skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, to summarize, the person you replied to above asked what is the reasonable alternative to socialized healthcare that does not include people dying in the streets of treatable maladies. And through your explanation it appears as though you replied with a tautological statement that had no bearing on the question being asked.

So, what is it that you are actually trying to say?
I guess relative to the stars in the image, using parallax.
Yes, but check out https://www.oanda.com/forex-trading/tools/algo-lab. (not affiliated with them)
CentOS probably actually works fine on desktop, I use Fedora out of habit as much as anything. If there's a technical reason, it's mostly just about having the "latest and greatest" in terms of drivers, desktop environments, dev tools, etc.
Very rational thinking for an individual, one I happen to share. However, in a large system, there have to be some practical limits to consider in order to apply this stratagem to a large number of people. Bottlenecks. Like both this traffic jam and number of available positions in the entry / exit funnel of an occupation.

All I have is questions, but, could you imagine what % of workers can possibly achieve the optimal career path without noticeably impeding others? At what point does it become unreasonably competitive to align housing, work and family situations for everyone?
Yup. I commute into Cambridge from the middle of NH (~60 miles away). It takes me an average of 90-120 minutes to get to work. People who live "in" the city still take an hour and they have a fraction of the distance to travel. Getting around in Boston is a nightmare, even more so if the weather isn't perfect.
But not a short commute to the South Bay, which is where I worked.
WASM for SQL
I think the officers are right in saying that the legal details aren't her affairs -- unless she wants to make them hers by asking the (adult) kids what happened.
Are you suggesting 3-person “marriage”? Polygamy? That is evil! Only the devil marries multiple people! /s

Ill ask my GF if I can look for a 2nd (working) lady to cover some financial issues
You could write an entire book on SQL and have the same thought.
I can't read it because it's paywalled, but how is the operating system's fsync behavior "fatally scary" with regards to PostgreSQL? How does MySQL handle durability in these cases? What's your point?
I will think about adding generic tools along with an articles section about how hot reloading works and what are the related new technologies.

Thanks for pointing out.
To be clear: I have no issue with Debian shipping MariaDB. I have an issue with Debian pretending MariaDB is MySQL.

If I run "apt-get install mysql-server" and get something other than MySQL, we now have a trust issue: The Debian repository cannot be trusted.
It does answer communication problems though right? Compared to any business project, the kernel is behemoth.
I'd argue we should strive to move away from the switch syntax where it's not necessary because it's verbose and has curious semantics [1]. As an example, this should work:

switch(expr) {
case 'foo':
console.log("a string")
break;
case { foo: bar }:
console.log("foo is", bar)
break;
}

But how would this work?

switch(expr) {
case 'foo':
case { foo: bar }:
console.log("foo is", bar)
break;
}

Moreover, a big selling point of pattern matching is it is an expression. Keep in mind though case points to a statement list, How do we resolve to a value?

With a "return"?

function f() {
switch(expr) {
case 'foo':
return 4 // This makes f return
}
}

function g() {
var x = switch(expr) {
case 'foo':
return 4 // But this doesn't. Is this confusing?
}
}

The value of the last statement?

function g() {
var x = switch(expr) {
case 'foo':
4; // This should resolve to 4
break; // but is the break necessary now?
}
}

IMO switch sytnax is just legacy left behind by C, and not the best one to keep around, especially given the semantics of pattern matching.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device, not sure if this works on JavaScript (I doubt it), but the point is the switch cases essentially work like "goto"s.
The thing is that the vast majority of medical care is not life or death.
I'd classify the BeOS kernel as a modular-ish monolithic kernel. I'm a bit fuzzy on some of the more precise details, like the network stack (which they rewrote 3 or 4 times...) but I know that all drivers, at least, ran in ring 0.

Haiku's kernel is also monolithic, although we have a few hybrid tendencies (FUSE, but it's not widely used) and even more modularity than BeOS had, but we are still mostly source-compatible with the BeOS kernel.

I don't know why people say it's a microkernel; people say the same of Haiku, but it's just not the case. Perhaps it's because the dynamic kernel module system is built-in and virtually all kernel modules are stored as shared objects and loaded on startup, vs. Linux's more static approach, at least historically? That's not at all what's meant by the term "monolithic", but popular perception is often wrong...
Possibly. There was a study on this in Oregon, and the data suggested that people who use the ER for their primary medical care keep doing so even after they're insured: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/10/19/4985261...
I've run a small distributed team for years, and I've mostly resolved the manager vs maker challenge through a combination of:

-desynced collaboration tools

-avoiding interruption based tools as much as possible

-short & focused bi-weekly meetings at the front or back end of the day

It allows the majority of the day for a maker schedule, while allowing for just enough manager time. Also with desynced tools (ex: outstanding support/bug/etc issues in Trello), as long as everyone is checking in at regular internals (say 2x a day) -- things can move through fairly quickly without constant interruptions.

