skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not an argument. You can literally say that about very government institution.

Governments require somewhat good will from politicians and voters to do their job. Some news.

The only reason that system fails is because voters don't care about it. There's nothing exceptionally bad about the US that would not make it so.
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Universal healthcare benefits people with no coverage, which is good, but it also, in the case of nationalized healthcare, i.e. not privately run, leads also to lower quality care for people already with coverage where experience is people who can afford it, will when other than the most routine things, seek private care.

Given that, it looks like a two tiered system might work best. One which works like the current system and also another for the not quite indigent but can’t afford the current system (indigent are covered by Medicaid).
The court effectively ruled that 'further treatment for Alfie would be "unkind and inhumane"', that "continuing life-support treatment would not be in the best interests of Alfie" that it "is not lawful that such treatment continue".

This has little to do with universal healthcare, and is more a case of justice (purportedly - I'm not trying to be a judge myself here) protecting a children from its parents.
> In countries with "universal healthcare", there is a big incentive from the organization paying the costs of exams to emphasis preventive care because ultimately, they won't run a deficit every year.

Does medicare do that? They stand to profit the most out of preventative care.
If your phone provider/plan supports it then http://nomorobo.com/ is wonderful. But, as with everything else, the industrious telemarketers have begun programming their system to try to evade this. I would prefer if it would show the caller id of the call it was blocking, but it doesn't do that.
> There's some serious mental gymnastics going on here to justify that the US spends 2x the next country per capita on health care expenditure and still doesn't manage to pay for all its citizens.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this.

The US does spend a lot more, and doesn't cover everyone. If I understood the parent post, (part of what) it's saying that the US needs to focus on lowering costs, because otherwise, the fact that there is so much spending even now, is going to cause trouble. And more trouble than comparable countries, because the price in the US is so much higher.

I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with this, or what? Do you assume that if the US covered everyone, it would be cheaper? Would be great if you could clarify :)
Since I see that some of the developers are in this thread, I'll post my question to them here.

What are your plans to deal with the overhead and nastiness of ptrace? Beyond the performance losses, there's also the annoyance that you can't ptrace a single task twice, so no debuggers.

Are you familiar with the FlexSC paper? Have you considered using a FlexSC-like RPC interface (a secure one, of course) to achieve your syscall interception, instead of ptrace? That would allow you to not just match the performance of native system calls, but even theoretically exceed their performance, while still having the same level of control. (I have been working on such an approach, so I was excited to see this gvisor project posted - I hoped you might have already done this and saved me some work :))

Not sure how far this project can go if it sticks with ptrace...
Depends on how old you are and where you live. As a college student in North America, everyone uses Messenger, nothing else. How would leaving Messenger work without shrinking your social circle to 0? In other countries, like where my family lives for example, no one uses Messenger or has heard of it — everyone is on Whatsapp. So depends on your demographics.
If you don’t get cancer, where would you rather live? Life expectancy is significantly higher in Europe for lower average cost of medical care. There’s not necessarily a conflict between checkups and chemo, and surely some of the difference is due to population-level differences in poverty, diet, and lifestyle. But it’s worth remembering that it can be rational to trade slightly worse specialty care for better general care.

Also, fwiw, what I’m reading (e.g. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/01/30/5819148...) suggests that US cancer survival is better than the rest of the developed world, but not significantly so.
> Generally Economist is unashamedly political.

I have no problem with unashamedly political. I do have a problem with willful disingenuousness to promote ideological dogma.
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That's a single argument in favor of what appears to be some call to remove power from government. The easy counter example is Medicare - we have universal healthcare already for people over the age of 65. Would you say that because the VA doesn't work great in your judgement (people are already coming up with counterexamples within that thread) that we should shut down Medicare?
I doubt I'm the only person a bit surprised to discover that the same literal float in source code won't always result in the same value in the program...
TL;DR - GUI for building Bayesian classifiers?!
Newton kills the ‘Sent’ folder to make email as easy as instant messaging
My whole point is that the plateau is only for the luxury first-wave large family condo type housing (at the highest denstiy, at least - if you aren't there yet, you need more density until you get there, then you move on to phase 2) and that if you let builders build housing smaller you can avoid such plateaus because after exhausting the rich you build smaller and more affordable but still net only slightly less revenue per square foot.
Italy did agree to take him - they even gave him Italian citizenship. And Italian doctors said they wanted to pursue different treatments.

