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I have the same issues. Combined with that I'm hypothyroid, which can then compound the PVC symptoms when my dosage of thyroxine is off.

I'm sitting here reading this article thinking "My gods, I wouldn't wish this on anyone, forget about your heartbeat before it drags you into panic attacks!"
if Netflix would give them better deal, I'm pretty sure cinemas would play nice to Netflix.

I'd be sad to see cinemas dying. It's possible that VR might offer an alternative but cinemas are one of the social thing we can do nowadays.
I put bribes in quotes for a reason. Outright bribes are handled by the system. However I'm implying any way to get around the rules without getting caught. Some are legal loopholes, some are illegal. The only point is by some way you got around the rules without getting caught.
A better method for giving feedback – no more sandwiches
Postgres 10, Performance and You (slides)
What I find amazing is companies insisting on being located near Kendall or the Seaport District (and paying massive amounts of money for the privilege) to be "innovative."

Why aren't more companies in New England going to where the commercial real estate and housing are cheaper?
> Working non-remotely has been the status-quo since before it was possible to work remotely.

As a farmer, I like to think of it as the original working remotely career. Especially in history where your entire land-base and home were one in the same. Working in an office away from home is the 'new fangled' way to work.
The weekend would be over and we would still be arguing about what language to use.
Why vaccines help the less fortunate – An animated model of herd immunity
Here are some informative YouTube channels that I've watched for quite some time:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNPa8fSXzzAZuT9859GVhg

https://www.youtube.com/user/ChinaNonStop

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFP46yVT-GG4o1TgXn-04Q

Typically someone will very quickly chime in and say these are "propaganda" and you should completely ignore them. If you ask these people if the facts stated in the video are true or false, they will not answer the question. Watch with a skeptical mind, compare to facts you read in other sources, and judge for yourself. A big difference between these YouTubers (well, China Uncensored is biased to be fair) and what you'll read in the mainstream media is, these people live there, they are reporting the truth far more accurately than you'll get from other sources (on the topics they cover - they don't really get into macroeconomics for example.)
I remember I was all up in arms about it when it first happened (showing advertisements before the movie). It makes sense though, you are a totally captive audience and those opportunities are more and more rare for companies trying to advertise. I guess I got used to it and now I just kind of space out when the ads are playing, or talk to my companion.

I still really enjoy the movie going experience; it's a bit more special now that I have kids and I don't get to see grownup movies in the theater all that often.
This is because California has neglected any planning. There is a science called Urbanism that if applied on city planning, it can make the whole city sustainable and better for everyone.
What is wrong with Mute? I actually really liked how they captured the feeling that goes with living with the kind of liberal arts studiers (it's a bit of a generalisation, but I think it holds) that make a group of people like that. They pretty much nailed the ambiance and the personal interactions, even if they were occasionally a bit overblown. That is something movies do.
MySQL became popular because it was quick and dirty.

It provided fast relational SQL database for the early web application stack without any concern of maintaining ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) that "real" databases like Postgres providied. It had slight speed advantage and that was enough to turn the scale against Postgres.

MySQL was demonstration of Worse Is Better in the database world.
https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
If you're doing this, your almost certainly choosing a suboptimal career path. I think most of the times you could optimize your job and location and come out ahead economically.

That's not the only consideration, but it's tough to imagine the 90 minute commute winning on quality of life factors.
The American health care system also costs double as a percent of GDP vs every other modern country's health care system so spending more money on it is not going to fix things. Arguing about who pays is easy.
The Express is now a seriously disreputable paper, and you should be sceptical about anything they print. It's been losing readers and journalists for years, and is now largely full of sensation and puff pieces.
Suspected Golden State killer arrested after decades of searching
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So how NHS works in the UK?
Would love to discuss. You can also reach me on the email - considering the timezone difference (I couldn't find yours on the profile page).
Or people who can't afford food get assistance from the government.

The difference is that healthcare costs are so outrageous, that the "people who can't afford healthcare" bucket includes families solidly in the middle and even upper-middle classes. Which includes most of the nation.
Hello former neighbor! I used to live on the Bluffs right in the Manor area. I agree with everything you said - but the commute sucked if you didn't have a car or shared a car with a spouse who didn't work in the same area as you.

Why? Because the transit out there is terrible. It's served by one single SamTrans bus line that takes 45 minutes to get from Pacifica to Daly City BART (a 5ish minute drive).

