skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pay what you can

Surely "what you can" should be relative to both your income and your need. We'd need to supervise the system to make sure people aren't taking advantage or else the whole system goes broke.

> into a common pool

We could also invest the money in the pool to make some extra cash and reduce what people need to pay in, we'd have to have an organization do that too.

> (only as much as you need)

How can we know what people need? We'd have to charge a token amount for office visits and medication so that people aren't frivolous with their medical visits, while perhaps guaranteeing an out of pocket limit in case of extreme illness. We'd also need some kind of system to verify that people are only taking what they need.

I think you just invented health insurance.
>Let me flip that around - why wouldn't it be?

Because it isn't a big deal.

>Surely corporations shouldn't have the power to change laws to let them squeeze citizens for every cent?

They don't have the power to change laws. Congress makes laws. Corporations certainly have a right to lobby government, just like unions, just like citizens, just like activists, just like non-profits.

>Lobbying is indeed a thing in the UK, but not remotely to the degree it is in the US

I'm not sure what standard you use to make this assertion.

>And on this specific issue, there isn't even a remote possibility that the UK would legislate against free tax filing

What are you talking about? You can file for free in United States. That's not at issue. People are complaining that IRS doesn't send a simpler pre-filled tax form. They are also complaining that TurboTax and H&R block does not advertise free filing options [1].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...
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> The reality is the ACA allows insurance firms to sell obscenely over-priced plans to consumers.

As far as I am aware, the ACA actually introduced limits on how much mark-up health insurance can have, where 80% of the cost must go to actual medical expenses, and administration, marketing, etc must be no more than 20% total. So how is the ACA the cause of insurance mark-up?

I think the actual root of the problem is not mark-up but that health care in the US is quite expensive (and always increasing). The ACA in some cases shifts who pays for it (young healthy people pay more), but it doesn't appear to change much the overall cost. It sucks temporarily for those younger people, but considering they will most likely become older, less-healthy people over time it doesn't seem that unfair overall.

> A sane system would have seen price controls in conjunction with the requirement for insurance.

If you are paying 4x more though, it sounds like the marketplace may be breaking down in your location with a "death spiral", where the price goes up, all the healthier people leave, causing the remaining insurance pool to be even sicker and the price going up even more. The whole purpose of the mandate was to prevent this, but it looks like it's been repealed. Price controls in that situation is hard since the pool is actually expensive to insure, I don't think the government can force the companies to sell at a loss. To reverse it maybe they could re-instate the mandate, or change it to a tax, or add a public option. Or, of course, give up on insuring pre-existing conditions.

> I would happily pay taxes for a fully nationalized system

Keep in mind, there are other countries like Germany and France that have private insurance markets and much cheaper care. I think it is fully possible for the US to implement a nationalized system that does not achieve the cost-effectiveness that we want. The VA system might be an example of how that might go.
But isn't that part of the problem? You can't make these sort of blanket "one size fits all" statements because every local is a new mix of problems. The types of solutions and regulatory changes that solve the bay area would be useless in Tokyo and laughable in New Jersey.
>> ML requires a solid math background

I've seen many people in ML not quite understanding what they are doing randomly trying different things until it "works".
If I'm off-by-one I don't know what you're off by claiming "Emacs spent a few decades to get from 19 to 21" :)

The 19.7 release came out on May 22, 1993, and 21.1 came out on October 20, 2001. That's 8 years, 4 months and 28 days[1], not decades.

Similarly for 22.1 to 26.1, which is a period of 10 years, 11 months and 26 days[2], I took the liberty of rounding that up to 11 years.

Perhaps you're under the mistaken impression that Emacs follows some sort of sane version numbering scheme, and that before 19.7 there was such a thing as a 19.6 release, or indeed any other 19.* version, or that before 22.1 there was a 22.0.

Neither was the case. 19.7 and 22.1 were the first releases of their respective major versions.

> So things since 22 are about about 50% faster
> by my reckoning.

That's nothing to the goal post being moved by 100% :)

You were claiming that Emacs had adopted some modern fashion of more frequent releases.

That's simply not the case. They had a really difficult 22.1 release, but otherwise it's been pretty consistent since 1993, way before this supposed fashion took off.

1. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=May+22,+1993+to+Octobe...

2. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=June+2,+2007%09to+May+...
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I trust Bernie Sanders.
I guess if you can get the necessary chemical effects from quantum stuff, which I think crops up sometimes in biological processes.

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

Technically chemistry could encompass quantum-derived chemical effects, but I believe the base insinuation of your post is that classical chemistry can describe everything we see in biology, eventually.

As to the post, who knows? "New physics" is unlikely, I would agree.

