skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because healthcare requires resources and resources are inherently finite, rationing is inevitable. This means there have to be policy decisions. If you want to, you can label the policy decisions over rationing "death panels", or you can say it's just "market forces" or "God's will" or whatever turn of phrase suits your pre-existing position. Obamacare as originally designed would have such a policy setting panel, now it does not so you're at the mercy of whatever for-profit insurance companies decide.

In terms of the specifics, the UK has an public body named NICE that makes decisions about how to spend limited resources in the NHS, it uses a model called Quality Adjusted Life Years, in which it tries to spend no more than a certain amount of money to buy people healthcare that will improve the amount of "quality adjusted" life they get, where e.g. "Give blind toddler normal vision" would be a big boost of quality even though it doesn't actually increase their lifespan, whereas often cancer treatments have a headline boost to lifespan but quietly admit you spend the extra time crippled by pain or other health problems the treatment does not fix or even exacerbates, so NICE would discount those extra months accordingly.

But NICE does not directly mandate patient care, they're like the legislature making a sentence guideline, not the judge passing sentence on a specific criminal. NICE provides guidance, individual doctors can override that guidance, although where it's very expensive they may need clearance from somebody controlling the purse strings. For example NICE guidance might say Drug A is recommended because although Drug B has slightly better outcomes in most respects, Drug B causes incontinence in most patients and the loss of dignity from being incontinent makes for poor quality of life. Your doctor sees you're incontinent anyway for other reasons, figures you may as well have Drug B and suggests you have Drug B. They're the one signing a prescription, not NICE.
Drivel, suggesting all men are slobs, and male professions are all just fun and games. Here is some free one minute self help advice: if your partner is a slob, you can split up. If you being with him feels like "labor" to you, you probably should.
Scientists may now know how to kill cancer cells without chemotherapy
It also requires a shift in focus away from prioritising cars to prioritising pedestrians and cyclists. In the Netherlands, you can be sure that every town planner owns a bicycle and commutes on it frequently. I live in Ireland. I've met regional town planners here. None of them own a bicycle.

Traffic planners here call the traffic state when pedestrians are crossing the road "dead time".
Maybe not exactly something you can do right now, but my invention of molecular cryptography will allow genomes to be sequenced without revealing identity or health information. You are somewhat close with [3]

geneinfosec.com

Also note that DNA is readily identifiable, so misidentifying yourself does not work.
While I'm terrified by the system, I do remember watching a BBC (I think?) report on this. There was a young Chinese woman there, who felt safer.

This made me think - what would women - and women, not the young men (me being one) choose when given a choice of the social credit system or being able to walk around the city safe(r)?

Quite general question, yet I do believe they would choose the latter; and I wouldn't blame them.
Not sure you can compare the mess that Greece currently is with the prosperity of living in China (with the drawback of surrendering your privacy).
It gets dumped on bur the US Veterans Affars system works much better than the rest of the US heathcare system. Vastly lower costs relative to the patient population, heathcare choices based around patient needs not their insurance companies. Doctors are both more efficient and less stressed. It even has vastly less paperwork.

Occasionally people look into replacing it with something else, but it never goes anywhere because it just works even in the US.
>Based on public court records.

Which to this day aren't in some central database. Many states have counties where court records aren't even available online, that's a hell of a lot different than a centralized service that compiles, ranks and sells this information.

It's in a credit reporting agency's best interest to find every last scrap of financial information about you so they can sell it. They don't care so much about accuracy, they just care about growing that file so they have more to sell.

There's countless instances of people having their credit reports merged with others, containing erroneous information that pertains to a parent or child if they are Bob Smith I, Bob Smith II, Bob Smith III etc, then of course you are asked for your SSN for jobs/taxes/rental applications/in many cases it is on your driver's license which is handed over to numerous people for numerous reasons making it incredibly easy for someone to steal your identity and racking up debt, that they do not pay, on YOUR credit files which can take you years to get removed, all the while being on a centralized purchasable document that is intended to say how trustworthy you are as a person...
There's also his "The Search for the Perfect Door" talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYvBLAF4T8
That's not a valid excuse for a totalitarian, unfair system.

Because these systems have all been torn down by some kind of civil war - there is no other way, because of the nature of power and the structures it uses.
If you like Atom, there is https://atom.io/packages/latex-completions
> China is unique in that it's been all about oppressing and abusing the population as heavily as possible, without pause, ever since the first emperors gave the country its foreign name.

This is such complete nonsense. I think it's hilarious how totally and completely misguided about China that Westerners, and Americans in particular, actually are. It boggles the belief just how much complete nonsense is spouted here on reddit and in the Western press. This is the very essence of people being disconnected from reality and constructing a new reality in accordance with their ideology.

