skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short answer: no.

Healthcare providers are not allowed to charge publicly-insured patients for covered services. Insurance companies are not allowed to insure for covered services. So for covered services (e.g. lab tests and doctor visits) the only available options is public. For non-covered services (e.g. ambulance, dental, prescription drugs, etc.) you pay out of pocket or use private insurance.

Many healthcare providers themselves are private. For example, doctors are independent contractors, not government employees, and their offices are private businesses. But they get paid for services by the government (why we call if a single-payer system rather than a public system).
You can check the current definition version this way:

grep -a version /var/opt/eset/esets/lib/em002_32.dat

If it's 22346, then you're affected.
Some are Ubuntu certified. Those tend to work well.

Also look at what Redhat or BSD developers use.

Besides, try to avoid discrete GPUs if you can. An all Intel machine, or lately all AMD, usually works really well.

Another good sign is the availability of EFI firmware updates that are OS independent.
And you can also say that most of Western Europe favours fairly small, and, often, specialised hospitals, and clinics.
Apple, GroupM, others ask for tough protection for data in Google lawsuit
My providers all promptly send me bills, they want the portion of the bill the insurance didn't pay. There's frequently lots of them, but the bills are clear and arrive promptly once insurance has settled.
This NYT article clicked with me: https://outline.com/bVnccw

If our best and brightest doctors are opting to get the vaccines for themselves, I feel safe doing the same - it's probably the most clear and obvious signal we're going to get.
My understanding that i-mode markup was very limited and didn't include tables or css, so I don't think it would be possible for desktop sites from 2011 to have been designed for i-mode first. Common Japanese sites for desktop browsers from this period as described in the original article were extremely cluttered in a way that would have been completely impossible to read on a feature phone with i-mode.

I believe that as with WAP, it was necessary to have completely separate i-mode sites, so I don't think the front end rendering of one would necessarily affect the other even if companies like Yahoo Japan were serving similar content over both.
Ask your employer how they feel about paying for your healthcare. Whatever your opinion of the quality of healthcare you get may be, it is an undeniable fact that the cost is rising and has been rising at rates far above the rates of inflation. This has been happening for a long time, but it really accelerated after Bush signed a law that said Medicare was not allowed to negotiate drug prices. (Although, I am sure there are other reasons).

If you are lucky enough to have an employer that loves you so much that he/she is willing to pay ever increasing cost for your medical care, good for you. But I can tell you that you are in a tiny, tiny minority. As things currently, stand medical care costs are scary high and they are getting higher every year at a very scary rate. And most employers are looking at ways they can limit their health care costs, most of the solutions resulting in limiting benefits for employees.
Kaniko is a choice: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko

Userland docker builds
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25164921.
Usually people will have both, since basic government insurance, I believe, is mandatory in most of those countries.
You could double down on purchasing existing companies and just leaving them hanging out there. Softimage comes to mind, it was honestly the best of breed in it's space and they acquired it along with wavefront/Maya and just let Softimage languash while they milked it for licencing.
wow...

"The Court finds that New Century had access to the SQL Data [pg. 536] Structures and that there is enough probative similarity to find that New Century factually copied the SQL Data Structures."

The next question might be to have 'Positive Software' demonstrate that they did not, in fact, take their table schemas from some place else. Like... textbooks? Or... example database schemas from vendors. Or tutorial sites? Or competing products?

There may be something extremely unique about part of their structure, perhaps, but... at the same time, there's often very little variety in how most similar data (crm/sales/lead gen/etc) might be stored to be remotely usable for reportin anyway.

"misappropriation of confidential information". Without seeing the structures in question it may be hard to say, but typically 'confidential info' is qualified with "not elsewhere available"-style clauses.

"... Likewise, the Court finds that there are more than one or a few ways to organize the data structures required for programs such as LoanTrack and LoanForce..."

Yeah, but usually there's only one good way to do stuff. Yes I could just have one row with 940 columns - technically, I could make my program work with that - but it's extremely suboptimal - regardless of whether I've seen anyone else's table structures or not.
> I am absolutely happier having american healthcare than canadian. Admittedly, that's because I am of the 80 percent of people who get decent health coverage via my employer.

Do you still have coverage if you get laid off? For how long? For kids too? That’s what freaks me out about the US system, is that it’s tied to employment to a high degree.
This pandemic must have led to tons of people being laid off. Many of them got laid off and then they (or a family member) got Covid. How long after being laid off are people normally covered? How long is coverage for family members on the employee’s insurance after they are laid off?

I wouldn’t say care is better under my single payer than it is for US white collar employees, but I assign a massive value to the fact that I don’t worry about insurance or money if I get sick, have a child, or have a chronically ill child.
This implies that the incentives are any saner when driven by sales, which isn't necessarily true. At least on the enterprise end (which is presumably where GCP wants to make a significant chunk of its revenue), sales can be equally driven by what's essentially "ship shiny", it's just that the rewards are even more immediate (collect commission).

