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Every European health care system, I believe, has some way of limiting the amount of care provided to people. It is just not so out in the open as a dollar cap on what people can get in a lifetime. Not every possible, super-expensive procedure is approved to be available to people through the public healthcare system. (Would love to hear of a country that has "universal health care" that does not limit what procedures people can have done to see how it is possible).

Everyone can't get the best possible care unless those experimental and expensive procedures are just banned and we give up on expensive procedures becoming cheaper in the future. Cancer is the biggest reason for this. If you have a cancer and can afford to employ a small research team for a few million a year, your chances them finding a custom way to beat it is much better than just trying to select from the existing treatments already out there. Health care already is 17% of the US GDP and the US government spends more % of GDP on healthcare in America than almost all European countries.

Not sure the best way to a better health care system in the USA, but just uncapping how much can be spent under insurance plans, while fixing one problem, won't work in the long run (as we are already seeing).
If only the United States could learn from the more superior countries, then everyone would be happy.
Cook has made this claim in a way that exposes the company, and probably himself, to a lot of legal grief if it later becomes evident that he's not being truthful.

What does Bloomberg have at stake, in comparison? Nothing, apparently, since they don't seem to value their reputation enough to back up their reporting with evidence.
UHC paid out over $100 billion in care. How much it pays its CEO is completely irrelevant, except as an emotional appeal and rage bait. The system may not be functioning properly, but it has nothing to do with how much UHC's CEO makes, or shareholders make. (UHC's profit margin is just 7.5%).

The decision of whether to have limits on how much you're willing to spend for one case exists whether you have a private system or a public system. Either way, the public is on the hook if the system is more generous.
And luckily we had AMD then, as we do now (only recently), to pick up the slack. Sure I'm exaggerating a bit, but no more than you are to say 'incomparable'. Intel upgrades for the last 7 years have been modest at best. If you need a new machine, sure they'll make a fine replacement. But hardly a reason to upgrade year over year (or even every 2-3 years) for performance and/or functionality alone.

I've been sitting on an old i7 Sandy Bridge precisely because Intel hasn't been offering me a compelling reason to upgrade. I'm probably going to finally do it next year... but it won't be to another Intel system.
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Pathfinder 2 is now mostly a CPU approach with very little done on the GPU, because you really want to avoid late-Z. I don't know of anybody else doing state-of-the-art GPU vector rasterization. Slug has the same pitfalls as Pathfinder 1 (late-Z & overdraw) and also requires an expensive preprocessing step.

I don't think distance fields are the correct approach either, though the work that Adam Simmons is doing to analytically solve beziers on the GPU is interesting: https://twitter.com/adamjsimmons/status/730911372532322304
The electron app could include all of Windows 95 just to run WinAmp and still probably be lighter than most electron apps.
In the US they take more than you have in the bank and give you a nice loan :-)
It's not like the NHS is a panacea.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11844314/Thousands-o...
If I'm a customer in a domain where these are concerns though, each question you make me ask during my evaluation is a chance for me to quit doing the work and move on to something else that's less effort, like the competing product that pushes their security and privacy policies upfront as a product benefit.

So don't ask me to pull myself through your sales funnel, make the process easy by addressing my major concerns before i need to ask.
But it's turn based— most of the time that you're playing, nothing is happening! Surely it could be running its simulations and AI speculatively and then just tossing out the bits which aren't relevant any more as the player makes changes to the world state.
>> Since we're entering a high-DPI world now...

high-DPI has never impressed me beyond some point. I use a 55 inch 4K TV as my monitor today. I find the huge desktop space far more valuable than having little tiny pixels. So even though it's 4K, the text is rendered at a similar DPI as a 24" 1080 monitor. Besides, what's good at low DPI should only be better at high DPI right?
Hopefully the fear of punishment will keep corporations from repeating this crime. It depends of how this case will go. This was clear-cut fraud, whether the author can be found remains to be seen.
Just to continue the aside, it actually is perfectly normally distributed, since it is a purely statistical measure.

http://michna.com/iq.htm
Is there an explicit limit, or is it just implicit based on how many crashes you can possibly get into and get repaired within the policy period?
A toy 24-bit virtual machine and assembler. It has 16MB of addressable memory split into 256 64KB banks. 8 specialized and 8 general purpose 16 bit registers. An address stack and a register state stack and memory mapped I/O.

Most of the opcodes have been written, apart from interrupts. It has built in function calls, near and far jumps, a bunch of different branching operations and basic looping based on flag States. Comparisons, unsigned and signed addition, multiplication, subtraction and division. Most opcodes support direct, indirect and relative addressing.

