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Alternative explanation: the quality of care has been declining, for instance because of the ridiculously higher administrative spending in healthcare.

And the thing about painkillers is that they "fix" (to the patients' satisfaction) a hell of a lot of problems ... while bringing in extra money for the doctor and hospital. Any incompetent doctor, or just one that doesn't get the time to diagnose (administrators need to be paid, and that's justified by "productivity" of doctors. Productivity mostly means faster diagnoses. One very effective way to do that, of course, is just to make incomplete diagnoses)

Secondly giving a painkiller is almost never a stupidly wrong decision (unlike taking out a kidney that then in a biopsy turns out to be fully healthy, regardless of how many symptoms matched). So it's ALSO low risk ! And I assure you, there are no words in the universe that cause administrators to drool half as much as the words "low risk".

Didn't we want market-based medicine ? Well, this is one instance where the market based choice is blatantly obvious.

Secondly I fear like now we're seeing the opposite reaction: people are acting against patients that have chronic pain and would not be able to function without constant painkillers. These patients will go back to self-medication (ie. alcohol and/or cocaine, both "decent" painkillers) like people did 50 years ago. It is not a good evolution to replace morphine with alcohol or cocaine.
I don't know, ask the cyclists. I'm not their advocate lol.
> A lot of these implementations have clear merit in the sense that they are faster, safer to use, easier to scale, maintain, etc.

Depends on who you ask. Hipp on Rust in 2016:

Rewriting SQLite in Rust, or some other trendy “safe” language, would not help. In fact it might hurt.

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1292#comment-18452

> drivers written in Rust

If you have to write inline assembly, and generally bypass Rust's security features and use "unsafe" code, why wouldn't you just use C?
Astronomers see material orbiting a black hole *right* at the edge of forever
An uncorrected out of trim condition can be quickly fatal. On the light planes (piston and jet) I fly the arm force required to overcome an out of trim condition is considerable even for a modest amount out of trim. A failure of the electric trim control is a highly acute emergency and you should know at least two ways of immediately killing that system.
Ask HN: Not looking to change job, 2 potential opportunities, how to leverage?
I'm currently happy with my current position in an engineering role. I've got great working conditions and still motivated by my day-to-day tasks. The future also looks bright for the company.

I'm however getting e-mails from past colleagues (in 2 different companies) to talk about opportunities. I think these could easily work if I wanted to go through the process. I was wondering what would be the best way to leverage these to improve my current conditions e.g. compensation?

Thank you!
> I think this is language thing and not a real disagreement between you and Wikipedia's policy.

Yes, in wikipedia speak, I mean wikipedia want you to site a secondary sourc,e and not wikipedia itself (which is considered a tertiary one).

> citing wikipedia transitively cites multiple usually high quality sources

Sometimes. Other times it transitively cites nothing.
OR being mutually exclusive is pretty typical in the english language, for better or worse.
Sure, but as long as it's up there, might as well use it in every way possible.
I hate to break it to you, but you aren't exactly playing this game from a position of power. If an accident occurs, you will be the one seriously injured or worse.
It used to happen a lot in LA as well, until they started building out bike lanes and ticketing cyclists for traffic violations like running red lights. It still happens, but way less now than it used.

That, and a lot of the more reckless cyclists ended up donating their organs...
I don't know about the sidewalk network being lacking in Raleigh although I admittedly tend to stay within a fairly small area. Many of the sidewalks are wide and don't have a huge amount of foot traffic. The roads tend not to be too congested either in the city core.

That said, I think it took about 4 hours from my arrival a few weeks back to nearly being run down from behind on one of the streets with a narrower sidewalk. A lot of riders definitely weave around people and generally expect walkers to get out of their way.

On the plus side there weren't a lot of parked e-scooters blocking sidewalks but there were some and I saw even more in Atlanta this past week. Not enough to be a meaningful problem for pedestrians but certainly for anyone in a wheelchair or mobility scooter.
Well, pragmatically, it only takes 2 folks with radios.

Historically, there is a whole lot of prescident for it's functionality.

By all means, though, having water and store-able food is an excellent thing to do regardless.

Just anecdotally, having a radio and knowing how to use it is way higher on my list of personal prep than owning a firearm and knowing how to use it.
Rebutting Donald's lie implicit in using the word "invasion" doesn't make what Jim Acosta asked a political opinion.

It's not an invasion, and that's not a matter of politics, that's a statement of fact.

As an analogy, if Donald said that the sky is green, that's not a matter of politics, that's a lie. Calling him out on it doesn't turn the color of the sky into a matter of politics.

