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> “Patients go to providers for care. Providers provide that care. Patients get a bill and if they can afford it, they pay that bill.”

Well. I have good news for you, that’s how my policy on the NYS of Health works. AKA. Obama Care

Visit https://nystateofhealth.ny.gov/individual/
Find, "Compare Plans & Estimate Costs". You can get insurance plan cost estimates, including Obama Care Tax Credits. Just enter a zip code in NY, and "hypothetical" family size and income and away you go.

I don't hold it against you for not knowing (hehe). You're not alone. Short story--I had a bout of bursitis. My Bronze level health plan lets me make an appointment directly with a Orthopedic/Sports Med doctor. I live on Long Island NY and rent in the affluent North Shore.

I collected a list of doctors, increasingly further from my home, and start calling nearby offices. My first question, What does it cost to see the doctor? OFFICE: I can't answer that question, because I don't know what the doctor might order. ME: Lets hypothetically assume whatever the doctor orders, I will not be taking that service. Now how much to just walk in the door and see the doctor?

They just won't accept the premise; This goes back and forth for a minute too long. OFFICE: I thought you said you have have insurance?

Yes. I have an Obama Care plan from NY State. Maybe you don't realize how many of these plans work, I explain. I have ~8k/y deductible. In other words, I have to spend 8k on health care before insurance co-pays kick in. Otherwise, I pay the full amount of the agreed service's price--the price agreed by doctors and insurance in my health plan's network. OFFICE: How did you get our number? ME: From my insurance's list of in-network providers. OFFICE: <click>

Did you catch that? They're in-network, but don't know how the insurance their office accepts actually works for patients. I had similar situations as I moved through the list. Ultimately it was a large network provider that accepted the premise and gave me the "see the doctor cost". It was actually very reasonable.

[EDIT: clarity on health plan details]
Yes, you would know what it is at that moment. You would not however know if what it is at that moment in time is actually correct, or what the expected shape is, without deconstructing the entire function that is the receiver of the data. That's where static types are useful - I can just hover my mouse over a function and it will show me what is the expected input, and expected output, and I do not need to read and understand the contents of the function to know if the data is correct, because it would throw an exception if it is not, like if a string suddenly becomes a number or is missing a piece of information, etc.
I think the point he was getting at but failed to come around to was that men and women are different enough they don't actually want to spend time together all that much and historically just put up with it because of social pressure to get on the life path to raising a family and lack of access to casual sex. Sure, there's some mutual interests there that'll get them hanging out together but it's pretty minor overall.

There's no big reason for a man who's gotten good at online dating or a women who doesn't actively want kids to date seriously or settle down unless they just happen to run across someone who's perfect for them and wants to lock it in.
It depends, sometimes yes sometimes no. Toy Story 2 says "systems administrators & support" for example: https://youtu.be/4rL_4Xqak1Y?si=R2ykfdSarIjjGDZP&t=288
Why? You can do both, if you want to. If a car can’t have good occupant safety, I would find it very difficult to believe its pedestrian safety would be good instead.
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That's an interesting point, but if you follow it just a little bit further you'll realize the problem. Corporations shouldn't live in existential fear of the executive administration because then they'll kowtow to every executive demand regardless of the legitimacy.

What happens if Trump decides that every media outlet that criticizes him should be muzzled? Your suggestion is that all these born again Republican companies should play along and turn themselves into FOX News. That is a feedback loop that would permanently enshrine the current officeholders.
Zuckerberg Says Most Companies Need More 'Masculine Energy'
Those societies were usually operating in a state of Malthusian equilibrium. There were always surplus people around who were going to die anyway. Culling this surplus was a problem they constantly had to solve; I imagine this drove warfare, for example, just to use some of the surplus before it inevitably died off in a lean year.
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Fully grown adults believe the Earth is flat or that we have never been space to and dismissing them as just trolls is doing the same thing you are accusing me of doing and not allowing "space for opposing views."
Irish New Yorkers in 1933 didn't want Irish rights, Irish houses and Irish jobs, they wanted rights, houses and jobs. That's what I mean by individual examples of universal interests. Nobody went around saying, "I'll only work for an Irishman," or "I'll only live in a building built by an Irish mason."

LA has always had a lot of gang warfare, which divides itself along ethnic lines because that's the underbelly of human nature. Gang warfare is a great example of everybody doing things that are very bad for themselves and others because of a perceived division with little basis in fact. If there's enough gang warfare I guess you could see racially segregated unions, like in the deep south, but that is again against worker's interests just like how segregated churches oppose God.

