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> This issue isn't that people are trying to maximize profit leading to issues.

This is exactly the issue. You cannot seriously think that the trainwreck that is US healthcare is what it is solely because of government intereference?

Would Cigna fund and run the tiny little community clinics that serve with sliding-scale pricing? Would Kaiser willingly insure students with preexisting conditions at a fair price? (I know that in my case, they wouldn't)

What "free market" incentive is there for these insurance companies to cover people that would clearly cost them more money than they receive? Those people need help and sickness/viruses do not have any concept of money, and they effect people indiscriminately.

You are promoting a healthcare system for the wealthy and privileged, which is exactly what we have right now and what needs to be torn down.
https://nextjs.org?
Not true, I went to a top accredited school and had to take out private loans (at 9.5%) when I exhausted their aid and federal resources and my parents were tapped out
> While AMP itself isn't a ranking factor, speed is a ranking factor for Google Search.

Isn't that hyper-misleading? Click-through is a ranking factor, and especially click-through without return and click-through to something else on same results page, and being on the mobile carousel increases click-through. Or do they exclude those clicks from ranking?
I think the bigger issue is that LCDM has no produced much fruit in the last several years. Despite many attempts to detect it, no one has found anything. Furthermore, the main motivation for LCDM was super-symmetry, but the latter has also failed to produce much evidence in favor of it.

There comes a point where the consensus view is no longer seen as the most plausible explanation. This does necessary mean something crazy like modified gravity is true, but rather that there could be a better theory out there. However, in order to find that better theory all avenues need to be explored.
O'Farrel to Market on Mason is definitely more shady than going down Stockton. Not so shady that I've personally felt unsafe, but it's the kind of place I have to step around a dice game on the sidewalk.
Because of limited resources in Canada they had waiting times of several years (Google can point to multiple sources), UK or Nederlands a few months (I have friends working as doctors in these countries) or, in Eastern Europe, you need to get your own drugs from home because the hospital does not have it. With the perceived "free healthcare" the use increases a lot and the limited resources cannot scale up to infinite, so you either have a very long wait time or get the almost nothing left.

This is the situation in most of countries with this system. It is mathematically impossible to get what you dream of. In countries like USA the demand is heavily filtered by prices, so people get what they afford to, if you take the filters out you will be left with nothing very fast. I hate the system in US, but at least it gives a chance to people who can afford it; here, everybody is equally screwed. The only thing that works well here is giving birth, that is free, you can cover that by the state or federal in US too, but that's about the limit.
You asked if someone tried to do it and already got a link where a BBC journalist bought a phone location data two years ago (that is, this being a thing is absolutely not news).

Here's an independent russian newspaper estimating how much it'd cost to get all this data on the black market (note that they don't even question if it's possible to do it as everybody knows that it is possible)

https://thebell.io/million-za-vseh-skolko-stoilo-rassledovan...

They list which databases you'd buy it from and for how much. Their total estimate is about a million rubles, ~$13000

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Here's another large russian newspaper:
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4616645

"For Navalny's investigation internet and some cash was enough" - "Experts interviewed by "Kommersant" confirm that flight receipts with passport numbers of passengers, their phone numbers and geo-tagged billing of the latter can be found on the black market at a price of 2-40 thousand rubles per request."
True, you can put large files in git, but after a while your .git will become huge, clones will become extremely slow, and (if you're hosted on github), github will threaten to delete your repo. ;-)

Then you have to use something like git lfs, which isn't terrible, but also isn't 100% smooth either.

Something that handled this as part of the native experience out of the box would be much nicer.

Edit: Pijul would be different by not having clone become slow, as I understand the blog post.
i've been listening to ambient for years now. i don't find it boring; if anything I find anything with vocals and a beat distracting. there's a lot of forgettable ambient, as expected, but there's also numerous albums that i find moving and emotionally stirring.

some record labels: Touch, Room40, Miasmah, Geographic North, Music from Memory

playlists:

* https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6WPzVhcFhtUo9qKLz7cTcJ?si=...

* https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0HIfTbD7gaDP0rVPqSPNhX?si=...

* https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2dAsXvXqCrCKqzHAqgjgTD?si=...
> What happened was that in the 70s energy got expensive.

Only temporarily. Energy today, adjusted for inflation, is actually quite a bit cheaper now than it was even before the early 70s oil crisis.
Why can't you take some responsibility for their safety? You're the one in a 200+ bhp murder machine, not them. If somebody can dart out into the path of your car, you should be asking yourself why you let yourself get into that situation.
> Of course you have. The first thing you did when you walked in was hand them your ID and coverage info. You think hospitals operate on the honor system?

They mail you these paper forms known as "bills". I have examples I can show you. Insurance only pays a portion. I suppose you can call it a kind of honor system.

