skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Single payer is _ludicrously_ more efficient at buying everyone healthcare because it can buy in bulk and it can be hard-headed about cost-benefit decisions.

When it's your baby, the idea of paying $50 000 for a 1% chance of not needing to amputate her arm is a snap - of course you'll pay. But the single payer says hold on, that means we're paying an average of $5M per arm saved, arms aren't worth $5M, our tax payers say they're not willing to give us more than $2M per arm, offer the treatment for $20 000 or no deal.

Making people invest in their healthcare _can_ help with some personal care decisions, like whether to take exercise, eat better, maybe give up smoking, people who feel like it costs them money when they're sick are a little more careful in some ways. But a LOT of healthcare spending is unpredictable, so isn't affected by this at all, including very expensive urgent and emergency care. Overall single payer wins out in terms of both how much you spend and outcomes.

A UBI does leave open the question of what you do with the small handful of people studies suggest will not spend their UBI wisely. If you give everybody $300 per week, 999 out of 1000 of them will spend it mostly on food, and shelter, and other useful things. Their priorities might not be my priorities maybe they eat a Big Mac instead of making a healthy salad, but they are behaving wisely by their own standards. But one person out of a thousand will spend it all on lottery tickets, booze or heroin, and then what do we do about that? Leave them to die? Really?
Congrats to Jason and Daniel!

It's hard as hell working on a startup for 10 years, and their team's consistent commitment is so impressive.

My first startup was YC W08, Tipjoy. We were just two people, my wife and I. I feel lucky to have shared an office with Disqus way back in 2008. Besides the founders, they and an engineer and an engineering intern. It was a great vibe in the office.

In that time since, I've shut down a startup, worked at two unicorns, started my 2nd startup, and just sold it. Time is voracious. This really highlights the marathon sprint Disqus has been through.
My latest side-project is an alternative to Tether (the "mystery" in the title). It's similar in that the currency is pegged to the dollar, but it's implemented as a smart contract on the Ethereum block chain, so the reserve (held by the smart contract and not touchable by me) is instantly auditable.

https://unum.one

The code is open source and can be found here:

https://github.com/unumone/unum

If anyone wants to help, let me know. I could REALLY use a better website design ;) Also if anyone wants to peruse the smart contracts and let me know if I'm doing anything glaringly stupid, I'd appreciate it. I plan to pay to get a proper security audit done, but not until I'm "done" writing the contracts.

john at unum dot one
>that Lisp is really hard to wrap your head around.

It deserves a blog post, but I'd say Lisp (at least Lisp in its mainstream Common Lisp incarnation) is easy to learn but extremely hard to master, since it allows many possibilities and paradigms, and because of the power of meta programming. So to master it, you would be familiarized with all the paradigms and you would know how to leverage meta programming, etc. Also, since it allows improving performance by going to low-level details (like observing the assembly output of your function), you would better know a bit of assembly/machine language if you want to be able to improve the performance of Lisp to approach (or equal) C code. So previous experience with low-level programming, at least with C, would be a good prerequisite.

But yes, using it for simple stuff is easy, and in fact, while I consider Python a great "first language to learn", sometimes I feel that Lisp isn't much difficult than Python, for the same tasks. Python is much easier to master, but then it is much more limited.
Go doesn't seem to me as a good choice to develop apps. Why do you think they would move to Go? I would go to kotlin instead of other language if I needed to replace java
> I received an offer, and the company asked me not to tell the recruiter...

Accept the offer (cheerfully), and ask the company to make this situation right with the recruiter.

You get a job, the company gets an employee, the recruiter gets a 'modest fee' for fostering the match. Everybody wins!
I'm so thankful I grew up with retired people who came from cowboys and farmers in the mountains. After living a slow life, and especially after experiencing combat, I've never really had a problem seeing right through the rat race. Its funny how near death experiences put things in perspective.

I often think of a comment by Noam Chomsky, about how the industrial revolution promised so much to the people, but many saw it for what it was, little better than chattel slavery, the only difference being you get released to go home at night.

The main problem I've run into is how ingrained the Stockholm syndrome is in people who seem to define themselves by their work. I've been on a break since my last burnout as a senior sysadmin, pursuing a data science degree and doing side projects. I can see the judgement in others when I explain that though... but I don't really care, I feel my pursuits are worthwhile and fulfilling.

People also tend to think your work defines you or themselves when it doesn't and shouldn't. For example, people who don't know me might think I'm "just a sysadmin", but I'm a combat vet who has aspirations of a presidential run some day, and I've spent many years forgoing normal social life in my free time to study the big picture of geopolitics and geostrategy . I don't know if I'll ever be ready for such a huge responsibility, but I'm working on it.