Reality check: go to China and actually talk to the Chinese themselves. Radical idea! Social credit is extremely popular in China [1]. The social credit system is also not new. Anybody who understands how Chinese society has always worked would understand that this is the application of new technology to ideas that are nearly three thousand years old.

Anyways resume your ideological freak-out.

[1] https://www.merics.org/en/blog/chinas-social-credit-systems-...
> the military healthcare system is the ideal system you're advocating for ...

Hmmm, it sounds more like a terrible implementation, whereas some of the other implementations are generally decent?
It may not matter to the US, it may not matter much to the victims of those weapons, but it matters for citizens of those countries not selling weapons. Though "freezing" them doesn't say much if you then increase the volume afterwards for a while, but generally speaking, not taking part in something bad is a good in and of itself.
‘One thing is certain’ – and other obstructions to information
Advertising agencies have long been outsourcing work to Canadian companies. The ad/media/comms industry is highly consolidated, where a few large companies own a bunch of small agencies and move projects around. The motivation is what you'd expect; lower costs, but same time zone, English-speaking, familiar org culture.

Surprised there hasn't been more of it in the tech space as yet. I keep hearing that the future of software dev is microservices, so if that allows for more remote work where teams don't have to collaborate as closely, I could see growth in development outsourcing.
Think about how great this will be in the US. Finally, we can tag people who think incorrectly. They can be given low scores. All those people in fly overstates can just remain there. Hopefully the thought of a 72 hour car ride to a civilized city will give them pause when promoting fake news like Bernie's plan for universal healthcare is bad. It will be a wonderful day for the country when we can correct their wrong-thoughts.
I'm seriously considering asking my employer for a Mac mini next. My iMac is rather old now (2011) and I need an upgrade anyway.

I also have a MacBook Pro 2015. I'm doing lots of Java/JVM languages development including Android from time to time and using Parallels for VMs. The MBPro feels considerable slower to work with than the 2011 iMac.

The big plus of a mini is that, just like you describe it, I can put it in the backpack and bring it with me pretty much anywhere and plug it in. I do travel and work remotely from time to time, so this would be of a benefit to me. Right now I have to always keep my iMac and MBPro in sync and that costs time.
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the author complains that the mac mini has no power brick - why not just have a power brick? he says. but he complains that an external GPU is a dumb idea?

this guy didn't like apple and his review simply reflects his emotion, nothing more.
Top 3 are NYC, LA, and CHI by any measure. Not sure why SF was even mentioned, it doesn’t even place.
Hey lightedman, just wanted to make sure you know you are shadowbanned and have been for years. I can see your comments because I have "showdead" turned on but most people can't.
I think this should be fairly obvious, but if you’re extremely concerned about American intelligence and law enforcement having access to your data, you should avoid American services and products. If you’re concerned about Chinese intelligence and law enforcement, you should avoid Chinese products, etc.

Interestingly, I think this would often mean that Americans who are engaged in illicit activity would probably be better off using Chinese services and vice versa.
I'm struggling what to get, I largely need a Mac just to test Safari against web-sites I develop, and while you can do that on an iPad, the lack of a real browser development console makes tracking down JS bugs a nightmare (and, yes, I've seen the hacky iFrame websites that "add" a developer console to iPad, it isn't good enough).

So that leaves me with a Mac Mini, Macbook, Macbook Air, or one of those services which claims they can do virtual Safari testing (but I'm unclear how that would work on localhost/internal sites). Is there any real advantage to the Mac Mini aside from slightly more power and ports? For the same money a Macbook/Air comes with its own screen, keyboard, and mouse.
Hey! A few links to kick this off:

PS Community – Biggest Slack community for Product Managers
https://productschool.typeform.com/to/yF0A6t

Massive list of online resources for aspiring Product Managers:

https://www.productschool.com/blog/how-to-become-2/massive-l...

https://www.facebook.com/pg/productschool/community/
Mores do change, people do evolve (I know that's not the PC term to use, but that's the reality of it), there's no reason to allow ourselves to allow the Government or any other Government-like entity to dictate our lives only because some centuries (or decades ago) there was a deadly civil war going on. Just think about the English and John Locke, who wrote his "Second Treatise of Government" just a few decades after the English king had been decapitated as the result of a civil war. Without people like Locke the world would have been a worst place now and we wouldn't probably have this conversation at all.
Parts of it are already in place. You can listen to this Planet Money episode #871 from last month where they interview a guy that has his mug displayed on a billboard and people hear a warning message when they call his phone, because he couldn't repay a loan.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/10/26/661163105/epis...
> supplies would be substantially cheaper if they didn’t have insurance at all.

