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The term is 'decision support systems'.

But modern decision support systems may make use of AI (of the results of research under he umbrella of AI - in short, "AI". It is not necessary to have the bunny quotes of figurative speech everywhere, they should be understood even when inexplicit but clear). And AI in DSS increases the underlying problems.
In my country, around the same time top public universities adopted affirmative-action quotas, they also stablished a "pre-calculus" summer course, to get everyone up to speed in all high-school math before starting their first semester (not specific for affirmative action students, plenty of non-AA students also had some catching up to do). From what I've heard it worked very well as an equalizer, with AA students who entered with lower test scores, ending up with final scores mixed with every one else.
Same in the UK (except the hospital probably is understaffed!) - it's weird for me to think of a hospital as somewhere you might go to pay for a service, like Tight muscles? Go there, pay the masseuse; Bone sticking out? Go there, pay the doctor.
Dawn looks very different to program in than a traditional language. Will that always be true, or can you (and do you want to!) build layers on top that are more standard-looking?
> As for why the US spends more than any other country: it's due to an overabundance of caution among the comfortably insured. It's much easier to get a variety of expensive (and often unnecessary) tests and scans (such as MRI scans) in the US.

Countries with universal healthcare also tend to have private health companies which can provide tests and scans at a higher speed, either on an insured or a pay-as-you use basis, typically at much lower costs than the US. Yet there doesn't seem to be the same "overabundance of caution" elsewhere. To the extent that precautionary procedures are responsible for high US spend, I don't think that can be decoupled from a system designed to ensure that primary healthcare providers are sales outlets for those procedures.
One day, probably not very soon, Americans will learn that universal healthcare is freedom.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Lots of people who would need to be monitored will simply refuse to do so, afraid of the astronomical bills. Even 5k would be a lot but 130k?
> a reminder that we are having some laughs in the service of the building of weapons of mass destruction and there’s something inherently problematic about that

I don't get it. The problem is with building weapons of mass destruction in the first place, not doing it and then finding humor in the situation.

Isn't it quite funny that a so-called "intelligent" species would expend so much energy, money and time to build a series of devices to annihilate itself? Surely it's at least a bit ironic?

Dr Strangelove is a comedy about exactly that, and its humor works. It seems when Kubrick started to work on that project he wanted to do a "serious" movie, but the more he learned about the whole system the more he found it utterly absurd, and he came to the conclusion that the only way to talk about it was to make a satire.
I mean if the goal was to hide bad reviews they could've done so already like they did when Robinhood pissed its users off. There has to be more to this than just wanting to improve the score of a built in app.
Cellular coverage in the US often sucks with those import phones. They don't implement the same frequency bands as US-targeted phones.
I too had not heard of these protests there, thank you for sharing.

I know very well about peaceful protests in North Macedonia[0], which thankfully led to a bloodless, at the ballet box, overthrow of a corrupt government. It was a powder keg for years, including fights in the parliament chamber (thankfully not involving guns) and the election vote was a knife edge decision. The former leader escaped to Humgary and is protected by Orban.

Similarly massive numbers of people (>30%) have fled the country also not because of violence, but because they don't see hope. The economy was ruined and money siphoned out by those in power. It has not got much better since, and now the country is again on a knife edge with the PM having resigned.
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>In Moscow, treatment is world-class.

Is this true in the public system as well?

I'm asking since in Romania the public hospitals are still more miss than hit, even in big cities.

Hospital managers are politically appointed leading to terrible corruption and inefficiencies, meaning waiting times can be pretty long so the doctors who work there refer you to their private practices, and while conditions on the surface look good and everything is covered by the public insurance in theory, sometimes hospitals are short on supplies, asking you or your relatives to bring stuff from home, the food can be terrible, and you never know what corners some staff might have cut and you end up picking some dangerous hospital transmitted bacteria leaving you worse off than when you came in. And sometimes, if you're unlucky, you can end up in healthcare hell where you get bounced around between different hospitals if each judges you're not their problem to deal with.

Outside of big cities, you don't even want to go near any public hospital unless your situation is serious.

When my mom was admitted to the local hospital for infectious diseases around 2008ish, there were roaches and rats everywhere and this was in a big medical university city of the country. Pretty sure the roaches and rats are gone nowadays, but still that was unacceptable.
> if the system can handle rollbacks it will be much more reliable than using the fs, as the fs knows nothing about actual state. It knows about blocks commited to disk. Usually they look the same, but not always.

Could you elaborate on this? If I have state that works on v1 and after upgrade to v2 the state is now non backward compatible to v1, how nix (or guix) can help? As far as I can tell, in such case a fs rollback is better solution.
For one thing, healthcare is such a mess in the US that it actually might be easier to just nationalize it rather than trying to fix the private insurance system.

