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The issues you mention are not directly health care related. There have been analysis of the mortality rate in the US, and when you remove people who die from things like being murdered or in automobile accidents and dying without receiving care, the US has the best mortality rate among developed nations. The data is old, but there's no reason to think it has changed dramatically in the last decade.

Obesity rates and chronic diseases that are the result of lifestyle choices are not health care issues, they are public health issues or public health policy issues. No doctor can legitimately be assigned responsibility for citizens who live unhealthy lifestyles.

When comparing cancer survival rates the US is, again, among the top for many types of cancers. It's almost impossible to compare infant mortality rates because the US doesn't adhere to any international norm for what is considered a live birth and reviews of the data have shown that the US will frequently label an extremely low birthweight child as a live birth, while many other countries will label the birth as a still birth.

The reality is that actual care in the US is what you'd expect from a developed country. The reports that put the US down the list of first world health care systems universally factor in cost and accessibility. These are real issues, but it's not the same thing as "paying more for crappy outcomes."

Countries with different systems have their own issues, which is why I pointed out situations like Alfie Evans. There was also Oliver Evans whom the NHS said could not be saved and would not get treatment. The family paid $170,000 out of pocket and crowd funded another $100,000 to bring him to the US where surgeons in Boston successfully removed a non-cancerous tumor from his heart and saved his life.
How did that work? You need to load your custom scripts somehow in the first place, Im guessing in a form of game mod. So you are already running custom code at this point.
That hit close to home. Gonna go shell into a server and start fixing stuff now...
What book did you use?
Is Julia the next big programming language? MIT thinks so, as version 1.0 lands
Mitochondrial DNA and human history
So, this is unrelated, but since there are some googlers here - does Google really pay mediocre senior developers $250,000, on average?
It sounds rational and lucrative, but I work for myself outside of my FT job. I've got a few projects I'm trying to launch.

* http://niche.fm (on hold after an ugly launch https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/ask-ih-no-traction-post-l...)

* http://yoga.now.sh (WIP, about to launch this guy. The actual domain is http://specs.yoga, but I've got staging and prod reversed)
Oh no! That nearly indecipherable e that looks like a c was dropped. Trash the whole code base and start over, Microsoft! ;-)

But seriously, OCR still isn't perfect, and this is more about everything else (the whole layout etc.)
It's a decent alternative, but the lack of FIDO 2FA is somewhat disappointing.
GDPR doesn't make every site show cookie policies and popups now. It's entirely within a site's power to decide not to collect analyitics on their traffic, in which case they don't have to show or get consent for anything.

I know, that's so glib that it's laughable. That's the point.

We currently have a status quo where user analytics are very valuable while the cost of collecting them is minimal. That strongly incentivizes site owners to collect and store as much data as possible. In this moment we have a business culture and a set of engineering best practices that's grown up around those incentives.

GDPR changes the incentive structure by imposing a cost on the collection end, in the hope that site operators will start being significantly pickier about what analytics they want to collect, when, and from whom. The end goal is a cultural change in how we collectively build websites. But culture doesn't change on a dime. It takes time for the existing actors to accept and adapt to a new normal, especially one that's more hostile to their interests.

Be pissed off. Pissed off is an appropriate response to the horrible UX you're being exposed to. But be pissed off at the people showing you the horrible UX. It's in their power to stop, they just don't want to.
Sometimes, but that property is hard to actually ensure. (and partly why so many people break down too - their cognition is lacking in it)

Most of the bodily biological systems are not antifragile or are to a very small degree.
>I remember when Katrina flooded New Orleans, lots of people were asking why rebuild the city when it almost certainly will flood like that again. And the answer was a simple, do you know how much it would cost to relocate everyone?

I was working briefly with Halliburton during the Rita-Katrina time period. I think it might behoove you to take a more holistic look at this issue.

I'll try to be visual in my explanation by simply asking you to Google maps of the energy pipelines in the US. Here are a couple:

https://www.oilandgas360.com/america-needs-pipelines-for-at-...

https://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas/wells-to-consumer/tr...

I think you get the picture.

And that's just energy. It's not only energy that make places like New Orleans, Galveston, and Houston critical. Let's just say that if New Orleans disappeared tomorrow, not only would the US be in for a decidedly bad time, but the nutritional intake of children in Sub-Saharan Africa would be materially affected.

Some of the ports along these coastal plains are enormously important. Of course not all of them are important. I'm not here to argue that Myrtle Beach or Miami are as critical as New Orleans, New York, or the NIT. I'd just strongly urge us to look at the ports and be judicious.

If Miami disappeared tomorrow, we would be fine. So yeah, who cares?

