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> Single payer systems result in inflation of costs and creates individual incentive to pursue inefficient options. If my healthcare costs are amortized through payment from primarily other people instead of myself, I don't care how much money anything costs.

I think this can be somewhat mitigated thorough co-pays. It's been shown that even if you make a doctor's visit cost a few dollars/euros then people will treat it as something of value.

Also there's nothing that says a single-payer system has to cover everything the patient wants carte-blanche. In Germany, which is a hybrid system where a vast majority of people are on the public plan, the state insurance is somewhat judicious about what is covered, and it's possible to get elective treatment out-of-pocket. I think this is a reasonable incentive structure.

> Moreover, it incentives risky behavior (smoking, getting HIV, etc) because I personally will not have to bear the financial burden of those choices. The only way to get around this would to to institute caps on lifetime medical credit. And if that happened, people would be screaming about "death panels" and such.

I have a lot of problems with this reasoning. First of all, I think it is probably a tiny minority of people who only value their health because of the threat of financial ruin. I think there's a strong intrinsic incentive to avoid things like HIV and lung cancer.

Second, not all health issues are the result of bad choices. I have relatives who are or have been affected by conditions like MS, dementia and cancer through no discernible fault of their own. This argument seems to imply that it's more important to punish callous smokers and people who have unsafe sex than it is to care for innocent people who are the victim of circumstance.
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If said thoughts are ineffable but helpful we'd still have a trial to run, as long as it has some sort of quantifiable positive or negative lasting effects.
Ask HN: How difficult (or possible) is it to get into low level development?
I currently work doing the typical line of business web app development and I'm so disallusioned with it. Web development (and really business app development period) just bores me and I feel like I'm just doing different variations of the same thing.

I've always been interested, as a hobby in doing more low level type stuff. Think OS development, device driver development, firmware etc., but I don't think there's really any market demand for those type developers anymore and I imagine it would be extremely competitive (especially as I have no formal education)

Is there any real way to break into this field? I'd be willing to go back to school and such, I just doubt the existence of such jobs
I'm lazy so I use FF's built-in for anything web.

Then gnome keyring with PAM auth upon user login.(again, lazy)
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I just want a pretty flight sim with a handful of planes that lets me fly everywhere in the world without dollar signs appearing in the menus.

Actually I'm finding myself giving up on video games for the exact same reasons I gave up on television 20 years ago, I'm tired of everyone trying to sell me more shit during the increasingly rare free moments I have.
Classically, you're right, but Amazon seems to operate by a different set of rules. Prices, availability, and recommendations change constantly according to some internal algorithm. In effect, no two users are shopping in the same store. This disrupts the ability for users to communicate about what's going on at Amazon. The whole thing is a big mystery and most people just see what they think is a good deal and snap it up before it's gone.
For those that are interested, I was able to attend a talk by the guy that started Graphcore. His experienced approach to customized chip design for ML/AI is a really great thing to tap into. Some of the themes were: maximize power usage as its a limiting compute factor, remove off-chip memory, and scale horizontally at the individual processor level rather than "sharing resources across cores".

https://www.graphcore.ai/
As far as I know, current clinical evidence shows that modern porcine insulin isn't actually any better or worse than synthetic human insulin overall. However, it's also not any cheaper these days either - in fact, I think the NHS pays slightly more for it than human insulin. Sure, managing to program bacteria to produce complex human biomolecules was a major breakthrough, but the tech is old and refined enough that companies can churn the stuff out relatively cheaply.
All I'm thinking is that there's likely some very desperate people out there looking very hard for these drugs in a cheaper form, and with a bit of viral marketing magic from the pharmacist I don't think it would be a massive stretch to match the two.
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>However, representing the masses vs a few special interests is definitely a step toward greater democracy.

Unless the masses don't understand how/why some systems work and want to tear them down. Many systems in modern life are complex enough that most don't understand them, and such systems, if simply ran by popular vote, would make life worse, not better, for the masses.

This is how we get rent controls (which ultimately hurt those it is supposed to help), it's how we get anti-vaxxers, climate change denialists, those who would tear down modern banking and replace it with a gold standard (despite ample evidence this is a terrible idea), we'd block all sorts of medical advances, we'd block human rights, and on and on.

The masses is not a very good deciding factor in running a modern world. They should feel represented, and have some say, but certainly they need protected from really bad decisions. I'm not sure the best way to do it, but it's pretty clear the masses would run things terribly in many cases.

Sometimes having representatives try to get good advice from experts and follow it is a much better solution.

Populists historically have appealed to the masses like this, and they have a pretty bad track record.

