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New York City recently launched a health insurance program that seeks to cover everyone in the city and offers low-cost options. It's not, however, a single-payer program. [0]

New York State does not have any statewide health insurance program yet, universal or otherwise. However, the New York Health Act (which would create a statewide single-payer insurance program) has passed the State Assembly four years in a row and stands a good chance of finally passing the Senate this year as well. [1]

[0] https://cityandstateny.com/articles/policy/health-care/bill-...
[1] https://www.nyhcampaign.org/
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The belief in a higher power often runs counter to a state-centered culture. Personally, I lean more pragmatic and deist, but I see a lot of issues from both sides of this perspective.

Belief in and of itself in something more than one self can be very beneficial to overall happiness and well being. So can effort and work. There is so much one can do in and of one's self to improve their own lives. It's like when people complain about $other-culture$ destroying america (usually religious right or leftist/communists)... My advice is to approach interaction with others from the POV of best of intent. Not that you have to agree with their intent, only that you shouldn't presume intent or their pov.
> The Galaxy Fold doesn’t fold completely in half, however, so there is a small gap in the center of the device when it is closed.

Seems to be the key limitation in every folding concept/product announced or released so far. The tech isn't ready, and I doubt there will be any real first mover advantage.
Only if these multiple blocks fit in the 16 registers. If they won't fit and the data will be evicted to RAM, that extra parallelism will slow down the code, not speed up.
Having worked at Netflix, I can tell you the difference: An experienced person says "In my experience, this is the best way to go because of X, Y, and Z". A jerk says, "The best option is my way and if you do it any other way you're wrong and I don't have to justify myself to you because I'm that good."

In both cases what the person is suggesting is in fact the right way to go most of the time. The difference is whether or not you feel you're better than everyone else.
Logging it is great, it's the fact the interface says "look in the log" rather than doing it for you.

It's tiny annoying things like that which leave a bad first impression. Rather than going "hey this system is great, it logs what it tells me", instead I'm left thinking "this system isn't for people like me, it doesn't think I need to know why it's broken"

First impressions are so important.
No, the comment asks whether it's better than any number of other init systems. In other words, whether there are any other init systems that it's better than. So a counterexample could be a single init system. I see no other sensible interpretation of the sentence. Could you paraphrase what you take it to mean?
My point was not that this happens as often as it should, but rather that the system we use now is built around the recognition that it’s important to do so, and consistently produces the most of that kind of result out of any of our systems. That is, if you look at market based systems against the others, in practice, they have the most people who end up wealthy due to merit — and why McDolands is one of the largest minters of “minority” millionaires ever.

This is important, because it implies the solution to our problems with the present is not to throw it out for a system that does worse asymptotically (eg, swap capitalism for socialism), but rather to further optimize and refine capitalism.
I found a reliable criterion to be "Does this person have a consistent eye line?", i.e. do their eyes indicate they are focusing roughly at the camera distance.

I would assume that that is a bias of the "real" photographs, because who would keep a picture where the subject doesn't look at the camera.
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"viewing material likely to be of help to a terrorist" - seriously?

That would apply to a guide on how to browse the web and use Google, wouldn't it?
I am of the belief that in many cases if not most cases toxic workers are created and that most workers hired are not initially toxic for that work environment. So the question I have is what are the company's doing that turns people from good workers to toxic workers? How do you turn a toxic worker or situation into a positive one? That seems like it would be cheapest solution.
Wouldn't that just be a privilege escalation though, not arbitrary code execution?
Hello HN-Community!

I've been working on this project here and there now about 2 1/2 years: Vima. I needed a replacement for Plex as it doesn't serve my needs very well since I wanted to search for more specific data that Plex doesn't allow me to. So in Vima, you can effectively search for any kind of metadata one can assign to a video, automatically creates playlists from these searches and let the system prefill certain metadata for each video. The user is in complete control of what metadata a video can hold and what types they are.

One use case could personal video "asset" management (which is what I am doing) to more easily find certain kinds of videos not by their name, but rather their actual content represented as metadata. This could be for video lectures, youtube channel backups or similar cases where there's a bunch of loosely connected videos. Alternatively it can be used like Plex for movies and shows but it would be lacking the data providers and doesn't have a concept of videos belonging to another.

This is a state that I'd consider V1.0 given the features it has right now are sufficient and it works. There are obviously several additions that can be done (and I hope I can get around doing them) and the design could be polished in many places. But I wanted to get it out there.

