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Ask HN: E-commerce platform with little/no JavaScript
Most of the popular platforms have a heavy about of (slow!) JavaScript. I don’t like bloated websites as much as the next person. But I am busy enough as it is working on my product that I do not have the time to put into writing a website myself. (I’ve done that before).Therefore, are there any good recommendations for a platform that has good templating, extensibility for shipping and payment, and will load in an appreciable amount of time on low end phones/ computers?
We still cannot get a price list of medical procedures in the US thanks to the antitrust exemption provided in McCarran-Ferguson Antitrust Act of 1945.

I think repealing this would be a good start. All other industries are required to provide price lists. My friend went to the ER recently for a sprained thumb. They wrapped it in some bandage and he got a bill for $14,000.

His insurance is covering 80% but he is still on the hook for $2800 for a sprained thumb. Something is not right here.
Could this lead to a different approach to fusion?
The US is barely in the top among developed nations, and it's not much better than the next 10-15 countries:
https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/cancer-trends/data-cancer...

And it's notoriously difficult to compare. If cancer is registered as "discovered" early, because a for profit doctor starts treating it early, but the government hired doctor maybe doesn't, the early treated will statistically appear as living longer.
Very interesting. FWIW Martin Fowler, Pramod Sadalge et al have spoken about the implicit schema for NOSQL dbs from a design pattern perspective for quite a while now. Here is an early 2013 slide from him which is very informational - https://martinfowler.com/articles/schemaless/
>The researchers point out that the gain in greenness seen around the world, which is dominated by India and China, does not offset the damage from loss of natural vegetation in tropical regions, such as Brazil and Indonesia.

So is it a net gain or not?
It's interesting to me that life insurance policies exist that cover suicide. I assume it means that people over-estimate their eventual willingness to commit suicide.
How we got to 5G and what it means
Then you're fighting two fronts.

Practical digital cash of the type you describe needs to have two properties in addition to preventing double spending-- a) quick transaction time (close to immediate) and b) extremely small fees. Otherwise having small amounts of the digital cash doesn't make any sense.

Worse, you've got prior art in Ecash that not only had those properties but also unlinkability. So it can be done, Bitcoin doesn't do it, and as a result the market for it is extremely small and out of touch with the hype around it.
I have one bigger complaint: It blows my mind that web browsers take GBs of ram to run. I mean, c'mon, it's 2019 how can we not address that? It's probably the biggest concern I hear from everyone that uses Chrome and knows how to read their task/app manager
It’s got great performance on macOS, and I suggest that people try it again.
oh, that's a really good idea. I should put all my apps and logins in a single folder and then share them all with everyone in the company. security shmurity!
Alloy*: A Higher-Order Relational Constraint Solver
> with what supply of batteries? They'll always be behind Tesla without the gigafactory

With supply chains setup years in advance because they know how to do logistics.

> - how will they sell them? Dealerships are 100% hostile to EVs, they won't bring in the maintenance business

Fair, but not insurmountable.

> Oh, you think the giants are good at customer service? The only difference in complaints in your example is that dealer networks distribute the dissatisfaction, but Tesla forums get all of them

Every company is at shitty at customer service as they can be while not destroying their business.
Geologists have finally found where some Stonehenge rocks came from
Starting from 3.7, the documentation is much, much better (https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html compared to https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/asyncio.html).

As you'll notice, we now can start program with a simple asyncio.run() instead of manually setuping the event loop. Not only it is less verbose and easier, it's also much less error prone. It should have been in asyncio from the begining, but even a long fight on python-ideas didn't work. Fortunatly, Yuri decided to add on his own.
Yes "data is the new oil" is a clumsy buzzwordy metaphor. But I don't see how the author's hypothetical refutes this. He claims that because data is only useful to it's generator. But this doesn't hold water to me, both oil and data are useless to the end consumer until they are refined. It just so happens that the data "miners" and "refiners" in our day are vertically integrated (like Standard Oil was back in the day).