Also, in a country with both, the private system can't be any worse than the public system because it has to compete with it, so the fact that the UK has good private healthcare doesn't necessarily mean that it will be easy to fix the private system in the US without the existence of a nationalized system as well.
I have an iPhone 12 mini, love it, but it looks old because it's small.

My requirement is to be able to tap the top-left corner with one hand (for going back on iOS).
Rolling release cycle is enabled by this indeed. A major benefit what other distributions can’t have without containers.

You just nees to know which versions introduce major API changes etc. and you are fine.
Would the new Razr be considered "mini"?

https://www.motorola.com/us/smartphones-razr-gen-2

For myself, I love my iPhone 12 Mini, and will lament the loss, if the form factor is deprecated.
I've got his nature drawing book. It's a great reference and very readable. John is very enthusiastic, which makes for a nice role model to get inspiration from.

I would say his stuff is quite focused on nature drawing and you should supplement with fundamentals, colour theory, perspective etc to build skills, as John's guides centre around his approach/style and there are many other ways to get there.
"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life"

But I think this opinion does get thrown around a lot anytime someone pushes an aspect of hiking. Ultralight backpackers, fastpackers, even ultra runners are all familiar with the trite refrain of "just stop and smell the roses!". I mean sure, but I'll bet any money that someone committed enough to do the triple crown in a single year isn't lacking for gratitude, awe, respect or just simple love for nature. Heck, just by being out there for as long as they were, they increase the sheer number of hours of appreciation. Experience isn't orthogonal to achievement. I'd argue it goes hand in hand.
Extrapolation and psychology go hand in hand which is why I firmly believe it is the most useless of all social sciences.
For those prices, odds are one could save money by traveling to Brazil and getting dental care in a top clinic in São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro.

There must be other countries with cheap care.

Someone should make a startup for that.
This has always struck me as strange. Software is surely one of the most easily exported commodities, so surely Europeans can easily play in the same global software market as Americans and moreover, I’m of the impression that software engineers in Europe are largely unionized so one would think they’d be able to bargain more effectively for better salaries.
How does the hospital arrive at the cost?

From what I can see there is a cost breakdown in the article, but a deeper breakdown would help make sense of these things.

If the hospital has to pay for administrative staff, nurses, doctors, maintenance, electricity, etc. and then deliver a profit to the owner. Is this profiteering or just costs that are passed on to the patient? If it's the latter, then why are those costs high, and so on until something looks disproportionately expensive.

Is it that hospitals are pricing treatment because of having to comply with some expensive regulatory requirement? Or is it that doctors are paid an incredibly high wage compared to doctors in other parts of the world? Or is it that insurance paperwork requires a large administrative staff?

I suspect there is no single answer to these questions, and that there is some complex set of reasons why costs are high.

If it's just profiteering, then the solution is to get stitches from elsewhere. A vet or a nurse or EMT can probably do it freelance too.
The costs are more diffuse than this. First, the U.S. system costs twice as much as other systems because we have more people employed delivering care and they make higher salaries. Doctors, nurses, they all make more in the U.S. than in Europe. So more people, getting paid higher wage, results in double the costs.

But wait, the financing in the U.S. is quite predatory, so a lot of people pay nothing, and a few people are stuck with outrageous bills. It's like the infamous SF General Hospital that offered loads of free care to the poor and to immigrants and then refused to take any insurance so that normal people were regularly driven to bankruptcy if the ambulence took them there. The U.S. healthcare is one in which a half a million is spent on emergency care for an indigent person and 10 middle class families lose their life savings of 50K treating snakebites and broken arms.

Once you wrap your head around this, you'll understand we have a very similar problem in higher education, and for very similar reasons.
You are right - I may have went too far into blame assigning while explaining too little of my viewpoit. In my opinion e-mail protocols aren't but e-mail ecosystem is getting increasingly broken. Sure, SMTPv2 is _technically_ possible but I don't think it would be allowed to grow, mature and exist as a standard.

Last time I attempted setting up messaging accounts with beforementioned companies, it wasn't possible to use Mutt or bare Thunderbird - one had to use client software allowing some kind of RCE to set up access to those services. Add Google's bubbling[0] and Microsoft's repeated mail losing, and we no longer really have globally functional e-mail based on standards.

When some of the biggest actors don't follow rules describing delivery without proposing changes - yes - e-mail is being broken but not because protocols underneath are broken. It's because people trust these companies and possibly don't know that they may be victims of careful information filtering.

I have done some e-mail - related work for hosting companies in the past. For some years now, POP3 is not really a thing. It exists, it is being set up by mistake from time to time but the number of POP3 users compared to IMAP users was barely noticeable and I don't think it grew. I'm afraid to ask what your issues with IMAP are...

