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>> The american health system is worse than other countries for intense regulatory capture and regulation, thats my assessment and one shared by many economists in the healthcare space.

I addressed where cost savings come from in another post you may have missed, another reply to your comment with specific examples, we can take that over there.

>> You will not get the canadian health insurance by signing a law that says you will.

Funny, that’s how we got ours in Canada in the 1970s, you should read up on it and on Tommy Douglas. No need to be defeatist.

We had a for profit system, and it was the worst, so we changed it. I’m not sure why America would be incapable of that when we weren’t. Further as in Canada, the system can be defined as the federal government requires minimum standards of care and the states execute in the way that makes sense for them.

Obviously Medicare is more expensive. America doesn’t have a free market for healthcare. The young, healthy and cheap to insure obtain cover in the private markets. All the worst customers (the sick, the old, the dying) are removed from the market and their care is already socialized. This is the definition of a manipulated market: privatized gains, socialized losses. The cost to cover for Medicare will drop substantially when the healthy pay for the sick directly the way it’s supposed to work.
Agreed! Is there anyone specific?
i3/Sway has workspaces and tabs which would still support this workflow and allow it to scale to more apps. It is particularly good with multiple monitors. You don't have to tile the windows!
Processing builds upon a full curly braces programming language (usually Java or JavaScript depending on which version you use) so once you are done prototyping it's pretty straightforward to integrate it elsewhere.
We believe that if we do create AGI, we'll create orders of magnitude more value than any existing company.
Because I’m not being pedantic, and because it’s impossible to look at Sway outside the context of Linux.
There is, plotnine.
> When he was 23, he said: “I tried to have sex with a beautiful girl, a woman I was extremely attracted to, and nothing happened. I couldn’t feel any physical arousal and couldn’t get the slightest bit of an erection.”

Could that be due to an entirely different reason? A gay man would react in the same way, for example.
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It comes down to convenience and ease of use... put your pages in, enter a phone number, hit send. Verses scanning pages using a computer, compositing into a PDF, or otherwise emailing loose pages... and since network monitoring is more likely than phone taps (except the govt) may be more secure fax to fax over pots.

It's more a matter of ergonomics. I've also used fancier systems that scan to pdf and email or drop location internally, then you have to email the document out. Frankly, faxing direct is usually far easier.
> Sway includes the features of the i3-gaps patches

What is this about? The look of i3-gaps is extremely undesirable to me. Is it easy to avoid the look of i3-gaps?
Have you considered an electric leaf blower?
So for some reason you're sure he will participate in OpenAI LP when OpenAI say he's not involved in OpenAI LP? Are they lying?
"For the advice coming out of this model to beat a very practical alternative — following conventional wisdom or your own common-sense — we’ll need to deal with many of them all at once."

Conventional wisdom and common sense really means "using an ill defined heuristic", which isn't so obviously better than the discussed algorithm. Common sense, as the saying goes, is neither common nor sense, and using this phrase just hides the actual algorithms people really apply.

There is no reason to think that common sense encompasses more reliable judgement than the simple maths here.
Dynamic Nginx SSL certs are ~40% slower
is there a hall of shame for these broken drivers, devices and vendors?
I was coaching/mentoring my son's high school robotics team for a few years and on many occasions I used the NASA workmanship standards [1] (also mentioned/linked in the article) for learning myself and teaching the kids how to do wire management, making wire terminations, crimping etc.

What a wonderful resource to have at your fingertips.

I feel the standards and attention to minute details go a long way to explain the longevity of the NASA spacecraft.

[1] https://workmanship.nasa.gov/lib/insp/2%20books/frameset.htm...
For what it's worth, paper is a renewable resource, and trashing it is literally burying carbon from the atmosphere. (not using bleached-white paper would be an improvement though)
Bowling for Columbine, Blackfish, most MJ documentaries.
I was under the impression that cable systems are best understood as constant-current systems. As a side effect of this, they can withstand a power failure at either end, in which case the ground path is part of the circuit. (Essentially "single rail" operation.)

If nothing else, both ends still share a common ground reference, yeah?

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3c72/998ffe9c39a1aa4a9faba4...

Edit: thinking about this more, it seems quite obvious that you need a current return path regardless. If it's not the ocean/earth - what is it?
> Is that actually your goal though?

When it comes to contracting, this is precisely the goal. Your questions refer to freelancing rather than contracting, which is quite different.
Being in prison for part of your life doesn't rule out passing your genes off to your kids. Your post made me do a bit of googling, and it looks like about half of the men in prison have kids before they go in. Some will certainly have kids after they are out.
It became much better for me after throwing tons of RAM at it.
For what it is worth, Wikipedia places Russia as number 3 in suicide rate (when standardized for age) behind Guyana and Lesotho. This is based on WHO numbers. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...)