The real reason data is not like oil is that data is replicable and nonconsumable. Even still, I think the "data as oil" metaphor is valuable because it communicates this concept that we are becoming addicted to this resource that has world-altering negative externalities. That's all.
5 year survival rate is poorly correlated with treatment efficacy. It's mostly correlated with how early a cancer is diagnosed.

In most cases it's a good thing to detect cancers early, but saying a country is good at detecting cancers is not near as strong of a statement as saying that a country is good at treating cancers.

And this gets complicated by prostrate cancer -- many would argue that mass screening for prostrate cancer causes more pain and suffering than it prevents.
It isn't about developer tools anymore than it is about privacy or the open-web. Sadly, just like with IE6, Chrome is the default pre-installed browser in most used handheld OS. Plus, it is in-your-face-advertised on the front page of world's most popular website, in case you don't happen to have it installed on a Mac or a PC.

There's very little individuals can do to reverse the trend, short of websites and OEMs coming together to start reversing Chrome's stranglehold in an unified campaign (which doesn't seem likely).

The fall of IE6 was due to innovation from Mozilla and Google putting it's weight behind Firefox... What could Safari/Firefox do now? Get all or several of Microsoft/Facebook/Amazon/Apple on-board? Investment from these companies is the only way I see out, frankly, if history is any indicator (OpenStreetMap vs GMaps).

That said, tech needs to keep improving and so Firefox Quantum was a great first step in the right direction, imo.
Is that really true? Maybe some, but I don’t know about “many”. I’d imagine when most people start on their dev career, they don’t imagine their dream job to be “teaching,” they imagine it to be coding. I think you’d have a tough time getting responses for a “senior engineer” job ad that says you’ll actually be a full time mentor.
Judge if they can code in our core stack? Well, if they're working with it in their current job, or in side projects. Assessing if they are good, we can do it in the on-site. Like I said, our on-site is based on knowing our stack, so we have to make sure they can work with it before we bring them in.
You are right. You could. I've said as much numerous times in the past, but this doesn't unfortunately stop folks from saying that the performance difference is directly attributable to Rust. The performance difference is primarily attributable to algorithms.

I have, though, said in the past that I wouldn't have written ripgrep without Rust, which is a very different claim and is opinionated, and mostly a statement about developer productivity and maintenance burden. With Rust, it is very easy to keep ripgrep's trains running across Windows, macOS and Linux.
Companies aren't moral. They do what makes them money, mostly in the short term.
It's a hardware wallet, pretty hard to hack: https://www.ledger.com/
To be fair, most health outcomes are directly related to financial issues: controlling for all other variables, it's the single most consistent predictor.

If you look at pretty much any general population level outcome, a country with a high concentration of health insurance (as proxy for financial resource to get healthcare) is going to have bad "average" outcomes.

If you look at metrics that select a sample that tends to have access to healthcare (e.g., cancer tends to cluster in over-65s, who have access to Medicare and, at greater rates than the general population, Medicaid), you're going to get a look at "what the healthcare technology is like in that country for people with access to it."

It's entirely fair to point out that average outcomes suck for average people because "average" access to healthcare is "really shitty access to healthcare."

It's also fair to point out that if you change how the system operates, it's not unreasonable to ask whether you'll change the system's strong points, which may well be "technically sophisticated care for those that actually have access."

