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> Refusing to pay for medical care is hardly murder.

This is crazy. Maybe it's not "murder" in the traditional sense but you are making a choice on whether someone gets life-saving care, or lives in immense pain for the rest of their lives until they commit suicide. Again, this kind of normalized violence is justified when it's a business making choices to increase profits. We are so disconnected from our humanity that rounding errors in an Excel sheet mean actual lives are being ended, but that's okay.
It's not government taking it away. It's a bank taking it away because they do not want to spend time and money to resolve the situation. The legal risk is high where as there is very little upside for retaining the customer relationship.
>If others in public are equipped to collect that information in whatever form it takes, why is that suddenly wrong?

Legally, it may not be. But it's creepy and invasive. Doxxing is a net negative to society. And more than individuals catching me in photos or videos incidentally, is the problem of surveillance and tracking, something I have mentioned repeatedly and you have failed to acknowledge. First came CCTV, then comes ubiquitous cheap video storage, now comes AI that can analyze that video in real time for identification and behavioral analysis.

I'll flip your question on its head: why is it the default that people should consent to ubiquitous machine-based activity monitoring by all their peers and their government, just because the technology exists? What's the benefit?

If society has lived without ubiquitous surveillance and automated behavioral analytics and tracking for all history, why is it suddenly right?
Be careful lending out your shares (for example on ibkr) you can lose your qualified dividend status.
> But I don’t think it’s hyperbole to consider the actions of this CEO and his company in the same breath as such evil tyrants

But it is. Tyrants round up women and children and execute them. Healthcare is more complicated because you have multiple causes at play: the health conditions of patients, the hospitals and what they bill, and the insurance companies.

Money is a big factor here. People talk as if insurance companies should spend unlimited resources on every person. I understand the resentment over wealth inequality, but someone recently calculated that the top 4 billionaires could only support healthcare for everyone for 3 months. Money is not an infinite resource. Rationing is unavoidable.

But I get that there is a problem. Automatic denials and denials over treatments that have clear and significant benefits are a problem, absolutely. And the system could run more efficiently. But we also can't avoid death due to old age or sickness. Nor painless death.

But we can avoid murdering people in the streets in cold blood.
This is one of the worst parts. Social participation requires access to screens.

If you think having screens hurts kids mental health, wait until you take them away!
You hadn't mentioned that your focus was on the USA, but rather a general "The targets of the theory are essentially people with non-stem post-secondary degrees" which is why I provided a paper that directly contradicts your statement. Elite Overproduction is not a US-specific topic, and the paper being from 2007 does nothing to invalidate its findings or lessen its relevance to Elite Overproduction.
Funnily enough, I hadn't checked astrange's reference that prompted this discussion, which is Gambetta and Hertog.
I would define basic as at least knowing that I don't know some topic and how to type in google "what is ...?" or "how to ...?". The amount of people outright refusing to do this simple step is honestly frightening.

Knowledge is forgotten when it is not used long term, and it is fine. But we need to acknowledge it and understand where to start getting it if a need arises.
Yep. AML and KYC laws are unconstitutional.
Unfortunately the git model has intrinsic limitations. Pijul is an example of something that breaks free—it has a history agnostic data structure where the order of changes doesn’t matter. Applying changeset A then B results in the same state as B then A. In git these would be different trees.

I personally waste so much time on git rebases that shouldn’t even be a thing.
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Someone will have to bear a cost somewhere along the way.
I think direct indexing with TLH is a useful tool particularly when you are looking to diversity out of a large existing holding (say a bunch of RSUs or something from a public company you've worked at for a while). The direct indexing piece is nice because you can build "around" your existing holding, which you can't do with, say, VOO. And the TLH is nice because you have a lot of capital gains in your position to offset.

This is something you can do with, e.g. Fidelity's FidFolios, but those are paid for via an AUM fee.

Can you do the same here? That is choose an index, but seed it with some amount of shares that you already hold?

Another potential annoyance is filling out your tax return. Can you talk a bit about how that would work, with all the trades throughout the year you'll be doing?

I'd also love any more info you can provide on how exactly you do TLH. A factor model linear optimization problem is interesting! When I talked to my Fidelity advisor she pitched it as the pair-wise solution you mentioned, and gave an example of "sell Pepsi to buy Coke". But while the drinks are interchangeable, I'm not convinced the companies are! So I'm still a little hesitant on the idea of TLH at all.
Who gets to define ‘archivist’?

Clearly not pseudonymous accounts on HN, nor can it be self declared otherwise 8 billion people can declare themselves to be ‘archivists’.
Is this spam? The information here seems to be extremely basic and in some cases wrong. This looks like nothing more than a affiliate marketing frontend to a jobs board (same owner/agency?).
"Does a [robot] dog have Buddha nature?"

