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Other than medical problems the rest aren’t necessarily real and could be seen as learned habits.

We “make up” problems and invent solutions at scale for people to abide social norms of needing a job.

Feeding oneself and learning about the world is work enough.

We don’t need all these “jobs”.

It’s social control at scale. Necessary evil, but we can do it differently now.
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I inadvertently committed SES creds to GitHub. The only way I found out by an email from AWS telling me that the creds were suspended 24 hours later for a high reported spam rate.

Someone had sent 70,000 emails (which is the default daily limit at my tier). Luckily only cost ~$8.
> Not sure why the readme tries to obscure that.

I don't think it does, dnsmasq is optional. It does configure dnsmasq regardless, but that configuration only applies if you install and enable dnsmasq. As far as I can see, the script does none of that nor does it change /etc/resolv.conf. The readme is very clear about needing dnsmasq for wildcard blocking.

The script also modifies the host file which will apply regardless.
I don't think it's a strawman at all. E.g., I've seen plenty of code where the problem the developers are solving is "I'm bored with work" or "I don't like my boss yelling at me about the deadline".

As an example, I was once brought in to help sort out a build pipeline. It was quirky, unreliable, and mysterious to the team using it. I dug in and it was built around Docker 0.8. But not even the official Docker 0.8; there were assorted patches applied for who-knows-what. And there was a bunch of other stuff glued on around it to compensate for the kinds of issues you would expect in 0.8-grade software.

Looking at the version history, the person who wrote it was long gone. So I searched for him on the Internet. One of the top hits was a conference talk, presented not long after finishing the build pipeline, on how awesome Docker was, and how very clever he was in applying it.

Sure, he was nominally solving the company's build pipeline problem. But really, the only problems he was solving were his own. Ego. Resume building. Wanting to play with fun toys.

At the end of the day, I ripped it all out and did what he should have done in the first place, which was to use simple, reliable tools that the team was comfortable working with.
the solution is "you do you". Allow cloud customers to choose the behavior of whether they're good with just alerting or if they want a circuit breaker to act, or do both. I am sure there is an upper bound of spending where if you were asleep and not reacting to notifications, you'd be better off having the system die instead of kill your company or make you bankrupt.
Oh Lordy! So many books, so little time.

For those who enjoy any one of these title, please post your thoughts and experience.

I just commented on another HN post, "Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?" [1], with a recommended fiction book (series) that was even more enjoyable because of the three non-fiction books I was reading at the same time [2].

Right now I'm reading The Expanse series by (pen name) James S. A. Corey and watching the Picard series (streaming free on CBS right now). Any books from the NASA collection which crossed over themes from this fiction series would be AMAZING!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22718592

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719983
Wow thank you so much! I feel like investing more energy into building these machines would save more lives than just ventilators? For the people who have been put on these machines I wonder what the mortality rate is compared to those that can't get access to them... [edit] i'm definitely not implying we should pull resources away from ventilator production just why not also put resources into these machines too
Do you really need /S
I just store my database on Dropbox and use keepassdb on android.
Given high enough price, we can extract oil from carbon in the air, at least as long as the sun keeps shining.
I thought you were joking but that's actually what the first link says!

"Nineteenth-century prospectors would taste and smell small quantities of oil to determine its quality."

Thanks, TIL.
>I would rather my whole system shut down and be unusable while I investigate vs. auto-scale and charge me a bill I can't cover.

The counterargument is that you get a usage spike (which is often a good thing for a company), and AWS shuts down everything connected to your AWS account without warning.

I'm not necessarily sure that optional/non-default hard circuit breakers would be a bad thing. But it certainly appears not to be a heavily demanded customer feature and, honestly, if it's not the default--which is shouldn't be--I wonder how many customers, or at least customers the cloud providers really care about, would use them.
2x in seven years is not inflation.

This is what has annoyed me about pulp paperback fiction. They skyrocketed from $5 to $15 in 15 years. Then you can buy the eBook for $12 and feel like you're getting a "deal" on a product with near zero production costs.
"in a perfect market producers make zero profits"

In what world would any company make zero profits in a "perfect" sense?

Companies exist to make profit...
Large scale reuse of FFP2 and N95 masks
you can easily replace generated voice with professionally recorded voice later, and have it re-sync everything. generated voice is great for experimenting and iterating.
they already are.... but you also need to put a bit more effort into it.

For example, you shut down the ability to launch anything in a particular region easily - but assume you specifically want to exceed a default limit - you can call speak with your rep and have any of your limits set to whatever you want
This difference here is it’s not about the cost. Those are fake.

