>Now, I would rather pay the 10% more for a product after reviews come out than be an early adopter...

I think maybe this misses the point of kickstarter a bit. Its not really a place to "buy products". Its a place to fund a wild dream and see what happens. When I back a project, the product is secondary. I like to watch the process. Its entertainment. Hint: You'll get lots more backers like me if you seem extremely transparent and post project updates often. If I want products, its Amazon.com. I'm here for the journey. Some projects are triumphs, some tragedies. Don't hide it if it turns out the latter. I paid to ride along, even if its a tear-jerker.
"worked two jobs on-site"

I did that twice, once at a dying company when a coworker quit until I lined up a new job in a couple weeks, and another time was a horizontal transfer where two engineering managers were rather vocal about my working solely for them. In both cases I just kinda did what I wanted, knowing there was nothing they could do.

I suspect the question they meant to ask was who was getting paid for two jobs. I have a really boring story about that revolving around a company that paid out severance gradually instead of lump sum, which given the time of year was financially advantageous for me WRT marginal income tax rate.
Berkshire wholly owned subsidiaries continue to pay dividends, and Berkshire itself has to pay taxes on those dividends. How can we make ethical declarations if we don't get our facts straight?
That's some solid advice. Thanks for sharing it. :-)
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There are certainly people who have natural ability, and compose melodically, applying varying levels of knowledge in music theory.

There are other people who can't make heads or tails out of a keyboard, compose a tune in their head, or understand chordal progressions, but nevertheless compose music in layers and still do extraordinary work. They find what they like by playing with notes on the screen. Joel Zimmerman, a.k.a. Deadmau5, is an example of this.

I am an example of the former, with natural ability, bolstered by training in music theory. But I still use a layered approach when I am composing, generally starting with a beat or bassline, playing with melodic progressions in snippets, and eventually moving into a traditional composition process when I have something started that I like. Ableton makes this process extremely easy and productive.
I'd like to land one (1) FT remote job, and here we've got folks talking about working two at the same time :)
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Timeouts are not a perfect solution to the halting problem, but usually good enough.
Maybe these people do get offers but prefer to work on their own schedules and without cumbersome contracts.

If you were making really good money making youtube videos, why would you want to sign on with food network (who probably demands things like good behavior clauses and stuff in their contracts), have to shoot a real tv show on the networks schedule, doing reshoots and promotional events, etc at the beck and call of some executive?

I absolutely agree that these youtubers are underpaid for the value that they create/the audiences they have accumulated; im just not as surprised that we arent seeing them convert into tv and movie personalities
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It wasn't just his doctor it is the whole system which is somewhat unavoidable.

We are lucky to have good health insurance, and a simple ER visit to get stitches or an X-Ray will invoke 5 pieces of mail from 3 different entities. You have to watch out for student Doctors who will send you a bill for being in the room. It's too much to think about when you should be focused on taking care of your health issue.
I've learned that graphs with unlabelled vertical axes tell the reader less than nothing.
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With floating-point math libraries especially, it's frequently the case that it's relatively easy to compute the desired result accurately by using higher precision for internal computations; e.g. you might compare against the same function evaluated in double and then rounded to float.

This sounds pretty sketchy at first, but it turns out that almost all of the difficulty (and hence almost all of the bugs) are in getting the last few bits right, and the last few bits of a much-higher precision result don't matter when you're testing a lower-precision implementation, so combined with some basic sanity checks this is actually a very reasonable testing strategy (and widely used in industry).
It's kind of cool when board games are abstractions of real world patterns. It's like you learn something about the world, about how it _really_ works, when you play. Monopoly (capitalism) or Diplomacy (international relations) are probably the most famous examples, but I'm sure there are so many more out there like this one on language that I've never heard of.
Yeah I agree, I mean, I realized all this stuff around 8 years old. Even after reading this I don't think any other teachers actually care or will ever care. This teacher is just getting old and forgetting how much being in school sucks. Thankfully I can just work on computers and make tons of money and love it. I now learn more every single week than I probably learned in a few months of school and, I graduated. That isn't from work though as I'm over 40.