If Houston disappeared tomorrow, that's a whole different thing. If that happened, I'm just saying that we'd better have a good plan in place for that contingency.

Those different realities should, and currently do, inform our strategic policies on these different ports. You can't simply say, "Move this enormously important, warm water port." That's not how you "engineer an empire" so to speak.

All that said, we can mitigate impact. Outside of a few Engineering history specialists, not many people realize that Chicago was built on a swamp that was prone to flooding as well. Not saying that the Chicago solution is appropriate for the situations in Miami or Houston, just saying that there are definitely ways to think long term about minimizing impact.
Until a massive quake wipes out an entire region, at which point, the insurance carriers declare bankruptcy because they won't be able to pay off all the policies. And that is already factoring in the exorbitant premiums being paid and high deductibles on the policies.

With tens of thousands of claims, home owners will get pennies on the dollar if they get anything at all.
What I feel lacking in PG(though it can be easily managed by adding respective plugins) is the lack of unsigned int alike (from MySQL) AND UNIQUE columns be case-insensitive or an option of having case-insensitive unique columns while default be case-sensitive (As it is currently)
Dikes don't work in Miami because the ground is too porous.
So has Ycombinator abandoned any hope for VR since he calls it a fake trend in the first five minutes?

Just curious because I swear saw a blog where they want VR startups to apply awhile ago but can't find it now.
As a somewhat related addendum, some of the worst pipelines I've encountered have been in scientific computing. Conceptually, DAGs are quite simple but for some reason things always end up gummed up in implementation, which is partially why scientific results are much harder to reproduce than they should be. The disconnect between how much harder pipeline creation is compared to how easy it should be in the sciences has always confused me a bit.
What is the bedrock of the Netherlands, geologically speaking? Pumps, dikes, and the like won't help that much in Miami because the porous limestone underlying the city allows water under and around these traditional methods.
5 Strategies for Surviving an Infrastructure Upgrade
I mainly use the webclient, the interface for runbox is sadly atrocious (composing a mail even gave me a horizontal scrollbar)
It's not difficult to find examples:

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/991122089557004288?lang=en

There is even whole industry around the concept, it is called trusted timestamping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

It basically works like this, you compute a hash of the document and send to some kind of service that will either publish your hash with the timestamp or will also sign the hash and the timestamp cryptographically without ever touching the document.

Later, you can refer somebody to the external service or let them examine the signature and the hash to prove that you were in possession of the information before certain date and time.
Do you really expect anybody to believe that?
Ask HN: What's your excuse for not doing that thing you should be doing?
Everyone has something they keep pushing off into the future. What's that thing and your excuse for not doing it?
Typically you would have the template instantiated for multiple classes (…or there wouldn't be a need for templates). Each class will have its own definition of the functions used on the template argument. If the function definition is the reference, which one?
I couldn't agree more. It seems to be an increasing trend in the media lately that articles are driven by narrative and emotional appeals than actual facts. This creates the bizarre scenario where you can read a 3,691 word story on how Miami will soon be underwater and yet be unable to explain Why the article is proposing this might be the case.

So for instance the first thing I did after seeing this headline was to go cross-reference the data with the NOAA. They put Miami's expected sea level rise at 0 to 1 feet over the next century [1]. So what is the reason for the discrepancy? Which figure is more likely? Why? 3,691 words and the reader will be in no way whatsoever capable of even proposing a suggestion to this question.

[1] - https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html
Your "Keep Me Updated" button does not currently seem to be working.
> "Neplac holka, nenarikej, kdyz je sucho, pole strikej." (Don't cry, girl, don't fret. When it's dry, just spray your field wet.)

Is this some weird Czech euphemism?
You are looking at it the wrong way. What you lose in income, you gain in flexibility and self-reliance. If you get very good at it (deep specialization or a knack for finding contracts) it may equalize in income but that should not be the point.

Just as working for a startup shouldn't be driven by dreams of riches.
Excuse my ignorance, but What???

How does one spend $9 million in Cloud computing by just running CI operations and Unit Testing in 3 years????

$9 million/3 years for Dev Ops Infrastructure for just one specific product sounds out of this world to me.
Thank you for posting this and clearing it up. This was missing from the original article.
very interesting analysis
> Social media exists as a way to facilitate communication online over a long-distance, i.e. old friends who now live in different places.

I... I dunno. I think that's what we'd all LIKE to think, and it's certainly what FB and Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat all WANT you to think. And there IS some degree of "yes it does kind of do that" and certainly it's fair to say these companies probably started with that mission.... But, like, what is - truly - the primary "thing" (I'd say "value" but I don't want to imply benefit) being extracted from SM use by the vast majority of users? Is it really communication utility? Or are side-effects beginning to outweigh the original benefits?

