skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because as a society we know it’s cheaper to treat early and often rather than deal with emergencies 80% of the time.

Also, I agree with you, but likely from a different place. No individual should be paying a hospital bill, it should be included in a tax on my income. If I have lots of income I pay for lots of people, maybe an astounding amount, if I have little to no income I depend on my wealthy neighbors to cover me. Seems to me like the only way to go, that or I guess the rich get eaten.
”It's just an extra indirection in the data member. It's cheap”

That extra indirection often means a cache miss. That isn’t cheap. Accessing each item traversed through a pointer can easily halve program speed.

Java tries hard to prevent the indirections (local objects may live in the stack, their memory layout need not follow what the source code say, objects may even only exist in cpu registers)
> However it the attacker has less than 50% they can still wage an attack. With 10% of mining power I’ve got a 1% chance of mining consecutive blocks. It dwindles quickly even for larger percentages and a large number of confirms makes that angle impractical.

ETC's blockchain just had over 100+ blocks change, according to the tweet.

Even with 40% of the mining power, the probability of such an event (40% mining power, 100 consecutive blocks) is 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000016%. That's a very unlikely hypothesis you're presenting.
Whole Foods is pretty healthy. Fresh direct is not bad at all. Fairway market...
Just dropping my two cents in as the author was asking for feedback. No idea if they're reading this thread though.
> Winning the lottery doesn't improve your happiness

Not true at all, the evidence is conclusive it does make you happier.

Maybe you are thinking of people who don't win the lottery but play it?
There are cheap generics all over. The only patent EpiPen has is the applicator. Generics require you to take a syringe and inject it by hand because the patent prevents competitors from using a similar style spring loaded applicator.

The epinephrine used in epipens is extremely cheap to produce.
Lying in marketing is common-place in the USA, nothing new here.

Some countries (Australia, NZ) have very strict laws about this.
Ask HN: What are the best product landing pages you've stumbled upon?
Are there any measures of how America does compared to Europe if you only count Americans that have good health insurance?

It seems to me that many people who are opposed to socialized medicine don't necessarily disagree that it would give the poor better care; rather they fear that it will result in them receiving worse care.
Well, to the extent that it is a thing it only wastes the programmer’s time. I happen to think programmers are spending too little time, so that doesn’t bother me. Wasting CPU time on the other hand bothers me a lot!
Ah! I’d forgotten that I had a “paying account” through some educational promotion.
> Let the free market work

Respectfully, enough with this free market garbage. The healthcare industry is not a free market, it can never be. It's not possible for the consumer to be educated.

Even if you put emergencies aside, when an unconscious person can't start price shopping emergency rooms, you still have regular office visits that are impossible to price shop.

Ask yourself when the last time you asked your physician how much a service cost. I asked my physician and they had no clue. They finally gave me an estimate of "it'll be nominal", so I accepted the procedure. Turned out to be ~$200. I'm currently disputing it and refuse to pay based on their original quote of "nominal".

Imagine your at the doctor and need to get a blood test. What do you do? Start calling around local labs to ask which one has the best price? Maybe check Groupon for a discount? All this while your doctor waits to see if the price is within your budget, so they could continue the test.

Pricing in the medical industry is not even opaque. It's solid black.
Wow! Sounds interesting. Alas, I've been programming too much with my head down and actually don't know what a PR is. What's a PR??
All of PGDP is fun and satisfying volunteer work if you like reading, but the Post-Processing stage was for me, the most fun of all. However, in order to qualify as a PPer you must first put in a rather lengthy apprenticeship working in the different levels of proofing.

PGDP FAQ: https://www.pgdp.net/wiki/DP_Official_Documentation:General/...

PGDP Post-Processing FAQ: https://www.pgdp.net/wiki/DP_Official_Documentation:PP_and_P...

