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Apparently, Hyundai too is only dreaming about it for now ...
> It's also single provider.

For England that's completely incorrect.

Services are commissioned mostly by local clinical commissioning groups (There are about 195 of these across England), but sometimes centrally by NHS England, but they are provided by a range of different organisations. Some of these are NHS organisations, but they don't have to be. It's possible that NHSEngland and CCGS commission NHS services from non-NHS providers.

Doctors (and all other healthcare staff, and all manager, and all admin staff) are employed by NHS Trusts, or by other provider organisations.

Some examples of non-NHS providers who are commissioned to provide NHS services might be-

Livewell South West, a large community interest company that provides a range of in-patient and outpatient treatment. https://www.livewellsouthwest.co.uk/

Priory Group, a large private provider that also provides some in-patient NHS treatment, especially around in-patient eating disorder treatment or inpatient learning disability "care". https://www.priorygroup.com/

(Note that LiveWellSW are pretty good, and Priory Group are piss-poor and often abusive.)

Even NHS Trusts aren't single provider. They are their own organisation, with their own executive boards and accounts, working independantly from other NHS Trusts. If they're a foundation trust they have a bit more freedom with their budgets and staffing.

Here's a nice description of what the NHS is and how it works: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/audio-video/how-does-nhs-in-eng...
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* "cat $today" is easier to type than "cat $(today)"*

Except you should really be in the habit of typing "cat ${today}"
;)
Ask HN: Have you done a lifestyle cost calculation? If so, what's your method?
I'm moving into a period in my life where my goals for lifestyle, money & longevity are beginning to coalesce, and as a result I'm focusing strongly on understanding what lifestyle I want for the next (hopefully) few decades.

Is this something you've worked out yourself, and if so, what are the factors you've taken into account & how have they affected your lifestyle / careers choices moving forward? Did you drop something you thought you needed & found it greatly improved your well-being / happiness?
I have joked the only way I can use Microsoft products for work is because I founded my company, and I have no actual ability to force any purchasing despite the fact, and I have long appreciated the way Ballmer is massively involved in the recent success of Microsoft. But it just occurred to me that I have always cited Ballmer's financial commitment and personal investment as being the most overlooked indicator of the value I am certain he's never sought for the short term and this has given me a very amusing idea : surely Ballmer will have been best served by a static stock price in his term of tenure and ability to acquire shares in employee schemes?
I did my BSc in Mathematics with the OU. Overall it was a very good experience. Rather than teaching by lectures, the OU provides you with high quality and substantial written materials. As with any other university you are expected to keep up with the course schedule, and will be required to submit assessments and sit exams at certain times.

The reliance on written materials with much less face-to-face teaching (compared with a traditional university) was to me a distinct advantage as it gave me more control over the pace of the course.
The general concept becomes much more interesting when applied to spoken languages.
Ask HN: Am I burned out, or something else?
For the last several years I've been feeling increasingly averse to problem solving efforts. The problems I encounter will require 6 hours of research and reading followed by non-guaranteed success followed by reiterating the same process until something works and that's the first step out of several towards progress on whatever the project is.

I want to say for at least a few years now it has been feeling exceedingly difficult to want or really bear that task.

I've had random runs (I don't particularly understand why, but generally it involves me wanting to solve a particular problem of mine and knowing that I can use programming to do so) where I will work like a dog for a couple of weeks then finish or give up on whatever I was pursuing.

But in terms of solving other people's or company's problems it is exceedingly difficult to motivate at all whatsoever. I think if I was going to be homeless I would probably find a way to motivate myself to do it but even then I wouldn't really be that dedicated.

When I do work for other people I usually have a decay in hygiene and self-care habits as well as productivity overtime until either I quit, they fire me, or the project is satisfactorily done. It doesn't ever seem to not happen. The shorter the project the better it is for me in that regard. If it is short and highly compelling sometimes I will just do what I mentioned above and knock it out in a week or less and work basically 16 hour days until it's done.

I really want to understand how to move forward in this situation. My last full-time job the manager basically told me to go on medical leave and get it figured out because he thinks the work is literally killing me.
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This is a very good website and I find myself using it a lot (especially to compare pricing of streaming movies). I was actually missing something like this and did start building something to help but then I saw justwatch and abandoned my efforts.

