skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The waiting is similar in the U.S., only the cost is wildly different. Actually, it sounds like you can see a family doctor the same day in Germany? That would make it better in Germany.

In the U.S. I can see a midlevel the same day by paying $200 for an annual membership in a mass-affluent pseudoconcierge practice plus $800ish for the appointment+labs, the $800 may be partly or entirely covered by insurance depending on how the conversation goes with the "provider". I have to wait several months if I want to see a real doctor outside of an emergency room. 6 months is about right for seeing a specialist with a preexisting relationship, might need a little more lead time for an initial consultation.
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> Margin is a meaningless number if you can just pump your expenses to increase the total dollar amount.

That doesn’t make any sense. If one MCO were to pump their expenses, there are 4 to 6 others waiting to take their customers with lower premiums.

Currently, medical loss ratios are around 85% to 90%, which means MCO administrative costs are 8% or maybe 10%, at most.

However, getting rid of the MCO doesn’t mean those costs go away. Government employees will have to do the prior authorizations rather than MCO employees. So I split the difference, and you end up with a net savings of 5%. Make it 10% if you want to be super optimistic and think the government will streamline paperwork for healthcare providers.

The other 90% of healthcare costs are still there.
s/Grifter/Professional/g
I can understand this perspective if you've never been here and base it all on what you read online.
People do value their lives and liberty and (for all the memes to the contrary) the police are very good at hunting down murderers of high-value targets because most challenges the police face are challenges of focus and resource-allocation and cities tend to authorize a spare-no-expense approach to something perceived as a direct attack on the fundamentals of the status quo. Consider the full-scale house-to-house manhunt after the Boston Marathon bombing as an example case.

So I think most people know that if you come at the king, you are definitely throwing your future away (and Americans, for all the complaining, tend to be comfortable / hopeful enough that they don't want to do that).
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You know, “forcing homeless people off the streets” so they die somewhere else isn’t the amazing policy you think it is
As will I be to know that about writings about his writing.
That’s a big part of programming though, IMO. Always has been.
> Why do you think that's true?
> These will get faster and they will get controllable.

Brother, you're preaching to the choir. I've been shilling generative tools for gamedev far harder than you are in your reply. :-)

But I'm just relaying to you what actual gamedevs working and writing code right now need and for the foreseeable future for which projects have been started or planned. As Mike Acton says, "the problem is the problem".

> These techniques can already mimic the physics of optics better than 80 years of doing it with math.

I encourage you to talk to actual gamedevs. When designing a game, you aren't trying to mimic physics: you're trying to make a simulation of physics that feels a certain way that you want it to play. This applies to fluid dynamics, lighting/optics, everything.

For example, if I'm making a saling simulator, I need to be able to script the water at points where it matters for gameplay and game-feel, not simulate real physics. I'm willing to break the rules of physics so that my water doesn't act or look like real water but feels good to play.

Movement may be motion captured, but animation is tweaked so that the characters control and play in a way that the game designer feels is correct for his game.

If you haven't designed a game, I encourage you to try to make a simple space invaders clone over the weekend, then think about the physics in it and try to make it feel good or work in an interesting way. Even in something that rudimentary, you'll notice that your simulation is something you test and tweak until you arrive at parameters that you're happy with but that aren't real physics.
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PPP matters on an individual level, but not at all on a national level. GDP at market exchange rates is what actually matters in terms of what a country can accomplish on the world stage.

And even on an individual level, PPP struggles with accuracy, because things are only ever roughly equivalent. There's a reason why so many individual people are trying to move from China and India to the US and EU, despite all the personal financial disadvantages of doing so.
I wrote hastily but I said a couple of different things. I meant first that we should not presume to know that the corporate statements are true or false, but at the same time err on the side of caution due to the long and well established track record that you refer to. We can't assume they're dangerous or not dangerous, since we can't really know unless we're an expert in that particular domain, but we won't be experts in all domains relevant to our health, so it makes sense to remain neutrally skeptical while being more risk averse here. Then I was saying that this forces us to empathize with the people who think 5G and Wi-Fi are going to kill them due because they don't understand physics. Their claims are too strong, but their risk aversion due to their ignorance isn't and now we can relate. Do you get what I mean?
Yep. As a simple exercise, visit e.g. the Ireland subreddit and see how many young people there are complaining about the cost of living and are talking about emigrating.
Yahoo's acquisition by Verizon was a tire-fire train wreck of epic proportions. In no universe is this something to emulate. There's a good reason every single Verizon exec involved in that deal was gone relatively shortly after this disaster.