Its about what is paid. The United States has non-discriminatory laws in place where healthcare providers can’t charge two groups different pricing. So what happens is hospitals and such charge insurance 100k for a service, and then discount it down to 20k. The cost of the service is reported as 100k, but the paid amount is 20k.

Because of this individuals are forced to pay 100k if they don’t have insurance. Or if they don’t negotiate a rate on healthcare. This creates an environment where individuals feel they MUST have health insurance. Because of that health insurance companies are treated like they’re essential and can’t fail.

It’s all a fake fucking sham. None of this is necessary.
I was intentionally vague. People seem to read some opinion in it? (given the up and down voting) I have no idea what it means, its just an interesting fact. All I know is that doing it without moving paper was much harder before computers. I didn't mean to say: Because lobsters couldn't do it neither can we. Nor: We have computers now, everything is easy! IT just dramatically changes the puzzle. Not sure we should try history based prediction.
I think the concept the author is talking around here can be stated more simply:

When you refactor software to reduce duplication, you by default are increasing coupling.

At the start, you some lines of code that were just sitting in the bodies of two different functions. Now, both of those functions call one shared function. But, in a proper minimal-change refactoring, you didn't change the semantics of the code by doing this. So the shared function is still acting the way that its parents did: as sets of lines sitting in the bodies of functions. There's no circuit breaking or graceful failure there, because there was no circuit breaking or graceful failure in the original, non-refactored code.

Another way to put this is: compression makes data more fragile, in the sense that small numbers of bits can be "depended on" by more bits in compressed data than in uncompressed data. Direct duplication-elimination refactoring is, essentially, just compression.

To actually get robustness, you can't just do this kind of refactoring and then stop; you have to continue on and introduce a stable API to your factored-out function/component/service, with a specified interface. Once you do that, then you cancel out the increase of coupling, because now everything is just coupled to a description of the interface. Then you get the ability to re-use the function/component/service. Until you do that, though, you just have something that is known to work exactly in the use-cases it was extracted from; and which shouldn't be expected to work anywhere else.
What if personal income tax went away? It wouldn't matter.
He probably has. He's asking for amounts from $5 to $100 dollars. What makes you think he hasn't donated at least that much? How much did you donate?
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It's interesting how quickly the author trivializes competitive pay as a motivation for attracting developers over vague management practices that matter more for employee retention than actually attracting them. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that pay wasn't as competitive as the hiring manager would like to believe.

Also pair programming contrasts directly with the promotion of autonomy
It may be premature to evaluate performance of different systems in the current crisis, but I would like to point out that the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland do not have nationalized healthcare.

Italy, on the other hand...
As an educator, this service is an invaluable supplemental resource for my kids. Especially now. Just donated without hesitation. I hope you all consider doing the same if you have the means.
Of course this will largely be a cynical maneuver by insurance companies to make more money, who now, because of this pandemic, are seeing huge reductions in non-COVID claims.

It’s always just an excuse to screw more people and these companies should be abolished.
Why not configure your local .test domains in your Pi-hole? That's also dnsmasq, you can use the same configuration options.
How are owners of small businesses able to make money while their company fails? I would like to know because I plan on starting a business in the coming year.
"Profit is market inefficiency" Profit is motive to do something.

No profit = no motive.

"perfect efficiency" means "no market" in this definition. It's a make believe process that will literally never happen. Companies that work with perfect efficiency close their doors.
Weird flex with 'unskippable paywall' then link it with something dodgy.

The archive link produces a Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead message in Firefox.

Edit: it would be nice to know why everyone is so upset with such an innocuous comment? It has to be something else, that has pissed you off, isn't it? ;-P
We need to make it affordable to live in cities via better zoning, not continue to subsidize people living in the middle of nowhere.
But the truth is also, you like desperate people, in services and all other situations. The us is addicted to precarious work, like rome was to slavery.
Why not a banner saying that it's not supported and may have issues? You might lose customers if you simply block them from using it at all.
Quick google reveals this might be of help. https://naic.org/documents/topic_insurance_industry_snapshot...
Did a little more poking around but he also gave up his stocks and savings according to this tweet: https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/12334746629670051...
>Early newspaper printers had more interest in opinion and polemic than objectivity.

Has this really changed? Does (can?) there actually exist an organization or person which can report just verified facts (if a "fact" is even possible at all)? Am I just getting old and cynical?

I've been watching the White House's COVID briefs in their entirety since I'm just sitting around at home. It's nice background noise while I work. It has been a fun but horrifying experience, having seen the entire presser, to then see which pieces get clipped by which organizations and in which context.