And given your examples, you apparently aren't aware that when it comes to emergence care in the US, hospitals which have an emergency department are required by law to provide emergency care as needed to make sure a patient is stable. One's ability to pay is not a factor.
My state (Oregon) has protection against this. Unfortunately my emergency spinal operation was 2 months prior to the bill going into effect, so I got hit by this.

The part that pissed me off was I KNEW about the practice and specifically made a fuss about making sure everyone in that OR was IN NETWORK. I went to an in network facility, my surgeon was in network, and so was the anesthesiologist and every person that entered my hospital room I asked if the OR staff was in network (the answer was always yes). 1 month later I get a bill for a neuro-monitoring team and an assistant-surgeon that were both out of network.

The assistant surgeon charged me about $500. The neuro-monitoring team sent a ~$20,000 bill with the promise that they'd lower it to a reasonable value when I called to pay. Furthermore Blue Cross sent me a letter saying it wasn't pre-approved (even though the procedure was) and they would not cover a cent of it. Imagine the feeling of doom wondering just how low could these shysters possibly go from 20k. Thankfully that turned out to be true, the final bill was $800. Which still made me furious because I made such a huge deal out of not getting into this situation.

So that was $1300 total out of pocket that I was not expecting to pay. Luckily I'm a software developer with a huge savings, but I made several angry calls anyway and even sent an appeal twice to blue cross (which they denied both times). I'm so glad this crap is finally coming to an end, but the right-leaning supreme court makes me afraid some of these laws will get reversed.
> For the cancer one, possibly.

Do go on. Why is dying due to an explicit action any more of a free choice than dying of an explicit inaction? Why is one any more coercive than the other?

The only point I'm making is that healthcare is not a free market due to lack of voluntary agreement between buyer and seller. Once you accept that it's not a big jump to say the system should be remediated.
I've seen that, yeah. I've already implemented a memory profiler for Python batch jobs (https://pythonspeed.com/fil), but starting to think about how to integrate it into specific pipeline frameworks.
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So they made a 16hr fast 8hr eat program and told people to eat in that time frame what they would eat in 24hrs, because that's what the previous papers said.
That is not how its done, you're supposed to eat what you would eat in 8hrs...
It's a 2004 article which really have to be read through the lenses of the time. Java in 2020 with Kotlin and Scala is pretty far removed from 2004 Java. Same goes for the Windows vs Linux part.
I would have to drive very far below the speed limit on any street in my vicinity to be able to safely stop before hitting a jaywalker.

I can do that, of course, but I then become a road hazard. I find it hard to believe that the overall safety would increase as a result. I'm open to being otherwise convinced.
I like Spotify's recommendations and have found lots of great artists from it. But now I feel I'm in a kind of Spotify-created rut of listening to static groups of artists. I have mostly stopped listening to my daily mixes because of this.

It's also easy to theorize about "big media" controlling what I listen to, so I still feel the need to do my own exploring, even when I'm getting recommended good fresh stuff.
I think what was meant is a belief that porn addiction causes brain damage (to the addict).
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I worked at a promising mobile-app startup whose gigantic ambitions didn't pan out; I figured they'd be an acquisition target and bought my options for like $4K. At some point the founders decided to cash out, but instead of selling, they started paying out dividends.

That first check alone more than tripled my money - and came with a cap table, too, so I could see the $1m+ payouts to each founder as a nice little lesson in the disparity between founder and early-employee outcomes.

Not that I'm complaining - this has turned into the single highest-performing investment I've ever made :) Career-wise it launched me into the big leagues. A+, would do it all again.

The only other startup that paid me equity money, I got enough to buy a used motorcycle. Yay.
> Slightly related, Stripe now gives fixed # RSUs to new hires, which limits both upside and downside significantly.

Pretty much all companies start doing this once they get large-ish (snap, airbnb, lyft, uber, etc. all did essentially the same thing).

At the valuation stripe has, I'm not seeing the downside, given that the upside of options is limited once you're the size of stripe today.

> but to me it seems that this is another way of screwing employees by denying them stock appreciation on their initial grant

How? If I'm granted 100 RSUs, and the company value doubles, my RSU value doubles. Fixed # of RSU is the better way (imo) in comparison to fixed dollar amount grants.
Why AMP exists?

A website I consult in a popular sports niche and has a slow, broken, ad-infested main website grew its traffic 500% with AMP.

On the main website, it's still broken. On AMP it's... AMP. So Google thinks it's fast enough/good enough.

On AMP we implemented a lot of annoying CTAs to go to the main website. ”Read Full Article here” ”Read more” ”Details at...”

In the past this website would have needed to optimize its real website to gain this much visibility in the search engines. Now they just AMP, then they optimize their AMP to real-world-website CTR, and can continue to have a... sub ideal.... website.

AMP is whitelisted cloaking for slow websites. And a burden on webmasters and developers.

