skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I try investing a lot in smaller pharma companies... and they are hammered by the big ones. Not on innovation, but on marketing.

I disagree about NHS type system, that reduces access. A healthy mix is required, though.

A lot of upfront costs are also footed by users and government/non-government funds. And a lot more of those costs are due to government regulation and essential insurance at development.

Pharmaceutics researchers aren't exactly rich, btw. Your dentist probably makes more than many researchers of life saving drugs.
Powershell has been around for quite a while now, but only recently could you rely on it being installed on Windows systems, let alone be available on Linux. Maybe in another decade, but if you are targeting Unix-like systems bash is probably still your safest bet for portable, interpreted code. Python2 is a close second.
contrast effect matters if you want to look good to other people.
myself, i avoid supermodel high maintenence magazine types.
I find a lot more substantial personalities that way.
instead of looking good, compared to the "ugly friends" of choice you can look good by being surrounded by substantial people.
What’s with the ‘out-of-network’ thing that gets pulled out regularly? Is healthcare really that much more expensive to an insurer if it’s done at one site or another? Sure, they’d prefer it was done in-house so that the ticket can be clipped multiple times, but it’s clearly just made up numbers that are produced currently.
Samsung as a whole ( Not Just Samsung Electronics ). Many Korean could have argued the other way around, because Samsung controls the government.

Credit where Credit's due, Samsung's Electronics R&D is absolutely one of the best on the planet. But it doesn't clear them as being clean.
Apple does not have such a sufficient hold on the market that anyone has to target their users for customers. Android has the majority of the market share for mobile devices by a pretty decent margin. Apple has not gone out of its way like MS did to block people from entering the general market (like MS did with BeOS and Netscape), let alone the market on their system.

BeOS was going to be sold by Compaq. MS told Compaq that they'd have to pay the higher, direct-to-customer, cost for Windows licenses if they also sold BeOS, as opposed to the OEM license cost. Compaq nixed the deal with Be, because they couldn't afford the hit to their profit margin (PC margins were slim then, though they got tighter in the future).

MS spent the money to develop IE, and then a billion dollars marketing it. And they gave it away for free. Why? Because Netscape offered the potential (though still in its infancy) for web apps that would reduce/eliminate the market for native applications, which MS relied on. Not because MS sold applications (they did, and do, of course), but because they sold the OS that most native apps ran on.

Apple may eat up a lot of profits (30% cut) and restrict a lot of options (can't use third party browser engines, limits on use of embedded languages and side loading applications). But they aren't pulling off half the shit MS did, and have nowhere the influence to do it if they wanted to (w.r.t. market share).
> I don't think changing argv[0] in the current process will have any effect in the /proc file system.

Yes it does - that’s the whole point of changing it.
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Factfullness, one of the best books on Bill Gates summer reading list covers "the gap instinct"

Factfulness is . . . recognizing when a story talks about a gap, and remembering that this paints a picture of two separate groups, with a gap in between. The reality is often not polarized at all. Usually the majority is right there in the middle, where the gap is supposed to be.

To control the gap instinct, look for the majority.

Beware comparisons of averages. If you could check the spreads you would probably find they overlap. There is probably no gap at all.

Beware comparisons of extremes. In all groups, of countries or people, there are some at the top and some at the bottom. The difference is sometimes extremely unfair. But even then the majority is usually somewhere in between, right where the gap is supposed to be.

The view from up here. Remember, looking down from above distorts the view. Everything else looks equally short, but it’s not.
Every time someone mentions not using Linux Desktop because they had a lot of issues, someone like you comes out of the woodwork and pretends that Linux doesn't have issues anymore.

Maybe that's yet another reason people don't switch to Linux: the evangelists are annoying and untrustworthy.
> stuck in a usless POSIX compatibility trap

Exactly. Unfortunately.

Unless we have a solution that is significantly better than POSIX/UNIX, switching to anything else incurs a significant cost that no one is willing to pay.

