skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the chart in the linked comic begins in the middle of the last ice age. It ends one or two degree celsius above the mean temperature of the previous 500 years (or so). The big hockey stick at the end is a prediction! At the point in the chart at about 16000 BCE it states that the short warming or cooling spikes have probably been smoothed out (after all, those ancient temperatures are only available by proxy).
If the US goes "single payer" aka "paid through taxes" I'm retiring at whatever age I am when that goes into effect. I would have enough money to retire early except I can't estimate future health care expenses.

I tried to downshift in 2017 but ended up having a $1400/mo health ins. payment for my family and me and that was more than my mortgage, which was about $650/mo. At least with the mortgage you know your future costs. I have since paid off the mortgage, so if we stay put, I have only property taxes to worry about.

Now, the last question is: What will taxpayers bearing the cost of everyone'se healthcare do to my taxes? The US is $21 Trillion in the hole and counting. I won't be paying much income tax, only taxes on capital gains and dividends.

My only other concern is that food prices keep rising like crazy, so do things like car insurance, homeowners' insurance, bills, etc.

I don't like private health ins--I work at a major provider and I know full well how billions get wasted. However, I think government taking it over is going to be the worst thing the US has seen since probably the Civil War. I'm certainly not paying for it all, you can go figure it out for yourselves.
That's not true RE: losses scaling with growth. Uber's losses last year narrowed while revenue still grew considerably. I think with the public market's emphasis on profitability, Lyft and Uber will both raise prices and cut incentive spend in sync, making them both more profitable over time.
Off topic but your personal domain is lalkaka.com (your profile) and it does not have a web page. Now before HN jumps on me for this (I know you just use it for email) there is something about someone who works for cloudflare not only not using cloudflare (dns is google domains not cf) but not having the domain resolve to at least a simple 'hello' on a web page.
That's just a disingenuous distortion of semantics. You're deliberately ignoring the key difference between skill-based, white-collar jobs and unskilled, blue-collar jobs. The former are not "destroyed" by productivity, as you put it. They change what the workers have to do, but the workers are, for the most part, able to adapt.

None of the advances in software development have eliminated software development. Hell, there are still job openings for COBOL developers. CI hasn't resulted in a whole swaths of people suddenly out of work because they were running tests by hand and now there's nothing else they can do.
Just a random thought - could there be a point, where system thinking is not feasible due to the size of the system?
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Presumably true, but that stat may be less telling than you think...

Last year, every Supreme Court Justice agreed with every other justice most of the time, except Sotomayor/Alito (they agreed 49% of the time)[0].

[0] https://www.scotusblog.com/statistics/
have filed https://github.com/vector-im/riot-meta/issues/290
> This is obviously total and utter nonsense. Look at every other western country. Nobody is banning you (or your employer) from buying additional private health insurance.

It is in fact illegal in Canada under federal law: private clinics are not legally allowed to provide services covered by the Canada Health Act. I'm still for it, though, and the rest of your point stands. It's just like roads, army, fire, etc.

> Comparing government provided healthcare to Venezuela is a straw man.

It 100% is a straw man.
Learning how to use dtrace / bpftrace [0] is very valuable if you ever need to get into serious systems profiling.

There are some really cool data structures out there you might not know about. One of my favorite basic ones that I get a lot of use out of is the trie [1] (a.k.a. prefix tree). Very useful for IP calculations.

Also look into probabilistic data structures [2], very amazing things can be done with them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Probabilistic_data_st...
No, it would be monopsony; there would be lots of providers but just one payer. If someone suggested that we have "VA for all" I would think that was dumb, but it's not what we're talking about.

What you are describing is not proposed.
> It's easier to imagine the end of the world then the end of Capitalism.

— Frederic Jameson
Can you give examples of data science used by companies to fight climate change? I mean how companies used data analytics to fight climate change, as I know academic/governmental research projects analyzing climate change have used data extensively.
First, I appreciate the debate here, and don't take anything personally. Hopefully you feel the same.

So here you cite an article that uses the scientific method to determine if the current medical guidelines for care of schizophrenia could be better. The takeaway from the article is not to abandon science in the care of those with schizophrenia, but to better apply the data that current treatment has provided.

New hypothesis: blanket use of clozapine has worse outcomes
Data: comparing countries with lower use versus higher
Result: skepticism and the scientific method opens new areas of research into the treatment of schizophrenia

So I still don't understand your argument.

It really seems like you are arguing that people make mistakes, they are bias, and they often can take the results of science as some holy word and ignore new data that conflicts with their beliefs

That is all TRUE, and I wouldn't argue against that. But that is a result of poor education of science, even within the scientific community. Being a scientist does not insulate one from anything, even a lack of understanding of how the scientific method should function.