One more feature that might be useful would be to show if the movie we are searching for is scheduled to play on a network sometime in the future.
Some people on the internet got inspired by Sarah Drasner's Array Explorer and built this.

Avoids googling and stackoverflow digging.
Google Play is forcing us to remove security features
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For being an article about X windows tools, I don't see why the author would need to.
There’s a psychotherapy approach called Internal Family Systems, IFS, that is the theory that we’re all naturally made up of individual, multiple personalities. Each part of you having it’s own anxieties, fears, goals.

It’s why you could seemingly be one personality when you encounter love, hungry, horny, etc and seemingly different person while in a different context.

https://youtu.be/LuJLv98ks-I
It's not a charity, his donations to it aren't tax deductible or tax free. If the business makes tax deductible donations those will pass back to him.
What do you mean, like mine? What are the odds!
Today many pedants rehash old lists of what the definition of OOP is and I think it's not useful. You see articles in broken English spammed to the Java discussion board on LinkedIn and the occasional person wanders into Hacker News traumatized by a job interview where they were asked to come up with a specific list, etc.

Abstraction is a basic principle for dealing with life, never mind software. For instance, imagine you are keeping track of bowling scores.

Well, you probably use the abstraction of "integer". Integer is overkill however because it can be negative, and could possible take an infinite amount of space to represent. Practically you might write the scores by hand with base-10 arabic numerals and you know how to execute an algorithm for abstract operations such as "addition".

Doing it on a computer?

Bowling scores can be as high as 300 so a "int8" is not quite big enough, but a "int16" is just fine and you wouldn't care if it was signed or unsigned.

In the 1960s you would learn how addition is implemented in circuitry if you studied computer science, today you might not -- you don't need to because Intel or ARM did it for you.

If there is a real problem with "Paradigm X" where "X" could be "OOP" or anything else, is that software tends to reify one particular view of a situation whereas different people involved in the situation see it differently.
Make sure to check out https://hashnode.com too :)
Dweb.page is an open source website, that allows you to share and search content
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Quite an annoying approach in itself. The worst is people doing that when deciding where to eat.
What do you dislike not just about React, but categorically about that style of frontend development in general? Framework specific distaste I understand, but general philosophy wise I don't.
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Are there any good Python libraries that make working with Graph Neural Networks as easy as working with Keras/Pytorch/fast.ai?

All I can find is https://github.com/tkipf/gcn, and from the same authors reimplementations in Pytorch https://github.com/tkipf/pygcn and Keras: https://github.com/tkipf/keras-gcn
many stars for the main repo (1100), but not that much usage?
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Show HN: Getting positive online reviews for your business needn't be hard
The majority of people use online reviews as a deciding factor for their online purchases, etc.This article tells you how to receive positive online reviews for your business, consistently.

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Yes, you can check out Hashnode :)
Random color generator. The precision goes down on the far periphery, (the colors usually look more saturated than they are), but the basic color is right. In near-mid periphery (~45°), the colors seem normal.
Yep. IPython lets you execute bash.
Other than the two world wars and before that the millennia of fighting and bloodshed, sure.
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I came from i3, so I pretty much copied over my i3 config mostly intact. Had to add the output configuration for non-default resolutions. Had to add environment GDK_BACKEND=wayland to applications to tell them to use wayland instead of x11 via Xwayland such as firefox (65 and newer has wayland enbaled by default), vlc, gedit, terminal and anything else that supports wayland.

Downsides to Sway is that's it has only just entered beta and doesn't really have nice packaged/maintained releases yet. Also I use X11 gnome-panel overlay on top of the swaybar panel, because I wanted a real taskbar, which is kind of a hack and also why I know about the window manipulation features.
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Presumably yeah, because i3 doesn't work on Wayland.
Hi, Community Advocate [1] at GitLab here. I am part of the team which takes care of our community and that includes the communication with users.

Briefly our (my team's) goal is to respond to every question about GitLab asked online and to stay transparent [2] about evrerything.
This helps us to create better documentation and processes as well as it's easier to provide feedback into GitLab.