For the manager side I use a mix of:

-Calendar/Contacts

-Evernote

-Workflowy

-Trello

-Slack (at scheduled times, leaving it on all day is horrible idea)

For the maker side:

-Workflowy

-Trello

-Pathjet.com (A small tool that I designed for myself which mixes GTD + Kanban + Pomodoro)

-Prior to my own tool, I used a Pomodoro timer + Workflowy on my machine

-Sometimes I think it's great to get off my machine, and just use a pen+legal pad to do planning/sketching/brainstorming
My sample size is probably similarly limited. I lived in NYC for close to two decades, then in a bedroom community for a number of years.

Those suburban people drove or took a NJ Transit bus because trains were not available. Some even formed neighborhood van pools, kicking in to rent a van and pay for insurance and parking.

But the fact that there are vastly more bus routes going into and out of the city is pretty firm evidence that roads are more comprehensive than rails.
I have been keeping one day a week for the manager's schedule- style calls and appointments.

The rest of the week is divided in to half-day blocks which from my own experience is the minimum useful time to switch context and complete or work on some task.

I'd never read this before but it sums up problems I've had in teams previously with scheduling and especially short-notice "quick" meetings that wreck an afternoon.

It also means there's sacred time in my calendar for unbillable stuff, which gives peace of mind rather than thinking "but I could be doing..."
I assume it isn't deleted...I misspoke. But the net result for the public is the same.
Hopefully one day GIS functions and types get standardized.
The NHS has survived for 70 years, as has BUPA, so your argument rather falls flat.
So, this is all about HPET _as it is used by Windows_, right? They talk about 'forced on in the OS', they mean Windows. Anyone know how the various PC timers are used in Linux?
I would prefer `match { ... } (value)`, with the `match` keyword essentially creating a function that does the matching when it invoked. Minor seeming change, but then you can think of match as being a generalization of arrow functions instead of a special new language construct (i.e., `(...args) => ...` is just shorthand for `match { ...args => ... }`)

I can understand why though they went with similar syntax to a switch statement though
I see that you work in software, not hardware.
"list prices are often incredibly far removed from the actual dollars paid, and the actual amount paid is all dependent on insurer contracts"

I think that fundamentally (or almost fundamentally) clashes with transparency.
On the one hand, I agree that most ISIS and other suicide bombers are also mentally ill. A sane, happy person does not just go blow up or shoot a bunch of people.

Still, there are differences. The particular terrorist here was described by people as having a clear developmental or psychological impairment. Autism and anxiety disorders are common among incels. While the mental illnesses common among suicide bombers are probably different on average.
MySQL was actually really easy to install when Posgresql wasn't. MySQL was also much faster when it supported less SQL features. Neither of those things are really true anymore and Posgres has been my go to DB for a while now.
>>Maybe it's not even possible for extremely intelligent, relatively rational people, to adopt the mindset of people who (by choice, culture, or means well outside their control) live more emotional, instinctual lives.

Articles detailing the utterly ridiculous behavior or trends of SV make the rounds here on HN regularly so I can't agree that even the smartest individuals on this planet can claim total rationality.

Spending $20,000 on a chicken coop when I see folks on BackyardChickens building beautiful chicken coops for $250 and labor?!?

And your theory about "smart people" being super aliens compared to "normies" seems to me like more of that weird sort of thinking emanating out of places with smart people in bubbles.

the tldr? Smart people get as high on their own supply of wacky theories and "irrational" emotional connections as "normal" people.

edit
In fact, my personal idea of a true alien genius is Isaac Newton who of course was obsessed with alchemy and esoteric religious practices. Very smart but crazy as a sh-thouse rat.
Generally everything you're saying about Linux package management vs Homebrew is the opposite of my experience. A coworker uses Linux for his machine and apt's packages always seem out of date or he has problems installing things, whereas Homebrew always just works.

I get what you're saying about source installs and so on, but these seem like more philosophical issues, since Homebrew just works and I install pretty much literally everything on my system through it, including full apps like Chrome, LibreOffice, etc.

