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Some things never change. Talk about switching OSes and the entire comment thread becomes about dancing around calling people wrong about their aesthetic UX preferences

I think if anything, this post illustrates that no matter how many people you pay to do it, there's no "objectively better" workflow for everyone, and preferences will always be individual

When I try to convince people to use *nix OSes or FOSS tools generally, my one and only argument is the value of having control, or, perhaps more saliently, not being controlled by the company that makes your tools. If that doesn't persuade you, then just use whatever you like best. Your preferences are your own, and no amount of supposed expertise or practiced snobbishness can make your preferences override mine, or vice versa.
>supposedly the author was referring to a way to lower prices while maintaining an equilibrium of supply versus demand

They were trying to solve the problem by increasing the supply of doctors into the system. The other proposed solution was taking the approach of reducing the supply of money into the system. Neither are contradictory to "maintaining an equilibrium of supply versus demand" but both are trying to move where that equilibrium is by adjusting the supply of two different things. So however you define "while maintaining an equilibrium of supply versus demand" either they were both doing it, or both weren't.

>then you have shortages and wait lines as hospitals go bankrupt and shut down, which will hit rural areas particularly hard

Sure, that is what happens if you only fix the prices in certain states and not others, which incentivizes the doctors to move from states that have such price ceilings into states that don't. That is why the only possible way to implement that solution is nation-wide.

>If you want to lower prices and make sure that everyone gets served

I don't see why lowering the price nation-wide would reduce the supply of doctors. What are the doctors going to do? Migrate? But no other large economy has doctor compensation as high as the US. So as a country, you are only competing against yourselves.
In my own case, my business makes a great profit with minimal effort, so I'm in no hurry to sell. I was really just testing the waters. But I think I'll just carry on as I've been doing.
This stopped being true during the 2008 financial crisis. See https://www.marcus.com/us/en .
Recently had to update an old objc ios codebase, and the first time i built i thought something went wrong, because it completed way too fast.

Swift compilation is an order of magnitude too slow, especially in incremental built, compared to objc.
Sure, more or less, I'm just saying that the API for Vulkan feels pretty steep and irritating, but the API for Metal is somewhat approachable.

I'm not a graphics programmer, but whenever I've gotten the itch, I've always gotten huge headaches trying to get Vulkan to work, and had basically no issues at all using Metal.
Also (for non-recourse state):

House cost: $200,000

Down Payment: $10,000 (5%)

(Time passes...)

Value at foreclosure: $100,000 (massive change)

The bank sells the house for $100,000. You don't get your $10,000 back. But you're not on the hook for anything. You walk away minus $10,000 (i.e. 1x) and a hit to your credit. You went from owing the bank $190,000 to owing $0.
One reason your proposal isn't happening today might be because we don't want tons of doctors choosing to enroll in these "field" randomized trials, if they might be experimentally treating people with drugs that aren't safe. We want to know about safety first before unleashing on the world, even in a randomized trial context. And since the FDA bundles verification of safety and efficacy together, so we can't do your proposal without unbundling them.

Now, imagine that after safety is verified to a 1 or 2-star level, we don't make the drug approved for general use, but doctors can freely enroll in randomized trials as you proposed? That way we're getting the efficacy data quickly but safely.

Maybe a minor point, but we do have to unbundle safety from efficacy in some sense to get off the ground here. The question is, what exactly is allowed to happen after safety is established but efficacy is not yet established?
For anybody else who stumbles across the above uninformed comment, here is some information for context (wrt "gene therapy", etc.):

https://www.nature.com/gt/journal-information

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/gene-based-therape...

A certain degree of ignorance can be forgiven in this day and age, because everything is being constantly re-defined by the television, and most folks get their information from the television.

So don't attack people for not knowing things, but just be aware how many low information people are unintentionally misleading others. You can even see in the parent comment, the primary source of information for most of these people is some form of media company (Miami Herald, in this case). This is, unfortunately, the new normal.

Logging in with different accounts and downvoting this won't change the facts.
> high quality and you’d happily spend on

Can you give an example of publisher/creator that you support directly, and that is not interested in joining Brave Creators?

If I am a popular creator who relies on, e.g, Patreon or Ko-Fi for some sustained income, and I learn about a platform that gives people money and it makes it easy for them to pass along that money to me... why wouldn't I be interested?
> There's nothing inherent to Capitalism that prevents variable priced contracts.

Definitely not the norm though, and it is inherent to Capitalism that price transparency is an important part of creating an efficient market.

But sure, it's not a rule. A lot of common things in Capitalism aren't rules, but they're still often signals of a healthy market.

> You won't even get an upfront price for something as simple remodeling your kitchen. A contractor estimates that it will cost $20k and then finds that a leak in your attic completely rotted some of the framing.

