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> If you were put in charge, how would you formulate policy for managing a resource-constrained health system?

I would delegate those decisions to healthcare subject matter experts. I'm not qualified to make those sorts of decisions. Neither are politicians, economists, or statisticians on their own.

It is a big, complicated subject and just being generally clever isn't enough to qualify someone for that type of thing.

> Have you seen the excess deaths data for Europe 2020-2022?

I had not, and it's concerning.

I don't think it automatically counts as proof that covid interventions did more harm than the disease though. For example, I've seen other papers that suggest excess deaths are actually proof that covid deaths were wildly underreported, especially early on.

That and the paper you linked earlier are certainly enough to suggest we need more research to determine which interventions worked, and which didn't, with greater certainty. This won't be the last pandemic.

I may fully read the book by the statistician you cited earlier. I think he touches on the subject of those excess deaths a bit.
If you can prove the existence of the encrypted thing before some point in time than you could prove the existence of the unencrypted thing before some point in time.

There isn't any way to do this without one or more trusted third parties. Traditionally that would involve someone like a public notary or a lawyer.

I was amused to find that there is a service that cryptographically timestamps things over email via PGP that has been running since 1995:

* https://www.itconsult.co.uk/stamper/stampinf.htm
Yeah, it's pretty awesome to watch "the first" of something! I wasn't born early enough to watch the moon landing, but I did watch the livestream of the first successful landing of a Falcon 9. Watching that bit of science fiction turn into reality was one of the more memorable moments of my life.
Lots of redundant work being done with all these Musk articles. Would be easier just to write one big definitive article titled "all the reasons Elon Musk is a parasite" and be done with it.
Why would you trust only one Blockchain explorer? You'd trust the blockchain by using several explorers, and by confirming that they all agree on the same value, to assuage any fears you have about any one particular blockchain explorer lying to you. Write your own, even, if your level of confidence needs to be that high.
Yes I feel so embarrassed if we're beeping out Pi and the message is received and decoded with the aliens thinking "They're still sending <what they call Tau> / 2". Imagine if we received a transmission of e/2. And what is our fascination with base-10 representation of Tau/2 digits anyway?
> Anyway, as far as I can tell, this law defines an independent repair provider as someone with a valid and unexpired certification demonstrating that they have the “technical capabilities and competence necessary to safely, securely and reliably repair consumer electronic equipment” and that the manufacturer is allowed to decide which certifications they trust.

What obligates Apple (or anyone) to trust ANY certification?
SYN flood cookies are probably older than me at this point
Please reduce/remove the animations in the website, while scrolling down it's laggy
One of the draws of the DTC model (and IKEA) is the apparently heavily commission-based pay structure of the sales staff of most brick-and-mortar furniture stores.
Eh, I dislike Tailwind but this doesn't sound like it will hold water in the long run.

Why the hell does a rule talk about consistent padding and then not use css variable? A class name .card is a sure thing to conflict somewhere. Typography inheritance is another good way how to introduce hard to debug bugs. Global scope css - ewww (use only absolute minimum necessary).

Please use css-in-js, Tailwind, shadow dom or at the bare minimum css modules. Friends and future you will thank you.

But hey, maybe they are building some blog. I live in the apps world.

Also some rules are valid like the one about not using margin on the component itself.
Ha, do 60% of Americans even have private health insurance? Less than half get it through their employer, so that would mean more than 10% are just paying out of pocket through the exchanges?
If they have random documents to scrutinize, doesn't that mean that it's documented?

When I work on undocumented systems, it's because someone wrote code with no design docs, no (retained) notes, no requirements, no specs, and it's been determined that it doesn't work right. All I have is the code, and current observations.
If you're literally trying to hire for a "senior nodejs role" then the brutal truth is that you're simply incompetent and going about recruiting entirely the wrong way. Hiring should be done primarily based on aptitudes and understanding of fundamentals. Experience with a particular language or framework is a "nice to have" at most.

I've done plenty of engineering hiring and never had a hard time finding candidates who were good enough to get the job done. Relax the qualifications, increase the compensation, and improve your company's reputation as a good place to work. Easy.
bright side: booster made it all the way to splashdown
Although the furniture quality is excellent, I worry about supporting child labor when doing business with the Amish. They pull their kids out of school after grade 8 to put them to work. I've also heard various things regarding the commonality of abusive practices within their religion. Trade-offs for everything!
I am fairly certain that ClosedAI has shown that training agents in robotics simulation generalises to reality rather easily.
He appeared in over 90 games at the Major League level from 2016 to 2018.

You cannot appear in a game without being on the 25 man roster (40 after the late season roster expansion).

I was pointing out the assertion that he was "homeless" during his playing days, which doesn't pass the most basic smell test. For one thing, teams arrange at least temporary housing for rookies and recent call ups.