It's just because I love to read and learn. I was doing Autocad in 1988 in 8th grade. I was learning Unix/Slackware inside out in 1993 after I graduated. School barely gave me basics in 13 years and I could of learned all of that in less than a year. If my wife wasn't a stay at home mom I'd probably home school my kids. Sadly though I have to work all the time so, they go to a boring school and only learn how to take tests.
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It isn't really a new explanation, the explanation is still "your metabolism slows and you can't eat like you're 22 anymore". It's a tough adjustment to make and I'm not even that old yet. The best thing I've found that actually works is a mostly plant-based diet.
Electrino is also only macOS at this point
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It's not too expensive and it can make calls, plays music, and hopefully can show recipes or TV shows. It sounds like exactly what I would want for my kitchen.
your point is well taken, but I feel like there is still a subset of "excessive spending at end of life" that we can discuss as being more obviously problematic, from a social spending point of view.

excluding trauma care for accident victims (that end up dying anyway), and excluding cases of early-in-life cancer, and excluding every other case we can think of where a spike of medical spending shortly before the person dies anyway is understandable as part of a good faith effort that had a reasonable chance of prolonging their life for many years, after all those exclusions are made we will still find many instances of cases where the end-of-life medical spending seems excessive.

The canonical example I can think of would be organ transplants for very elderly people. A new kidney for a 75 year old person in advanced renal failure is unlikely to prolong their life by very much.

This kind of stuff gets very emotional and very political though. This is what provoked the demagoguery about "death panels" when Obamacare was being debated in congress in 2009. We are both very uncomfortable allowing the government to make those decisions and also very uncomfortable allowing private insurers to make those decisions. We want to empower families to make those decisions and so remove cost from their consideration (via regulation, requiring insurers to pay) and then we become surprised when people who haven't made their peace with death are willing to spend any amount of money (which is a hidden cost from their point of view) to prolong end-of-life. It shouldn't be surprising. We set up a perverse incentive structure and locked it in place with regulations.
I feel like the Blue Origin / SpaceX "first to land" is relevant here.

Blue Origin (another Bezos company) was technically first to land a rocket, and gloated about it. But SpaceX has a more useful implementation as of now.
It integrates with my Crestron control system, which controls the entire house. Alexa also integrates nicely with Sonos and Heos wireless speaker systems, letting you dictate music and location(s).
Agreed. This is a super obvious fluff article. Not worthy of HN, except to the extent it might spark discussion on the subject.
The Xbox One is the only device I know of that has it. There may be others. A quick search seems to suggest so, but it appears that a lot of it use it for audio only? Not sure how that works.
So, how do those of us that manage it do it. Is it really is exceedingly rare, is it even useful studying us? According to weight watchers me and one other person out of the thousand did it. Everyone else failed. (I cut 40% weight, 12 years later, kept 25% (or more!) body fat from original cut).

At a high level I radicalized my life style. I have ups and downs, but I be and a runner and a lifter and I have run hundreds of miles e every year since. It was complete and sort of stark, but I endured.

My theory as to why people fail -- There is no such thing as will power. Everyone thinks there is and that they aren't strong enough and that is why they failed. I think in the very short term there is will power. Hours for most. Once your higher level thinking is overrun you lose.

My hand wavy theory based on my experience and knowledge; you have to believe in something with enough intensity that your brain you can't talk to gets on board and accepts its reality. You have to fight it and use tricks to move around out of sight to where the higher level you gets what it wants. This is not a linear path.
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I wanted to play around with Elixir hot reloading on a minimal snippet, and ultimately ended up generating live midi events.

Code is available on github (https://github.com/thbar/demo-elixir-reloading-music) and slides are on speakerdeck (https://speakerdeck.com/thbar/elixir-hot-reloading-and-midi-...).
>What if I want the sound of rustling leaves to come and go across the course of a song?