> On its journey through multiple proofreading and formatting rounds, the text may have been worked on by hundreds of volunteers. Post-processors must standardize the formatting of the book and adjust it to comply with Project Gutenberg's requirements. They must also deal with any detectable mistakes or inconsistencies that have survived all proofreading and formatting rounds.

> The ultimate goal of post-processing is to create a consistently formatted etext, that contains as few errors as possible and that accurately reflects the intentions of the author.
I would say it's more likely that the rest of the world has realized that collective bargaining allows them to set prices far lower than countries like say, America where they're free to gouge the money right out of your wallet.

If you don't play ball with a government, you're denying yourself a lot of potential customers. A single person? A fraction of a fraction of a drop in a bucket.
While due to the overall reproducibility crisis in psychology I wouldn't put one dollar on this, it's would make some sense.

A person (or a dog) could at any moment start pushing/punching/biting in the direction it is looking at, so it's important to keep track of. In a sense, visual attention predates later force.
Investors spend all day hearing startup pitches from companies who would gladly accept a check from them.

Engineers spend a grueling month or two getting onsite offers from maybe 8 companies at the most and one or two offers.

Agree 100%, a very misleading metaphor.
Because these people are a part of California society. Because California businesses are taking advantage of these people for cheap labor. If California tax payers have an issue with this they should take it up with the businesses who aren't pulling their weight.
It turns out to be remarkably easy to make a good pizza, as long as you let the water soak into the flour for at least 40 minutes before you start to work it. If you don't, nothing else you do can save it.

In a pinch (in Waipio Valley, Hawaii) I made 30 little pizzas of Pillsbury flour (scooping runny dough, almost batter, from a bowl), cheddar cheese, and Wesson oil on parchment on a stone perched atop a big, inverted soup pot under a broiler. It came out great! I wouldn't do it that way again, but most details matter less than you would expect.
eh, it still took ~56 real-world attempts to get two functional designs. That's not even quantifying how strongly they fluoresce, and other qualitative/quantitative aspects (eg, how good of a GFP were these proteins). It's very impressive, and the Baker lab has done amazing stuff, but we are a long ways off from rational design.

From the paper:
"Synthetic genes encoding the 56 designs were obtained and the
proteins were expressed in E. coli. Thirty-eight of the proteins were wellexpressed and soluble; SEC and far-ultraviolet CD spectroscopy showed
that 20 were monomeric β-sheet proteins (Supplementary Table 3).
Four of the oligomer-forming designs became monomeric upon incorporation of a disulfide bond between the N-terminal 3–10 helix and
the barrel β-strands. The crystal structure of one of the monomeric
designs (b10) was solved to 2.1 Å, and was found to be very close to
the design model (0.57 Å backbone r.m.s.d., Fig. 3c)."

"Two of the 20 monomeric designs—b11 and b32—were found to
activate DFHBI fluorescence by 12- and 8-fold with binding dissociation
constants (KD) values of 12.8 and 49.8 μM, respectively (Extended
Data Fig. 6f)"
Especially when you consider most pharma companies seem to make around 15-30% profit after all costs/R&D... not many industries manage those kind of numbers.
I am under the understanding that Ritalin is sometimes used instead of a sugar pill for exactly this reason.
One issue with this approach is that enforcing labor laws is already difficult.
Shielding's optional for 6A so be careful where you buy if you want that.
For instance, pulling in the STL for an interface header instead of encapsulating these details. :-)

No one is claiming that we should ignore performance all together. But, understanding through profiling where performance issues are and designing toward a faster implementation is more important than trying to inline definitions up front.
EpiPen is just an epinephrine autoinjector which date back to the 1970’s. The medicine is much older and very cheap ~50 cents.