Records show over $2 million in career earnings: https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/los-angeles-dodgers/andrew-toles...

"MAR 23 2018 Signed a 1 year $555,000 contract with Los Angeles (LAD)

FEB 24 2017 Signed a 1 year $540,000 contract with Los Angeles (LAD)"

Not set for life money, certainly, but far from homeless.
Not replaced, but we should develop alternatives to the centralized systems that concentrate too much power to have a backup in case they fail.
>they'll all be inexplicably inferior with even worse UI

basically, yes. but their developers don't think their UI is inferior. because there are legions of developers around the world with replacements lined up, but all of their replacements are built with opinions about the bits of reddit they like. and while everybody can agree that the reddit UI sucks, nobody can agree about how it sucks, and everybody who sets out to fix it fixes it in a different way that everybody else hates.
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I was talking about https://pidgin.im/
Computers in Spaceflight – The NASA Experience [pdf]
Hong Kong changing hands created a huge wave of freign. This project captures some of it
They would agree most of all, except for the projects they worked on.

And some of them would agree even about those projects.
I don't think that amluto is saying that the hardwood itself is inappropriate, or is necessarily ever inappropriate. I think they are saying that the specific joinery in their example was form over function, to the point where the joint was a critical point of failure.

Having done a bit of woodworking as a hobby, I would say that hardwood could be inappropriate if it is used for an element that is purely structural, internal (and thus will be hidden by external features) and there are cheaper alternatives that are just as good, or stronger materials available and we are talking about a critical structural element.

That's a pretty abstract answer but it's always going to depend on the specific project. Sometimes a piece of furniture has no hidden internal structure, or the appeal of the furniture is that it is all bare wood and you want it made entirely out of a beautiful "furniture grade" hardwood. For certain upholstered furniture, such as many sofas, using expensive materials for inner framing could not only be superfluous and add unnecessary cost to the piece, but in certain circumstances there may be better materials available even if you could make a perfectly adequate structural support that will last a lifetime using expensive hardwood and the right joinery for critical stress points.

I read amulto's point as being "expensive material and fancy joinery doesn't matter if you have a weak design."
And indeed every spacex rocket. Starship is the second stage -- and a second stage on a F9 burns up in the atmosphere just as much as Starship from IFT3 did.

The big things to fix seem to be

1) The roll rates for starship (which prevented the inflight relighting test)

2) The Booster relights, which didn't have enough lighting to soft land.

Both of those feel like minor problems.

I'm amazed that the propellant transfer demo seems to have worked first time, and of course they managed to get the tihng up there in the first place.

The reusability of the Starship part of the system is a much bigger unknown, but that doesn't seem to be necessary for the next launch.

Wouldn't surprise me if the next try is by the end of April
It's not perfect by any means, but I mostly settled on Lemmy since last July.
So how would that change with increased health care access for everyone? Anyone with the means could certainly get access to elite healthcare if they wanted to like they do today.
Taiwan Is Building a Satellite Network
This might be another case of “death by HN”
We'd first have to admit that Bitcoin isn't a total scam and might actually be useful for something, and we can't have that now, can we?
Passenger rating isn't even in the cards for Starship for a long time. You ride to LEO on a Falcon-9 with a proven track record for the foreseeable future.
Sort of like "an AR-15 is a weapon of war, made for killing people quickly, that has no place in civilian hands" and "an AR-15 is completely unsuitable for self-defense", and "Even the most heavily armed populace stands no chance at out-gunning its governing state".

All three of these things cannot be true at the same time.
With my older daughter I used Clasic Visual Basic 6. It's very easy to make small programs with a silly UI that does something. And also make some graphics. I liked Logo when I was a child. If your favorite program haas a turtle odule, I recomend to use it. (Later she switched to C, Python, a litle of R, C#.)

Probably Python is a good first language. I think it has a turtle module, but I'm not sure. https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html looks good.

In may cases, I gave her a simple working program and made het tweak it, until she could write her ow programs.

(I also recomend to teach Excel. Used correctly, it's very powerful for simple math task.)
This is extremely easy to look up, from a very reliable source:

>"In 2022, private health insurance coverage continued to be more prevalent than public coverage, at 65.6 percent and 36.1 percent, respectively."

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-28...
Your post inspired a random but genuine question:

Does anyone have a good use for obsolete cables?

Like, I've got some serial cables, some co-ax, a bunch of old TV cables, some audio cables.

I tell myself I'm keeping them because if I ever need them I'll never be able to (or want to) buy them again. Moreover it feels like such a waste to throw them away.

Maybe a makerspace could make use of them?
Back in 2012 I furnished a home with Ikea furniture.

Yes I hate them.

You'd spend $60 on a book case and spend the next 4 hours trying to understand what the instructions mean and how to build it. You also needed a partner to hold corners together.

