skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess:

People with some money will pay through expensive insurance, and everybody else can't pay at all.

This way, pharma and hospitals have near 0 incentive to focus on people with anything less than mid to high tier insurance plans.

And everything else results from that, like regulatory capture by insurance companies and everybody teaming up with them.

Even without draconian restrictions on generic drugs, labour mobility in medical professions, and needlessly elevated standards of care in hospitals for many conditions, medical treatment in US will still be out of reach of majority, and the market will still be skewed towards high tier insurance plan holders.

A more radical, slash and burn reforms will be required by US to reach countries with private, but affordable to masses healthcare.

I can draw a parallel with restaurant or affordable clothing markets in my home country - Russia.

In the centre of Moscow, you have countless fancy restaurants that are nearly always empty. Those ones have $30 average price for a basic meal.

At around 10 km away from the Kremlin, you begin to see rare soup kitchens serving <$1 meals with 100+ people line ups during lunch hours accommodating everybody with less than $2k USD of monthly income.

See, if a fancy restaurant will serve even two customers per hour, it will get more money than a soup kitchen.

The same situation, if not worse goes for affordable apparel. Most people can't afford anything more than an "Abibas" tracksuit for $2, yet you genuinely can't find anything that cheap in Moscow's urban core. Putin ordered the only public market in Moscow serving the masses to be crushed, and its owner prosecuted in a show trial, just out of resent for its existence showing the extend of poverty in the country.
The "UK" NHS is failing because government has made the choice to defund it and to privatise it.

It's a purely political choice from a health minister who believes in homeopathy and who has previously written about the need to sell off the NHS.
Thanks for mentioning us. In my opinion the primary difference between Atlassian and GitLab is that they have separate applications that integrate while we have a single application https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#single-application
Do you work with contractors or employees only?
What bugs?
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If they aren't shy they would have put that in the first paragraph instead of beating around the bush for the entire article, and also not immediately hedged to say high prices isn't all bad/can't do anything about it because "limits."
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We're interested in the odds of collision of people in the same club. Any data about people not sharing a club is irrelevant.

> I suspect that if we enlarged the sample, it would fall much further.

Try to back that up, maybe.
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What they're saying is that they'll replace your chip if it behaves differently from all the other chips of the same model, not if ALL the chips are broken by design.
wouldn't it be possible to mitigate it by locking the kernel to one CPU core, and run user processes on the other cores?

That would be a much, much more invasive architectural change - and it would perform much worse than the page table isolation fixes.

Also, if this bug lets the kernel leak data to user processes, would it also not be the case that different processes would leak data to each other?

No. The problem is with pages that are mapped, but (supposed to be) inaccessible from your current privilege level. The user mappings of other processes aren't in your page tables at all.
>It's not just a 'perception of gov't incompetence': it's a widespread phenomenon. Government employees tend to excel at working organisational politics (i.e., in serving their organisational customers) rather than in serving their taxpaying customers. Government work is a kind of kabuki theatre, in which everyone agrees to praise the emperor's new clothes and ignore the boy who points out that he's naked.

You've just described every large institution I've ever worked for.

IME, large companies that were well insulated from competition were way more dysfunctional than the government, too.
Does byteball require a centralized conductor for security? (like IOTA)
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You look at the public order books. So, for example, the order book for a particular exchange's BTCUSD market might contain the following buy orders (from various people who've deposited USD and wish to buy BTC):

BUY 10 BTC @ 15,000 USD
BUY 10 BTC @ 14,900 USD
BUY 50 BTC @ 14,800 USD

If you sell 67.5 BTC into this market, you will sell the first 10 BTC for 15,000 USD each, the next 10 BTC for 14,900 USD each, and the remaining 47.5 BTC for 14,800 each, netting you a total of 150,000+149,000+703,000=1,002,000 USD. The average price would then be 1,002,000/67.5=14,844.4444, which means you would incur a slippage of (15,000-14,844.4444)/15,000=0.0103703733=~1% (which is the difference between your average selling price (14,844.4444) and the price of the first buy order that your sell order matched against (15,000)).
As with any optimization process, the objective function is of prime importance.

If the only motivator is profit and money, with no feedback loops or sidecars including a factor accounting for human comfort and dignity, you are literally fighting an uphill battle in the space of the objective function.

