skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ACA significantly shored up benefits for members of group plans. It also, I hear and read, provided significant cost controls that helped put the brakes on group policy premium increases. Just one aspect of that: Hospitals' uninsured treatments dropped from the mid-teens or worse to around or under 5%. Costs that no longer had to be "spread around" to insured coverage.

But a lot of group policy members have no... pardon me, "fucking" clue about this.

Study after study has demonstrated this lack of knowledge.

And politicians have been complicit in furthering it, along with outright lies casting the ACA in worse light. Not to mention deliberately sabotaging it through their actions, such as not providing promised transition funding written into the law. (For those who don't know, this is a common political ploy: You can write any law you want; if you don't, through the separate appropriations bills, fund it, that law effectively accomplishes little or nothing.)

Still, even a superficial examination of the U.S. medical field inclusive of insurers, shows it to be awash in money.

Every fucking middleman (that includes many providers, from products to services -- and the suits who now own them) pushing to grab as much of it as possible, before the rest trickles down to the patient (actual care).

Pardon my vitriol, but I've encountered far too much of this, first hand.
I got clear feedback from Google, Box, and Clearbit about what they didn’t like about the on-sites in my last job search 2 months ago.

At google I did bad in one of the technical questions (they told me which), box said I didn’t seem excited about the company (true), and Clearbit said I wasn’t able to implement a simple solution to a complex problem (because I was forced to use ruby and was rusty).
Officials were already aware of the range of possible opinions. The distribution of those opinions among the general public is informative, and bots were used to intentionally distort reality.
Form other parts of this thread AMD implementation is only 128b, while the lower i9...k is 256, and x also has 512.
The Dark Side of INTP – Astroligion.com
Median voter theorem ignores a lot of critical things, the most critical being that political viewpoints may not be distributed normally (or even with a single central peak) and turnout is influenced by engagement.

If you assume engagement (and, thus, likeliness to vote) is driven in part by proximity of the nearest candidates positions to your own, and that political viewpoints are bimodally distributed, you'd actually expect FPTP to turn into a two-party system where parties, even if they start at some point close to each other, drift out toward the two peaks.

While still a gross simplification, this seems closer to reality in the US to the premises required for the Median Voter Theorem to work.
What the Heck, Facebook?
I thought it goes without saying that I'd grab her along the way. Unless she can move only in a wheelchair then I'd have to reconsider my position but we are getting into very specific scenarios.
A heap tree has a very specific structure, even if value locations have some flexibility. An RB-tree has more flexibility in its structure, with rigidity in value locations.
FT8Call has been renamed to JS8Call (and also mentioned upthread).
This is a similar material that encases nuclear reactor fuel rods.

One of the things I like about concentrated solar power (CSP) vs photo-voltaic power (PVP) was that the minimum technology levels to support it meant that newish economies without a lot of technological infrastructure yet can still build it and deploy it with locally developed materials and people.

Having a magical metal tube so that you can use super-critical CO2 kinda puts a dent in this :-)
SIMD lanes can absolutely not be treated as threads. Not only can they not diverge in the instructions they execute (obviously) they can't efficiently load from different addresses (gather) or write to different addresses (scatter) on AVX.

Thinking of SIMD lanes as threads is not likely to be a path that pays off.
To be fair the UX for client side certs is pretty idiotproof once you have the cert installed. You get a "X site is requesting an identity certificate" box. Installing certs is pretty painless too -- you navigate to a certain page and get a "this site is attempting to install a security identification certificate in your browser" box. Securely getting to that page is a different matter.

As for logging in on untrusted devices (biz center, friend's PC, etc)... you shouldn't be doing that under any circumstances in a high security situation.
It's a shame that HUDs aren't yet more common as they deliver a real safety benefit. Some GM vehicles have had HUDs for over 20 years now and other manufacturers are starting to catch on.
Much of it has to be geographical--SF has mostly bearable weather year-round, Boston doesn't.
1. Lets its citizens die destitute of curable illness.

2. Condemns children at birth to poverty and / or crime due to their birth parents as a result of how the public education system is structured.

3. Ten year wait list for housing if homeless.

4. Epidemic police state where officers are unaccountable for any atrocity comitted.

5. Justice system is bribeable out of almost any crime comitted, including wrecking the whole economy.

6. Uses the measure of a three hundred year dead kings foot as its base unit of measurement, and uses a temperature scale where 0 and 100 mean nothing. Both of which nobody else uses.And they have daylight savings time across four time zones.

7. Puerto Rico still isn't a state.

8. Two out of the three heads of state this millennia won election after losing the popular vote to their opponent.

As an American, we certainly aren't civilized.
"By defining \mathbb{E}\left[\mathbf{x}\right]=\muE[x]=μ, ...and using the linearity of the expectation operator \mathbb{E}E, we easily arive [sic] to the following conclusion..."

