skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misunderstand me.

The cost of Medicare + Medicaid divided by the number of people in the US - not the number of people covered by those services, has tended to be higher than the cost of the NHS divided by the number of people in the UK.

EDIT:

According to CMS[1], Medicare cost $799bn in 2019, and Medicaid cost $613bn in 2019. The Census bureau gave 328 million people in 2019 [3], or ~$4300 per person for Medicare and Medicaid whether or not they are covered.

According to Kings[2], the NHS cost 150bn pounds in 2019, or ~$208bn (I've not taking into account exchange rate changes). ONS gives mid-year estimate of 66.8m for the UK in 2019 [4].

Which gives $3113 for NHS per person, all of whom are covered.

The point is that if Medicare and Medicaid were allowed to work in the same kind of regulatory environment as the NHS (e.g. Medicare is legally prevented from negotiating best prices for some categories of cover), and was equally efficient, then you ought to be able to take the same budget and extend Medicare cover to every citizen of the US without paying more.

In fact, you'd have 33% more per resident to cover e.g. salary gaps without touching the Medicare/Medicaid budgets.

Americans are effectively paying twice, as money paid in private insurance is at least the same amount over again. It's bizarre to me there are no riots in the streets over this - current US healthcare regulation is corporate welfare to insurers and healthcare providers at the cost of regular people.

[1] https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...

[2] https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-...

[3] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/popest-n...

[4] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...
iCloud Private Relay, coming in iOS 15, does appear to be native IPv6. I wonder if this will have a noticeable effect on IPv6 adoption stats when it's released to the public[1]?

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
Because you can't see underneath, a pool is 3D and if we can only see the surface we're missing the most dangerous part.
OK, the US doesn't strictly have a two-party system. But in practice it is, at least at the federal level (which dominates the political discussions). Sure, in theory a Libertarian or Green candidate could become president in 2024. But that will never happen, because the media landscape is strongly colored by either the Democrat or Republican party . So they have no incentive to let anyone but from their own party come to power.

I get your point that denoting it a "two-party system" only makes it worse. But I don't know how to bring it up without mentioning it :-)
Don't have a FT subscription currently, my apologies for not reviewing it prior to commenting!
This is a reliable way to identify low value contributions this is less of an issue in a relatively small environment like hacker news where you can in most threads without grave difficulty read all the comments and every story on the front page if you like.

In larger scoped things you will have much more content than anyone could possibly consume and most of it is bad. Keeping score is a way of avoiding everyone having to go through the same pile of drek. Keeping score is only half as effective if you can only up vote. Consider two tallies of several contributions. First two bad contribution neither sufficiently bad to be worthy of being banned.

Contribution A: Imagine 100 people viewed, 10 people liked it, 70 people hated it 20 were indifferent.

With down votes: -60
Without: 10

Contribution B: 10 people liked it, 10 hated it, 80 indifferent.

With down votes: 0
Without: 10

Now consider a positive contribution C with fewer votes 10 for and 1 against.

With down votes: 9
Without: 10

Now something outrageous that attracted a ton of engagement based on how bad it is. Maybe they said we should raise corgis and kitties as meat animals! 980 votes to the negative and 20 to the positive.

With down votes: -960
without: 20

Without down votes A B and C are identically scored despite B being worse than C and A being much worse. Even worse D despite being horrible is scored the highest!

Not applying the karma of a comment to the commenter has similar downsides. You would be throwing away good useful information your users have given you.
I feel you on this. I rarely post online because there's about a 50% chance I'll run into hostile replies written in bad faith. Also, as I've gotten older, I've gradually grown into the realization that I don't need to justify my opinions to Internet randos. :)

(Even writing this I worry someone's going to tell me this is wrong somehow, but the objective function for my value of time has become very ruthless.)
You're talking about training, not breeding. Training is what makes a herding animal herd rather than run off in the woods and chase deer. :)
There is already Reddit for that...
It is a contraction of "aviation gasoline"
Specifically for roofs, I'm curious how much more expensive and lasting a nature-roof is. For example, take a residential house. The roof needs to be able to sustain the weight of the soil and collected water. Roofs are typically built with slopes so that the water doesn't collect. Now you have to design the structure to support that. Drainage is an interesting problem too. How do you drain the water without losing your soil and soil nutrients?

I think a solar roof is a better use of the roof, if installed properly.
Anonymous Website
Theoretically speaking if you have seen (How to sell drugs online fast) Would it actually be possible to set up such an anonymous website for yourself and for customers??? If so how would you go about it as there are many loose ends which can get you caught... EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY!!!!
Casey and his gang are quite... harsh. That's their group vibe. And, it's understandable that it rubs strangers on the internet the wrong way. But, underneath that, they really do want to help. And, more importantly, they sit up and go to unreasonable lengths to actually do stuff to help.