Now today, the furniture instructions are better and instead 16 different weird fastener, there are 8.

Its a frustration thing. Ikea didn't really do anything but be low cost. We blame Ikea like we blame Walmart for having drug addicts.
This is the pattern of pandemics: that they are quickly forgotten. And that they always come again.
See https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-shell...

It's a sandboxing feature similar to e.g. Firejail.

One can launch applications in a separate container, and choose whether to give access to the network, filesystem, and other environment variables.

I find this very convenient, and I wish Nix provided a similar feature.
"got a few customers for my SaaS product"

Can you share more details like how many customers, what's the average revenue per customer etc ? If you want 100K for this business, usually people pay 2-4 times SDE (sellers discretionary earnings) for a small business like yours (SAAS part doesn't matter as it is still very small).

So you could may be get 100K if it makes around 3K/Month give or take.
It would have benefitted the article to use less of annoying corporate talk.
Figma uses AWS RDS, RDS doesn't list citus as a supported extension.
What products
> Apples approach has often been at a module level: replace the logic board, replace the battery, etc. Board repair houses often operate at the component level: replace a damaged chip.

With a VERY liberal view of "module". I had an MBA with a damaged battery charging circuit. Battery was fine. Computer was fine on AC. Just couldn't get current to battery. Oh, okay, few hundred bucks?

"The estimate to repair is $850..."

Followed rapidly, "Do you want to take a look at the new MBAs and maybe we look at you getting into something upgraded instead?"
Not just the capacity per launch but the cost per launch also.
Great question! Voyager 1 does appear to be using ASCII. :D

https://destevez.net/2021/09/decoding-voyager-1/
Bingo, you can't be "rational" when you don't understand any of the existing rational reasons people do things.
This project is a library so it's actually relevant? The language libraries are written in is one of their most important features because it determines if/when you can use them...
I am immensely impressed that the developers here are using widely-supported but technically-experimental interfaces and methods. Without IE-like polyfill bloat.

One of my recent favorite experimental features is TLS Encrypted Client Hello, which protects against one of the last MitM attacks used by authoritarian governments to filter the Web. I note that while ECH is experimental, it is also widely supported, including by Firefox. Firefox needs to pick up the pace with implementing the CSS Typed Object Model API, which they thoroughly document on MDN. Bravo to the Ministry of Digital Transformation. And for those users who want better Web API support with good privacy protections, there is Brave (I only switched away from Firefox back in the day because Chromium had better experimental Wayland support, and better memory management on my dinosaur).
Bitcoin tends to have severe, sudden crashes after going up a lot, see May 2021 or Dec 2021. I would rather keep cash on sidelines, imho. Already crashing a lot today.
> I actually really like RCU for shared access: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-copy-update Deallocation is always done in a background thread and there is no synchronization when reading. I'm not sure what public libraries are available, unfortunately (I've only used our internal rcu library).

I do like "eventually consistent" data structures like this where you either see the old one or the new one consistently.

However, at that point, you've basically created garbage collection as you've lost your deterministic behavior. (It will get collected--sometime, maybe).

They mention the Linux kernel and reference counting specifically, so I'll look at this more in depth.

> If you want to make efficient use of your zillion cores, you need to make sure single threaded performance is excellent ;) See Amdahl's law.

Erm, that's NOT what Amdahl's law says.

"The overall performance improvement gained by optimizing a single part of a system is limited by the fraction of time that the improved part is actually used"

Cores mostly spend their time waiting--so improving single core performance isn't a great benefit. In fact, going backwards to lot of simpler cores but lots more cache per core is probably a better benefit.

Apple got this. They made the memory system a giant cache and got a huge performance boost.
This article has a lot of "trend" and "have you noticed" and "people are doing X" and "this is a thing" statements. I'm not looking for hard data in a blog entry but this smells a lot like someone extrapolating from a few interactions to create a buzz article.

But I'll take the bait: I have noticed no such trend.

People did that before pandemic, they do it now. Some of them are performatively demonstrating that they are important, and therefore busy, and therefore tired. Some of them appear to have medical issues. Some of them have a cold but find lying in bed boring. Some of them are indirect-bragging about their heroic alcohol intake.
I'm going to be a humorless pedant and reply by saying that with the level of forward and backward traceability required of aerospace software, it's unlikely that such a level of misunderstanding could occur. But maybe DO-178 wasn't a thing back then.

That's just from what I've heard, though. I do medical devices. I'm told that my aerospace counterparts have it even tougher than we do.
First step is to stop blaming yourself for everything. You are a product of your circumstances and upbringing.

Second step is to allow the possibility that even supportive parents can still make mistakes that negatively impact your ability to do the things you want to do. Neglect has nothing to do with the kind of person your parents are. This is not a moral judgement of your parents.