The answer isn't to abandon the scientific method. It's to educate people, scientist or layperson, about what science really provides.

It doesn't provide ultimate truths that are unquestionable. It doesn't result in anything close to perfect understanding that is mistake free. There is no superiority, that "science knows best". Instead science is humble and says the results of the scientific method are ALWAYS open to revision in the face of conflicting data.

As Carl Sagan says, the scientific method only says the following:

"First: There are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised."

Science, and the results of the scientific method are not sacred truths. If that is your argument, then we agree. Arguments from scientists based on them being scientists (from authority) are worthless. If these biases are encountered within the scientific community (which honestly they must be, since we are all human) the solution is more rigorous application of the scientific method, and better education on how the scientific method functions. Not abandonment of science.

"We accepted the products of science; we rejected its methods." --Carl Sagan
What if the server rack is in the farmers house and not connected to the internet? Deere could just send a regional technician as needed to patch or troubleshoot. They probably already send regional salesmen to farmers regularly, what's another seat in the car?
It usually takes longer on average until closed CIA documents gets released to public (if ever). There are still some unreleased JFK files.
The Walmart/Whole Foods analogy is so completely inappropriate to this topic that I would say it's "Not even wrong". The author placed it literally at the heart of their article (paragraph 5 of 10) and after positing it, concedes "Such a low-cost alternative does not exist for most of medical care." I wish I could say I "see what they were trying to do here" but honestly am too confused by it. Are they seriously trying to clarify basic economics? The prior paragraph was basically "People like having better options when they can afford them".

Don't get me started on them using the Mean(!!!) household GDP of $155,000. (just to clarify: using the mean here dramatically misrepresents the average American because the mean includes billionaires. the median for 2017 was $61,372)
The funny/stupid/ironic thing is, the reasons people think humanity should just "go extinct" are all the reasons we should move to space instead. There's no story of "ecosystem damage" where there is no ecosystem in the first place.

Though based on my experiences on HN, even some people here need this really bashed into their heads, that we can't hurt ecosystems that don't exist. ("What if some do?" Then by all means worry about them, but by resources, they are a fraction of a fraction of a percent of what the universe has.) There is a major unexamined assumption that people have that life exists everywhere, and therefore we can't put a toe outside our planet without stomping on something, simply because that's our Earth-based experience. Once brought to the conscious level it's obvious that it's false, but it's hard to get it up to that level for some people.
So you're that person. I love it. keep it up.
You went into personal attack here and got vicious downthread. That's not allowed on HN, regardless of how large a concern is or how strongly you feel about it. If we don't moderate this strictly, the community will destroy itself, so we moderate this strictly. That means banning accounts that post like this, so please don't post like this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is an excellent article, and there are some really important observations here. Two that stood out to me:

> Emphasis is on specialty and subspecialty care, expensive technology, extra capacity to facilitate access (US hospitals have an average occupancy rate of 65% compared with an average of 76% according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), and more and better-quality amenities, including space and privacy in the hospital.

These sorts of cross-country comparisons are really important in helping to understand why U.S. healthcare costs are so much higher. During law school, I would study at Northwestern's Womans' hospital, which was next door. It was a beautiful facility, a brand new glass-and-stone mid-rise with spectacular views: https://www.nm.org/-/media/Northwestern/Images/locations/pre.... Non-profit facilities elsewhere in the world are often quite a bit more pedestrian. (You see similar differences in university and college facilities.)

> Countries that have national health insurance come close to this solution by having a flat tax on retail sales or on value-added sales that is initially paid by business firms, but is eventually passed on to consumers.

This is an incredibly important point. In the U.S., the "health care debate" is actually two separate debates. One is about how to structure the health care system. The other is about income redistribution. While many in the U.S. want to see the U.S. have European-style medical care, there is almost no traction for proposals that would pay for it in the same way Europeans pay for their systems.

The leading proposal for universal healthcare in the U.S. right now seems to be "Medicare for All." Medicare is paid for by a 1.45% tax on income, with no cap on the taxable income base. Contrast Germany, where people are required to purchase public insurance at a cost of 15% of income (half paid by the employer), but those making above about $70,000 are exempt from the mandate and tax and permitted to buy private insurance. Or Spain, where health care is paid for out of the general fund, which in turn is heavily reliant on a 21% VAT. (If the U.S. had the same mix of income/corporate/sales taxes as Spain, income taxes would go down a trillion dollars, while sales taxes would go up two trillion dollars.)