Salespeople will gladly hound engineering teams to pound out an MVP for whatever their particular prospects want this quarter, and a shiny MVP is often enough to close a deal so long as it holds up in a demo with managers whomever has purchasing power. Once that's done, sales is happy to forget about that product, or at least convince themselves that it working in a demo means it will work well in production (they lack the technical competence to see the inevitable holes that will appear down the road if the MVP isn't developed past minimum viability).

If next quarter's customers want a different set of features, well, sales will push for those, often to the detriment of fleshing out existing functionality or ensuring they're stable and maintainable. They're insulated from any pain that results from half-baked products if the people tasked with actually using products aren't those with purchasing power, and in the enterprise context, they usually aren't, and are themselves insulated from line workers who could tell them they've essentially bought a lemon, or more the promise of functionality instead of actual functionality.
Folks, after Snowflake IPO and Dbt funding there is a lot of euphoria and FUD as I talked to some VCs. This doesn't match up when I talk to customers, so trying to clarify what's actually going on.
>It's funny that you've managed simultaneously to argue that DNS monetization (which is ubiquitous) is both a reason to immediately change ISPs, and also not a big deal because ISPs can snoop on you anyways.

Of course. If you know that your ISP is doing that, you change to one that is not doing it. It's not ubiquitous. Besides that, what makes you think that your DoH provider (if not your ISP) is also not selling that data?

You think that DoH/DoT is somewhat a replacement for DNSSEC but it's not. Both are independent. Doesn't matter how much domains have it.
Cataract surgery is not urgent. In Canada, they ration by need, not the ability to pay. It's also a problem that is not generally characteristic of health care systems. Overall health outcomes are better by the vast majority of metrics.

Even if you have good insurance, wait times can be bad. For a point of reference, someone close to me had a potentially fatal condition and wasn't able to get a specialist appointment for 4 months. That sort of thing isn't uncommon.
Hmmm I definitely disagree with the “lacking emphasis”part. One of the Japanese alphabets is literally used to draw attention to words
I wouldn't consider someone who has to work wealthy.
Are you sure the US health care system delivers less care? I've read data about the health of the nation which seems bad compared to other countries (in relation to wealth). But I don't think that is automatically the fault of bad care. For example, if cheap access to food and cars make people fat, leading to bad health outcomes, it would not be the fault of the health care system.

It could be even worse, and a better health care system could make people be more careless about their health, because they would rely on being treated well enough to survive anyway.

Not saying any of that is the actual case, just that there are many aspects to consider.

As for controlling rent seeking behavior, wouldn't the insurance companies be interested in paying less? I don't see how private insurance facilitates uncontrolled rent seeking behavior?

It is very much a problem with public insurance, when patients never even see the bills.

In general, health insurance is a hard problem.
BC specific.. usually a political tool of bring it back and then cancelling the MSP. It's happened several times over the decades.

Other provinces in Canada have different but similar things.
I trusted them with my music collection and they shut the service down in favor of the vastly inferior YouTube Music.
Yes, almost exactly that (I’ve only visited Istanbul so I can’t speak to other parts of Turkey, but basically yes.)

The overall picture I got is that the cats of Istanbul do seem to be uniquely loved and well-treated compared to the street animals of other countries. They are welcomed, not seen as nuisances. They are immediately loving to people, not skeptical and skittish. They seek affection (and food), not just food.
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One rule that should be added here, but it might be a bit late:

* choose a language that supports async operations so that you aren't waiting for external webrequests or database calls to get back to local code.

A synchronous language can turn your big, beefy machine into a single concurrent transaction language and _that_, beyond any other pain, can really, really, really reduce your total throughput.

Pick languages that can do other things while they're waiting for IO.
> Make sure your web server and database are set up and tuned right - that they have enough memory, threads, etc.

Anyone have a link to good write-up on tuning Apache/nginx and Postgres/MySQL for a web app running on a $10-20 typical VM?
A lot of people have pretty good insurance through their employers, but part of the point of a system like Canada's is that if you lose your job you still have the same insurance. Similarly, if you want to change jobs or launch a startup, health insurance isn't the thing that's holding you back from that.

With the ACA, things are at least a little better than before: individual people can at least buy insurance, which wasn't the case before if you had a pre-existing condition and didn't live in a state with a subsidized program (like Oregon's OMIP).