My heroes are men like George Washington and the autodidacts of history, but these days I far too often hear how its impossible to do that anymore.

I disagree. Why artificially limit ourselves like that? We should work on freeing people up to pursue more lofty goals, or maybe I'm still a naive idealist who places too much weight in the principles of the enlightenment.
Why religion is becoming more powerful in India
It's not the cost, but the mobility that is necessary for jobs like the one described. He travels (several hours) to the next destination and rests before his shift.
I don't find Instagram to be that bad. It definitely depends on who you follow though. Personally I use it to post cool pictures, photography, I take with my phone, and I tend to follow people who do the same.

People who start posting excessive "Look at my life" posts tend to get unfollowed pretty quickly.
Anyone knows a good alternative to Victoria 2 ? I had so much fun in Victoria II but its unplayable now and always crashes.
So, don't hate the player, hate the game? That does a nice job of throwing personal responsibility out the window.
So the whole intro is to make the point that a certain type of play (base stealing) doesn't make sense, even for teams that do it well - and it took until 2012 to figure that out and get their players to stop doing that play.
It is simpler to think of anything said by a CEO as being a complete farce. They are doing what makes the share holders money, and if they aren't, they won't be a CEO for long. They'll be exceptions, but the accuracy rate may be at tolerable rates without accounting for them.
Important detail: this will work only if "advanced user mode" is enabled.
Did you know that one of the best places in the US for biotech is Indiana? That is because both Purdue and Indiana University, state schools, are powerhouses in that field. I don't see any significant funding issues for them from a research/education perspective. More funding does not necessarily mean better outcomes nor does less funding necessarily mean worse outcomes. How the funding is spent matters much more. In my experience at Purdue, much of that funding goes toward research and education in the science and engineering departments.
How to Tell If Your Linux Server Has Been Compromised
For a search-company, they sure don't like to use good keywords for their products.

"google go" can now mean:
- Go, the programming language
- Alpha Go, an AI playing Go, the game
- Android Go, whatever this is

Am I forgetting something?
Manipulating ones self is surprisingly easy in some ways. This is because emotion is a biofeedback thing. We always seem to think of it as purely a brain-oriented thing, but that's simply factually incorrect. To be happy, you have to be able to smile. To be angry, you have to flare your nostrils and furrow your brow and grit your teeth. People with total facial paralysis, for example, rapidly lose almost all emotional capacity. Eventually they are unable to even recall what having those emotions felt like. Experiments having people hold a pencil in their mouth (which forces your lips into a smile) showed that they experienced less negative emotion and more positive emotion when watching upsetting and funny videos respectively. This is why you won't see an AGI with emotions that lacks a body any time soon. What emotions are is fundamentally tied into the body. And through manipulating the body, one can significantly influence the subjective emotions felt.
How exactly does React handle events?
Rising complexity of financial instruments? Check.
Uncertainty about the capital backing of a booming market? Check.
FOMO fever? Check.

Where have I seen this before?
What is that style of art/animation the video uses? I feel its aesthetic is really 'greasy', kinda covered in grime from cigarettes. I've seen it before in order graphic design.
It was the default for professional engineers and accountants. TI made calculators for school children, so added an algebraic interface, removed anything not allowed by the College Board exams, and simplified and standardized. Great educational tool. Terrible professional tool.

That said, I learned a lot using an HP in high school and porting over all the TI programs provided by the teacher.
> But calling it Android Go Edition, may sound cool as a marketing buzz, but utterly distracts from what it is as well as confusing given GoLang

This is exactly what I thought. I was expecting to read something about how they rewrote the apps with Go, and how they improved compilation times or any other thing.
Or Swift, or Nim.

Really, There are so many other languages that are both performant and more readable than Rust (I consider Rust readability to be on par with C++).
Predictions for the Next 5 Years of Crypto
One issue with analysis like this is micro optimizations have more information than simplified abstractions. Consider, in the bottom of the 9th 1 or 2 runs may have identical value. So, reducing the total expected value of runs to increase your odds of a single run may be a very good trade off.

And that's assuming you want to optimize total wins. Increasing your odds of winning the playoffs may reduce your odds of getting into them by having more higher paid people, but a lower average player. Further, maximizing making money over time is yet another option, which may promote showmanship over success.
I agree with what Sylvain Soliman said about this on Reddit: It's a nice tutorial for the 80's parts of the language:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7hp2xw/introdu...

In modern Prolog systems, you would use more declarative features such as constraints to model combinatorial tasks like map coloring.

Make sure to check out modern Prolog features if you are interested in learning the language seriously!
> The elites say "Invest more in education!"