> I'd imagine, too, that the fact you had to write your own bootstrap script could be part of what the parent poster was getting at

I'd have to do basically the same anyway. All the bootstrap script does is make sure Homebrew, git, and Python 3 are installed, checks out my repo, and then runs my setup program to set up everything.
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See http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Yui
(Site is blank w/o JS.)
It seems like this is intended to be rolled out by healthcare providers. It's not a free service. They recommend using Signal or Tor for privacy, rather than Facebook Messenger, although their demo runs on Facebook Messenger.

http://x2ai.com/#howitworks

http://x2ai.com/privacy-policy/
It's the room mate problem. That arrangement is usually 2 adults & grandma, which creates an entire new bunch of problems.

The other alternative is to have someone live rent free in exchange for doing the household chores, also known as a live in maid. That is like living with a room mate as a couple, not the most fun.

You used to be able to live on one income in america with just a high school education and buying a house in your early 20s. Not so much anymore.
Reticulate: Write Python in R
yes, just to see if I'm hireable material - turns out I'm not, lol.
Yes. I have a very simple algorithm. Expressed as a function

f(state of the market) = purchase shares in a fund that tracks the S&P 500

Total return: 12-20%/yr. Sometimes more, sometimes less
That's a 14% decrease adjusted for inflation.
The benefit of a free market is that businesses must compete by providing better service or better prices to consumers. That is entirely pointless unless consumers can actually choose the better service or price.
I'm probably one of the most anti-cop people on Hacker News, and buddy, you have it wrong. Even I can't find much objectionable about how these police officers handled the situation.
> there is no reason to bring up what other countries are doing except to say that they are doing something

Are you suggesting that healthcare legislation should be drawn up in a vacuum? It's important to compare and contrast the benefits and pitfalls of other countries' systems. It's really all we have to go off of evidence-wise. It's also good to look at them for inspiration. There are a lot of different ways the public and private sector are being combined to make far more cost-effective healthcare systems than in the US. You are correct that some might not work in the US; that sort of reasoning needs to be weighed into whatever overhaul happens.

> I would just like to fix the root problem and not the symptoms

What are you suggesting as the root issue?
I don't like anything over 15C, at 20C I'm uncomfortable, at 25C I'm miserable and at 30C I just want to crawl into a (cool) dark hole and die.

Funny how different people are.
This is a key development in my personal plan for Futurama-style immortality. Glass jar futures, anyone?
I understand your sentiment, but it is absolutely incorrect that the AMA limits the number of doctors.

I presume you really mean 'residency slots' when you say doctors. In this case, the relevant administrative body is the ACGME... who sets the limits based on appropriations from Congress.

The trope of doctors restricting entry to enrich themselves does not explain reported physician shortages.
by reading the lwn article it seems postgresql is hit especially hard per its design and "heavy" use of fsync, I have yet to find similar impact on mysql.
The 2015/2014 (if you prefer r all button clicks) will remain the most effective Macbook Pro models. Great display, great IO (HDMI especially), perfect for development.
If we're looking for good examples, let's keep France and toss Canada. I maintain that Canada's system is one of the main reasons the US doesn't go single-payer. We're close enough to see how bad it is, and people assume all single-payer systems are like that. I'd rather have single-payer than the mess we have now, but not if we end up like Canada. Three months wait for an MRI? No prescription coverage? No mental health coverage? No thank you.
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Potentially very interesting but I don't understand how our works. I read the README and stopped understanding after "The input process works as follows". I read again and I didn't figure it out.

Let's try with a use case of mine. I keep my passwords in keepassx. First thing, kob should protect the input of the master password. How?

Second, I copy and paste the username and password from keepassx to the web site / application. Again, kob should protect that. How?

Thanks.
Insurance companies are also incentivized to make every claim a battle of attrition with healthcare providers and patients through denying, delaying, and traps make of fine print.
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The adoption of standard SQL is really poor on many SQL products. I mentioned that in the article:

> I believe the main reasons are a lack of knowledge and interest among developers along with poor support for modern SQL in database products.

However, it IS getting better at the moment. Have you seen the "New SQL" systems that implement window functions? MySQL is finally adding those features and MariaDB picks other features from the standard.

There is movement.

I'll just keep on making my comparison matrices to make the differences visible. This will (hopefully) increase developers interest, which is basically a market demand. Vendors listen to market demand. evil grin
It can still make sense to live there while you're young, save a bunch, and then move to a lower cost of living area later. I know a few people who did this. Then you can buy a house in a great neighborhood in a smaller city closer to things you like doing. Because of compound growth saving as much as you can when you're young and have few obligations really adds up later in life.
> MySQL became popular because it was quick and dirty.