A criticism I've heard of Canada's system is just that it's under-funded. They could raise their taxes a little and divert more money to health care, and it would improve some of these wait times. I don't know how true that is, though, and how much of a legitimate problem it is. Canada definitely pays far less per capita for health insurance than the U.S.
I think we have different definitions of "flawless"
We use kaniko[1] in Gitlab CI and it’s working great for us. It’s annoying the kaniko image requires us to specify the entrypoint. There’s some peculiarities with Dive [2], but otherwise it’s been a very easy migration.

[1] https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko

[2] https://github.com/wagoodman/dive/issues/318
> 1/10 or 1/100 the carbon footprint

I feel compelled to bring this article up, especially since last time it was brought up on HN people seemed sure in the comments that it was not a common sentiment.

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/no-your-clean-c...

I agree with the gist of this article, but I think if you are not a FAANG as the article suggests, then you probably also are not at a scale where your carbon impact is actually measurable...
They must be talking about immune system cells, iirc red blood cells don’t have a nucleus.
Reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18512197
I am not trying to compare the two metrics. Getting instantly down voted for my initial comment reminded me of how that nurse acted 25 years ago.
Hi. The results on that video do not reflect your comments; The software encoder is obviously inferior. Also those results are old.

I have also tried all the options and there is no comparison. It's a night and day difference between software encoding and nvenc. It was more than triple the latency last I tested.

I tested steam, parsec and also the best software available today for game streaming, Gamestream + Moonlight or Gamestream on the Shield TV.

Anybody would notice the difference in quality and input lag between QuickSync, libx264 and NVEnc. The difference really is very large in higher resolutions (talking about 1440p and 4k in 60/144fps).
Interesting. Do you have an automated way of breaking books down, or are you doing it manually?
Yes, clearly someone had meant to put a resistor there but instead spec'd a cap, making an open circuit instead. Shorting out the cap solved the problem.

Since they'd shipped these boards for a while it was pretty likely nobody was using them. Since nobody wants to design around a part likely to be cancelled due to poor performance in the market...we figured nobody would be relying on this part.

I called it a "pullup capacitor" because it was where you'd expect to see a pullup resistor and thus the name is funny.
You can still access Google Voice via gmail in the right sidebar.

Unless it’s only a G Suite feature?
I had to disable uBlock Origin to get the entire page to load, so in this case it has more to do with some filter.
> Symbolics was really a minicomputer manufacturer, building up CPUs from smaller parts.

Up to 1987. In 1988 they switched to microprocessors.

> They went down with the other mini makers - DEC, Prime, Data General, Interdata, Tandem, and the rest of that crowd. That technology was obsoleted by single-chip CPUs.

Symbolics introduced their single chip LISP CPUs in 1988. That one was used in their workstations, boards for SUNs and Macs, and in embedded applications.

That's my Symbolics LISP Machine as a board for an Apple Macintosh Quadra:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzRIoEKIMAA2kli?format=jpg&name=...

It uses a microprocessor. The daughterboard is RAM.
> The Central Intelligence Agency has awarded its long-awaited Commercial Cloud Enterprise, or C2E, contract to five companies—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and IBM

So every major cloud service got a contract? I guess that prevents lawsuits between cloud service providers that we got with the pentagon contract. But still, isn't it odd that every single major cloud service provider got a contract?
They really don't have motivation to lock down the Mac in that way.

Instead, they'll push iPad to be usable as a laptop alternative for more people.
I do believe benchmarks have shown it to be equivalent to a 1050 Ti which is not a pushover card by any means.
I have the 7th gen. It works OK. Trackpad sucks. Resolution is high and Ubuntu does not scale things properly. Fingerprint reader doesn't work. Speakers are incredibly quiet. Suspend / hibernate does not work reliably.
I think you have to do the flash cards multiple times to be effective. I've manually written out 1000 hindi flash cards. I would go through them a few times each day. I usually add a few of the older cards randomly, and I've had good progress over the course of a year. I think it was better for me to use that than Anki since I had to learn to write the devegnari.

I also heard finnish is a really hard language, so maybe it's that.
There are a lot of people saying “my employer insurance is great!” which is nice... but aren’t you frustrated that it’s tied to employment?

I’ve contracted before and insurance is a nightmare. I stopped contracting and took a full time job because of it... even small startups often get terrible options because they’re not at the size to have any negotiating leverage.

Without a universal solution we’re kind of in a state of light indentured servitude. If it weren’t for healthcare costs I might not even work full-time... I’ve considered moving to canada just so I can be free from the burden.

I don’t think most Americans understand the mental weight of having to think about insurance at critical life junctures... even if you’re willing to disregard the millions of uninsured lives that fall by the wayside.

I have to think about premiums, copays, billing codes, in and out of network coverage, have awkward pricing conversations with doctors, call to fight denied claims... and sometimes I still get blindsided if for some reason lab work needs a second set of eyes (sometimes those eyes are in the same facility and out of network). Oh and for some reason my teeth aren’t covered as healthcare?