This may be going off the rails a bit, but hear me out for a second: Let's take pharmaceutical opioids, for example. They certainly were created with the intent of improving the quality of life of individuals experiencing pain. And they certainly DO have that effect for some - even many. But there's no denying that for a huge - tragically huge - number of people, they are an addiction with often fatal consequences.

It seems to me that "Social Media" is kind of getting to be in the same boat. Like it was created for all these great reasons ("to facilitate communication online over a long-distance" as you say) but there's no denying that it is also the cause of severe problems for a LOT of people - especially young people. It IS addictive, habit-forming, depression-inducing, among other possible negative side effects. And in that sense, yes, it does need to be addressed

For example, if someone were to say "Yeah, I don't care how much pain I'm in, I'm avoiding opiate pain meds entirely because I know they can be habit-forming, and I can see what that does to people so no way am I going to risk it." you'd probably be like "sure, I get it. Pain's gonna be rough, but, yeah... there's a risk." You wouldn't say "Well don't you just think you're a special snowflake mister 'I-don't-want-to-get-addicted'...." Right? And yes, there's always some wannabe trend-followers who flaunt their life decisions to get attention, but that doesn't in any way mean there isn't a real problem to be addressed.
According to NASA [1], global sea levels have been rising at a fairly steady 3.2 millimeters per year since 1993.

According to NOAA [2], the "relative sea level trend" in Miami Beach is 2.39 mm/year.

At those rates, in 100 years, the sea will have risen about one foot, not six.

1: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/

2: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/
We will only see the comet lovejoy every 622 years, that doesn't suggest it's a problem at all, let alone a big one. The fact that the water levels are very low suggest there's a big problem, that we haven't seen them this low in 400 years suggests only that we've seen them this low before and that the world has survived that.
> Also, gain a working level of Spanish if you are building in California; it's essential for communicating with the tradespeople.

Not just California -- most places. My neighbors in VA were Hispanic construction workers who did mostly concrete pouring. When I helped my folks refurb their properties in rural NY and PA easily 60-80% were Hispanic, even the GC/PM.
Oh come on, a speech therapist isn't needed to get the vast majority of children talking. You know what they meant.
He is dead wrong if he thinks VR isn't huge in the long-term.
OCD.

Lately I've been struggling with what they call inflated responsibility. I typically ruminate that something I said, something I did, or something I did not say or do will have some large negative effect on some or something and that I will be responsible for it. It's immensely stressful to worry about.

I'm seeing a therapist to work on my issues.
Purdue Global gets to decide who owns faculty work
The Gulf of Mexico Is Full of Unexploded Bombs and Mustard Gas
Melt is accelerating 1cm/decade but that doen't change much near term.
Witch hunts, bullying, and the like didn’t start with social media, and regulating social media won’t stop them, either.
AI Opportunities: Tranforming Coverage of Live Events
Define mediocre. Google's hiring process is great but not perfect. Someone can always slip through the cracks in any company. As for compensation, Google can't differentiate who is worth 250K and who isn't solely based on the hiring process. A "mediocre" engineer getting paid 250K will likely not get promoted within the proper time and could be forced to leave.
Elected officials force people to move in Rapid City, South Dakota after the 1972 flood. Today, the flood plain is a very nice bike path with no houses. This probably happened due to the high deal toll (238 fatalities).

"Many businesses were permitted to stay in the flood plain, but houses and motels were either raised or moved due to the likelihood that a flood would occur while a person may be sleeping. The majority of the flood plain was made into large parks, which have increased in number and have been improved and updated on a continuing basis."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Black_Hills_flood
FYI this headline is wrong is in now way is Google "stepping back" - this is Google becoming more open/transparent with how they traditionally handled CI/CD for the Kubernetes project.

Disclosure: I help run CNCF.io
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One cannot follow that in Moscow and drive. Their in heavy traffick to change lines one signals the turn for few seconds and drives into the line without waiting the cars there to give the way. One just has to assume that people are reasonable and want to avoid crashing into your car. Otherwise one may just drive in the initial line forever as nobody gives the way until the car moves into their line. I was told Paris is similar.
For particles, this already exists on all new diesel vehicles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_particulate_filter). They use filters made out of materials that can stand up to very high heat, and then when the filter gets clogged up, the vehicle injects some fuel and burns off the accumulated particles. This may start to get used in gasoline cars as well -- the new direct injection gas engines produce a lot of particulates, but this is not yet well regulated.
I'm curious what would have happened, had you also taken a sick vacation then.