Each news org (pick your fav) is reporting the facts as they see them. They'll back up these facts with the little clips they pulled, or by referencing studies/papers (the "scientific literature" infallible after all as long as the conclusion matches what you need), if they're feeling really bold, they'll prove "facts" through a little in-article "math" which is, of course, based on the shoddiest of premises.

Almost all of their work in justifying their position with "facts" is undone by the simple act of seeing the source material, at which point the illusion is shattered, and everyone is just toeing the line.
I blame the insurance companies based on the simple calculus that they are the ones in your list that add the least value. Drug companies and providers make things and do things. Insurance companies push paper. By your argument we could dispense with them, save 1/3, and lose nothing.
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COVID-19 is going to have severe economic impacts on many different transactions. Renters versus landowners. Patients versus insurance providers. Insurance providers versus care providers. Oil producers versus refiners. Refiners versus retailers.

In each case, both sides are going to try as hard as they can to isolate the losses to the other party. In situations where their bargaining power and leverage are balanced, both parties will bear some of the loss. In cases where one side has much more economic power, well, you can see where this is going.

In the insurance and health care markets, barring radical restructuring, it will come down to state regulators to ensure that the costs come out well-balanced. Some state boards are going to find this easier to do than others, but I don't think it will trend out on left-right political lines.
Germany, Japan, Singapore and others seem to do it. If getting everyone covered at reasonable cost is the goal, single-payer is factually not the only solution.
"To crack an egg open, you first need to dent it. When the egg loses its curvature, it loses its strength."

I felt like this part could use some fleshing out. I'm pretty sure that the egg does not lose its strength because it "loses its curvature", tough I must admit I'd be hard pressed to provide a more precise explanation. I would say it has more to do with the "hand wrap" spreading out the force over a wide area, so that the egg's curvature causes the hand's force to work against itself. But a small discontinuity creates a focus point where the force will be localized, causing successively more breakage in the shell.
We’re not every other industrialized nation. There are major differences between the US and say Norway. Cultural, Geographical, Political, Legal, etc.

Universal Healthcare isn’t part of this conversation, or this issue. So I’m not even going to waste time on it.
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You mean like a user-agent string?

Gee, I wonder how this is going to end: https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
Until urbanized areas have hydroponic highrises, they starve to death without rural areas. They also will have a difficult time accessing enough clean drinking water or finding a way to dispose of waste. Power generation will also be problematic. If the two areas went their own ways, which one would have the most difficulty surviving?

That urban areas "subsidize" the areas holding many of the key resources for sustaining life should make you wonder how it is that the urban areas captured so much of the nation's economic balance sheet in the first place. But as a sibling comment stated, the two areas are intertwined and dependent on each other. Ultimately the whole ends up being larger than the parts.
Funnily enough, you only solve problems with friction in your first semester (and maybe a little bit afterward when you study waves).
We paid $2100/mo in 2019. It's $2900/mo in 2020. Regence through Gusto.
So how to fix that broken
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When you actually look at any of these systems, you find there is such great government control of these nominally "private" insurers that it's effectively Medicare-for-All.

All insurance offered at a standard price, subsidized by government, that covers the exact same things by law for every single person and can't be cancelled... who cares whether you're nominally dealing with the government or a private entity?
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Would one recommend this for someone in the US who is already decades into a career and just needs the checkbox checked and their employer will pickup the tab?
I agree with you with the first point, giving money to companies isn't a good idea but I think it's also a bad idea to give it to "the people". I think it would be better to change. My opinion is most people are going to buy thing they don't need. Instead we could focus on better ideas for the future.... I don't know maybe I'm too utopist...
The uniquely terrible US healthcare system succeeds in privatizing profits during most years but socializing losses, just like the finance industry in 2008-09.
I think even Lightsail can expose you to data transfer overages although I don't know how large a bill those could realistically add up to.
If only it was true.

All of these articles need to say ‘tested’ and ‘published’ cases. If you aren’t testing randomly, or if you aren’t publishing (China), then the data is really showing the rate of testing of sick people.
That is great, thanks!

This note in particular could be a lesson for many things in life:

> When I believe the answer is 1/3, and I hear someone say the answer is 1/2, my response is not "You're wrong!", rather it is "How interesting! You must have a different interpretation of the problem; I should try to discover what your interpretation is, and why your answer is correct for your interpretation." The first step is to be more precise in my wording of the experiment...
It's the implementation in the United States that's a fantasy, not the system it self.
> The big question is who you're solving problems for
> Once I started working with other developers,

I think the problem is about drift. Moving from working on your own problems as a freelancer, to bigger teams and organizations, tends to shift problem solving to a more nebulous state. As the freelancer you fixed problems that perhaps you saw directly, and could fix end-to-end. These could be business or technical problems. The cost of certain actions was evident.

