skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Trying to solve this at the state level is a nice idea (and it certainly needs to be solved!), but it's actually harder to solve than at the federal level because you get all the same issues plus a few new ones, plus you can't actually change some key rules that are set at the federal level.

If your proposed solution doesn't start with a plan to bring healthcare costs into line with the OECD average, then even if your plan works it's like trying to bail out a leaky boat by scooping water up and pouring it back into the boat.

This one...doesn't even try. Yes, if health care cost the same in the US as it did in Germany this plan would work great...but it doesn't. You can paint a Yugo red, but it doesn't magically turn into a Porsche.

(And before anyone asks...no, the best estimates of potential savings from switching to single payer is orders of magnitude too low. The NHS works because medical care is cheap to provide in the UK; medical care isn't cheap to provide in the UK because of the NHS.)
I'm not OP, but I'll answer. I care about my fellow human beings. I make more than most. I want them to have health care. I am willing to pay more taxes into a system that covers everyone so they can all have health care. I could go around and throw a few dollars into every GoFundMe for healthcare that I come across, but in the end it is more efficient to have everyone under the same system driving costs down than it is for people to have to beg and plead for charity to help cover their medical bills.
I don't think single payer is viable in the US, yet I am happy that it is being attempted here. America was originally designed to be a marketplace of ideas. With a limited federal government each state can enact laws that it sees fit. If the law works well, more states will adopt it.

This is a perfect example of "states rights" at work. I hope it gets implemented (if the people of California wish it so) and that comprehensive data is provided so I and others can make a truly informed decision on the matter.
I don't mean "do it yourself" in terms of the actual working near 400 volts. I mean "do it yourself" in terms of diagnosis and "supervising" the logistics of a repair. If you need bodywork, Tesla could easily facilitate tracking down the parts and the bodywork/assembly procedures on their website. If your local mechanic isn't so search savvy, then the owner could have access to the same site to act as a facilitator. Heck, they could build a stripped-down project management for the repair project into such a site.
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic but the election victory was narrow. The population of the country isn't uniform.
You could say the same thing for people qualifying for in-state tuition to University of California colleges (which is significantly cheaper than out-of-state tuition). Just moving to CA and making yourself a CA resident isn't enough, I think the rule there is you need have physically lived in a residence in CA for 1 year and intend to stay living in CA.

No reason why they couldn't make a similar restriction for health care.
https://www.courts.wa.gov/appellate_trial_courts/SupremeCour...
Haven't looked at the ruby source in ages, but it definitely had a yacc grammar in there in, I guess the 1.8 days.

edit: of course there could be handwritten extensions, but I didn't dive that deep.
its not that easy. Once you have a single payer system suddenly you need to follow a budget. You now have to put limits on how many can be treated, for what, what kind of treatments and machines you have budgets for. Thats the thing with healtcare you can never spent enough on it and that alone will affect the willingness to pay for others.
I heard this described as the "cost disease" issue (https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...).

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13613687

But also: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cost%20disease
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In what way is Vermont one of the poorest states?
Not only who can afford it, but who have the privilege to choose to do so.
the interesting thing to me is why didn't CA make these moves under Obama if they thought they had such a better plan for healthcare... either way it's a win for DT
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If anything, people would be more likely to start their own businesses if they had a guaranteed income, because it would mitigate the opportunity cost of quitting their day job.
But it would require the consent of Congress, per the Constitution:

"No State shall, without the Consent of Congress... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State."

I don't see that happening.
We even know California's population is large enough to support its own single-payer system since Canada has a slightly smaller population and a single payer system.

The trick is whether the transition to a single payer system is feasible. Both in terms of taxes, and existing organizations and incentives.
Why are others entitled to his money?
Video with better audio: https://youtu.be/oMOo5iEdI2c?t=245
Transforming .a-really-long-class-name-or-id into something shorter, like .x would save a lot more bytes.

Another thing is splicing unecessary properties, which can even save more bytes, but given web apps becoming becoming so dynamic right now, that would be hard or really awkward for developer to work with too.
Your workplace probably pays $500/month for your health insurance. If the employer has to stop paying that and you pay $500/month in taxes instead, it will be about break even anyway. Or even less, since I more forsee a %1-%2 tax increase vs. the current %4-6+ tax that is health insurance.
Why can't California do the same and refuse to cover medications unless the sellers cooperate on price?
> Key people left North Face over a decade ago, and some started Mountain Hardware

Mountain Hardware was founded in 1993, per Wikipedia, and purchased by Columbia in 2003. Are you thinking of someone else?
> can negotiate prices down by 50-60%

You can only do that by paying Doctors less.