I could be wrong, but I associate Japanese animism much more strongly with Shinto than with Zen Buddhism.
I agree with the author that TDD can become problematic for greenfield projects. I've spun my own wheels many times on tests for new things; it is very easy to spend more time on tests than on implementation.

HOWEVER, IMO, having a set of behavioral tests (BDD) and a roadmap in the README helps a lot in staying on track. It's the best of both worlds: you don't get stuck in the quagmire of writing tests for things that don't exist yet, but you have just enough tests to keep yourself honest.
No it isn't political it's a "you guys are expensive and flighty and killed two banks that served you" decision. VCs pull money out of banks having a hard time while JP Morgan put money in.
I couldn't imagine trying to type the lambda character that much.
Yeah it's an interesting point. Due to the redemption mechanism of ETFs, my understanding is that an ETF's bid-ask spread is basically the weighted average of the bid ask spread of it's underlying holdings. Which to answer your questions means that buying the individual stocks within an ETF would result in approximately the same slippage as buying the ETF itself.

"Bid/ask spreads of the underlying securities directly impact the costs to market makers to trade ETFs" from this .pdf: https://www.ssga.com/library-content/pdfs/etf/au/spdr-au-etf...
At the very least, it's the charge of the insurance company to serve the customer in a way that passes on savings to the customer in the form of lower premiums or increased amounts of care.

It's insulting to a person's intelligence to tell them "we just don't have the money to cover the surgery recommended by doctors to solve your debilitating injury or illness" and then turn around and give your c-suite seven-figure compensation packages every year while also instituting a dividend for the free riders known as shareholders.
Study is loaded with confounding factors, and problems relating it as general advice vs cohort: here's a bunch quickly of the top of head, simply for discussion's sake -- not as a direct criticism of the authors / study.

> Questionnaire-based diet and lifestyle assessments were administered in 1997 and 2009

These kinds of studies are not good because of a number of factors -- Morality of foods (people often answer questionaires with ideals or what they "ought" rather than fact), People are very bad at estimating their intakes, the data is ~15 yrs ago meaning lots of things can change in the interim

> One aspect to take into consideration is however that there is a social tradition of “fika” in Sweden, where people get together with friends, relatives, or coworkers for coffee and pastries (41). Thus, one could hypothesize that the intake of treats is part of many people's everyday lives without necessarily being related with overall poor dietary or lifestyle patterns, and that it might be a marker of social life. Consumption of sweetened beverages, one the other hand, has been linked to lower overall dietary quality (42).

Note that the positive associations were correlated with a _social_ form of eating. We already know folks with strong social connections, and distracting ways to slow life and eating, have better health outcomes. Also consider the zero sum form of eating whereby 100 calories of sugary beverage crowds out 100 calories of nutrient dense food (eg: broccoli). My own personal bias is that this is why vegetarians enjoy some health benefits -- they're simply eating a lot more vegetables (and not because meats are themselves deleterious).

> No mention of adiposity (body fat percentage)

A person with low and stable fat% is likely to have a very different response to sugars than someone with a high fat% (insulin resistance) and instability (yoyo-ing seems to matter albeit unclear how)

> Cohort

Unless you're a Swede of the average genetic profile ~97-09 then there's a gradient of issues related to your differences.
I’m not defending US healthcare insurance providers by any means - however, when I read what he and his mother were suffering from, I can’t help but think what they would’ve done 100 years ago? These treatments and drugs were not available then (I suppose there was morphine or Opium), and now is basically a question of money and copays.

It sucks the costs are so high, but their situation does not fill me with the anger and indignation like others I've read, and wonder if this guy was basically angry with life and looking to blame someone.
I always thought that was a cool idea, and I was disappointed when it was essentially abandoned after the PIII. I still think there’s value there for things like customizing processors for certain applications (having a standard base chip and external interface, but being able to customize the rest of the the processor board).
I’m sorry, but you make an absurd argument.

You’re taking the best films of an era and comparing them to an arbitrary list of movies you don’t like? Adding to that, you’re comparing it to films in the infancy of a technology?

This is peak confusion of causality and correlation. There are tons of great films in that time frame with CG. Unless you’re going to argue that Jurassic Park is bad.
It’s always fun to see this get brought up on Hacker News! I’m the developer behind BareMetal OS.

Keep in mind that this is all geared toward raw compute and throughput. No ring-3, no multitasking (we do support multiple cores though), and no higher-level abstractions like TCP/IP or full-featured file systems.