Short of that, we probably need a technology breakthrough that brings in a complete architectural change.
This long manipulative answer just reminds me why I hate salesmen.

All I need to know is whether a product is either cheaper or better in some way. And I need to know it quickly because I’ve got a lot of stuff to do at work.
A good summary of the political economy that surrounds the US healthcare system is that people want healthcare that's:
- fast
- efficient
- no restrictions on hospitals, doctors, or treatment
- financed by taxes on the rich (defined in whoever is in a tax bracket higher than themselves)

Now this is obviously untenable. In my professional estimation (ex-health policy analyst) I think you CAN have a public option be viable. But financing it will likely have to be done by expanding revenue through middle class tax hikes (not just millionaires), which never fend very well in our current political climate.
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alternatively paraphrasing someone else: there is no point in properly raising kids. they just copy their parents anyways
This is astounding. It used to be that doctors were not allowed to post their prices! Openness is needed to fix medical billing.
It's odd not including Plan 9 here. But I guess that is the fate of Plan 9.
One of the problems with the Canadian system is frankly its proximity to the U.S. A large portion of our homegrown medical talent goes immediately south of the border for higher salaries (see your point about price controls on healthcare providers above).
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This observation is crucial to how we approach collaborative technology, though: the assumed goal has always been to achieve lower latency and finer granularity of changes to create the experience of simultaneous editing with instant feedback.

What this means in practice is that we have a lot of software that makes it easy to bring a group of strangers in to pseudonoymously vandalize a whiteboard by drawing dicks on it - a true "cacophony of monologues." See also: most comment threads.
Users complaining that things are broken < Users complaining that things are broken and then submitting a patch (or at least some attempt to unbreak things)

It's exceedingly rare that a maintainer of anything would scoff at all patches from users to help fix things.
It is much less free in France or Germany, and they spend considerably less for much better outcomes. You would never get an MRI for a sprained ankle in France, but on the other hand people do not die because they cannot afford insulin.
> not software that's forced onto the majority of consumers

I agree with you on your other points, but not "forced".

I've left Facebook and encourage anyone who cares about privacy at all to do the same.
Uh, that OP could attempt to fix something they complained about, rather than beat the proverbial dead horse about it?
If you search on "protein folding" you should be able to find some basics.
Someone doing pediatrics might have been better off skipping med school and being a nurse practitioner, or a taxi programmer. Or when going through it, specializing instead in dermatology. Now imagine your town without any pediatricians and GPs and emergency staff ;-)
And if you are bought by a PE it is often some guys spreadsheet that does the cutting. And many times that spreadsheet is total BS and used just because it seemed to work that one time they used it before.
The 'status quo' is to further develop a 'serf economy' of non-citizens, further ingraining sectarianism, division ... in addition to even racism, massive legal headaches and grey areas, and a burgeoning populism.

Asking people to follow very basic and normative laws is the central social artifact of any civilization. Without it ... it's going to be bad.

Just enforce the laws.

If laws or policies need to be changed, then change them! Say for example, if there's 'very low unemployment' in Cali, and they really need workers, then maybe 1) allow more immigration. 2) have a temporary worker system that's reliably enforced.

But otherwise, don't create two sets of laws, two economies, two classes of people.

Also, the US should be making considerably more material effort to develop adjacent economies, right across the border - and I mean more than military aid for the federales, and more than just economic aid which is inefficient. A major US investment initiative for example in Baja, in the South, focusing on travel, manufacturing, that ensured physical security, financial security etc.. and maybe a lot of money and effort would come flushing in. Aside from historical narratives of colonialism etc. it could be done, and done well, and it'd be a huge win-win.
And FYI this means considerably better healthcare for those living there as well, frankly, probably almost as good as American healthcare for pennies on the dollar. If it were up to par ... you'd even see a boon of medical tourism, for which there is a huge unmet demand simply because it's very risky for folks to go to 'some random place' in Central America they've never heard of that may have no standards. Imagine a set of hospitals and clinics with a high operating standard, and some brand equity, with cheap prices? Now that's a business! But it can only be facilitate with core civic stability which the US (and Canada?) could feasibly help provide.