So this really is an example of the loss of freedom due to state-run healthcare.
> Are people just so blind to how extortionate healthcare is in the USA?

Yes, Americans are utterly blind to this. It's amazing. But it has taken no small amount of effort on the part of specially interested parties to create and maintain that blindness.
I read books, do online courses and then laugh at myself how stupid I was before and I didn't knew stuff.
As a person who just started university, I have to ask: how else do I get employers to not entirely ignore my application on account of "insufficient qualifications"?
Isn't it better to design health care system based on some form of score, very much like credit score in financial systems? The healthier you live, the less you pay.

Obviously someone who drinks alcohol regularly, smokes regularly, is overweight, ... would be a burden on health care system (in long run) compared to someone who lives with a healthy life style. Why would they both pay the same amount? In a credit-based system the former pays more.

Making some exceptions in such a system is just fine. Not everyone has cancer. Insurance company can easily pay the full amount for these people. It is not the major cost for system.
As an average american citizen, you already pay for healthcare. You are not getting the bang for your buck, thats the problem.
Hidden price-gouging is a real problem here. CarePoint Health, the company that operates this facility and a couple others nearby in Jersey City and Bayonne, has a reputation of consistently exorbitant ER bills, in addition to only accepting a limited set of insurance providers.

On the other hand, Hoboken University Medical Center would have closed a decade ago if not purchased by CarePoint at the time. Prior to that acquisition, it was a non-profit community hospital for over 140 years -- it's the oldest hospital in the state, but it eventually hit severe financial difficulties. Today it has a good reputation in some areas, especially obstetrics. But as someone who lives a few blocks away, the poor reputation of its ER's billing practices is definitely worrisome.

Disclosure: I worked at the same company as Jess Pell and vaguely recall hearing about this overbilling situation a while back, but that's far from the only time I've heard about this particular ER overbilling someone.
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Doesn't that suggest health care in America is too expensive? Increasing funding to an inefficient system doesn't sound like a sustainable or extensible solution.
Also, if you don't trust it, just set everything to SECCOMP_RET_TRACE, which kills the process if there is no ptracer

A small correction, it causes for the syscall not to be executed, and return with errno==ENOSYS
>If the VA is the best the US government can do

Who said it was?
I remember this old article about Debezium's now-unmaintained predecessor, Bottled Water. Its diagrams may still be useful for those wanting to understand how this might be used.

https://www.confluent.io/blog/bottled-water-real-time-integr...
You're not drowning. You're wasting spending on things that don't matter, like privately funded education and privately funded health care.

The solutions already exist and they're out there. Lowering spending just for the sake of it is not one of them.
Europe had its share of violence too, perhaps that's one reason why?
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Try having tolls on local streets with ownership changing every couple of blocks.
You're right about my first statement. Was a bit of a thinko in that it's talking more about the conditions that lead people to choose Electron in general than responding to Qt specifically.

As others have pointed out in this thread: Qt is not really that much lighter than the web. It draws its own controls and even has css-like styling. I remember Qt apps being relatively slow on small machines... maybe not quite as slow as Electron but the latter could be tuned and improved and made competitive IMHO.

Your main point is valid, but you shouldn't be focusing your anger at Electron or at programmers for choosing it. You should be focusing your anger at desktop vendors for refusing to offer a better way to develop cross-platform apps in favor of an ultimately foot-blasting quest for platform lock-in. By refusing to play with each other desktop vendors have doomed all their platforms to obsolescence and abandonment.
> This employee consistently asks for a promotion due to tenure and working on a top account.

What does a meaningful promotion look like to them? Is it title? Compensation? Responsibilities?

Sounds like you want this person to level-up first. Get clarity on what that means to you and your organization.

Understand, if your employee feels unrecognized and unappreciated -- they are a flight risk. Are you prepared for that? What's your bench strength look like?

Good read on promotions here from HBR > https://hbr.org/2018/01/how-you-promote-people-can-make-or-b...
They don't face financial ruin, unless they don't have health insurance and or they opt for various drugs that aren't covered by their plan. Before everyone screams that all things should be covered please consider that due diligence has actually been done and the drug was considered to either not be effective or not needed based upon other existing treatments.
Trivia: Ju-py-ter = Julia Python Terminal

Although it's gone far beyond just Julia and Python now.

Edit: Ahurmazda is right.