I tried to keep the assembly language fairly simple and straightforward. So far I have a two pass assembler that supports labels, named variables, subroutines, 8 and 16 bit numbers in decimal or hexadecimal format, 24 bit addresses in hexidecimal, character literals and zero terminated strings.

At this point the next steps are to finish doing interrupts and work on input and ouput. Right now, it will read an assembled binary and spit out a new binary with any modified memory addresses and a register dump so there's still a bit of work yet to making something interactive.

I'm thinking of using bearlibterminal(though I wouldn't mind keeping it dependency free...i'm just not sure if I can) and making it pseudo text/graphical terminal based I was thinking of maybe having different modes that could be switched so data stored in vram memory would be treated and displayed differently depending. I'd also like to keep the display and input fairly separate so it would be possible to write a different display frontend if people wanted. My hope is to eventually have keyboard, mouse and maybe other inputs, graphics and basic audio all as separate modules.

I'd like to eventually release it all open source with full documentation. I dunno I was inspired after trying to learn assembly and finding it was either fairly complex and more for compilers in the case of modern processors or you had to deal with weird hardware limitations and strangeness with old processors. So I tried my hand at making something similar to an older processor without having to deal with the frustrations of old hardware. My goal was to make it as fun to program in as possible while still giving the feeling of working directly with memory and registers.

Personally, i've learned tons from working on this and I figure if I was looking something like this, there's probably others that could benefit.
> Stratfor's use of insiders for intelligence soon turned into a money-making scheme of questionable legality.

I'm impressed that "soon" was a thing; I would have assumed that was the goal for the outset.
So basically you've renamed your API layer, graphQL

one note, using serverless doesn't allow you to scale to infinity. You are still dependent on your database/state management.
That's surprising to me; wouldn't they be able to represent huge chunks of world state as giant matrices, upon which operations are trivial to parallelize?
> Small states are slightly overrepresented in the House, radically overrepresented in the Senate and in judging electoral votes, and overrepresented at a level between those two in the Electoral College.

It's only over-representation if representation must only be proportional to population.

> There's no real compromise or two-sided balance there.

There is a compromise and a two-sided balance: in the House, big states are "radically over-represented" because of their large populations; in the Senate, small-state individuals are "radically over-represented" because they're divided into more states per capita. Big states/urban areas have the power to block in the House, small states have the power to block in the Senate. The balance is that both sides have enough concentrated power that they're forced to compromise and cooperate or nothing can get done.
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You're the one that jumped from no foreign production to no "foreign" employees. Of course there's a difference between a factory operating under the supervision of the People's Liberation Army and an immigrant working in a lead role at a company.

My comment is basically a pre-reaction to nationalists who would want to use this situation as an excuse to bring as much manufacturing work home as possible, even if it doesn't make sense (and if this were all a ruse, it would be a good way to get the White House on board.) Granted, it would also be pretty dumb to trust your adversary (from a national defence perspective) to build your weapons for you. Which is what the US is doing to a certain degree. Of course this is about globalism, because it's what lead to this situation in the first place. But nationalism, importantly, is not the solution. That's what I hope people take away from this.
15-20 minutes per week of pointless non-value chit-chat talk on a meeting with coworkers is time well spent. Don't forget to ask them about something you remember about them from last week.
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Interestingly, I just recently got Milkdrop building from source, and working on making it a standalone application. ProjectM is milkdrop-compatible, but does not have a handy Windows board, and sadly OpenGL support on Windows is not always the best.

I've got low-latency streaming input from the loopback device via WASAPI so it works with anything playing audio, but still having some obstacles getting the audio data from those buffers into Milkdrop properly. But still progressing well enough for something I can only hack on occasionally after hours. Whatever it is I'm doing wrong with the PCM data shouldn't be too difficult to figure out eventually.

I initially started porting it from DX9 to DX12 but figured getting the audio streaming input is more valuable to start with. Thankfully the kodi team already did a lot of the work with the DX12 migration, but used an older version of the Milkdrop source which doesn't seem to handle the HLSL/shader presets.

If there is interest I would happily put the work-in-progress up on GitHub.
No other insurance is like health insurance in terms of the consequences of having a cap (not being made fully whole vs being left to die).
Are there plans to ship on a regular schedule such as monthly afterward?
Long story short, this is really wanting me to obtain the gerbers for the motherboards I use, and verify the parts on the board are the parts listed. This the basis of open source hardware.

The next step is to obtain firmware for each chip, and compile and load it on all programmable chips. Again, but open source firmware.

Then moving up, we need an open source OS, which we have.