The answer, I strongly believe, lies in making money somehow account for the human costs associated with conducting business. In whatever economy we operate, if having more money implies you will be treated better than those without, you will see what we are seeing today. If, instead, treating society better means you have more money (which makes life marginally, but not hugely, better than your fellow humans), you will see an incentivization toward social good.
> Autovectorised SIMD code would probably need something like an "AUTOVEC" annotation

If you only need SIMD for stream processing, autovectorisation is OK.

Only there’re multiple autovectorizers in C. The default one is indeed very fragile. But the one in OpenMP 4 is better: http://www.hpctoday.com/hpc-labs/explicit-vector-programming...

But even that OMP 4 is very limited.

One reason is many SSE operations don’t map to C: approximate math (rcpps, rsqrtps), composite operations (FMA, AES), and saturated math (there’re dozens instruction for manipulating 8 and 16 bit numbers with saturation, i.e. on over/underflow the numbers don’t wrap around by stripping highest byte[s] but stay at the min/max 8/16 bit value).

Another reason is some SSE instructions operate horizontally (phminposuw, pmaddubsw, psadbw, dpps), or are advanced swizzle instructions (shufps, pshufb, pshuflw, pshufhw, pslldq), both are very hard to autogenerate from these #pragma omp simd loops.
Oh, I see. I figured you were talking about the US due to the article. Your friend works one day a week?? That's awesome.
Look at how clean those streets are! Is there someone from Oslo who can comment on these streets now? Are they still as clean (because they're in the political district?) or did we make our cities more dirty since then?
+1 for wanting to know what actually happens. I do not like the direction web dev is heading, with prepossessing, and transpiling a language that is already an embedded scripting language.
Something I've always heard but not mentioned in this article is that America is a very litigious culture, everyone sues everyone for nearly any reason, which is uncommon in most parts of the world, and doctors must have lots of malpractice insurance to guard against this; and when doctors pay a lot for insurance, they must increase their prices to help cover that, and the wheel spins that way.
I grew up on a US Army base.

Believe me: There is plenty of mystery, and plenty more obvious waste. The most obvious is called "use or lose".

Why in the hell do we need it?

China has a billion more people, borders Russia, North Korea, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, yet spends less than a quarter as much as the US on defense, even by the most liberal estimates.

I can see arguing the merit of spending more than every country on Earth. I would still disagree, but it would definitely be a discussion.

However, the US contributes more than a third (closer to 1/2 now) of defense spending for the entire goddamn world.

It disgusts me that my country takes so much money from its citizens, and throws it at all into a machine of death, whilst simultaneously blaming its egregious debt on Social Security.
The problem I've seen is it makes sense to the person who set it up but when they leave it's not as easy or obvious for the person who comes in later to maintain it. If you have left behind detailed docs that may mitigate the issue. Also in some cases there is good reason to do it yourself but in other cases some people have a strong NIH syndrome and the value in the end to the company is not necessarily higher with a custom setup. In the end if it ends up costing more to maintain the system it's a net loss.
The term is misused. Native means "native machine code", in any shape or form with no interpretation layer in between. OP seems to be confused between native vs. non-native axis and monolithic/static vs. modular/dynamic.

If the software image is compiled in its entirety before being installed on a target, that is "monolithic". If parts of it can be dynamically loaded, it is "modular". Dynamic loading of functions with JIT is just heaping on more modularity: hyper-modular.

A situation involving JIT is non-native only in the sense or to the extent that there is non-JIT-ted code in the image. If there is an interpreter so that some things execute without being JITted, those things are not native.
I would think that some combination of sorting, grouping, filtering and pagination would still make for a more user-friendly experience.
Also, extra extra unnecessary knowledge: The symbol for the Ångström unit has a different Unicode encoding than the capital "Å", in the same way that the Ohm symbol "Ω" is different from Greek capital omega. "W" for Watt doesn't have it's own codepoint in Unicode though, so that's arbitrary.
For the vast majority of the internet users, it does.

They won't "hack" the online radio to download (rip) the stream. Even if it's just a click away via countless stream downloading services found via any web search engine.