Imaging is another area with altered pricing and lessons to be learned. I had a lumbar MRI at an imaging standalone and asked about cash pricing. The procedure costs $295 when paid in cash or $395 if paid in cash and counted against my high deductible insurance policy.
A very good point. It was hard to know what Yahoo was (or is). In the beginning, remember, they weren't a search engine. They were a curated directory of the Internet. In fact, it was hard for me to realize when they dumped that entirely and switched to a real search engine--despite the fact that I was in this business: I worked for Infoseek!
Tracking... seems to be everywhere. Yesterday, I discovered that the head of fund raising of a group in my city gets an email whenever a donor's concert ticket is scanned at the door. Presumably this is one of the "compelling" features that the ticket-company offers its clients. (It may be Ticketmaster, but I am not sure). I have asked the group to send me their privacy policy. Maybe someone here can confirm that online ticket companies routinely offer such a feature.
China: judge, jury, executioner?
I can't believe people keep equating these two systems. While there are similarities, one is a financial rating and the other is a social rating. The credit system has a lot of issues but it just does what it says on the tin, measuring the same credit card metrics, and had been around for a while without much change. The social rating system seeps into every aspect of a person's life and had no limits for expansion. It's a tool ripe for abuse and political control.

Think of all the gamification bullshit we've dealt with, and realize that it's now going to be deployed on a massive scale to shape the behaviors, incentives, and punishments of the whole populace, wielded by a government known to persecute subsets of it.

And I'm sure it's going to be used for some good. There will be a lot of good results that's come of it, and that will be its selling point. But it undoubtedly will also be used to suppress specific ideas and people. It will be a massively effective too for that. Think of the coded racism used in the Southern Strategy in US politics as explained by Lee Atwater. By abstracting away everything and converting it to whatever statistics you want, you have total plausible deniability over any targeted oppression you want.
Greece Is Scrambling to Save Its Banks
Just imagine if the National Socialist party in Germany would have had this in the 1930-40s. They could have been even more “efficient” in taking out the various groups of people they found to be of “low social value”.

For everyone but those who believe in powerful centralized governments this is a nightmare scenario.
Put the mouse pad at the top of the keyboard, not under your hands. For most people you only need a 1"x2" pad. Maybe have two for lefties. It makes more ergonomic sense. If you need more than that, you're probably better off with an external mouse.
Apparently HN worships technology more so than it values the human condition.

A 1.3 billion people totalitarian """experiment""" (which already negatively impacts millions) is not a problem because "inevitable" or "interesting to observe".

Authoritarianism still has many bright days ahead with such people.
[2] wont work on a whole genome because of the many differences present between mammals after millions of years of evolution. The "alignment" of a small sequence may be confused between human and mouse, but not longer sequences and definitely not whole genomes (alignment using a tool like BLAST or BLAT).

I wrote a summary of genetic information discussing this very idea. See the PDF under "What is Genetic Info?", read the Phylogenetics section:

https://www.geneinfosec.com/more-info/
YouTube CEO Says That Videos May Be Blocked Due to EU Copyright Law
Microservices – Managing the flow of data
The first version had a power brick that was half the size of the mini itself. It was a dumb idea.
I both agree with the general sentiment of this piece and the backlash in the comments against its overly optimistic view. My gut sense as a newcomer to Toronto is that the _trajectory_ looks amazing, but there's simply no doubt that any comparison to the tech super clusters like Bay Area and NYC is totally disingenuous right now.

I'd love to get some advice from fellow tech migrants like myself that have moved from one of those places (NYC in my case) to a less vibrant but still honestly quite exciting environment like Toronto. Accepting a giant pay cut while still tying myself to a corporate 9-5 here is a depressing thought, and I'm not yet convinced that I feel right simply working remotely for US based companies, even if compensation opportunity is on average 1.5-2x better. Has anyone found a good balance between those worlds? Something that gives back to the local tech ecosystem but also taps in to the the better market potential to the south? I suppose building a business here and selling to the US, but trying to stay headquartered in Toronto is one way to do that, but any other thoughts?
author here. AMA.

since I wrote this, i started experimenting with grab-site:

https://github.com/ludios/grab-site

it's a wrapper around (and a fork of) wpull but the main advantage over it is it can do on-the-fly reconfiguration of delay, concurrency, ignore patterns and so on. it also provides a nice web interface. if you're only crawling one site every once in a while, wpull and crawl are fine, but for larger projects, grab-site is a must.
The article failed to mention enough titles and authors by name, that would have atleast helped the modern reader to try some of them.
My front-end dev colleague used to tell me to use a "proper" browser (i.e. Chrome) because I favoured Safari and even with DevTools. I said it gives me more battery life on a MacBook!
A Mac Mini G4 was my first Mac ever, back in 2005...I used to drag it to and from school every day with no issue.

