skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The U.S. health system is what happens when corruption goes on so long you just call it the culture. "All professions are a conspiracy against the layman." was said by either G.B. Shaw or Ambrose Bierce, depending on your reference point.

It's a form of business that is orthogonal to producing things people want, where instead it's mainly in the business of depriving people of what they need. Rent seeking is what professions and institutions are designed to do, to create scarcity in exchange for a promise of quality, but somehow that latter part gets lost.

Some years ago when "disruption" was the popular idea, I put together a list of vulnerable industries. The sharing economy was an attack on businesses whose profits depended on a regulatory bar to entry (Uber/AirBnB etc.) The list was based on the presence of labour unions and professional associations, using the hypothesis that their existence creates a price premium that tips the economics of their industry in favour of automation, or at least in favour of economic substitution away by customers to a new tech that meets %80 of their need. Maybe we have the technology now to create an economic rentier map that lays out parts of the economy that have artificially propped up rent-seeking groups, as a means to develop new tools to avoid them.

Regarding the rentierism of the health business, I've noticed an anecdotal trend among some aging boomers who are rejecting that system altogether, and choosing palliative care and to die at home instead of in the hallway of a hospital, or worse, spending years in a long term care home. The best thing that could happen to healthcare is that instead of seeing it as broken, we should recognize that it looks like that because works for someone where we can't see who or how, and the goal is not to problematize and fix it, but to make it work for everyone else.
Your prior point was that you don't need to sift flour but only weigh it. That is false, as sifting flour changes the properties of the final baked product. You now changed that to, in essence, say that weighing tells you the weight of flour. Yes, weighing tells you the weight of what is being weighed.
https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/dnslink/ this is how it should be
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Nope, no mapping necessary. 36 octets, so a single 288 bit number in base 2. (Big-endian, unsigned, I guess)
Then convert to any base you want.

(I should have probably used 32 octets so that it fits neatly in 256 bits)
Hot take from someone who has worked in open offices (and remote) the past few years.

Offices aren't healthy for many.

Lost time from commuting, increased carbon footprint, high distraction, and low control over the environment are disadvantages not shared with a properly configured home office.
I use Twitter, to sort of "hang out" with a much bigger circle of colleagues/friends/weirdos.
> They are paid less purely because of cost of living and locational differences.

Cost of living is a red herring. No one’s going to pay me more if I live in Manhattan rather than the suburbs of Boise if they can avoid it. It’s all about the locational differences. If there’s a thick, liquid market for the product you’re selling, your labour, you’ll get a good price for it. If there isn’t employers have substantially more power to set wages. A lot of the reason engineers in SV get paid more is that they’re just better but the engineers in Boulder are pretty great too and fewer of them are getting those wages, even fewer in Boise. All about the competition for talent.
Why do you think that'll make drugs significantly cheaper? Drug companies are only about as profitable as other science-heavy industries.
Transporting hydrogen is expensive. It also has a tendency to leak.
> India has an excellent education system

Explain in which way is it excellent?

Which part do you think Indian education system does well relatively?
For me it's way healthier, physically and spiritually.

I get to spend more time exercising, more time with loved ones, and pets, and I save money.

I also do get to talk and banter with coworkers on video calls and slack.
A better option: shift it's engineering to everywhere else in America, and go full-remote, but pay less.

Imagine if Uber told it's developers: we're cutting salaries by 40%- but you are now full-remote, and we want you to live somewhere less expensive than SV. Spread out across America!

A lot of folks would quit. But some would see the incredible opportunity. In that situation, I'd move somewhere like Chattanooga TN- average rent at around $1000/month, vs SF's $3000-5000. Food is cheaper too. And being a city, it's far less conservative than you'd think (well, okay, it is TN).

They could cut their engineering costs dramatically while improving the overall lifestyle of their developers.

And given we're soon going to be in a post-pandemic world where tightly-packed open offices don't exist anymore, they'd probably just be ahead of the rest of us by a few months if they did it.
Following Musk's thinking... i'd really like to see that energy density volume vs mass chart adjusted for average vehicle weight. i.e see the total system, engine, storage components and fuel converter etc.

On that graph, compared to petrol, liquid hydrogen appears to be about 4x larger by volume but interestingly only 2/5ths of the weight.

The electric motors are lighter sure, but then what about the mass and volume of the compressed storage tank and the fuel cell itself? difficult to know if it starts to gain on IC engine again. lots of questions that make that graph feel pretty meaningless.
Requiring developers to spend money up front for memberships to distribute software.

Obstacles to distribution of FOSS and community driven software projects.
I have been remote for years and still have those small interactions. Slack, video, even texting. Adapt your communication techniques.

