skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> just needs to be actually thought through,

It's impossible because you both political parties want exclusively mutual results

You can't have cheap insurance without making it mandatory since only the sick will get it

You can't have easily accessible insurance without forcing healthcare companies to comply with new regulations forcing them to increase costs

You can't have good insurance if you aren't willing to pay the market price which happens to be very inflated in the US

You cant lower costs in the US without having a more aggressive regulatory body which 50% of political bodies strongly oppose alongside lobbying efforts

Overall, it's a shitshow that will keep being patchworked every time the administration changes between parties.
Is this like the academia equivalent of an op-ed? No methods, no data, just opinion based on some recent trends?
Imagine every process having its own "non-volatile" memory area, where all persistent state is kept between restarts, with a clean OS interface to share that state to other processes?

People have been thinking about this for decades. (Probably because it's a compelling idea.) Google "orthogonal persistence."
I really wish that when I read a really good article, I could click a button and give £1 or something.
Not everyone can hear.
The idea of small rules leading to large patterns is not something Wolfram invented, but he seems to think he did. I think Conway's game of life predates it, as does Mandelbrot, then there is the Durer pentagon.

Maybe there is a something I am missing though?
I and many others believe that it is very unlikely.
lol, You might want to take in account who you are replying to. tptacek is one of the more prolific commenters on HN. And just to be clear, he was talking about 'rate of growth` in costs, not absolute costs.
This paper pretty closely resembles one that I saw a few months ago: Neural Population Control via Deep Image Synthesis: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/461525v1, which is included among the first few references.
They do quite a bit of building off of it, but some of the images in the full paper are definitely as uncanny to look at as the ones included in the article about it above.
Yep. The gun market is saturated right now. Literally everything that Remington makes is also made by half a dozen (or more) competing companies. If they make stupid decisions and build garbage, that's tough for them.

We don't have any pity for auto manufacturers who make garbage and lose badly. Why would anyone have pity for gun manufacturers who do the same?
Yet another leveraged buy-out. Are there any business cases where one of these panned out well?
That's basically DPDK / SDPK.
Thank you for vocalizing my thoughts.
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I know and that is why I said "as opposed to user entry"
ScyllaDB is probably in the right direction. It at least bypasses the kernel for networking (uses Intel's DPDK).
The Economy That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen: Booming Jobs, Low Inflation
Then... what? Do you have a positive to recommend, or just "not what we've been doing"? (It's not necessarily bad if you don't - when you're doing the wrong thing, the first step to improvement is to stop doing it.)

But it seems to me that much of this can be done within the existing structure. You don't want I/O as streams of bytes? Great. Whatever new thing you think it should be, you can build that on streams of bytes. Knock yourself out. (It may not be as fast as it would be if it were directly supported by the OS, but you can prove the value of the concept by building on top of the OS.)

Same thing with the metaphor of file cabinets (I presume you mean the hierarchical file system.) Well, does your OS let you read and write raw disk sectors? No? Fine. Create one giant file that takes up the whole disk, and manage it yourself. Try out whatever different way of managing that space that floats your boat. Again, it will be slower, but again, you can experiment and prove out your concepts right now. You don't need to wait.
I agree, but sometimes its not something you think about and when every says just use varchar(max)/text then later on you want to speed it up with a btree, oops. IMO its better to set the length if it might be indexed to let everyone know ahead of time not to go over.

I am not that familiar with PG full text index types, but in SQL server the full text index doesn't really work well with exact/begins with searches like the b-tree so your kinda stuck in that situation.

With SQL server I like to stick with varchar(255) as it gives head room for unicode indexing and at one point there where some internal optimizations for less <=255 due to the legacy max being 255, not sure anymore.

Beyond 255 its much less likely to need a btree and becomes more of a full text issue.
But it's been tough for people who were already covered by employer insurance.

Yes. The only word I disagree with in the headline is "start." The squeeze started years ago. One way to look at the problem is this way: http://seliger.com/2018/11/11/health-insurance-security-fqhc...:

In Northern Virginia, for example, the cheapest 2019 Obamacare individual market Silver plan for a family of four (mom and dad age-40) making a subsidy eligible $65,000 a year costs $4,514. That plan has a $6,500 deductible meaning the family would have to spend $11,014 on eligible health care costs before collecting other than nominal first dollar benefits.

I am not a fan of the word "unsustainable," but it seems to apply here.
My 12 year old car (perhaps obviously) doesn't have a touch screen, and every time I drive a card that does have on, I find it to be either a complete distraction and/or a UI failure. Cars don't need to be gadgetized.
The comments there are somewhat magical. FOOL CELLLSSSS!!1!1!
For those of us who are self-employed, I'll mention that low or no deductible health plans may provide better value.

