skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My GP doc in WA sends electronic prescriptions of Adderall. When I was using a solo psychiatrist, he would give 3 mos of (1 per month) printed hardcopy prescriptions.

Note, getting the scrip from my GP requires an annual HIPAA privacy waiver and random piss tests. Privacy waiver is because they share medical records of patients prescribed controlled substances with law enforcement or any other local or federal government agency that wants to take a peek.
Thats neither factually nor theoretically correct, as all the EU laws apply until the transition period has expired, which I wouldn't be surprised will be extended given corona has taken so much focus and time away from it.
This is a uniquely American argument.

AFAIK, showing an ID to vote is uncontroversial in most or all western democracies, including the nordic welfare states the left sees as a model in so many ways.
Lock up all capital with a small group of individuals and you will then need to acquire that capital in order to create large projects, that's pretty truistic.

A system where you instead has to convince a "capital" assignment group (really a work+resources assignment)- who would only profit if your project benefitted society - could also work.

You'd get different assignment of resources too as ability to extract maximum value from the system and lodge it with a small group of capital holders wouldn't be the principle aim.

This only works with systems where everyone is on board and there are no greedy people, ...
previous discussion when it happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23038637
It seems like what you want is the percentage of hospital beds dedicated to covid patients, or perhaps the percentage of beds unoccupied, since the purpose of the curve flattening effort is to keep the health care system from collapsing.
More like massive fraud against tax payers. The State is part of the problem here, not a victim. Glad the money I earn by laboring is being taken from me (without consent) and literally handed over to criminals.

Edit: I see some of you just down vote what you don't agree with. That is OK it doesn't make me wrong. The state is complicit here in funneling tax payer money to fraudsters due to their own incompetence. This money is being taken out of the hands of those these programs are for. Anyway, I'll stop making you uncomfortable with the truth now.
Email over ARPANET and the internet predates the web by a couple of decades.

The way we use email hasn't really changed that much since the 70s.
Keep in mind the fraud is in the hundreds of millions and the size of the program is in the hundreds of billions ($260B from the CARES act alone: https://www.nelp.org/publication/unemployment-insurance-prov...)
Considering I live in Georgia -- yeah, I agree with you. There is tremendous social pressure here to just 'get things back to normal' without any sense that anybody is taking the virus seriously (or is capable of understanding its effects in the state). Our testing rate is at 3% of the population. That's within a statistical margin of error. Suggesting that it's 'safe to reopen the state' without having any evidence to back it up is irresponsible in my book.

If I sound nervous, it's because I am.
It misses the biggest one: using it. I ranted about the cloud a decade ago http://drupal4hu.com/node/305 and there's nothing new under the Sun. Still most companies doing cloud and Kubernetes doesn't need it... practice YAGNI ferociously.
I mean, this isn't necessarily a 'dual income' thing, this is a 'cares exclusively about work' thing.

I have no children. I like my job. I spend my free time doing things that aren't software development.

I theoretically could work outside of work hours, sure, if I were a boring person with no interests.

I think that most people who treat their jobs as their 'calling' and burn themselves out on them ruin the world for both themselves and the rest of us. Races to the bottom everywhere.

It doesn't bother me too much though, since ultimately the selection pressure is such that the brown-nosers end up being abused by their managers whilst the stubborn lot get promoted. YMMV.
In a recent conversation with someone at Edmund Optics, I told him that I missed their old surplus catalog. He admitted that he did too.

For surplus and oddball optics, I also recommend Surplus Shed.

Talking to some amateur astronomers, it seems that a lot of the interest has shifted to what can be done with a decent scope, digital camera, and software.
When I was a kid I read the whole bible. Even as a kid I thought that Revelation was written by someone on some serious drugs:)
Maybe the world needs an unmonetizable space.

I keep hearing how RSS is dead for many years. My favorite blogs seem to be doing fine, its not like my newsblur stream of posts has decreased over the years.

Many people are unhappy about non-monetized readers and authors just being happy off by themselves. The people most able to "fix" that are the happy readers and authors, and the readers are not very motivated to spam and tax themselves, and the authors obviously don't mind not monetizing or they wouldn't be blogging to begin with.

There doesn't seem to be an obvious disruptive force or angle to apply force to "improve" the stable situation of a distributed decentralized happy unmonetized ecosystem.
Mozilla should be focusing on RSS within Thunderbird, because that was the original location for RSS functionality, and is a much better fit anyways (due to the expected presence of an almost always open left hand sidebar.

