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In 2017, the median income of households in the US was 61'000 $.

Meaning half the population has to pay half their income (maximum) into this healthcare plan. And 61'000$ income isn't being dirt poor either. In some economic models this is the lower middle class in terms of income.

For people who only graduate high school and no college, this is 80% of their income. If they go to some college about 70% (14'000$ left of the income). This group makes up about 30 to 40% of the US population.

In my own country, I would pay 350€ a month for a 60'000€ yearly income. The equivalent of an ER visit copay for you and it covers all my medical needs for a month.
Isn't this similar to say, the mechanic who 'recommends' you do additional work not related to the reason you brought in your vehicle? Obviously that could be entirely legitimate, or not... To be cynical, it's the situation of anyone going to a specialist for a service - a dentist could just as easily 'recommend' procedures that aren't needed, for example.
In my experience, it's a combination of a couple of things. First off, the field is heavily regulated (in the US anyway) and the penalties for violating regulations like HIPAA are incredibly high. Second, the field is currently dominated by major players such as Epic, so its pretty important to be compatible with them, but they don't really have an incentive to open up their ecosystem since they have such a stranglehold on the market. Finally, a lot of medical folks have been burned by technology in the past, and, in my experience, often view a lot of the tech they have to use as an insurance and government mandated evil, rather than a way to make their lives better.

Not to say things can't be improved, but there are a lot of factors that make it more difficult than a traditional B2B or B2C product.
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> It pushes you “back” toward the Christian Church because it knows it can’t help you forever

AA very specifically does not push you off on some other organization for support, and very specifically does not see or bill itself as being unable to provide lifetime support.

It's designed as “you come, you stay, you evangelize”, not “you come, you get some value, you go back to some other support system”.
Hey, great link, thanks. I'd never heard of it before today.

From there I followed a link by the author of edbrowse, Karl Dahlke, called "Command Line Programs for the Blind" [1] which is a great read in general and a really good reminder that accessibility is so important.

[1] http://www.eklhad.net/philosophy.html
I strongly disagree with the hypothesis raised in the article.

First , most open source companies these days are Ventured Back ( Elastic , CockroachDB, MongoDB etc..) meaning the core of the issue isn't "AWS" not paying license fees or people creating tech on top of Open Source , it's VCs who want their money back times ten.

Companies like MongoDB/Elastic have raised hundred of millions and yet are still not profitable.

Who's fault is it ? Did the MongoDB community ever asked the company to go that way ? Did MongoDB presented a roadmap to the community saying that they would have to be "profitable by Month X" or they would change their licence to make more money ?

Nobody has forced those founders/companies hands to make their products open source nor to raise that much capital.

If the industry is turning that way it is essentially because those businesses have used Open Source as a mean to reach the widest possible audience in order to increase growth and show great metrics to VCs and investors to raise absolutely obscene amount of cash.

Vue.js and Laravel are two very well maintain and extremely profitable open source project.

Those projects did not asked for 150M$ in fundraising and then realized : "Ooops we won't meet our 100% YoY Growth to satisfy VCs promises".

If some companies are switching their licensing , it's mostly because they overestimated their technology value and can't show to investors the numbers they promised.

This isn't due the "AWS Problem" or because of a "wrong business model" with FOSS.
If by "open source business model" you mean a model that entails getting paid for production of open source software, directly, there are several.

Paid open source development happens all the time. If you pay me, I will release open source to do such-and-such.

Despite decades of continuous doomsaying, new dual licensing companies pop up all the time. If you use my open source to build closed, pay me for an exception to my copyleft license's terms.

Those are just the simplest and best known. There are others, as well as all manner of hybrids, explored and unexplored. My latest work theorizing approaches---modelling business models, so to speak---is here: https://blog.licensezero.com/2018/10/17/mapping-models.html My outline of "purebred" models begins here: https://blog.licensezero.com/2018/10/17/mapping-models.html#...

> Amazon and Google are not going to use your software, particularly your management software, “out of the box”, proprietary or no. They’re going to build their own management UX and UI, because they have their own particular requirements to serve their needs, and they’re going to build them using existing platform APIs.

Licenses like MongoDB's SSPL leverage exactly this fact to address their business concerns. Mongo knows the big cloud providers are going to do their own custom service rigging, and that they'll keep it closed and proprietary. SSPL gives permission to use Mongo to offer Mongo as a service, but requires open release of the service rigging.

I don't think companies writing and adopting these new licenses want to sell cloud providers proprietary licenses through their sales funnels. I think they'd rather stop cloud providers from offering their databases as services, full stop, or cut special deals with the cloud providers to resell their cores (Mongo) or popular add-ons (Redis, Elastic, ...).