BTW, generally, people are less likely to pull off shit like that if you motivate your resignation with some health/moving/whatever external factors. Just shift the focus way from "I don't want to work with you assholes" to "my wife got reassigned to %STATENAME%, so I guess I have to follow" or whatever sounds plausible and you're good to go.
Andreessen Horowitz is changing up its fundraising strategy
Lessons from Building a Serverless Data Pipeline with AWS Kinesis and Lambda
US Marines print concrete barracks in a record 40 hours
A plausible mechanism would be that cold weather causes people to spend time indoors with the windows closed, leading to more CO2 buildup, leading to IQ declines. Indoor CO2 buildups of, say, 1000 ppm aren't uncommon and lead to a clear decline in cognitive functions. This wouldn't be a problem in hot countries.
> Between the testing infrastructure and hosting container downloads, the Kubernetes project regularly runs over 150,000 containers on 5,000 virtual machines, so the cost of running these systems quickly adds up. The Kubernetes container registry served almost 130 million downloads since the launch of the project.
Is there any way to do sequence diagrams with that?
From the Google post:

> We’re funding this move with a $9 million grant of GCP credits to the CNCF, split over three years, to cover infrastructure costs. In addition to the world-wide network and storage capacity required to serve all those container downloads, a large part of this grant will be dedicated to funding scalability testing, which regularly runs 150,000 containers across 5,000 virtual machines.
Can AI detect and stop the spread of fake news?
[full disclosure, I'm the creator of Airflow]

Many environments run tens of thousands of concurrent tasks, and hundreds of thousands of tasks daily. The list of companies using Airflow speaks for itself https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset#who-uses-apache...

But hey, it's like anything, you have to do a bit of work to get distributed systems to run at scale. There are now hosted solutions to help with that (Google Cloud Composer and Astronomer.io)
> I'd gladly pay a subscription to a good search engine to remove the need for ads and align the business model to the privacy goals, however I'm probably in a small minority here.

I think you're correct about it being a small minority, but I'm definitely there with you.

Even with their affiliate and advertising model (someone else linked it), I'd rather pay money to just have the site ignore all ad determination, affiliate linking, etc if it sees me logged in and my account paid up.

Of course, most people seem to be heavily trained to look for "free" and chastise anything subscription based, no matter how cheap/fair.
A major factor affecting housing affordability is the quantity of credit being assigned to mortgages relative to investment in the real economy. This is well explained by a professor of finance here (52 mins): https://youtu.be/N-FDdHj7rPk
Is it? I've never gotten one.
Right, trade-offs! Thanks for the mindset shift!
But, AFAIK, lmdb is not write optimized (as opposed to something that uses LSM trees like levelDB).
Yeah, a better example would have been stilt houses, which are already scattered around the Florida coast due to the flooding from hurricanes
The Amiga had datatypes, which allowed an application program to install a reader and writer for its peculiar file format, OS wide. So say you had Photoshop for the Amiga. Not sure if that was a thing, but bear with. It would install a datatype for .psd files that would allow you to view such files in your favorite image viewer, or even a web browser.

The only other OS to offer this feature was BeOS.
I've not been an avid reader of TechCrunch in the past, but there seems to be a trend of poor, baity headlines (and often story angles) at least among articles that make it to HN. Not sure if they've always been this way, if I'm reading the wrong articles, or if they're another casualty of declining integrity across the industry.
Only if that rate remains steady, and it very well may not.
Seems like a productive topic considering the feature article concludes the cause is climate. Global population is a significant factor in most climate discussions.
Ah, COM.

It's an extreme case of inventing a technology before the support infrastructure is ready for it, like a car with no refining. In the case of COM and OLE, building an inter-application object system without a viable object oriented programming language to do it in. So developers had to build machinery by hand in C in each COM hosting application.
Uniqueness as an artifact caused by limits on current knowledge is a salient point. To give an idea of the state of the art in the understanding of living brains, this page presents a pie chart of known neuron types by species:

http://neuromorpho.org/byspecies.jsp
Realising that maintenance is the job and when you get to looking at legacy code, that it's not crap, but just represents a person/team's point in time understanding of a domain. Your understanding is different or maybe the domain has changed (no business stands still) and so you would code it differently here and now. But you might not have back then with the understanding and knowledge the team had when they wrote it.

Realising that in x days/months/years your own code will be the legacy and viewed by other developers and yourself. Your code will represent your understanding at the point in time you write it. It's natural if it looks horrid or incomplete or bad or that you missed something obvious. Don't beat yourself up over it.

Look on any code with the understanding and compassion with which you would have the next developer look on your code.

That and making sure to get up, stretch regularly and look out the window and get out the building. Smell the roses. That sort of thing.