[0] I suspect that Google bubbles its e-mail customers just like its search users. Most non-technical people I know treat "spam" folder like it would literally burn their fingers upon touching. They act similarly, like trained to only look inside there when not seeing awaited messages in the inbox. Google delivering perfectly fine messages straight into "spam" folder has comparable results to Microsoft losing/destroying their customers' mail.
Which entity is setting that interest rate?

I would expect it to work to go to a credit union and have them write a consumer loan you could use to purchase the van. But they may refuse to do that if the typical loan an the type of vehicle is more expensive than the consumer rate.
Keep using that device and build your sites to work with it.

Consider also older browsers. Netscape 3.04Gold is one of the best JS linters I've ever used.

Restrict yourself to HTML3 and enhance progressively from there.

If you're not too squeamish about domain names you visit, you can see what that may look like from the link in my profile.

(Works in almost every post-1995 browser, with JS and without, and on slow connections.)
There's so much bad policy in the USA that sucks, especially when compared to some European countries, but one thing the USA has done relatively well at is creating lots of public land and the creating these trails.

I hiked a section of the PCT starting at a paved road (mile 652 of the trail) and didn't cross another paved road until 290 miles of hiking later. I tear up with gratitude for the vision of the people who worked to protect the land and create the trail.

Also, sure, there is awesome gorgeous hiking in Europe too of course, but, say, in the Alps, mostly it's managed more tightly. You can't just hike for the day and set up a tent where you get tired. Camping is much more restricted to right next to the huts/refuges or not allowed at all.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Trails_System
Free market works fine, unfortunately like tuition prices the government got involved and prevented what the free market is good at and driving down prices. Fortunately now there a new price transparency laws which the full the effects haven’t been felt yet and are a step in the right direction.
"The state-provided health care is free"

Today I learned that doctors and nurses in Russia work for nothing. No? So where does the money to pay them come from?
> Email protocols are broken because they are bad 1990s protocols (...)

I see arguments for "non-modern" not "broken". Some wines aging better doesn't necessarily mean that others deteriorate.
This might not work for traditional livestock operations but for certain boutique farms and ranches (think farms raising Wagyu and other sought after breeds - and even non-meat concerns) the proportional cost is much lower - and the benefits potentially much higher, given the potential economic losses if certain animals (such as a prized stud) were to encounter some kind of preventable incident.
I am very happy with my Unihertz Jelly 2: https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-2
If you're in the U.S. and are okay with Verizon, you're in luck: they sell, in stores only, the Palm Compact Phone by Palm: https://www.verizon.com/smartphones/palm-phone/

I was sorely tempted, but as I'm an inveterate web surfer, a conventional smartphone seemed a better choice.
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It's an entry in the blockchain. A record in a database.

Let's say you go to Sotheby's and you buy Van Gogh's Starry Night at auction. Along with the actual painting, you'd get a certificate of authenticity showing the provenance of the work. Basically, a record showing everyone who owned it before you and certifying that this is, in fact, the real Starry Night that Van Gogh painted. The real value of the painting is not in the painting itself, but in that certificate proving that it's the real original. If you tried to sell the painting without it, you wouldn't get many buyers. There's lots of people who could paint an exact replica of Starry Night, but there's still only one real Starry Night. Likewise, anyone can make a copy of a piece of digital art, but there's only one NFT, and if you don't have the NFT in your crypto wallet, you don't actually own it.

So, think of it as a certificate of authenticity for digital artworks, although it can be used to represent ownership of other things as well, if people agreed to it. It can also do neat things like transfer a portion of the sale price back to the original artist every time it's sold, which isn't currently done with regular artworks.
Yep, wallstreet is heavily invested in this space. People fail to connect the dots.
> How can you enforce copyright law when I right click an NFT piece of art, then print it and hang it in my home?

In the US, anyway, doing that would not be a copyright violation.
"Ball mill" in the kitchen... Nah, that's not going to be unsociable loud or anything. Neat idea and i wish him luck but geez this is specialized machinery and useful for what else? Its the "Turnip twaddler" or bread machine, a thing to fill cabinet space and never actually perform its intended function.
Yep, hiking in the alps is largely a hut-to-hut sort of affair. It's picture perfect, jaw droppingly so, but it is crowded, tamed and sterile. Goats are about the wildest thing you see.
At what point will we start talking about breaking up the cartels?

The American Medical Association is an Anti Consumer lobbying group that literally 400M on bribes. Physicians should be punished. The other various medical cartels should be punished too.

The easy solution is to legalize science based medicine. But the Authority based medicine establishment would never let that happen.
> Swisher was hardly positive tech press.