They basically incinerated $5 billion in the process of buying Yahoo, merging it with AOL to form "Oath", doing many rounds of layoffs with extremely overgenerous severance packages, strip-mining the business units in ill-conceived deals (often in exchange for stock in absurd companies like MoviePass and Buzzfeed), and then eventually dumping the remainder on a PE firm at a huge loss.

Or, as Wikipedia succinctly summarizes these events, "the integration did not deliver the expected value".
A little off topic, but as someone who has occasionally used Clojure since Rich released a beta version (on many professional gigs, and to support examples in my Clojure AI book), I used to make such a mistake by writing wrappers in Clojure for Java libraries I used.

A while back someone set me straight, and I no longer do that. So much better to call Java directly. Seeing the Glojure/Go interop examples reminded me of this.
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the asms should be identical, so the binaries should be identical too, unless the linker is undeterministic
ZFS Storage Fault Management on Linux
This quality of life can disappear in a matter of seconds. EU is still not actively working on protecting itself from the Russian threat. The moment Russia attacks which is going to happen since this is what the fascist Russian dictatorship wants, we could kiss our quality of life goodbye.
How Notion used Palette to reduce typing latency by 15%
Underrated feature: this bucket type can’t be made public - so no accidental data breaches.
> Adobe's suite should be classified under 'art supplies' or 'video production'... Under this taxonomy, I think things would seem much more diverse.

Will someone who has shopped at Blick for 20 years be able to develop a Photoshop plugin? It would be a stretch.
I'm a little surprised that Node is beating Deno. Interesting that Java would be faster than Kotlin since both run on jvm.
It's not part of the research process. Being part of the search process would involve a publication and sharing code/data/results/methods. It's not research unless it can be verified by peers.

This is just a marketing fluff piece that does not benefit anyone and is ego stroking at best.
Funny! I have had robusta black, both espresso and filter, and man it just doesn't do it for me.
Tiny dev is in good company re: async.
> The thing people lack is AC and its just because people aren't used to it so they don't see it as a need.

I suspect it's just that Europe is mostly north of the US and AC is more luxury than necessity. Places in the US like Seattle, which is still south of much of Europe, only recently rose above 50% AC prevalence. It's become much more popular as the climate as grown warmer.
> Well, but I am quite good in determining if another person is just trying to be (fake) friendly, so they can get my help later and I am not interested in that and smalltalk won't create that bond for me. I am interested in genuine connections.

Can I presume that this is the burner account of some particular billionaire if you are that good at recognizing the social situations?
After 1955, the Germans could have asked the US to leave. The Germans weren't stupid, though. They had very good reason to want the US military there. I've already covered it in this thread.

Recall I've lived through that, and my father was pretty involved in it in the military bases there. I've had German friends, and been in their homes, and interacted with them.

They were not "occupied" against their will.
It was surprising to only recently learn how little money Gwern makes and lives off of.

And then beautiful to see how the internet responded.

https://x.com/Suhail/status/1857102763249004655
So tired of this framing. We get it, you don't like the government. So what?

If you're spreading lies about medicine because you distrust authority...

Well, first of all, you're dumb because you believe falsehoods.

But more importantly, you're a danger to my health, my friends and my families' health, and to your own health as well.

Why would we have any patience for this?

Your rugged self-important individualism is not worth more than any of that.

You appear to be thinking that you're taking some heroic stand on principle. Your principle is leading you astray. It makes you antisocial, a danger to your neighbors.
> The only private sales that happen are among criminals and within families

This varies from state-to-state. Some states allow private sale of individual firearms with no background check.

(... I wish I didn't have a reason to know this fact).
now might be a good time to shelf any plans for drone carried delivery service, if this becomes a domestic threat, it will be a Know-Your-[$tring] security issue.
The US owes its "economic strength" to the ability to print $2T/yr in perpetuity and buy stuff with that money. Once that tap ceases to function (which eventually it will, though not anytime soon), the US is going to be fucked beyond any recognition.
Seems like there's already a lot of slop on steam and I really doubt it will be difficult for quality content to be highlighted even if the amount of games increases 1000x or more
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."

