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I'm norwegian.

I have two kids, and have used the emergency care unit a couple of times throughout my life. Total cost $0 in care fees. (They are allowed to charge for stuff like bandages and such for non layovers, usually $5-$20 each visit).

We don't have health insurance, but some insurance companies have begun selling "treatment guarantee" which guarantees start of treatment typically within 14 days of injury. (For non life threatening ailments of course. Elbow pains, leg pains, such..) The best thing about those are that they are usually paid for by your employer because they want you back at work as soon as possible :D
(The premium is added to our income tax though)

Socialism hell yeah!
There are a lot of people kneejerk downvoting things that don’t support the idea of American exceptionalism.

It’s a shame because that attitude is what is keeping America from doing better.
From a european perspective it is insane. While these services certainly can't be free, they should be covered by mandatory healthcare / insurance.

Other countries have figured this out long ago. If you have to go to the hospital in these countries, finances and costs are a non-issue - the only thing on your mind will be your health and a speedy recovery.
I used to make sailors blush with the intensity of expletives about various sysvinit scripts.

Do you know about Kafka, Spark, and Jenkins? They're all Java but they each have their batshit fucking insane quirks on starting up.

One of them runs in foreground. One of them runs in background.

Jenkins (actually as Hudson) had it's own fucking Unix daemon-isation inbuilt. For a Java program!

Nuts!

Thankfully pretty much popular Java server has a systemd unit file written for it which avoids any shell and Exec's Java directly.
It's not medical tourism if you go back to your home country instead of requesting help to the country you're visiting
Netflix and Amazon struggle to win Bollywood with international catalog
Being smart and being able to get shit done (that describes the top of most elite school classes) is not a mystery -- it's just really hard to do. The people who are able to do it, however, are pretty much all admitted.

The measures for admission for the rest of the people (I call them very smart but unexceptional "clones") is based on things that benefit the university -- athletes, donors, etc. The "secret" for these folks is just to add value to the university. Some folks are born with it (cough Kushner cough), but others earn it by being leaders, athletes, etc.

Check out Cal Newport's stuff on these matters. He's about as close as it gets to correct, imho.
In East Asian economies, it's perfectly acceptable but I'd argue that they care of their employees much better but obviously not without strings attached-productivity is low due to insane working hours.

For instance, my cousin works at Samsung and although he is pretty much a highly paid slave, he is better off than most Koreans...

I don't know if it's right to act entitled. After all, we are receiving money in exchange for our time. If one is not happy with it, then wayne gretzky it.
Sorry but $15 grand for “Activating trauma protocol” which was then rescinded is ridiculous and an absurd amount. It’s bald robbery.
>I had the same experience. I was straight up lied to by the salesmen.

My appointment was for 2pm... when the rep showed up at 3pm... his first response was literally "oh hey... you're actually 30 minutes late for our 2:30pm appointment so I'm going to have to cancel.."

I told him I had been waiting there since 2pm (and he had seen me waiting there since 2pm) and then he began to take my fraudulent cancellation data of my moving to another country.
That's a superb article, and it makes some extremely valuable points.

It wouldn't be that hard to just take a bunch of tax money, and provide a bunch of health care. Or alternatively, provide a bunch of health insurance. But since the US isn't willing to do that, but does want the services, we get this.

There's no free lunch, and the harder you try and find one, the more warped (and, ultimately, expensive) it's going to end up being.
Getting a high security bunker built to your specifications sounds like a lot of fun to me.
Do you have an example writeup of how you used Plotly output in PPT? I would be very interested to learn that. Thank
Soon: "This should be contracted out, we'd save a lot of taxpayer money".

Later: Contractors take over costing much more.
Heh that's a good point. Medical homecoming?
>If you moving away you have to provide some sort of a proof, like new lease contract, job letter etc so that they still will try to find the gym within 15 miles and move you over.