But I'm way out of my league here.
Perhaps my initial word choice evoked the wrong assumptions. Allow me me rephrase.

I’ve related a dismaying image because the reality is dismaying. One group of (mostly awful and hateful) Internet users “wards off” another by copy-pasting what are to them, for all intents and purposes, magical runes. Scribe them down and the others disappear, banished by some arcane and unseen force. The crazy thing is that these runes may actually work, because the targeted users live under a system of censorship and surveillance unprecedented in its scope, scale, and level of detail.

That’s nuts. It’s utterly fascinating. It’s (the block-text posting) not behavior to be emulated anywhere on HN. It is absolutely dismaying. And as a story, it’s also completely on-topic and within site guidelines.
Of course. Current middlemen are around 9% of healthcare expenditures.
I would guess cookies and other domain scoped spam/masking 'tricks'? I've never tried but perhaps getting a webpush auth on that shared domain could cause problems
Maybe I agree?

To me, the purpose of those proofs, is to tell the compiler about all the programs I'm not writing. So that it doesn't emit them.

Also: documentation.
I mean, if you want to be a sociopath about it, that's part of the risk in the system. As long as we can confidently establish that a supermajority of people would take the job seriously and would be happy with the compensation, we can afford a few bad apples.

Either way, I can imagine that if you were to pledge to purposefully vote against the population's interests in front of a judge, and the judge bought it, they may be allowed to disqualify you on these grounds (and probably slap you with a fine). I wouldn't want to make it impossible to get out of this duty, just difficult enough that most people wouldn't do it.
A 401k wont be invested 100% in cash
Encouraged in part by a system where finding "Urgent Care" outside of 9-5 Monday to Friday can be very difficult to impossible in many locations.

Only thing worse is dentistry. Following a bad toothache, I walked through the directory. Not a single dentist in my entire County (quarter of a million people) was open on a Friday, let alone the weekend.
There's a difference between statements of fact and opinions like what a company "believes in" or "sees as the future". Both may contain lies, but you can usually only prove something about the factual statements, leaving the rest to be used (and abused) as needed. CEOs are not the only people to take advantage of this.
Even and odd functions don't form a partition of the space of all functions, but they do span it as a vector space. What's more, the vector space of functions is the direct sum of the even and odd functions: every function has a unique decomposition as a sum of an even and an odd function. So the problem there is that vector spaces don't behave the same way as sets.
can you elaborate? I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean.

some fascists don't like wasting money?
Writing Native Libraries in C# and using them in other languages
People possessing Domain and Subject knowledge are usually not coders so it makes perfect sense to give a tool that eases the transition into use of this tech. Make the tools accessible enough so that it caters to 80% of use cases and you have already won the battle.
In a decade of employment I've not had an employer offer a plan that wasn't an HDHP. It seems to be somewhat regional, but in my part of the country the last plans that weren't HDHPs were phased out in the late 2000s and seem unlikely to ever return.
Worse is better strikes again? I'm not talking about SGML
No. But insurances are (to different degrees) heavily promoting checkups and health/fitness improvement programs.

Some are even handing out coupons and benefits for those joining fitness studies or sports clubs etc.
Anycast ip.

You have a sole ip address. All traffix routed to nearest PoP. The PoP makes the call on where and how to route the request.

Lookup google front end (GFE) whitepaper. Or thd google cloud global load balancer

That front end server that lives in the PoP can also inspect the http packets for layer 7 load balancing.

https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/load-balancing-...
I can't understand your attack or what you are trying to get at based on your opposition to links for educating kids.
Trying to figure out how much it would cost the customer to develop the same functionality is probably the best strategy (and suggested by most posters in this thread).

I would add that the customer may not come up with a detailed estimate/calculation so it's more a question of how expensive they perceive their development costs to be. (If their developer casually says, "I can do this in two days", that's bad even if it's wrong.)

One probably has to factor in the (possible) inefficiency of the customer, i.e. inexperienced devs and the usual overhead of working at a large company.

At first, I thought that by cutting the costs in half, you would end up with a fairly low price. But giving them the option to receive the source code at double the price is a nice touch, especially since you say most of your customers want that anyway.
They’re both screwed. I’d rather have crippling debt than children dying from malnutrition, but obviously both Marc and John are completely screwed in different ways. They’re both losers in this scenario, there are no winners.
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QuasarDB makes the QuasarDB timeseries database and our use cases are amongst the most insane you can think of in terms of volumes and latency requirements. The R&D team is small and made of outsanding tech veterans that are looking for only one thing: just deliver the best product ever.

That team needs someone to take on our admin/monitoring GUI written in Clojure! You will own the UI and will take important decisions in terms of UX.