A contractor will not however replace the framing and then charge me after the fact. They'll discover the rotten framing, inform me of the new conditions and the new price, and then let me decide. A good contractor will walk me through that process.

> but there is an inherent complexity

Not in the places that we're talking about. The kind of complexity and guesswork and change in procedure you're talking about is not present in the situations that jonathan-adly discusses above. The inherent complexity of fixing someone's body and the inherent variability of what drugs/procedures will be necessary to do so is a good explanation of why pricing a surgery or an entire hospital visit is very difficult. But it is not a good explanation for why hospitals have claimed that the price of a single x-ray is "unknowable".
Who said anything about adverse effects?
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I never harassed anyone at Mozilla or anywhere else. You wrote "They [Mozilla] told about harassment against their employees by Brendan Eich." Where did Mozilla allege any such thing?
> As negative as Corporate Agile may sound, it's a far cry better than what they were doing before.
Bottom line? "McKinsey Agile" isn't intended for startups and small organizations or large organizations whose product is tech.

Well said.
There are large companies in small towns with need for tech workers. If you move to Columbus, Georgia to work for Aflac's IT department (which is quite large) and then lose that job, you're going to have a difficult time finding something equivalent nearby. There are other local employers with IT needs but nothing on the scale of Aflac. At that point, you probably have to pick up your family and move closer to Atlanta to find similar work and compensation.
China absolutely has designs on Mongolia. The whole existence of the modern Mongolian state is a mess of cold-war / world war 2 geopolitical compromises that left basically no one happy. If Sino-Russian relations cool, or the climate of Mongolia itself warms, it could quickly find itself in an awkward spot between two notoriously bad-faith superpowers and with essentially no alternatives to vassalage.
Placing the url at the bottom is brilliant UI wise considering the height of the average smartphone nowadays. And anyway they made this an option for those who wouldn't like it. The “mess" that was discussed in your second link (the hovering URL bar) was only present in beta version and has been removed from the release. Finally, CSAM scanning has nothing to do with OS security, but with privacy.
Side note but beef production is one of the mostly costly foods in terms of water and carbon consumption so any kind of cow protection is welcome in my opinion

Cow vigilantes exist because some folk are smuggling the cows and the poorer farmers cannot afford protection and risk losing their livelihood. So they setup vigilante groups to protect them from the smuggling market.
Hi.

I got a couple of things:

I seem to remember in the original announcement presentation there was a demo of SVG being updated inside a page 60 times per second. All from server. Did this actually become feasible? I’m thinking graphs and maps with live data. I might not need as smooth animation there. Though that could make for nice dashboards.

Other bit that interests me is web apps for long running tasks. What’s the story in Phoenix and Elixir land for handling external shell processes from web requests? I’m trying to do lightweight job control without investing into separate systems for processing pipelines, CI/CD and the like.

Thank you for Live View. It continues to be an inspiration even though I haven’t yet had a chance to dive into server side of it.
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After travelling and observing the world, I've come to the conclusion that most nations need Democracy like a starving man needs a foot massage.

At best, it's just meaningless formalism. At worst, it can actively harm by providing outlets for ethnic/racial grievances in multicultural societies. I remember how instantly Yugoslavia disintegrated into racial and religious conflict after Tito. Heterogeneous societies tend not to do well with democracy.
I didn’t realize the lottery gave out different odds based on political affiliation.

Do republicans or liberals get better probabilities? Or is it only for Covid related odds?
In all this, I've not seen any mention of what "KVM" means...
Firmly believe what’s ruined social media is special interest groups and the rest parading as people like you and me. My evidence for this is the overnight take-over of r/politics in 2016 and the subsequent introduction of extremely divisive talking points which eventually transformed it into the glorified hate-site it is today. YES I’m bitter, Reddit before then got me through some tough times.
I think you're being sarcastic with this line of questioning, but at some price the answer is most certainly "yes."

Also, the car market is insane. $40k for a new vehicle isn't really that crazy _right now_ (especially for SUVs and trucks) and some folks are paying more for a used car than a new just to be able to get a vehicle immediately.
What I find almost more interesting than the article itself is the comments that show a non-zero portion of the HN community (which I think is generally more intellectually curious and educated than average) are actually strongly arguing that ivermectin has strong effect, and even crazier, that it may be safer or more effective than the mRNA vaccines.

Is this from being incapable of following science and drawing rational conclusions? Or is it more of a tribal thing, where they are exposed to a biased subset of information/misinformation, and are now emotionally invested in the success of ivermectin because their tribe is?