Yikes. You don't define that \mathbb{E} was an 'expectation operator', or what an expectation operator even does, or the fact that it's linear. The v's disappeared somehow from inside the square brackets -- maybe you meant \muE[v]=μ?

So far this "tutorial" isn't defining its terms very well. I'm lost and it's only the very beginning.
> This seems to be pushing a myth: expensive treatments must be better treatments, right? We have very good evidence that these new, expensive, treatments do not extend life and that they make quality of life worse.

It's not pushing any myth at all. As explained elsewhere government-run systems like the NHS do attach actual dollar amounts to treatments that are effective and do extend life, but for which they're not willing to pay.

The NHS's version is actually quite ruthless when you peel back the details, where they determine how "good" a person's life is, and essentially how much they are willing to spend to extend that person's life by N years. This is, in effect, a benefits cap, just framed slightly differently.

This is not, as you are implying, saying "this treatment is ineffective or harmful, so we won't pay for it". It is literally saying "we understand that this treatment would extend this person's life by 5 years, but it costs £50,000, and based on their condition, we're only willing to spend £25,000 to extend their life by 5 years.

> And yet it has worse outcomes across a range of measures, including "life expectancy".

Life expectancy has so many confounding variables which have a much stronger effect that it's ridiculous to try and use that as a measure of a healthcare system directly. It's like trying to measure the fuel efficiency of different models of cars by looking at the total number of miles driven by all drivers of each car model in a given year. Yeah, there's... a connection between the two, but that's certainly not what you're analyzing when you try to compare them naively.
What the Heck, Google (Part 4)
Without digging into this post too much ... is the problem that we don't know the solution, that servers aren't implementing it, that clients (browsers) are limited, or more than one of the above?

To the degree that it's the browsers' limitations, couldn't the browser makers make a standard authentication client (or at least an API) with whatever tech and features are needed? A sandboxed mini-application, hardened, that passes a 'yes', 'no', or 'timeout' to the browser? Not every website would utilize it, but certainly the well-resourced ones could at first (FAANG, banks, etc.) and web server engines, frameworks, content management systems, etc. could incorporate the server side over time. It doesn't seem expensive, and the ROI would seem to enormous - safe authentication over the Internet. But maybe I'm solving the wrong problem?
Unless the insurance industry is insolvent you don't really have to worry about that. Any company you're buying insurance from has reinsurance against abnormally high payouts.

This makes the risk effectively zero since if the 'turtles all the way down' system can't pay out then we're probably in a state of national emergency.
No. I'm not, but if I was, I'd grab my kid(s) on my way out. That's still prefferable to keeping them in wooden house of flying bullets.
It's a different day and age... we aren't running shell replacements with winamp integration these days. While we are running iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux and who knows what else. Personally, I lean towards tooling I can use everywhere, even if it is a bulky electron app.

Also, the Android version was great imho.
Rodney Brooks, robot scientist and iRobot founder jokes that God gave creatures consciousness so he could ask them when the hell is going on with them.
Another nice example is the name of Obelix's little dog. In French it's Idéfix, a play on "idée fixe". In English it's Dogmatix, a play on "dogmatic" (preserving the French joke) and, obviously, "dog".
Ahh makes sense. Interesting.
Discussed in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13259944
3D printers have fingerprints, a discovery that could help trace 3D-printed guns
I actually moved all of that to the CPU (parallel, SIMD) and am using it in Ultralight [1] to generate high-precision SDFs for font-glyphs and small paths. I'll release the GPU-based implementation when I have more time.

If you're interested in the details of the GPU-based implementation, I pre-sort the path data into bins on CPU, encode it to a dynamic texture, traverse the structure in shader using a modified BVH, and calculate the exact distance to individual Beziers using root finding, which I open-sourced here [2]. It's very fast and avoids overdraw through the use of a low-res stencil mask also encoded into texture. There's of course a lot more nuance than that (fill calculation, level-of-detail, etc.) but that's for a long blog post.

- [1] https://ultralig.ht

- [2] https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ltXSDB
Also in the mix is the possibility that Bloomberg's "17 sources" consist of a only a few that claim first-hand knowledge, supplemented by a larger circle of people who were briefed about it.

If so, the rest of the 17 are just echoing what the inner group told them, without having done substantial independent verification.
"You do not need to have a great idea before you can begin working; you need to begin working before you can have a great idea. //Josh Collinsworth"

Just the quote from this week's Hacker Newsletter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18199708
If enough people join, you can track response times, candidate experience, offer etc and surface data about that for paying customers.