Yep, over and over again, "worse is better" proves itself as the all-important software mantra. Get that flimsy "database" out the door and loop back around to fix the "eats data" bugs 5+ years later.

The key to adoption seems to be to pinpoint something that people really want ("super fast 'SQL database' that I can run virtually for free" c. 1999), rush out a one-fifth-working version of the headliner features and pretend like it's all well and good, and then work to spread that solution as widely as possible.

Once you get the momentum, it's impossible to stop, and someone like Sun swings by to ask if you'd mind taking a billion dollars off their hands.

I don't think there's really a credible argument that technical merit has anything to do with success or adoption anymore (beyond just "superficially appears to work"). MySQL is a good specimen, but JavaScript is the real poster boy for the indisputable triumph of "worse is better".
So after some light reading, theoretical free markets are predicated on complete information, and known to be impossible to achieve for the reason I mentioned. Interesting.
Yes, but obviously not legally married as that is not currently possible.
No one thought this story was worth upvoting.
You don't need residency to vote in the US. You just have to be a US citizen. Now you do register based on where you live but that's about it.
Does this mean that if we legalize prostitution the incels will stop killing people? Seems reasonable and completely improbable that such a simple solution would ever be implemented.
Sharding: Putting the trust in trustless

/s
>I'm scrutinizing the belief that populations are happier because they get to be homogeneous in composition.

Read Robert Putnam. People love a sense of belonging and it's embedded in our genes.

http://time.com/5095903/genetic-similarities-friends-study/

http://www.bu.edu/sph/2017/04/07/married-couples-with-common...

>It's been my observation that the people who push back against the idea of diversity the most tend to be quite miserable even when living in homogeneous communities.

There can definitely be miserable people who are looking for a scapegoat. It also takes a certain level of desperation to be vocal about it today because it's so taboo.

On the other hand there are people like me: anonymous, have traveled the world, lived in rural areas and cities, have a masters from a top 10, have a good job, etc. who look at the data and go: "Oh, the data is indicating that this recent configuration of humans isn't as good as it could be." You only have to go back 2-3 generations for homogeneity to be the overwhelming norm--were they all miserable?

Portraying people who are against diversity as ignorant or miserable doesn't disprove the fact that if you take a homogenous, high-performing population and flood it with diverse, lower-IQ, culturally-incomptable, more violent, less-productive people the nation will become worse.

Simple question: would Europe be better or worse today if there were only Europeans in it?
"Maybe a subtle difference here is that a page doesn't get to block on anything before it gets closed."

In real browsers, the UI act of closing a tab and the completion of cleaning up all of its resources are already clearly separated. I can see that when I terminate a browser with a lot of tabs and the main window has entirely closed while the browser runs at 100% CPU for quite a few more seconds. Plus a browser can probably hard-kill running Javascript code with some reasonable effectiveness. (Not sure. Asynchronous exceptions are very, very hard.)

So I don't think that's a disqualifier.

"So how is creating a nursery that matches the lifetime and visibility of the page different from not using a nursery at all?"

Well, as I've said in one of the reddit conversations, bear in mind the entire purpose here is not to enable something that was previously impossible, but to constrain us from using primitives in their most powerful form. The big thing is that if you had a nursery-based system, and the page had a nursery associated with it, and the page's render routine returned, you'd know that all the page threads must necessarily be terminated. You can't know that with the same confidence now, because the programming style does not permit that level of confidence by construction.

Browsers are a bit of a pathological case on a lot of levels, though, and probably not a great mental example, because you can assume a high degree of competence, concern, and skill in the people programming the browser, and they do things like use static analysis all the time and even in the "worst" cases, develop entire new programming languages to write browsers in. So you are probably justified in saying "But jerf, I'm pretty confident the browsers are already cleaning up their stuff without this stuff." The real question is, how does this look for Joe Programmer and his ability to work in the domain of multithreaded programming, which is well known and widely acknowledged to be very difficult, by constraining what mistakes he can make?

One of the other angles you can look at this with is, if I have two pieces of correct code and I compose them together, are they still correct? The nursery system says that with my nursery, I can call other code that uses them, and the composition attained over that function call is also correct and does not leak resources. We do not get that guarantee with some other primitives. We do with others. There's a lot of experimentation still going on in this field. I'm not saying this approach is guaranteed to be correct, but it's one of the more plausible claims to being a primitive as basic as "if" is relative to "goto". Compare with Software Transactional Memory, which as nice as it may be, is wildly more complicated than "if" no matter how you slice it.
I suspect the example in the proposal refers to an object that doesn't match any of the previous options, but is still an object.

For a default I'd expect there to be another pattern.