DRM raises that technical bar by a few notches, but it doesn't really work for non-interactive content, because there are again countless sites that offer non-DRMed access. (So DRM works for games, because it takes a while to crack them.)
In most multi-party systems, parties are always forced to compromise and cooperate to get anything done, since it's almost impossible to get a single party majority. Dutch governments are almost always formed by 2 to 4 parties (usually a centrist party plus either left- or right-leaning parties) which largely prevents swings to extremes.
> Blockchains are not the next big thing in databases

Blockchains are the next big thing in nothing. They are not here to revolutionise anything [1]

> hey are here to revolutionize how existing organizations co-ordinate, enter into contracts with each other etc.

Nope. There are about zero things in blockchain that help with that. Because at the end of the day someone has to do all the job of, you know, adding all the info about who owns what percentage of what song in which region of the world.

Oh wait. Which song was that? A Japanese LP that's 2 seconds longer than the original single released in Europe? Or that remastered song on a "Best of album" that was published by a different publisher than the remastered version published on the "Remastered" album that is published by a different combination of publishers than the original 1960s album that is different from that singular French copy of a concert in 1995...

All that for a single song that ends up being attributed to the same singers and songwriters, except that one cover by all the same people sans that one guy, and except that different cover that will be attributed to the same songwriters, but a different singer, and except...

All that info has to be: standardized, assigned to every single one of those 30 million songs, and any new releases should contain the same standardized info.

You know, something the publishers could agree on right now, and they don't. So how in the seven hells is blockchain going to help?

[1] https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-...
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Even some individuals do: https://github.com/Const-me/VectorMath
The article spends 4 paragraphs on them. Just one example:

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programs. They report they were able to get 53 segfaults with one hour of attempted compilation.
You are simply wrong. The spirit of the law does exist. It's a concept well established in legal analysis.
The math in the article is not quite right. Growth from 1.2 trillion to 2.1 trillion in 17 years (1996-2013) only amounts to 3.3% annual growth, which is not that far away from the 2.4% of the overall economic growth.

The U.S. does spend more per capita than any other country, with Switzerland, Luxembourg and Norway being the runners up.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/04/20/5247741...

I think that statistics gives a hint: the richer the country, the more it can afford to spend. Also the mostly private health care sector in the U.S. doesn't have similar incentives to cap their spending at a certain point as their publicly funded counterparts in Europe. There must be a lot of cases where a rich person buys expensive treatments for a terminal illness that would be deemed hopeless and left untreated elsewhere, and that has to show in the statistics somehow. I don't consider this a big flaw in the U.S. system.
Exactly, here in the Netherlands you still need a majority, this is often formed from 3 or more parties that have to negotiate a lot before coming up with a plan.
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How did they want to identify themselves upon using the service? Email plus name? Is it worth making login more complex for everyone else?

Or do you expect old people that share an email account to gracefully handle unique usernames? I'm pretty skeptical of that one.

And "So long as users are aware that they won't be able to recover an account" sounds like a joke. Maybe one in twenty people will truly internalize that, if you're lucky.
not quite true regarding the focus - you aren't building a $50B+ company when you don't have focus, it's just that their core compentency isn't fashionable right now. they can't grow in the markets they're in because they either own them completely or were driven out, so they're trying different ones (pivoting, if that's applicable to mature companies).
You'd probably find most people would go with the $5,000 guy.

We're not talking Drunk Eddie suddenly being allowed to practice as a surgeon, the $5k guy will still have standards and steady hands.

The risk differential is probably not worth a cheap car.
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Well depending on how this is turning out there will be benchmarks that show the chips performing slower than before. I've read that many chips will be getting 17% slower in the best case and up to 30% in the worst case.
That could be enough to warrant a return of the product.
How would the dairy industry want this?
> Write high-level abstractions for everything that is not your core business domain, and don't let secondary component concepts leak into your business domain.

This kind of seems really obvious.
Two parties means one or both can go to extremes pretty easily. If both do, people just pick one and the parties use votes to justify their extreme views. If only one is, it usually leaves the second party simply fighting against insanity (I think this is part of what we are seeing now: Bernie might be the start of a more extreme opposite to the other party). The parties also don't really have to have steady standards or party stance on things, at least not in the states. It more depends on the individual.