Either way, like someone else in the comments said, these past 2 years have shown us that laypeople are incapable of following active science in real time and drawing reasoned conclusions. Frankly, this is probably true of everyone who is not an expert in the field in question. We need organizations like the CDC and FDA to be much better about their messaging (remember the no-mask debacle? Great way to lose credibility, guys and gals), and we need much better tools to shut down the spread and weaponization of misinformation from the anti-vax crowd et al. I honestly don’t have any idea of how either of those get fixed, however.
the swift string / substring api is still incredibly convoluted (or poorly documented, or both), but my feeling is that it's because it does a lot.
HN is social, and media, but I don't consider it social media in the same way as FB, Instagram, Twitter, and their ilk.

Let me put it another way, to me, one critical defining feature of a "social media" site: when you register, one of the first tasks you do is to identify people you know (or want to know) so they can be somehow linked to you as a friend or someone you're following.
Consulting / freelancing seems like it would be the best fit for what you're describing. As you pointed out that involves work to setup. You can pay someone to set it up for you. Typically they take 50%-60% of the the total amount. You can find ways of getting a larger portion of the cut but that involves more work (at least up front).

To find these jobs open up LinkedIn and start responding to recruiters. Say something like "thanks but no thanks I'm happy in my current role. I have actually been interested in doing some freelancing in the X space. Probably about Y hours a week part time not during business hours."

Some of the recruiters won't know what to do with that but a suprising number will, remember that big cut they get?

Alright now one last thing here. Another option. Instead of consulting and working extra hours, consider studying a topic that you enjoy and other people hate. It also needs to be in high demand and pay well. Then go double your salary or whatever and not worry about working extra hours or filling out billable hour spreadsheets and so on.
To me those questions are more like; Does it have wheels, do the wheels have tyres, does it have brakes, is it road legal?

Asking about the existence of such things is not a suggestion that they must be provided at that price. It's simply the baseline criteria for some people to want to use it.
Keyboard Video Mouse. It's a device for receiving video output from a
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Very cool! But can you add more examples with blocking JS or layout threads? I am asking because I have been testing to achieve this and performance really depends on the browser and not all browsers are performant when using WAAPI.
Or just the endless rounds. A friend is in a 10 round hiring process. In 10 rounds they will find some annoyance.
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Looks very interesting -- it would be nice to have more playground/demos. Both of the front page and in the documentation (like what is on the Quick Start page, essentially).
Easy.

Now try it at a rural critical access hospital for rattlesnake antivenom with a short shelf life, so it usually expires unused. They are required by law to stock it or they cannot have their emergency room open. Estimate the revenue generated from treating the one patient who needs it every other year, and by the way, you have 9 contracted payers with different rates and you don't know which one, if any, the patient will have. Rinse and repeat for every other drug required to provide "critical care". Maybe layer on infusion of exotic chemotherapy drugs or monoclonal antibodies to treat a new pandemic virus.

It's not easy.
The scan is not for English words. Extract from table 14....
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No.: Original - Approximate translation
1 "宗教虔信者阵线", “Front of religious believers”,
...
22 "西藏自由", “Free Tibet”,
...
60 "蒙古独立", “Independence of Mongolia”,
61 "89民运", “89 Democracy Movement”,
62 "基督灵恩布道团", “Christian charismatic mission”, ...
145 "伊斯兰联盟", “Islamic League”,
...
201 "民运", “Democratic Movement”,
202 "妇女委员会", “Women’s Committee”,
203 "伊斯兰马格里布基地组织", “Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb”,
204 "人民报", “People’s daily newspaper”,
205 "巴勒斯坦解放组织", “The Organisation for the Liberation of Palestine”,
Motorola is also, now, a Chinese phone maker. Does it suffer from these same vulnerabilities?
For some reason this idea that meritocracy is undesirable has been making the rounds recently. I haven't heard any proposed alternatives that would be at all viable in a society where we want critical roles to be performed by competent people. Do we really want incompetent people running things because they will botch their attempts at being unethical? It certainly seems like the author is making that argument.

Yes, we don't want an ever increasing wealth gap but dismantling meritocracy strikes me as the worst possible way to deal with that.
I was referencing the content of the post and its discussion of Jay Satiro’s felony convictions. The domain looks to be a great archive of old AOL things.
Almost every time I see a discussion about LiveView there’s someone complaining about the issue of latency/lag, and how it makes LiveView unsuitable for real-world applications.

From what I understand, the issue is that every event that happens on the client (say, a click) has to make a roundtrip to the server before the UI can be updated. If latency is high, this can make for a poor user experience, the argument goes.

As the creator of LiveView, what’s your take on this? Is it a real and difficult-to-solve issue, or do people just not see "the LiveView way" of solving it?

I think LiveView looks amazing, but this possible issue (in addition to chronic lack of time) has made me a little unsure of whether it’s ready to use for a real project.