An old quote has some truth to it:
“The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
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Good point. I thought you were going to talk about Minsky and Papert and Perceptrons. That caused another mini-winter, at least w.r.t. connectionist models.
My minor league loss is just from window down. I rarely combined it with earbuds.

Glad you looked it up. IMHO, people should be better informed on this.

A walk around with a sound meter app is very enlightening.
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You can use Will Strafach's new app Guardian that blocks trackers in apps. I think Apple is going to purge them from iOS apps over time, they've already started with kids apps.

https://guardianapp.com/
IMHO, good electron apps feel and behave like native apps. Or, in the worst case scenario, they feel like an equivalent web app.

Specifically - I should not have to think of having to “ctrl-R” for a desktop application.

Good electron apps do exist, but they feel like a vast minority. Most just feel like a bloated version of their web application.
> They entered, they did something, they billed.

Very unfortunate. This makes the research into whether your preferred hospital/OB-associated-hospital is in- or out-of-network rather useless to some degree.
Being a street corner crack dealer in many US cities has so much competition, that it pays below minimum wage.
> And with VR being in reach it will no longer be necessary to have crazy screen setup.

I only have a Vive to compare with, but, having tried a bit of Elite Dangerous on that, I'd say VR still has a way to go - it was hard to read all the text, and a flight simulator will have a lot more dials and the like. It needs more resolution and sharpness first.
> mass murder for profit

This doesn't make sense. Only an entity out to make a quick one-time score would literally kill their customers or potential customers. If anything, you'd want to bleed your customer for as much as you can, which is closer to what they actually do, e.g. provide 'discount programs' for people with less wealth or income to obtain drugs with high 'sticker prices' for much less.

Remember that, generally, if anyone is paying these high prices, it's insurance companies, not private individuals.
1. Pi3 controlling my swimming pool pump (basically a fancy timer)

2. PiZero controlling a mousetrap (servoe controlled trapdoor with IR sensor)
Short term thinking
It's relative. Outlook is using 2.37 GB of RAM as I type this.
Oh interesting, I assumed the original MSFS was a port/enhancement of FS2 from the various 8-bitters. But apparently it was the other way round.
I'm the author of the post and I should also say that I don't love Electron. It's a practical choice for getting an app of the ground, but I want something more lightweight eventually.

I see it as a stop-gap until I can invest more resources into something more lean. But I'm focused on the product right now, not rewriting the world and wasting time because of engineering ideals.
It's 0.1% for most uses and it's subject to very vague usage requirements they don't let you read until you sign up, as far as I can tell.

So you need to spend £15k a month to recoup your monthly fee.

Natwrst have more generous cashback for their bill payments scheme alone.
When MSFS was in its heyday flight yokes were <$50. And they were a super common accessory. Now, you can’t find anything for less than $180 on Amazon.
I miss that game!

Kerbal Space Program has mostly replaced it in my mind, though. It's really an incredibly deep game.
Its interesting that slack takes 1gb+ memory. Slack still uses the OS provided webview, right? That seems like the right way to do it (last time I used Slack, it was a 3mb download - glorious), but how is it using so much RAM? maybe its leaky?
Don’t you get hit by international fees when using your credit card abroad? As a regular business traveler living in europe, Revolut has saved me a fortune (I even turn a small profit with the Metal cashback)
No, nothing stands out to me at all, it’s all just normal English. My mom is born/raised from Ketchikan, which is about PNW as one can get, and I swear she has no accent either. It’s all very Midwest neutral.
I started on Flight Simulator 4 way back in the day; I think on my 286. I remember when I first moved to Chicago I wanted to check out Meigs Field, the airfield you started on. It's gone now, and has a really crazy story of how it got turned into a park:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_Field

Looking at the previews for the new FS, I wonder if it will require an Internet connection. It seems like way too much content to download/pre-install. Will it download content as you travel?
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I completely agree! Are you referring to the "ctrl-r" to reloading the server in the article? That's only for development - the user never has to refresh the app like that of course!
It only seems uncalled for if you don't believe price gouging on critical drugs to point of financial ruin and death is utterly evil. Clearly, you don't believe it is evil.
Depends how big you make your capacitors :D
I have a few ideas for android apps for a foreign market. I think they would blow up and be very popular albeit for a poor country where you might not make a lot of money. I am willing to create an LLC and give equity for potential profits to someone who would be able to development of the apps. Let me know if anyone is interested in collaborating :)
You cannot assume a null result without testing against it rigorously.

Gwern level of tests are way not rigorous nor sensitive enough. Which is why this is much more useful.