The last area is having open source silicon... but given that it's $10m minimum for a basic fab, this isn't happening anytime soon. Although, FPGAs could supplant some hardware. Then we'd need the synthesis code for the design.

Long story short, is there a way to make a trustworthy OS if you don't trust the underlying hardware? Is that even possible?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think there are any cases of people with brain injuries speaking languages they couldn’t speak before. And any foreign accent is a case of someone’s speech becoming distorted and coincidentally sounding similar to another accent.
I just wanted to add: if you can find parking, you can actually walk across the Golden Gate bridge. It's windy, but very beautiful. And there's also little placards showing the history of the bridge's construction on the south side. (Although it's a little easier to park on the north side.)
In the US we are currently enjoying the government that the majority of states voted for. After all, states vote for the president, not people, and people are members of their state first and country second.
Very cool. I enjoyed the first tournament myself and am looking forward to entering the second!
In the pre-ACA world, those who were healthy might save in rates by opting into lifetime caps, but those who didn't want the lifetime caps -- i.e. those more likely to get sick -- ended up paying more than they do now. The whole idea behind the ACA is to equalize the playing field between healthy ratepayers and sick ratepayers.
That just means you don't have to pay tax on the amount you donate, it's not a 1:1 reduction in taxes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife...
And a lot of people with IQ about the median think their proficiency in one domain (technology) transfers seamlessly to another domain (public policy).
The next comment down is also about privacy, but in the context of business model instead of security. Maybe people (in our niche, at least) are starting to prioritize their data more than ever.
An embedded processor should have the horsepower for the mode. Kit idea?
>never heard about fake news?

I love that "fake news" is now a license to disbelieve any story that doesn't fit with your personal beliefs. There was fake news one time, now everything is under suspicion.
Respectfully disagree. Recently leased a $60k car and I enjoy every single minute I'm driving it. I'm not paying for a transportation vehicle, I'm paying for joy and pleasure. What else should I spend money on? Burgers and coke?
Well, khruschyovkas and neobrutalist apartment blocks were started some 40 years _after_ Soviet rule was established.

So their primary target before that was not to take millions out of mediocre living conditions, but world revolutions and such.
For the uninitiated: Italian Fascism was so named as a reference to classical Roman Fasces, which was a bundle of sticks or rods wrapped around an axe that symbolized authority.
Blow into a ketchup cup to make it even more conveniently sized.
Bitcoin is coming up on its 9-year anniversary. The equivalent point in the web's history was 1998.

How many of today's Internet giants were founded in 1998? Amazon. Plenty of defunct also-rans: Netscape, Ebay, Yahoo, AOL, Geocities, Altavista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, Pointcast, Monster.com, RealAudio, Pets.com, Kozmo, AllAdvantage.com, Webvan, DoubleClick. Netflix was in its infancy (~1 year old). Apple was a dying hardware company, a few months from bankruptcy and kept alive by Microsoft's cash infusion.

Google's official founding was several months in the future. PayPal was right around then. Napster was a year in the future. Friendster and LiveJournal were 4 years in the future, MySpace 5 years, Facebook almost 6. SomethingAwful.com, Bodybuilding.com, and Fark.com were a year in the future, 4chan 3 years, Digg 6 years, and Reddit 7. Twitter was 8 years in the future. YouTube was 7. Heroku and Weebly were 8-9 years in the future, which was the same time SquareSpace graduated to more than one employee. Dropbox was 8 years in the future. AirBnb was also 8 years, but didn't catch on for a further 5 years or so. Indeed was 6, Etsy was 7, Indiegogo was 9, Kickstarter was 11, GoFundMe was 11, Pinterest was 12, Patreon was 14.

So to answer your question going by the web's example - probably about 7 years. The "killer app" for the web (communication & coordination, IMHO) started becoming apparent to the mainstream around 2005, with Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, Etsy, Indeed, and Twitter all being founded within +-1 year of that. Interestingly, analogues of all of them existed in 1998 (Classmates.com, DejaNews, RealVideo, EBay, Monster, and...well, nothing really for Twitter), but it took almost 20 years for the underlying infrastructure to get mature enough to get mass consumer adoption.
I am working on Primer. Basically a bot that makes it much easier to learn "difficult things" on your own. Here is a screenshot : https://imgur.com/a/E5Kw54P

The screenshot has changed a lot by now though.

I have been working on this, alone, for last almost two year. I have iterated more than 15 times. One time, I was trying to do non-linear twine[0] based interface. Was pretty complicated. Right now, this is the version I am most satisfied and excited for. Also, it took some while to create a CMS from scratch for this one.

Here is why it is cool.