While it’s all coded in X86-64 assembly, a rewrite to ARM/RISC-V would be interesting once that hardware is standardized.
I'm sure that the Bakersfield regional credit union would have a different idea about the bankability.
> One of the selling points of the Raspberry Pi 5 (released in October 2023) is that it was fast enough and had enough memory to be a credible general-purpose desktop PC

Funny definition of a "general-purpose desktop PC". Does it has BIOS or UEFI ? Plus the "PC" is usually x86(-64).
Debanking isn't unique to the USA either.

In the UK, there is no concept of "universal service". if you look dodgy, your bank account can be closed. However unless there is strong evidence of fraud, you should be able to get your assets back, assuming that you can find a bank to take you.

But

Its more often the most vulnerable that cannot get bank accounts. If you have no fixed address, then you are not able to have a bank account.

If you work in stuff that looks like a prude to be sex work, you are also extremely vulnerable.

so yes, its great that this might be looked at in the USA, it won't however get reform, because its a very powerful and useful tool for the an administration to pull on when it wants to exert pressure.
Walmart has the same exact marketplace sellers and the same exact problems as Amazon (unless perhaps you go to their brick and mortar stores). The only solution is to shop for only brands that are known to be good and have a reputation to protect, which of course doesn't scale very well beyond our personal preferences.
Same sentiment here - I feel like this is the largest challenge for people that would otherwise be ideal candidates. I wasn't even willing to move off one of the largest brokerages for the semi-recent Robinhood 3% "transfer deal" just because even there I felt like it was too much risk (granted, that was for a retirement account).

For someone that has quite a bit of my portfolio in very low cost index funds, something like $40k does seem like a relatively low "fee" for avoiding risk, especially considering it's spread over many years.

That said, I do like the idea, and hopefully there are enough folks willing to tolerate the risk to provide a viable alternative to the big status quo brokerages.
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They're often not technically pro-bono. Clarke, for example, gets paid by the government, because they have a vested interest in not having cases overturned on appeal due to insufficient counsel.

https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/judy_clarke_has_...

> Clarke would probably not want anyone to feel indebted to her. In fact, after the Smith case, she returned the $82,944 fee the state paid her, saying that other indigent defendants could use it more.
> because they know the typical retail trader isn't a shark.

so why don't the sharks use robinhood, which then they can do their shark thing there, but at a better price than before?
This month brings exciting updates, including improvements to template strings in PEP 750 and the release of Python 3.14.0a2. There are new features to explore in many third-party libraries, such as Pydantic. Also, PyCon's call for proposals deadline is near and the popular Advent of Code is back
Their example videos: https://openai.com/sora/, of the doors opening, are hilarious.

1. The first set of doors doesn't have any doorknobs or handles. https://ibb.co/PwqfzBq

2. The second set of doors has handles, and some very large/random hinges on the left door. https://ibb.co/JkDtc6r

3. The third set doesn't have any handles, but I can forgive that, because we're in a spaceship now. The problem is that the inside of the doors seem to have windows, but the outside of the doors, doesn't have any windows. https://ibb.co/nwpXmtq & https://ibb.co/wr6v2g1

4. The best/most hilarious part for me. The doors have handles, but they are on the hinge side of the door. No idea how this would work. https://ibb.co/gWXDcfr
I think based on examples I am seeing for what qualifies as a bon mot, it would be different, but since you specified "attempt" in parentheses I guess it could qualify as some sort of attempt.
I would prefer to live in a society that puts the well-being of its people over fretting whether someone is getting a "free lunch" or worrying "how will we make money off of this?" The US is so backwards, we spend so much money on healthcare for the worst impacts in the world, and we pump billions into our military blowing up people abroad. A healthy society would spend that money into taking care of its people, and that includes providing healthcare for everyone no matter the cost.
So you would recompile a, say, 10 million lines application from scratch every time you make a small change?
Imo, spherical cow economist take on a field they know little about. The graphic lumps all "Inpatient & outpatient care" together, which is insane. Is it saying all that money is going to physicians, nurses, etc? It seems to imply that, but my guess is much of it ends up in hospital administration costs. Also in this way the cost of UHC etc isn't just their own admin overhead; it also add the hospital's admin and billing costs of dealing with them.

As for the author's claim that the doctor/nurse/admin assistant should know how much your treatment costs beforehand, lol. Yes, in an ideal world they absolutely would tell you. No, in reality they do not know. There's a whole apparatus of administrators and software spanning the hospital and insurance companies with bajillions of codes and negotiated rates. Noah Smith instead thinks doctors/nurses/admin assistants know ahead of time what each treatment costs but decline to inform consumers? A slightly dated but still relevant book is O'Reilly Hacking Healthcare. Iirc there are whole chapters on billing. It's just very complicated to figure out costs before treatment, and that's the fault of insurance/administration, not doctors/nurses/admin assistants.