I haven’t looked at your product, but the premise is very real. It would be good to know what companies to apply for based a bunch of variables.

In theory Glassdoor could build that, but their interests are not best aligned to the candidate.
Yes. I think after 10 years you are pronounced "cured", which means no clinical presentation after that time usually means this type of cancer won't come back.

The 5-year interval is the minimum used in studies on cancer survival benefit.
I haven't been looking lately, but in the past year, I had no problem getting interviews at FAANG, some unicorns, and some series C/D startups. I didn't even have to apply for several of the positions, a recruiter reached out to me.
> Not having to talk to an octogenarian about politics.

Nobody "has" to do this on phone. Of course there are people predisposed to this but you don't have to talk to them or you can change the subject. For instance I still enjoy discussing radio stations and usually it's interesting to hear about someone's elaborate construction and what they are doing with it while they are willing to hear how I am getting over the equator and atlantic with no amplifier and a shitty piece of wire.
This article should not have been written IMHO, though the reasons are not obvious:

"This works more efficiently, potentially providing a boost of more than 20 percent, but ... [implementation would] involves balancing a lot of [currently unsolved] factors"

That is another way of saying "nothing to see here; move along." A 25% gain in efficiency would not be a game changer, and we can't implement it.
Dude,

1) how do I delete my account? Pretty sure GDPR won't like not having a button for it.

2) you should probably test the UI a bit more with different settings. The top buttons, on my iphone 6s with bold text enabled, don't fit on one line.
Do you remember what those documents were, or how they might be found online? (being curious, not confrontational)
I grew up reading Asterix in French and I think it allowed me to appreciate the language more than I would have if I had only been exposed to it in a classroom setting!
DX and contesting is still a sport and for these people many contacts end after QRZ and signal report
At a bare minimum, AVX grossly accelerates memcpy and memset operations. (Setting 256-bits per assembly instruction instead of 64-bits per operation is a big improvement). And virtually every program can benefit from faster memcpy and faster memsets.

How often are memcpy and memset CPU-bound, though?
Note that's a new account...I assume the answer to your question is no.
Performance wise, you are correct.

But from a programming point of view, CUDA and OpenCL PROVE that you can use SIMD-cores as if they were a bunch of threads. Yes, there is a performance penalty (an exponentially increasing penalty) on every thread divergence. However, a HUGE set of problems (Deep learning, matrix multiplication, graphics, ray-tracing, encoding, databases: Join-Merge, Join-Hash, etc. etc. ) which have successfully been implemented as "SIMD as if it were threads".

How to deal with divergence? Just don't use if-statements! If you can figure out how to cheat if-statements out of your code (or to group "threads" so that they take if-statements all together at the same time), you get HUGE performance on these architectures. And GPU programmers have consistently found more and more ways to "reconverge" threads so that they can be "ganged up" as SIMD-threads in the most efficient manner possible.

No, it doesn't work for Chess or other "innately divergent" problems. It doesn't work for many problems. But this "gang up SIMD into threads" works very well for many, many problems. And its easy to do.

Case in point: Ray-tracing. Every ray starts off as a camera-ray, but then when it hits an object, it may turn into a diffuse, specular, or sub-surface scattering ray (or many other types, depending on what object you hit). Seems like we have to use an if-statement to continue...

But that's wrong! Raytracing becomes GPU-friendly by grouping all specular-rays together, and computing SIMD-gangs on all specular-rays. Then, group all diffuse-rays together, and gang up the threads across those. Etc. etc.

Specular rays may bounce off and turn into Diffuse, specular, Sub-surface, or other kinds of rays on each bounce. But just "re-configure" the SIMD-gang on each bounce, and you get huge SIMD-based-benefits.

Again: get rid of your if-statements, and you scale. I admit it doesn't work all the time, but it does work a LOT of the time.

> Thinking of SIMD lanes as threads is not likely to be a path that pays off.

Every supercomputer that is buying a V100 disagrees with you (ie: Summit). There are plenty of useful problems that work under the SIMD-as-threads model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_(supercomputer)

We're talking $325 million into a NVidia V100-based supercomputer. It seems like Oak Ridge National Laboratory believes in this methodology.

> they can't efficiently load from different addresses (gather) or write to different addresses (scatter) on AVX.

AVX2 has Gather instructions. While Scatter instructions were added to AVX512.

See AVX2 instruction: VPGATHERDD
looks good but it's worrying it got approved by apple/app store (and some users) without a privacy policy
They had polls. Nobody with a brain is using anonymous comments for that type of measurement.
To play devil's advocate, looking at 5-year survival rates by country, you'd be 15-20% more likely to survive in the US after you contract cancer than in the Netherlands. YMMV.
You want your browser to support PAKE, not for the website to send javascript.