This is also at the heart of the argument that journalists aren't and shouldn't be stenographers -- if there's a lie out there, the people with the platform should be calling it one, not just reporting that it is merely a statement someone has made.
I'm pretty ambivalent about the RAM thing. The CPUs they're using don't support more than 16GB of RAM, anyway, and I'd guess that nobody who both cares and has the tech knowledge to be likely to upgrade RAM is going to be buying the 8GB model in the first place. For me, the deeper problem there is, why should I be feeling anguish about being able to upgrade them memory in a (non desktop replacement) latpop in the first place?

20 years ago, when we were collectively trying to squeeze more and more out of personal computers at a fairly decent clip, it made some sense. At this point, though, things have tapered off outside of a few special cases like large-scale data crunching and serious gaming, neither of which was ever really a primary use case for Macs in the first place.

What's left for reasons why you might need ever more RAM are things that feel kind of silly. On my personal computer, the big RAM suckers in recent memory have been ad-heavy news websites and (bafflingly) the Slack desktop app. In both cases, I'm pretty sure the reason why they get away with sucking more and more RAM is that we're rolling over and buying more RAM instead of putting some more pressure on software developers about being wasteful.

I rather wish Grace Hopper were still around to give a memory consumption version of her "nanoseconds" lecture.
>> Presentation by the Joyent CTO btw, who hired a lot of the old Sun Solaris team.

> No, that's an example of someone not knowing the language very well.

I disagree. The sentence is clear and unambiguous as written. The subject of the first part of the sentence is the CTO himself. If the continuation of the sentence is intended to switch subjects, then it must be written so. For example, '... by the Joyent CTO, whose company ...', or '... by Joyent, who/which ...' thus 'who' refers to 'CTO'.
I'm inclined to be sympathetic to cyclists, however, I strongly disagree with you. When people get to choose which of the rules they get to follow, they always choose the rules that benefit themselves without regards to those of others.

Cyclists aren't only putting themselves at risk, they are putting others as well, as is the case with anyone operating a vehicle. A cyclist choosing to ignore traffic rules can indirectly cause someone who expected them to follow those rules to take an action that greatly amplifies the risk of that cyclists' own decisions.

The fact that cities are not designed well for traffic that is not traditional vehicular should not be an excuse for people to put themselves and others in greater danger.
These arent the same issue, though I agree we shouldnt take medication lightly for depression or pain but there still exists a massive industry specialized for american consumers to have these products pushed on them from all angles.
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An obituary for old Orange County, dead at age 129
> Anxiety can be an asset for a programming career.

I have to disagree here. "Being attuned to danger" is, that's an intellectual thing and is good. Anxiety is an emotional response which is unhealthy and affects behavior in negative ways -- e.g. not sleeping well due to worry, eating badly, etc., and those things will reduce your professional performance.
Sexual harassment training... what a joke
You can apply directly to the fuschia team, in my understanding. They put an email at the end of talks usually with where to apply.
Nothing wrong with curating good quality design work and posting it for others to see; I'll probably come back to check out more of the feed.

But why on earth is this listed on Product Hunt? This is a website with links to other people's content. A million sites with URLS like something.blogspot.com have done the exact same thing you have. What makes this a "product"?
I just want a tab like the S4 with that keyboard and mouse to ship with a proper linux distro, customized and optimized to it. Would buy it in a flash
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Labor is expensive. Even just standard non-upgrade repairs are extremely expensive for Apple products, if you don't have some type of warranty (extended or otherwise).
Base58 isn't a great choice from an implementation point of view.

It basically requires a bignum library (or a specialized version that can do divisions of arbitrary long numbers by 58), and conversion is slow as hell.

Either you end up pulling in a full bignum library, or you have to use error-prone, clunky specialized code you don't have time to try and understand and verify.

Of all the design choices Satoshi made, this is far from the best one.
It's been speculated that next year the MacBook won't have an Intel processor. Instead it'll have the A{n+1}x chip and my guess is that the Air will be the cheapest and smallest Mac with Intel still inside.
Just on the topic of energy, interestingly enough, Israel has an estimated 300 billion barrels of shale oil, or approximately the same reserves as Saudi Arabia. They haven't been able to get it out because of its proximity to the water table and environmental concerns prevent drilling. But if they can figure out this problem, they might emerge as a major oil exporter.
It mainly comes down to the software and algorithmic techniques. It's not something many people want to hear as there is a lot of money and effort placed on an alternative framing. If you believe it takes massive amount of hardware/compute, it favors the current billion dollar lucrative business of cloud computing at scale. If you are made to believe it takes 100s of top ranking PhDs because its so incredibly complex, you are more likely to value the groups pursuing it higher. If the techniques and white papers are all a convoluted mess of spaghetti, one becomes of the belief that this is an unworldly pursuit.