If it wasn't for that I'd probably still be living there. It's just impossible without a car - something that cannot be said for most of the Bay.
Hugs and cuddles are not things you can do yourself. Not everybody has the privilege of having those options so you might as well list things like winning the lottery. If you do have money though, I have found that massage can be at least a partially acceptable surrogate for other types of human contact and social interaction, if you are in a location where that’s an option.
It must have been some quarterly business stuff that stuck in my head.
Summary: HPET Timer has a significant performance impact, especially on intel. Anandtech turned them to non-default forced-on and now has lots of results which cant be compared to other benchmarkers.

I'm interested in first-generation Ryzen numbers. Especially considering AMD explicitly advised turning HPET off while anandtech turned them on.
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> whose jobs actually require them to go somewhere

This jobs exist where they are because the "nerds" work there. They could choose not to work at those nerd-service jobs (forcing nerds to buy there food closer to home) or form a union to demand higher pay, or organize and build housing there.

Also, "nerd" is unhelpful trash talking.
It isn't actually about costs. The thing about Americans, culturally, is that we hate other Americans. As a society, we would gladly pay $5 more to ensure our neighbor doesn't get $1 we don't think they deserve. See: drug testing of welfare recipients.
The problem as it stands is that no agent in the system sees an incentive to do so, because the people having problems are invisible to their preference functions.

Consider the aphorism "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." Why is this an aphorism? Because squeaky wheels are annoying. If the people who use the wheels have to hear them squeak, they'll soon oil them. So if you hear a squeaky wheel (for example, on a shopping cart), that's usually because the people with the oil don't ever have to get close enough to hear that squeak.

Proposals like Basic Income, or even welfare, basically translate to "greasing all the wheels on a regular schedule, whether you've heard them squeak or not"—i.e., fixing problems that aren't actually bothering you personally. It's nearly impossible to incentivize anyone to do that.

My proposal here is more in terms of "ensuring when manufacturing wheels that they will squeak as loudly as possible when they've begun failing." You want to solve the shopping-cart case, where the person with the oil isn't the person who has to use the cart. And the best way to do that is to ensure that the customers will be too irritated by the squeaking to actually use the carts; and therefore the carts will go disused; and therefore the customers will complain to the cashiers that there are no carts, and people will buy less than they would with a cart, and revenue will go down, and some stakeholder will notice, and gather information, and figure out that it's that all the carts are squeaking horribly, and so oil them.

Or, in other words, you want the squeak of "people not getting treated because they don't have the money" to be loud enough to actually make it all the way up to the hospital's CFO, where the squeaking will cause cost-cutting; and even further, to the city surrounding the hospital, where the squeaking will cause donating.

In fact, if you oil the carts regularly, you might not realize that your wheels are badly-made and are rusting prematurely; or that your parking lot needs a regular dust-blower-ing; or whatever else. Sensitive components—canaries in coal mines, or people with no money in poor health—show you where your system is weakest. If you eliminate them (by just providing UBI, or even just public healthcare), you eliminate the chance to observe where your system fails. In a country with more money than it knows what to do with, this is probably a sensible approach—it has fewer people suffer over the short term, after all, at the expense of a bloated, bureaucratic medical system. But if you're trying to figure out how to cut those costs, you need the squeaking.
I've been remote for 5 years. I know about all the benefits, but I'm always curious how others are dealing with the drawbacks. I've written about it a few times here on HN:

- Social isolation

How do you ensure that your social brain is exercised? If I don't make a conscious & deliberate point of it, I can go an entire day without leaving the house, sometimes multiple days.

Working from home can mean 8 solid hours of programming, but that can be difficult to sustain even if you have the environment for it. Natural social breaks are missing in this environment, it's just you and the code.
TianoCore was a horrible implementation of UEFI. When I used it to code against it had several standard-divergent parts.
Why should this matter? There will always be more things desired than money to pay for them.
>Some people who work in the city live in Pennsylvania.

That isn't really saying much. Easton, PA is almost exactly 90 min from NYC (though it has tolls).
Why Spreadsheets Are (Still) More Powerful Than Apps for Managing Money
And missing in the (usually propaganda) discussion of the "leaving in droves" is that CA and the Bay have a net increase in population.

So while many are leaving it's not like they aren't being replaced!
The whole idea is kind of predicated on whoever you're worried about attacking you not wanting the information to get out more than they care about getting to the person holding the dead man's switch. If they are more concerned with getting to that person than with whatever information the person has threatened to publish no level of security on the switch matters it just becomes part of the cost of getting to the owner.
No, it's not the same point at all. Netflix doesn't care about quality, it cares about the apparent size of its library, so it focuses on shoveling crap out as fast as it can. If they don't start focusing on quality really soon, all that crap isn't going to matter.

