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Incentivising patients should be the easiest part. People, generally, would like to live longer, and if you make imaging convenient and work on the messaging, you can get good compliance, at least for the screening part; compliance for interventions would still be an issue, I presume.

For providers, provide the studies and incentives. Bonuses for lung cancer screening work, or % of patients screened (of eligible patients seen above age X, who haven't been screened, don't have a counter indication to screening, etc).

For payers, I think there's two classes of payers; long term payers like national health services; and short term payers like US health insurance where people can change insurance every year.

Long term insurers can (and should) be looking at their budgets and data (their own, but also studies like you mention) to find out what things to prioritize. Depening on your perspective, goals could be to maximize good years of life given the budget or to minimize future budget needs given the current budget.

Short term payers are going to have a hard time prioritizing long term issues. Reducing future costs for your insurance pool doesn't help you much when your pool can change every year. To incentivize this through economics, we would need to somehow increase the time exposure of the provider. Something along the lines of the insurance carried for a given year has partial responsibility for future years. Of course, that would be an administrative nightmare.
Pushing for innovation is often a part of playing the status game. People pay attention to novelty because it is, in fact, novel. That is, unusual. Novelty also has the potential to benefit one's life in a new way, which is exciting.

Of course, keeping the lights on benefits your life, but you take it for granted.
Ok so what are some good feeds to follow?
Because in this thread it would be off topic?
How can technology help with this? What percentage of manufactured doses per week are being administered?
I disagree very strongly with this even though I strongly support ideas like “choose boring technology” and “reliability is your number one feature.”

The issue is that none of this can be decoupled from politics, and “maintenance first” tells you that the force with political power is some version of a Dilberty group of rent-seeking IT leaders who just want to be paid without having to do much work.

That has pros and cons compared to politics driven by product leaders with unrealistic ideas of shipping new features, but at least they have hustle, ambition, animation and lifeforce. I find the trade offs are worse with anti-ambition “maintenance first” IT leaders.

Setting IT maintenance as a core strategy, rather than something that serves a strategy, is complete death. Employees better hope they like the dead end career they have at such a company, because it’s going to cut them off from any lifeline to relevancy.

The company also better hope they are right in their estimate that a big mass of customers will be satisfied with just maintenance and reliability. If you are in any kind of competitive industry, advanced features or new tech that allows price cuts for your competitor are going to cripple you, and you will be way too slow and dinosaurish to recover or react.

Finally “maintenance mode” places tend to pay poorly. Not because innovation is unfairly paid better, but because they want to offer claims (but usually not realities) of work life balance and other fringe benefits, while just pay less, giving crappy 5% bog standard raises, no bonuses.

When an employee has hustle and ambition and wants to achieve correspondingly more and produce correspondingly more output in exchange for significant growth in compensation, they’ll just be given a line that they can’t be, in principle, because the company’s fundamental way of working is incremental maintenance. A career goal of ambitious projects is conceptually disallowed, along with any goals of related comp growth. So as a result, you can bet you’ll be working with a bunch of extremely mediocre colleagues, a lot of them only taking a 9-5 job that fits other obligations like family stuff, and figuring they’ve given up on ambition or wealth building and you should too.

It reminds me of a famous quote by TS Eliot when he grew sick of university life at Oxford (paraphrasing)

> Oxford is very pretty, but I don’t like to be dead.
Well, the article shows the ball landed 40 yards from him, but we don't know how many times it orbited the moon :)
There was of course a ton of testing at the component level, and iteration when necessary. This worked for Saturn V because it could be done for each component in parallel, due to the huge mid-sixties spike in funding. But at the level of the integrated system, most of the testing—and nearly all of the iteration—was cut out, since it would have to be done in series for the entire rocket (or its stages). Thus the design had to be set in stone before the vehicle ever flew. The first and second stages of Saturn V flew just twice before crewed flight began. This was the right process for Apollo’s unique set of requirements and resources, but it is a bad idea when you A) don’t have a hard deadline forcing you to forego system-level iteration and B) don’t have a spike in funding to accelerate the up-front development, which otherwise takes forever. Hence SLS.
I used QuiteRSS for a long time but ended up switching to self-hosted FreshRSS. I like the convenience of syncing my reading between devices too much.
The Connection Machine had a very unusual architecture that was sort of 1-bit, but sort of 32-bit. It was a massively parallel computer of the 1980s with 16,384 processing elements. Each processing element handled one bit at at time. But usually each processing element performed arithmetic on a 32-bit value, in a bit-serial fashion.

You can call this a 1-bit processing element, but I think calling it a 32-bit serial processor is more descriptive. Processing data serially using a 1-bit ALU was not uncommon, from the early EDSAC computer to the PDP-8/S minicomputer to the Datapoint 2200 desktop computer, but these are not considered 1-bit computers. The Connection Machine was more flexible with word size than these, so calling it a 32-bit computer isn't quite accurate either.