My position on this is a third, orthogonal position (which is that how you pay for care and the operations that produce that care are not unrelated, and fractured, free-market operations produce fractured care, and that operations have much more day-to-day impact on healthcare outcomes than technical sophistication.) But it's unrelated to the above.
Lifespan
Deaths due to preventable causes

On both of these the US is somewhere in the 30s in terms of rank among countries. But we are #1 in terms of cost per capita :)

5 year cancer is too low level in my opinion to give an overall picture
that was a CD-ROM, not an audio CD
Tech salaries have gone up faster than founders/VCs expected and it's becoming more expensive to run a startup. Perhaps startups should wait a little longer to raise money. It seems more important than ever to find product-market fit before hiring.
Also having a good time with Firefox on macOS running on an early 2018 MacBook Pro. It has fully replaced my Chrome use at work.
Musk has promised lots of things.
aluminum soda cans are a great example of standardized containers that work right now
When my son was born he fit in my hand and spent his first three months in NICU. I guess the nurses thought his survival was questionable so they entered in his name into the computer as “Baby Boy”. A few months later I started getting bills (eventually around $3 million) because there was nobody named “Baby Boy” on my insurance. Calling the insurance to try and correct was a nightmare - wait on hold for an hour, get 3rd degree interrogation about my identity, wait on hold, explain that son was on insurance but not called literally “Baby Boy”, wait on hold, get interrogated for his details on son’s identity, wait on hold, long series of questions to determine Baby Boy isn’t real and let me know about penalties for fraud. Three hours later done, that covers the first $50. Decided I would never do that again, let it go to collections and explain it to the judge. Turns out that before it goes to collections it goes to someone with a brain who realizes “Baby Boy” is in-fact the infant boy with identical birth date on my policy, notices stop coming. No telling how much money they spent sending me all the nasty payment due letters in the mean time.
Out of curiosity, what Google Apps work better in Chrome? I use plenty of Google services entirely in Firefox and have never had problems. I only fire up chrome when using Chromecast.
I agree with the GP in that the average at home chef doesn't need anything more expensive than a $45 Victorinox 8" chef knife. With moderate to proper care, you can keep a cheaper knife very sharp.

While you may be statistically correct, anecdotally my family has hurt themselves way more often with sharp knives than we have with dull knives. It's probably due to being used to a dull knife before switching to a sharp one, but I still can't stand by that adage from our history of personal use at home!
I am not a builder, but I wonder if tech like this is stymied by the nature of the housing market?

From what I understand, housing is one of the most-regulated sectors, and one which has also seen not much innovation (compare to computers or autos).

Were I a Bill Gates, I'd sponsor housing projects where innovators could be rewarded based on sustainability and cost. I guess, in order for anyone to live in them, I'd also have to sponsor some politicians to get government to then allow it.

From an efficient resource allocation (in other words, economic) perspective, there appears to be almost noone solving sustainibility problems. What I mean is, sustainability per dollar spent should be at the forefront of our minds, and I'd be very surprised this kind of tech did not find a place in the market if that were allowed to prevail.
That will solve our environmental crisis at least.
I'm not sure what the volume of gmail accounts is supposed to demonstrate. But gmail is known to be high value, and so it stands to reason that internal safeguards around access to gmail accounts would be much greater than data from a spellcheck API or search autocomplete.

It certainly is an extraordinary claim, but there does come a point where the totality of evidence points to the likelihood of it. I'm not saying we're at that point, but in my mind we've reached the point of reasonably possible.
microsoft switched to chromium because they want better control/integration with electron apps and the windows store. firefox wasn't on the table for them.
I cannot even imagine the toll this would take.

I have a very simple set of recurring claims against my healthcare provider that I'm handling myself (out of network, no problem, I thought). Due to job changes I had successfully had my charges reimbursed by my previous 2 insurance companies over the past year.

The current one has taken 6 months to finally start reimbursing me -- and actually, they're almost caught up! Every goddamned time, the helpful phone persons sees the problem: "Your provider was entered as an XYZ type of provider instead of a ZYX provider, so it was being sent to the wrong unit. I'll re-enter him correctly, delete the old entry, and resubmit your claims marked as urgent. They should be processed within 7-10 days..." Very helpful staff. They seem to get it. They seem to figure it out. They seem to fix it. And it's never. fucking. fixed. And so you wait 7 days. You want 10 days. Still in process (if the horrible online system even allows you to login today). You wait 14 days, thinking maybe that was 10 BUSINESS days. Then you call back. Again, and it's the same thing. Over and over again.