In some ways, it is even beter this way. We never could riff on our leaders all hands meetings in person the way we can over slack while watching their zoom call.
> How is code quality control in India?

Depends on the devs and the kind of team they are working in. It's difficult to provide an objective answer to that question.
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I really hope FTC or at least the Europeans will stop that merger...
Innovation is a result of many factors, keeps changing with time. The Japanese were the top innovators for many decades, not so much anymore.
(2) is wrong. Or at least the wrong way of thinking about it.

Bonds are savings. When the savings are spent they create the extra flow that pays back the bond. It's just a continuation of a suspended spending chain.

Always remember that spending comes first and causes taxation - which will always match the initial spending to the penny unless it is delayed by people saving (ie not spending the instant they get their income).

Imagine a stone skipping across a pond with each bounce being a tax point. Saving is pressing the pause button on that process, which then resumes when the savings are spent again.

And of course the assets may never be spent. They may just pass down from generation to generation. And likely will since that is the basis for pension funds.
Thanks for sharing this, I've been thinking about building something like it, now I may not need to.
Building Subversion – Software that doesn't suck
I remember the kids who had minidisc players. Usually spoiled cause they were expensive and didn't have much prospect for future use, so it took parents who didn't mind wasting money. And typically used it to feel superior to other kids, cause it was different and apparently didn't skip. (My best friend had one, and he was pretty spoiled - we abused it trying to make it skip - they definitely do skip if you hit them hard enough). But kind of disappointed when it came to actually finding music to listen to. While the MiniDisc might have been superior tech, it doesn't really matter if record companies won't produce media for it. I'd make fun of my friend for having a player that didn't skip but not having any music for it.

If I remember correctly, it wasn't the mp3 player that made the MiniDisc a nonstarter format, it was CD burners that came out a few years before mp3 players that actually did it.
This doesn't paint a great picture: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/21/41-percent-of-americans-woul...

TL;dr 41% can cover a $1k emergency with savings. Others would get in debt. Sure, there are some ways for the very low end to get help. But that still leaves a massive number of people exposed.

> my out of pocket maximum spending is capped at $1000 per year, worst case.

Is that for any medical help from any source, or does that involve the in-network / out-of-network provider billing dance?
Neither are Americans. I think you have some flawed numbers: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/09/americans-spend-twice-as-muc...

The average American spends about $5000 on healthcare per year. That’s only 20-30% if your income is $15,000 per year.

If you’re making $100K per year or more (median SWE compensation) or even $200K or more (upper end SWE compensation) then it’s really not a big deal.

EDIT: This is why I loathe discussions about politics ok HN. Would appreciate some responses rather than downvotes for citing the corrected numbers.
If we fixed our diet problems, I’m not sure if we’d either have e or healthcare costs, or if the industry would find other ways to fill in the gap
Could you link to some examples? My impressions so far have agreed with GP's...
And yet more than half of Americans don’t have $400 to cover an emergency. I wonder how the US would stack up in 25th percentile wealth against European countries?

Also, there are measures like food insecurity that I suspect would be very telling.
I don’t look at my coworkers for social satisfaction. It can happen and that’s nice. I find the question almost inconceivable.

I’m also on conference calls half the day. Quiet is nice.
But breaking compatibility will make it harder for regular users to read that content.

What about using something like https://gemini.site.com ?

And part of that restricted spec would allow linking only to such links, to stay within the network ?

And the biggest challenge with Gemini is creating a great search engine. But now , searching site:gemini.* KEYWORD , gives us the power of Google and other search engines.
I started my working life in a University, where I had colleagues but more or less worked on my own even when I was in an office.

At some point I quit, went through some other jobn searches, and started working from home doing software dev work.

SO I've been working on my own for 20 years, and 10 of those have been doing remote dev work.

Two things have been helpful:

- I had a family for most of that time,
- I have activities outside of work (playing music and rock climbing) that I need to interact with other folks to do.

For the first six weeks or so of the pandemic quarantine I curtailed those activities.

At this point, I now have a small group of 10 or so people across two bands and a couple of dudes I climb with, and so I am back into having some socialization. If I get exposed (or anyone in my groups is exposed), it's a small enough set of people I can contract trace.

So, with the exception of the 75-person buddist group I was going to and playing music in bars, I am more or less back to the amount of socialization I was getting before the pandemic.