It would be more accurate to say Swisher is politically-connected press. When tech and political machines were in bed together (e.g., much of her time at AllThingsD and the founding of Recode, Obama in the whitehouse, Newsom in local SV politics...) she was extremely friendly to the industry. After the ca. 2016 fallout between the two she chose the politics side. The tech side of course sees this as a heel turn, rather than a fundamental shift in priorities from both parties.

Ben Thompson is just John Gruber without the sense of taste. You couldn't design a better sycophant if you tried.
So that’s the reason they in the latest iOS they moved the URL bar and navigation buttons to the bottom of the screen, to use with one hand.

I prefer small phones (iPhone SE 2nd was the first ever iPhone I bought because of that reason) but mostly because it is more comfortable to keep in my pockets.
Travel during a global pandemic where we've had almost two years where we can't leave our houses for more than an hour I doubt that'd fly (no pun intended).
My wife and her family are from Peru. It’s not uncommon for our relatives that are living in the U.S. to fly back to Peru and pay cash for procedures instead of doing it through their U.S. insurance.
> People who want to increase representation in higher status areas are trying to improve the perceived status of their cultural group.

If status here means “respect” rather than “wealth”, there are precious few groups with lower status than that of white males these days. At least in many places, “white male” is practically a slur.
Autobreaking typically only cares about what is in front of the car correct? There are possible scenarios where an attentive driver may opt for a frontal collision to avoid a T-bone that could kill them.

There are arguments to be made both ways, but there definitely isn't a clear solution.
This is a quote from the book "The Motion of the Body through Space" by Lionel Shriver. It's about exercise, but it applies to hiking ambition too.

"People who exercise less than you are pathetic; people who exercise more than you are nuts.”
Analysing unknown samples is part of the mission of these facilities, think about studying a new pathogen from human or animal samples for example. It’s fairly routine for them. They have the equipments and know how to do it safely.

In this case, I think it was done to assess the risk of this kind of discovery in the future. If these samples had failed to be viable that would have been a huge relief for everyone.
"The prescription was $12 (standard price in the UK for any prescription drug or drugs, no matter what it is)"

Just to note, in Wales all prescriptions are free. Can't speak for Scotland / NI.
While I completely agree with the sober assertion that the serverless hype didn't mean that programmers would only write business logic, I also think that no one should take business "bullshitters" serious when they claim such. Hype speech (wild exaggeration disregarding reality) is a pervasive dialect of the web.
>Cherry MX Brown

Significantly louder than a standard Dell membrane keyboard, or Logitech MX Keys, or Apple.
Made me think of hiker nicknamed 'Mostly Harmless' whom I heard about here on HN some months ago. I saw he was eventually identified to Vance Rodriguez.
I guess what I don't get is, wouldn't an LTS be way way easier to maintain than a rolling, constantly breaking, release. Heck, id even prolly go through the effort of maintain my own software as a package if it's something I could do once every few years over a stable base. They could even make life easy and match version numbers with whatever the latest Ubuntu LTS is using. And people that'd need newer libs/bins could statically link whatever they need or provide whatever they want separately on top of that stable base (sorta like what PPAs do)
My small sample of people would suggest that side effects are a lot worse than we are told. I know two people who took a first dose (one AZ, one Pfizer) and have been seriously ill and for months since. What should they do if vaccine passports come in? Miss out on their lives, or risk taking a 2nd dose, then face turmoil again for a 3rd, 4th .... ?
You may be referring to [1], which I believe showed up on here. This article seemed somewhat misleading to me as it mostly referred to the fact that apple had enough minis to meet demand until the next version, not that they were cancelling the product.

For what it’s worth I know several people that are extremely pleased with the mini, and that are far more likely to upgrade because of it.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/30/apple-ends-iphone-12-mi...
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When free market doesn't work, free market advocates have their solution : there wasn't enough free market, so we need MORE free market.
Every multiplayer game programmer from the 1990s agrees with you!
I always find interesting to read these stories because nowhere else but the US can you make over 300k USD a year as a senior engineer of some kind. In Europe, 200k EUR is already ridiculous, and most countries take away half your salary in taxes anyway so...

Would you rather make 300k and pay 4k for the occasional ER visit or make 50k after tax and pay 100 for the occasional ER visit?

I suppose this comment will get buried in downvotes, but do not ever forget that American engineers are the best paid workers in the entire world.
> Would the new Razr be considered "mini"?

Looks like it'd be pretty thick when folded (certainly would lead to a pocket bulge). And folding screens still have to prove their longevity.
The USA expenditure in healthcare per capita is, more or less, the double that the Netherlands (1) and doesn't cover all the population. Where the difference goes?

Sorry if some of us, in our biased minds, suspect that some of that money is spent in cigars and expensive suits.

(1) - https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD?most_...