Blinding is relatively easy with substances that are active at very low doses and have relatively unpredictable effects.
> It reported operating loss for 2017, because it stopped losing money on monthly basis only in December 2017.

What are you talking about? That's gibberish. It lost about £15million in 2017
Making electron, the entire point of which was to lower the barrier to entry to app development, even vaguely reasonable in terms of memory use by having to code in Rust which is very much not low barrier to entry is an irony that strikes exactly to the heart of the point the person was making.
There's still non-cash-grab yet AAA games out there, depending on what type of game you enjoy of course. For action games there's Horizon Zero Dawn and God of War on the PS4; HZD has some optional DLC but it's just a bit of extra content, and GoW does not (will not?) have any of that. Just a complete game, no attempts at upselling, etc.
ah the extreme techno-optimist position.

> We cannot ever stop the human desire for a better life not should we

i think the goal is to redefine what a better life looks like. like, maybe it's not one of increasing consumption, but one of community and connection and ecological harmony.
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My father built this wild automatic glass cutter with one.
https://twitter.com/Eric_WVGG/status/1010952072139890694 [edit: I'm a dummy, this is built on an Arduino]

He also built a solar panel that's mounted on an upside-down bicycle frame, slowly turns all day to keep facing the sun. Lot of interesting math to track the sun across the calendar year.

I'm boring, just building a NAS with Nextcloud Pi. Although it will likely be built on a different board that's better-suited for NAS…
> but when was the internet ever high-trust?

Exactly. It started when big corp tried to lure in more users by giving them free cheese, making them believe that the internet is a safe place to post your name, address, work life and sex habits. Everyone at the time thought it was crazy that people did that, and yeah they were right.
You and I live in different worlds.
So it sounds that the solution to the problem is to establish an online pharmacy chain and make sure that you gain a good reputation?
Which gallery? I'm going there in a few months and would like to see that.
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> churn the stuff out relatively cheaply

The marginal costs (per unit) are relatively cheap but the fixed costs, especially regulatory costs, are very much not cheap; which is one reason why there's so little competition.
It’s not “back room deals” that have made tuition prices balloon, it’s the government loans themselves.
Haven't they supported that for ages? I thought even FS2002 had that
I think you are exaggerating. The goal of SBIRs is to fund high risk research. Solar roadways are high risk; even if it fails completely it's not like a lot of money is wasted, and something valuable is still learned.

Qualcomm was the result of SBIRs, for example.
Memory Palace, as in used for memorization, is covered in Moonwalking with Einstein (a book). It's certainly an interesting way to memorize things, in this case competitions for memorizing a deck of cards.
War is a Racket

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
Individual disasters yes, but not trends. We are seeing once-a-decade or once-every-few-decades events much more frequently now.
Excellent feature, long overdue! I hope that this also means we're going to see the end of what I can only describe as "hellban limits" where support/documentation insists the limit is n while you're being clearly throttled at m<n and the way to resolve that is escalation to the team itself.

We ran into this, for example, with AWS Organizations, where we were allegedly bumped to like, 32, but as soon as we hit 20 or so newly created accounts had all services disabled including S3 and EC2.
There certainly is a legitimate self defense need for weapons technology. Realistically you cant do without. But things get murky when we start selling weapons to questionable allies.
My guess is Slack likes to keep pages around, and each workspace is a separate page that are individually pretty heavy. So if I'm logged into 4-5 workspaces that adds up quick.

Slack does not use the OS webview, it is Electron. I don't think it's a 3MB download - if it is it must just be an installer that installs the real thing? I haven't looked recently.
The primary failure is that healthcare is considered an "industry" in the US and that health "insurance" is incentivized to keep prices (and profits) high.

Health insurance by private companies is just a scam. In combination with "not-for-profit" hospitals, medical practicioners loaded with college debt, lobbying to government to enforce ongoing rent-seeking (eg "Medicare D is specifically not allowed to negotiate drug prices").

The entire US health system needs an enema.

It should not be up to the patient to "be aware of better options". It should not be up to the pharmacist to stop him leaving when he couldn't afford it.

What should have happened is that a doctor prescribed the appropriate medication, and a pharmacist supplied that medication, both ensuring the best outcome for the patient.

The cost of the medication should be absorbed (not totally perhaps, but within the bounds of reality and the minimum wage) by the government.

That forces the government to negotiate the best possible price with the suppliers and to remove inappropriate IP "rights" when they no longer "promote the progress of science and the useful arts".
It isn't. It's completely ineffective and a waste of resources.

Even given a highly inefficient but effective way of preventing goods from being shipped directly from the US to China, what's stopping anyone from shipping them from the US to Vietnam or Thailand and then from there to China? Or the same for corporations rather than countries?