Case in point, Casey has had 638 (and counting) 1-3 hour long live coding sessions where he is interactively helping mostly young folks be inspired and learn how to code https://www.youtube.com/c/MollyRocket/videos
Science is needed to find how sars-cov2 reached humans
Thank you! How did you like 22 immutable laws? I saw it recommended elsewhere too.
I've seen this as an LPT or similar posted on Reddit. I think it helped save a life in the New Year pre-pandemic.

I'd stopped at a picnic location near a rocky Atlantic (European) coastline with my partner. It was a picturesque location but the sea was inhospitable - huge swell and waves that just looked violent. We'd sat down at a bench with a view of the sea and set out our lunch. At some point after that I noticed two people in the sea, maybe 30-50m out. They were bobbing about in the swell. Initially I was confused. It didn't look right but my mind tried to make explanations - maybe the locals just swim out there in crazy conditions? After some time it became clear that they were in trouble, I guess that's when the "drowning doesn't look like drowning" advice came to me. Luckily the beach (tiny strip of sand between cliffs) had a well-labelled sign with an emergency number that I called and managed to ask for an English speaker and described the situation.

Whilst waiting for the response one of the people in the water started trying to tow the other towards shore but made no progress. They kept disappearing behind large waves and at some point I could only pick out one of them, then I saw a pair of shoes or sandals floating then I saw the other person face down in the water, occasionally visible behind the swell. There was some dithering where a local official came to the beach to check out the report but eventually we heard helicopters and one person was rescued and the body of the other recovered.

It turned out there was a group of three tourists, two sons (teenage/early 20s) and their dad. A local had taken them to a fishing spot - a flat rock that spanned out towards the sea close to water level. A large wave had washed the dad and one of his sons out to sea. The dad died. I witnessed the other son - who hadn't been washed out to sea - being interviewed by police, as utterly distraught as i've ever seen a person, understandably.

Looking back on it I should have realised the severity of the situation sooner but perhaps without this advice I would have left it too late and neither would have made it.
You're not alone. It's the same for me. I get a lot of "you have great potential" or "you're really smart" feedback. Well, if I have potential, then what's the deficiency holding me back? No answers. If I'm so smart then why don't I make more and have an easier life?
Simplicity, for one. One set of routing tables, firewall rules, etc.

And if you don't have any IPv4 then you know that you are not accidentally falling back to IPv4.

For single-VM it doesn't matter, because who would you talk to, but if you have a bigger cloud setup then it would be nice to remove IPv4.

So depends what you mean by "cost".
Thinking About the Cut-Out Effect: CSS or SVG?
> the assumption that, somehow, the logic gets easier to understand if it's in diagrams instead of text

One advantage of diagrammatic/block/flow-based programming is that it lets the programmer avoid fiddly syntax. Many experienced programmers have internalized this to the point that it barely registers as a concern except when learning a new language, but for novices doing things like correctly using tags/brackets/semicolons often lead to more failure and frustration than correctly implementing "hard" concepts like recursion.

For examples, check out the Alice project's papers from Dann, Cooper, Pausch, et al.
Ehn, the more pro-Elixir search results out there the better.

I feel the same way as the author and really want to find a job where I can work with it full time, but my current work situation is too good to give up.
Google postpones return-to-work until October, will require vaccinations
I'm still not entirely sure if I'll be an Elixir programmer, but I do appreciate the culture of the Elixir community. José definitely seems to be trying to Be the Change with respect to inclusivity.
I actually really like that idea because it fits into one of our longer-term visions of providing an off-the-shelf turnkey "care team" solution, whereby a cadre of professionals work together to provide care for our customers' patients.

Currently, we don't have such as system in place, but our customer might! In that case, a customer might use a PhD or mD from us to provider higher levels of care and then a social worker or nurse to provide ongoing higher-touch treatment. We are simply providing the health care professionals (and their time) to augment a health care organization's existing staff.

Per your second question, that's actually one of our competitive advantages! Right now, we are finding that many awesome providers who are already reputably employed at a hospital, at the VA, etc are looking to make more money (by the way, the fact that they are already reputably employed is a good screen for quality too). They would like to work an additional 10-40 hours on top of their main job in the mornings, evenings, days off, and weekends. That is a large source of potential supply that is going unused and that could help so many people! Simply put, we offer these providers a chance to make more money by using their expertise to see more patients whenever they want. We provide the patient volume and the competitive rate. All providers have to do is show up and provide the excellent care that they already do.
While I don't think they are useful, I have come to relish downvotes because if I have provoked a snide response at least it is sincere, where a downvote means I have threatened the integrity of a narrative - and that's when you know it's quality writing.