0. Primer teaches you in a conversational way. I understand video based MOOCs are new norms, but conversational way makes user better focused towards learning. It also makes it easier to revise, recall and resume from where you last left.

1. Primer will provide you notes in form of Tufte-Latex Books[1]. The way it works is that there is already a template for each course and when the user completes the course, his/her response accounts generates tex Code along with the previous templates and results in personalized books. The books authors name is the username.

2. Primer enforces spaced repetition. Not only it teaches you something, it also reminds you to revise after certain intervals. Although Anki export is a desirable feature, I did not have the energy to look into it now, but it is definitely in the roadmap. Primer takes responsibility of your learning.

3. Primer tracks time spent on your courses. Good tool for homeschoolers.

4. Primer courses are versioned. Primer courses improve based on feedback. If you get stuck at a course, it is improved so that, next time it feels easier to understand. And often times, we will screw up, so it is there for that too. But importantly, courses should have pretty iteration times. This is a major advantage of text based courses.

5. Primer based courses take a fraction of time to complete than Video-based courses.

6. Last, my favorite. It makes difficult things easier to learn. Although, achieving this feature to a practical extent will take another year or so, but still feels good to have the potential. Suppose, you want to learn how to build a spaceship. There is a ton of things you need to learn before you can even begin to learn about spaceships and rockets. Primer ensures that you have understood the prerequisites before you start doing something. All these courses are present on Primer itself.

I am not good with deadlines. But I can assure that I am pretty close to completion.

These are the initial courses to be offered by Mid 2019.

Tentative Tracks: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Fantastic ML Papers and how to implement them, Teach yourself Computer Science, Fantastic CS Papers and how to understand them, Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.

To follow updates: https://tinyletter.com/primerlabs/

[0]: http://twinery.org/
[1]: https://github.com/Tufte-LaTeX/tufte-latex
In most of the world, even in poorer EU states, these super advanced and expensive treatments are not available and people simply die without getting a chance. Occassionaly one hears in media about some crowdfunding campaing for „unique treatment in the US”.
I think this is an excellent point.

I have no idea what the right answer is, but I think that the role of technology is really underappreciated.

On the one hand, people are probably correct to say that it's an infringement on their rights to not be able to talk about something that happened to them.

On the other hand, what it means to "talk about something" has changed radically. One hundred years ago, your reach would have been limited to the people in your social circle. If you were really determined to let people know what happened to you, you could take out an ad in the newspaper, but that would probably be seen as fairly weird if it was about something that happened years ago where the perpetrator has already been released from prison.

What about if the perpetrator decided to go live somewhere else, and the victim personally took it upon themselves to take out an ad in every city that the perpetrator moved to, telling everyone what happened. I daresay that person would be looked at as vindictive and possibly a little crazy.

The internet allows basically the last scenario, with very little effort on behalf of the victim, and none of the cost of publishing in a newspaper. It possibly even comes without the social cost of looking vindictive. Because it's so much easier to publish things online, no one considers the emotion that would be required to generate the post, as opposed to the strength of feeling required to get something published in a newspaper in a different city.

It seems to me that a discussion of rights without a discussion of technology will not accomplish much, as much as we'd like to believe that what is right is not dependent on something as arbitrary as the current level of tech.
Some do. But in those cases, you might be better served with Ryzen.

If you're playing games, you'll get better performance with this i9.

But if you're playing games, you're probably not CPU-bound anyway.

I'd be interested in what niches people here work in and what CPUs they look for because of their unique needs.
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I have seen this referenced multiple times. The iMac Pro doesn't have 64 cores.

The highest end iMac Pro has 18 cores.
Is there a generic “Chromecast output” virtual device for Linux? Not just an app that can cast but an OS level device so I can route audio from any app on the fly.
> only in the US could a new $60K car be described as "a low cost model"

You're almost right, just one country too many :)

That's not considered a low-cost car in the United States. If you think it is, then you've been spending too much time around the type of people who hang out on Hacker News.
I think in China you can say whatever you want about anything, you just can't criticize the government. In the US you can criticize the government but can't say whatever you want about anything else without blowback. In China the government persecutes you, in the US it's your fellow citizens.
These questions are quite simple. I wouldn't use them to find good C++ developers.

However, it's quite hard to come up with good C++ interview questions. You want to test for fundamental knowledge of C++, for the practice of using C++ for developing code, but avoid impractical cases that nobody remembers in their right mind.

Every interviewer has his own favorite C++ trick. The fact that an interviewee doesn't know or use that trick doesn't mean that his C++ skills are inadequate. It means that the interviewer's trick may not be as commonly used as he may think.
Nowadays, I hardly ever listen mp3 but this is a gem: http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html