In any case, the MC14500B didn't have any support for bit-serial operations. (For instance, you want the processor to add the carry from one bit to the next bit to do addition.) Arithmetic was possible on the MC14500B (Turing machine and so forth), but it was very slow, taking 12 instructions per bit to manipulate the sum and carry. The documentation recommended using an external chip if you needed to do arithmetic.

More: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/thinkingMachines/CM2/Architecture_a...
There are several new conjectures related to the Catalan constant, pi^2, and zeta(3) (Apéry's constant):

http://www.ramanujanmachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/c...

http://www.ramanujanmachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/p...

http://www.ramanujanmachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/z...

From looking at Calegari's blog post, he didn't comment on any them so far...
Funny you say that because I was talking to an openfaas customer who was using V8 isolates and is moving away from that because have their own issues with mutability.

They are likely going to use kata containers - which can be configured on either Kubernetes or faasd.

The alternative which I've not tried yet is firecracker-containerd

https://katacontainers.io
https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-container...
Option one is China's & Vietnam's strategy for combating the virus, which has been extremely effective. Parts of it were also implemented in nearby non-communist countries such as Taiwan.
Oh please. Read some of the stuff Satoshi wrote, it's obviously not the same person.

Satoshi actively encouraged other blockchains, even encouraging namecoin to run their own chain separate from bitcoin back when the proposal was called "bitdns":

https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/535/

Back has been nothing but a frothing-at-the-mouth altcoin hater.

Comments like @gridder's do an injustice to Hal Finney.
Zemax would definitely be a more professional option, but I never got the opportunity to dive into it. Also this is more for quick plots than for complex optics
I'd like to recognize and appreciate how exceptionally captivating these illustrations are. Karen's illustrations [0] bring whimsical beauty to this quirky book - it's a perfect match.

In the sea of "Corporate Memphis" [1][2], it's pretty refreshing to see the good stuff.

[0] https://www.karendonnelly.com/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22890877

[2] https://www.are.na/claire-l-evans/corporate-memphis

PS - Feedback to the author: Dogs really love JPEGs in the PDF, so try to use SVG format instead.
From a financial standpoint, probably.

Children not encountering lies, strife, or emotional disattachment on a daily basis anymore seems a significant improvement, however.
Journalism Isn't Dying. It's Returning to Its Roots
"The future of journalism is more partisan and supported by more diverse revenue streams—in other words, like the journalism of 200 years ago."
You aren't far off of something that is operational now. I worked in EMS and we had built models to predict where to pre-position ambulances by looking at the demographics, past calls, complaints etc. When we were working on this, and many companies still work on this, another company I ran into was building the same thing for predicting where crime would happen for law enforcement using similar models. Of course, what it seemed to do to me was prejudice officers when responding to certain areas and I think does more harm then good in the end. I am not against using predictive algorithms, but it has to be done in a way which doesn't create prejudice in the people using it.

The next step the company building the law enforcement models was moving toward was to use facial recognition and license plate readers which many cities had been adding to then let them track "criminal element" movements. Their argument is it would remove bias and track the criminals, yet the fact is it would track anyone, criminal or not, that the algorithm tagged as suspect. Which IMO is a major violation of peoples rights. No clue where it stands today as I haven't been around any of that in years, but I know license plate readers and cameras are growing in most cities so my hunch is it or projects like it moved forward.
Pay which people to stay home? Obviously not the ones delivering supplies and food, or utilities workers, or farmers, or emergency services, or plumbers, or anyone else involved in keeping society running on a day to day basis. Your suggestion is just totally disconnected from reality.
> America’s distribution plan is no more fair or logical than a Soviet-style queue for cabbage.

I don't see how a capitalist distribution system (if you have money you get it earlier) is in any way more fair than a system which is based on need.

Capitalism's strength is in extracting resources and increasing production and efficiency in things there is a good market for. But it's not good at all in distributing things.
> There's far less excuses in today's globalized world to justify cultural relativism.

I look forward to a rigorous justification from first principles for the moral values of Western secular humanism.
LingQ – Learn to speak languages like Steve Kaufmann
Still have a few hundred or so bitcoins from playing around with it a decade ago. It was just a toy. We were just sending them around to each other just to watch the tech work. Hell we gave them to a sites like bittap so other people could jump in and give it a test. My key was entropy based so I doubt I'll ever open my wallet, but it's no loss to me. I'd probably would have sold at $200 bucks and got a car or something.
I presume this has to do with how you frame the question and the recipient perceives your intent.
I'm curious, why would it be impossible to define the concept of legal contract formally ?
Teletypes in Switzerland were ITU V.21 with three modifications:

- 110 baud instead of 300 baud

- not full duplex

- carrier tone

I experimented with a Java application and FFT to try to write a soft modem, so I still know the exact specification by heart. Bit 1 was 960 Hz, Bit 0 was 1160 Hz, the carrier tone 1060 Hz, and there were 2 stop bits. This means, the teletype could transmit 11 letters a second.

