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Medical insurance is the obvious example that comes to mind. If everyone is forced the pay for medical insurance (e.g. everyone is taxed for it), then the net results is the same, the healthy people subsidise those the sick.

Which is why in countries where medical care is not guaranteed through taxes (e.g. USA) insurance companies try to find out about any pre-existing conditions before they give you a rate; they try to figure out if you're in the healthy group which would otherwise be subsidizing the sick people, or you are one of those sick people.

I say that without any value judgements one way or the other.

The same is true with other forms of insurance.

See broadly Adverse Selection, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection.
Show HN: Daggyr DAG Work Orchestration Engine
Hello all,

I've been seeing a lot of interest in work orchestration frameworks, and thought I'd show off my own take. It's the project I've used to learn rust (entire project is async rust using tokio and actix), but it's been really useful for my main work, too.

Daggyr is an engine for executing tasks as quickly as possible. It can run tasks on flexible back-ends (slurm, local threads, etc), and report updates / events to trackers (currently only in-memory, working on postgres and mongodb).

There's no UI, just a REST interface. It doesn't do scheduling (there are tons of tools for that). It doesn't currently have multiple users / auth, but I'm working on that.

It does support pipelines defined in JSON, task parameterization, a very simple and fast REST interface for job submission and tracking, and resuming failed runs from where they left off.

Why another one of these things?

1. I couldn't get behind Airflow's weird scheduling opinions.

2. Dagster, Airflow, and Prefect rely on tight integration with python. A lot of my work flows are calling custom binaries, so python provides no value, and it's also a barrier to defining jobs.

3. Daggyr can scale to pipelines of hundreds of thousands of tasks.

4. Daggyr is stupidly simple to run: no external services or dependencies (unless you want them). Simple run the binary and send some work.

Long story short, it does what it says on the tin, but there's more work to be done. I'd really appreciate any feedback. No idea if I'm going to try and commercialize it, but if you'd like to see a feature ASAP, I'm always open to sponsored feature development!

edit: formatting
Google is retiring Google Now Snapshot:(
Or they want a taxi.
this would be simple, but you should note that wikipedia is always behind, because they link to content posted elsewhere, so if you want a promptly update, subscribe to resources that track deaths specifically
This is nonsense. 190,000 troops cannot hold a non-compliant population of 42 million.

Strategically Russia has completely lost any ability to achieve their goals. All they can do now is punish the civilian population, and that is what they are doing. They could very well flatten the entire country, but they still will have lost the war, and failed to achieve any of their goals. They have lost all the diplomatic and economic gains they've made since the USSR fell. Who will shake Putin's hand first? That is what's meant by they have lost.

Considering the illegality of the invasion, is central to the U.N. Charter to which most countries are a signatory. Therefore the world isn't going to accept anything like a win for Russia no matter what now.

141 countries, rather overwhelming, voted for United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/1 declaring the invasion an act of aggression inconsistent with the Charter, condemned Russia's declaration of “special military operation” in Ukraine (because threats are also inconsistent with the charter), endorsed the view of the Secretary-General that this invasion is a repudiation of the principles that every country has committed to uphold and that the present military offensive of the Russian Federation is against the Charter. 141 countries demanded Russia withdraw from all of Ukraine, further demanding that Russia immediately and unconditionally reverse their claim to Donetsk and Luhansk. And deplored the involvement of Belarus in helping Russia stage this attack.

Russia killed millions of ethnic Ukrainians in the holodomor, 1932-1933. And now this. Aside from the gross immorality on the face of it - Russia has violated treaties it's a party to. It's own word, its trustworthiness, it's ability to make a promise? It's worth less than spit. It's the worst possible violation of the U.N. Charter, and they are a founding member of it. It's a literal shredding of the Budapest memorandum. And the Geneva Conventions are also MIA. So you can pretty much expect Russia only considered contracts as an expediency. They're not binding at all on them.

This also seriously risks the unwinding of the U.N as an institution, in particular if China and India are just going to continue to sit on the sidelines with thumbs up their asses. If you do not care enough to say an obviously wrong thing is wrong, and play neutral? Well then, the Charter is rendered increasingly meaningless. And if that is true, then the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty is probably next.

The terrible long term outcome of this ill conceived invasion, may be long term nuclear proliferation. Because nukes seems to be a more effective deterrent than the U.N or N.P.T. I don't see humanity refraining from using nukes for all time if nuclear proliferation takes off again. So the distillation of this war is that humanity might be doomed to engage in a 3rd world war no matter what. Avoiding that is why there's so many mental gymnastics going on right now, and stumbling like the planes from Poland thing.
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I can never really take the results of nutritional epidemiology studies too seriously. How can you possibly control for all the confounding variables? People who are avoid artificial sweeteners likely make many other decisions in their diet and lifestyle. It's a healthy user bias. The study controls for some factors like weight and smoking but there's just no way to control for everything, you need randomization - especially when the final hazard ratios are ~1.15.
The doctors of course have as much to do with the price of x-rays as Al Bundy.
Why do you think insurance companies are so happy to pay these exorbitant sums to the medical industry?