My reimbursements came totally out of sequence. The claim numbers don't match. The dates on the claim number don't match the dates on the EOB, they're paying me back for the wrong visits!

But somehow, somewhere, on the backend, someone is reconciling it. Amazingly, the amounts are adding up. I think the processors are REALLY GOOD at not accidentally double-paying, so even though they're paying me for the wrong dates here, the next time they avoid double-paying, and find ANOTHER date to pay for (properly). It actually looks like it'll somehow all get paid back. Again, all one insurance company and one health care provider. And it's my insurance. And it's top tier private tech company employer PPO type stuff.

My wife was in the hospital after a car crash. The first EOB I got for $200,000 saying "Denied", and that number didn't even include the surgery. I just laughed.
It went to the wrong insurance, a simple call and it was sorted.

But I can't fathom having less than perfect insurance (and I don't even know how to manage to maintain good insurance while having cancer and potentially being out of work and having a partner who might not be able to work while they're helping you), and having millions of dollars in bills, and having them come in from countless different providers.. sheer misery.
It's because my negative tone. And I'm sorry for my tone. It's just that every day I see us slipping further and further into becoming a completely corrupt country without any humanitarian values. In the end, I love everyone just the same, I'm just so disappointed in what we are allowing ourselves to become.
The federal government cannot be crippled because it can issue currency ad-infinitem. As AOC is wonderfully publicizing, the notion that government finance works like household and business finance is finally starting to be debunked and at least talked about openly. There maybe other problems with universal healthcare, but financing it is not one of them.
So then it can be argued that, due to long wait times in MFA, the cancer survival rate would go down due to later diagnosis.
Got users? How about 100M of them?
An obstacle here is that most of these business routers don't support UPnP. I don't want to argue the merits or pitfalls of UPnP, what's relevant is that lack of it becomes an obstacle to online play for modern video game systems such as Xbox. Add to that scenarios where router type is mandated by a particular ISP (Verizon in the US is applicable here) and there's quite a few scenarios where people may have the ability t manage such a protection scheme but other factors get in the way.
It's not hidden, Tesla has massive debts coming due and the stop price is nowhere near the point where they can get away with not paying cash.

The Model 3 is a reasonable 30k car. maybe 35. If they can actually get the price down to that point it might be worth it.
India and Pakistan say they've launched airstrikes against each other
Supercomputers can spot cyber threats
Age of Anxiety
This is like an unpleasant blast from the past. It was wrong when web developers did this for IE, it's wrong now.
Big data at the atomic scale: New detector reaches new frontier in speed
This point of view is as ignorant of reality as the grammarians that say Webster's English is the only true English. Every standard is a three-edged sword: the spec, the intent behind the spec, and the practical application of the spec in the real world (which all-too-often, unfortunately, includes things like "Yeah, that's what the spec says, but then scammers realized you could exploit that to use people's browsers to mine Bitcoin or something, so no browser actually does that").

A web developer codes against real machines, not the imagined, idealized, and non-existent machines the specs describe.
Warning: this hard locked my MBP. More detail after I’m back at my machine.

Edit: System details

Retina Mid-2015 15" - MJLT2LL/A - MacBookPro11,5 - A1398 - 2910

Firefox 65.0.1 (64-bit)

The hang occurred when running the benchmark with Texture Mode enabled. The spinning gear froze after a few seconds, then the display went black and the fan was maxed.