Some technical info: I decided to use rails+mongodb for this project because of the dynamic nature of the data. One can add and remove metadata at will, which can be of varying types which makes it ideal for a dynamic language and a document store. I think it worked out pretty well even though I had to leave my familiar lands. I also implemented a stripped down version of the apache lucene query language to allow for proper searching of all the different metadata (internally it gets translated into a mongodb query to execute). I initially didn't want it to be an SPA but over time it is becoming more clear that it would make several aspects easier to use and some workflows faster, but for now I'll just stick to normal templates.
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Back up, my man! 3-2-1.
3 copies, 2 local different media, one off site.
If your data's that important, secure the offsite with an attorney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:File_Upload_Wizard
I'd like to know this too.

The NIST page links to this site, which suggests no exploit is known of as yet:

https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107063/exploit
Cancellation is instant and doesn't require an email being sent. You'll see that in the post.

You may be right. A better solution might be to build an external UI for account management, but I've shied away from that, wanting to keep everything inside Gmail. Maybe in the future though.
Chelation. When you concentrate the oil you can remove impurities there are a lot of in fish. In particular, Mercury and I think Cadmium too impede and reverse myelination, making taking fish oil for the nervous system benefits almost counterproductive.
Raising money doesn't make you worth more.
I agree. It's also worth noting the lifecycle of most optimizations, including the non-partisan variety:

1. Early on many benefit and costs are minimized per capita.

2. As the benefits diffuse across the population, smart/wily/greedy individuals push the optimization to squeeze more value for themselves.

3. Benefits begin to centralize among the smart/wily/greedy. Awareness of costs starts to grow. The general population becomes ambivalent. Regulation can keep the system in this state for a while, but it too will eventually be optimized.

4. The arms race of optimization ultimately excludes all but the smartest/wiliest/greediest from any benefit while the rest of the population eats the cost. The optimization is now Bad For Society™.

My gut says this pattern is true for any social construction, from marriage and markets to card games and communism. The only meaningful insight I take away from it is that ideological conflict (competition between optimizations) is literally the foundation of a functioning society.

The relative balance that tension provides doesn't strike me as mediocre. Without it, everything devolves into an oscillating heaven and hell, mirroring your ideology.
Rust doesn't use GC unless you explicitly use a garbage collector library.

Go's stop-the-world pauses are usually sub-millisecond for heaps measured in the tens or hundreds of gigabytes.
Yes I agree, that was the whole premise of the repo 2 years ago!

I'm glad you like it :)!
I've been saying this for nearly 20 years. My first experience with it was Altivec on PowerPC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltiVec

I have a computer engineering degree from UIUC and my very first thought upon seeing MMX/SSE/Altivec/etc was "why didn't they make this arbitrarily scalable?" I was excited to be able to perform multiple computations at once, but the implementation seemed really bizarre to me (hardcoding various arithmetic operations in 128 bits or whatnot).

If it had been up to me, I would have probably added an instruction that executed a certain number of other instructions as a single block and let the runtime or CPU/cluster divvy them up to its cores/registers in microcode internally.

It turns out that something like this is conceptually what happens in vector languages like MATLAB (and Octave, Scilab, etc), which I first used around 2005. It's implementation is not terribly optimized, but in practice it doesn't need to be, because all personal computers since the mid 1990s are limited by memory bandwidth, not processing power.

For what it's worth, we're seeing similar ideas in things like graphics shaders, where the user writes a loop that appears to be serial and synchronous, but is parallelized by the runtime. I'm saddened that they had to evolve via graphics cards with their unfortunate memory segmentation (inspired by DOS?) but IMHO the future of programming will look like general-purpose shaders that abstract away caching so that eventually CPU memory, GPU memory, mass storage, networks, even the whole internet looks like a software-transactional memory or content-addressable memory.

We'll also ditch frictional abstractions like asynchronous promises in favor of something like the Actor model from Erlang/Go or a data graph that is lazily evaluated as each dependency is satisfied so it can be treated as a single synchronous serial computation. I've never found a satisfactory name for that last abstraction, so if someone knows what it's called, please let us know thanks!

P.S. the point of all this is to provide an efficient transform between functional programming and imperative programming so we can begin dealing in abstractions and stop prematurely optimizing our programs (which limits them to running on specific operating systems or hardware configurations).
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...

See line 126-127 and compared to the patch at the bottom of:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1042902/

Patch is not yet merged into 5.0.0rc7 either. Whereas it is in linux-next.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-n...

Update: I expect all of the longterm kernels listed on kernel.org will get a backport.
The important thing to understand about this case is the background and what the SCotUS actually ruled on. It's actually rather narrow ruling even if it is extremely important. The court exercised judicial restraint here, and made the minimum ruling necessary.

Timbs was convicted of possession/sale/whatever, jailed for a year, and fined $1,200. The state confiscated his Range Rover as well.