When they sort of work, health deductible health plans are nice because: (1) monthly premiums are low and (2) they give access to a health savings account (HSA) where some amount of money can be stored pre-tax and then used for health related expenses. Of course, none of this saves someone that gets hammered with a $5000 bill like those in the article.

Anyway, the pre-tax HSA account seems to be an attractive to many, and it may be benefit some. However, if you're self-employed, you can deduct your premiums off your income through the self-employed health insurance deduction:

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc502

This means that there may be higher tax benefit for a high-premium, but low or no-deductible plan. Personally, I find it much easier to handle than going through the trouble of an HSA.

All that said, it's pretty much all the same in a catastrophic case. Just take the premiums x 12 + out-of-pocket max to figure out the "maximum" yearly liability. At least on the ACA exchanges, this number is typically $11-15k on what I've seen from either high or low-deductible plans. If you can't make this number, you're not fully covered for catastrophic. Alternatively, if the hospital sends a bill to an out-of-network operator, you're probably screwed as well.

Anyway, this is not to detract from the article. This is a huge problem. Mostly, I wanted to pass on some information that I had to sort through when picking and choosing plans over the years.
The big box model killed small bookstores, then demanded that to access their new market, publishers print in sufficient volumes to stock all their huge stores, and then when they didn't sell all of the copies, the stores returned the unsold books to the publishers and that collapsed them.

The big box store killed the more sparse and diverse shops that sustained the market for niches like Nobel, Booker, and other prize winners. Litfic is mainly character driven over of plot driven, so to say it's all pretentious would be a bit much. The result was that Indigo came to resemble a kind of landfill of discarded ideas, where the good stuff got lost in the effort to find it.
What? The Guardian's comment section has a huge range of opinions.
Postgresql allows you to tune the 'cost' of sequential and random IO, to help the planner figure out the best way to get the data.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/runtime-config-query.html...
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> And don't forget those that do the same thing on youtube

Yeah...I'm starting to develop an unhealthy obsession with bits of junk electronics, office trash, and hot glue guns...

/s
What was the lifetime max on this plan? It probably would have left people out in the cold when they most needed it. I don't think it's wrong to expect insurance to cover people when they most need it, which was largely not true with million dollar lifetime caps.

Even with the ACA, employers have the best of both worlds. Expensive older people are covered by the government, and anyone who gets to expensive can be shuffled off with a little cover and the joy of "at-will" employment.
Why doesn't the article provide any temperature data showing, one would think, some unusual increase? 'Climate Change' doesn't make things melt: heat does.
FYI, they compare their cifar results to [1], which is more effective than plain cutout.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09501
I signed up for the ACA the year it came online. Over the years I went from a sub-$100 plan that actually covered things to paying $300+ per month for the "hit by a bus" plan that was so expensive, one year I said fuck it and paid the penalty instead. I understand well what could have been had something truly happened, but I ended up saving money paying the penalty while still having a few minor doc-in-a-box visits out-of-pocket. I also say a number of insurers go out of businesses such that now your only option in my state is the BCBS.

Say what you will about the ACA, but requiring folks to purchase a product while doing not curbing the rampant greed in the industry screams of corporate welfare to me.
Some previous discussions that I recommend:

* Ask HN: How do you keep a good posture when you spend most of your type sitting? (82 comments) [0]

* Ask HN: Posture – what do you do during work to avoid back pain? (69 comments) [1]

* Ask HN: How do I fix my posture after years at the computer? (20 comments) [2]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16529054

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12652368

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12652368
Putin signs “Internet sovereignty” bill that expands censorship
Another thing that in my experience was close to magic was immersing sore limbs in ice baths. I had a near career-ending bout of RSI a decade ago. Physical therapy and fancy peripherals were unhelpful. But a couple months of nightly 10 minute soaks of my arms in buckets of ice water is the closest I've ever come to a miracle cure. Sadly, it didn't seem to work for anyone else who tired it.

I think what it did was to reset my hypersensitive pain threshold back to normal, but I don't have any science to back that up. It was intensely uncomfortable (bringing me close to tears after a couple minutes) at first but then I adjusted to it.
"No install" is a major selling point, unfortunately.

I'm not sure that's entirely true, but since most people are now familiar with the likes of mobile app stores or one-click/one-command installations that Just Work(TM), the insane complication and risk that come with trying to install and manage software on a major desktop platform like Windows is now obvious for all to see.
In regard to planes, planes in general are a lot more expensive, fewer, and thus easier to track than are people on foot.

Regarding the Maginot line, it actually forced the Germans to use the Ardennes. This was a high risk move for the Germans and if the French had been doing what they were supposed to be doing, they could have destroyed the German Army in the Ardennes.

So, the Maginot line actually was useful, but the French failed to exploit what it was doing for them.
You could call it a "reading store" now I guess.
I work with a company that uses TS for their Node back-end and also their React front-end. It works great. They absolutely love it, and new people don't really need any training.