Multiple parties mean that more views can be heard. You can have a party with extreme views, but people can choose something different. Hopefully, there is a bigger range. The other thing multiple parties seem to encourage is working together and compromise. If you've 5 or 6 parties, it is harder for one party to hold up the government.

It isn't to say that a two-party system can't be what you describe, but it certainly isn't what is happening in the US right now.
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Why everything might have taken so long (2017)
I think the primary problem with poverty is that the means to get out of poverty like education, healthcare and housing have exploded in cost.
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in my experience in non-US government job, it not only offers more stability but also better retirement benefits, as such pay is not as far off as it might seem. Furthermore I'm in a country with paid vacations, but the Governmental vacations offered longer paid vacations - not sure if they do this in the U.S but I could expect they actually do offer paid vacations? Which would be something people might value.
When you have a small GDP, exist in the middle east, and your capitol city is an old word for peace, you end up spending a significant amount on defense.
No, the belief in health care is that privatization leads to better quality (because privatization and higher pay leads to better care and smarter doctors), not (necessarily) lower prices. Not saying that I hold such beliefs, just pointing out that your argument is a bit too simplistic.
How credible are the conspiracy theories on this? I recall reading about more than one instance where authorities did not cooperate or even misled or otherwise actively impeded investigations.
I pick my stack based on the same principles. The reason why I was so excited about React, GraphQL etc was that I felt it was finally realistic for me to be able to work solo on my side projects.
When can we expect a "it's been an incredible journey" blog post?
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Didn't they pick up broken pieces of the plane wings and such from the Indian ocean?
It's definitely libertarian and conservative (by Canadian standards). But that doesn't mean it can't be right. FWIW, it's high on the list of known/established Canadian think tanks.

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has done its own reports on this [1].

This also seem to be true in the UK, but at least there they say the gap is closing [2].

The IFS report says what I've also observed and what this [3] economist article states:

"Wage differentials are relatively small in the public sector. Lower-level workers, such as secretaries, are usually better paid than their private-sector equivalents, whereas higher-level workers are worse paid."

[1] https://www.cfib-fcei.ca/en/advocacy/wage-watch-comparison-p...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40480766

[3] http://www.economist.com/node/17849199
4 days NHS (the day job), 1 day private practice. That's typical for Consultants in the UK...
>macOS is like a hotel. Everything is polished, designed and cared for.

well not anymore
The two party system sucks in all moderates, and forces them to support the most radical positions.
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Possibly inadvisable, but you can disable SIP in High Sierra by using `csrutil` from the recovery OS (kind of moot, admittedly, as you'll need to be in recovery to trash the files that the author has mentioned, but you can at least make this setting permanent if you're willing to live with SIP disabled).
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I urge every one in HN to give this masterpiece a read - "Made in Japan". It's an autobiography of the founder of Sony himself and there is a section in the book where he talks about the engineering and spirit that went behind these TVs. In fact, he talks a lot about the engineering spirit that made Sony the Apple of its era. If you liked Steve Job's biography, you'll certainly love this.[1]

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There is also the issue that they look at the top of the line to aknowledge an issue (or not).

Show how their healthcare system is not very good for the bucks for the average person, and you get answered that the very top specialist at the very top hospital for the very top money there gives you the best treatement ever.
Thanks but I will still take my average specialist at my local hospital for a low price that's included in my mensual who gives me top of the line.

Show the student debt problem or their school system issues, and you get answers about the top ivy leagues and the likes ...

I'm not sure where this comes from.

I'm not saying they're wrong and I'm right, but that I'm even having issue understanding the other's side point of view; I can't really see the benefit to society of that kind of model. To me this feels like going back to feudalism and nobility without the titles. Because I can't see the discussion from their point of view, I'm not able to argue and discuss propely either.
Lack of price transparency feels like a big part of the problem here. It's nearly impossible for a consumer to shop around based on price, allowing prices to go up freely.

I'm actually surprised healthcare providers can legally be as opaque as they are: how is it okay to charge arbitrary amounts after the fact and require the consumer to pay? Even car mechanics make upfront estimates and get them signed by the consumer, because otherwise the consumer might refuse to pay. Why doesn't the same happen in healthcare for at least non-emergency procedures?
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