When NAFTA was re-negotiated, I wish they'd have addressed these new, 21st century issues instead of rehashing tariffs on steel and milk ...
Yes, of course! And once the damage has been done, it's even harder to reverse. Perhaps if Dinkycoin's devs are fast enough, they could release a fork to undo it?
I think a baseline requirement for these types of systems is that people don't go out of their way to be assholes for negligable gains.

My understanding of Japanese culture is that, by and large, people don't do that. Americans, meanwhile, have a pretty heaping helping of petty asshats. For exhibit A, go look up some of the asinine BS tax protesters try to get out of pretty basic civil responsibilities.
By fixating on the cross-hair, and using the mouse to look around (rotating the camera) instead of moving your eyes, I'd guess?
I would be satisfied with any recipe format that doesn't include several paragraphs of text about how the author feels about the food, what they did the last time they made it, why they are writing about it, etc. Ingredients, steps, period.
The US pharma market is around $300B vs total health spending of $3T. Pharma is a big expense but certainly not amongst the biggest.

Costs for boring health issues like births, broken bones, diabetes and end of life care are what really matter. Oh, and administrative costs are way higher in the US.
I wrote on this above. As an investor in Gilead and a Truvada user, I really hate the fact that Gilead isn't making Truvada an effective vitamin for most of EU. It's an HIV infection prevention drug. It's priced for margin maximization at ~$1600 for 30 pills. I bet most EU countries could get on board with €20-€30 per month and have 10% of the population be on it. And EU has very low administrative costs, as many countries buy centrally.

I consider Martin to be a scumbag, but not much more than your average human being. He's a scapegoat, to the industry that would prefer a flashy Martin to scrutiny of their own actions. He should be free, as his conviction was a witch-hunt.
I would like to understand how this would work.

argv is a buffer in Bash's process memory space. This is AFAIK, not shared in any way with the kernel.

How would the kernel know that a process wrote to the memory location of argv[0] and then reflect that in /proc?

This is what I tried:

dualbus@system76-pc:~/src/gnu/bash$ ./bash -c 'echo $BASH_VERSION; ps -p $BASHPID -f; BASH_ARGV0=NOT-BASH; echo $0; ps -p $BASHPID -f; (ps -p $BASHPID -f && : do not optimize fork)'
5.0.0(1)-rc1
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
dualbus 27918 20628 0 20:16 pts/5 00:00:00 ./bash -c echo $BASH_VERSION; ps -p $BASHPID -f; BASH_ARGV0=NOT-BASH; echo $0; ps -p $BASHPID -f; (ps -p $BASHPID -f && : do not optimize fork)
NOT-BASH
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
dualbus 27918 20628 0 20:16 pts/5 00:00:00 ./bash -c echo $BASH_VERSION; ps -p $BASHPID -f; BASH_ARGV0=NOT-BASH; echo $0; ps -p $BASHPID -f; (ps -p $BASHPID -f && : do not optimize fork)
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
dualbus 27921 27918 0 20:16 pts/5 00:00:00 ./bash -c echo $BASH_VERSION; ps -p $BASHPID -f; BASH_ARGV0=NOT-BASH; echo $0; ps -p $BASHPID -f; (ps -p $BASHPID -f && : do not optimize fork)
I just read you paper, it’s quite fun! This comment was made with the belief that you claimed that all infinite graphs have this property.

Anyways, I know it’s an old thread, but if anyone is reading this, I highly recommend reading it.

Here is the paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.2869.pdf
That's fair - comparing calls to texts is not apples to apples. But I think the issue is deeper than live vs async: voicemail is fully asynchronous, and it is by far the least popular of the three.