In term of cost syringe‘s cost ~15 cents and work fine in experienced hands, but auto-injection makes them slightly less error prone. It’s litterally over a 300x markup for a rare problem.
Please get out of California, especially SV, and go to mid-US, there are so many US citizens can't afford daily food.
Is Congress-in-session a public forum? It seems to me that politicians have many venues to hear from their constituents, but the legislature floor isn't really one of them.
If you want an actual change that would have an effect change the law so that if a hospitals and doctors can't just balance bill patients, make them have to take the patients insurance company to court.
One could argue that the state of the art is now benchling. But I have similar thoughts on the economics of building software to researchers.

The domain is complex, the customers require a high level of correctness, and features are often implemented to try things out in the lab and then abandoned once it's a dead-end in the real world. Oh, and most academics don't have money to pay for software, nor do they respect the software engineering process.
Good and valid question.

For me it's a few things.

1) the kids love putting "their" toppings on "their" quadrant of the pizza, and wow, like a lot of things in life, when you make your own there are 0 complaints.

2) You can really put premium toppings that no pizzeria would spend on our even stock.

3) You can get it fresh out of the oven, like "burn the top of your mouth (again, you dummy) cheese napalm" fresh.

4) You can put as much or as little of any combination of cheese as you like, and it doesn't have to be the powdery pre shredded dry-frozen stuff that a lot of pizza places use.

5) Really it takes like 5 minutes to dress a pizza, heating your oven up to whatever it's highest settings is takes longer.

6) You can barbeque your pizza.

7) It's usually pretty cost effective when you consider most delivery places are charging $15+ for a large (14") pizza with a few toppings. Plus you save the tip and the emissions from a delivery driver (provided you buy a few and pick them up on the way home!
Thanks, I looked for that and didn't find it.
Web dev is a better career choice than ever. Services are developed enough that you can just connect to one another without having to custom build anything. Frameworks have become complex, creating a kind of entry barrier where dedicated developers can make good money. You can also go deeper down the optimization path if you want, building things like better compression systems or more efficient ways of pulling information.
"Pull request". If you expect to get ahead programming you are going to need to know about this.
Attacking a coin, in an attempt to drive down the price, and make money on an open short that you have is very risky behavior.

Historically speaking, the effects of an attack on the price aren't that clear cut.

The price of an "attacked" coin can jump, just as often as it crashes. The narrative being "oh, there was a problem, but we fixed it! Look at how great we were at defending against an attack!".

Crazy, I know. I am just saying that it is not that simple, and a person is risking losing as much money as they might gain.
With all the other things they're cramming into the budget don't get ahead of yourself.

California has a habit of overspending when revenue is up. We'll be in red again under Gavin.
I think it is also worth noting that number of drugs patented is not necessarily the best metric for measuring healthcare success.

I think one of the best is perhaps life expectancy - and that's dropping in America, patents or no.
Would also be important to include the number of Europeans that are bankrupted by rejected insurance claims.
Proof? What about the cost of marketing drugs? What about shareholder profits? Both of those could come down without affecting the R&D budgets.
You're making an awful lot of incorrect assumptions here.
200 billion is a lot, but something in the ballpark of just 7%. [1]

I agree, it’s hard to measure, but do you think those estimates are more than 3% off?

Best case, eliminating all drug research saves you 10%.

Although if costs in other areas are bloated, that is a scarier number.
[1] https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...
who said that? If so, should Medi-Cal also cover the medial expense of Africa? There are more people in terrible condition than these illegal ones.
look at whats popular now vs what was when posted, and all the throwaways. im curious- do you think its rare that there are paid posters on hn? i think its fairly common for pr firms on behalf of tech companies, and less so but still very probable for political special interests
> The entire program is 1 write syscall that outputs the answer. I don't think it's theoretically possible to get faster than that.