> This is all you need to know about our "opposition".

Ok
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Now/Rust
We are building a CpaaS product and dedicated to simplify and disrupt the multibillion market.

Tech stack we are using:-

Golang, Django, Python, Flask, Redis, Postgres, Nginx, Kamailio, FreeSWITCH, Kamailio, React, WebRTC and Linux.
> Can Windows really let you shrink NTFS while mounted?

Yes, I have done it, even on the running system partition, and no reboot required. Just right click the partition in Disk Management and select Shrink. It will calculate the smallest size the partition can shrink to, and you can use that or any larger size.
The Supreme Court begs to differ.
Faxing is to email as VoIP is to the PSTN

Until we can get over the threshold of assuming nobody has a fax machine anymore, faxing is here to stay. Once we push that threshold, the remaining users can be forced out (by not having fax as an option, and faxing will fizzle away over time).

Think of it like supporting IE6. A lot of the holdouts for IE6 were large health care organizations and VA/gov centers... the same exact places still holding onto fax.
Do you remember which journalists made those remarks? I'm trying to find the source of this.
>Is porn making young men impotent?

Or is it a moral outrage in search of a justification?
> how about feeding a white noise signal into a microcontroller

Yeah, its a lot easier to make an RNG if someone already made one for you. How did you create the white-noise signal itself??

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The question is: where did the white-noise come from? And is there any physical way we can "prove" that the white-noise makes a good generator?

The simplest design (IMO anyway) is to start with the Shot Noise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_noise) that has been well documented in the NP-junction (NPN Transistors, Diodes, etc. etc). The simplest NP-junction is your standard diode... and then just measure the current that goes through that diode (especially if its backwards)

You can measure that current through a series of amplifiers: BJT Transistors to hone in on the noise and amplify it to measurable levels. Then use a microcontroller to read that.

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I'm no expert on hardware RNGs / white noise generators, but that's the kind of thinking you'd need to make one. You have to start with a principle source of noise, and then build a design to amplify that noise as cleanly as possible.

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The hypothesis of this "hackaday" post is that the bootup of uninitialized RAM is a true source of randomness. I'm inclined to believe it (at least, the experimental results show it is at least somewhat reliable), but I'm not 100% sure why.
Why do you want anyone to feel shame about there being another product that does things differently, though? They weren't trying to achieve what Sway did, and what they did achieve is great for what most of their users want. No need to try to put them down.
They have 200,000 employees. I bet I could find at least one in the warehouse up the street who believes Bezos is an alien lizard lord from another planet. The (anonymous) beliefs and observations of one person aren't even close to relevant.
> In general I would be interested in how these "simulated wargames" are being created

I don't know about now, but from what I've read about the wargames of the past, they had a lot in common with recreational tabletop wargames. Hexagonal grids, figurines, rule systems. I too would be curious about how these are done now.
In some states, a buyer must be represented by a Realtor. If the buyer has no representation, then generally what happens is that the seller's Realtor nominally represents the buyer as well (dual agency). If you were to try to negotiate to not pay the commission, then your Realtor would probably refuse to represent the buyer, and they might not be able to close.
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I like the simplicity advocated by Pieter Levels.

The fact that he uses PHP with PHP-FPM solves the problem of deploying a new version (starting the new version, switching new connections to the new version, draining existing connections, stopping old version).

But when using a single host machine, you still have the issue of updating the kernel and the OS, and this is sometimes better done in an "immutable" way, by setting up a new VM and switching traffic to it. This is where things become a bit more complex. You have to use things like AWS EBS or Google Cloud Persistent Disk, detach them from the old VM and reattach them to the new VM. You also need to use floating IP or a load balancer.

In other words, baby-sitting the machine and its OS, either done manually or automatically, is a real pain.

Maybe the real simplicity lies in using something like Google App Engine, Heroku, Clever Cloud or Scalingo.
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Wasn't this on HN last week?

Remember Soylent boasting about their elaborate compute infrastructure, for a business that made a few sales per minute? I once pointed out that they could handle their sales volume on a HostGator Hatchling account with an off the shelf shopping cart program, for a few dollars a month. But then they wouldn't be a "tech" company.

Soylent is apparently still around, competing with SlimFast and Ensure.
Is there some legal structure in place to prevent you from raising the cap as partners being to approach the 100x ROI?
> HOWEVER doing that is a hardcore crime. You can be sent to federal prison for years for doing that. So the USPS is not secure in any sort of mathematical sense, but in practice most people trust it most of the time, because security isn't just about technical implementation details like encryption.