It is none of these things however. The hardware is already capable. The fundamental techniques that are popular and theories are the flawed. Essentially, you need to start over as Geoffrey Hinton said. Something no one wants to put effort into doing or fund.

So, indeed AGI is here today. It's just not within the frame of the populist efforts. An capable individual with the freedom of doing deep pondering and constructions w/o any outside influence is more likely to crack this puzzle than a room of PhDs all systemically subscribed to the same fundamentally flawed approach of Optimization algorithms.

As far as the compute goes, does anyone even truly spend the time to understand it anymore in this day and age of frameworks on frameworks? I mean truly understand it? And there lies to other fundamental problem. How can one make broad statements about the computational requirements of AGI when the most they know about the underlying hardware is an AWS config file?

Swaths of the industry have shut themselves out from ever developing AGI. Sadly, they're the groups w/ the most funding and backing because they represent the same flawed mainstream ideology as every other AI group.

It will be an outsider and the core theoretical approach is already resolved.
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Hello HN! I recently graduated and started at my first full-time job: a software engineer role at a large tech company. My goal is to become an effective contributor over the next few years, learn as much as I can, and maintain a good life-work balance.

However, the amount of information to take in is a bit daunting, and I'm not sure on what I should focus on (the tech stack, business, etc.). For example, what are some things I should absolutely do in the first week, month, quarter, year? Do you have any advice on what steps I can take to achieve my goals? I'd love to read it. Thanks!
Thanks — I hadn’t scrolled back far enough. Here’s the link for those interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407482
My main input streams are an RSS reader and Twitter, both on a dedicated device. The RSS reader has a "Read later" queue and I add articles to that. From Twitter I click the link to open a browser tab directly.

One of my last tasks every night is ruthlessly filtering the browser tabs and "Read later" entries. It's rare that I hold onto an article overnight.
Supercomputing revisits Einstein’s theory
How do you manage statistics in the system catalog in CockroachDB?
Can `Now` serve as the backend for latency sensitive endpoints? My main problem with AWS Lambda a couple few years ago was the latency.
In a dumb function, imagine a single K/V lookup, is * < 10ms response time a possibility?
This is where organized work forces (most commonly labor unions) show their worth. It's common practice that if you are represented by a labor union, the arbitrator (private judge) is mutually agreed upon by the union and corporation, which helps mitigate massive bias in either direction. Most US companies that mandate arbitration, the employees have zero voice in selecting the arbitrator.
White House shares doctored video to support punishment of journalist Jim Acosta
The keyboards seem to be very divisive. I know a lot of people who like them or don't mind them. I flat out cannot use them, and not for lack of trying.
VLC will likely play them fine outside a browser. No idea how one would get them to work inside.
This is why I call it "I Can't Believe It's Not Server!" instead.
A millionaire couple is threatening to create a magic mushroom monopoly
It's just a paraphrasing of the automobile-centric nature of American demographic perception. "Normal people" in America have cars, use the traffic lanes, drive everywhere, and you're a weird millennial fitness freak (or socialist NUMTOT) if you don't own an automobile. An E-scooter is more an automobile than a bike, and thus is for "normal people" rather than for cyclists.
Well, I'm sure that intent has an impact, but the question is one of magnitude. You can't exactly solve extremism by telling them all to stop being mad at the US because the missile that killed their families 'was just a miss whoops my bad'

I take issue with your stance that the burden of evidence lies with the 'let's not shoot missiles crowd', though. While we don't have specific evidence on the specific efficacy of individual drone strikes, I'd argue that the intelligence community's track record (or what's been declassified or widely known) does not inspire the greatest confidence in their ability to make nuanced, apolitical judgment.
You've obviously never worked in customer service...

I'm joking...well 1/2 joking anyway. (sigh)
Version 3.0 releasing soon (just need to write changelog, really) has file uploading support. Not sure what “public channels” are, but you can set channels to join and lock your Lounge instance to a network.
Sure, a cessna 152/172/182 or piper will universally mush then break somewhat cleanly but evenly downwards where as most aerobatic planes/taildraggers will try to enter a full spin if you look at them funny.
I'm more interested in how you can get into a high AOA, low airspeed condition without noticing something is off. As AOA increases, indicated airspeed decreases further so it seems like nobody was even bothered so much as to glance down at it for a split second during the lead up. Also, how did they allow themselves to get so much pitch or so little throttle that a full stall developed.

