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It's also how single-payer healthcare works in the majority of countries that have it.

The problem is simple - in most developed countries, health insurance doesn't bankrupt the people it serves. It also doesn't have policy limits for common terminal illnesses.

So why does this happen in the US - a country with insanely high costs and relatively mediocre health outcomes?

The problem isn't insurance, it's the influence that unregulated privatised insurance has had on health industry costs as a whole.

Hospitals, medical professionals, pharma companies, and insurance companies are all primarily motivated by profit, and will price gouge patients to the maximum extent possible.

Insurance companies may be regulated intermediaries, but in reality many insurance companies are actually owned by hospital chains.

They simply provide a layer of regulated bureaucracy that disguises and legitimises the price gouging.

So while technically it's true that insurance companies have regulated margins, it's also a misdirection. The true role of the insurers is to provide corporate and bureaucratic cover for the outrageous sharking and exploitative profiteering in the rest of the industry.

Customers - i.e. patients - most certainly do not benefit from this arrangement. Shareholders and CEOs very much do.
> 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.

Is there a public example of a rich person that 'beat' cancer this way?
Human rights without property right's means that some humans have the right to turn other humans into property
Google Forms is always a better idea to collect data and it's easy too. On the other hand, you can also use some online notepads that don't ask you to create a google account just for the sake of the google forms.
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Thanks; what do you like about the pricing?
Ask HN: Why were so many security details at this week's S.F. Twilio convention?
I couldn't swing a dead cat without incurring an assault on any which number of the unsettling, no unserious business looking peace officers that we're swarming city hall plaza yesterday. They even swept out the peddler and vagrant class, effective almost all evening. What gives? It's not like a data center full or our APIs -- just conference goers conferring! Were we, in tech infrastructures, recently infiltrated or something or whatever; is this Us, the US, being extra vigilant about maybe the last decade's 'super-leaks'?
America suffers from cultural not-invented-here syndrome. Eurocomics are generally thin on the ground here, and there are some great ones we're missing out on.

That, and they may contain material prudish Americans may find objectionable. The threat of having your sales scuppered or even being brought to court by religious groups on the right, feminist groups on the left, or helicopter parents' associations on either side, is very real. The Anselme Lanturlu comics (Archibald Higgins, in English) were released in many countries, but censored in only two: the United States and Iran. Anselme's girlfriend Sophie, a voluptuous blonde whose generous cleavage is almost always on display, is a bit more covered up to hide the cleavage in the U.S. release. In the Iranian publication, she is covered from head to toe and wears a hijab.
What does "senior" mean? In the tech industry efveryone with 2yrs experience is "senior", and everyone on salary is an "executive"
For context: Anthea Bell recently died.
Man I love my 2012 rMBP. I recently left it on a flight and was devastated. Got it back, luckily. Greatest laptop ever made. I'm taking that thing to the grave...
I have a feeling that Apple has been testing the feasibility of adding multitouch to OSX with the Touch Bar gimmick.

Physical controls are so much better! I mean just look at the things musicians and DJs are doing everyday with a keyboard, sliders, dials and a little practice.
You have no idea what's coming.
Nullsoft tried the "ambitious cross-platform open source rewrite" thing in 2002 with Winamp3/WASABI and everyone hated it because it broke all their Winamp 2 plugins :) https://betanews.com/2002/08/10/winamp3-makes-its-official-d...

They went back to the 2.x codebase to release 2.92 and 2.95 before skipping Winamp 4 and jumping to Winamp 5 (2 + 3) which was based on Winamp 2 but with the Wasabi skinning system bolted on.
Wait.How does one give feedback to the interviewer? Thought even as the interviewee, getting post interview feedback is not your prerogative. Am I missing something here. Also someone posted this a while back essentially for the same purpose of tracking various interviews and feedbackshttps://jobhound.io
Title is a little misleading. SpaceX wasn't left out of the agreement. The Air Force is providing funding to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and ULA to develop the next generation of rockets and motors for each of these companies. SpaceX is already years ahead in the development phase. The Air Force is just trying to get everyone else up to speed.
If I understand correctly, the article is implying that the beneficial effects are caused by visible light, which high-E glass doesn't attenuate. High-E glass is only supposed to filter infrared.
I was listening to some CW last night on 40m while working on compiling WSJT-X 2.0. What struck me is that of the several QSOs they were slow enough for me to follow in my head, the total exchange of information was about the same as with an FT-8 contact. Oh, there were the “filler” items like name and QTH and “73 73 es CUL” and human error corrections, but the information payload in the CW QSOs was not significantly higher than an FT-8 QSO.