There is no point in doing something that costs you more resources to attempt to implement than it costs the opposition to successfully evade.
I've never noticed Electron apps negatively impacting my computer. I use Slack all the time and I don't notice a difference when I have it running vs when i don't. Do most people not like Electron because the number seems high or does it negatively impact their computer in some way? (I have a MBP with 8 gig RAM, that doesn't seem out of the ordinary)
What happens if you don't pay your taxes?

People whit guns come and throw you in jail.

It isn't a "cheap rhetorical trick" it is the fucking truth.

>Regulations to stop you torturing puppies? "That's bad - it's a threat of violence"

I am not saying "never use a threat of violence". I am simply saying that if it isn't appropriate for an individual to use the threat of violence, then it isn't appropriate for the government to do so. Would I personally use violence to stop a robbery, sure, would I personally use violence to fund the arts, no.
> To give you an admittedly sci-fi (for now) example: what if all energy is clean (nuclear + solar + wind) and planes are electric?

if this is an argument for business-as-usual in the hopes that we'll manage to solve our ecological woes with technology before it's too late -- that's a pretty irresponsible argument. what if we don't manage this?
I think you’re saying “a user should never have to refresh the app”. Because ctrl-r has returned completely borked applications back to working. Specifically, I’ve had to use it almost daily to make slack recover from a freeze.
thats 300mb across several completely necessary helper processes.

garbage in, garbage out
You are technically correct but it's easier to get it up and running using docker as it contains all the dependencies needed to run it and works on every operating system with very little overhead.

Simply easier to tell people to use docker rather then writing a separate guide for every OS don't you think?
It would be amazing if they gave this an online battle royale mode.
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> Oh, wait, no, that's what their traffickers from Honduras and elsewhere

So you're using the fact that these kids are the victims of human trafficking, to make them suffer even more? Do you even listen to what you're saying?
I've found UFO Test to be the best demonstration of frame rates, since it adapts to the refresh rate of your monitor.

[0] https://www.testufo.com/
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The first and only piece of software I've ever bought on physical media!
Are you sure those 3 MB were not just a web installer?
You can't really invest, because the investment opportunity is controlled by other profit maximising capitalists who will charge an arm and a leg for the opportunity.

You could find a profit maximising capitalist who would be happy to enter the market and compete for a fraction of the outrageous profits - that would make a lot more money than paying to invest as is more usual. In theory there only needs to be a handful or so and that would be enough to bring the market back down close to cost of production.

However, it seems likely that government regulation would disrupt that process somehow, otherwise it would have happened by now.
Right, but why use visual basic as the actual language?
I don't get what you are saying. Using 230MB of memory for a very data-heavy app is already somewhat reasonable, and more advanced optimizations are going to require more advanced engineering.

It's the same thing with any app, as you go further along development you will want to optimize in more advanced ways.

I'm not arguing that Electron doesn't have bloat though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20274725
I make "no perfect market" or "perfect information" assumption.

I am pretty confident that people will take stupid risks, as I am confident that people who want to be safe - buying from reputable sources - will be able to.
Behringer neutron is an affordable gateway drug.
I may be wrong, but I think you can tell IPVS to schedule using tuple hash only using Direct Return mode, which means no stored state for connection tracking.

Edit: doesn't appear to be true, but it uses it's own "lightweight" connection tracking table so you can unload conntrack modules from kernel.

Realistically IPVS can probably route 40 gigabit of traffic per instance. Combine that with DNS round robin and maybe even multi-homing at the front and you could handle basically anything
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Luckily for the mexicans, theyre not being invaded by their neighbours, and their land has been just fine since recent history
I've lost hours/maybe days to pulseaudio after daring to try configure an eq. Totally opaque and highlights why linux isn't ready for a mainstream audience.
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As for impact it depends. Slack is not that bad except that it is slow (for example switching teams was sluggish when I was using it). But when I run Slack, Skype, Insomnia and VS Code at the same time I definitely saw the impact. I had 16Gigs of ram but half of that was eaten by a VM all the time.
I assume you can't just manufacturer unpatented drugs and sell them as drugs.

You likely need to prove that you are producing a clean product, etc.

Similar to how there is regulation of you make food at industrial scale.
The FTC regulates advertisements. [1] At what point is a statement like "[x] just saved $[y]!" on your own site being shown to a visitor constitute an advertisement for your service? Or is it just advertisements involving a paid third party?

From 1: "Advertisements with specific claims can be substantiated with evidence"

[1] https://bondstreet.com/truth-in-advertising-laws/
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