But if your data is such that it would be a “hardcore crime” to seek access to it fraudulently, or the main reason people would do so is to commit a “hardcore crime”, using an information channel that is only considered secure because of the social safeguard that breaching it's trivial protection is itself a “hardcore crime” is probably foolhardy, since engaging in such a crime is cost already accepted by the attackers you are concerned about.
If they're willing to make this change, they might be willing to remove the cap in the future when they have something truly marketable.
Because not having free will won't change the fact that we act as though we do, nor will it change the desired outcome - punishment is meant as a deterrence, not just retribution.
China (aka Comac) is manufacturing them in Zhoushan. How does it help China in "geo-trade leverage" when they're grounding planes Chinese workers are building and selling?
What gotchas are you referring to besides exhaustively listing dependencies and implementing something like `setInterval` via hooks?
Yes, OpenAI Nonprofit is a 501(c)(3) organization. Its mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. See our Charter for details: https://openai.com/charter/.

The Nonprofit would fail at this mission without raising billions of dollars, which is why we have designed this structure. If we succeed, we believe we'll create orders of magnitude more value than any existing company — in which case all but a fraction is returned to the world.
I built this (minimum viable) product in response to a problem we were having at my current company. Which was managing hundreds of SSL certificates for different websites and different customers.

I am currently trying to gather feedback about the product to see in what direction I should take it next.
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I wished they kept them behind the shelf here, as well. Not because I care if other people smoke (once that is over, they will come for fat guys like me), but because as a non-smoker, I hate to see the images of disease every time I have to buy my food.

Anyway, once the young stop smoking they will start doing something else which is dangerous.
The amount of shrinkage available seems to be semi-random though, you can't shrink away all of the free space.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19299393
I fall back on touch typing when I want to keep typos at a minimum, but it's so much slower for me than "hunting and pecking" (even though I don't look at the keyboard when doing it, so it's hardly "hunting"). But that speed increase comes at the cost of accuracy. If I could get speed parity with touch typing, it'd be amazing. I've spent days trying to learn. I don't know if I'll get there. Please forgive me, senpai. :C
> Though to argue against this point, humans every year score on average better than they did last year on old IQ tests

This is called the Flynn effect. It unfortunately peaked in the mid 80's, and is now on a steady decline.
I don't think it's for us to judge whether other people should be happy. You have to just take people on their own terms.

In any case, you ought to be pleased that she quit and made room for someone else to work that dream job.
Side Hustle Nation - nice focus on side gigs people do to make some extra money

The Knowledge Project - very interesting discussions on mental models, learning, leadership etc

Akimbo - Seth Godin podcast

Developer Tea - some good stuff to think about as developers

But Why! - cool podcast for kids, great while driving in car
Looking at their team it's basically both. They'll get whatever they want if they haven't already.
So to clear this up a bit.
EDFAs (which are the in-line amplifiers which use erbium doping) work by having a section of a fiber doped with erbium ions. Only the part which is going to amplify the signal is doped, the rest of the fiber is supposed to be as clean as it gets.
Those erbium ions get shot with a laser (that's the part that needs power from the shore) and get excited. The source signal then hits the ions, which then emit more photons of the same exact properties, but just way more of them - therefore the amplification part.
Continue 80km down the line, and the same thing has to happen again, as enough light has been attenuated.

I mostly work with land systems, where the EDFAs are pieces of equipment completely separated from the fiber - you get a normal strand of fiber dug into the ground, and once you want to amplify it, you've got to plug it into an EDFA line card with the erbium-doped fiber already contained in it.
In the sea, those systems are way more integrated and the fiber is usually spliced right into the amplifier.

I might be able to dig up a card tomorrow if you're curious as to how the system looks.
You're probably imagining an async, thread-per-core model. One cache per thread might be reasonable then (although having more, smaller caches decreases hit rate, so might fail their requirement #5).

Go programs are written in a synchronous, thread-per-request model. You'd end up with _tons_ of small, very cold caches and a miserable hit rate.

You could approximate the former in Go by just having an array of N caches and picking from them randomly. This is similar to their "lock striping" with less contention (no stripe is a hot spot) but a lower hit rate.
But surely all but the very best strategy for selection are equally worthless!
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I think that considering it's a baseline pay job for what it is. I would only guess that a significant portion of the workforce is also very young, and it's their first experience actually doing any kind of physical work for money. That around 0.1% might be depressed enough to call for help under those circumstances, I'm surprised the number isn't higher.
The problem is, how do you know those are good things?

Clearly all of those things have some benifits, else we wouldn't be doing them in the first place. To stop doing them because they might be harmful would make the world a worst place if they are not actually harmful.

And if we actually want to solve a problem, understanding its cause is generally important.