That said, security is a constant pain due to the npm ecosystem.
Hey, that's a great number, thanks for sharing it. It helps make my point. USC acceptance rate is now better than UCLA, so it is ludicrous to say it is not comparable to schools like UCLA.

How much due diligence do I you think I owe you in a comment on HN? If you google USC acceptance rate, the primary result is 16.6%. I was referring to Niche rankings, which says 17%. I think having a source and an accurate (albeit a couple years old) number is better than 99% of comments. So maybe you believe you are entitled to more, but if so, then maybe you should lead by example and share more data yourself instead of just sniping.
Evidence of ripples in the fabric of space found 5 times this month
Stop That Skirt-Chaser: The Movement to Outlaw Flirting in the 1920s
Being a "prolific commenter" does not preclude one being uninformed on a topic. Quantity != quality.
Imagine Google or Facebook hiring 5% of their developers by lottery. Take all applicants, no questions asked, pick randomly.

I can't fathom why people think "managing a country" requires less skills than managing servers. The consequences of hiring someone unqualified is certainly not less severe.
Also GitLab employee here. I work for the Geo team (geographical replication and disaster recovery), and funny thing is we are also sparsely geographically distributed. No single person in the same country. We have people spread out with all impossible timezones combinations, from US west-coast, Brazil, Europe (east/west) going all the way to Australia.
I'd argue that you don't need interesting guns if your basic offerings are really high-quality. There's room for "plain oatmeal" in pretty much any market.

The problem is that even their basic offerings have drastically declined in quality. If you make plain oatmeal, you'd better be really, really good at it, or else you have absolutely nothing going for you.
Measuring Digital Economic Activities in Canada, 2010 to 2017
S8n was shadow banned on Twitter
Verizon and Tumblr are so poorly matched. Pornhub would be a much better home for it.
Why don't they just have their engineers create their own Tumblr clone? Tumblhub or Tumhub or Pornblr. It would probably be cheaper than buying Tumblr.
American universities have rushed to move as much lecturing as possible to adjuncts, and cap as many employees as possible at 29 hours/week to avoid the ACA. Just like with a fire-and-brimstone televangelist, it's only immoral if other people do it.
NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID - it's interesting as it's May 3rd and the cert seems valid until May 3rd as well?
Yes, one of the benefits of a HDHP is that you can use an HSA which can help since pre-tax dollars can be put directly into an HSA by your employer either as a part of your compensation package or as deductions from your paycheck (you can also make deposits with post-tax dollars and deduct them at tax time but you don't get the FICA taxes back then). Many company provided HDHP don't have THAT low of premiums and the tax savings for many middle class families is minimal due to an HSA due to the recent tax reforms providing a $2k per child tax credit.

For example, I enroll my family in my employer's HDHP. The total premiums from our plan is about $19k this year (employer pays about $14k, I pay about $5k). For this, we have $4k deductible and an $8k max out of pocket coverage. Once we hit the deductible then insurance covers 80% of the cost of most things until we hit our max out of pocket and then they cover 100% of most things, in-network. The most I can put into my HSA is $7k per year.

For about $19k/year in the NY state run insurance marketplace I could buy a HDHP with a $2k deductible and $5k max out of pocket. For $24k/year I could buy a plan that has a $35 copay for pretty much everything. My employer's plan isn't any better than what I could buy on the open market but it IS better for me because I only have to pay a fraction of the premiums.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting that every application explicitly code for each network device. All of that tricky logic could be put into a userland library instead of the kernel. If we wanted, we could even replicate a kernel device driver style API in userland that network device drivers program against, done as a set of userland library files loaded dynamically based on detected hardware.

The tricky part wouldn’t be sharing code between applications. We know how to do that. The hard part would be figuring out a clean way to share the hardware between all running applications, given that any app could be terminated at any time, apps might be mutually untrustworthy and apps would have to play nice to share resources. I can imagine a hybrid approach where the kernel allocates network queues to applications and suggests userland device drivers. While running, the apps would have direct access to the hardware. And when the app is terminated the kernel would reclaim the assigned hardware for reuse by other applications.
Hey ya'll

A few months ago I posted a preview of my app built to replace your sticky notes, after loads of work by myself and co-developer, I'm pretty happy to say it's finally live and ready to download.

The app has a subscription pricing model, however there's a trial period to get going, and if you are arriving from HN and you want to activate after trial just mail me if you want a coupon, I'll gladly work out what you need.

I really just want people to use the app and enjoy it the same way I do.