I always say AMP is the internet if germans (most AMP leads were at one point germans) would have invented it (I am Austrian, we always joke about Germans ): Efficient, mostly boring and long term innovation harmful.

I am rooting for AMP to die. Sadly it will still be around for about 5 years until the ”what a great journey” blogpost.
That's exactly what Next.js is:

https://nextjs.org

(as well as a few other tools in the ecosystem)
Totally agree. The problem is that the word "racism" has meant a lot of things over the decades continues to be used to describe many gradations of behavior and outlook. It's used to describe brutally beating a black man to death in the street, it's meant denying housing opportunity, and it also describes moving to the other side of the sidewalk when a black man is on your side, or picking a white candidate over a black candidate in a job interview.

The spectrum that the word "racist" covers is simply too large.

That's why I've pointed out that it used to just be called "stereotyping" but there's been a concerted effort on the part of those pushing identity politics, to make this about power. It's to the point where they've redefined "racism" to mean "at a minimum, stereotyping another person from a position of power or authority".

The implications of that new definition are that many people who were previously guilty of stereotyping, are now racist. In fact, basically any white person who stereotypes, because they generally have privileges' and power in society, are now "racist".

I don't agree with the redefinition, and I think it's an example of a pendulum that has swung too far.
Bundle size is a huge part of the appeal of this. Right now if you use React for SSG in popular frameworks, loads of static content is duplicated in client bundles even though it’s completely useless for the client experience.

They cover some of this in the RFC. But I’ll use a site I’m working on as an example. There’s currently very little interactive content on the site, nearly everything is just Markdown content rendered to HTML and styled with CSS. But Next.js doesn’t know it’s static and sends it all again as React (well, Preact for my site) components. This doubles the weight of my pages on the wire, not to mention the performance impact of hydrating that static content.

I’ve been looking for weeks for a way to do what Server Components is doing, because while I love JSX for dev, that’s a really awful UX to foist on readers. There’s some prior art (search for Preact partial hydration if you’re interested), but it’s all very complex to set up. Having a first party reference solution will raise the bar significantly.
If all else fails, a vnc server might be an option...
For every instance a driver like you has with someone crossing like that, there are probably 100+ of someone walking and a driver nearly plowing over them.

I walk and bike around my town a lot, and I'm very cognizant of my surroundings.

I can not even count how many times I've had people driving see me start to go in to a crosswalk and just totally blast through it, back out of driveways where I was very visible on the driver's side and not even look (TWICE only getting attention in time to not get hit by bashing on the car), people driving at high speed in to parking lots inches away.

A month ago I was walking out of a nearby park on the only road in and out, that doesn't have a sidewalk for some idiotic reason, and I had some asshole try to sideswipe me and ended up clipping me with their mirror on purpose.

Think about this next time you bring up a single instance of someone walking in a dangerous way. The design of cities in the US and the contempt of many people driving is many, many times worse for pedestrians than the other way around.
So frustrating that an unmaintainable operating system was released into the world.
> I have unfortunately seen a pedestrian get hit by crossing on a red walk sign, luckily they survived.

These stats are not an apples-to-apples comparison. You need to compare injuries per incident: number of vehicle-caused pedestrian injuries per pedestrian crossing vs. number of police-caused injuries per police interaction.

I have seen countless pedestrians walking at their top speed, the moment the walk sign turns green, only to have it turn red before they've cleared the intersection. In many of those situations where I've been driving, I've been honked at for not carelessly running down the elderly or disabled. If every crossing was long enough to permit those folks to cross in time, cities would be deluged with complaints. How many pedestrians in your statistics were physically incapable of crossing in time?

I've been nearly run over by probably a dozen cars in my life, while I've had the right of way in a crossing (my favorite being the time that a cop was looking one way and turning the other, and my timely shout saved my legs). How many pedestrians in your statistics had the right of way?
And pop.com would be in the high end of that would be my guess, given it's better that most 3 letter domains as it spells a very marketing-friendly word
Isn't that almost guaranteed? As far as I can tell, AMP does three things:

1. It enforces some good practices / forbids certain expensive browser features.

2. It lazily loads images only when they are scrolled in.

3. It fucks up scroll-to-top and other scrolling behavior on iOS.

The first you can do with or without AMP.

The second doesn't cause anything above the fold to load any faster. If anything, you get an additional delay until content shows up when scrolling, because the browser was prevented from continuing to download the other images in the background.

The third regularly causes me to be done with a site in just a few seconds, which I guess is an optimization of some kind.
On the plus side it's a pleasure to watch Dan Abramov's videos. I always feel I got a bit smarter afterwards.
It's not an explicit argument. Most arguments people make have lots of implicit steps and subarguments though. This is one of those cases.
> What happened was that in the 70s energy got expensive.