As you progress up to larger and larger organizations you lose that connection. The organizations are supposed to have processes that make up for this lack of connection, but, at best, only do a very average job of it.

Further, you have new sets of problems to deal with, that are not limited to: your colleagues' code, a worse understanding of requirements, PMs having less of an understanding of the requirements than you because management has perverted their work, not being allowed to work on small fixes because everything has to be A/B tested, sales teams perverting the priorities of management, the support team being sidelined by management even though they know the real problems etc.

These articles about solving problems versus writing code never capture this progression for me because the authors generally don't have that experience. That's fine because we are all different and it still leads to valuable discussions.
No, those numbers were real, post-negotiation, money-changing-hands numbers. US hospitals are actually 2x more expensive. If you looked at hospital pre-negotiation asking prices, I'd expect them to be worse still.

The insurance company side of this pissing contest is "nobody forces hospitals to list insane prices, certainly not us, but we can give you the leverage to make sure they don't stick -- good luck managing that on your own!"
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Thanks for the insight! I really appreciate when the authors interact with the community.

Many books nowadays, also from NoStarch, are released as early access books. Your book does not run under the early access program, or at least not yet.

Is this a decision made by you as an author? Or is the kind of book not really suited for early access? I could imagine that introductory books work well as early access books; readers could work through the first couple of chapters, while later chapters are still being written or refined.

Just curious...
People like to compare the current situation to wartime and I think some of the parallels are useful.

In wartime there is a much stronger moral backlash against perceived profiteering. We're seeing it in the UK with campaigns to boycott companies that have already shown no desire to share the nation's pain.

Hopefully companies that cynically abuse the bailout will find themselves tarnished in a way that is harder to shake off than it usually is.
Anyone ever use this on HN with insight?
The ego on this guy. Just do it quietly, why brag about it
Taiwan built up their universal healthcare system from scratch in 1995.
Because such a system would require years of refinement and I don't want to sacrifice my health while the government figures it out.

Public option is a fine transition.
Soldier of a Great War, Mark Helprin: "a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war" -- an incredible, life-changing read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Soldier_of_the_Great_War

The Cornerstone and The World is Not Enough, by Zoe Oldenbourg -- an epic duology (?) about the life a Norman knight. I've never read a more vivid (even that's too weak a word) historical novel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zo%C3%A9_Oldenbourg

The Master of Hestviken by Sigrid Unset -- the most moving account of one man's life struggles I've ever read. Unset was a Nobel prize-winning author of the 30's/40's who has been nearly forgotten. I read this tetrology straight through without stopping (about 18 hours). Couldn't stop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_of_Hestviken
By reading from the cache the necessary static HTML and CSS.

Validations always need to be done on both sides, unless one does not value security.

All of this is possible with vanilaJS, using builtin browser features, no need to kill the poor CPU with an additional bloated framework.

I used to be big in native apps, until having seen too many examples of what used to be done in VB/Acess back in the day.

So unless it is a game using OpenGL ES 3.0, Vulkan, Metal, something that requires AR/VR, real time audio, GPGPU for machine learning, or direct access to hardware sensors, it might be quite doable as PWA.
Key point of conflict in the Democratic primaries, ACA under serious threat in the courts, insurance companies paying hand over fist to tank single payer, millions of newly uninsured...but not part of the conversation?

Your personal Overton window is smaller than the current political reality.
Because we spend too much on unhealthy elderly people. Guess who will vote against fixing that?
We were hesitant to use our masks because we would run out quickly, until this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22680799

Now, we just pop them in the oven and reuse them.
Selling assets. Get acquired for customer data. Lay off people before the company money is gone and liquidate. There are probably a lot of other ways.
Interestingly, for us it's the opposite. Senior dev responsibilities are to:

a) Get ahead of the computer problems that junior devs would otherwise create in their frenzy to solve business problems (frameworks, infrastructure services, design reviews, etc).

b) Clean up the ones they missed (architecture initiatives).
Insurance in the form of risk pooling is an extremely valuable service.

The issue is that in the US the health insurers do way more than risk pooling. They also do gatekeeping, discounting, & provisioning. Plus there is an asinine indirection layer where their customers are employers instead of the covered.

In a properly functioning health market there would be a very important role for insurance, our current market is just so insane it’s hard to see it.
I am using pihole and WireGuard. How did you set it up so that you automatically connect back home when you are off your home network?