Trigger it via MIDI as a one-shot in the sampler, for example. Sampler and Simpler params can be automated. If you want some 'arbitrary' looping, again use the loop points of Sampler and set the (re)triggering appropriately.

You can do all these things if you want to, you just have to invest enough time learning the tools.

Edit: If you respond, you may mention that you have invested the time. Perhaps you have, and I'm just misunderstanding your case or needs.
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>I always thought that backers were paying a lower price because in a sense they were bearing a lot more risk than later buyers

If that's the attitude and that's how backers see themselves, then the backers are just setting up the startup for failure. There's a reason why most startups don't go for debt financing and if they do, it's usually out of desperation.

>I expect a heavy discount in exchange for the higher perceived risk and so kickstarters who don't do that just don't get off the ground?

Sure. That's how payday lenders make their money. Doesn't mean it's good for borrower to use them.
Looks pretty neat. Reminds me a bit of Linqpad, https://www.linqpad.net/ which I've also never used.
What I find difficult is that by the time I've got my DAW going and found some synths I like, the tune in my head has evaporated. Do all people find musical thoughts so insubstantial, or is it just me? If I imagine a picture or a paragraph of text, it'll stick around and I can remember it more or less indefinitely. I still recall snatches of crap poetry I thought up when I was a teenager, but any music I imagine just disappears before I can get it down.

The most successful tunes I made were more or less "discovered" from incrementally experimenting in the DAW, and not from any kind of original plan or idea. Maybe I'm just not a musician! (I'm an indie game dev who started making my own tunes for my games)
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> To be frank I believe that the actual solution is to avoid any butt-based services.

It's a good solution for more than one reason. It also helps you avoid vendor lock-in, prevents from getting stuck with services that get gradually dumbed down in their pursuit of growth at the cost of actual usefulness, and most imporantly, shields you from losing something you depend on because the startup running the service finally got their exit.
Cost of surviving(food, shelter, boose) - yes. What about cost of having trip around the world for vacation, building your retirement fund, price of the iphone, car?
So... you'd like a system with so much extra capacity sitting around that elective surgery would always be available next-day?
Just curious, how would one fix #2 without some amount of #3? 4,5,6 would bother me most...
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Julia boasts performance as fast as that of languages like C or Fortran, and is still simple to learn.

I think the greatest benefit is that Julia code is both high-performance and (mostly) high-level, which makes it easy to change. I don't mind implementing a completely-specified algorithm in C or Fortran, but making significant changes to these code bases is simply much more work than in languages like Python or Julia.
It's a good idea in principle, though your third and fourth properties are not true of floating point addition.

When you have one available, testing against the results against a reference implementation is a little more direct. Though, given how easy those property tests are, you might as well do both.
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How do we define a rational choice that doesn't end up making the choice chosen always the rational one regardless of what the choice is?
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Costs are also somewhat ideological too. A good for instance is the US belief in suing any time something bad happens. From what I can tell, 10% of every dollar spent on health care in the US goes towards malpractice insurance for doctors. A system that acknowledges that well-meaning doctors can make mistakes and shouldn't be unduly punished could cost almost that 10% less. America's health care system is designed for the %0.1 case literally at the expense of the %99.9 case.

Also, the lack of universal coverage here means that a lot of medical bills go unpaid, for many reasons including bankruptcy or even people giving the emergency room a fake name when they go in. The hospitals don't just eat that cost, they amortize it into the costs paid by patients who do pay their bills. Universal coverage would, therefore, lower the cost of care per individual by eliminating the costs of trying to collect from uninsured people who can't pay.

But the biggest ideological cost of health care in the US is our insistence on including the "free" market in paying for health care. Insurers have a ~25% profit margin. A single-payer system could be very inefficient and yet still come in far below that cost.
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They got this out incredibly quickly so it's likely that either they just fixed the type confusion or that they already had a sandboxing modification ready which they were saving for a major update but had to rush out. I don't know the age of the defender code, but my money is on the former.
Interestingly enough, my 6 year old was able to drive in and start having fun drawing in MIDI notes in Ableton Live Intro (the creators of the app linked for discussion) and listening to them.