Well, sure, but not durably so; the most dramatic examples being a pair of transitory geopolitical events producing short-term supply shocks.
If you can't see around the bend, you're required to slow down so that there is sufficient room for you to stop, should there be a vehicle, pedestrian, or obstruction in the road.
I think you pay taxes when you exercise if they are NSO. If they are ISO you pay on sale of the shares you acquired & they’re subject to AMT.
It's a cool idea but after trying it, I feel it needlessly incorporates all the constraints of the real world into the virtual world.

Why should I waste time clicking my mouse to move to a certain point in virtual space when no-one is really there anyways? Isn't the whole point of virtual meetings that you don't have to physically be there to attend? Walking around in the void to hear others only makes my personal experience slower and less natural.

I feel like maybe the solution here is just to have Zoom + private "rooms" for separate conversations.

(Sorry if this sounds too negative, because I always enjoy seeing new ideas and there was obviously hard work put behind this but that's my 2c)
I just moved a medium sized codebase from clojure transducers to JS, and after having used clojure for 7+ years, and done so professionally, I don't wanna go back, ever. The JS solution is shorter, faster, and easier to understand.
I'm thankfull for the insights into reality and programming clojure has provided, but highly optimised clojure is neither idiomatic nor pretty, you end up with eductions everywhere.
Combine that with reaaaallllyy bad debuggability with all those nested inside out transducer calls (the stack traces have also gotten worse over the years, I don't know why, and a splintered ecosystem (lein, boot, clj-tools)) I'd pick rust and deno/js any day for a greenfield project over clojure. sadly.
There was on place I left where the company was doing OK, but there were a lot of red flags on exercising options, so I let them expire. Someone asked why I didn't just exercise some for fun. I didn't want to have to do the taxes. Not pay the taxes, I mean fill out the forms.
It's focused on building ML pipelines (similar to what Cortex aims to be).
In addition, it also conveniently supports integration with Orchestrators like Airflow, Kubeflow, Beam etc. This book "Building Machine Learning Pipelines: Automating Model Life Cycles with TensorFlow" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492053198/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_Ig...) goes into great details.

I was curious to see what advantage Metaflow offered over TFX.
I don't think this is true, at least not the way you think of.

Amazon hasn't really commoditized the supply chain. Its approach is closer to the Disney / 90s Microsoft monolith: lots of vertical integration, redefine processes at every level, etc. Commoditizing the supply chain would be if they hired intermediaries and encouraged competition between them, but they mostly do things in-house.

(well, except for hiring, but the commoditization of jobs unfortunately isn't a new phenomenon)

On the other hand, maybe it can be argued that Amazon is trying to commoditize the physical marketplace itself. It notoriously makes very little money on physical goods, and most of its profits come from its cloud division. But I think we're getting a little far from the concept described in the article.
Since our company is personally bootstrapped by me, answering this will divulge more of my personal financial situation than I would like to share.

However, I can say that I worked with https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ted0 who was AMAZING at helping find and acquire the domain. I can strongly recommend him as an amazing person to work with for anyone interested in buying a high-value domain.
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Yeah, but I'll also take a sketchy crowd in the Tenderloin at 10pm over being in the Richmond at 1am with nobody around except that one car that keeps circling the blocks.
This is really cool, I joined the launch chat and people were emulating in real life behaviors like standing in a circle and moving their focus to the speaker. I also noticed that multiple conversations were happening at the same time, without interference since the audio is spatially modified.

Love the fact that it's entirely in the browser without an app too.
My boss decided to jaywalk an otherwise empty street in downtown LA during a conference (not a big deal where we're from). When he got to the other side, a cruiser pulled up onto the sidewalk blocking his path, and the cop got out and berated him while writing him a ticket. Crazy and overzealous to say the least, but we still haven't let him live it down to this day.
> researchers believe that when a lender has a more intimate relationship with the potential client’s history, they might be more willing to cut them some slack

Is it a comedy writing? Lender can't have "a more intimate relationship" with anything because today it's a computer. Automated sociopath.
I've wondered if the lack of this stuff is due to business contracts or internal product goals. Not having e.g. IMDB makes sense since it is owned by a competitor (Amazon; whether that's a USA Trust thing, who knows)
Remember when this was a dinky little website that let college students publish their relationship status?
"Old" in what sense though? In the style/fashion sense?
I agree with you, but I think the assumption here is that we're comparing two code bases that are both trying to be performant. The Rust defaults will probably start off more performant, and the ceiling will be higher as well.

A lot of the performance comes from the different paradigms though, so it's not always an apple to apple comparison. But I also think that's an assumption being made when talking about a Clojure Vs Rust implementation. In the latter, you're most likely implying using mutable collections, fixed size structs, primitive types, and a tighter memory allocation surface. And not surprisingly, those are the same changes you'd make to your Clojure code base to speed it up (most likely).
It's the lawyer answer: "it depends...". Some of this "advice" takes a long time to say nothing.