That's what keeps me from feeling isolated.
^

This is an exceptionally good point. Security is also one of the top problems with the web (alongside the asymmetrical difficulty of hosting content vs consuming it and the lack of consistency for web content). The problems with the web are mitigated by "good enough" solutions from browser vendors, out-of-band third party extensions and even some services on the web itself (e.g. archive.org, though I don't know how sustainable that is, and it's far from perfect).
And as a result we have bigger homes, bigger cars, bigger TVs.... but worse healthcare outcomes? Seems like some of that excess spending yields us more returns than others.
I agree that this is a difficult position for Wikipedia to be in, but I don’t think the solution is to simply scrub posts of most of their content. The reality is, for better or worse, that Wikipedia will be the first (or perhaps only) stop for many voters researching political candidates. If a voter can’t even determine the basic characteristics of a candidate’s political identity (there’s a pretty wide gulf between the profile of a “tough-on-crime” prosecutor or AG and a “progressive reformer,” for ex.) from Wikipedia’s entry on that candidate, Wikipedia will provide very limited utility to them.
I haven't tried, but I'd think encrypting and decrypting a packet would take less than 0.1ms, no?

What's the variation in the structure of the data? Wouldn't you just encrypt and send a fixed-length interval of audio each period?

check out this article https://apkwind.com/netflix-mod-apk/
Tool use age by various animal species is generally used by the individuals that locate and or create the tools. Similarly the defense of hunting territory by individuals or families is another means of production. Complex social structures and collective ownership are very much the exception.
Yep. There are some manufacturers that offer AES 256 encryption capable encryption too. I think that's still generally secure.
I'm amazed at how many companies have teams of cybersecurity professionals and teams that violate the most basic rules of cybersecurity.
2nd option exists and is called rolling highway ;)
>turn around times

my company tried to outsource a ancillary product we develop in 2011-2013 timeframe. It wound up being non-viable and we brought it back in-house.

I think many don't see how pernicious turn-around times can be. They continue to build upon each other like compounding interest. It can be a very very hard loop to break out of. The cycle of question -> answer -> further question -> meeting can grind progress to a halt when each iteration takes 12 hours.
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I suppose it could be cultural in some way. One also wonders if it's a reflection of the situation with (especially) urban police departments and maybe gun ownership more broadly. If you know that snatching a laptop or handbag could leave you beaten, tased, or shot that's probably something of a disincentive even for not so bright petty thieves.
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I used to have an Atari ST, i love that little green crappy desktop for irrational reasons, but I wouldn't argue it's more streamlined than my modern setup.

That's why I keep Hatari installed... but I don't try to use it as my development environment.
Are the barriers too high? I've seen a lot of "modern" medical offices pop up in recent years, like One Medical and Carbon Health. Not to mention the scores of startups that specialize on more narrow parts of healthcare.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. That standard for loops are less readable just doesn't make any sense to me. Neither do the preference of exceptions which is pretty much the first things most experienced people turn off and ban in C++.
> American consumers spend more on just about everything than most other rich countries

Do you have a source for that?

In my experience living and working in a slew of countries around the world, the USA has the cheapest alcohol, cigarettes, cars, electricity, clothing, electronics, gas (and diesel), food at the supermarket, food at the restaurant and many other things of any developed country.

Because taxes are so low, stuff in America is extremely cheap compared to countries with tax-funded healthcare, higher education, etc.
Most people aren't on that kind of wage though..
And I don’t think that makes a difference. All FAANG companies (which I’d say can also identify good engineers) already have engineering offices in India.
> paying roughly the same

Any references for that?
Ehhh not really. There was some FPGA mining that happened in Bitcoin but it was always niche rather than at-scale.

FPGAs are a lot better than GPUs from the perspective of energy efficiency, but the FPGAs themselves are very expensive to purchase, and are a lot more specialized than GPUs. ASICs showed up before FGPAs ever really took off, and even if ASICs hadn't showed up it's not clear that FGPAs would have been superior on a total-cost basis to GPUs except in niche circumstances.
The article isn't about hydrogen cars and in fact points out that hydrogen cars have lots of problems.
My guess is that major european cities have a higher level of foot traffic which means you're more likely to have streets out of the way where a thief can make a quick escape but still find enough people walking along.

For what it's worth, I'm aware of one example of a coworker having headphones randomly swiped in Dublin (where we live), one person who got pickpocketed while on holiday in Madrid, and one person who got pickpocketed while on a work trip in San Francisco in recent years.
EconTalk has many great episodes digging into interesting aspects that are touched on here: why the US healthcare so expensive for so little extra value.

This episode about the Oklahoma group that has had low cost & transparent prices for surgeries for many years.
http://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-ca...

This one on why we get such expensive drugs with marginal benefit:
http://www.econtalk.org/vinay-prasad-on-cancer-drugs-medical...

This one on benefit management companies terrifying behavior:
http://www.econtalk.org/robin-feldman-on-drugs-money-and-sec...

(Also PS Russ Roberts on this show is a treasure. His way of thoughtfully engaging with others is something I try to learn from.)
This is just misdirection.