Third is to learn about and to accept and rely on your emotions. This is where I'm at and it's a long process, but the sooner you get started the soon you become unstuck.

Also, no one remembers neglect. How can you remember something you didn't have?

Good people can neglect things. Maybe they had an uncle/aunt who was supportive in a certain way so they didn't know they need to support they own children in that way. Or maybe they had their own issues they were working through and just didn't have the bandwidth or capacity to give something or other to their children. Again neglect is not a moral judgement.
NIMBYs Increase Carbon Emissions
"The Little Prince"
The GDP of Mexico and Canada are comparable so I don't see an issue economy-wise.

You're right about the cartels, though.
There are 3” Android “media player” devices for under $100 on Amazon. No cellular but cool to play with.
You could trivially make a Reddit clone and throw some UI/UX enhancements on top.

Then what?

"Build it and they will come" does not apply to social networks. The value of Reddit is in the information posted & pseudo-communities formed.

You could create the Platonic Ideal of a Reddit-like website but without massive numbers of users sharing information, forming communities, heading moderation efforts, then it will just collect dust.

It's an interesting question, how to create a viable social-based platform. It's certainly not a technical problem. How do you solve it? Forget creating the next Reddit / FB / Insta; how do you create a social network at all that doesn't fail to launch or wither and die?
China isn't going to collapse from anything except demographics and they don't have a monopoly in this type of "collapse". I would expect the next decades to see massive advancements in robotics to the point where elder care and menial labor (e.g. produce harvesting) has been automated.
Will wallstreetbets work for or against this IPO?
What I mean is, you shouldn’t necessarily be afraid of losing your job or not getting hired due to those practices.
It's an incredibly complex topic and probably off-topic for this article. For example, you could in fact have lower revenues at a provider even if everyone has insurance, if that insurance pays less than today's private insurance. There certainly could be cost savings under a single payer plan, but to what degree is highly dependent on the proposed system. It's worth noting that one of the main points of contention is how to fund such a system (who to tax, from what source, how much, etc).
There are almost certainly no health benefits.

I consider the ethical considerations to be significant. Many people have had them for a long time; vegetarianism is centuries old in the West and even longer among some cultures. Plenty of other practices that were one time considered ethical by most have come under scrutiny: slavery, racism, etc. I believe that animal suffering may one day be in the same category.

But if you're OK with that, and your primary concern is health, then you can be reasonably sure that there are no advantages on that score.
I am fond of saying there are only two hard problems in robotics: Perception and Funding. If you have a magical sensor that answers questions about the world, and have a magic box full of near-limitless money, you can easily build any robotic system you want. If perception is "processing data from sensors and users so we can make decisions about it", then there isn't much robotics left.

Got a controls problem? forward predict using the magic sensor.

Got a planning problem? just sense the world as a few matrices and plug it into an ILP or MDP.

What did the user mean? Ask the box.

etc etc. Distilling the world into the kind of input our computers require is immesnely difficult, but once that's done "My" problem (being a planning expert) is super easy. I'm often left holding the bag when things go wrong because "my" part is built last (the planning stack), and has the most visible "breaks" (the plan is bad). But it's 90% of the time traceable up to the perception, or a violated assumption about the world.

TFA is spot on - it's just not clear how to sense the world to make "programming" robotics a thing. In the way you'd "program" your computer to make lines appear on a screen or packets fly across the internet, we'd love to "program" a robot to pick up an object and put it away, but even a specious attempt to define generally what "object" and "put away" mean is still 100s of PhD theses away.So it's like we invent the entire ecosystem from scratch each time we build a new robot.
https://archive.is/I4Kou
From Mobile Wikipedia, always use the browser's share button to get the canonical URL.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:U_Kalicha_(Pragu...
There's a significant non-zero probability Reddit will break that loop themselves once they become beholden to big shareholders combined with their questionable internal decision making.
The Wall street bets crowd will probably try to short squeeze you, though some Redditors were talking about trying to tank the price.

Either way it could be a meme stock for a long time.
Unless you're dyslexic, then you might not be reading it at all.
Reddit has had access to frankly mind boggling amounts of investor capital over the years, though. Arguably far more than it's needed, but I can't see a competitor scaling up without at least a fraction of that cash.
I'm an atheist, for what it's worth.

If it helps, substitute "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" instead.
LOL. I remember being asked to consult for my last employer on a problem they had while attempting to port some software that I had written almost 20 years earlier. It's amazing the random details that you remember when your memory is jogged.
I’m not a fan of Pottery Barn, I think Crate and Barrel or CB2 are the essentially the same products with better service.
This is a neat collection! Have you considered adding an RSS feed for when you put new items on the list?
I hope the communication will be established again and correctly with the farest device made by mankind. Voyager is giving us a lot of important information about what we have in the near around.