If stdout happens to be a socket, setsockopt + SO_SNDBUF might help runtime. But that is an extremely byzantine scenario. Another consideration might be a fast CPU attached to a fast but tiny icache and dcache with very slow memory, where reading the pregenerated string is slower than computing it.
From my partner:

> Most garments don't have a lot of difference when it comes to body types. They don't need to be constructed that differently (although they are when you go to the mall). I also use very forgiving fabrics to account for people who have more curves in their body. In general, my clothing has a more androgynous fit. I also use fit models of various body types to ensure flattering fits for varying body shapes. If required, a garment can be constructed while taking into account breasts/hips and still maintain a gender neutral aesthetic.
>So let me clarify your position a bit: you do support immigration law enforcement, correct?

Yes, of course. If enforcing the law as written involves doing Bad Things, the law should be changed, but if we aren't democratically deciding to change it, then it's on us what it involves.

Mind, there's been plenty of support for the DREAM Act for quite a while now, so...

>Also where did you get the idea that the majority of people in the US gets to decide the policy?

The basic ethical grounds for representative democracy, without which the US government has no legitimacy, no matter how many pieces of paper anyone waves around.
Traditions of Tech Criticism
The UI needs some love but I've been impressed with the feature set.

I would definitely choose it over GitHub Enterprise.
EpiPens used to cost under $100 for a 2-pack, but now they cost over $600 for a 2-pack. Epinephrine costs like $0.17 per ml, and an EpiPen dose is 0.3 ml.

http://mshpriceguide.org/en/single-drug-information/?DMFId=2...
not on my credit it's not.
I think we're both completely correct. Some things need power from below, but those things are almost never the most efficient things to be working on precisely because they're so outside the political mainstream.

This is also the reason EA gets a lot of hate from various quarters. They take picking your battles to an extreme, and essentially come right out and say that many worthy causes are not the right ones to be fighting for.
Often, it isn't even just the "desktop" application itself but the associated workflow plugins that have to run on the iOS as well. For a lot of modern electronic music producers, tools like Serum are a must.
What kind of "good engineer" refuses to write tests?
Paying dividends is not giving investor's their money back. It is paying a return on the investment. Some companies like Amazon espouse the idea of perpetually trying to grow stock price, but that is not what every investor is looking for. Some investors are looking for an investment that will pay dividends every year going on forever.
Everyone asking for sources fornthis, just think about it. What if Europe decided that iPhones we're too expensive and implemented Single-Payer Phone Care? They'd dictate a price that the government would pay for iPhones in their countries and Apple would either not sell iPhones in Europe at all, or they would sell for the dictated price. They'd do their market studies and possibly conclude that they can jack up U.S. prices and still stay in business in Europe.

With something like pharmaceuticals, of course the U.S. customers are going to pay the higher price, they need the medicine! That means that European countries are of course squeezing the drug companies (which really means squeezing U.S. citizens) as much as they can get away with. They would be dumb not to.
So they're public fora when someone wants to criticize a politician, but private companies with no duty to allow people to say unpopular things when the company wants to kick them off the platform. Got it.

The key is the affect on the public's access to information and the affect on the public discourse. There are precedents that show a preference for Free Speech over property rights.

We need more cases that touch on Free Speech and new media to reach the Supreme Court. We've gotten to the point where a few well connected titans of industry can attempt to de-platform opinions they don't like off the whole of the internet, despite the desire of a public to hear and fund them. Some such people are pretty unsavory. Others are merely espousing fairly moderate positions but happen to be unpopular with those same titans of industry.
for graphics? show me a graphics tech demo using neanderthal!
Agreed. When I see a link to a twitter feed instead of an article I pass on by. If your best outlet, professionally, is twitter, you need to reevaluate.
AT&T, Dish, Comcast all raising cable TV rates to counter cord-cutting
Thanks, I know. However, I've a pretty thick skin. Very little actually bothers me.

And I value robust, frank, real conversation. I mostly chuckle, then continue. Often, the whole thing will smooth over and end up somewhere useful.

When it doesn't, it doesn't. No worries.

Each of us has options. How the dialog goes is much more dependent on our use of those options and how we weigh things.

I won't give "is English your first language?" much weight. In most cases, that kind of thing is laughable!