Good luck with that. If you did it anyway, good luck finding enough Doctors.

When people think "negotiate prices" they usually think of drugs, but Doctors is the real problem.

Medi-Cal (and Medicaid in general for all states) only works because the regular rates subsidize the under-market charity rates. That only works up to a point, then it doesn't.

That BTW is why hospitals never publish rates - they need the higher rates to subsidize the charity rates.

Until you change that, you will never have single payer, it's impossible to do.
The paper is behind a paywall though.

Besides the original comment just gave the number "9 less" without any other number from the paper as context so that we can evaluate the importance of the change.
As a CA small business owner, I'd be much happier to just pay a simple payroll tax per employee than have this multi-step octopus process around open enrollment periods, health insurance brokers, differing city regulations (like SF), multiple vendors, audits, etc.

Single payer would also make hiring and HR a lot simpler.
That's pretty catchy. Weird Al is a really talented musician. I almost think he'd do greater things if he wasn't such a goofball all the time.
> How is this overthinking?

Because it's based on the assumption that gendered language is unwelcome in the first place.

But continue if you like, the more normal people that see how ridiculous modern feminism has become the better, they'll take it less seriously.
I'm in my 30s as well -- I make a great tech salary and own small house that cost me a ton to buy. I pay a lot in taxes. I support a family of four off of my salary.

At the end of the day we basically live the same lifestyle that I grew up with, and my dad was a police officer, my mom a public high school teacher. Our house is smaller than the one I grew up with, the local public schools are about the same quality. I'm not complaining, because I'm staying in the Bay Area for a reason: I believe that my good tech salary can be an amazing tech salary if I build the right skills, climb the right ladders. I think it's a chance for upward mobility. But it's a tough call when I ponder what my life would be like if I took a slightly lesser paying job in a more reasonable area of the country.

So, anyway, my point is that you can make the case that "you can afford it, your fellow Californians deserve it," and I'll roll my eyes because no one makes decisions that way. If I had to pay 10% more each year in taxes, I'd definitely be out of here. The other options are just way better at that point.

So, there's a point where I'm simply going to move instead of pay. You can lecture me about what I ought to do all you like but I have a family to take care of, and our standard of living matters to me. Yes, we'd be fine with less money, but I want even more for my family and I really don't feel bad about it.
Colorado fan, huh? I'll admit it was my desire to buy local that initially directed me towards Big Agnes. I've been very happy with their products, but "Buy Local" starts ringing a little bit hollow when every product I've purchased from them was actually manufactured in China.

At Melanzana the sewing machine is right there in Leadville. My friends were surreptitiously snapping photos of the people sewing together fleeces. There aren't many places were you can actually see your gear being made.
Ask HN: Would a simple Computational Biology library be of any use to anyone?
Hey folks, I've been learning JS pretty intensely recently. I'm a neuroscience graduate student, and for practice I thought I'd try my hand at making a small JavaScript Computational Biology library to make it easier to run simulations. Would that be of value to anyone? Thanks!
just enough time for them to think "oh no, not again" really
I agree. Who runs arbitrary code in a JVM these days? We have real hardware based virtual machines now, making this irrelevant.

Back in the day Java JVM was the best way to run untrusted code close to native speed. That hasn't been the case for many years now...
You can pay out of pocket. The second you get into free healtcare you need to suddenly track things on federal and state level to make sure budgets are kept. I am a fan of single payer but its a very different beast and i am not sure its possible in a US context.
Grant Sanderson has a beautiful video on the Towers of Hanoi problem too [1], part of his animated math project.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMRtm8h9bG9P06...
Also: lots of doctors probably enjoy living in California, and couldn't easily move elsewhere, whereas Vermont is pretty small and one could pretty easily move to NH or upstate NY or somewhere else close by.
California could get rid of their budget issues instantly with a progressive property tax. How about an extra bracket for nonhomesteads starting at values over $1M?
> It's going to be easy to find problems with any study with which you disagree.

Exactly. Which is why it's important to look at broader aggregates and more data. In fact, when you do that, you find you end up averaging in a ton of other studies that show men being under paid, and...

Hah, right. There are no such studies. Everyone who bothers to look at this comes back with some variant of the same answer: women are underpaid. Sure, there's uncertainty at the margins, and any given evidence can always be attacked in some way. But everyone with any level of expertise or detachment at all can look at this and agree with the broad conclusion.