Hollywood cares, at least a little bit, about quality because each movie lives or dies on its own. In the end, that's going to be the differentiator that keeps Hollywood alive: the theater experience for good movies, and the Netflix experience for when you just want to kill brain cells.
The weather is nice, but nature is not really all that close. Sure, there's worse places. But growing up there I thought we had it good on the nature front, while really it was just the koolaid.
Bay Area is a far more pleasant environment to live in than North Atlantic
Personal: @mindcrime - I don't tweet a lot and it tends to come in spurts, and is often political in nature. For example, I recently spent a lot of time tweeting about gun rights / gun control / 2A topics.

Company: @fogbeamlabs - not real high traffic either, but tweets are usually about technical topics. Sometimes random one-off thoughts, sometimes just a notification about a new FogBlog post, sometimes retweets of stuff we find interesting.
Fuel cells interest me more than batteries because I'm not convinced that the materials needed for batteries are renewable. (Yes, I've already heard people argue that future battery technologies may not have this problem. I'd be more convinced by indications of how this problem might be solved than simple assertions that it will be solved.)

I think diesel will have its niche in the future, as the energy density concerns are legitimate and important for many applications. Biodiesel also doesn't have the same limitations in terms of materials the batteries do.

For personal transportation, I'm a strong proponent of human power, particularly walking and biking. No new magic technology is needed as far as I'm concerned. This is not practical in many places in the US, but if someone were to spend as much effort selecting where they live to have a good cycling commute as they do when selecting where they live to have a good driving commute, the problem would be mostly solved. Many people would have to change their lifestyles to do this, but I think those who do would typically find the changes acceptable or an improvement over their current situation.
While $240,000 is a nice salary it's not even close to what you'd need to afford a house in SV

This cannot be correct. If you are taking home $20,000 a month and cannot have a house in SV the problem is not affordability but availability. Or what kind of house are you talking about.
Nurseries and lifetimes are orthogonal concepts. In fact, Rust already has a "nursery", except it's generally called a scoped threadpool. They use lifetimes to ensure the threads can reference stuff on the stack without copying it. So a "nursery" is basically just a scoped threadpool with a 'static lifetime.
I am arguing from the point of view that at current prices very few if anyone would be able to afford a high-cost procedure. When that happens prices would come down. This is partly why a bottle of snake venom antidote in Mexico can cost $100 but in the U.S. costs $10,000.

Another example is eye surgery. Originally the procedure was expensive but now it is more affordable because it is not covered by insurance. Comparatively, plastic surgery is relatively affordable because it is not normally covered by insurance.

Reducing or eliminating health insurance would also eliminate a lot of the medical administrators that provide zero care but due incur a cost due to their salaries.

As far as getting rid of the profit motivation but capturing the profits and giving it to those without health insurance I believe that you would also eliminate any reason to innovate and create new drugs.

I will admit that if you got rid of health insurance tomorrow that there would be a lot of short term pain. But I also believe that in the long run people would be better off because they would be able to afford there healthcare.

Using a different example look at the cost of college. I believe that we could fix that problem one of two ways. The first way would be to get rid of government loans and grants. The other way would be to allow people to file bankrupcy for student loans. The first way would attack the problem by getting rid of easy money. Because easy money makes things expensive. The second way could work by shifting the risks of the loans from the student to the banks. The problem with this solution would probably make it harder to pay for degrees that don't pay well.

To summarize my arguments, cheap money makes things expensive and is destroying almost everything is this country.

Edit: added the college example.
What was the difference (in policy or whatever) that allowed your colleagues to remote in but you not?
Are grocery stores required to give free food to the hungry?
Well, the main problem is that creating textual output is a small part of the process of creating value for the customer (which is ultimately what most businesses do). This is a host of processes that go way beyond text manipulation, and they require collaboration. This is best done by getting in the same room (still!) and is not likely to change (unless of course someone develops some work collaboration application on top of VR).
Hell, even rent is cheaper in Tokyo: https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/san-fra...
yes, but by train, where you can actually accomplish a lot of things you cannot accomplish while driving.
threads were actually invented for these sorts of use cases, as "lightweight processes".

If OSs change again, sure, the way we program will change again.

At the moment, using processes is too resource intensive, that's exactly why we have threads in the first place. And I don't understand what benefit you are suggesting using processes over threads would have.
I would say that Netflix is making up for anything with volume, the quality of their own shows seem to be rather low in general. Their plan seems to be to make as many shows as possible and kill them of as soon as possible if they don't become sufficiently popular.