Downvotes are a substitute for discourse. If want something better, post it. It's like someone wanted to design a product for a braying, superstitious mob and created an electronic thumbs down button. I'm all for giving voice to the voiceless, but downvotes aren't speech or a voice, they are a manipulation tool that encourage and reward the absolute worst quality of thought and reasoning.

On HN they are somewhat and relatively judicious by convention, but it is not an exaggeration to say there is a cadre of even educated people who believe their intellectual role is not to establish truth or find consensus, but to direct "narrative," which means specifically to lie and decieve for power. Downvotes are not discourse, they are the exclusive tool of this so-called narrative control. I tolerate downvotes because they draw engagement, even if it is of an inferior kind, and ideally they will be converted from boos to discourse, perhaps even a snide remark.
Google delays workers’ return to office, mandates vaccines
It's also a business opportunity.

Sign up a few major brands that market to everybody, such as Ford and Pepsi. You tend to not see those on Google. Offer 4-second GIFs.

Get acquired by IAC.
As a sidenote, these SVG graphs are absolutely beautiful. The flow diagram is even responsive on mobile!
Looks like they are also raising pricing for the cheapest cloud instances, and additional Floating IPv4 addresses.

CX11 is up +40%, CPX11 is up +14% and Floating IPv4 addresses are up +200%.

Existing instances/floating IPs will stay at the old prices, unless rescaled.

Per email, no announcement link that I can find yet:

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Important customer information: Price adjustment for new CX11 und CPX11 and Floating IPv4 addresses

Dear Client
from the moment we launched Hetzner Cloud in 2018 we have continuously been working on expanding our platform and offering you an excellent price/performance ratio in cloud computing. Unfortunately, the prices to acquire IPv4 addresses have since increased dramatically and we have no choice but to respond. For a long time now, the pool of available IPv4 addresses has been almost empty at RIPE, the European IP address management agency. That's why RIPE stopped assigning IPv4 nets. Because of this situation, there is now a fast-growing market in IPv4 address trading with many active brokers, such as on https://ipv4.global/reports/. Supply and demand determine the price at IPv4 brokers, so the prices have skyrocketed.

We have tried hard to avoid passing on these higher prices to our customers, and have accepted the economic loss until now. However, the prices have increased so dramatically that we can no longer do this. We unfortunately must increase our prices.

Starting on 1 August 2021, the price for newly created Floating IPs (IPv4) will be increased as stated below.

Starting on 1 September 2021, the price for newly created Cloud Servers (CX11 and CPX11) will be increased as stated below.

Product Price per month / hour up until now Price per month / hour, effective 1 Sept 2021

Cloud Servers:

CX11 3.088€ / 0.00496€ 4.328€ / 0.00682€

CPX11 4.328€ / 0.00744€ 4.948€ / 0.00806€

Existing Cloud Servers are not affected by this price adjustment. Please note that these prices also apply to rescaling, effective September 1, 2021.

Product Price per month up until now Price per month, effective 1 Aug 2021

Floating IP:

IPv4 1.24€ 3.72€

Existing Floating IPs are not affected by this price adjustment.

All prices incl. 24% VAT.

Demand for IPv4 addresses will likely remain very high. And we will need to continue to purchase nets. We assume that the prices for IPv4 addresses will continue to rise, and that we will also need to increase our prices again in the future. Prices for IPv4 will likely remain high until after IPv6 has become much more popular.

We are confident that this is still a good price/performance ratio and hope for your understanding.

If you have any questions, we are happy to help. To open a support request, please go to the menu item Settings on your Cloud Console. We hope that you continue to place your trust in us as we are constantly working to expand our services and you can look forward to several new features that are already on our roadmap.
If I wanted to buy a block for speculation (thus helping accelerate ipv6), would it need to be crazy large to even be worth it? I imagine the buyers are less interested in 4000 ips here, 200 ips there, right? Like they’ll want /16, /8, etc?
Operationalizing an application within an enterprise is its own challenge, and it's adjacent to the creation of said application. There are many custom business applications that were not operationalized even when they were written well, covered all requirements, were tested and accepted. Oftentimes the businesses and vendors have no idea how to get from "the app is ready" to "the app is in use" state.

Without details it's hard to tell if the problem truly was in the app complexity, or because the "non-technical BAs" did not receive proper training, or because of something else.
downvoting to disagree is totally acceptable on HN

I complained once and dang corrected me.
I moved off of GH Pages for that very reason.
Scientists can now manipulate dreams, advertisers want in
My impression is that GM had trouble making the Voltec drive train work in larger cars. The Volt is a low-slung, very aerodynamic car. As soon as you turn that into a crossover (as they were rumored to be doing) or a small SUV, both range and gas mileage are going to suffer.

