There was an SF office of 18F -- IIRC it was in the building to the right of the Civic Center park as you looked at it from the Bart stop. They were great folks from every encounter I had with them.
Let's presume this gets developed to ShadCN/Tailwind level quality.
In that world, what would be the tradeoffs between:
- NextJs + Tailwind + ShadCN
- NextJS + ?? + Shoelace
I don't have a good sense of how web components compare to practice of "copy-by-value, then compile-into-binary" UI shipping that's common in the Next + Shad world these days.
I think this is more useful for HTMX + AlpineJS based model of development. ShadCN et al are tied to a frontend framework (react/vue/svelte etc). But with shoelace/daisyUI etc, one gets the same level of polish out-of-the-box for HTMX etc
Have you ever managed a complex, dynamic, changing system and found that the optimal size based on current conditions was 20% less than it was at some prior time?
I think Taiwan is worth adding to the list of healthcare systems that folks study. I believe it may be similar to the Swiss system.
Everyone has national health insurance, but you also get to choose where to go, and some doctors also offer non-insured services that you can pay for out of pocket.
The result is universal coverage combined with a competitive market that drives prices down and encourages innovation.
I know this is just anecdata, but having held an insurance card there for a while, our family was always able to see our family doctor the same day we called. And the one or two times a specialist or emergency room was needed, there was minimal hassle.
I'm sure there are problems with it, too -- I just don't know what they are. As a customer/patient, it seemed to work far better than the American system I'm used to.
Most of Europe has a similar model to what you've described: some form of mandatory state-backed insurance combined with a mix of private and public healthcare providers. In many countries, however, the biggest hospitals in Europe are owned by the government.
Unfortunately the healthcare systems are in the process of collapsing across the UK and the majority of the continent too.
My pet theory is I don't think it's actually anything to do with the overall funding model. I think it's to do with our inability to adapt to an increasingly elderly population. People's kids here are scattered around the country, often many hours of travel away, living in small apartments, and can't easily look after their elderly relatives in a way that's much more common in East Asia. As a consequence, we are offload that responsibility onto the healthcare system, which treats them as patients with medical issues, when often they are just old people with broadly normal age-related disease. Our systems were never designed to be capable of handling millions of elderly people, and it's not an efficient way of providing the required care, so it's falling apart.
This is an interesting theory. I just came back from Thailand where I needed to make an ER visit for a grand total of $89 USD, including the price of three prescriptions. I was touring with one of the natives who made a comment around the lines of, "We don't abandon our elderly parents here like you Westerners do." This was in a conversation around their multi-generation households.
It's not necessarily a correlation, but your comment reminded me of the conversation.
This is still mostly true. Kids books also have bopomofo rubies, like the kana rubies in Japanese. And occasionally you'll see bopomofo as a typographic choice to represent a sound that feels more natural in Taiwanese amidst an otherwise Mandarin sentence.
This is just my personal experience, but I think the big change in the past 15 years isn't Bopomofo -> Pinyin, but rather Wade Giles -> Pinyin. Bopomofo seems equally prevalent, but the Wade Giles romanizations on street signs have begin to get replaced with Pinyin for the sake of non-native speakers who are almost certainly more familiar with Pinyin than WG.
This is incredible --- @chearon thank you for open sourcing this!
I think most folks probably don't realize how difficult it is to go from HTML -> PNG programmatically. You get hit with a thousand papercuts related to either Node<>Browser differences or HTML<>Canvas differences.
As an armchair observer, the agents + browser space feels like it’s waiting for someone to make the open source framework that everyone piles on to.
Proxy rotation sounds like a solid way to monetize for businesses.