It is very difficult to find even a selfish motive for segregation unless you are an actual slaveowner or apartheid government official.
Ah yes I remember all the polls saying “Meta’s hiring policies” were in the top 1,303,886 issues voters cared about

That might’ve drove a few people to donate huge sums of money to information campaigns that fomented hatred, division, and distrust among voters, but no: American voters were not voting on big tech DEI policies.

Feel free to post evidence otherwise.
When building and deploying Apache Beam pipelines, you often need to include external runtime dependencies that your pipeline code relies on. It’s crucial to ensure these dependencies are available to the workers as soon as they start up, even before any processing begins.

This blog post explores the various methods and best practices for managing and loading dependencies during worker initialization in Apache Beam on Dataflow.
I have never seen anyone come back to typing types everywhere after using auto for more than a couple months.

Use types when they are needed and use the tools at your disposal (IDEs BT every text editor has clang language server integration nowadays)

> with light documentation which means reading the code,

You have to read the code anyways, documentation is impossible to trust. There isn't one big library for which I didn't have to go read the code at some point. Two weeks ago I had to go read the internals of msvcrt, Microsoft's C runtime, to understand undocumented features of process setup on windows. I had to go read standard library code thousands of times, and let's not talk about UI libraries.
Helix 25.01: What's New? [video]
Have a look at Swift, it's practically that. There even used to be official TensorFlow bindings (they wanted to make it their default language) although that got cancelled.
Step 2 unnecessary.

https://xon.sh/
Those abolishments are way less intense than you're thinking. There's still a ton of restrictions that make building even the triplexes that they technically legalized actually get built. Things like floor/area ratios and setbacks, which make building dwellings that people want difficult.

https://streets.mn/2023/10/24/mapping-minneapolis-duplexes-a...
As to teaching history, the question is how you do it. Growing up in Virginia, I learned about slavery as a cautionary tale: we treated people in the past differently, and that was bad, and we strive to treat everyone the same now. That’s good history.

The way it’s often taught today is different. It’s teaching about the history as a way to justify or support calls for differential or remedial treatment in the present. And that has the opposite effect—it reinforces that we’re different, rather than being the same.

This is where Americans should wake up and learn some lessons from the rest of the world. Encouraging people to develop ethnocultural identity is something that has never worked anywhere in the history of the world. The idea that we’ll teach kids to see each other as different, but then assume those differences are all “good, actually” is a fantasy. The only way multi-ethnic societies have ever worked is to suppress identity.

For example, “Han Chinese” would probably be several different ethnic groups if people were being honest. Likewise, “white people” are also several different ethnic groups—you can see the difference between French and German people in their DNA. They’re no more the same than are Bangladeshis and Pakistanis. What has suppressed ethnic strife in America between “white people” is the homogenization of the population and subordination of ethnic identities to a constructed, synthetic identity.

Funny anecdote: I live in a blue state, so they’re trying to teach my daughter about “BIPOC.” She’s the only Bangladeshi in the class, so her teacher gave her a book about a Pakistani girl, thinking she’d be able to relate. And I’m like “you’re not Pakistani. Pakistanis tried to genocide your poppy and grandma in 1971.”
> more importantly sell yourself to them so they are willing to take you on?

Be a friendly person who’s fun to be around.

Be optimistic. Say yes more than no.

Learn a lot. Have interesting things to say. Listen more and ask more questions than you talk.

Get good at selling. Be curious about how people think and act.

Encourage others and make them feel appreciative when you offer them critical feedback.

Find something with high value that most people really dislike doing that you are willing to get really good at and actually do.
When I have read writings on DEI, they usually talk about "African-Americans," a term historically used to refer to the descendants of slavery. Which writings by DEI professionals and experts have you read that say African H1B visa holders should be included in DEI initiatives?
> The way it's integrated with the host platform makes it better for most use cases IMHO.

That may be. ABCL is running on the host system and can reuse it, but it aims to be a full implementation of Common Lisp, not a blend of a subset of Lisp plus the host runtime. For example one would expect the full Common Lisp numerics.

One of its purposes is to be able to run portable Common Lisp code on the JVM. Like Maxima or like bootstrapping the SBCL system.

There is a bit more about the interop in the repository and in the manual:

https://abcl.org/releases/1.9.2/abcl-1.9.2.pdf
The Original iPhone SE Is the Best iPhone Apple Ever Made
But fixing a model is the first I’ve heard of.
Love this. I continue to believe Torrenting is the best way to share files, particularly big files, rather than uploading them to some cloud instance with questionable privacy policies…
If under-representation is because of preference and not discrimination, then there is no problem to be solved.

I work in a wood shop with a bunch of men. It's a physical job, but there's no reason a woman couldn't do it, but guess how many women apply?

The lack of women in our shop is not because of discrimination, but if we had to get 50% representation with women without a passion for woodworking, the product would suffer, or those women might not enjoy it, or...

