skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the maximum mandatory deductible is about 30 euros a month. It's not nothing, but it's also hard to find many situations where it's completely unaffordable, I'd guess this would amount to a small number of people. Those people all get 'zorgtoeslag', which covered virtually the entire premium of 100 a month, leaving only that deductible which can be paid monthly. And if that can't be paid, municipalities have all kinds of programs (e.g. bijzondere bijstand). It can be tricky to navigate the system, but the amount of people who cannot access care due to the deductible after exhausting all options really is quite low.

Having no deductible at all creates moral hazard problems for the other 17 million people in the Netherlands, which increases the total costs going towards ineffective care, and thus total premiums, making healthcare potentially less affordable. It's a tricky pros/cons assessment that must be done, but I have to say the current deductible set-up isn't too crazy to me.

What I would like to see are more deductible exceptions, particularly for issues with a low-moral hazard chance. For example my dad is on chronic medication for two decades, and will likely be for the rest of his life. Deductibles make no real sense here as there's no moral hazard issue.

> I think the deductible should be income dependent, and higher incomes should have the option to pay more premiums for less deductible. That amounts to a tax where people can pick their risk-appetite.

Well it's to start with a tax on income. I think that's completely fine, but we already have that massively. About 80% of healthcare costs in the Netherlands are paid by the state. In the Netherlands the richest 25% about 77 %of the income taxes. [0] The lowest 25% pay 1.3%. In other words, effectively the vast majority of healthcare costs are already income-based.

The second part is people setting their risk-appetite, but that has big adverse selection issues. There's massive correlation between health and income. If you'd split the population in two groups, low-income vs high-income, and let the market offer a competitive rate, the true premiums for the rich would be much lower than for the poor. This makes healthcare unaffordable for those who really need it. You can create a similar situation of having different insurance rates for rich/poor by having the same standard premium, but adjustable deductibles. Letting people set deductibles always increases insurance premiums for those who need insurance, which is why the Netherlands caps it at something like 800 euros. If you'd uncap it you'd find a lot of rich, healthy folks essentially self-insure, which means their premiums go down and the premiums for the unhealthy and poor tend to go up.

[0] https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/70991ned/t...
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I rent cars frequently and never take their predatory extra insurance. It can frequently add 50% to the cost of the rental, and in about 50 rentals I've only had to pay damage out of pocket 3 times (all three because of parking bumps while the car was parked over night and the other person just left without leaving a note or anything). The out of pocket costs easily come below the total amount of insurance fees I'd have paid. Plus you always have a maximum you'd have to pay out of pocket that is not even close to the total cost of the vehicle, usually under €1.5k, and with minor bumps from parking or something like that it won't ever get even close to the max, sometimes it's even under what the insurance would've cost in the first place. I think it makes no sense and the "piece of mind" is overrated, even if you drive in to return a car with minor damage they'll just charge your card, it's not like you have any extra work or worries to deal with.
I feel bad for this person. But let’s just say the Audre lorde shoutout at the end was not a surprise given what came before it.
I wonder how many people are being driven by this behaviour to sell to the highest bidder next time they find something.
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"…meaning it will not be tested nor documented."

Likely, you'll still be able to do it.
I'd say this is pretty fair considering that a fair amount of serious issues can be expected for the first ever release of a distro.
Probably better off responding more along the lines of:

I bring a wide array of industry experience, that you'll benefit from. I'm hoping for a longer term engagement, but even if it's a shorter one, I typically leave them better than I found them.

In your own words, ofcourse.

P.S. I suspect your statement will get you rejected from companies that know they have the same problem but can't fix it. If you don't need a job, be as honest as you want, if you do, you're better off going with the positive spin.
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I can understand that sentiment in countries where you have a very strong (and expensive) social safety net. It’s funny to hear it from the USA, which is not that, and was built by immigrants…

Do you also deport citizens who are not a “net benefit”? Would be the logical thing to do.
I think this is the case everywhere. Here in the UK they wasted huge efforts trying to turn Es into Ds and no one gave a shit as long as you got a C.
That's pretty much what I said. Attempting to treat law as a perfect bug-free code is a fool's errand.
I would say, not letting go when I disagreed with some decision I knew was wrong. Younger me would tend to tenaciously fight those, to my detrement. You end up getting a reputation for being argumentative or hard to work with. Later I learned waiting things out and more subtle ways to affect change.
Genuinely curious then. When you say that it can't do anything that my laptop can't do. Is that based on simulation of actual quantum methods with all of the quirks or simply traditional algorithms?