Just tell them you're moving to another continent then... or Antarctica!
Why would BeOS not be open source at this point?
Follow the money, I guess. Who's pocketing the 15 grand worth of trauma activation?
Legacy and donors do get preferential treatment, but almost all of them are fairly strong academically (not as strong the top 30% or so of the class, but still strong). There are very few people who are unqualified but still get in due to legacy or donor status (cough Kushner cough).
All those billions and they give it to this ripoff hospital that bankrupts unsuspecting people when they're at their most vulnerable moments.
This is not exactly correct. The link explains why by breaking down the stages of efficiency loss. The solar panels only mitigate the first step, so you are look at 22% vs 47% for plants. Then, the 22% is not including losses from converting the electricity to lighting (or heck, the energy to create those panels in the first place).

LEDs can select the most favorable wavelengths however so maybe it can approach parity again.
I see the misunderstanding. You're assuming that cancellations would still be handled by humans shuffling paperwork, whereas I'm optimistically assuming cancellation would be handled by computer software, much like it is when you cancel an exclusively online service like Netflix.

Though even in your scenario, you are assuming that a company wouldn't adjust its resources as telephone usage drops and written submissions increases. And yes, the point you make in your second paragraph also applies—a written cancellation request places the time onus on the company rather than the customer.

But either way, it is always a good thing if the methods used by people with disabilities are mainstreamed rather than treated as oddball special exceptions.
D'oh! You're right! That IS simple!
Ask HN: Does your team use a "programming cookbook" solutions for common tasks?
there you go - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88986
this is a bug I filed.

Lennart's reply:

We had support for this in systemd in the initial versions, but since nobody was using and testing this, and the semantics were different from the system version in subtle ways we removed support for it.

Also note that systemd requires kernel 3.7 as minimal version right now. You cannot run it on older kernels, and hence really old operating systems anyway.

Sorry, but this is nothing we want or can support!

I admit that it is 2 years old - and if it has changed, then that would be nice. But there is an explicit reply there.. and I'm not spreading FUD. There's nothing more that I would love than to replace all the supervisord stuff in Docker with systemd.
California gave like 200m$ and it’s not called the California hospital though.
Is there a real difference to Haiku?
I'm pretty sure you can't buy 365 * 24 man hours for 25k.
He's possibly meaning that if you completely rewrite framework it would lead to something like what happened to Angular when it was rewritten and promptly lost huge number of followers/users?
Humans have been farming for thousands of years. A lot of the required thinking has been done and the results are beeing taught by agricultural schools. Sustainable integrated farming is possible today.
Our department is in a project researching why these methods are not more widely adapted by the farmers (project in Germany).
That'll cost one hell of a lot more than just subsidizing those power plants for a bit. Meanwhile batteries are getting cheaper.

We will do this, do not worry. But give it 5 years, maybe a decade.
Also interesting: Practical File System Design with the Be File System

http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf
If I read the list correctly, 6 of the 8 top reasons pertain to money / finances.

3 of the 5 people here with me attributed this to essentially selfishness / unwillingness to sacrifice for others (future generations)

2 of the 5 said that the respondents have strong social consciences and are being responsible for not bringing children into the world that they weren't sure they could support.

It doesn't really matter to me either way [happy father of two teenage daughters who push boundaries but kick ass in academics and sports]. It's just good to realize / understand / remember that rational, intelligent people can form different conclusions from the same information.
That's what happens when you freeze wages at 1979 levels.
> it's a safe bet that hiring managers would be aware that Harvard graduates were not necessarily selected for merit

It boggles my mind that hiring managers currently thing that elite school grads are (mostly) selected for merit.

Some of the grads are decent grinders/hoop-jumpers, but the fast majority are not the top 10-30% of the class that gives the school its reputation.
You don't necessarily need "Mad Max skills" as long as you're part of a group of people.

The ones to dominate in groups tend to have social engineering skills, or "Ben Linus skills" you could call them.