Lack of native browser support seems to be what held up SRP. Hopefully OPAQUE can make it farther.
Anybody else figure out the endgame when they saw the beginning?

"Oh crap, the hometowns just kick back a percentage to the taxpayer and suddenly Tokyo is bankrupt - as the hometowns outbid each other in a race to the bottom, eventually they lose too and it ends just being an expensive and complicated tax cut".

Reality turned out even worse, with brokers skimming off a percentage.

I suppose it's fair. In Japan, registering yourself in Delaware for bullcrap reasons isn't just for corporations anymore!
I appreciate the informative reply.

> Lowering premiums allows insurers to win customers away from competing insurers.

Absolutely. That's what leads to competition with insurance plans that are superficially more attractive ("hey, cheaper premiums"), while basically nullifying the benefits of insurance (by making you and your family broke when things turn bad - and then you die).

The alternate system doesn't need to optimise for "optics" & sales, but can optimise eg for QALYs.

Of course neither system can overcome the fundamental issue that you can't pay for unlimited treatment for all. But quite evidently, the US system leads to harrowing quandaries for many ill people and their families, worse overall health outcomes, higher overall costs, and richer health insurance CEOs than what's done in all other developed countries; and I still don't understand why you appear to defend it.
How those 8 cores communicate? I remember that AMD uses NUMA architecture that can bite in rare cases. Does Intel uses something similar too?
Getting an interview is the biggest hurdle. I can usually count the number of interviews with my fingers, at least from the companies I'd want to work for - that is, it's usually under 5, most often 2-3, sometimes just 1.

Definitely don't need another login/app to manage them.
Remembering Solzhenitsyn: Observations on the Gospel, Socialism, and Power
> FT8 and other weak signal modes can work with more noise and less signal than conventional modes

I'm a little surprised that FT8 is better S/N than conventional mode of morse code, but then I didn't think in terms of S/N back when I was active in the 70s/80s (btw: Straight key! I finally build a keyer after 5 years of straight key, and then went off to college and didn't have another QSO for many years. :(

Edit: Regard QSO, Do folks even use Q signals anymore?
> The difference is that the i9-9900k can single-thread turbo to 5GHz

minor nitpick: the 9900k can actually turbo to 5GHz on two cores simultaneously.
Green’s Dictionary of Slang to go free
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
Can you partition your batch transactions, so that all up to the conflict succeed?
Arguably the largest "archival library" today, with respect to current and recent (last few decades) online (and some other) content, is archive.org .

Where retroactively blocking a source URL (via robots.txt) causes archive.org to make its archival copies of/from that URL inaccessible. Supposedly, this is going to change. But it's obvious that lawyers will continue to explore and push the boundaries of this.

The Web ('Net) is not a library.

And datahoarders have a point, beyond just the stereotype of compulsive collecting. (I'm not one, but I'm increasingly regretting not having grabbed some resources while they were up.)
I don't think educated software engineers that decide to take a calculated risk are the ones becoming homeless.

It's a drug and mental health issue, unless you are speaking to a broader philosophical point on what "high risk" means.
Only the Threadripper has to worry about NUMA and that's because it has two physical dies with 8 cores each. The regular Ryzen 8-core only has a single physical die and thus NUMA isn't an issue.
This bit I didn't get:

> The earliest key exchange protocols — like classical Diffie-Hellman — were unauthenticated, which made them vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exc...):

> The Diffie–Hellman key exchange method allows two parties that have no prior knowledge of each other to jointly establish a shared secret key over an insecure channel.

Maybe there's something I'm not understanding, but I thought the point of DH was you could exchange something even when other people are listening. You can see in the example in the article that it does't matter what Eve can see.
Yep, I'm coming from a 4690 and my plan is similar. Hopefully Zen 2 provides a substantive enough improvement but even if not I would still be quite happy.
In certain places like 80 meters it has always been this way. There was a rather famous individual on 80M AM that used to call CQ by saying no lids, no kids, no space cadets. A lot of young ham in the sixties like to really get in this old boys face. I wasn't one of them and found out he was a pretty intelligent fellow, he just didn't had a low tolerance for fools.
Predicting suicide attempts in adolescents: machine learning is powerful
> Bloomberg reporters have misreported on NSA exploiting Heartbleed

Bad source given. The WP relies on NSA officials denying they used heartbleed. You believe that?
Apple CEO Tim Cook demands Bloomberg retract its report on Chinese chip hacking
Would love to read more about this.
Isn't hacking the support site a supply chain compromise?

Much discussion about software supply chain attacks was around the role of NPM as a vector, which can be thought of as a source of "drivers" that make various products and services work, similar to the role that a support site for a physical manufacturer plays.