If it's not truly simulation, there seems to me a ton of value in having even a little bit of access to something like this.
Zizek has always struck me as the Deepak Chopra of philosophy.
Parents complain when their kid is "left behind" just because they refuse to keep up. Parents don't complain when their kid is bored but gets As because you're still teaching year 1 material.
Depends. Sometimes I leave immediately, other times that blank is just a cover on top of content. And finally, I sometimes have to enable a domain/subdomain using common sense.

It's not that hard, nor time consuming. Again, my wife can do it and she's not a developer.

Still though. There are sites that would not work at all until everything is enabled, including ads. Imagine not being able to buy a plane ticket because wizzair wants to serve you ads
This may surprise you, but using lambda is considered a sign of bad programming practice in Python.

In general, this whole thread completely misses the point Python makes. Do not invite “clever” language (ab)use. Do the straightforward thing.
Linux is deprecated and no longer maintained.

Please use FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
Microsoft have signed multiple rootkits
So are Red Hat source packages still available? What incentive does IBM have to make them available? The source code of the applications, sure. But why the source rpms?

Why doesn't Amazon and friends just make a dist that is not tied to Red Hat?
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This sounds like it happens a lot everywhere outside large American companies. The reasoning probably goes like “why were you even trying to break in, that’s illegal.”
> that discriminated minorities end up being excluded. Let it be children with foreign origin in Germany (which doesn’t stop after a generation)

Except of course for the founders of BoiNTech: Uğur Şahin, and Özlem Türeci.

Included to the point they got German government-funded PhDs and then other native Germans helped co-found their company.

Perhaps you hypothesis needs more data and less feelings?
No worries. ±1 day is universally race-condition territory. Optimizing at that level is super tricky and incredibly hard to get right, which is why I wanted to mention it.
> [3] https://mimiandeunice.com/

I hope the Twitter mob doesn't notice this[0], otherwise she'll go through the same stuff as J.K. Rowling.

https://mimiandeunice.com/2018/11/14/not-all-trans/
> You forgot another line, it was actually:

No I didn't. That line is totally irrelevant and does not apply to the socket that was passed to the NetworkComponent. It applies to the initial socket you've added which was not even present in the original example. You should have used Option to make your code equivalent.

Anyway, your example failed to show use-after-close in Rust.

> Remember, Rust isn't perfect, and only fixes 70% of existing error patterns

Sure, no-one here debated that. But it fixes/protects from more error patterns than C#, and use-after-close is one of them.

You stated that try-with-resources + struct types are functionally equivalent to RAII. My code proved they were not, because you can trivially make use-after-free, and it is even really easy to do that by accident. There is nothing in the language that protects from leaking a closeable reference from the `using` scope and then using that reference after the scope gets closed. And that leak can happen 10 layers below, when it is not as easily seen as in this trivial example I posted. In Rust you can do it only with explicit `unsafe`; otherwise the typesystem tracks that for you.
Yesterday's extreme view is today's mainstream.

Historically universities have been the birthplace of various revolutionary movements. It is arguably one of their roles in society.
Most of these videos are not “evidence” being presented, but merely opinions or advocacy. The general public has no need to “discuss” unproven treatments. Evidence is presented through studies and medical journals.
Thanks for your response, Mike.

Maybe I'm thinking about computing as an end itself and just too insecure to acknowledge its application aspect. Because it seems to me that when the application becomes the end-goal then the engineering loses its value.
Which printf in Haskell are you thinking of? This one doesn't fit your description, for example:

https://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-18.0/base-4.14.1.0/Text...
I feel in this day and age the BACL doesn’t have to respond to individual journalists on every case and could just publish a statement if they feel the need to clarify anything.

If it was an individual with limited resources or no official internet presence, or specific circumstances it would be a different matter of course.
Ugh. Legitimizing them will only exacerbate the attacks!
> Once all steps are complete, we will reimburse you the cost of creating this account.

That literally sounds like a Nigerian email scam.
> It's hard to imagine a place where free speech is more important than in Court testimony.

This is obviously wrong. Lying is broadly protected by free speech but firmly illegal, not just inadmissible, in court testimony. Courts also have the ability to compel testimony under criminal penalty, while free speech includes the right to say nothing or dissemble. Evidentiary standards place further requirements even on the source of what you are saying, regardless of its truth.