It's exactly like climate science denial, really. And like climate nonsense, I submit that the reason behind it has rather less to do with the "love for the truth" that the grandparent was talking about and more with... yeah.
Given an inexpensive transparent material with very high tensile strength and resistance to weathering in the Martian environment, I could see a passive pressurization/thermal regulation scheme for greenhouses on the surface of Mars that relies only on, say, a heat source, some valves, and some consumable gasses. I could imagine such schemes using mainly water as an input.

That said, such a material would be asking for a lot. Then, there's also the UV and other radiation to consider.
Glad you have that luxury, CA has some of the highest taxes anywhere and I would definitely be opposed to more.
Correct :) It's written in Go.

And you are right about deployment.
... every CSS file that I threw it its direction...

it its? you almost made it through the first sentence without a typo. i trust your code as much.

you're all idiots.
> it is the largest non-country pension fund in the world; and comes in the top 10 when listed among countries

Yes, and that's the problem. It's funding is at 73% and dropping -- that 27% is an astronomical deficit.

Numbers here: https://www.calpers.ca.gov/page/newsroom/calpers-news/2017/a...
> Everyone wants to blame gerrymandering

For bizarre Congressional outcomes, yes. That's not new. The article does not mention gerrymandering at all. Districts just happen to be the most-granular level of voting-data most folks have to work with, and when they get redrawn you need to do something to help compare elections from before and after the redraw.

> "President Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton was among the narrowest in history,"

Well, yeah. That's not new news either. [0]

> image showing that a huge amount of counties

No, it shows a large land area of counties. It doesn't tally up the number of discrete counties, nor is it adjusted for their wildly varying populations.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi...
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What is bad about the results you get? What are you searching for?
Doesn't 70% of CA tax revenue go towards paying pension obligations

Not even close. The article linked by the comment I replied to states that CA will chip in $5.4bil -- last years budget was $122bil.

Maybe you got the 70% figure from where CalPERS gets its funding? Currently yearly contribution is ~70% from the state, but there was a bill passed that is shifting some of the requirement on to those who will benefit from it.
Here's the only thing I'm confused about. Do we have examples of the government running a service better than the private sector?

I'm not 100% on this, but it seems all of the best aspects of American services come from competition and letting capitalism thrive.

Would love a counter opinion.
This is pretty cool!

> Are the current CSS minifiers correct?

> I handle crashing minifiers, as well as ones that loop forever.

It could actually be useful to know the exact css before running the minifier who crashed/got stuck. One could check with a css validator if this is correct css in the first place (if not, one of the previous minifier screwed up) , and if so, inform the minifier's maintainers of their tool crashing with this particular valid input.
I think you're assuming that there won't be over-the-top optional healthcare that we'd all (as in, people w/ good insurance at the moment) have to buy in order to meet the same quality we currently have.
It would be of value to humanity as a whole to have access to better tools and libraries to further our knowledge in understanding the brain. So you should totally do it!
Isn't the main difference complexity and sophistication? You mostly see POC type work at conferences. What organizations can do better is integrate multiple exploits and relevant intelligence to architecture a targeted cyber weapon.

What's impressive about things like Stuxnet is the amount of work and coordination it must have took to make it. The actual techniques were rather unremarkable.
>not everyone shares the same opinion and belief, so should the government force those people to spend their earned income on healthcare for others?

Yes. Ideally, that's what governments should do: require citizens to act in our collective and long-term best interests, not only their own.

In the case of healthcare: a healthy population is a productive, happy, and peaceful population. All of those things are good for the economy, not to mention any one particular person's soul -- you can make a completely utilitarian argument for it and largely sidestep thorny issues of morality.
...and how much steel goes into your typical 50 or 60,000 ton oil rig? They're mostly steel after all.

Given we're starting from nearly all fossil of course fossil fuel needs to burn to do just about anything. So long as there is a sensible pay-back period, and reasonable life beyond, what's it matter? Come replacement time hopefully the steel will be smelted with entirely renewable electricity.

If we reach that point having to keep using some coal and oil for coke and other products we cannot get elsewhere is going to be environmentally trivial comparatively.

Would you prefer to stay away from renewables and stay on fossil?
Binary Translating.

Basically a JIT that recompiles (for example) 32bit x86 instructions to ARM64, so that you can run old apps on new CPUs.

DEC had FX!32 to run x86 Windows NT programs on Alpha Windows NT.

Apple licensed Transitive's QuickTransit to run PPC OSX apps on x86 Macs, though in typical Apple style they renamed it "Rosetta".
There are a lot of very poor communities in Vermont, though I doubt Vermont is poor by median household income. I don't have the numbers in front of me but in terms of corporate tax base, Vermont is probably quite poor compared to NY or CA.