...the core programming languages supported by Jupyter are Julia, Python and R. While the name Jupyter is not a direct acronym for these languages, it nods its head in those directions. In particular, the "y" in the middle of Jupyter was chosen to honor our Python heritage.

https://github.com/jupyter/design/wiki/Jupyter-Logo
Case in point: my article about traffic control systems (https://blog.plover.com/tech/highway-stuff.html) is on the front page and has already received twice as much traffic as this one, and the West Coast hasn't even come to work yet.
Did Apple let the Newton trademark lapse? I clicked on this totally expecting it to be some before-its-time innovation from 1993.
And what if a significant portion of these people are actually just terrible people to hang out with in sociable contexts? I see a lot of discussion around blaming tech, or even funnily enough thinking that males aren't somehow allowed to be masculine is the cause for this (well, maybe it's related, though not for reasons the OP wants it to be).

I see it as the opposite. The U.S. with the newer generations is maturing, socially. We don't just associate with people because of where they're from, what they look like (for the most part), or who they want to have in their bed. What I think we're getting better at judging is the actual characteristics of substance that make hanging out with people great. Anecdotally, I know of a few people that I would from an outside perspective consider "lonely." They have a few notable characteristics that make them undesirable to hang out with, let alone be in a relationship with. Maybe it's their politics, maybe it's how they act when it's just them and another in a room, maybe they're just a pretty big bore (due to having a mediocre job, no hobbies, etc).

That's something I don't see being mentioned in great detail. It's just kind of ignored that the people reporting loneliness might just be socially irredeemable (at the moment, anyone can change). Why do these reporters of loneliness deserve the social energy of other people when they can't comparably contribute, or even in some cases actively devalue the social meetings for other groups of people?

There are definitely contributing factors like: how our cities are built, transportation infrastructure, how much we have to work, etc. But I'm willing to wager that a decent portion of people who report loneliness might just have themselves to blame.
Jupyter is awesome, well deserved award. Our CTO is working to integrate JupyterLab and JupyterHub directly into GitLab.
A plastic surgeon can do cosmetic surgery, but they aren't cosmetic surgeons: their specialty covers many less-well-known but far more important treatments.

A plastic surgeon specialises in repairing or reconstructing damaged body parts: in this case, the treatment is clearly reconstructive surgery on the patient's ear in the hospital. The patient was weighing the cost of that surgery against living with a damaged ear…

Plastic surgeons also do cosmetic alterations of body parts, such as removing moles, etc. Some platic surgeons work privately to only do these kinds of procedures for celebrities etc., so you may be more familiar with this minority & their work rather than their primary specialty.
Really? I haven't done web dev in many years but these were all skills I had mastered before even attempting to define what type of development I wanted to do.

If web developers don't already all know this then what knowledge do they have nowadays? Just intimate trivia details of whatever framework/platform is hip this month? Is that all they work on?
At least they told you the cost beforehand, right (no pun intended)?
And you think private health care is going to make that better?

That's not an argument against public health care.
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In these kinds of discussions I like to promote this interesting TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9UmdY0E8hU "Where in the world is it easiest to get rich?"

Spoiler: the talk shows that statistically the Nordic countries lead the world in millionaires and billionaires / capita, and in rags-to-riches. The talker offers the opinion that this is because its of the strong social safety net, education and healthcare.

Living in Scandinavia of course I like to hear this ;)
Not so much a "conversion" as sticking an emulator in a C-64 box.

No cartridge port, user port, a/v port (important for audio in), or cassette port (important for power). So no interesting hardware add-ons will work with this.

All you can do is run software that came on a floppy disk. While that's the majority of software, if you're doing this you're a hardware tinkerer. And the C-64's hardware add-ons were amazingly diverse and interesting.
Our spending on healthcare is grossly and immorally inefficient. A change is needed. One reason for the ineffiency is that public welfare is subordinate to special interests. All universal healthcare systems in the world are cheaper on a per capita basis than the American system. A change is needed. I’m not advocating for more money. I’m advocating for a change in perspective by our leaders.
Seems like you have the cart before the horse. Universal health care would be a way to address those inefficiencies and solve those financial and administrative problems.
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I’ve been wondering about that when it comes to rent-controlled places like SF. It seems « tenant occupied » properties sell for less than equivalent empty places. Then is it worth it to let a tenant in who might just drive down the price of the place if you decide to sell a couple of years later?
In a government program you get fleeced twice, first by extra taxes, and second by worse services.
> Wasn't there a writeup recently that wealth distribution isn't materially distinguishable from luck?