The typical CW QSO took about 5-10 minutes to complete. The FT-8 QSO (with essentially the same data payload) took one minute.
If anything, FT-8 represents a more efficient way of exchanging information than CW. It’s doubtful the “death” of ham radio will cone about at the bits of a more efficient mode than CW.
It's not a blanket statement, that's exactly what daily standups are for. It's a micromanagement tool because they don't trust their employees.

If you're stuck or blocked on something, you should talk to whoever you need to immediately. If you need to talk to someone, that's what the chat's for. If it's supposed to be a way for the team to bond, then it shouldn't have anything to do with status updates, talk about the weather instead.

It's so obviously a micromanagement tool, but sometimes you can piss on someone and they'll believe you when you say it's raining
Not sure one gives you safer typing than the other in absolute. They both have a different context/purpose. TypeScript is great for typing a code base for function calls type of APIs, whereas GraphQL is great to express types for inter-system communication (usually over HTTP).

Using GraphQL to type your in-process API would be overkilled and would require quite a bit of contortionism, and while you can share same TypeScript types between your end-points interfaces (and can be a good first step), inter-process communication is better expressed with something like GraphQL or Protobuf.
I have a big problem with this as well. Once, while studying in Shanghai, an (Italian) classmate asked me and, seeing my usual struggle to respond, remarked "this question is always so difficult for you".
I grew up with several classic Asterix stories on my bookshelves, and was always charmed by them in every way. There's no doubt that these translations have had a lasting effect on my sense of humour.

Not being a French speaker (at least not a good one), I have often wondered to what degree the original intent was lost. Certainly, we are very fortunate that the English translations are of such high quality, and give us similar humour, if not the same actual jokes. But I'd obviously worked out that in some scenarios the original joke would simply not work in English, and I've wondered what the differences were like.

So thanks for this article, which has shed some light on my wonderings.

That first example in particular, with Jericho / Gericault, ensures that, while we unfortunately can't make the same fairly direct reference as the french, there's still an in joke to be had there by those familiar with the parodied source scene (which I was not previously, and now am, and now further respect the translators)
Seriously, how is a public SEC investigation going to benefit the "integrity" of the system and "inspire confidence among investors"?

If the story is both fake and some grand market manipulating plot, most people involved are 1) going to hope that the public forgets that this story ever was; and 2) deal w/this privately.

But since some clearly disagree, I eagerly await your well-informed case.
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If I remember correctly, when you learn a new language after age 10, the brain encodes the new language in a region adjacent to the one where your mother language is encoded, which means that any localized injury on this part of the brain may impact your ability to speak just one of them.

Source: Sapolsky's lecture about language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIOQgY1tqrU&list=PL150326949...

If you want to understand better how the brain works, I really recommend watching the whole course.
I found this headline to be strongly garden path. Didn't we used to quote proper nouns when they didn't appear to be nouns? "Rent the Runway"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
I came back from a summer intensive course in French. Although I was already fluent in German, for a week after returning, every time I opened my mouth to speak German, French came out.
Once insurance is involved and has to pay, the system is geared towards shifting as much of this as possible to the patient in the current US system. So now you have the provider and the insurance company working to get the patient to pay. Nobody is on the patient's side; the insurance company is best served by having the patient die as quickly as possible, the provider is best served making the patient pay as much as possible. It's become a dystopian nightmare over the last 25 years.
Politics are not local anymore
I don't think Firefox ever touches your user.js, I've never seen that happen or anyone complaining about it. And then it overrides prefs.js generated settings. The only time I encountered problems was with a big update failing to replace a couple of prefs.js entries, and it was some really obscure settings.
My 5yo i7-4790K is to this day very fast (gtx 1080, and nvme 2 years ago). May upgrade next year for more threads/vms though.
Non-Windows peeps, I got you fam: https://webamp.org/

You can drag local files into the queue.

And look, over 5k skins: https://archive.org/details/winampskins
yes. Ironically replacing these repetitive roles with machines can give human staff a better chance to move to a supporting role and actually help.
For someone living in the Netherlands this sounds truly savage and heart breaking. I really, really wouldn't want to live in the US.
I think there are just some work environments that are like this.

When I transitioned from freelancer to 9-5'er, I felt the same way you do for an entire year. Confidence comes, but only slowly.

It doesn't help that I've repeatedly heard people say that nobody knows what I do, and that I can go an entire week without anyone in the building talking to me. (The rest of the computer folk are in other buildings, and we do communicate by e-mail.)