We’re boiled frogs with this stuff... people still think we have the best healthcare in the world but disregard the fact that it’s only available for the rich; we’re generally well out of the top 10 otherwise. I grew up in a rural area and I know multiple people who literally pulled out their own teeth because they didn’t have dental insurance. We need to start taking better care of each other.
Please don't make me tear up. :(

Really well put comment! People padding CVs / resumes are a huge problem in our area and everybody is suffering -- programmers, IT/sysadmins, and the users. I really can't understand why is this tolerated. I mean, I can... but it's a figure of speech.

I dream of the day when programming and UIs will be much more strictly regulated (yes, actually regulated) but I am 40 now and I am not sure I'll live to see the day.
>Why do taxpayers have to pay expensive court proceedings, and offenders have to spend a lot of money for an attorney, and waste a bunch of time.

They don't have to. The usual process for something like a speeding violation in the US is:

1. You get stopped for speeding (or get caught on a speedcam).

2. You receive the ticket in the mail.

3. At this point, you have an option to agree with it and pay the fine OR appear in court and hope they will rule in your favor (which could easily happen if you genuinely believe they were wrong; and half the time, the cop himself will fail to appear in court anyway, so you get the ticket dismissed if it wasn't anything too wild).

You don't have to appear in court (if you choose to accept the ticket and pay the fine) or waste money on attorneys (if you choose to contest the ticket in court). You can literally play it the same way in the US as you just described, by getting the ticket in your mailbox and paying it off (for something like speeding). That's it. Contesting the ticket in court is just another option available to you.

What happened to the parent commenter who mentioned failing to appear in court, they basically didn't pay the ticket they received (aka ignored it) and didn't show up in court to contest it either. That's pretty much it.
OK. I pretty much agree with that.

I'm still worried about the guy who does get to dictate what Facebook will carry (namely, somebody at Facebook). I don't want that person to be very morally absolutist, and I worry that they are becoming increasingly so as time goes by.
I have heard a lots of good stuff about Anki. The adoption of it is wider than expected, and people really enjoy it. Up to a point when they are requesting to offer Anki for Summon The JSON, what seems to be an interesting idea
Greeks that called themselves Romans for 2 millennia (200BC - 1800 A.D until the Hellenes name is back I think). Fascinating history.

The Roman (Rhomaion) identity was decoupled from the Latin language by the Early Byzantines.
There are starting to be tools aimed at generating a font file from a more compact representation that would let you e.g. reuse radicals between characters, but the font file formats are pretty wedded to each glyph's entry being independent AIUI.
This!!! I'd much, much rather have some obvious in thr face banner ad then the shit that passes for modern web these days. Less information does not mean more useable.
That's true, I remember reading that somewhere too.
> But if you are insured, does it matter how expensive it is?

yes...

I have what's called a "high deductible" plan, which means I pay 100% out of pocket until I rack up $1350 of medical bills in a calendar year. after that I only pay 10% until I hit a total of $2700. $2700 would not be catastrophic to my financial life, but it creates a moderate incentive to shop around on price.
The US system also rations equipment based on more or less arbitrary bureaucratic determinations. Want to open a radiology practice with an MRI machine? Better hope the state lets you.
Yes exactly, the EEPROM stores the settings rather than the config.txt file on the SD Card as with earlier Pi's.
I’m not sure it’s that crazy of a take. Those are, by far, the two most recognizable websites in the world with “tube” in the name. Naming a product in a way that calls to mind the other (for no real reason - the “Red” in YouTube Red doesn’t mean anything) is an obvious branding error.
> Maybe the largest remaining difference is around the strength of the memory model

If it weren't for the following project... I'd agree with you.

https://github.com/saagarjha/TSOEnabler

> A kernel extension that enables total store ordering on Apple silicon, with semantics similar to x86_64's memory model. This is normally done by the kernel through modifications to a special register upon exit from the kernel for programs running under Rosetta 2; however, it is possible to enable this for arbitrary processes (on a per-thread basis, technically) as well by modifying the flag for this feature and letting the kernel enable it for us on. Setting this flag on certain processors can only be done on high-performance cores, so as a side effect of enabling TSO the kernel extension will also migrate your code off the efficiency cores permanently.

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Its clear that Apple has implemented total-store ordering on its chips (including the M1).
Using Obsidian with Termux and Vim
Maybe things have a changed in the past few years, but I knew an orthopedic surgeon with a private practice in Vancouver. The workaround was that he charged a flat hourly rate, not a per-service fee. He specialized in knee surgery and also worked at a local hospital, so you could either wait 3 to 6 months for him to fix your knee at the hospital, or you could book him sooner at his private practice. That sounded like a win-win to me.