Disproportion does not always indicate discrimination.
Because probability and logic says it is the best way.
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In some countries yes, others not. Nobody got killed to make Nordic countries ”ethnostates”. It’s just that not that many people wanted to live so far north.

In fact, in Finland the largest ethnic minority (Swedish) on average do much better than ethnic Finns. Sami minority got discriminated admittedly, but not violently persecuted.
Honestly I think a lot more of it has to do with the perceived status of engineers in society - particularly teenage girls are hyper aware of social status.

15 years ago in any movie a software engineer was considered the biggest loser ever, ridiculed, and unattractive. I think if I had to choose any single thing that increased female participation in engineering the most, it was the Iron Man movies, which showed a vision of high social status in an engineer and started to break the stereotypes.
They say that in rural Norway, a new house loses half its value when you turn the key. Some municipalities build houses at a loss to try to attract young families.
I find the C vs C++ battle amusing after having lived in the 90s and the Pascal/Delphi vs C/C++ holy wars.
Humanity as a whole, perhaps not; but that is not the same as what cultures within do, and cultures have many ways to erase or diminish outsiders — and everyone's an outsider to some group.

Newton, Leibniz; Einstein, Lorenz and Riemann; Shannon, Kolmogorov; Crick, Franklin.

When the context is, to quote the parent comment:

> I look at some names and think, "who?" or "I've heard the name, but know nothing about him." I mean, of course you can still read about them, but that even a US President can be largely forgotten as a household name within 250 years is really a stunning thing to think about

I suspect only Newton and Einstein are even household names. I'd be very surprised if the average person has heard of even one of Lorenz, Riemann, Shannon, Kolmogorov, or Crick, even today, and my guess is that Franklin would probably be assumed to be an associate of either Roosevelt or Benjamin, given the widely claimed but inconsistently cited survey that 12% of Americans think Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

And Crick's other famous research associate was Watson; I wonder how many times people got him mixed up with the fictional character, or briefly for the IBM computer.
It was me telling you I'm ignorant. Was it telling something else?
I've seen a bunch just camping out under an overpass just outside of Akihabara station.
What does DEI even mean in Europe? Do you hire stand-in versions of US racial groups?
xkcd.com/386
I’m not usually one to complain about downvotes but it’s pretty funny to downvote this post specifically.

Like, what’s the actual counterargument here? “No, I think companies should hire the most qualified individual in the world for the job on paper even if it harms the team as a whole. Risking the bottom line is what meritocracy is all about!”
Can you elaborate on why you reject the trolley problem?
We pay a $150/yr fee for the connect service from Garmin. No phone required.
I've been raised in an environment where we talked with neighbours and so on - Now 50 after moving a few times - I feel many times people look at me weird when I say things like "Hi, Hey what's this dog breed", "Did you just move in?" or "If you need anything I'm in the house over there"... I'm not looking to build a relationship with everyone, but basic social skills are in some kind of drought.
How about Vision Language Models (VLMs)? They could easily take in a camera signal plus some basic hand sensor state and give structured output that would fit the bill here.

https://huggingface.co/blog/vlms
> This idea that white-passing people benefit from BIPOCs being discriminated against is not convincing

Did you sleepwalk through literally every American history class you had growing up?

It boggles the mind that you can write "discrimination against people doesn't help the people who aren't discriminated against."

That is the point of discrimination: to benefit those who aren't discriminated against. That's why it was created, that's why it persists, and that's why people who benefit from the discrimination oppose its cessation. Look elsewhere in this discussion: the people who historically benefit from that oppression are saying its abatement is oppression directed back at themselves.
> The question is not underspecified, because the point of it is to demonstrate how the llm will never tell you it doesn't know

I don't see how "is not underspecified" follows from the point you were trying to demonstrate. Yes, you wanted it to be well specified, because otherwise the point doesn't work. But you actually failed to generate such a question cause both people and AI interpret it differently.
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Restoring a 22-Year-Old Game's Audio Hack with V86
> In C you avoid those issues by reducing dynamic memory allocations to a minimum, prefering value types over reference types and using function APIs as 'safety boundaries'

"In Rust that's just pushing the problem to the borrow checker and codegen which has plenty of memory corruption issues too but just calls it "bugs". In C++ you avoid those issues by reducing dynamic memory allocations to a minimum, and using checked APIs as 'safety boundaries' instead of directly poking around random arrays. Different approach but not any less safe than C++".