All I can tell you is learn what you can. Do your best. Save your paychecks. If they do decide to jettison you eventually, you'll need the cushion.
Why did I got -4 points for my comment? haha
Walmart's strategy to solve the Amazon puzzle is working
why should I give them my data?
But you're probably not their target audience. If you're charging $1200/year for basic service, the last thing you want is would-be users who try the service unassisted on a self-service basis, fail to use it properly, and decide that no, it's actually not their thing. As a sales manager, what you want instead is to get these users to interact with an account manager and make damn sure they succeed when they decide to try.
Much of what I do is vectorized, so the more fma units and the side wider, the faster. So avx512 > avx2 with two 256 bit units > avx2 with two 128 bit units.

But my work (statistics) seems poorly represented in benchmarks and the community at large. Ryzen is in the later group, and gets rave reviews.

While most press I've seen talking about avx512 has been negative.
Yet I get a lot more flops out of the 10-core i9 7900x than the similarly priced 16-core Threadripper 1950x in simulations.

A big part of that is probably doing most of my work in Julia, where because the code you run is compiled locally the first time a function/argument type combination is called (a) code will be generated for all your CPU's features, and (b) it is easy to encourage aggressive optimizations to vectorized code by the compiler, eg by parameterizing arrays by their bounds.

R benchmarks will not see benefits at all, as much of R's math libraries are terribly unoptimized -- the default BLAS doesn't even use any runtime dispatch! (Thankfully it's easy to change, but the benchmarks all reflect that reality -- and most people's personal experiences too).

Similar likely applies to many NumPy benchmarks, but depending on the distributor of those binaries, the situation likely isn't better. Either generic unoptimized binaries, or shipping with something like Intel MKL which, while the fastest linear algebra library for Intel processors, dispatches to slow code paths for AMD processors -- a very unfair choice for benchmarking. I'm less less familiar with NumPy though, so perhaps there's a booth fair and well optimized distribution.

I fear the future will move against my use cases.
I wonder if you could solve the fab issue with some sort of xray based checksum that is reproducible by third parties (maybe universities?)
That's sad news. It was only yesterday!
In all the truly multithreaded benchmarks the Ryzen and ThreadRipper chips really punch above their weight (price).
I mostly agree with the article except the part where the author plays down the architectural considerations during project inception.

> Right now it’s just me working on the project, and you can be sure I just cracked open my code editor and started writing code on day 1.

It's definitely fun to start with writing code, but in my view it may be more efficient to pause for a moment, understand the problem and find the right solution for it. Then start writing PoC code, which can be refactored at a later stage. That's just pragmatism - lots of code will go to the bin anyway, but at least we give ourselves a chance to have a longer and happier run with it before that happens.
Here’s a story of how the most user friendly crypto tax assistant was started
This is really great. I see a lot of potential in this. I'm sure it has taken a lot of your time. I'll definitely try it. Thx
None of which were branded Docker(TM) - https://www.docker.com/legal/trademark-guidelines

Don't get me wrong, sure it has its uses, but to pretend that Docker(TM) is just as big a leap (or as essential) as any of those things is laughable.
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Most turn-based bots are in some way derived from minimax— you peer down the road looking at the space of possible moves and evaluate them based on an assumption that your opponent will respond with the strongest possible move available to them, so each move you can make now is only as good as the game state after the opponent's response, recursively.

I think basically as you're building up this tree you'd add annotations at each branch/ply which call out things the human user (opponent) could do that strengthen or weaken the position. Then as the human performs their actions, the tree is pruned/rebuilt accordingly.
I have migraines every once in a long while where I lose the ability to read. I can sound out words and recognize them but can't grok the meanings of the simplest sentences. Every thing else is fine. I can speak and reason perfectly. Just not read. It is the weirdest thing I've ever experienced. I definitely have more compassion for illiterate people making their way in life.
So would you recommend the QSX as a good way for a beginner to get to explore all the different bands/modes? Do you think this is a good replacement to - say - a hackRF? Or is the hackRF better for specific use cases like debugging because it has wide bandwidth?
The free forever on premise pricing for personal use to the 90-trial in production even in commercial use.
And I thought the free threshold for the cloud reasonable as I can forgo all the setup work and just use the cloud isntance for free if my usage falls under the right level. Anything that saves me time but then doesn’t cost me anything while learning it / trying it out is a win in my book.
Reminds me of the heavy bertations news caster. She knew what she was trying to say but it was coming out as jibberish and the scary thing is that her brain still recognized the fact that she wasn’t making sense. One of those things that scares me.
I'm curious about the amount of memory as well as the drive performance... if you went from 8GB on an HDD to 16+ with an SSD or NVME, huge difference.
it sticks out - magsafe was flush
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Because tyranny of the minority is much better...
I would suggest Scalyr if you are looking for paid product. Their product is amazing. We also use our own hosted version of graylog which is opensource. But with Scalyr you can customize a lot of stuff, set up custom alerts etc.
This is false. There's plenty we know about nutrition. Special interest groups introduce doubt
If you're running anything CPU-intensive these days, you are definitely going to use those AVX cores.