> You’re not going to resolve your own business mistakes by reverse-engineering a licensing solution to what was essentially a business model problem.

Business model and license do not inhabit separate domains. They always intertwine.
>If the monorep contains let's say five different products and in a day only one of them gets a merge

Releases are done by each team. Look into blaze/bazel. It allows me to say "I depend on these sources only". So a day with only one change, you might only build and release the changed artifact (in practice this never happens).

Canarying:

More mature teams do a lot of complex stuff. Large teams may have multiple stages of canary, multiple canaries, feature experiments, etc.
Same thing's been happening to me; I watch videos from a successful person in a hobby I like. The content's good because he genuinely enjoys the area. However, recently there's been videos about gear and nutrition, and the product name and praise is a LITTLE too obvious for comfort. Though my initial reaction was 'wow those seem like great products, I should check them out'. There's a camaraderie and intimacy that's gathered when you watch someone's videos, and I feel like it's little different from product marketing of celebs though a little more subverted since it's newer and less regulated.
Many countries legally require hotels to record guest passports.
"Spam" is any sort of unwanted communications. Whether or not it is advertising anything is irrelevant.
> However, you cannot tell users that they can't use the (unsupported) open source bits for commercial purposes without paying you. Doing so would not be allowed under any approved open source license.

OSI approved open source that is. And you can tell users anything you want actually. What you can't do with OSI approved open source license is choose a license not approved by OSI, doesn't matter what it says.

But OSI approved open source is not true descriptive open source. SQLite, for example, is universally recognized open source, but not OSI approved. You can go this road and use a descriptive term and ignore OSI and its corporate backing.
> new devs

By the time you're no longer a "new dev," you're a "new dev" to the code you wrote when you started the job :) so it's a pretty universal need!
4. The systems that use the encrypted data are themselves vulnerabilities; if the attacker can collect the data through systems that can decrypt the data for them, then they may not even know that the data was encrypted. Attacks on these kinds of databases are often through services and not by just taking the database wholesale. Thus encryption is not really a robust protection against theft, it only protects against theft via discarded media and the like.
Unironically, it seems so. As disingeneous as it sounds. Pretty horrible people all around.
So I make decisions that will lead to a path of happiness, I look at my life through questions like "what do I want my life to be like in X years?".

I wanted to be a software developer so I've been studying CS formally for 2 years now and I'll be changing careers in either 12 or 24 months depending on some factors.

I put in more efforts to maintain a social network. I'm introverted and really enjoy time by myself but I realise that I'm actually happier when I spend time regularly with friends. The difference between solitude and alone is determined by if you want to be by yourself. I was enjoying solitude until I was diagnosed, then I suddenly felt alone.

I don't have anxiety anymore. This wasn't deliberate, I simply stopped worrying about things after the whole cancer scare. I'm alive and healthy, so even if things go bad then I'm still in a better spot than I could be.
Given how well known user+site@gmail.com is wouldn't many sites simply strip the +... part before selling the email data?
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Also called the Malkovich Bias.
I wonder if there is anything like a PWA store?
There is a lot of copying and pasting data from one system (i.e. lab results) into the other. This is probably rooted in distrust of the system and fear that the lab results will become unavailable combined with a healthy amount of "cover-your-ass" syndrome.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-ha...
Can you cite an instance of this?
We can look at their precautions or lack thereof and see if that constitutes negligence. But regardless of negligence, Marriot and Equifax were victims of criminals. Were the perpetrators ever identified and punished?

"Marriott currently has no incentive to spend money to do a good security audit."

I bet they've had good security audits.
The first of the four freedoms of the free software definition is the "freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)." This would include using the software for commercial purposes.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
The two pricipled ways I have heard for determining resource allocation are democracy and markets. Private philanthropy follows neither. As I alluded to above, there are certainly practical benifits of private philanthropy, as our democratic institutions are systematically bad at certain classes of problems.
This post raises a lot of good points about the futility of this new wave of split-restriction licenses, but misses fairly obvious one. Entrepreneurs think they want to have an "open source business model" because they have marketshare-scaling problem: they want their software distributed to a wide audience such that it gains usage and mindshare, but not wide enough where AWS is selling their work as a managed service at prices they couldn't by themselves.

And by and large, giving software away in a combination of gratis and libre maximizes the gains of mindshare and experience from both the curious amateur and the intrigued professional; the intellectual and societal implications may be different, but it gets used by the bulk of users in the same manner as shareware.