Both statements are pretty ridiculous. It's pretty clear that moving up in terms of the safe abstractions that are possible makes your code safer because the safety is there when you reach for that kind of programming paradigm & the programming paradigms you need are typically a property of the problem domain rather than the language (it's it's the intersection of "how is this problem solved" and "what tools does the language give you"). In C it gives you few tools and you either twist into a pretzel trying to stick to that or you write our own tools from scratch every time and make the same but different mistakes over and over. No language is perfect and all will guide you to different takes on the same problem that better suit to its paradigm, but there are intractable parts that will force you to do things (e.g. heap allocation and more involved ownership semantics are not uncommon). Moreover C very limited ability to manage your own codebase to define API boundaries - the only tool is opaque types with a defined set of functions declared in 2 different files.
Yes, the C FE I write (in C) does exactly this and othen utputs in one pass a flattened intermediate code. I did not see at as AST because it does semantic analysis during parsing, but it sitll has all the information.
I do not agree that using an IDE matters.

If you cannot recognize the type of an expression that is assigned to a variable, you do not understand the program you are reading, so you must search its symbols anyway.

Writing redundantly the type when declaring the variable is of no help when you do not know whether the left hand side expression has the same type.

When reading any code base with which you are not familiar, you must not use a bad text editor, but either a good text editor designed for programmers or any other tool that allows fast searching for the definitions of any symbols encountered in the source text.

Adding useless redundancy to the source text only bloats it, making reading more difficult, not easier.

I never use an IDE, but I always use good programming language aware text editors.
Your cash cow risks becoming just a cow if you have nowhere to sell its milk and cheese.
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How is the quote false?
I don't recall Basic having any package management at all.
Maybe controversial but Elon Musk’s biography is basically just a 600+ page book about how one man got an unbelievable amount of things done against fairly insane odds.

It’s been one of the books that surprised me the most. It totally changed my opinion of the man.
I'm not as optimistic about people learning, and addiction has never gone away.

I used to be more of a libertarian about things like financial regulation, but what changed my mind was watching markets and especially things like the cryptocurrency phenomenon where you really did have deregulation. All you get is scams because people keep falling for the same nonsense over and over again. None of it is new. Ponzi schemes, bubbles, gambling, rug pulls, wildcat banking, all of it is hundreds of years old or more, but it keeps working because every generation falls for it anew because dopamine.

I think you'd have to re-architect the human dopamine system in very deep ways if you wanted to change this. We are very easy to hack.
If a TLA+ transpiler could emit Python, Javascript, Java, C, Rust, C++, Go (even just one of these), it would be infinitely more usable in that it helps you cross the gap from "I know my TLA+ is correct" to "I know my Go is correct".

Or as a baby step, does TLA+ emit comprehensive test cases? Then we as programmers still have to do the hand transpilation step, but at least we can be assured our implementation is correct (if not efficient).
Almost all big companies are doing this now. It's never a good idea to hire someone based on skin color or gender rather than merit.

The predecessor to this was affirmative action in colleges (this is basically affirmative action in the work place).

New Jersey is seeing the direct result of this. Applicants couldn't pass a basic reading/writing/math test, so they were forced to get rid of these requirements. The direct result of this will be teachers that shouldn't have gotten the job in the first place and poor student results.

More information here:

https://www.njspotlightnews.org/video/nj-eliminates-redundan...

They call it 'redundant', but I would rather have someone teaching my kids that actually knows the material, rather than someone that went to any number of low-quality colleges where I have no idea if they know the material or not.
ASCII 1963 was the first version of the standard and it lacked _ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/366707.367524

The 1965 draft had _ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/363831.363839

The first standard edition with _ was 1968 https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc20

The 1977 version is also available https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/FIPS/fipspub1-2-197...
Exactly. I don't know how could the blog post author have missed this.
While useful, this is a more fragile autoscaling solution that HPA out of the box. It requires your otel metric to Prometheus pipeline to be up AND your Prometheus server to be up.

Compare that to the vanilla HPA which is entirely cluster local, and “simple”.

Generally the simple approach is the most stable approach.
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This guy is not a healthcare professional and makes intentionally contrarian videos for views. He is cherry picking information and ignoring decades of science on nutritional sodium. Please listen to your doctor, not some random YouTuber trying to monetize your attention.
Slow start of a systemd unit implemented in .NET
HN has a special category for showcasing your own work for feedback, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

You could post this as a Show HN and it will show up in more places on the site and the intent (own work, around to discuss it, etc) will be more obvious to others.
Intellectual Giftedness (Wikipedia)
I've built many apps using C#/Winforms and the runtime's performance was never an issue.

In my experience, main performance killers are:

- calling blocking functions on the UI thread

- N+1 problem

And there's nothing specific to C# about it. .NET garbage collection becomes an issue only when you allocate lots of objects per second (100k or millions), and very few UI apps do that. If there's perceived sluggishness, I doubt it's the runtime.