Note, I didn't actually apologize. :D There was no need for anything other than some clarity.
But it is way more common in JS. It got to the point that I do not trust tutorials that are not “official”.
R&D includes a lot of (most?) but not all advertising. It probably doesn't include things like running DTC ads on TV. But it does include things like:

- Paying doctors to prescribe the drug to patients for "research purposes."

- Paying doctors for their "valuable opinions" about the drug.

- Paying for advertising to recruit patients into clinical trials.

And so on.

I don't think there are any industry-wide statistics, so you'd have to look at the break down for each individual drug (where available). If you read pretty much any book on the pharma industry it will go into this, there are no shortage that you can find on Amazon.
Someone should forward this to the current Ag Secretary:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/wh...
The conspiracy theorizing consists entirely of you reading into what I said and turning it into an argument that it wasn't, but that you feel would be easy to dismiss.
if you read a little further down on in the comments section, you'd see that the article is pretty much a clickbait/FUD piece, and the author has a history of writing clickbait/FUD articles.
I mention the Steam runtime because this affects the Linux version to this day: I am unable to launch the game (on a fully supported system and OS, mind you) without deleting some files from their install.

> He points out that a very large percentage of the crashes were graphics driver related

This was still largely related to the Coherent UI middleware and the strange way it was being used, as other posts have noted.
Throwaway because I don’t want this associated with me publically.

I grew up in the Imperial Valley, California and graduated from CUHS the year after the recession hit.

At the time I had no prospects, I wasn’t a software developer, I didn’t have the grades or money for college outside IVC and neither did many of my classmates.

No fewer than 7-10 people my age, my class, were working the fields nearby the winter after graduation, all US citizens most at least 2nd generation, 2-3 pochos that couldn’t even speak Spanish.

It wasn’t good money, but it was money that was available without having leave/stop helping your family and move to San Diego and pay San Diego rent, food, transport, and moving prices for some shitty job at a Cici’s Pizza while living in a 2 bed/1 bathroom apartment with 4 other people and trying to catch classes at grossmont, city, Mesa etc simultaneously.

Many people would take that opportunity, you just don’t know any of us.
"Turn away your eyes from me, for they overwhelm me" -- Song of Solomon 6:5
OT - on personal front i am not at all interested in wearable or gadgets like echo/home. Not against any advancement in those region but look at the impact smart phones alone has had and now we had to enforce rules like no smartphones on the dinner table. Not sure what not to turn off to have a personal connect in future.
The difference is an automation of a contract to make a new release in production: the process of delivering a new code should make all the necessary checks such as CI, regression tests, monitoring endpoints and so on up to deployment itself, in a reproducible manner.
Not if you open it in markown
(you get bonus points for rendering it in your mind like a less sexy version of the matrix)
How about: Doctors Without Borders? Docs who enter general practice in underserved areas rather than metropolitan dermatology? Legal pro bono work, or most prosecutors?
It looks like what this guy was saying was that people would be fucking a lot and ethnic groups would mix as time moves on. I mean, this is literally the story of homo sapiens. Mass migrations and ethnic mixing - been happening for hundreds of thousands of years.

You really shouldn't have voted leave my friend.
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My fascination with quines comes from various proofs, e.g., the halting problem and Godel's incompleteness theorem which make use of self-referential structures. Also self-referential structures form the basis of many other interesting forms like fractals and replication RNA. Quines are just sort of an initial proof of concept that can be extended into more sophisticated forms.
Oh interesting. If there is a separate install is it still potentially a universal all? I guess I was wrong.
It is, but precompiled headers are a pain in the a… (often less so than not using them, but still)

They force programmers to tell the compiler what intermediate result to cache. Finding the best intermediate result to cache is a black art, and that set will change when your source code grows, forcing you to either accept that your precompiled headers may not help that much, or to spend large amounts of time optimizing build times.
Async load svg and cache it in localStorage