Regarding the user feedback and preferences on HN, everyone's comment is welcome and we really appreciate the words from the competitor's side.

It's really interesting that many people at GitLab joins the HN threads and you probably noticed our CEO's activity as well as many other GitLabbers.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/marketing/community-ad...
[2] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency
Hopefully Bash 6.0 then
> This is not an existential issue vis-a-vis Apple, Google, or even about capitalism.

> It's really a CFO's problem, financial engineering.

I'm not sure how you distinguish this from capitalism.
> Those propellants would be perfect candidates for a hybrid that's launched from a conventional cartridge and ignites the propellant as soon as it leaves the barrel.

If you look at the size of a common rifle projectile vs. a conventional cartridge, you’ll recognize that you’d need enormous energy density for any such booster system to do anything noticeable at all besides screwing with the reliably, safety, and stability of the round. A
> it prevents folks from making themselves more famous via posting sick burns in the replies to Trump tweets

That's a rather cynical take. Imagine a politician you disagree with - be they a fascist, communist, libertarian, or whatever - tweeting something blatantly false. And imagine that they block replies by everyone who contradicts them, making their replies a chorus of agreement. Wouldn't that seem to be an impediment to civil discourse?
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It's also available in a bunch of other countries: https://www.justwatch.com/ - maybe your's is listed too?
Well I do…
On the brain chemistry idea, there's an interesting quote about how this idea is used (regardless of its theoretical validity) to push a certain narrative:

> “The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course strictly commensurate with its depoliticization. Considering mental illness an individual chemico-biological problem has enormous benefits for capitalism. First, it reinforces Capital’s drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry). Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational pharmaceutical companies can peddle their pharmaceuticals (we can cure you with our SSRls). It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance, that depression is constituted by low serotonin levels, what still needs to be explained is why particular individuals have low levels of serotonin. This requires a social and political explanation; and the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.”
Producer vs. Consumer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555237
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> The UK probably should spend some more on healthcare but it's an open question whether that would be more effective at improving health outcomes vs spending the money on reducing poverty.

There are other policy interventions that could also make a big difference to health e.g. making our urban environment friendlier for exercise by reducing traffic, reducing emissions, introducing dedicated separate cycle lanes, stricter punishment for speeding, and making our mental environment less hostile by e.g. stricter controls on advertising, control of body fetishism e.g. Love Island etc. in the media, limiting development/improving access to nature, etc.
Open source projects get unlimited self-hosted agents. Let me know if you aren't experiencing that. I'll make sure it's clear in the docs and the website. jepling at microsoft dot com.
> Six months sounds like a lot but realistically it has been a few solid weeks of learning since it is a side hobby that I hope will turn into my career.

The problem with the Web Dev job market is that everyone and there dog is doing what you are doing. If you want to be taken seriously you need to set yourself apart from this crowd as a professional developer.
Instead of targeting specific entities, the better way would be to introduce structural changes in a American society via federal laws mandating paid leave minimums and removal of non-monetary compensation like health insurance benefit.

A reduction in supply of labor will lead to higher wages, at the same time providing people with less stress and more time to participate in their community.
Hm, from my experience, hot-seat VR removes only visual contact between people on the couch and the person in VR. But there is still conversation, there is still commenting about what is going on and giving hints. Much more so, than when watching a show or a movie together with someone else - in which case it usually means passively watching, exchanging maybe at most one or two sentences along the way.

From the two, I'd say watching TV together is what is "barely more than passive consumption of content", VR feels more much active, because the people involved create the action, rather than just consume it.
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Why is that a showstopper but Touch ID isn’t? They’re both biometric systems where the raw data never leaves the secure element, both are hardened against simple attacks, etc.
I don't even get the "paid sick days" thing. In Germany you have a minimum of 20 days off by law, most of the time it is > 30 though. If you are sick you are sick, you go to a doctor who will give a paper that states how long you won't be able to work, you will get paid for that period. If you are sick for more than 6 weeks the insurance covers it and your employer doesn't have to pay anything while you get I think around 80% of your regular salary.
Not what kasey_junk said at all. It was responding to someone who said:

> It is basically impossible not to get fleeced by "health care" in the US.