It's too bad. We have a Volt and I would have loved the same drivetrain in a car with more ground clearance and a bit more cargo space.
> the GPL would not stop someone "making major changes, and releasing it as proprietary software ...

> The only difference is that they would be obligated to release the source code.

If they release the source code it's not proprietary software anymore - by definition - and GPL achieved its goal.

> the GPL and MIT licenses are orthogonal to making money

The GPL allows selling modified (FOSS) versions with extended contents e.g. artwork, music.

But it also allows the original author to do so without succumbing to the competition from companies that leverage their dominant market position.

With MIT freeloaders win.
Yep. But... "now every star in our galaxy can have their own /16 block!". That's a paraphrased recollection I have from some networking colleague in '98 when this all was coming down. It seemed a strange goal, and I'm presuming he was just trying to illustrate how 'vast' IPv6 was.
It's an eyesore. Fake, expensive, pointless.
It's referring to avgas, a shortened name for aviation gasoline. I don't believe there's a relationship to the swedish. Historically there was also a corresponding mogas (motor gasoline), but the specifier got dropped in general usage.
SRV records or a similar tech would end the artificial ipv4 shortage. Services run on ports, there are plenty of open ports.

I get why Google and Facebook and the like are pushing the technology hard; it enables casual tracking of individual devices by third parties which are normally blinded.
The current focus on long ranges is largely because Tesla is leading the charge in electric vehicles and Tesla is an American automaker. Commutes are often longer and conditions vary widely across the country and from season to season making predicting the true range difficult.

Plug-in hybrids may make sense, but I would imagine that including both a full power ICE and electric motor together and having them work together makes a more complex vehicle with more potential points of faliure. You also have the added weight of the duplicate components. The Chevy Volt, for example, weighs more than a base Model 3 and only slightly less than the long range configuration of the Model 3.
>This is an absurd hit piece. I promise you that Ajit Pai did not personally review each census block to determine if it needed service or not.

Of course he didn't do it manually but I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

Nobody thinks it's his job to manually review census blocks, people think it's his job to ensure the data is in order before the auction happened.
If the iPhone prototypes were taken from the premises of the factories, it‘s theft and the Twitter user is selling stolen goods, I assume?
> For this reason, I always recommend meeting the friends of people at work. They're relatively neutral, and you only rely on your work connections as a jumping off point.

That's an interesting approach - how do you even do that though?

Honestly - WFH isn't much more time liberating for myself. Any amount of commute time I had (which was never very much - always under 20min each way, closer to 10min) was taken over by extra work demands or blurring separation of lines. On top of that - there's no happy hours, fun lunches, or what not now because WFH.

And I agree - but I guess what I'm saying is... You don't need lasting friendships for socializing to be enjoyable. Situational socializing can still be fun and it doesn't have to be this thing where you are going to have these people be your best man at your wedding.
No, very much no.

The Centauri map onto an empire in decline, so you could point at the late Roman empire, the late Byzantine empire, the late British empire, &c., where they haven't caught up with the reality of their situation and still have delusions of grandeur of the times when they were still ascendant.

The Minbari don't neatly align onto any human cultures. Sure, you can pick out elements of various Far Eastern and Near Eastern cultures, but there's no actual 'mysticism' there. If you wanted to compare them to anything, they're basically less hot-headed Klingons.

The Narn are not 'Dark skined prominant skeletal featured war like people'. To paint them as such misses the point of their whole arc throughout the show, and in particular that of G'Kar. They're a deeply traumatised people trying to recover after a long colonial occupation. About the only reason why you're projecting that onto them is that many human beings from colonised parts of the world have dark skin, but the Narn are not actually portrayed as warlike: that's something the Centauri liked to portray themselves as to excuse their treatment of and subsequent high-handedness with the Narm. From my perspective as someone from Ireland, I see ourselves in the Narn, after centuries of similar treatment from our neighbours to the east.

I would recommend you go back and rewatch the show past the first season.
It seems like gain of function research is going on all over the place. Maybe Alex Jones isn't total conspiracy nut, as the media portrays him. He's just a head of what is commonly disseminated. I watched an interview with him where he claims to read a lot of research papers daily. Literally a dystopian science fiction fantasy of a virus man made in a lab infecting the world has a good likely hood of being true.
This is an idea I've been interested in since it came up last month (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27582145), but I don't personally feel strongly enough yet to land on either side.

That being said, for all its faults, I would expect that reddit does indeed have more productive discourse than most other (non-HN) social media platforms, particularly Twitter with its enforcement of shallow/short-form comments. /r/the_donald is obviously an extreme example of an alt-right cesspool, but it's not obvious that it was less polite or constructive than the equivalent communities on other platforms.