:-)
Well if the US and UK hadn’t invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, and fermented civil war in countries like Libya and Syria maybe we’d have a lot less

Of course Russia and China aren’t innocent when it comes to Syria and large parts of Africa
Technologists seem to have a special proclivity for linguistic nominalization (functional transformation of a verb or adjective into a noun).

Examples: build, patch, commit, deploy, sync, mock, update, upgrade, deliverable, standup, kickoff, resolve, retry. There are probably many more.
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Because nobody wants to live in the south, midwest and east coast.

The west coast was a great place to live, people moved there, they didn’t build enough housing, people lose their jobs and can’t afford rent, they go homeless.
I don't know. Ruby is able to call C too so it's a wash?
hallucinogenics are available right now.
Where/how did he learn to code? What resources?
I also grew up in Alberta, and I never even saw a raw in my life until I visited Europe in my 20s.
Isn't it alarming to you that you are optimising for what you leave behind when you die (stocks) over what you can have while you live (vacations)?
No, but I would say the same about coffee. I would consider these roasts: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/46... and https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/47... to have roasted a lot of what the coffee has to offer away.
That's not true. Sure, many hot path functions dealing with tensor calculations are done in numpy functions, but etl and args/results are python objects and functions. And most web development libs are pure python (flask, django, etc)
Doesn't the EU also have a robust legal framework?
Small nitpick

> It took hold of human consciousness 3,000 years ago and changed it, with the written word representing thought itself.

Writing is at least about 5500 years old.
False.

These are the fastest growing regions of the country. Texas and Florida are going to take several West Coast electoral votes if trends continue.
Yes, I use RCS with my partner (Android) and friends (mix of Android/iPhone). It's better than raw SMS/MMS because it can send read receipts, typing indicators, high-res photos and videos and such.

Nobody in my friend group cares about privacy enough to switch to Signal. And in the US, we don't use WhatsApp, just texts.

Mostly all the Snowden & Assange stuff was met with a collective shrug here. Only some of our states have privacy laws at all, and most of our economy is built off of invading it, so... encrypted comms just isn't part of the everyday mindset, I guess.
Only partially true though. A rising tide can lift all ships. The EU can benefit from advancements in the US invests in because of our wealth. This goes the other way as well, even thought he EU isn't putting out as much, they are putting out something and that benefits the US. So long as they don't fall so far behind that it isn't worth trying to bring them up - but this is unlikely, I'm not even sure how this could happen.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/against-their-will-the-sit...

is a good start
I understand why one would prefer the US way, but these are some weird arguments.

I understand why you would want higher net income to enjoy a wealthy life, but for "investing in the stock market"? I also understand why you would want to earn more so that your kids can have a better life, but why "after you die"?

If anything, the latter can be turned into an argument for the EU way. Your kids don't need you dead, they need you to be alive and caring. So you have vacations so you can spend time with them, public education so that they have the skills to help themselves, so they don't need your inheritance, and healthcare to keep you alive even if your "stock market investments" are at a low point.
The bizarre thing is that the problems are fixable. The federal government already spends more per capita on healthcare than other developed countries, just that our healthcare is so much more expensive and for no good reason.
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I would accept the point that stress triggers schizophrenic behaviors.

When we look at magical thinking as one of those light schizotypical behaviors large portions of the population exhibit these symptoms.

They drink from the cup of nonsense to excess.

There should always be room for drinking from the cup of nonsense but too much and its difficult to be useful to yourself and your family.
25 trillion is just 1 year worth of GDP. With interest rates of 5%, that's only further evidence for my point.

Edit: as an exercise, consider the land value of a typical office, and compare to the annual income of the part of the company based there, and the personal income of the employees who work there.
> burning fossil fuels to run AC

I'm interested in the numbers behind this. The location and timing of most air conditioning needs correlates strongly with the availability of PV. At this point I would have guessed that heating is strongly reliant on fossil fuels (and will be for many years to come) and air conditioning will be much greener.
Could be but

> They respect the company mission as written, but what they really value is what the leaders of the company show they care about.