> that it wouldn't have changed anything

Perhaps. Justify that. I might even agree, but still, justify that.

> and frankly a lot of it was racism

It is not. Anti-chinese-government attitude is not related to anti-chinese-people racism. You're trying to comflate the two so you can dismiss it as just racism. It isn't.

> The popular narrative right now is that if China didn't fuck up we wouldn't be in the mess we are right now,

We'd possibly be in a similar mess from the stupidity in various western governments, inc. mine in the UK. See my past posts where I make this ever so plain, indeed using phrases like 'we fucked up'.

But that does not let the chinese gov't off the hook WRT their fuckups and armtwisting the WHO and general appalling behaviour. This does not let them off the hook in the same way it does not let eg. boris johnson off the hook, or trump, or bolsonaro.
I’m genuinely curious why companies don’t do this? It seems like a great deal, many cities in US are great with decent cost of living. I used to live in Kansas before & home ownership is cheaper and time zones are usually better. Maybe the total cost of hire is still higher? idk
YOu would be wrong in your suspicion. At $45,284 the US has the highest household net disposable income per capita in the OECD (http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/united-states/), where "disposable income" (http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=46) accounts for healthcare and government benefits.
That was an informal poll performed by a personal finance website. It’s not a scientific study.

Furthermore, read the actual question they asked. They didn’t ask if people could pay the expense from savings. They asked how people would pay the expense.

The options include things like “reduce spending in other areas” aren’t mutually exclusive with being able to draw down on savings accounts. Many people prefer to reserve their savings for retirement unless necessary.
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You will get over it. A certain degree of social dependence and external validation is fine. But if the lack of it makes you unhappy I'll take it as a hint that you have deep caverns in you mind, filled with extraordinary treasure, that you have never ventured into. Read more, try out hard things and make them easy. People and friends are nice, but don't depend on them for purpose and connection.

Why not take up botany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTsAFpSXj7Y
It seems I have to "register" with the Economist to read that.
I don't think the book is generally supposed to be teaching grammar, it is, as I understand it, trying to teach 'style'. Of course the style it teaches is perhaps somewhat antiquated.
Just as "virtue signalling" is not the same as virtue, "intelligence signalling" is not the same as intelligence. Some would say it's the latter that "gave us civilization".
A comparison of GDP per capita per hour worked:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

Many EU countries are with-in 80-90% of the US by this measure. Also, the US, nationally- / federally-speaking, has no mandatory annual leave; countries in the EU have many days, and people tend take them:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...

Further, using OECD data on labour productivity, the US is down the list, so it seems that when Europeans are working, they get more done:

> GDP per hour worked is a measure of labour productivity. It measures how efficiently labour input is combined with other factors of production and used in the production process.

* https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm

And let's not forget that these per capita numbers are averages:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

And from the article:

> I’m simply making the modest — yet important — argument that Europeans would be more prosperous if the fiscal burden of government wasn’t so onerous.

That does not necessarily follow. Given that in capitalism the 'excess' value created goes to Capital and not Labour, it is debatable whether Joe the Plumber or Jacques the Baker would see more money in their pockets.
This is not as good as it sounds just because it works for you.

People don't love moving, and they usually move for better work opportunities, not to accomodate a pay cut at their current job. Moving to a lower cost of living area also means moving to an area with less opportunities, and not to mention moving away from your social circles and the life you have established somewhere.

The only way I can see this working if uber started hiring bew remote engineers in the US, but asking their current ones to move from SF so they can take a pay cut?
Personally I'm way more inclined to believe Americans are unhealthy because their health care system is too expensive, rather than the other way around. Obesity is treatable.
That is incorrect. The tech innovation track is bad because most of talented indians join mostly Trading based family business.

Most of Agarwals,Jains,Brahmin are mostly businessman.(most indian big startup-enterprises are from this community.ex.Paytm,Reliance,Birla,Flipkart,OYO,OLA)

for example,I am jain(Baniya). I am having masters degree in IT(2013),had offer from US based MDM startup still I chose trading.
Even now I spend 20 hours a week in IT work(hobby),from node projects,System drivers to my trading business specific IOT devices and even DIY Electronics project.
But I dont find myself in IT business in near future.

My cousin who is also master degree holder in IT, He runs successful family owned supermarket with 15000+skus. His store is more advanced in tech then bigger competitors which I bet will earn him fruit in next 3-4 years.

Its personal choice not lack of innovation or talent.
No. At $45,284 the US has the highest household net disposable income per capita in the OECD (http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/united-states/), where "disposable income" (http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=46) accounts for healthcare and government benefits.
> The CL Standard is also dated and crufty

That was also my impression when I gave CL a shot a couple of months ago. Lots of strangely named functions, etc.