The experience is evidence against this very strong statement. You have uncharitably decided it was making an equally strong statement in the opposite direction.
Yeah, that's what I mean by "easy access" - you're working with Python, but if you want to do something that Python is not well-suited for[1] - like easily piping something through many programs - you can do it simply by adding `!` at the beginning of your pipeline, right there in the REPL.

It's actually the same philosophy that shells use: in bash you frequently invoke sed, awk, grep, etc. because it's easier than writing the same directly in the shell. In IPython, you invoke bash to do piping, because it's easier than connecting a host of subprocesses' stdins/stdouts in Python.

So again, there are some things you expect from your shell, and as long as you get those things (no matter how), you can use any REPL as a shell without problems.

[1] because of syntax or lack of library or something like that
According to MS[0], LTCG doesn't work with /INCREMENTAL (note /LTCG:INCREMENTAL is different). For my use cases, LTCG is unusable for anything other than our overnight builds.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/ltcg-li...
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I'm not sure what you mean. derp presumably used to check for null. This implies that 1. outside derp the callers need to change, and 2. inside derp there's a redundant null-check that needs to be deleted.
I don't understand how is this a question? Do you really want to learn it because it seems to me that you are trying to find a bogus reason not to... no offense, but if you don't like it, you shouldn't pursue this career, otherwise the simple answer is there is huge demand and good salary for Web Developers.
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Yay!
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The paper considers that hypothesis and rejects it, honing in on prices not utilization as the problem. Indeed its title is "It’s Still The Prices, Stupid: Why The US Spends So Much On Health Care, And A Tribute To Uwe Reinhardt"

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05144
It's not so much an active dislike as it is just not my cup of tea.

I've visited Spain a few times and it's nice in short bursts, but to live there I would have to deal with the weather (not everyone likes hot and sunny, I'd honestly prefer Norway's weather to Spain), the piss-poor developer salaries, the struggling economy, the food that I really am not a fan of, the poor quality of healthcare, the remnants of pro-Franco fascism in their political landscape etc.

It's just not for me. I think I'm more suited to Germanic/Nordic countries for culture.
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>> But afaik most immutable, persistent data structure libraries in other lisps either (1) had poor performance or (2) were developed after clojure and borrowed from clojure.

>> only abstraction is a linked list

> What language are you referencing here?

They are referring to Lisp.
Sounds like a mess of contractual law where being explicit helps and blame goes along with whoever didn't clear things up.

Lets take a hypothetical that the FBI was doing a big project to try to identify children victimized in child pornography using machine learning and DNA processing and need to rent out extra server power. Above board and within their domain to do so - laudible even. If they just rented out Amazon EC2 instances and got instantly flagged once they uploaded blobs of data that matched hashes of known child pornography they certainly couldn't charge them with interfering with an investigation!

Amazon could rightfully terminate service in response because they fear the expenses involved in handling such materials and compliance and the default rates wouldn't cover it or they were worried about the bad PR from statistics that they are hosting terrabytes of illegal pornography - even if grossly out of context said statement wouldn't even be libelous because it is the truth.
> I'm done with the company.

Or you could made a measured decision on a product by product basis.

As I'm sure you do with all the other big tech companies which have massively betrayed us.

Unless you're telling me you boycott all products by Google, Apple, Facebook and Oracle (for starters).
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Sorry I missed this.

> Better would be to use a library such as Boost Units, rather than naked aliases.

Completely agreed.

> void* is definitely problematic, and I kill it every chance I get, but it persists in a lot of code due to C libs and unfortunate legacy dependencies.

I've not seen it (thankfully) in anything other than actual C code or graphics code, but whenever I do see it, I make a mental note of "here be dragons" and make sure to take extra care around there... It's not ideal but it's life..
Is this sarcasm?

QT is a decade-plus older than Electron, and UI toolkits in general even more so.

Furthermore, Electron hasn't solved anything except the "I want to make a desktop app but only employ JS/HTML devs" (and that problematically).
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