You'll be given specs and you will work closely with the R&D team.

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Google Reader served a similar purpose. People used its social features for communication since (the thinking went) governments weren't going to block Google.
OSX file preview lets you fill in PDF forms with no problems, and no additional software to install.
Ditto. My impression is also that the Guardian is shamelessly ideological.
I'm curious, can you "upgrade" your car after the fact? Buy it and then later on call Tesla and pay for the software-controlled 'upgrade' you declined before? Is there any negative financial impact to it (are there fees attached or is it basically the difference you didn't pay prior)?
Yes and no. Physics is done by humans, but at the end of the day this Higgs from the convoluted construct is actually there, go figure.

Maybe physics is onto something, maybe aliens can't get here because conservation of momentum is a universal law indeed, they're bounded by it like every other speck of dust, and their alien construct about it has to look pretty much like ours, the only difference being notations.

It's not so clear cut to me anymore we're making models that by definition can never hit the jackpot. I guess we can't even be sure about that.
Isn't the whole point of persistent storage like hard drives to deal with the fact that computers shut off sometimes, and nothing can be "always 'running'"?

Something below the object level (possibly part of the object system, possibly a layer below that) needs to read from disk and bootstrap all those agents/live objects/actors into existence.
All electronic transactions handle the SEK cent (1/100 SEK aka öre) though there are no longer any valid SEK cent coins. The 50 cent coin was taken out of circulation September 30th 2010 and nowadays all remaining cent coins are considered scrap metal.

There's (sadly) no rule that everything must be a denomination of 0.05 SEK or even 1 SEK. Pretty much every shop continues to use cents in their pricing (like .50, .95, and .99). If you pay in cash you'll end up rounding to nearest SEK (rounding up if it's below 1 SEK). You could potentially save money by paying with cash if your transaction would be rounded down... but at a maximum of 0.49 SEK (~0.05 USD) saved per transaction you'd need some unique spending habits to actually utilize this "trick" efficiently.

Source: https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/payments--cash/notes--coins/co... and I happen to be Swedish.
I think you've illustrated this perfectly - a lot of frustration I've experienced with my peers is what you've said - we want something, and we turn up to the city council meeting asking for it, and we're beset by a lot of older people shouting that a navigation center at the wharf is bad because homeless are criminal and dirty.

Maybe you're right that America as a whole can't. I think the younger liberals though, at least from my experience with them, willing to put forward the needs of society. I think many of them have no choice, because the individualist option just isn't available anymore like it was in the past.

Thank you for your words on this.
What makes, for example, Hinduism unsustainable?
I found out recently that four of top six "channels" on YouTube (ranked by the number of subscribers), are actually topics: music, gaming, movies, and sports. https://socialblade.com/youtube/top/100/mostsubscribed
Since when using a database I want the same data out that I put in I would default to using the WITHOUT TIME ZONE as the database isn't storing a timezone, it's converting. I want that conversion deferred until the last moment, until whatever locale aware software facing the user gets the data and does the right thing THERE.
They’d why you do hybrid, baseline on prem.
Employer-provided healthcare is an aberration created by government interference in the market.

> Employer-provided health insurance has its origin in a tax policy passed in 1943, which made insurance provided by employers tax free. At the time the United States was engaged in World War II and had enacted wage and price controls, preventing employers from competing for scarce labor using the normal mechanism of offering a higher salary. Instead, businesses used the availability of newly tax-subsidized healthcare as a means of differentiating themselves.

> The tax advantages were made even more attractive and fully codified in the 1954 Internal Revenue Code. Over the next few decades, the government's subsidization of employer-provided health insurance lead to the dominance of that model of healthcare delivery...[1]

So steps that got us here:

1. Enter into WWII

2. Enact price & wage controls

3. Create tax loophole for employer-provided plans

4. Enshrine loophole into the tax code

These are not market phenomena, since government intervention got us here.

[1] https://mises.org/library/whats-really-wrong-healthcare-indu...
Be glad that "recent" wasn't in December, prior to the deductible reset.

Fun fact - my company (who sells Health Benefits Management software) added functionality so an insurer could do a "rolling window" for deductible / out of pocket management, i.e. "In any given 12 month period, your costs will not exceed $x" (where given unfortunate timing, your out of pocket could actually be 2x).

Except it was less profitable to the insurers, so no-one was interested. But spun as "will be too complicated for consumers".
if it's ideological, it's not really journalism, is it? It's opinion. We're long past the days of A.M. Rosenthal and Walter Cronkite, where journalists actively exercised restraint in injecting their personal biases into the stories they were covering. This isn't surprising, because facts without opinions just don't sell that well in our modern attention economy.
Yeah you basically do. Sure you can reroute the traffic internally over the private global network to the relevant server, but that's going to use unnecessary bandwidth and add cost.