I don't think your objection diminishes my main argument, which is that many forms of communication don't receive any optimization from VR - including forms that the VR crowd seems to believe will be revolutionized (e.g. wildermuthn's whiteboard example).
I agree. It's clear in hindsight that Apple has provided more innovation and Alphabet is still an ad machine.
Legally the ER can't turn you away if you can't pay, in the US.

What they can do - specifically relevant if you're a US citizen - is send you a bill and then after you don't pay it send it off to collection agencies, which then harms your credit rating for the next five or seven years (I believe various states have different laws on when these have to drop off your credit rating, it's usually either seven years or slightly less). This has improved a bit lately, with new credit scoring updates that considerably reduce the hit from medical bill collections on your credit. However it's obviously still a ridiculous situation.

Most non-private hospitals in the US have low income programs you can sign up for (eg if you go into the ER due to an emergency and run up a big bill), that eliminate most or all of your bills if you fall under a certain income level. That's subsidized by government funding programs. Typically though if you're at that low of an income level, you should just sign up for Medicaid anyway. Those programs are usually most valuable when someone in the eg 22-50% income bracket (the most vulnerable in the US insurance system, where you're above Medicaid and below typical good paying career or job status) is caught inbetween insurance / jobs for a number of months and gets hammered by an ER visit.
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> Also private patients can usually skip some waiting time (e.g. days instead of a few weeks).

See, now, that just really doesn't sound like a good idea to my ears. Why should someone be forced to sit through weeks of suffering while a handful of others don't, for the sole reason that they have more money to throw at the problem? I can understand buying better or more thorough treatment, or buying treatment from more expensive providers I guess, but line jumping via money just seems immoral when it comes to health care.
I used a mule in the mountains of Afghanistan in 2010. It was the only way other than helo or a strong back to get supplies up the mountain to out observation point.
It seems like this would eliminate the need to read a file from disk and fork a new process, both of which take time. If you're just removing a single file, this is probably negligible, but if you have a script iterating over 10k files, i.e., this speed-up may be more welcome.
>I had this in US. Shoulder pain, that was diagnosed via an XRay... But the doctor decided he wanted an MRI.

Xray is mainly for bone problems. MRI shows well soft tissue. In medicine, if something you suspect even it has a low probability and the diagnostics are not invasive, it is better to check than to miss and regret later. Why are you so sure that MRI was not necessary in your case?
Went to Germany got it done on the same equipment in luxury stay for 14 days at $870

A "luxury stay" in a plain hotel with no medical services should cost a lot more than $60 a day.
Pharma company “bottom line” (or any other measure of pharma companies) isnt included in the OECD dataset. See link above.
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There's a better solution: don't ship on an OS that insists on being a pain in the ass to ship on.
Can you name them? It's not exactly snark. My experience is that almost everyone with strong GPLv3 opinions turns out not to actually object to the terms themselves when discussed in isolation.

To head off: it's not the patent grant. Apache 2 has a very similar patent grant and everyone is fine with it.
Having the technical capability to all speak/write at once is wonderful. It cuts friction in the conversation. (Think of the difference between a phone call and a sequence of voice memos.)

That doesn’t mean people collaborating won’t be taking turns as a practical matter, enforced by social convention.
I tend to agree, then I think I bet Nintendo could pull it off. Some sort of unintuitive innovation will come along and break into every living room.
I have a list of resources related to bash/cli[1]

I would highly recommend BashGuide[2] and ryanstutorials[3] as a starting point. After that, go through rest of the wooledge site for FAQs, best practices, etc

shellcheck[4] is awesome for checking your scripts for potential downfalls and issues

[1] https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course/blob/mast...