Timbs sued or appealed the confiscation by Indiana, which he he could prove he didn't buy with drug money. The judge of the lower court of Indiana agreed.

The state appealed the judge's ruling. The Indiana Supreme Court reversed the lower court's decision, ruling that the 8th Amendment did not apply to the states.

The SCotUS unanimously disagreed and vacated the Indiana Supreme Court's ruling. The 8th Amendment does apply to the states. However, that's all that they ruled upon. They didn't not rule on whether or not confiscating the SUV was an excessive fine, and remanded the case back to the Indiana state courts.

Now the state of Indiana will be given an opportunity to prove in Indiana court that confiscating the SUV is not an excessive fine. That seems unlikely, however, since the charge Timbs was convicted of carried a statutory maximum fine of $10,000, well below the value of the SUV.
http://www.whichfaceisreal.com/results.php?r=0&p=0&i1=fakeim...

I wonder where they get their real images from...
> There will always be some probability of error but we needn’t be afraid to declare some things dangerous and wrong.

But, who is we in this case? And what specifically are some things and how narrowly are they defined?

> The best we can do is go by consensus expert opinion.

Is that really the best we can do? How many times in history has consensus expert opinion been found later to be dangerous and wrong?

Should we assign that task to an AI or a customer service drone of unknown education and experience?

Or, should we assume that any reader of any particular "dangerous and wrong" things might be a better judge of whether those things are, in fact, "dangerous and wrong" as applied to their specific circumstance?
> Does viewing this link make one a criminal under the UK's new legislation on viewing material likely to be of help to a terrorist?

1) No

2) It's not new law. The law is from 2000. You can diff these two for the new bits

original: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/section/58/enac...

new: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/section/58

3) Stop reading the shitty fucking register, because it's misleading you.
Mutual exclusion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_exclusion

Are you saying that the Erlang VM enforces mutual exclusion within its Actors, and that mutual exclusion should not be enforced within Actors?
chatmasta already mentioned IPOs, so I'll just add that private companies can also often be acquisition targets.

Anything that helps anchor the price for a bid is helpful, so you'll always want to point to a number that's as high as possible. You will also want to call out which series of funding that number comes from, and hopefully those two things go hand in hand.
> nobody's quartering troops in my home.
At least, not yet!
I haven't looked into/keep up with Arrow much, but if I see fit, I can add more stuff about it :)!
So roughly $1300 in bandwidth, possibly could cut some there by putting Cloudflare in front of static assets, but no idea how much of that is from static vs dynamic assets.

Most of the compute cost ($2400) goes to an m4.xlarge and an m5.2xlarge. That could be reduced by using reserved instances - but there's other gotchas there if you're likely to change that anytime soon. Google cloud is much nicer in this regard with the auto discounts for continuous usage.

The provisioned IO for EBS $2500 makes me sick, but may be necessary to get adequate performance.

Honestly you could move everything onto two dedicated servers (one as a hot backup) and cut this down to $1000/month and get better performance. But that's the AWS tax.

I use AWS all the time for work, but I would never build my own business on it.
> The problem arises when the company exits at below the ridiculous valuation, inflated by the up rounds.

But you don't have the counterfactual to know what the company would have exited for without the ridiculous valuation. Probably a lower number.
What about the upset users who just don't publicly comment? Just because you don't hear about it doesn't mean users are happy with it.
The video covers that question.

The description of the details start at https://youtu.be/S32y9aYEzzo?t=88 . The "show more" for the video has a link to the researcher's paper at Dropbox. You can also read the paper at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00043 .

The relevant text from in the ACS link "ACE, used in prepackaged foods,(18, 29, 30) is not metabolized by humans; it is completely absorbed and excreted exclusively in the urine,(29, 31)"

[29] Voltz, M.; Christ, O.; Eckert, H. G.; Herok, J.; Kellner, H.-M.; Rupp, W. Kinetics and biotransformation of acesulfame K. In Acesulfame-K; Mayer, D. G.; Kemper, F. H., Eds.; Marcel Dekker: New York, 1991; pp 7– 26.

[31] Renwick, A. G. The metabolism of intense sweeteners Xenobiotica 1986, 16, 1057– 71 DOI: 10.3109/00498258609038983
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It does if the implied valuation is higher. And it signals to the market that you're worth $x which is greater than your prior valuation (assuming one exists), which anchors the price a buyer will pay for your business
Right to vote(though this can be stripped from felon citizens), right to peaceable assembly, right to bear arms.