Unfortunately Mozilla has dropped thunderbird almost completely so that’s not been a real option either.
My dad’s been a chronic diabetic for 25 years, and we’ve never had a large surprise medical bill.

Even among people who file for bankruptcy, most have little medical debt: https://www.forbes.com/sites/aparnamathur/2018/04/09/exposin...

> Department of Justice did a similar survey of bankruptcy filers between 2000 and 2002, which included a much larger sample of 5,203 filers, and found that 90 percent of filers had medical debts less than $5,000, and 54 percent had no medical debt.

We’re talking about 10% of 1% of people that file for bankrupt y and have more than $5,000 in medical debt.

The other thing people don’t mention is the aggressive cost controls in other countries. In the U.K., the NHS will pay $30k on average for treatment that is expected to increase life by one quality-adjusted year: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/articles/ministers.... For cancer, etc., it’s double that.

> NICE has on occasion approved treatments that cost more than £30,000 per QALY. In addition, since 2009, there has been a higher threshold of £50,000 per QALY for end-of-life care, which in practice has applied chiefly, although again not exclusively, to cancer drugs.

In the pre-Obamacare days when there were lifetime limits, you’d see stories of people blowing through a $1 million limit, and then dying a couple of years later $500,000 in debt. Tragic yes, but in the U.K. or Germany these people would have been counseled into hospice instead.

https://www.politico.eu/article/cancer-europe-america-compar...

> Speedy access to cutting-edge treatments cuts deep into America’s national purse. One study, summarized in the New York Times, determined that the U.S. averted 265,000 more deaths of colorectal cancer compared to Western Europe between 1982 and 2010. Each year of healthy life gained cost $110,000. The costs for gains in prostate and breast cancers were even more dramatic.

The incremental lives we saved in the US for these cancers came at a cost double that of what would have been approved by the U.K. NHS.

Finally, the other thing most people don’t mention is that Americans have vastly more money in their pockets due to higher incomes and lower taxes: https://images.app.goo.gl/n8Qs8eBa84yuo3by7

There is a small chance that, in the US, you’ll get cancer or have a heart attack, and fall through the cracks of health insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare. But you pay a significant price for reducing that risk.
How does Fyne compare with other cross platform mobile solutions like React native?
If you like this sort of thing, here's a zoo of other designs:

* http://aka.ms/win10rng (Windows 10, PDF)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna_(PRNG) (FreeBSD)

* https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-90a/rev-1/f... (NIST)

* https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/char/r... (Linux; I could not find a separate design document as such. Perhaps the best design reference is this block comment at the beginning of the file implementing it)
A case for declarative configurations for ML training
Permissions are a whitelist.

While the grant is a blanket grant to a program and all dependencies, typically, a well behaved program will seek a limited scope of permissions.
Like "https://my-program.com", "https://preferred-analytics.com" etc.

This prevents dependencies from using call back locations that are outside
the permitted list, preventing much of the nefarious activity they can dream up.

If a dependency needs access to specific resources, it can advertise this fact and the parent module can in turn request this from the user.

Importantly, the user is explicitly aware of these & controls it in an absolute sense, at run time.
Didn't see that. Yikes.

What if the tracking system were a government website and the guest only needs to show confirmation to the waiter / waitress? Would that make things better or worse?

Generally curious what people think.
After using Photopea (web) as a virtually full replacement for Photoshop (desktop), I'm starting to think that these days, all interfaces and business logic should be web-first. JavaScript is fast, other languages can compile to it or WebAssembly, and HTML+CSS is a lingua franca. Obviously PWA's are required, designed to run offline.

Where brute-force performance is a #1 concern I think it diverges. For things like Photoshop filters or rendering, WebAssembly may still be fine (it depends). But for real-time processing that needs timing guarantees or more direct access to hardware (games, DSP, etc.) the code has to be native running in dedicated threads. Still, it would be nice if those operated essentially as native browser plug-ins that still interfaced with a browser environment, rather than a totally separate executable.