[2] https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide

[3] https://ryanstutorials.net/linuxtutorial/

[4] https://www.shellcheck.net/
NLP Powered Query for Google Sheets
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CRUD apps generally go into production, unless something goes horribly wrong.
That was a bit unsatisfying, it seems no real answers, but I suppose that's to be expected considering the research is only in it's very preliminary stages. Considering the costs involved - getting volunteers and spinal fluids, it seems like we're not going to get meaningful answers in the near future.
Yeah. I hear Dr Salk died a multi-billionaire, right?
You really need to understand the diminishing returns, when it comes to this issue.

Having $70k HepC healing drug is OK. Having daily medication that's $50 per dose is not, unless the target demographic is exceptionally small.
> We want to see a doctor now. We want immediate access to all the best equipment, and specialists, and drugs, and we don't want to wait around or travel far. And we increasingly want it for every citizen.

Australians can get these at a fraction of US prices though
The built-in replacements run in the same process as the Bash shell, and thus, avoid the fork/exec system calls.

It's a minor performance optimization that might be useful if you're doing thousands of rm's or stat's in a script.
So what are the features of this system exactly?
If you look at the vision correction and plastic surgery markets, you'll see they function quite well! Providers compete on a combination of quality and cost. So I don't think there is anything intrinsic to the free market that suggestion it's to blame for ever increasing prices.

My personal hypothesis is that Americans get a lot more healthcare than most countries provide, combined with higher prices. Not all of it is all that beneficial.

If you want to read something really eye-opening, check out this McKinsey report, bottom of page 14[1] It basically compares US healthcare spending across categories, adjusting for GDP (expecting the US' higher GDP means we spend more).

For inpatient care (hospital care), the US actually spends inline with what other countries spend. For long term and home care, the US spends less than other countries. Same thing with durable medical equipment.

Almost all the "excess spend" is in the outpatient setting. American's get a shit ton of procedures done that other countries just wouldn't do. Have a hernia? Providers in the US fix that, where other countries might say "we'll do something if it becomes a problem" (for example).

[1]https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Industries/Healthc...
No chargebacks is a feature in many situations.
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Number two for sure. You are almost guaranteed to be seen by an out-of-network provider. It does not matter if you go to an in-network hospital/ER, the providers go out of their way to work a couple hundred miles from home just to bring in the big OON prices. Out of three visits to in-network ERs (in two different states) in the last seven years, how many do you think resulted in crazy charges from OON providers? If you said anything other than all of them you must not be from the states. It is basically impossible not to get fleeced by "health care" in the US.
Plagues and Peoples is the more scholarly of the two, and after it GGS is kinda...redundant.
If you need talents to stay in your country then you need to pay them more.
99% of new cars sold within the U.S. are going to have basic self-driving capability in less than three years. Not really seeing what's unique about what Toyota is doing here.
It’s faster to run them as a builtin than to exec the external binary. It makes a big difference when looping over many items.
Maybe disregarding what people feel is OK, but disregarding what they think is almost the primary folly the article is describing. Disregarding what people think is almost guaranteed to result in bad decisions.
Why do you think line-jumping is more immoral than getting worse treatment? In one case you just have to wait in non life-threatening and non-urgent cases (you only have to wait if you actually can wait). In the other case you are actually in a worse physical or mental position.
You could always add tek4xxx overlay support.
> If you want to tell the user how to invoke the program again, argv[0] is the right thing

Some pedantry: it's actually not. The argv array is a completely arbitrary thing, passed by the caller as an array of strings and packed by the kernel into some memory at the top of the stack on entry to main(). It doesn't need to correspond to anything in particular, the use of argv[0] as the file name of the program is a side effect of the way the Bourne shell syntax works. The actual file name to be executed is a separate argument to execve().

In fact there's no portable way to know for sure exactly what file was mapped into memory by the runtime linker to start your process. And getting really into the weeds there may not even be one! It would be totally possible to write a linker that loaded and relocated an ELF file into a bunch of anonymous mappings, unmapped itself, and then jumped to the entry point leaving the poor process no way at all to know where it had come from.
Worse in every way to checking accounts and credit cards.

Quite a few Venezuelans would beg to differ about that.