No, the actual dominant elites don't; as they are behind the “starve the beast” movement that seeks to dismantle public services including education.

> Where's the money when the tax base is jobless?

The people actually saying “invest more in education” tend also to support greater federal funding of that function, especially for economically disadvantaged areas, and also to support shifting the federal tax burden more toward capital holders and/or profitable corporations, rather than the working class, so joblessness in the local economy of certain regions for which increased educational investment is sought isn't really a barrier to their preferred policy.

Of course, they also tend to support other targeted shorter-payoff-window programs to support local economic development as well, also with out-of-region funding.
Show HN: fizz: an experimental language/runtime for cognitive architectures
That was only 72 years ago.
Great explanation. React events are something I've never fully understood. Incredible how they've abstracted it be handled the same way for all clients.
Phamaceutical lobbies peddling opiates caused the heroin problem, alcohol lobbies pushed the war or marijuana, bank lobbyists pushed for deregulation that caused the housing crash, the subsequent recession, and wage stagnation as well. The problem is they're trying to get money independent of whether they hurt society or not. This is the second demonstration in american history that unfettered capitalism naturally creates an environment that is anti-competitive and fundamentally an un-free market. As lovers of startups, and the innovation and disruption that they provide, we should be pushing for models that prevent corporations from seizing control of our government and pushing out the real innovators. The dreamers who hope to make a living making the world a better place instead of making a quick buck robbing society.
Idea: Send comments as e-mail plus save it in cookie, so when the commenter reads the comments he sees his/her comment. Then a moderator or blog owner hooks his CMS or static site generator into the e-mail program/service and he/she can also reply to comments by replying to the e-mail! Or delete the comment by deleting the e-mail. He/she could use a dedicated e-mail box like comments@yourdomain.com. It would even work without JavaScript (form action mailto)! And no server required except a e-mail service.
Nazi sympathizers, 'alt right' build their own crowdfunding sites
> So, using sports as a proxy is not the same as management decisions where there are no well-defined criteria or expected value.

Exactly. The biggest problem with quantifying efficiency in particular is that you have to define the inputs and outputs. Your biases are embedded in that definition rather than in the calculation per se. You can make some pretty awful processes "efficient" if you assign zero value to some of the inputs, and conversely some pretty great processes "inefficient" if you assign zero value to some of the outputs.
I don't understand this. How can you store the USD reserves inside the blockchain? AFAIK the blockchain can only keep track of the cryto-tokens, not of the real money.
The problem is externalities -- both positive and negative externalities affect the outcome and it is basically impossible to determine whether an outcome occurred due to management decision or due to an externality (eg: revenue growth due to successful execution or revenue growth due to changing business cycles).
> OK, so you want to play this game.

Since when asking for sources is "playing a game"?
Both the Lyft and AWS CNIs use ENIs, Romana's CNI does not. But more specifically, vpc-router works along with Romana's IPAM to aggregate routes so that each VPC route can forward traffic for multiple instances. So, instead of one route per instance, you need only 1 routes per n instances. Where n is set by how much aggregation you want (configurable).

The net effect is that you can build large clusters without running out of VPC routes and no overlay is needed when traffic crosses AZs.

When a route is used to forward traffic for multiple instances, the target instance acts as router and forwards traffic to the final destination instance. This works because instances within an AZ have routes installed on them to the pod CIDRs on the other instances in the zone, so any one of them can perform this forwarding function.

Romana only piggybacks routes when there are no more VPC routes available, so for small cluster it's just like kubenet. For large clusters routes it uses all the instances to forward traffic so that none of them become a bottleneck.
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that's not an actual problem here because the targets are completely different
How to Avoid Accidental Complexity in Software Design
Well under 1/2 the worlds population cheats at any point in their lives, that number is not going to change any time soon.

The number of possible Alcoholics don't add up to 75% of the global population. Sexual harassment while bad is not really a temptation for most people. Stealing, is again not things most people even consider.

EX: I may not be average, but I am not in a relationship so I can't exactly cheat. I don't like Alcohol so I am not going to become an Alcoholic. I could go on, but things are really not in my realm of possibility right now.
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There has been a blogger/journalist tracking this and writing some great analysis on Tether and BitFinex

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/
Agreed. I look at Bootstrap as a widget library.
Googling, a lot of the articles on species decline seem to point to the World Wildlife Foundation and The Living Planet, a survey published as a joint collaboration between the WWF and the Institute of Zoology.

Obviously, there is probably some bias due to this being in part from a conservation advocacy group. However, the methodology does appear to be documented in a peer-reviewed paper [2]. So I'd personally give it a fair more weight than mere anecdote.