The carrier tone is special: if someone stopped typing, the teletype switched to the carrier tone and kept it on for about 3 seconds then stopped.

Being not full-duplex Deaf users used a convention so they know when they can type. The called party begins typing and ends with two stars, like this **. Then the caller knows he can type and also indicates the end with two stars. When a party is ready to hang up the phone he writes four stars.

This is what my model (Telescrit) looked like: https://db1.rehadat.de/rehadat/bilder/TC058000/tc058773.jpg
> Could this be used as a simple lens designer? Or are there better programs for than?

Take a look on Etienne de Foras'[0] Astree[1] (an amateur telescope making FLOSS app to help with optical design and optimisation) and on Foucault2[2] (an amateur telescope making FLOSS app to help with mirror design and polishing).

Astree in most cases is enough alternative to proprietary Zemax (+ Astree already support ZMX file format).[3]

[0] http://edeforas.free.fr/?cat=6

[1] https://github.com/edeforas/Astree

[2] https://github.com/edeforas/Foucault2

[3] https://github.com/edeforas/Astree/issues/28
The FDA's continual foot dragging on approving AstraZeneca is criminal. The UK has already thoroughly reviewed it and decided it was safe for approval. Is there any reason to believe that British scientists are any less competent than their American counterparts?

If the trials were successful in the UK, it's a complete waste of time to insist that they be duplicated in the US. Especially when thousands die every day. It's not like biology works different in the Western Hemisphere. This is just another example of bureaucrats flexing their power to aggrandize their own importance.
> Before you scream that this is stupid, please mind that this is actually used out there

That is stupid though. It's like saying changing a private field in Java is a breaking change because someone might have used reflection to access it.

Taken to the moronic extreme: any detectable change is a breaking change because someone could write a function that pulls your latest release and depends on every bit being identical with the previous release.
There are well-known reputable organizations in the U.S. that spam me because someone else entered in my email address and those organizations never validated the email address.

I mark them as spam, but it takes a long time for them to start going to the spam folder instead of the inbox.

I'm sure there are users here that are employees of these organizations/companies/etc. Please make sure your organization is validating emails! 'Never trust the user' should extend to email addresses too.
Oops: Google admits failing to wipe all Android apps with location-tracking X-Mo
If people can find a use for it, this might be a good idea. But haven't discussed this yet
> even if I’m not the target audience

Ah - so you’re not a cat?
I always find it funny that surgeons in the UK insist on being called Mr/Mrs; they’re no common or garden doctor.

No siree, nope, they’re hairdressers from the Royal College of Barber Surgeons no less and you will address them as such. :P
That's because the conspiracy theorists/ professional liars control the world dystopia is at least as bad as the cyberpunk one, and the more probable one.
Wait for the mental gymnastics to justify that oppression with the loftiest of rhetoric.
No, marriage in America is based on Christian theology and by extension so is the legal framework around it, which is why divorce is so difficult. That's factual, not emotional.
My suggestion is literally reality in several countries. You are correct there are people who go around delivering the food & supplies or providing medical care. They are given appropriate PPE & training.
I would honestly give it a shot to live in a company town run by my employer (a large Bay Area tech company) in Nevada. It would be interesting to live in a communal setting where food/housing/etc is gratis and I unironically think the sense of community would be so much higher than it is otherwise (nil). I have no kids and no aversion to moving away if needed so the risks are quite low.

That said, there would be some interesting problems to overcome. To what degree of control do community activities/organizations go through the parent corporation, or are they done entirely independently? What happens if someone commits a crime? Would the corporation run schools? How does the corporation handle dating/gender imbalance?
Also:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=steve+kaufmann%...

https://www.youtube.com/user/lingosteve
I'm just finishing my third year. It can be lonely for some. But there's phone and email until you get home.

I like the solitude, and I have never felt lonely. I'm probably an outlier.
I saw a local police union rep on TV arguing that it was unfair that a police department was enacting rules that forbid their members from consuming cannabis.

Here's a person who demonized marijuana and claimed it destroyed individuals and families for years, a person who profited off arrested people for possession and now he's on TV saying that it's not fair that police officers can't use now legalized marijuana like non-police officers?

If crack or meth was legalized tomorrow there's no fucking way that police rep would be on that stage making the same plea to the public. no fucking way.
JFTR, Also take a look on Astree[0] & Foucault2[1].