They don't need to know how to start a fire, or fire a gun, or fix a car. They can just get other people to do it for them -- not for money, but because they can con them in to it, or exploit their weaknesses, set them against one another, or bribe them with promises.
Implementing ActivityPub in an Elixir Twitter Clone
Recently a friend of mine visited the emergency care in a private hospital in downtown SF with heavy stomach pain. It turned out to be a partial bowel obstruction, which thankfully sorted itself out with some conservative treatment.

My friend was discharged in a couple of days... with a bill of 70K USD. Except for an IV and a Ryles tube, there was hardly any other intervention.

Having just finished college, my friend did not have an insurance plan that could cover such a huge bill. Thankfully the state stepped in to help since the yearly income was below the federal poverty line. Otherwise, I can't imagine the plight.

For once, my friend was thankful for being a broke college grad.
It’s basically reddit of 2009.
I want to see a detailed accounting of the money that floats around. I think the talk about having to compensate for other activities is just excuse.
> If the baby had an MRI instead of a medical exam by a team of specialists, the headline would lose some weight.

How so? In my country (Italy) for an MRI I would pay from 42 USD to 81 USD, depending on my income.

Not saying that's its real cost since we pay taxes to grant this to everyone, but from here to 18k...
> I'd say your interviewer was mistaken

Is that what you meant to say? The interviewer (me) thought that 10.0/16 was fine, which I think agrees with your analysis. The interviewee said only 10/8 was correct.

(Re-reading my GP comment I realize that my role might have been ambiguous, so I've clarified it.)
clathrate gun is the pascal’s wager of climate change
It's worth noting that cars and parking in Hong Kong are absurdly unnecessary luxuries, and this is an absurdly luxurious example of the genre. The golden rule of capitalism is, you can spend as much money as you want, and because it is your money, other people don't get to decide it is a waste.
Land is the one thing in truly limited supply, meanwhile population and prosperity continue to grow exponentially.
That's what I don't understand. The parties are at each others throats, even physically. I think the majority of both parties support reform and/or single payer. It seems like such an easy political win, even if not an easily solvable problem.
Not at all. We had plenty of competence. We just chose to save a buck instead of using it.

And the risk ? "You cannot blame me for that !"

(especially since this is taxpayer funds, ie. everyone, decided by democratic vote, at least in France and the US. The democratic contract ought to mean that since we collectively decided to do this, we are also collectively responsible for the results, and yes, even if you voted for the other guy)
My understanding is that there is not much BeOS in Haiku.

"The only BeOS code that has made it into Haiku are Tracker and the Deskbar (the file manager and the equivalent of the start menu/taskbar, respectively)."
It's reasonable it's not cheap. 18k, however, is ridiculous.
> This reminds me of an old joke:
> Q. How do you know that someone attended Harvard?
> A. They tell you within 30 seconds of meeting them.

This is almost exclusively only true for the people who were one of the (extremely) weaker admits.

There is definitely a way to talking about going to Harvard (usu. only when asked), and saying it directly is not the usual preferred choice.
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Just how many specialists were they keeping available, and how much do those specialists cost? Let's say five different preeminent medical professionals were needed to respond to that emergency. Let's say that it used an hour each of their time. That's still $1000 an hour, which is exorbitant regardless of your credentials.

And that's the most charitable evaluation. They "quickly determined that the baby was fine." So what did the hospital do, charge out the entire cost of running the ER to one unlucky family since they were the only case who was brought in that hour?
Where I'm from, the average post-tax monthly income is about $450. Someone can work his or her whole life without ever making that kind of money.
What do you mean by programming cookbook?
> I think humans tend to deal better with quickly emerging crises than slow ones, so I’d much rather have a methane ecosystem we see problems with than exchange it for an equal forcing amount of CO2.

yeahnah, we can see the problems with CO2 just fine thanks.
What, do tell, is your definition of what should be posted to HN? I suppose you read this[0] and this [1], which address your question about what content is appropriate, and how to comment on content you believe is inappropriate?