It at least implies 2 anti medical worker claims. 1) excess healthcare costs are driven by medical worker salaries 2) medical workers could clarify prices but do not in order to mislead patients. Both totally miss the real problems of healthcare cost: the complexity of admin/billing leads to not just increased costs in insurance companies but also in hospital administration, and obscures costs for patients.
The Rust implementation is also faster than the newer stb library even though it copied stb's SIMD code.

This Rust library dates back to 2014, which is like K&R C for Rust. That was before Rust 1.0.0 release, before Rust had any SIMD support, before Rust had noalias support.

But with the safety guarantees, and painless testing and benchmarking tooling, Rust codebases are easier to refactor and evolve.
Good for you man, happy to hear about your success and pains.
A sign of maturity is realizing the tech is always the easy part.
How many people in the claims adjudication call center are making ~5 times the median American male's lifetime earnings each year, every year?
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Correct. BareMetal (the kernel) doesn't have context switching or userland. Think of the kernel as just a hardware abstraction layer.
Thank you! I appreciate you saying that.

I love geeking out over my "stack" or talking about the business stuff, it's been rollercoaster and a huge learning experience for me. Really upended a ton of preconceptions I had about a number of things.
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There's martial law and there is civil law. Martial law applies to enemies and in wartime. In this case, killing enemies like Bin Laden is acceptable.

However, in civil law, for the state to kill someone it has to be done through the courts. There is evidence given on each side. Killing someone without this is not justice.

People talk as if it is so obvious UHC CEO was responsible for the deaths of many people but he never got to make his case. That's not justice at all.
I don't know who's to thank for it, but someone set up a constantly updated ClickHouse database of all data from the Hacker News API at https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIG1heCh0a...

It gets you 80% of the way there on any HN data project.
So I find this kind of funny because I'm not sure how it's making its assessments on where I should move to. Because when the question about civil liberties came up I selected that I want a place with strong civil liberties protections. The number one option it gives me is Indonesia. Now I have visited Indonesia many times over the last decade and this is not a country that I would say has strong civil liberties protections. Quite the opposite in fact.

It does fit most of my other answers a reasonably well but the civil liberties are very lacking. Also the current people in political power are in the process of reverting several of the changes from the prior administrations that offered better protections for the people. Governmental corruption was on the decline for several years but now it has ramped up to insanely high levels. In order to get anything done for basic government services you need to bribe somebody. This is a stark contrast from 5 years ago.

The recent laws that they've passed that basically codify Sharia law is harmful to women. The guiding principles of Indonesia are supposed to be one about acceptance of different cultures because there is a vast cultural difference across all of the islands that they have the actual recent implementations show that the Muslim majority is basically bullying everyone else.

So this insight needs to update its data with something current. Because 5 to 7 years ago I would have considered Indonesia as an okay place to be but not now and not for the foreseeable future.
also that paper (IMO) is ridiculously conservative. Just using 1GB keys is plenty sufficient since it would require a quantum computer with a billion bits to decrypt.
How did you go from "I built my own" to making your first few sales?
It'll be much harder to get a politician to flip on an issue that voters care about but much easier to get them to vote one way on an obscure regulation that most voters have never heard of.
You have the ability to vote as the underlying shares for your direct index on Double are all purchased in your name.
>I’m deadly serious

I figured that. It feels a little like the country is going crazy.
You definitely do not want to generate your own 7-man tablebases. It took computers with hundreds of gigabytes of RAM over a year to construct. :-) Even 6-man takes quite a while. (345 you can do easily enough now.)

You don't need to muck around with BitTorrent to get them; several mirrors have them over HTTP.
I agree. See: “What democratize really means”

https://intage.us/articles/words/democratize/

> Remember, language is shaped by culture, and you are part of that culture. You do not have to abdicate responsibility. You have options.
But he’s not dead, he’s going to prison. Does he plan to commit suicide behind bars? He’ll probably be on tighter watch than Epstein - that’s what happens when you mess with the ruling class.
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There are likely billions of abandoned devices with lithium batteries sitting the in the back of drawers all over the country, and fires from them randomly bursting into flames seems pretty rare.

But even if 1000 of these things burst into flames a day, that is still 0.04% chance of any given device burning up in a year.
> separate out banks and gamblers.

Banks are inherently in the business of gambling. Since time immemorial the defining characteristic of a bank is to convert short-term liabilities (deposits) to long-term assets (loans). To lend is to gamble that your borrower will pay you back. A bank that takes no risk cannot cover its expenses and will cease to exist.
If you knew the right answer but made a small mistake, then it's not a question of education but of concentration. Surely there must a special camp for that too.
There's now money being raised if anyone is interested in donating: https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/218#issuecom...
It does explain the malfunction though.
dang's redirected that here actually, for those reading ChrisArchitect's comment:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42374292>
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