Like what is there motivation?

Anyone with a brain can see none of this makes sense. You have planted an entire forest of bullshit above that nobody can verify is true or not.

The middle class is being wiped out. Everyone knows this. It's happening from all angles and everyone knows medical bills are one of the main weapons used by the government to do it.
The problem is that the cost for healthcare is hidden. In the UK, we have "National Insurance" but it doesn't work like normal insurance. It goes into the same big pot as everything else and gets spent on whatever.

It is a hard balance but sometimes when I see people doing stupid things that land them in the ER, I kind of wish that their premium would increase as a result. That said, I think the largest cost in healthcare is the care of the elderly: We somehow keep people breathing for much longer than 50 years ago but it doesn't stop their bodies needing some big maintenance or long-term residential care.
And what would those entail? How could one modify an SDK without disassembling or even debugging?
That's why I said that this particular author is egregious.
If I remember correctly, Monkfruit was more highly associated with cancer than artificial sweeteners in early studies. I've been avoiding it since.
This should not be considered evidence that other quack medicines have any superiority over modern medicine.
I've seen it a lot, personally. I've even seen instances where the input would delay by over a second. Really wild stuff.

Can a better design help to mitigate those issues? Sure. But I don't like having to wonder whether it was my own design, or if it's something internal to the library.
Having tried both Craft and Notion, I think your comparison is absolutely leaving out a number of factors in favor of the web-first solution.

Granted, maybe I have my own biases towards native applications, but to not list the performance and native system integrations as benefits of desktop over web seems criminal to me.

>- You code once, it works everywhere.
I realize this may be a controversial opinion, but this was a stupid dream when I was a kid, and it's still a stupid dream now. Write once, run everywhere means you write a piece of software that sucks everywhere.

>- There is nothing to install, no updates to download.
Ah yes, because everyone loves change. Especially unforecasted change right under their feet, with no way to revert to a previous version. No downsides here!

>But... Electron can provide all of that! So, it's mighty tempting to start with a web app and then pepper in some desktop functionality later by wrapping your web app using Electron.
It certainly is tempting, but the easy way out is seldom the right one.

It's a very common thing that I see Electron apps overriding or not implementing native behaviors. Right click menus, menu bar items, common global shortcuts, none of that can be taken for granted in an Electron app, but mostly comes "for free" in a native app. You can certainly get some of this in a web/Electron app by using native forms and fields and not writing custom CSS/JS monstrosities for everything, but that so rarely seems to be the case these days. Why is Teams so special the right-click menu shouldn't act like the right click menu in Explorer, or Firefox? Why does slack use a native right click menu for messages, and not one when I right click on a channel in the sidebar?

>Some of it is intangible like "feels more solid".
Some of these "intangible" benefits are certainly hard to quantify, but it can absolutely be a death by 1000 cuts type thing if behavior you're used to in literally every other application suddenly no longer works in an Electron app. For example, I have a global keyboard shortcut on my mac to Enter/Exit Full Screen mode. It doesn't work in Notion. Why? Because Notion (and other Electron apps like Slack) call the menu option something different. And yet... If I assign a keyboard shortcut to that different action, it works in Slack, but Notion just silently eats the input like nothing happened. Small tiny things like this are table stakes for applications feeling good, and when one application doesn't work like the rest of your system, it feels bad. This is absolutely exacerbated when you have a website as a desktop app because it's trying to trick you into thinking it's a real application.

Why do users no longer seem to care about desktop applications? It's because most of the people making them stopped giving a shit long before users did, and users are just rolling with the punches. No one is happy that everything is slower now though. Non-technical users may just not know how to explain why they're frustrated with everything.
I was however talking about the file format that it it structures its files as.

Fully documented on the web site.
> It's the complete opposite and one of the reasons I prefer to use a comparable web app over a native desktop app

Citation needed.
In Europe, however, they mainly back right wing, because it is anti-EU.
Putting aside discussion of where the child is sent.