By sharding/routing with DNS, the client and public internet deal with that and allow AWS to save some cash.

Bear in mind, S3 is not a CDN. It doesn't have anycast, PoPs, etc.

In fact, even _with_ the subdomain setup, you'll notice that before the bucket has fully propagated into their DNS servers, it will initially return 307 redirects to https ://<bucket>.s3-<region>.amazonaws.com

This is for exactly the same reason - S3 doesn't want to be your CDN and it saves them money. See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/VirtualHosti...
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PyCon usually uploads talks within a day or two of their presentation. There should be a PyCon 2019 YouTube channel already.
html can include acrobat only JS and embedded flash and form filling crap.
near total displacement of indigenous y chromosome lineages is a pretty strong signal
Added to my comment, but basically S3 is not a CDN - it doesn't have PoPs/anycast.

They _do_ use anycast and PoPs for the DNS services though. So that's basically how they handle the routing for buckets - but relies entirely on having separate subdomains.

What you're saying is correct for Cloudfront though.
Er, yes, that's exactly my point.
So much for customer obsession.
The need to actually 'sell clicks online' in a non quasi-monopolized way (i.e. in the era of papers, there were few choices) and driving clicks might very well be pushing news organizations into more click-baity and biased coverage.

The Guardian's shameful and biased reporting on Brexit - a very important subject with quite a lot of substance to cover - is exactly why I will not give them money.

If you want someone to tell you 'it's all shambles' - then that's fine, just recognize that's it.

The Guardian has been one of the least reliable and biased news sources on this subject.

1) Their Brexit articles do not contain any technical, economic or otherwise sourced data. It's almost all unsubstantiated opinion. There are more references on HN than in the G on this subject.

The G does not provide one shred of even half-serious information on the economy, job market, currency issues, etc. as it relates to Brexit.

For that we have to visit the FT. We shouln't.

2) They do not provide deep background on other important social and economic activities. For example, they do not send reporters outside of their bubble to talk to various individuals about their situation. They might voice the arbitrary opinion of someone local and like-minded (usually a celebrity), and that's it.

3) Their reporting is mostly political, and mostly one-sided. Consider their coverage of competing pro/remain rallies in London: the data points around crowd sizes were biased, the messaging of anyone not holding their view was totally misrepresented, and the tone was obviously biased.

Unfortunately, there is actually no really good source for Brexit coverage. The BBC is actually light, Telegraph takes 'the other side', the FT stays mostly away and leans Liberal Democrat / pro-business, the rest is political/populist hit and miss without a lot of substance.
An intermediate goal when using static types is that the checked-in code should have type annotations that are guaranteed correct, so you can rely on them when reasoning about the code, either manually (just by reading it) or automatically (using tools).

Traditionally this is done in a compiler, but it could also be done in another tool like some kind of linter, provided that it's always run before committing a patch and/or as part of a continuous build.
Yes, of course. But that wasn't the point being made by the article. Though even then the math doesn't always hold. I live outside of NYC. A close suburb house costs about 50% more than a mid suburb, which in turn is about 50% more than a further out suburb. That increase in housing costs for close-in is still an order of magnitude more than the decrease and money saved on transporting costs. Just look at the data table the author provides: As housing costs increase, transportation costs decrease, but the total cost of living still increases dramatically
Maybe we should have two separate kinds of health insurance?

One for true emergencies (like car accidents), and rare life threatening diseases (like cancer before 60).

Another for routine things, but as others have said, routine things shouldn't be so expensive.

I like the idea of structuring it like a term life insurance policy. If you die, you get money, and in some policies you even get some percentage before you die to have fun.

So, if you get cancer or whatever, perhaps you'd have a pool of funds available to you to deal with the disease, and you can use that money how you want, and perhaps even keep the remainder (or a portion of it) to incentivize keeping cost down.

Also, it would make sense for the pool of funds available to someone to be based on remaining years. If you get cancer when you 20 it makes sense to spend a million dollars trying to cure that. If you're 90, maybe it makes sense to treat it but not as aggressively or in as costly of ways.

From the perspective of building a society that you would be willing to be in, assuming you were randomly born into that society without knowing to what parents, I still think many people would agree they'd rather spend heavily on younger people than older.
Thank you for being a breadth of wisdom in the UNIX-worshiping wilderness.

You can always get mindshare being first massively underpriced thing to market.
I remember showing this banner to our boss saying "hey, we should do that too, look EVEN GOOGLE DOES THAT" at the company I worked back then.

And we did.