The Constitution distinguishes natural rights of all persons vs rights and privileges of "the people" being citizens and non-citizen legal residents.
The US is a huge country and has a broad range of pedestrian/cycle-friendly infrastructure — Florida in particular is among the worst.
You optimist...
Maybe I'm cynical, but I have a hard time believing that the brand new user JamesIH created three hours ago whose only submission or comment is posting a link to your indiehackers page, and then you, a relatively savvy SEO person from skimming the article, suddenly show up because you were "alerted" to the post, when the post has a specific link to HN in its sidebar. My guess is that the simplest explanation is probably the right one: you created the JamesIH account, posted the link to your content, then were "alerted" to the post to post here and help give it traction. A better story than posting it yourself to be sure, but also kinda scammy.
Plenty of fonts fail this test, tho... Including my default font: 0l00l

https://ibb.co/YZc1J9v (Brave on Android)
> who would keep a picture where the subject doesn't look at the camera.

Anyone shooting candids; even lots of portraits have the subject looking off into the distance or somewhere else other than at the camera. I mean, sure, if your are shooting for a photo ID, you won't keep a shot that isn't directly looking at the camera, but...

(Which isn't to say it's not a real bias in genuine photos, just not as absolute as you seem to suggest it should be expected to be.)
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The truth is somewhat more nuanced IMO, and it’s mentioned somewhere here — behavior is contagious. Keeping upbeat and positive to your coworkers will make them upbeat and positive even if they’re not naturally. Positivity like negativity is contagious, but the latter is the steady state for many while the former requires continuous effort. The issue here is the won’t/can’t/stop/oh god in heaven. Showing up at your managers desk ready to listen and propose solutions and iterate is much more positively viewed. I’m confident the manager sees the issues for themselves, what they need are solutions.

Check out the difference a little wordsmithing makes:

* 'this deadline is unrealistic' — “id love to be able to get all this done for you, and with 8 weeks left, I’m only going to be able to get through half of this; let’s sit down and figure out what we can deprioritize without compromising the core of our next release”

* 'we can't continue at this pace, we have to have time to address some serious technical debt' — “I’ve noticed im having trouble moving quickly in the codebase with the level of testing we have right now, I’d love to lead an effort to improve testing and testability. Let’s resdefine ‘performance’ to include velocity, and with this new metric I’m sure we can find some time! Happy to do the leg work here.”

* 'I heard marketing saying that we can do X, but it isn't true and to add feature X would destroy our timeline' - same as 1: “I’d love to be able to get X out for you in the next release, and to do so requires we cut a few weeks scope elsewhere in the product — let’s sit down and see what we can deprioritize without compromising quality!”

* 'Adding more contractors isn't going to speed this up or improve the quality, we need time not warm bodies' — what will? “Let’s see if we can save the company some money by finding a way to work more efficiently! I’ve noticed x and y, and I’d love to take the lead on it. Let’s define some metrics to show this is as good as or better than bringing in some more contractors! The finance team is going to love our proposal.”
If you want people to not have your information you just turned this into multiple SPOF situation. Now I have to secure everything.
Indeed this, I only host WireGuard and now you mention it, it'd only take me a second to switch the WireGuard port to 443 or something to test the port theory.
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I'd recommend changing the screenshots to show places besides SoCal to avoid distracting folks.

I thought at first that the app's name was a play on words with Gen Z and "local," but all of the photos seem to be from Socal, so I spent a few minutes wondering if it a combination of those two instead, which I'm now 95% sure it's not, but still not truly certain.
I got 5/5 just by looking at lighting, including the background -- the pictures with the better lighting were fake.
There are many unethical things you might be prepared to do if your goal is "getting somewhere". Where do you draw the line? Or is it a case of not hating the player but hating the game?
u·to·pi·a: noun
an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
That's a great way to justify all sorts of exploitation.

Describing is not the same as justifying. Nature is what created us as individuals. Humanity could have been a vast society of clones (like an ant colony) but it isn't. We take all of the good and all of the bad together when we accept our individuality.

primarily a positive work describing existing material conditions and relations is utopian

It sounds to me like you're conflating the Communist Manifesto with Capital. The Manifesto is distinctly and unabashedly utopian. It is not a critique of any extant society, it is a call to arms. It sets forth a sharply bifurcated worldview, proletariat versus bourgeoisie, and attempts to rally the former in revolution against the latter.

This fact is so obvious, to so many people, that terms like "Communist utopia" and "worker's paradise" have become clichés.
> The car was reliably documented as being purchased from his father's life insurance proceeds. There was no question of it being potentially purchased by illegal means.

This is why it was such a perfect case for the Supreme Court to rule upon. It was clear that the only justification the state could give for the confiscation was the single conviction.

Cheers to Timbs for being willing to take this all the way to get such an important ruling!