I'm seriously ready to let my web browser just be the GUI to my operating system. I want my file manager and terminal and system preferences just to be tabs next to my Gmail and Docs.
> Its a shame the inquiry didn't recommend formula funding from central government receipts

The Inquiry's main objective was to investigate possible revenue streams that could be raised locally, to help local councils free themselves from the tyranny of central government funding. At the time local government revenue came from Council Tax, Business Rates (though the level was set by central government, not local authorities themselves), licence and other fees (eg to open a tattoo parlour, or register a death), small fines (dog mess and other litter) and car parking charges. Altogether the revenue raised covered less than 10% (I think) of all local government spending. The rest of the money was supplied by central Government - making the UK one of the most centralised states in the world.

A "couple of pennies on income tax" would've made the situation worse - though one of the things the Inquiry looked at was the possibility of localising (some) income tax.
And remember that cruise ship
Books are dead too! Long live books.

When someone has an opinion like this one should wonder if they ever used RSS. Web applications for RSS aggregation is worse than using IRC in a web interface. I cant take strong opinions about IRC seriously either if the person didn't install a client. With RSS the person is merely describing himself.

Please do go install [or make] a client, gather some feeds, do some filtering. When you have your first 10 000 subscriptions I'd love to hear every angle of your story, the topics, the organization, what client you use, what language it was written in, what database it uses, who wrote it. ETC ETC

The walled gardens full of [self] censorship, data mining, adware and bullshit content have useful features too! Aggregation isn't it. HN headlines only vaguely map to our interest but reading the comments is wonderful.

(Reminds me to install thunderbird and backup my gmail. I'm not young enough to trivialize losing my data.)
You can't just use naive XOR, but if you take slightly more effort, yes, sure.
Care to share your scripts? Avid newsboat user here also!
Could you expand on that: how does it is cause harm, why aren't overseas "fat cats" affected?
I wrote my first Medium article on Getting Started with Deno.js
I doubt this is an issue specific to the NP. Regardless, we have different providers.
This is still a very us centric view. California isn't low compared to Asian countries. But all California shows is that you can achieve low transmission rates with lockdowns done early enough. But of course lockdowns are not sustainable. It's really odd to bring up Wyoming. Any rural area can potentially avoid outbreaks. South Dakota has outbreaks now though.
Depends what "read many times" means.

- If you mean that the same archive will be distributed to many peers, such as is the case in package distribution, then in practice archives will be read only once by each process, so one "slow" compression will translate into significant gains in added decompression speed. That's the reason Archlinux switched to zstd for its packages (https://www.archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-o...)

- If you mean that the same archive will be read multiple times by the same machine, I don't really know what kind of scenario that is; I'd deflate the archive into its initial representation once and then let processes access that folder directly. Note that zstd claims that it isn't that much slower in decompression than competitors, even if you always use compressed archives the difference will be minimal

zstd was built more or less to "replace" all formats that favor compression over speed. From their benchmarks (which means what it means) whatever the compression/speed ratio you want, zstd is going to be better than all of them, with a hard exception on extremely fast speed that is still the kingdom of lz4.
It may come as a surprise to people, but there have been societies which banned interest/usury, yet got things done just fine (e.g. Islam bans usury, but the Islamic Golden Age speaks for itself). Even until relatively recently, when Western colonialists forced their usurious banking system onto Islamic nations post WWII, things were done interest-free.
If you own an Intel CPU made in the last decade? 15 years? you've already got one. PowerPC's got the DARN instruction as well.
Officially they are no longer part of the EU. They have agreed to abide by the rules of the EU for now, and the EU has agreed to allow them to trade as though they were part of the EU, but they officially left on Jan 31.
I picked that book up at a second-hand bookshop many years ago on a whim, not having much interest in telescopes. I was completely hooked! I even started (but never completed) making the mirror grinder.

I still have wistful thoughts of making my own telescope one day when I have more time.
Not necessarily that tall: you just need copies of a long enough text, written in different writing styles.
Actually git “suffers” from two of the problems he listed: cache coherency and, as with all filesystem based approaches, serialization.

These don’t matter for git which manages to push all the coherency issues onto the user and which can afford to operate (in computational terms, not human terms) very slowly on small amounts of data.

I’m not saying git is slow (it’s gratifyingly fast) but it has a remarkably smaller problem domain than the one described in the article.
I love the catagorization. But decent software should be distributed. I dislike single teams that begat 10s of miscroservices, but it should be buy, not build, features from specialized 3rd parties. Thus a decent modern installation should be leaning on a ton of 3rd party services (e.g. Identity providers, databases, caches) because they all do a better job than the hand rolled local one. It's how you outsource expertise.