> Grifters aren’t very good at changing the culture of their organizations. They tend to go with the current instead.

To me loyalist fits this well, not because they are necessarily going to do dirty work, but because they are loyal to the rules that are in place.
Telling someone to educate themselves and that they can just google whatever thing you're talking about is about as uncivil as you can get before openly insulting them.
Most of the murders are just in a few zip codes[1]. In some cities they are literally concentrated in a few city blocks. So if you move to the U.S don't live in obvious high crime areas and you'll be fine. The best way to tell if an area is high crime is to look for Starbucks. The more comfortable the seating in the Starbucks, the less crime there is. High crime areas have no Starbucks or they have Starbucks without seating or bathrooms. These are known as "Problem" Starbucks and they progressively remove things like outlets, seating, toilets, operating hours until problems stop. If things don't improve, they just close.

[1] https://crimeresearch.org/2017/04/number-murders-county-54-u...
Using a projector and computing the light field (i.e. single pixel, controlled light source) it is also possible to look around corners.

It's probably easier to achieve than time of flight of photons.
Slightly off-topic, but is the user that posted a bot account? Not sure what to make of the activity and history.
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Just the opposite. PPP is less useful when comparing intra-country than inter-country. It's only relevant because there are barriers to trade, especially in services.
>This, combined with America's relative freedom from prejudice, is an unstoppable juggernaut. It is absolutely insane how easy it is in the United States to be handed money with limited liability to go and do whatever you want with it. This is a true blessing, and we see it not just in venture capital, but in the plethora of small businesses, as well as the plethora of credit (for better or worse).

I was with you until then. America was build on prejudice and inequality as much as any other country has been and suffers from it today. That translates to how the last half of that paragraph doesn't apply to a significant amount of American's who struggle to access the resources they need to survive let alone innovate and thrive..
any worn down farmer you are describing as having it easier would change lives with the modern human. They would not complain as much, that's for sure. At least not until they get used to it.
I don't want them to die. I would prefer they be warmed and kept alive in homeless shelters, but city governments are uninterested. For example, my city of Portland built a suitable building for a homeless shelter (well the county did) and immediately left it empty for 10 years until a private group bought it and is now running a shelter. Meanwhile, Oregon state is preventing them from running it at capacity, and the county is pulling funding.

They don't care. Meanwhile, 100s of millions were spent on tents.

Again, this is a simple problem where we fix it by funding homeless shelters and getting people off the streets. For a while, due to Oregon's incorporation of Martin v Boise into state law, police weren't even able to force people into a shelter. It's honestly insane.
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This lifestyle is literally impossible in most US cities unless you’re a high income earner.
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I have no experience with Go, but I use Clojure(Script) for the same reason - stable language + stable libraries. Clojure ctreator also gave talk on code breakages and why it's bad: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk&t=1114s&pp=ygUVc3B...
No not everyone can change. There are broken people out there full stop. Nothing can take that away from them. That is like saying Homosexuality is wrong they just don't want to change. No they can not change. That is who they are. And for some people that is that desire to be evil.
I am not ignorant of my dark passenger in fact quite the opposite. I just have a stronger light passenger guiding my way.
> But I have never gotten a "flu shot" in my life because the benefit of it is rather low relative to the risk of influenza given my demographics and health. If that makes me an anti-vaxxer, so be it.

That seems like reasonable risk assessment to me. It’s a minor chore to get but the benefit to you is also pretty minor. Lots of people skip the flu vaccine for those reasons.

But some folks skip the flu vaccine because they are convinced that the vaccine itself will harm them. I hate the term “anti-vaxxer” but if I were to apply the concept, it’s mostly to that unbalanced risk assessment.

It’s an interesting question why some folks develop such an unbalanced assessment. And I dislike “anti-vaxxer” because I think is dismissive and derogatory, and leads away from trying to understand each other.
> People prefer jobs, not handouts, but handouts is what your scenario implies--wealth distribution from the rich to the workers

Labour's share of wealth produced (vs capital's share) has been declining in the developed world since the 1970s, and is now well past Gilded Age levels and still getting worse.

So yes, it's both about better jobs and about distributing away from the rich and towards the working class: these are the same thing.