Video Editing, Video Games, Graphics, 3d Modeling, Photoshop. Even Stockfish Chess uses new instructions (not SIMD: but the Bit-board popcnt and pext / pdep instructions) to accelerate chess computations.

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.

"Standard Software" isn't written to be very fast. But anything that's even close to CPU-bound is being upgraded to use more and more SIMD instructions.
We love google forms and it's convenient because we use google apps for edu, but the problem we have is that google forms won't let us show students their specific information, and it won't let us filter the options we give students for courses based on rules.

Google forms is great for collecting the same information from everyone, but I'm really hunting for a way that we can collect student reactions to information we have about them so that we can catch errors and get student-specific preferences
Ask HN: Do instacart delivery boys make $50/hr?
I just had a guy deliver $150 worth stuff in Sunnyvale, Californa. He is a college kid and said he makes $250 per 4 hours. Thats over $60/hr. Is this normal? How can instacart make profit at these rates?
> Sometimes I’m just amazed that people haven’t risen up in bloody revolt yet.

The political class just divides us and keeps us fighting over non-issues.

We're like crabs in a bucket, fighting with
each other on the way to the pot of boiling water.
Any archival library is free to save a copy of newspaper articles. Throughout history the standard method of reading an old newspaper edition was to go to a library, not ask the newspaper for a copy. This doesn't need to change.
Ok. Is your model applicable to speech recognition also?
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If you actually want insurance, then that is exactly the right way to phrase it.

The purpose of insurance is to provide me a way to pay for disasters that I otherwise could not afford. To that end I make payments that, on average, leave me poorer. But since I can afford the payments and can't afford the disaster, it leaves my expected quality of life better off by reducing the variance in my expected outcomes.

When I am paying a premium to pay for normal things that I can actually afford, that is not serving as insurance. It is now just a bad deal for me, pay extra for a middleman that I have no reason to want.

I may not want that middleman, but health care insurance companies want to be one. They therefore want me to pay a premium to them for things that I could have afforded, and not cover things that I couldn't afford. To that end they work to construct deals with employers+government so that employees don't have a viable alternative to entering this deal no matter what my opinion is.

This would give them a large amount of business with a guaranteed profit margin. And leaves me uninsured exactly when I would have wanted to be insured. I understand exactly why they want to be in that line of business. But none of the rest of us should support that.

Incidentally, while we are at it, the ACA has a really bad perverse incentive. As you say, 80% of premiums have to go to medical care. Which means that if health care providers charge more, then "insurance" companies are allowed to profit more.

Now look at this from the point of the insurance company's CEOs. As long as they can predict the growth in medical expenses, growing medical expenses are good for their bottom line. Where then the incentive for cost savings?

Better yet, if they know that some of those medical expenses are fraudulent and can readily expose it, they can always keep their predictions of expenses in line with the reality by exposing just enough fraud to make their predictions accurate. This is an incentive to turn a temporary blind eye to fraud.

And so the ongoing explosion of medical expenses is good for insurance companies.
Global communication in amateur radio was previously only been possible using high power transmissions (which requires a full license).

FT8 makes global communication achievable for beginner amateur radio folk.

Some amateur radio practitioners think if you want global communications without learning radio theory, use your ISP or SIM provider.
If you are an active server attacker, you can simply disable hashing and store passwords in clear. With SRP you cannot.
https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/ob...
Gave up trying to say NO to gdpr cookies after 3 pages in.
> traditionally when you meet someone you need to ask how the person is, how his/her family are and whether or not the rains have been good (rains are an indicator for the size of the harvest nevermind that we buy most of our food now). Some people go through all the family member, how is your dad, how is your mother, how is your daughter is she enjoying school, where is your brother now, how are his kids, has the last born started grade school ... After all these greetings only then can you get to your business. I swear this is the reason Africa as a whole got left behind in terms of technological development.

I would be interested to know what standard Japanese practice is. In my mind (informed only by stereotype) they'd lean toward the ask-about-the-family end of the spectrum too.
The OP article explains the concept of "expungement"
The Clinton administration and CIA tried to deny the China-Boeing technology transfer incident. But others in the CIA were concerned, raised the issue and were later proven right.

I asked people in the CIA about the Bloomberg story and their response seemed to indicate that the story is real.

There’s immense pressure to deny this story for several reasons.
So strange to see so many people celebrating 1984 style censorship.

What the hell is "right to be forgotten". That isn't a right.

Media gets to be less and less reliable and less truthful.

If people want to be "forgotten", let them change their name/identity.