For instance imagine solving global warming without establish the cause is greanhouse gasses. Sure, we might make the world "better" by starting a campaighn to cure all the gay people, but that won't actually help with global warming, and would actually make the world worst (the first statement is fact, the second is a value judgement)
Does knowing that you're running or contributing to Open Source code count? The AWS Open Source blog posted elsewhere in this topic implies that Elastic is making it hard to tell.
I strongly relate to this comment as a programmer. Sometimes when a colleague asks me: "Why life is hard?",
I answer: "Because its hard for people to get along"

My answer is just aggregation of all biggest problems I face in my life and programming. The biggest challenges often have to do with cooperation between 2 or more people.
Lets assume determinism is epistemological unfeasible, ie not possible to evaluate all the states due to limitations. Unpredictability makes no difference to the ontological question of whether actions are due to casual chain or pure irreducible randomness (if it exists in fundamental level). There is no other alternative. Free will is ill defined/semantic nonsense in libertarian sense of its use as there are only two possibilities.
The nonprofit board retains full control, and can only take actions that will further our mission.

As described in our Charter (https://openai.com/charter/): that mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity.
That's definitely true. The question to ask (and I mean quantitatively, not rhetorically -- economists can gather data on this) is whether paying a Realtor 6% nets you more profit on the sale, e.g. whether a house listed on MLS and marketed well sells for 6% more (or sells significantly faster, such that the cost of capital nets you some gain). I expect that it depends heavily on the local market dynamics.
This is a neat idea, but if I'm being honest I find the graphics shown in the readme pretty ugly and evokes memories of bad computer graphics from the '90s / early 2000s textbooks
> The accounting files are the server, if you lost them I'm going to go to your office and kill everyone.

Pardon my French but: what the fuck? How can anyone in his right mind can make a death threat over some piece of technology not working? I mean, I’m sure those people do exist but I don’t understand their thought process.
> They failed because normal people didn't like them.

Do you have proof of this? I suspect they failed because everyone decided to copy the Mac which was trying to emulate a real desktop with bits of paper on it.

> Super limited "tiling" window managers do make sense with such limited UIs.

They also often make sense for complicated UIs, e.g. IDEs such as Visual Studio and browsers such as Firefox, which have docked sidebars and tabs in preference to overlapping windows.
That's like the first point he makes:

I'm totally serious. If you pull it off -- and in many structured jobs, you simply can't -- this simple tip alone can make a huge difference in productivity.
Not seldom reported at all. Was actually considered a major career embarrassment for RHMS.

Just a coincidence.
I'm not sure an open source Nvidia driver is necessary for this. The problem mostly seems to be that Nvidia does not support standard interfaces all other open source and closed source drivers support. Nvidia was very late to the party to support kernel modesetting, which is supported by all other modern graphics drivers.

Nvidia refuses to support GBM, a standard way of allocating memory for graphics. Either they refuse this out of spite, or (more likely) because it fundamentally doesn't fit the architecture of their closed source driver. They are so desperate to push their alternative, EGLStreams, that they have lobbied Gnome and even created patches for KDE to be able to run Wayland on these DEs. This is not some closed source vs open source thing, since AFAICT the closed source Mali driver seems to support GBM and Wayland implementations that need it.

Therefore, the problem isn't that Sway doesn't support Nvidia. The problem is that that Nvidia doesn't support the standard ways to do graphics on Linux. This something Nvidia can in principle remediate themselves if they want it enough.
But can you name one page that makes me login with twitter and asks for permission to send tweets from my account and read my dms? Why do you need to read my dms and write tweets in my name?
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Off topic, but for some reason this made me think of a vegetable that I just had for lunch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesco_broccoli Art by nature with mathematical precision.
It really just seems like either clickbait or a thin straw-man to support a communist agenda.
On top of that, remember Amazon has its own emergency staff on hand so they probably don't call 911 when their own emergency staff resolves the situation.
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I'm reminded of the articles a few years ago calling out Apple for Foxconn employee suicides. When you looked at the numbers it turned out that the suicide rate for Foxconn employees was substantially lower than normal for China.

> According to a 2011 Centre for Disease Control and Prevention report, the country has a high suicide rate with approximately 22.23 deaths per 100,000 persons. In 2010, the worst year for workplace suicides at Foxconn with a total of 14 deaths, its employee count was a reported 930,000 people. [1]

That's 0.0015% at Foxconn, 0.0222% overall. In other words, Foxconn employees committed suicide at only 7% the normal rate. And that was the worst year for Foxconn.

But it didn't stop a whole lot of news stories picking up the "Employees at Apple's factories are killing themselves" angle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides#Analysis
The requirement is almost certainly for a real estate agent licensed by the state, not a Realtor®, which is a registered trademark of a particular trade association for it's members.
Shampoo should be illegal. That stuff is crazy toxic, we shouldn't be systematically dumping all those chemicals into the water supply.

Natural soap does work well on hair.