Ableton Live is certainly complex, but there's so much fun that can be had if you or your children can focus in on one feature and enjoying the musical accidents and exploration.
I'm not sure it's the teachers' fault either. Not entirely anyway. They are beholden to school boards and parents (and ultimately all voters via funding). In fact - I suspect this was written for parents (etc) who are not involved in the day to day experience of school, but who demand certain things from schools without any concern for the real world effects (e.g. idiotic faith in standardized testing).

Those folks may not know these things. Unfortunately, they probably don't want to pause and think about it - If I showed this to some of my conservative friends and relatives they would take it as evidence that teachers are useless, not that the current teaching system needs some serious rearrangement.
The fault here lies in their policies, not your actions. You are in fact entitled to a personal life regardless of what they coerce you to sign.
So one of his hundred subsidiaries, that makes tens of thousands of homes a year, had one of its many teams build twenty without air conditioners, and oversprayed pesticide in one.

BTW: The "virtue signaling" jibe is because socialists hate the very idea that even a single capitalist can behave ethically. If two people like Charlie and Warren become wealthy anonymously and ethically that's bad enough. But if they have they temerity to preach to other capitalists and investors about ethical behavior it can only be "virtue signaling" to socialists, never just an honest desire to improve the world.

As far as the "crony capitalist" jibe, lol. Warren started with $29,000 in savings and he was worth tens of millions by his thirties investing from Nebraska, without any help from Wall Street or anyone, no inside information or even a computer.

And that's continued to this day. Warren Buffett is an affront to classists and socialists because he's the most famous of the many of US super rich who came from middle class or poor backgrounds, putting a lie to some if their class warfare rhetoric.
Yeah. I have no place in my kitchen to reasonably put a large monitor. That said, I wouldnt be at surprised to see a future version of this as a box or a fire stick like thing to plug into an existing tv.
True. I think that if Buffett wanted to address this problem his best option would be to fund an entity that could lobby on this issue and match dollar-for-dollar pharmaceutical company donations for house reps and senators that were willing to push to reduce the cost of healthcare.

Tackling healthcare is one 'big issue' that could have a huge effect on the US economy and living standards. Seems a worthy 'legacy' project for Buffett to finance.
Are you talking about using temporary SIMs when traveling? In that case there's no need to go through the phone number change process.

If you are permanently changing your phone number, and want new people to be able to send you messages, then I think you need to follow the process here: https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/android/27585377
Would be hard to enforce legislatively, as you're essentially forcing private companies to disclose the previously confidential pricing agreements between them and insurance companies.

What will end up happening is the equivalent of MSRP in car sales - here's the list price, but since you're such a good guy, and we're running a promotion, you can get 5% off if you act today.
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I've always found Daniel Shiffman's writing to be very approachable (http://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-10-neural-networks/)
> Wouldn't closing a file handle be an action requiring mutability?

In Rust there is no distinction between mutable owned data and immutable owned data. There are only mutable/immutable references and bindings, but if you own the data, you can mutate it.

fn foo(v: Vec)
fn foo(mut v: Vec)

are the same function. `mut` is not part of the type. Even the first function can do `let mut v = v` and make immutable owned `v` a mutable owned one (since Rust can guarantee there are no other references to it, so the mutation is not observable from outside).

It's different from `&mut Vec`, which is a distinct type, and it mutably borrows the Vec.

> If the file handle is just a integer

That's why in Rust such values are wrapped in "newtypes" that don't allow copying, e.g. `struct Handle(i32)`.

> pass by value call to an in-practice pass by reference

Passing ownership of the `Vec` doesn't copy the items.

Ownership/references and passing by value/reference are different concepts.

`Box<Foo>` is an owned value, but it's implemented as a regular pointer (`Foo* ` in C). `&[Foo]` is a reference, but it's actually a small struct passed by value (`struct Ref {size_t len; Foo *data}` in C).
My point was that those events are positively minor, compared to what others have experienced. I think the term "blowback" is severely out of place here.