[1] https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/living-planet-report-201...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1569448/
This article is quite interesting for the isolated baseball analysis but is ultimately a long-winded discussion (which goes down a sports rabbit hole which ultimately doesn't contribute to the argument.) The TLDR is:

> If we want to look at the quality of decision making, it’s too simplistic to say that we expect a firm to make good decisions because they’re exposed to markets and there’s economic value in making good decisions and people within the firm will probably be rewarded greatly if they make good decisions.

Is there actually anything a reader here can take from this writing other than the assertion I quoted above (which is the author's point of view and isn't proven in nearly as much rigour as the baseball analysis is.)
>If flyover states didn't produce these startups during the last decade of easy capital, I am struggling to see how there would be a new breed of startups when capital eventually tightens in the next few years.

The cost of living is lower here (the Midwest) and outside the coasts in general. It's easier to bootstrap. There's plenty of successful startups that started in the Midwest, they're just not the Big 3.

>individually any one of them lack the capital and talent concentration to compete with coastal cities. A much better strategy is probably to focus the entire investment portfolio in Chicago or Detroit

And create another SV situation where all of the talent is squeezed into one small geographic area (granted, with less insane building regulations than SV), in an age where we can effectively work from anywhere in the world that we want to? Hard pass.

>Finally, when you scale your startup to 10s of billions, you will need to attract immigrant talent. Which is much easier to do in the coasts.

I'm not convinced that we actually lack Americans capable of doing the jobs we need to do. Immigration has been increasing in the past 10 years or so in the Midwest though, despite still lagging behind the coasts, for whatever that's worth.
It must be nice to have an increase in budget so large that it could have been used to pay for free public college education for everyone.
Do you honestly believe there was no FUD from the remain side? If so you are obviously a troll or out of touch with reality. There literally hundreds of hits if you google brexit scaremongering or similar that reference scare tactics both within and outside of the UK, but no doubt you will refuse to accept that that proves anything either, so I wish you well with getting back in touch with the real world.
The reserve will be in Ethereum (and possibly also in ERC20 tokens like OMG), not USD. You buy Unum using these other cryptocurrencies, and can always sell Unum to buy anything in the reserve, always at the current USD spot price.

This of course raises the possibility of the USD value of the reserve falling below the # of issued Unum. In that case, a sale penalty goes into affect, to discourage selling and increasing the deficit. It's explained more here on the website:

https://unum.one/#!/learn#reserve-deficit-sell-penalty
On hiring tech talent without engineering degrees
Well, 10 years ago I wouldn't have believed that my turned off computer would be used to film me by my own government.

These days, I don't trust any tech company.
You don’t have it straight. That isn’t what’s happening.
This is a smart move for Google. There's a large market in India that isn't being used by them currently, so if they can catch that market, they'll definitely benefit from it.

I do find it interesting, though, that "India-first" features are being praised by most here, while "America-first" features would probably be looked down upon by most here as well. What do you think causes the different reactions between the two?
PEP 557 – Data Classes – accepted
I think you're confusing the words communism and fascism.
What are Code Snippet tools missing
Do any of you guys make use of online tools to save your code snippets? I'm currently working on a tool for saving Code Snippets online. Something like Snipplr but a bit more modern and with an emphasis on teams.

So is there anything that you guys think popular tools that already perform this task are missing that would make your lives just that little bit easier?
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> the first NExus 7 tablet was a prime example of what happens

The Nexus 7 first gen also had nand that ate itself; writing over the OS just amplified this effect. I was able to upgrade it really well once I switch to a file system that worked well with the nand. F2fs.

For context; My nexus 7 now runs significantly better than my ipad mini of the same year.
Tl;dr - Yes.

The first source of money for online casinos is not the money that the poor addict pours into it, it is the huge money laundering operations that are done in the back. Online casinos are not based in places that you will imagine particular transparent in terms of tax policy. They are based in Malta (russian money), Gibraltar (UK money) or in places like the Caiman Islands, Panama...
A journalist was murdered in Malta for just speaking about this.
> Scotland got f'd over by England taking most of its petrol resources and Scotland got pretty much jack for it

Not before the recent squeeze:

the Barnett formula already allows Scotland to sustain higher levels of per capita public spending relative to the rest of the UK, which is approximately equivalent to its disproportionately high annual contribution of tax revenues to the central UK Treasury from Oil production.

However Scotland's per capita spending growth, relative to the rest of the UK, has in recent years, been nominally reduced by the operation of the Barnett formula, in order to bring public spending levels into line with the UK average, in a phenomenon that had been dubbed the "Barnett Squeeze"

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Scotland%27s_oil
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