Thanks for creating Phoenix, btw!
Not internal paperwork. Think in terms of industry wide collusion not a single insurance company. If lobbing or an industry group can drive up healthcare costs via say paperwork or regulations then every health insurance company is “forced” to raise premiums and as the maximum profit per premium ratio is fixed that also increases the total possible industry wide profit.

Of course insurance companies are also in competition so they have individual incentives to keep premiums cost competitive.
COTS VGA to HDMI adaptors are readily available.
>When might you add the ATX feature?

I started work on that earlier this year, but I paused it to focus on PoE. That work is almost done, so I should be able to revisit ATX early next year.

The challenge is more on the UX side. It's not that hard to connect the Pi's GPIO pins to a motherboard's ATX pins, but I want to do it in a way so that it minimizes the amount of nitty-gritty pin-matching that the user has to do to connect it correctly.

>And do you listen to any of these Covenant Network radio stations that are now under TinyPilot’s control?

I don't think they'll reach me out here in Massachusetts, but if I'm in the midwest, I'll check 'em out.
I would say that artificially high oil prices are. Taxes, cartels, and the like all help reduce total oil use. If the high prices are due to increased demand, then it’s just motivating companies to pursue further drilling.
The issue of Mongolian independence was left ambiguous by the USSR and China (this includes the PRC and ROC -- they both technically claim it). Mongolia had at one point petitioned to join the USSR but was actually rejected. The status of Mongolia was a bargaining chip the USSR used with the PRC and China never really completely relinquished its claim on it (whether that claim is legit is another issue)

Good YouTube overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUa1mvaYNtk
I don't believe it supports calendars/events for subreddits. You can "announce" and event, but it's not the same.
I'm conflicted about this essay. I agree with many of the points but fail to see how it relates to and ultimately disagree with the thesis that meritocracy is bad.

Taking the tennis example, sure, it would be beneficial for the top players to have a flatter payout structure. But this ultimately leads to the ATP tour being solidified and newcomers being barred from entry as now the player ranked 250 is now earning an income that they can afford much better training than outsiders. It isn't immediately clear that this system is better from a social point of view.

Relating it back to elite institutions, randomly assigning professors and students to random institutions definitely raises the floor but also lowers the ceiling. Is that socially better? Not immediately obvious. I'm of the opinion that we want to maximize the max possible achievement of an individual to improve the human condition. Very few individuals are responsible for key advancements of civilization.

Finally, the closing statement about Milton Friedman seems rather contradictory to me. The argument that changing the entire cultural attitude of business is somehow different than regulation seems odd to me. Stigmatizing certain actions is just merely the weakest form of regulation that allows for unethical behavior to be rewarded even greater.
Why did you successfully try to destroy other people's marriages by donating your money to support Proposition 8?

Please explain why you believe same sex couples shouldn't have the same human rights to marry the person they love that you presumably enjoy?

Was your own marriage undermined as badly as you intentionally undermined many other people's marriages, after the Supreme Court declared same sex marriage legal?
Congratulations on the launch! Downloaded and seems quite polished.

Recently found and use 30% of something called Obsidian so native UI and attachments are welcome.

I saw the option to view as Spreadsheet but wasn’t obvious how one was made? The concept of fields seems cool. Are there plans for data extraction/APIs?

Congrats again!
Hi, really excited about the new release - Heex and Esbuild support is fantastic.

Do you think it is possible for newcomers to pick up Phoenix and at the same time learn how frameworks work? For example, FastAPI [0] is a widely extensive Python framework yet its documentation essentially is just a long tutorial which explains basic web-development concepts while teaching its core. OTOH, almost all Phoenix learning material I have come across so far are targeted to experienced devs (especially Rails).

I really love that Phoenix is opinionated but I feel like there should be some ways to learn about the rationale behind those choices, without having 10 years of development intuition.

[0] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
Surely it’s not that the idea of meritocracy is necessarily wrong just that the concept of what constitutes merit for a job is complex. The article begins essentially conflating merit with intelligence which is clearly pretty one dimensional for all sorts of ideas about merit for a job role. Let alone merit as a part of broader society. So it’s not really that meritocracy is bad but the definition of merit is. Which is one of the more widely held criticisms of meritocracy generally that a stable, shared view of merit doesn’t really exist.
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What? Are you actually saying that this is just Matty's sour grapes? I personally disagree with most of his positions in general, but it's silly to imply he's anything but very successful and credentialed in his field [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Yglesias
lol dead people as “edge cases” - frame this one up - own it.
"Keyboard, Video, Mouse" is what the acronym means for anyone wondering. Some IT workers will have one at their desk to switch a single set of monitors, keyboards and mice between multiple computers.

In this context, however, there's an additional expectation that these devices make this happen over a network, so that you can handle things like BIOS configuration fully remotely.