For many of these newer projects, the libre aspect isn't a heartfelt belief -- it's a sort of loss-leader strategy to enable access to a particular type of audience, and unlock a particular type of language for marketing. Handfuls of people may exercise their rights to fork and/or redistribute, but plenty of intrinsic barriers exist to keep these from being a competitive threat -- until a sufficiently equipped and dedicated party like AWS or Google Cloud, that is.

It's no surprise then, that some offerings are drifting more towards traditional shareware, where restrictions on use are the norm. In this space, we're seeing a conflict unfolding about the ideology and terminology used to describe such split offerings.
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In the US you're legally entitled to your medical records too but every time I've done it the response is always defensive, ie "why do you need them", "send me the doctors information and I'll fax it to them myself".
The ANN will have bias because it won’t have sprung into existence de novo, but will have been programmed and deployed by humans.
Mostly general curiosity on how the orgs are faring post incubator life. Thanks for the link, I'll check it out!
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How do these reviews and signatures get published? I'd love the ability to search by this extra metadata.
Indeed, "physiological" would mean developers die or suffer serious injury if they don't rewrite. Seems unlikely.
Anyone else have trouble scrolling that page? It's scrolling very slowly, and page-up/down don't work. Firefox 64/Linux
I used it for config update, don't really remember details or why I did not use sed. Also I think I used it once for OpenBSD recovery because that image did not contain any other editors.
or just greater consequences (fines, imprisonment) so even legitimate uses-cases (whistle blowers?) are scared to say anything.
I love dynamodb in theory. It's a great C* replacement for simple users who don't need some of C*'s features.

What I don't like about the auto scaling is it seems to be limited to either scaling reads or writes automatically. That seems short sighted. I don't understand the technical reasoning.
I really like Weather Undergrounds local stations. Being able to see that a location at the top of a hill in town is a couple degrees cooler or windier than one down the street has proven to be really useful when decided to bring a jacket or not. That said Dark Sky's UI is top notch and the data seems to be pretty solid as well.
I was working for a large multi-state HMO during their transition to a major EHR (I'll let you guess, since I do not speak for either). I have a background in IT and was a systems consultant for a number of years.

On paper, I could get a relatively uncomplicated chest pain case from the ER to the hospital unit with all the orders for workup ready in 45 minutes.

With the EHR, we had abominations like double medication reconciliation and poorly customized order sets that ballooned my average admit time to almost two hours. And I was among the fastest. (I should note I am told these issues have improved, but it took years.)

Given that there was so much other stuff to do now and that ordering had become a nightmare of lookups and checkboxes, physicians under time pressure are going to economize where they can. Where they do is in the documentation, which is not generally reviewed and won't by itself prevent the patient from getting where they're going.

Now move this to an outpatient office where patient loads have not lightened and it becomes magnified.

It's a point of pride that I don't copy-paste my notes, but I have the luxury of being mostly administrative these days and most of my patient contacts are in a hyperspecialized clinic where I can do things like prewrite most of the note even before I go in a room. But it's killing primary care and it's probably making things worse at the very point where it needs to be made better.
> According to research from the Chrome team at Google and others, people spend more time on mobile apps than they do on mobile websites. [...] 90% [of app time] is spent in a person’s five top apps.

To me this just sounds like people are drawing incorrect conclusions from the statistics? It doesn't seem like people spend more time on apps necessarily but that they download the apps for the things they use the most.

I imagine most people are less likely to try something if it's only available as an app. Having to download something just increases the barrier to entry like a very long page load.
Yes, but the important part was once RISC-V left the university. That's when its rise actually started for real.

https://community.cadence.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver...

So I agree, it takes 7 years. RISC-V is already in production in many places by now.
This EHR data problem is something I've pondered for a bit.

One "simple" solution is to have departmental standardization of note format with thoughtful inclusion of what fields are typically pertinent. This doesn't solve the problem of care transitions but it might help standardize review in a hospital context.

The other thing that I've been pondering is something resembling a formalized data structure and language for note taking. For example, diagnosis X based on Y Z. Other probabilistic diagnosis A ruled out because not B not C yes D. Reduce free form notes to be as sparse as possible. Also there should be a reference system to point back to other notes / lab values / imaging which when clicked will bring up that data. Finally, a timeline which charts pertinent diagnoses, lab values, and changes over encounters. I'm not sure how viable it would be given the complexity of notes that my physician colleagues have showed me / what I've seen in research, but I'm curious.
Thank you for your personal perspective and the pointer to Remote Imaging Protocol. When you say you ran a BBS on your PC - how did others access the content on your BBS? Would others have access to the content when you were no longer connected to the dialup line?
MAPS’ MDMA is also commercialised by a for profit company.