The "money from the public coffers" didn't appear there out of thin air. The argument with school vouchers is that the money there belongs to the parents because it came from the parents as part of taxation.
> It's the complete opposite

No it's not. To use a web app I have to have an internet connection to even start the app. Anything I click on that loads a new resource sends data to the server about what I'm doing. I can unplug from the net, install desktop software and run it without it being able to send anything anywhere.
Any reason L-glucose could cause cancer compared to R-glucose? I know it's incredibly hard to isolate and distill L-glucose, but to me that seems like the ideal artificial sweetener because it's chemically the same as natural glucose, just with a different geometry that prevents it from being metabolized.
Hooks are not simple at all, are very error prone, and definitely do not put the user in the "pit of success". JSX is terrific, but React has only gone backwards since classes IMO.
Title could be like “one investor said Tesla goes up”.
Any routes to part-time dev work?
The job market seems great - unless you want to work less than 40-50 hours a week. I'm willing to take a pretty big pay cut (30% 40%?) just to have another day off, but I can't seem to find any companies willing to talk despite the current hot job market. Has anyone had luck finding less than full time work?
the money*
It's idealism. We still hope, despite the evidence, that Mozilla can be unadulteratedly good, as long as we only look at the open source side of it.

We already know that Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Oracle are evil.
Overheating is more of an issue for the image processor, at high frame rates. During bulb mode, the sensor is on for a long time but it's only one frame being handled by the image processor.
Text chat? Why do you want yet another one of these? I mostly clicked the question because I thought it would be about voice or video chat, which still have some gaps in the landscape. For text chat I'm basically happy with irc.

I do think there is a missing or hard to find piece for privacy oriented friends and family chat (i.e. for just a few users, not a large userbase like discord). It would among other things have a super simple desktop client that doesn't confuse my mom. Maybe an IRC extension would suffice for the server side. Client side would be tkinter and super simple, no menus, no channels, no configuration options, just type and leave it running. I sometimes think of writing something like that.
An SDK typically isn't a binary blob - it's usually a collection of header files you can integrate into your projects, media assets, config files etc. All of those can by modified by hand without disassembling anything.
Not even just consumption, the healthy user bias also effects lifestyle factors. People who try to avoid artificial sweeteners because they think they are unhealthy likely make many other decisions to promote their own health (increased exercise, avoiding other carcinogens). The study attempts to control for some of these factors (exercise, smoking), but given the HR is only 1.15, I have trouble believing the correlation here is anything but spurious.
Exactly. The most significant differentiation is that most of the tech projects run worldwide. The founder might not have a permanent place like other small traditional businesses. You could be a nomad with a desktop and Wi-Fi in Bali and travel without being fully dedicated to the business. So, for me, it's freedom.
My somewhat cynical hypothesis regarding "Why does everyone insist on putting customers into price brackets based on such a useless metric" (And I do not mean this as a dig at Gitlab, to be clear, just an examination of the strategy.)

If there is a curve "amount of money a company of a given size will pay", in certain applications, server load, bandwidth, and disk space utilization likely scales far below that trendline, whereas per-user tracks far closer. It also ensures there is effectively no upper bound on CLTV as a given customer scales out, even if net-usage only increases logarithmically/asymptotically.

To try and be even-handed and take a more generous interpretation as well, the former is also less likely to be cogently communicable to a customer, and may have painful UX when limits are hit.
> I'd say if you are doing it long term then you are doing it wrong.

I agree entirely but it also depends on your threat model. When making my post I didn't have DNM's in mind (though that's the context...) and was actually thinking about the abysmal opsec of many private tracker admins.
Well, sucralose is made by replacing hydroxy groups in sucrose with chlorine, and does not exist independent of industrial production processes, while erythritol (for example) is made by fermenting glucose with yeast, and occurs in nature.
I think I found a PDF version: https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/feynma...
Shame on Chest Magazine's editors for not catching this either way.

Most likely, one report-writer didn't understand that these were MATCHED consecutive patients. The data is so clearly matched, it's hard to believe it's fraudulent.
One of the issues I’ve seen with EBP is that it’s often not necessarily science based. That is to say, prior plausibility derived from basic science isn’t fully incorporated, ergo undo weight is given to noise. You see with in almost any study of pseudoscientific modalities, where actual efficacy would require a drastic reformation of our fundamental,
very well tested models of the natural world. Why should a particularly strong one-off result for my made up pain treatment be afforded the same stature as that of an pharmacological agent with clear physiological pathways?
Speaking as someone who maintains a fair bit of legacy infrastructure for a living, the hard part is knowing what is unused and what isn't. That's the whole rationale behind Linus' "don't break user space" policy.
When I right click on this website it says:

"Contact the webmaster for copying requests"
That seems to be the stance most people take on these kind of things because they are such minefields, but its allowed trolls to basically walk all over society because of our collective fear of offending anyone.