Ben and Jerry's can only foot so much of the tax bill.
> microcode-level rootkit

There's two ways microcode goes on Intel CPUs. The first is when it gets flashed in at the factory onto an OTP ROM. The second is when it gets uploaded to a block of internal RAM by your computer, every time it boots. That's why packages like this one (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/intel-ucode/) exist.

One is set at the factory, one is set by your computer every time, once at boot, before the completion of boot. Also, it's very carefully signed, so even if you managed to put a bootkit before the OS boot, you would need to steal Intel's microcode key.

Microcode is not targetable. Few things at that level are. (A decent example of something that might be more targetable at that level is a hard drive controller. Less difficult but still not easy.) The amount of engineering needed to pull off an exploit that is "99.9% chance" unnoticeable, but still persistent, is much more than that of a "99% chance".

(I know nothing of AMD's CPUs and their microcode, but I'm guessing it's much of the same.)
I'll be the last to say that weight management is easy - I've fought the battle my whole life - but if you eat less calories than your body burns, you will lose weight. The hard part is doing it consistently over the long run. Things I would ask, are (I'm not necessarily asking you to answer, just think about the answers):

* Are you actually tracking your calories with something like MyFitnessPal? What's your calorie intake?

* Are you tracking honestly? Especially if/when you have a bad day, or cheat day, or whatever you want to call it.

* Are you tracking accurately? If you aren't using a scale or measuring cup, the answer is probably no. Most people severely underestimate the size of their portions.
Chaining was not exactly the level of innovation that the introduction set up for.
I just finish my work first, once finished I don't care what I do. So, that means I don't need to use other tools or techniques.

I think its just a habit, I find very annoying to see task assigned to me being in ToDo Status. I want to make that resolved as soon as possible.
Same way as it's solved in Canada - each province manages it's own healthcare system and provides health insurance cards to its residents. You get health insurance IFF you're resident, and you're resident IFF you pay taxes in that province. So that lines up
If the author didn't want to talk about the banh mi thing, why even mention it? It is relevant to the discussion after all, since the portrayal of such instances in the media have had a strong influence on the way political correctness is currently defined and understood.

The banh mi thing was one example out of a dozen paragraphs of examples. It is relevant, but focusing solely on it is missing the forest for the trees. It's cherry picking.

I'd also like to point out that the definition of political correctness, as it's used colloquially, doesn't change just because you say it does. I also don't think that using the term political correctness in the sense that practically everyone understands it constitutes a deliberate misconstrual. Also, to the authors point, I don't think the majority of commenters on the right (when did this become a discussion of partisan politics again?) are talking about "the expectation of adherence to the norms of basic decency, like refraining from derogatory epithets" when they rail against political correctness. More often it seems they are railing against the perceived suppression of their unwelcome beliefs and ideas. Hence my comment to the effect of "don't dish it out if you can't take it."

The term "political correctness" is nebulous. He defined the term because he wanted to clarify what he was talking about. If you read what he wrote using different definitions than he gave, then you're not really being fair to him. You have to accept some premises to understand what he's saying. But if he was defending one definition and claiming to use another, you could call him out on it. For instance, if he was defending your colloquial definition, but pretending to use his definition, then you could say he's being disingenuous, but that doesn't seem to be what you're arguing and I don't think he's mixing definitions either.

As for the second passage you copy/pasted, I don't see how that disagrees with what I said.

He thinks current methods do more damage than aid. He also thinks they're motivated by selfishness. When you read my response to your next point you'll have a better understanding of why he thinks this.

Also, since you seem to have read the article more thoroughly than I, what do you make of the authors closing statement, where he says,

His article is about two religions. The first religion is the political correctness religion. The second religion is meritocracy. He attempts to relate the two. He says that the elite use the religion of meritocracy as an excuse to further their own gain and political correctness as a religion to place themselves outside of their own system. Professors and college students benefit from systematic bias the most, but they use political correctness to feel morally superior by focusing on problems that don't threaten their life style. It's easy to take responsibility for bias. It's hard to take responsibility for poverty.
I did a quick search and an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants pay an estimated $11.6 billion in taxes, so $1,000 per person.

It's a huge net loss. Not to mention the fallout from stolen SSNs and creating demand for stolen SSNs
One of my old high school friends just posted a long rant about this and it's totally understandable. I'm not sure I could have kids for the same reasons you mentioned.
What's the difference with gogs/gitea or is it another fork? Is this open source?
No i am saying that its not going to change anything and that longer term it changes how people think of risk.
I suspect the aggregate revenue of arm chips is greater than Intel, but it's fragmented and hard to track
Why is single payer better? Genuinely curious. I just don't have any solid proof of the American Government doing a better job than the private industry enabled by competition.