The vision of the service mesh is to make unreliability and security no longer the job if the application binary. Even without a service mesh, you can put a lot of common functionality into a reverse proxy. Personally I am loving OpenResty for the simplicity of writing adapters and oauth at the proxy layer with good performance.
Do you have any references for further reading on this topic?

And how is a wage tax different from an income tax? It might not show up on an employee's payroll, but the end result is the same, no?

And if you're not taxing capital/capital gains in any way, won't this cause inequality to shoot up even more than it already is?
A hiring partner at an HFT firm once told me why they had a disproportionate number of people from MIT or Ivy League schools, especially for fresh grads: they selected for intelligence, coding skills etc., but they also needed people who could very quickly focus on the top priority tasks for the firm. (For example, if someone committed buggy code and the firm was losing out on profits because its algorithms weren't running, do you hunt down the bug or do you revert?)

And it turns out that kids from Ivy League schools tend to be very good at constantly being aware of these top-level priorities for the firm. This applied for almost every front and mid office role in that firm: DevOps, algorithm developers, traders, researchers. I can't speak for all the firms out there, but I think at least my friend would happily substitute pedigree for another item on a person's resume that demonstrated experience with running a live system where downtime is very costly.
See ahoka's sibling comment.
Not necessarily. A branch-free algorithm can totally have a data dependency from the previous iteration of the loop to the next, making it impossible to vectorize.
I actually a Spanish startup that was partially inspired by this.

The difference is that one person delivers many dishes in a ride, so costs can be cut and wages can be higher.

It’s actually doing pretty well and expanding on many cities in the country.
It varies state-to-state. In Michigan it is as op described. You have to go in person to get a physical prescription. A few years ago it changed briefly but it changed back. Since COVID the rules have been relaxed at least in MI.
Yes, but when writing deliberately non-deterministic code, it's common practice to make all the pseudo-randomness arise from a single seed value (e.g., a random number generator seed). This is helpful when debugging, since it's otherwise hard to judge whether a change in the output arose from the change you just made to the source code, or from the intended non-determinism.

Per my other comment, it looks like Imperial tried to do that here, but it's not quite working. They seem to think the model is fine and just the "deterministic from seed" mode is broken, but hard to be sure until they fix it.
If the state wants to track or even kill people, I don't think the lack of a national ID card is really going to be the obstacle that stops them.
A dilemma that we are running into at work is that we have all our software open source and readily available on github but use an internal bug tracker to manage bugs picked up by QE and other people in our org. These bugs are given significantly higher priority than our GH issues and we end up with a pile of GH issues that no one has the time or ability to adequately track. As our team recently set up its own open source working group and generally is making open source contributions in other projects a higher priority I see this problem getting worse. Does anyone have any suggestions how to overcome such an issue?

And I guess I'd just like to add my two cents: sometimes your issues are not being adequately triaged because the project is using another system for bug tracking and the engineers are slammed fixing those bugs instead lol.
> whose effectiveness in general is TBD

Only if you don't look at countries where it seems to be working pretty well, mostly in Asia.
https://usedone.today - Thinking of how to make it better
Ray Tomlinson's design for email came in the 70s. RFC 788 (SMTP) was published in 1981.

Email predates the Web, and, imo, has been made much worse by all the Web-adjacent features shoved into it.
Doubtful and she works with a MD.

I have many friends in the medical field. This MD vs NP hatred needs to stop.

NPs can be specialized and have great knowledge and experience in their particular field.

And my NP visit is cheaper - absolutely worth it to me.
Like most Apache products it comes with a lot of knobs and switches, the more you tweak those the worse it gets. Kafka runs completely fine as long as you aren’t trying to tune every config option, unless you have a super custom use case and you know what you’re doing.
Why aren't all public transaction public?

Money paid from central government should all be publicly viewable, shouldn't it? Then anyone who wishes could look to see if an account had more than $X or more than $Y transactions, or more than one stimulus cheque, etc?
Creative Commons licenses (outside CC0) aren't made for software, don't cover things specific to software and are thus not a good match. What it means would be quite uncertain - which would likely deter commercial users, but potentially also some users you might want.

https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...
I believe they’re referring to the web as port 80/443 http(s) traffic. It’s the old World Wide Web vs internet distinction, if you will.

Email really is just a protocol for message sending, and it lives on it’s own port with its own server. If you have an email client and access to an email server (POP/SMTP/however), you can use email over the internet but without the “web”.

Basically, the web email client ought not be the only email client.