See the "lemmywinks" south park episode from 20+ years ago.
Do you have any evidence of this? People have been saying labels are irrelevant for a decade or two at least now. It's never true. To succeed you need to get noticed and for that you need a marketing budget and the labels provide that. Artists can get much further than before but going viral on TikTok is not a viable career strategy for most artists.
> noticed that their "#BlackLivesMatter #DefundThePolice" banner scrolls under the rest of the content, leaving this annoying gap

People get killed and a HNer is annoyed by a gap around a banner.
I often see these sold as "French Carrots". They will come in bunches and have the tops. I think they taste better, are smaller and thinner, but more expensive.
The connector itself I love - microUSB was just awful, mini USB was the weird ugly cousin, and that abomination of a connector that was USB3 (the microUSB combined with the long skinny one) was the worst of the bunch. USB-A still remains a good option and I do not see it going away anytime soon.

As to what you are describing above I think that does lend itself to a ton of confusion. Thunderbolt can be done over what looks like USB-C. Tons of different power specs. For the non tech people it must be confusing as hell.

Then again I would take the confusion with a single connector over many multiples of connectors if that is the alternative. What might have been a good idea would be to create a series of USB-C connectors that are slightly different but compatible in a downward fashion. For example if you bought a Thunderbolt compatible USB-C connector that could also do high current PD it could have a small notch in it that matched up to a lightning compatible port. This same cable could be used in a regular lowly USB-C port for regular power and USB3 but a normal USB-C cable could not be connected to the Thunderbolt port of the laptop.

That would also introduce additional confusion however as most lightning ports can also act as regular USB3 ports, etc etc. I guess this is the price we pay for universal compatibility. Maybe a color coded system (like the blue with USB3-A ports) could help this - Thunderbolt ports and cables could require a yellow marker somehow - USB3 a blue marker - HDMI over USB-C could be red.
You're not following my logic, because it's not what I said, or what I mean. We're talking specifically about off-color jokes about work colleagues, not factual statements like "I ate an apple" or uncontroversial personal opinions like "I like cheese."
He just could move to Canada or Europe and avoid insane hospital bills. Just saying.
Nice, though it would be better if manufacturers would open source the drivers and not do planned obsolescence in the first place.

And most drivers and manufacturer-provided scanning software are total and utter crap, which is something that open source drivers could really help with too.
What would be a good boundary here, in your opinion?

The 95% CI lower boundary for most of the cancer risks are still > HR 1.00, which seems significant enough to call out an increased risk correlation.
Good question! First I think Haakon thinks it sounds A LOT cooler. Second, we have been R&D our asses off developing the actual Crusher hardware. The current Crusher we have developed over the last years is specifically designed for crushing in harsh environments and tailored for binding ligning into the roads. It is produced, tested over years and works perfectly for our purpose now. It is part of our IP and helps us make carbon negative roads that are more durable and cost less for our road owning customers. Can´t wait to share details about our next gen crusher thats coming later this years that will crush the current one especially on the software/sensor side
"Load balancing" in a phone system is called "hunt groups". The 800 number is probably set to forward to their call center which is likely connected to some PBX.

It's possible one of the "Incoming Call Routes" in the company's PBX is misconfigured.

Betting they may have stopped paying for a number to reduce costs but forgot to take it out of their system - so it's going to the number's new owner.
https://wh0rd.ca/humor/text/Adequacy_org20%20Is%20Your%20Son...
What do you think evidence based means? There is evidence that some people are sensitive to chlorine. In an evidenced based approach it would be considered a possible cause until there is evidence to rule it out. If other issues present similar symptoms and are more likely then they should be tested and ruled out first.
Playing baseball is associated with oral cancer. But I would guess it's probably the chewing tobacco and not the baseball.
It is amazing how much we pay for clothing in the US, even at these discount stores. A huge amount of the clothes we wear are made in Vietnam. When I lived there, you can basically buy any name brand you want for almost nothing. For example, I'd get shirts with tags on them that say $90... for $5.
Tesseract is the best free OCR by far though.. That's a big standard to compare to.
From: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/03/mozilla-and-open-web-docs-...

> Any revenue generated by MDN Plus will stay within Mozilla. Mozilla is looking into ways to reinvest some of these additional funds into open source projects contributing to MDN but it is still in early stages.

> A subscription to MDN Plus gives paying subscribers extra MDN features provided by Mozilla while a donation to Open Web Docs goes to funding writers creating content on MDN Web Docs, and potentially elsewhere.

It's not totally clear to me after a little research, but I think MDN is part of the corporation, not the foundation? (It's isn't listed as on the foundation website as one of their projects.
It is irrelevant who said what, only what was said. It is not possible to validly counter an argument by attacking the man, which is why ad hominem is a fallacy. The logical way to have approached this is to ignore the man and point out the argument from authority, also a fallacy.
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Everyone selling pharmaceuticals should follow Pfizer's example and donate profits from sales in Russia:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90731145/pfizer-is-donating-its-...