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The secret is to find a few well-networked people and then get invited to gatherings/parties in the homes of said people.

Well, then, I'll get right on that! Sounds simple... I'm surprised I'm not already on Marc Andreessen's dinner list.
Write a sentence on a support page is not simple. You haven't even said what the sentence was.
Floor tile. Used in the US into the mid 70s. Lots of it still out there.
It doesn't strictly require an undergrad, no, but it helps to have one.

And $240k is very high for a non-management job, and compared to the median income and the minimum wage for the USA is obscenely high. Median household income is ~$60k, and median personal income is ~$30k. Minimum wage in the USA is around $15k.

In my books, 8 times the median income, or 16 times the minimum wage, is obscenely high. That kind of income disparity is not good for society.
Sounds like I've got to get out of New Zealand!
Seriously. None of those articles described “arbitrary kidnapping”. First, it appears systematic and coordinated. Second, the parents are detained for allegedly breaking laws. Are there certain types of incarceration in the US where children are allowed to stay with their parents? Finally, (not that it makes it any better), but as of this morning BBC was reporting that 100 of the 3,000 kids currently in government custody are 5 and under - the vast majority are not toddlers.

So yes, I would be interested in citations of cases where toddlers are being arbitrarily taken from non-incarcerated parents which are otherwise fit to raise their children.

It does no one, including these kids caught in a horrific experience, any favors to talk about the issues with such hyperbole. At the same time, there are significantly more constructive things that can be done for these kids and the tens of thousands in the foster care system.
tmeta: Minimalistic Idiomatic Database “ORM”(ish) Functionality for Go
We're not "codifying race-based favoritism". I don't think you're reading what I'm writing. That's OK; there's no reason we'd expect the two of us to resolve this debate on HN.
Hardly as polished as other frameworks. Sorry, just not true.
We still have a bottleneck at instantation time where we compile many JS<->WASM wrappers. We are working on parallelizing this compilation as well, so we'll get another bump out of that.
Agreed. I'm a closet infrastructure nerd and could easily see myself losing months of my life to planning some mundane aspect of this thing.
That’s not really the point. Unless you go grocery shopping at the (air)port something else brings the goods to your store.
trump is not exactly known for his free trade rhetoric
> as a local device with iCloud disabled, they provide the most usably private device that is widely available

This! The very fact that you perceive Apple to be more private than the competition is the exact point I'm harping on.

That's a perception, not the truth. A Google pixel, or Samsung Galaxy (with encrypted storeage enabled) offers as much, or as little in the way of "usable privacy" that protects dissidents as Apple. Not to mention, dissidents are a lot more common in politically turbulent developing countries where an iPhone X costs as much as 6 months in wages. So, let's not pretend like the iPhone is a gift to dissidents
Would not help because many of those without insurance cannot afford a trip up to Canada. And secondly it will not help for emergency care.
I expect most people would agree that an unbombed island is more aesthetically appealing than a bombed one. I don't need a court to decide which one I prefer.
Strange you would have to suggest that. To me, it shows how some American people can't even imagine that living in another country (or even lying about it) would be taken seriously.
Yes, we do.

Largely, it is (esp. for lower level classes).

The professors largely do not care about teaching -- they have research to do. The idea is that they typically point you to some materials, and they assume that smart people will figure it out.

Don't get me wrong. The learning resources are phenomenal, and folks can and do learn a ton from their peers. That said, most of the teaching is awful.

If someone wants to be taught well, don't go to an Ivy -- go to small liberal arts college (lots of good teachers at these schools).
you should issue a chargeback.
My advice to my 20 year old self would be the opposite: Don't go deep on a thing unless you are absolutely convinced that it's going to be lucrative. You might bet your career on the wrong horse and find yourself with no other skills to fall back on.