As far as I know, the company is independent and not the Mozilla approach (Mozilla Foundstion owns Mozilla corporation).
In the case of mobile banking, your smartphone acts as a second factor of authentication.
Older style UK banks require you to have a separate authentication card reader for authentication of transfers, and use the card reader to generate a code to input to the website.
Making it app only gets you the same security with more convenience and less cost.
Is your credit card debt costing you years of retirement?
I'm not a security export, so "encrypt everything" is simply a hand-wavy way to say "handle low hanging security holes". When you look at the cause of some of the large breaches in the past, many times they are very simple attack vectors and weak protections: phishing, passwords stored in plaintext, etc.

As engineers, we are awed when flaws like Rowhammer and Spectre are exposed, but the fact is that a lot more data is being exposed by very simple means. The fact that corporations are still being breached by these efforts is troubling. I think it shines a bad light on both corporate entities and security consultants.
I've always wanted to do something like this. Where would someone go about learning how? Would you need a background or are there other resources you could use to learn?
Tricky though, given that bacteria reproduce asexually[1]. However it might be possible to use horizontal gene transfer to do something similar.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria#Growth_and_reproducti...
4 decades ago, mate. 4 DECADES AGO. Relational replaced graph 4 decades ago because graph lacked all that functionality 4 decades ago. And that it took 4 decades for graph to merely level up (and mostly by mocking relational-ish behaviour at that) is only telling of how advanced relational has always been.

(And pls note carefully that I didn't say graph was obsoleted as a mathematical theory. What I did say was that graph was obsoleted as an appropriate mathematical theory * for underpinning doing data management with it *.)
Regardless of whether gambling or gambling advertisements are ethically acceptable: A "provably fair" system [1] ensures that no one is scammed and the client can be 100% sure that the odds are not manipulated in any way.

However, when examining the "provably fair" system used by this specific site mysterybrand.net, one can see that the commonly used algorithms have deliberately been manipulated in a way such that the actual draws done on the server can be arbitrary without respecting any predeclared odds.

E.g., the verification site just checks whether md5($randomClientSeed + $publicServerHash) == md5($randomClientSeed + $publicServerHash), based on things which are all known pre-roll, and which is obviously true, not involving the $secretServerSeed at all. It's a joke.
They even link to the URL mentioned above, but their implementation is completely wrong.

Still not saying that I am pro/con gambling, but just seeing a website at least implementing the provably fair system in a non-malicious way, it would be a start.

[1] https://dicesites.com/provably-fair
that's why it's an experiment of course
Website = deliver infornation
App = application

Apps suck at delivering information, I'm looking at you WSJ. I cancelled my sub their app was so bad.

Websites suck at apping.
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so one assumption that could be made is that mobileapp use takes longer to accomplish anything compared to using web
I thought that too. If getting money is good, then spending can't be all bad because you must be giving it to someone else and at minimum creating good for that person, possibly less good if it's spread the a corporation instead of directly to an individual.
Wellbutrin (bupropion hcl) is FDA approved as a smoking-cessation aid.

I took it for a year or so (though not for smoking cessation), if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them! Email in profile.
for criminals see the root of the comment you are commenting on. fact: it's not popular among them.
It seems they are going after advertisers: https://www.cnet.com/news/warner-bros-settles-with-ftc-for-n...

Regarding the platforms, how are they supposed to know if the uploader got paid to do a video? If it was obvious, we wouldn't need these disclosures in the first place!
That link (which keeps being posted in HN) a case study in terrible, absurd statistics. There's some other study recently touted that booze (and coffee) keeps old people alive longer. I have no idea if it's any more sound, but it's obvious that alcohol isn't that bad in moderation based on simple demographics.
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... so the government has a copy of your DNA on file? What about when that database gets compromised?
They have not yet, because we haven't found a way to provide a safe environment for this person to be in that can be sustained long enough to cover the entire experience. Providing safety would include alleviating their responsibilities, which includes child care, so that gets pretty complex.
It is true that a native app can have a value due to integration into the system. However many apps aren't really good and built using cross platform toolkits as doing development two times for the two major platforms is expensive ... There are good and worthwhile apps, but it's low
Its not just about price, its about control and time. ARM could make their product much cheaper and people might still pick RISC-V simply because dealing with ARM and getting a deal is quite difficult.

If you need a simple chip, and that's large parts of ARM sales volume there are free chips that you can fully control and its hard for ARM compete.

That said, the idea that ARM will go bankrupt is insane. Of course they will not, the market is not one big market but lots of small once and ARM has a massive head start in all of them.

I see no issue with both ISA existing for quite a long time. ISAs are like programing languages, after a certain size, they can not die.
People also go to great lengths to demonize the wealthy and also try to get some of their money. I can totally understand why rich people would want to build elysium.