[0] https://github.com/edeforas/Astree

[1] https://github.com/edeforas/Foucault2
DDS at least in the US typically do part of medical school including clinical clerkships and have a residency to complete. Maybe you’re thinking of DMD?
“Non-muslim students need not attend and even to force them to wear it would obfuscate the intent of the hijab.”

hear hear. now imagine the uproar if christians would have said “non christians need not attend” [insert anything].
>Covid is very deadly right now, it is the leading cause of death in several countries, including the US.

This is misinformation.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US, killing around 650,000 americans each year[1]. Also note that heart disease and obesity are extreme risk factors for negative health outcomes from covid, leading to potentially 3x the risk of hospitalization.[2]

Populations suffering from prexisting obesity epidemics, such as America and Europe, have had far worse health outcomes from covid than Asia and Africa, which have no obesity epidemic.[3][4]

>If you catch covid, it roughly doubles your chances of dying for the year

Do you have a source for this? I'm assuming this is not true for young and/or healthy people.

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm

[2]https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html

[3]https://ncdrisc.org/obesity-prevalence-map.html

[4]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019#Mor...
You're right, I misunderstood it.
No worries. I like your book sample and thoroughly enjoyed your illustrations :)
This has absolutely nothing to do with hacking and Indonesian school uniform regulations hardly count as "intellectually gratifying".

Even if I wanted to learn more about school uniforms in a country I've never been to, whose language and culture I know nothing about, why the hell would I read about it coming from the state media of a another country I've never been to, whose journalists also know nothing about the language, culture, and political situation there?
Licensure, like PE, CPA, CFA, MD, DO, etc. is definitely relevant in a lot of context, so I'd actually expect it to be listed on a website in a lot of cases and probably part an email sig. Doctor for medically-oriented professional degrees is somewhat orthogonal but it is customary.

PhDs is more questionable outside of academia (where people deeply care about this sort of thing). But MBA? Outside of an alumni context I'm not sure I have ever seen someone do that. (This isn't a particular poke at MBAs. I'd feel the same way about an M.Eng.)
A tip for those who love RSS but bemoan the slow death it's suffering. Sometimes it helps to simply send an e-mail to the owner of the website and thell them their RSS feed is broken or missing. I've done that and succeeded three times so far.

Sometimes they break the feed because they changed something but didn't bother to check if it affected their feed. This of course won't be of any effect to the big SV type companies, but it might with your local newspaper, municipality website, favourite blog, etc. Doesn't hurt to try.
> I currently have the dynamic language blues...

Same, I used to be a Ruby (and Rails) fanatic a long time ago but this has subsided. Nowadays I love Elixir and I reach for it in many scenarios where I don't expect CPU-bound workloads but I am acutely aware that the startup times (when scripting) are atrocious, plus working with it in business context for 4.5 years made me painfully aware of the problems caused by a lack of static typing.

> At the moment I'm having great fun with Rust instead

Same, I love it more than I loved almost any other tool I tried in my life. Just not sure how economical it is to reach for it for throwaway one-off tasks. I suppose with more experience in it it would become feasible.

> It's not a great language but it gets the job done, literally.

Agreed, I have achieved a lot with bash and `parallel` alone. But at one point it became a death by a thousand paper cuts thing; I know I can do the task but I can never quite remember all the little annoying details when e.g. iterating numbers, or file list from a previous command, or was there anything specific about piping inside the scripts (there is not, but you have to be mindful of config like `set -euo pipefail`) etc.

It might be me getting stupider and less tolerant with age but you know what? I am okay with that. These tools / languages should be intuitive and easy to remember!

I am not abandoning bash and zsh scripting, ever. But my tolerance towards banging my head against the wall was severely reduced lately. And, as mentioned in other comments of mine here, I'll either use `rc` or re-learn OCaml -- since it's extremely terse, compiles to very fast binaries (faster than Golang and only slightly slower than Rust) and has static strong typing.

But time will tell.

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Thank you for the fantastic links. Opened them on my phone, they'll definitely be researched.
Did they initially say we will give you extra features if you enable auto renew? Still feels a bit slimy even if that is the case
SharpApp
> leaves me thinking of you what I initially assumed, but at least we're on the same page now.

Likewise. Have a good day.
When submitting to Hacker News, use a specific title and landing page
Turning it around like that doesn’t really work in this case. Is atheism not a religious choice (or lack of) anyways? So his point stands.
Just posting to lament the fact that there are two blatantly garbage-tier research articles on the front page at the moment (this and the Ramanujan machine).
I think it depends.
Financially, if you're a man, no. Most family law courts favor women.

Relationship-wise, if you're a woman, no. Odds are if you're getting divorced as a woman past her 30s, it'll be harder for you to find a partner as opposed to when you were in your 20s (when the woman should be finding a potential husband). Especially if you're a single mother. High-quality men have no desire to raise someone else's kids.

So, imo, divorce can be so lose-lose unless the man and woman are both past 50s. At that point, the kids are grown up and both partners are hopefully financially secure without the need of one another.