Or as the 6th Circuit put it, "The courtroom is a nonpublic forum, where the First Amendment rights of everyone (attorneys included) are at their constitutional nadir."
My biggest early career mistake was starting a career too early (18). In my case (and I’m tempted to generalize it), having good knowledge of the self prior to working is critical for long term outcomes.
I don't believe Frenck's claim that there ever was a burden by nixOS users laid upon the HA community. Regardless, pulling out the rug from under a lot of users who will then just repackage HA anyway is not something a distribution would do. Once a package is in a repo and people rely on it, it's not easy to remove it.
Adding to that, having a conversation and just making the same blunt demand without responding to honest proposals about how to mitigate the undisclosed issues that packaging the plugin for NixOS are two completely different things.
So if you’ll just fail the student overall, won’t that hurt them as much as a failing test grade?

If they can’t do the work you need to let them know at some point. Not sure delaying the news is that helpful!!
I miss the web of 2012. It was so good: modern, yet didn’t make old sites look ancient. Loved the aesthetics of older Facebook (as compared to the minimal trash we have now), but that is personal.
It's free money - however you look at it. Any government backing secures decades of contributions. Payments are often matched by an employer as a benefit. Contributions are pre-tax, thus saving real money. It's locked away, which means you can't spend it!

Not getting a pension, of some kind, seems way riskier than living only with money in the immediate.

As always, the trick is:

1. Compound interest
2. Long-term
3. Diversify investments
4. Maintain control and awareness
5. Compound interest

It's a compound sandwich.
> I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all outta bubble gum.

I have fond memories of playing Duke Nukem 3D modem to modem and hearing him say those words.
Sadly, it’s another case of some software author having a prima donna complex.

NixOS is quite a niche distribution. Of the comparatively small overall number of users, the number of those that are going to use his library, is an even smaller subset. A small subset of them will have a bug to report, and a smaller number of them yet will take it to the upstream.

So the author makes a fuss about getting drowned in maybe 1.5 people creating three requests in 5 years. Doesn’t compute. Complaining about burnout long before you burn out?
Python - I had side project, an Excel "database" that needed some graphs done in a much faster manner. I had been out of programming full time for about 20 years, and figured that Python with GUI builder would be the way to go.

I had foolishly assumed that the tools had gotten better in the past 20 years. The last major programming I did was in Delphi under Windows XP, etc.

I was dead wrong. I burned through two different GUI Builders each ending up with 20minute to 1 hour cycle times every time I changed a major GUI element. The base problem is that these tools don't allow two-way changes, they only create a python file to then use. I ended up creating a set of files that allowed me to decouple the generated python from my code, and it mostly worked.

It was when I needed to change the type of control from a list to a combobox that everything broke. I had taken far too much of my free time learning and getting this to work. I tried out Lazarus (because Delphi is out of my price range), and it was good enough.

I wasted the code. (In the same sense you waste a via of medicine once you've drawn the dose for the patient)

In less than a week, I was back up and running, and changes were quick and easy to make. Python is good for some things, but a GUI isn't one of them. Charts that took 5 minutes in Excel now take a few seconds in Lazarus.
This isn't directly related to the article, but does anyone know of any good resources or best practices on how to report a vulnerability?

A few days ago I discovered a pretty major vulnerability on a certain website, but security isn't the focus of my day job and I wasn't sure where to begin and what to keep in mind. The author of this article had some problems with the disclosure process; maybe there are best practices that could avoid these.

I found the OWASP cheat sheet [0] really useful, but other than that, I didn't find too many other relevant resources.

The vulnerability I reported has now been fixed, but I'm still pondering whether to publish the details or if it would just stir up unnecessary trouble. So it would be good to have resources that will help inform my decision.

I think a lot of people who want to report vulnerabilities probably feel like they don't know what they're doing, and they probably don't feel very well supported through the disclosure process. At least, that's my experience.

[0] https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Vulnerability...
Because they're not the only person the security team is dealing with?

Because they need to verify the claim and see what it really affects? If there are other repercussions?

Because you don't want to tell more than you need? (a security researcher should know that)

Vulnerability disclosure is the closest thing to a protection racket that is actually legal. So it's natural that people will be on the edge. Sure, it beats the alternative.
Confusing name.. It made me think it's some sort of alternative mesh network for the internet, or an alternative internet.

It's basically wikipedia and other things on an access point, right?
Safari/JavaScriptCore has moved away from LLVM and now uses its own B3 backend for advanced optimizations.
The list is 200 long, no positional information was likely intended
Once again, people don't seem clear on what they want (better labour conditions? Lower online prices?). But they're upset. So something must be done. And this is something. But no one will be happy with the outcome. But who cares, we want headlines now damnit!
Sigh. All smoke, no heat and definitely no light. Take it to /x/ next time, it doesn't belong here.
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Like Kim Jong-un reportedly going to school in Switzerland under a fake name.
Sure. It's unrelated.
>heritage really isn't going to be a good source on this kind of thing fwiw

There is no good source on "this kind of thing"!