Edit: Re read and realized they never actually mentioned a stall, but rather they probably thought they were approaching one and just kept mashing the nose down trim switch because AOA was reading high so they probably over-sped the aircraft. I guess my point becomes: why does it seems like they were only flying off of AOA??

Edit Edit: The wording suggests it wasn't even the pilots making the input, the AOA sensor was making automatic inputs and the airplane probably over-sped and broke up (or someone freaked out and pulled up hard).
The naming is confusing. The new "air" should have really been called a "Macbook Max" or XL or whatever the current nomenclature is, because well, that's what it is. It uses the Y series CPU so I wouldn't expect the performance levels to be anywhere near as good as those on past-generation Airs when compared to their Pro brethren at the time.
I'd argue that Israel's current GDP is because of its high defense spending - rather than in spite of it.

Israeli companies use knowledge / leadership skills gained from working for IDF.
Certainly a bit overwrought
Dupe. Has been posted several times today.
At home you will be "dual stack". That means your operating system implements an entire IPv4 network stack and an entire IPv6 stack, it will see this site only has IPv4, and use IPv4. If your IPv4 access goes through a NAT, then it will use the NAT exactly as if you didn't have IPv6 at all.

(Yes, all IPv4 addresses can be represented as IPv6 addresses in a reserved zero prefix network, some network APIs just offer IPv6 and then treat IPv4 addresses this way for convenience, but we obviously don't route packets this way since those would be IPv6 packets, yet they're for an IPv4 destination which can't read them)

In some very large deployments they do v6-only. Everything internally is IPv6, when you connect to that IPv4 only site you'd actually connect to a company-provided gateway that speaks IPv6 on your side but IPv4 to the outside world.

If you're big enough this makes loads of sense - now you have this vast address space for everything, all your systems are simply configured for IPv6 only (not twice the configuration) and it pretty much just works. You buy some specialist appliances at the edge for that translation, but your users only have IPv6 stuff.
Also lots and lots and lots of subsidies by the US
Your first argument is about aggregate demand which is irrelevant. Home lighting uses a lot of power in aggregate but it’s very low per home.

Smelting issues a lot of power in a very small space resulting in a lot of heat, where computing it not getting anywhere close to that in terms of density, just in aggregate over giant data centers.
Per capita GDP doesn’t mean much for national programs, India has a very low per capita GDP compared to the west so does China.

Per capita Israel still has higher GDP than Portugal or Poland not to mention Russia.

With a GDP of $350 billion an an advanced aerospace industry they can easily have a bigger space program than they do now its only a question of if they need it and would want to pay for it.

Israel has a basic space launch vehicle and has experience in developing and manufacturing satellites and launching them if they could or wanted to spend a few billion dollars a year they could easily be on the same footing as India today if not further.
Impossible Foods Hints That Its Plant-Based Burgers Will Be in Stores Next Year
Finish your sprint goals and be a good team player and then learn stuff along the way — that’s all anyone can ask.
This is really cool.

I've been looking for such thing for a long time now.

If you have a corporate Job like consulting or something equivalent it's very likely you are packing an awful laptop with you everywhere you go, a DELL or a Lenovo or something like that.

DEX opens a door for next generation Mobile Desktop , where you SmartPhone is also your Desktop Computer.

I really hope Apple does something similar in this area , the new iPad can be connected to a screen, but the real deal would be using the iPhone with as a laptop...
Great article, and it sounds like it took a pretty big leap of faith to go from heuristics to cost-based optimization. If this was addressed in the article I apologize: do you only ever select transformations that yield equivalent results, with immediately lower cost, or do you also explore transformations that incur in immediate cost increase, but then later pay off? i.e. are you doing simple hill climbing, or something more interesting?
Are you describing a situation where government A is objectively better for its citizens but they want government B (which wants to supplant A and is objectively worse) more than A for some reason?

I'm not following how your second paragraph is connected to the question of governments protecting themselves at the expense of their citizens' well-being. It sounds like you're talking about the trolley problem, and tying that to some notion that we can halt 'progress'? What do you mean?
I had a 2012 model I just replaced with a new MacBook Pro for a variety of reasons. Mine only had 8gb of RAM. I replaced the battery once (very easy job) and it was hands down my favorite computer of all time. The laser thin bezel on the front is perfect for typing.

Happy with the new MacBook Pro (32gb of ram!) but part of me regrets not waiting a few weeks and grabbing the new Air.
Editing/deleting messages is a misfeature, and naturally IRC supports public channels, given that it invented them.
it depends on your market you are trying to enter.

Let's not forget that harmonizing these rules is one of the major points of the EU in the first place.
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