It was a pain in the ass to recover: my only option seemed to be to power down and power back up again, at which point OSX helpfully remembered the state my machine was in and dropped me back into the blacked-out display and maxed fan. Some combination of NVRAM reset, SPC reset and safe mode was required to get back in.
And how much of that is due to the obesity epidemic in the US and has nothing to do with the healthcare system?
You do realize the world is bigger than US and EU, right? That there are many other countries in the world where the situation is not the same as in the first world?
It's also probably not related to the 1984 movie "Gremlins" or the 1970's car of the same name (listed as one of the ugliest cars of all time[0])

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/worlds-15-ugliest-cars/7/
It sounds like you are implying that cancer survival rates are affected by the way Americans pay for healthcare. What specific mechanisms do you think are the cause? Total spending, ability to see doctors, insurance company approval of certain treatments...? Or something else?
Electron microscope can record movies at the atomic scale
> personally leading the rocket engine design team

and the propulsion department
Eliminating 6% of global emissions won't solve anything. The nuclear fallout, clean up and rebuilding will make it much worse.
One person's cancer was missed in Canada.

Meanwhile, millions of people in the US who have cancer but can't afford health insurance, and therefore won't get any tests, will have their diagnosis missed.

I'd rather live in Canada.
There's still the rest of the world…unless you're trying to say that there won't be an environment left to save?
Caution: this just hung Firefox for a ~30s and then my MBP rebooted.
"Wait for them to do so" is an answer that guarantees your team will get passed over in favor of a team that brought a working product to market today, to solve real problems real users have.
Looks like they will keep sacrificing playability and enjoyability for graphical greatness.
Florida already did - gobrightline.com. Private rail linking west palm beach with Miami, expansion plans to Orlando.
Secure Your Identity and Become Anonymous Online in 2019
Engaging in blatant stock manipulation then blatantly violating your SEC settlement is not "shorts FUD".
Who pays for facilities and player scholarships? It's not difficult to move numbers around.
> A windmill with a generator inside it that is hooked to a wire that drives an electric heating element inside your house will be more efficient

How so?
I like how they try to blame subversion and propaganda on the "current divide" in politics.

Most people know good and well whats happening, its more the intellectuals who are making out well in this current environment who are doing (in good faith) the mental gymnastics to put the fault of the american media's decline on some abstract idea as if tree's didn't bear fruit.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Mundt_Act
Big soft drink companies have bottling plants all over. Coke isn't made in Atlanta Georgia and shipped to Des Moines IA: it is made in Atlantic IA and Shipped to Des Moints. I don't know where else Coke has plants, but I would guess nearly every country in the world - with many having more than one. Coke delivers to the local store and goes back empty for more so this would work well if they would go back to glass bottles.

It isn't that simple though, I have relatives that worked for coke back in the glass bottle days and they would never drink coke from a glass bottle - they knew first hand how hard it was to get those bottles clean again. New plastic bottles and cans are always clean.
So we all switched to Chrome, which makes the memory hog blush.
Why did he go to the ER?
100 million users? Does anyone need to have that capability?
He's the most shameless self-promoter you'll find, so my guess is he's terrified of failing in public.
I agreed to your comment before you edited it, simply because on a price point, Apple stuff isn't viable for laptops and desktops for many people.

I don't agree with your weird rant, without any sources. Apple has shown with Safari that some people do like privacy features baked in, and while I can't say for sure, I hope it played a part in emboldening Firefox/Mozilla to focus a bit more on privacy.
Intel Details Lakefield SoC with 10nm Sunny Cove CPU, Gen 11 GPU, 3D Packaging
I think I'm allowed to have a very negative opinion of unfounded belief systems, given the damage they've done the past 3000 years up to and including the present U.S. "fakenews is whatever I don't believe is true" administration

https://www.salon.com/2014/11/17/6_reasons_why_religion_does...
I think the claim is the more this infrastructure gets built out, the more players need to enter to make it workout, the bigger the footprint and calls to regulate it get, etc. will certainly make it a more functional system for the end user but also will bring about the same thing we dislike about current financial systems that involve lots of intermediaries, regulations, etc.

You have to argue that this maturation process will not be plagued by the sorts of issues that our very mature regular banking system is. And that's not a certainty.
"It's the beginning of the end!"
A Better Path to Universal Health Care