Other may disagree, but to me "Netflix Original" is a warning that the show is going to be poorly written. Production quality is usually pretty good though.
The Mood Notes app is helpful for identifying thinking traps. It asks you how you feel, and then it guides you to think through why you might be feeling not so great, and identifying those thought patterns (thinking traps) which may be forming the basis for those feelings.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moodnotes-thought-journal-mo...

Or if you don't want to purchase an app, here is a list of thinking traps to get you started. When you're feeling blue, think about what thoughts may be contributing to your feelings, and whether those thoughts might fall somewhere on this list.

https://www.anxietybc.com/sites/default/files/ThinkingTraps....
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curious how breath control may/may not fit into this..

if one is mentally focusing strictly on the heartrate without thinking of breath/thought control, I don't see it working out too well..
> Author is a PhD student, which bodes well for not reinventing wheels dumbly.

Except that's exactly what the author did. They just reinvented scoped threadpools.
> But in the past five years of using Ubuntu full-time I haven't had a single issue with out of the box stuff working on any of a number of Lenovo machines.

Yeah, my only experience is with Apple hardware. Obviously Apple doesn't work with Ubuntu to certify their hardware like Lenovo does (https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop/), nor would I expect them to, but MacBooks are one of the most popular laptops so I sort of expected it to just work.

> It's hard to complain about having to tweak things when the OS is free/libre.

I agree, and I'm definitely willing to tweak things here and there, but it's a non-starter for most people. I guess they can still buy Ubuntu certified hardware or whatever, though.
Possible duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16913110 ?
I’ve had similar experiences when I went for a checkup for the first time with my own insurance. I’ve been so used to knowing the prices beforehand through my young and feeble life, but everything about my initial visits felt abnormal. I’m here to pay for a service, but why aren’t they telling me anything about price? I’m aware of my copay but what about the original price? Okay, I should probably get an x-ray. Why the hell aren’t you mentioning the costs? I mean, I don’t have to get it either.

I always feel so helpless whenever I go as if my decisions are more or less made for me. Transparency will not only help me decide, but give me options that weren’t visible in the first place.
A bus is about 2 to 3 times as long as a car. Unless you're assuming these buses would only have a single passenger, no, they are not a negative.

And even if all of these people lived in walking distance of where they worked, the places they've now vacated would be occupied with people who may drive, and so forth.

The imaginary world you're supposing does not exist, hence the article we're discussing to begin with.
Did you not figure out what was actually different about it?

As far as I know Inbox bundles are a unique feature and one I could not do without.
I agree actually. I don't intend to stay here for the long term, but I don't plan to move back to the bay area anytime soon either. I already spent most of my life there.
God I hope not. The overwhelming majority of their shows are badly produced, drawn out drivel. It’s kind of like paying someone not for the results, but for hours billed: there’s a strong possibility this incentive will become the maximization objective for the payee.
They still aren't "necessary", especially on a programmer's salary.

It's only might be necessary if you want a large, single family house.
Take-home pay on $175K in CA is $10k/month, not $8k/month

https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#RZ3V1...

Sharing an apartment isn't "spartan", it's "normal"
> I'd imagine hospitals hate this.

Not as much as you might think.

The biggest beneficiary of price opacity is, actually Medicare itself. Because prices are opaque, and because it's illegal to charge private insurers less than what you charge Medicare, and because Medicare has no legal mandate to reimburse COGS, Medicare is able to use the lack of price transparency to force providers to pass Medicare costs on to private insurers (which then gets passed on to privately-insured patients in the form of premiums).

A rather cynical - but wholly plausible - view of this news is that it's an attempt to undermine the long-term financial solvency of Medicare, by making it harder for them (in the long run) to pad their operating budget this way. Given that the press release heavily emphasizes the role of the current administration in making this change[0], and that the entire party has pretty consistently supported cutting funding for Medicare[2], it's a rather easy conclusion to come to.

[0] It's not exactly unusual to mention the President by name in a press release of this nature, but it's not exactly typical or standard practice either. Oftentimes, agencies will refer to themselves as if they were politically neutral and functioning somewhat independently of the executive branch[1], even though the leadership is obviously appointed by the executive.

[1] Because, to a large degree, they are - the people employed by these agencies have relatively low turnover, unlike the directors who are appointed fresh by each new administration.

[2] Not in their rhetoric, of course, but with their actions
I use a 2012 MBP that’s still going strong. The newer models with irreplaceable (at least by us mere mortals) hard drives, batteries and memory, and permanently pushed me away from buying a Mac again.
It's good enough to combat link rot if you need to or want to refer back to or read something again. Nothing on the internet is permanent and even if it is still out there, that's no guarantee that Google or any other search engine still has it in their index. At least that way the information isn't lost to you.
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