For maximum flexibility, aim to be a jack of all trades, and learn to fluently translate between tech-speak and business-speak.
1. is a common misconception/myth. even if you manage to keep the bugs out, which is really hard and expensive, you still have to deal with fungii. good luck with trying to filter out those.

2. LEDs are not more efficient than double ended sodium light lamps. max efficiency seems to be around 50%. So the other half goes to heat waste which has to be managed. climate control and especially temperature control is an issue in indoor farming.
At first I thought the spiders' abilities were ballooning due to our electricity consumption and I was slightly afraid.

But it's about their ability to balloon and electrical variation in altitude.
A cat(1) clone with wings written in Rust
Is it a secret? I get letters from my insurance company about how much they paid for medical treatment and even the provider sends me invoices with how much insurance paid. Last one was for blood tests were the provider(think was labcorp) charged $200 for a test and insurance paid $20.
Some practical rxjs techniques in Angular
Bought by Palm, then HP, then ??? I guess, try to navigate that corporate IP nightmare.
Man I love this. Very neat! Kind of like markdown for calendaring.

If you wrap this up in a more 'fashionable' ux, you'd have a big hit

I'd love to just upload a text file with my entire plans for the week.
List of resources for every busy product manager
The article states this trauma fee didn't exist 18 years ago. Unless the introduction of this fee immediately caused a huge surge in the number of lives saved we can assume it's not critical.
Doctors aren't the schemers here. When a doctor submits a claim to your insurance for let's say $500 what he gets back is a magic and opaque number. His only choice is take it, or don't accept your insurance. For programs like medicaid this number is often a tiny fraction of what was charged, which is why some doctors or hospitals simply will not accept it. If you pay in cash at a doctor you'll often pay a much more reasonable price, and that's because they're not at the whims of insurance companies who incentivize them to charge as much as they possibly can.
Understood...but then what is Haiku. I stil remember when r5 was released...an unheard of OS. As a tech geek I installed it and was blown away. Especially the media capabilities...two streams playing at once. That OS was way ahead of its time, and a shameful demise. I was excited about Haiku until I saw how far behind it was. And I mean absolutely 0 disrespect to its authors... but today it seems like an attempt to keep stable an already decades old OS that lost its way.
No, you just host a local copy of the JavaScript file that the page calls to decode the URL.
> It also costs less in CO2 costs to ship that lamb from NZ to a supermarket than to truck it in from a local farm to your fancy organic farmer's market.

How does the lamb get from the port to the grocery store? Is the port not roughly equidistant from the point of sale as the local farm? How is the “fancy organic farmers market” less efficient to ship to in the last mile before the point of sale?
Every now and then I seriously consider moving to the US, but the healthcare system scared the crap out of me. I can't imagine how stressful it must be to have to depend on your employer for health insurance.
I've said here before that I hope I get mauled and eaten by wolves to avoid the entire healthcare industry, but now I'm thinking about offering wolves as a service.
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That doesn't tell you the contents of the black box, it only tells you the output of the black box.

What people want to know is, how does the school "know" they want the initial 10 percent?

How does the school "know" what clones (drones) they want?

Etc, etc, etc.
Testing Node.js in 2018
Maru – the most watched animal on YouTube
What kind of emergency surgery is it if you can fly 9 hours before and after going to surgery?
Part of this comes down to the expense needed to find and train employees. The structure is set up to resent this expense and the probability of the expense.

The incentives guide behavior. I'm not offering a solution, just the observation.
I just pointed at hvac ducts to illustrate the kind of tech I was referring to (pipes assembled from small sections), wasn’t suggesting that actual hvac pipes should be used
Can Games Manufacture Community?
Euclidea: Interactive geometric puzzles
They link to a non-GDPR-walled version here:

https://civileats.com/2018/07/02/can-vertical-farms-reap-the...
An N of a few thousand should be high enough to have a fairly high confidence for the more common cancers.