Some researchers in Italy created a computer model of human talent and ran a simulation. Not sure you can model talent, but more importantly that argument means no one is really successful, just lucky. Steve Jobs: no talent. Jeff Bezos: no talent. Barack Obama: no talent. All just luck.

> If someone is too poor to get their horrifyingly contagious disease treated until its too late and it spreads to you, you're still sick, and you may still die, cover or no cover

Again, I'm not wealthy, so these taxes would not affect me. But I'm not sure you're correctly modeling transmission vectors for communicable diseases.

> If you believe in the value of a college education, then you believe it will increase the productivity of that individual...This in turn benefits the wealthy who likely hold equities

You're saying rich people should pay really high taxes because poor people getting an education will cause the stock market to go up? Uh...not sure that's how it works.

I believe everyone who wants one should have access to a college education. But just declaring it 'free' and raising taxes on one group doesn't seem like a sustainable strategy.
When they launched Wave there were reports of all kinds of chaos because people were automatically added. I don't remember if this was a case of "oh, you had this contact? We'll add them to your friends automatically." or those people crossed some classification threshold, but there were cases of stalkers and abusive exes being added without permission.

I think the chances that Google had some type of profiling system for non users is well above 80%.
A second and third language.
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> And any pun that has to be explained is a failed pun.

But sometimes they are just /so/ good.

And it's so fun when nobody gets it, and then, after a pause, one person gets it and looks at you with the, "Did you just say what I think you said?" look - Awesome. :-)
In addition to what others have mentioned, there's also the inability to map structures on to an area of memory. The result is that you end up using streams and other methods to accomplish the same thing, and they result in a lot of function/method overhead for reading/writing simple values to/from memory.
Far, far from it. I am pretty concerned for anyone you could possibly be mentoring or in your words, "interceding." God help him, because that sounds nutty.
Please provide any example of successful large scale non governmental program that achieved such a lofty society wide goal.

Note that military and intelligence is government funded and probably the field where US has the biggest achievements.
That's a fairer criticism, although I disagree. You could say "what he actually believes is unknown" about anyone, really. He makes his views quite well known, at least from what I've followed him.

Still, I think replying to someone's quoting Penn with the equivalent of "well he denies climate change, so why would we listen to him?" is pretty pointless for a debate, especially when what you say is wrong! We might as well throw out the ability to quote anyone, since basically everyone has some view that someone disagrees with.
Interestingly, America could fund a Canadian style healthcare system, covering everyone, using _just_ the existing federal healthcare spending (around 2 trillion), completely eliminating the need for private sector spending on healthcare (around 1 trillion). No need to raise taxes. Employers and individuals save a ton of money. The economy strengthens and everyone in the country gets coverage.

As always, that we don't have healthcare for everyone is a political problem, not a spending problem.
Just to be clear, ASan is available in GCC since 4.8:

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html
In no particular order:

- A deep and real understanding of the blockchain.

- Clojure. I've heard that it is not only fun, but changes the way you approach programming in general. I don't have any professional need for it, though.

- Truly understanding how neural networks work.

- Rust, although this is similar to Clojure above; I don't know what I'd actually use it for.
Hospital administrators are the problem. They don't contribute to medical care, and their job is to increase profit that goes to higher salaries of themselves and other administrators.

Regarding balance billing:

If Medicaid pays $100 for a $500 procedure, and private insurance pays $400 with the expectation of a 20% coinsurance from the patient but patient refuses to pay, who is going to pay the other $100? Is the expectation that hospitals or doctors shouldn't be compensated for services rendered? Should they work for free and go out of business?

What other business exists where it's ok for people to get something and refuse to pay the bill? Auto repair? Groceries? Legal advice? Housing construction? Land purchase? Auto fuel? Electricity?
That budget doesn't include SSI or Medicare
I don't understand how this is "Responsive." When I resize the browser window, it doesn't respond. All it does is go off-screen like a standard table.

Is the home page, itself, not using this responsive framework?
The inefficiency is in the private sector.
You laugh but https://tachyons.io/
Consider Electrino (https://medium.com/dailyjs/put-your-electron-app-on-a-diet-w...)
Capitalizing on Hybrid Cloud in HPC
They have been saying that for years, and instead the opposite has happened. Most IT work could be done remotely, yet the vast majority of companies want staff on site. Almost every job I have had has involved distributed teams yet I am still expected to be in an office most of the time.
Haha well a GUI for building most computation graphs if you want - at the core you can get down to doing most TensorFlow operations. We even built a GAN using it!