To be fair, Apple's hardware seemed a lot more solid back then.
Experience how parts of it works currently in the US is very far from knowing what is possible.
DHS wants to use credit scores to determine who gets to be a legal U.S. resident
The Mac mini battery life might be considerably lower than the MacBook Pro ;)
For you, it must be annoying that Apple killed Safari for Windows, but I always wondered why they did that to start.
Hilarious. I wasn't even done with the comment and it's already being rapidly downvoted. The total lack of intellectual integrity on HN is a sight to behold. It's really funny to watch the advocates of free speech and discussion rapidly downvote anything that contradicts their ideology.
I find amazon.com functional in a lot of ways, but it's definitely ugly and inconsistent and sometimes quite difficult to use. That aside though can you imagine if they did a significant reskin? Better or worse they would get torn to shreds. I bet that's at least a factor in what they decide to do.
> Politics is just for kicks, because I know most of it is filtered and slanted by its organization. Seems it takes a day or 2 before we get the real truth to anything. The facts are normally too skewed and biased on release.

I'm totally agree with you. Most of the actual news articles are looking to create some "buzz". I rather prefer waiting few days and read complete article well structured that exposes the facts.
Yes, millions of people do every single day in London and other cities across the UK.

Not sure where you're going? Citymapper will route across both tube and bus, it'll even tell you exactly when you get off.

You pay using a contactless card, apple pay or similar, it works.
> you need to look at the local conditions and please don't generalise

Presumably, since the context is US healthcare, maybe the commenter meant "governments" inside the US. At the least, it's not worth assuming they meant every government everywhere for all time given the context. Please don't generalize.

> Maybe a positive attitude that government (which is after all, us) can be a force of good would be a good start.

Amusing that such a general statement about government follows a statement about not making general statements about government. Experiences and governments vary wildly. Benefits of support/trust attitudes versus the opposite also vary wildly with differing levels of success.
It’s sad, because it sure seems like the Iranians would make far better allies for us.
Wow, the now version of Aether looks nice! I remember trying your project 3/4 years ago? I'll re-try Aether when I get home.
Just to be clear are you unhappy with active duty medical service provided by active service members to other active service members? Tri-Care? VA? It sounds like the first
I'm curious about logistics in general. If the US rebuild its train system, by expanding it, would it make more economic sense to have production centered here? Could the US transport clothing from say, Indianapolis, to EU member states more efficiently, cleanly than China's proposed rail/road system?
That's what I believe, too. If Yahoo had acquired Netflix, or Facebook, they wouldn't have succeeded either.
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You need to realize that you, and your peers at Vector, are the exception, not the rule. I'ver heard Uber ATG is headhunting people with $500K/year salaries, right after PhD graduation.

Toronto's tech scene is not limited to that narrow and elitist scope of workers.
My commute in Van was 20 minutes with an apartment. But yes, it would be worse if it was home buying.
> "and the admitted student who was erroneously denied his place at a university due to his father’s failure to pay back a bank loan."

It seems like you can strike "erroneously" from that sentence, since the source it cites doesn't imply it was a mistake at all.

Collective punishment is worth criticizing.

As per usual, when implementing some Orwellian scheme, there will be a crowd that states there's nothing to worry about, and that people are over-reacting, and that it's really not so bad after all.

I wonder what the social credit score of Chinese dissidents will look like.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-affects-...
Considering that Airbnb is generally competing with hotels, which expect nothing of their guests, I tend to approach Airbnb with a similar mentality in regards to cleanliness, granted some of my stays were truly amazing homes where I took extra care to clean up after myself. But I'm far from being a slob and I actually really like doing dishes. It's mostly a matter of principle - why should I pay a cleaning fee and have to clean? This can be particularly frustrating when staying only 1-2 nights where the cleaning fee can be as high as renting for just 1 night.
Maybe it depends on what you're working on. I often have to try multiple things to see what's working. During that process I slowly stage things that are already working and then move on to the next part. Before the final commit I often discard things that I changed but didn't turn out to be necessary.

Maybe there are other ways to do this but for me it's the perfect workflow.
You are essentially saying "The US public healthcare system for the military (or veterans?) is terrible". I'm sure most people are more than willing to accept your experience in this.

However, the jump from that to asserting that it's the "public" part of that statement that leads to the "terrible" part is a huge one, and frankly not in evidence.
The Elixir community really is much more active. As an elixir programmer, I quite enjoy it.