This is a type of "Wicked Problem"[1] and also a political darling of every political group.

And since every social scientist is just a person, with political, personal, and moral beliefs, any papers that they are willing to release typically reflect that. Further, any "peers" that review those papers will have similar beliefs because they know which places they would like that info published.

If you have pretty progressive beliefs, you will "know" that more money, in combination with identity awareness and additional help to those that match historically oppressed identities, is the answer.

If you have pretty conservative beliefs, you will "know" that it is the environment, "brainwashed" and "lazy" teachers and students (but not your kids, of course!) that are the blame. Vouchers and private schools (letting the market work) are the answer.

And there are people with beliefs everywhere on that spectrum. And not matter your beliefs, you can find research to back it up.

Education is just something that will forever be argued about and there is no clear-cut solution, even though nearly everyone thinks that there is, if only everyone else could just understand their point of view!.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
Apple's atomics as of recently are almost magically fast, though.
Not a series of insignificant losses that, due to the low win-probability is such a long series, amounts to more money than the lottery win, and thereby cannot be called insignificant anymore, which is by definition how lotteries are set-up.
>working to harm the lives of trans people

Does she harm the lives of actual trans people? Or is she rather criticizing a toxic development of the Trans Rights movement itself?
I have a "standard" project to work on for new languages, which has enough complexity to get me coding things idiomatically by the end, but since it's something I've done before I don't need to worry much about the topic at hand.

The project is a hurricane modelling and visualization program, which is pretty specific to my experiences, but having that to riff on has been my way of learning scala, python, c#, and (soon, in theory) Go.
With the offensive posture of the NSA, I would be highly surprised if this weren't true. They can be compelled to do anything, and compelled to keep it secret.
To be fair: the company might not have a need for the skill level which allows for a drastic pay increase.
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If the return value of strlcpy isn't used, the compiler can optimize the extra inefficiency away. (I don't know if any do, though.)

This is similar to how strlen(x)>0 calls get optimized to *x by clang and likely other compilers.
For a second, I thought it was a reference to the IT Crowd.

Anyways, amazing initiative!
Law is a code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_law

(but yes this is mostly a pun and the code is law people are dangerously self-blindfolded)
Ah OK that's interesting. I would've surmised the `.rows_where()` API having grown out of your own need to repeatedly stitch together pieces of SQL for dynamic queries, but it apparently did not go that way.
There should be a checkbox here to add a mirror to the ground floor waiting area. If memory serves me correctly, this significantly reduces the amount people complain about waiting because they will look at themselves and it won't feel as long.
Thanks for the explanation, much appreciated!
Wow that was fast.
I think prevalence doesn't lessen the trauma. And the existence and prevalence of "worse" things doesn't either.
Culture is a major adaptive force in the evolution of many animal species
Why would you want to make clean money dirty as a company? Sure, to steal it for personal gain. But to benefit the company? For paying bribes maybe?
Wow. Marked down for a self depreciating joke. Good old HN, a jovial vortex.
Or if you like sideloading without a jailbreak. https://altstore.io
Personally, I try to make my code as easier to read as I can. Not only is faster to read to others, but also faster to analyse when you're trying to fix a bug.

At the end of the day, today's compilers are good enough to translate the code to the machine in the most efficient way.
Aka "Chip Butty". Jurassic park comes to mind...

"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
> as Daniel is Swedish then that would be on Sweden to introduce such levy and pay it out to him.

That just makes the situation even worse; it would be painted (with some justification) as wrecking the Swedish domestic software industry.
I’d say it is just incompetence.

The group of people who run these corps are old enough not to be grown up with the internet, and some of them just can’t understand the dangers of this new world, even if you tried explaining it to them.

They are missing the fundamentals.
> If you really want to achieve a great experience for an interactive networked application, you should engineer things where everyone is close enough to your servers to get a response quickly.

It's very kind of you to commit to building a cell tower in the grounds of the rural hotel I was at yesterday.
Give it a few more years then.
Just like YouTube banning discussion of lab leak theory on the word of a biased professor, banning misinformation is a fool's errand and ends harming more than helping.

In that case, they censored science.
I was expecting iPhones to generate public/private key pair and upload public part to the cloud during provisioning. That way you can securely prove you own the device but there’s no need to send password or anything derived from it to Apple.