Thanks!
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I'm not sure - since I have either option, I don't feel screwed over, but if an HDHP were the only option I would definitely expect to see an increase in take-home pay.
I've come to the conclusion that the problem with large, MBA-managed companies is that they are centrally-planned dictatorships. I think the founders typically make an effort to have the leaves make decisions, but after the founders are gone then decision-making centralizes. Beyond a certain size, central-planning is inefficient, as we've seen with Communist countries. And from my outside perspective, MBA programs teach people that central-planning is what produces "shareholder returns". Add in some hubris on the part of the CEO and the fact that control is the easiest way to get people to do what you the central-planning agency wants, and you get the large corporation.

Leadership is vision and empowering the leaves, but that takes knowing yourself (to get the vision) and courage (to let the leaves have control). It's easier to act like a boss and give yourself the title of "leader". The only difference between a boss and a dictator is that that a boss controls by economic power and a dictator controls by physical power.

(Of course, most companies and management are somewhere in-between the poles)
> you are straight up uniformed if you do not think that ACA raised the the cost of insurance.

The post you replied to said:

> the ACA in fact reduced the rate of growth in health care costs.

Meaning the RATE of increase slowed. The Department of health & Human Services estimates that the ACA saved $2.3T up through 2017 ($650B in 2017 alone). Premiums haven't gone down, and they weren't estimated to.
That's not necessarily true, the discounts that insurance companies negotiate can be huge, but it's hard to include that since prices are so inflated to begin with.
That's not a bad way of thinking about it. The HotOS workshop is not a place where people publish completed work, but rather present new, early-stage ideas. From the call-for-papers (https://hotos19.sigops.org/cfp.html):

> We solicit position papers that propose new directions of systems research, advocate innovative approaches to long-standing problems, or report on deep insights gained from experience with real-world systems. We seek early-stage work, where the authors can benefit from community feedback. An ideal submission has the potential to open a line of inquiry for the community that results in multiple conference papers in related venues, rather than a single follow-on conference paper. The program committee will explicitly favor early work and papers likely to stimulate reflection and discussion over mature ideas on the verge of conference publication.
Tumblr already has an existing user base and all the content (nsfw stuff was make inaccessible but not deleted)
Well, it depends.

Some RDBMS's don't store the string's length with each value for fixed-width character fields. So a fixed-length field may still be preferable if the space lost to padding amounts to less than the space lost to overhead.

That distinction doesn't apply to PostgreSQL, because it stores a length along with the value even for fixed-with columns.
I dimly remember reading on Reddit that these machines were not the boy's invention.
Hello World. Let's CSSBattle
For obvious reasons, Tumblr and its critical mass already exists. How often do clones succeed?
It would be helpful to get some true, short stories about the path from harmless activity -> data collection -> re-education camp to show people in the rest of the world why their techie friends are always harping on the dangers of online tracking and the erosion of privacy. This is the depressing doomsday scenario we're all trying to avoid. It's already real and it's happening in a massive country with an eye towards expansion.
You can do exactly that on the Guardian's site!
user base.
I guess that's fair. The laws on the books provide similar maximum penalties, but enforcement is obviously wildly different. I'm prepared to retract that comparison, though I would still maintain that the current de-facto penalties are disproportionate to the gravity of a first offense.
If this is "5 years ago in Asia" why are they talking Portuguese?
No, but sick individuals, or those with sick family members are lousy employees... wink... wink..
I love some optimistic view of software like I had when I first started into computers.
The tax savings on the difference in premium between high deductible health plans and low deductible health plans is probably $2k at most ($6k in extra premiums @30% tax rate). That’s for single coverage, but even for family total year tax savings can’t be more than $5k.

In either case, triple tax advantage of HSA is far more, especially due to compound growth.

If you have the cash to be able to deal with $10k of medical expenses in an emergency, HDHP + HSA is a no brainer
Archiving without extracting is kind of one-way to me.

I prefer a long JSON file, which i can read from, or write down it to file format i want, to a hard-to-extract format such as PDF.
This happened with my employer as well. And this is/was before the "Cadillac tax" came into effect (I believe it's been pushed back to 2020 now).
Interesting - WSJ did the hit piece on PewdiePie a while back too. The story then was that YT was getting too big a piece of the online ad buy from WSJ's former accounts.
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That's interesting data. Thanks for sharing it. In the 2017 snapshot, I'm surprised to see that HDHP plans are slightly more common for high-income families. I didn't expect that.

There's a missing variable here: What are the premiums? HDHPs are attractive to insurers (and by extension employers) because they increase employee sensitivity to healthcare costs and may lead to less wasteful spending. Advocates emphasized that the savings on premiums could be passed on employees as HSA contributions [1]. But as that chart shows, a quarter of Americans have an HDHP without an HSA, and at every point most HDHPs haven't come with an HSA. Are employers just keeping the premium savings? Or have rising healthcare costs meant that the savings haven't materialized?

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204251404574342...