In the U.S., replacing sales taxes with a 20% VAT--the OECD average--would raise a trillion dollars. Easily enough to pay for universal health care, and a very typical European way of paying for universal health care. Yet, there are zero serious proposals in the U.S. for such a measure.
I came to programming pretty late, a few years ago. So I haven’t been doing this my whole working life.
Questions for Prospective Managers
Can someone shed light on what the "little-known procedure" is they're referring to?
This is good advice IF you have something lined up and you don't have a chronic/preexisting condition. Otherwise you'd want to continue your coverage.
All of the lawyers I've spoken to (liberal, conservative, and other) seem to feel that it's a necessary evil to avoid exposing every public official to constant harassment on every decision. That is, it's not perfect, and bad things do happen, but rarely, and the alternatives to fix those rare cases are worse.

I'm not entirely sure I buy that. It does sound an awful lot like collective ass-covering. But I do try to take into account that prominent, widely-noted failures do not necessarily invalidate a system that functions reasonably well most days.
I like self hosted avatars. From the title I thought SO purposefully lets Facebook track us, perhaps through a like button, but instead the complaint is that they don't have a domain blacklist on user avatars, which sounds silly to me.

I care about privacy but there are bigger fish to fry. This is not structural and hosting your own stuff (like your avatar) is a part of the old Internet I miss.
The same reason oil rigs aren't fully automated: Humans are very versatile and agile.
I think it would be great if we could avoid Assange threads here on HN. Nothing good will come out of it.
Please don't get personal in comments, even if someone else is breaking the site guidelines. Two wrongs don't make a right, &c.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My current favorite roguelike is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Maj%27Eyal due to the rich list of available classes and a mostly useful autoexplore feature.
65% of articles in my Google News (not logged in) are from Fox News and/or Washington Examiner.

I think geography affects search results a lot. I'm in a blue city, but red state.
I am not a tax person or a stock person, but what I have been told at the start-ups I have worked at, you have to wait 6 months after an IPO before you can sell or something along those lines. So, yes, the employees can sell their stock, but not right now. They didn't get the chance to sell at the potential high.
Let’s turn that question around: It scales relatively well from countries with less than 1 million to countries with more than 80 million people, with the same variations in population and geography (although to be honest I don’t understand why race or culture would make a difference to a healthcare system). So why wouldn’t it scale further? Is there some fundamental limit at 100 or 200 million that would make it impossible?
Square please send me an itemized email receipt.
I upvoted you even though I disagree (downvoting is only for meaningless stuff). However, I think you are not getting a lot of love from the crowd because you are just complaining about how bad socialized medicine could be. But you are not offering a better solution that what we have today which clearly is pretty bad. The day we are not scared of medical bills or going to the doctor is the day I would consider that we have got something right about healthcare.
> They just had to do it to an operating system this time.

Nope it seems their target is not linux but the whole dev(millenials)community
If you're coming from Python you should start looking into how other languages handle concurrency. Python has a GIL (global interpreter lock) that only allows for single threaded execution under normal circumstances. Learn about threads, locking, mutexes, semaphores, green threads, race conditions...
Agreed -- with the proviso that unemployment of various sorts isn't always a short-term condition. I've been working a lot recently, but I still don't have a regular "job" (which would provide me with health insurance benefits). Paying for my own insurance is really expensive.

The premiums are also increasing much faster than cost-of-living or inflation, too, even though the benefits are unchanged. It's like the insurance companies are trying to price individuals out of self-employment.

This is another instance of a common case: it's really expensive to be poor! Tying insurance to employment is a "hit 'em while they're down" situation.
Cs Syd – How I wrote a proof of concept in five hours and launched in a week
To an outsider like me, this situation seems bizarre; please correct me if this is wrong, but...

It seems like you're arguing that it's reasonable to keep these annotations private because it's already impossible to understand the law without other stuff that is private, not because these annotations are not essential to understanding the law.
Is it even enough of a first step? Even in Washington State, which is a solidly blue state, the carbon tax ballot initiative has now failed twice. Similarly in Canada, the carbon tax, which I believe to be a powerful tool against climate change, is hugely controversial.

It seems we need to do everything we can individually, we need governments to step forward, AND we need companies/academics to innovate numerous times.
> Most reasonable people -> Most ideologically progressive people

Not that there is anything wrong with being ideologically progressive, but both sides of the political spectrum view themselves as reasonable because they are starting from different set of axioms.
Maybe he did it maybe he didn't. I'm leaning towards he did it. But it's worth keeping in mind that his punishment would have been less severe than the time he has spent in that embassy.

I think that proves that he was scared shitless.
I noted in my other comment that your product manager for this service does not use cloudflare for his personal domain ( lalkaka.com ) but google domains.
I have no evidence that you're wrong.

I know that the UK court which agreed to extradite him concluded that, under UK law, removing the condom was rape. But I'm not as familiar with the actual Swedish charges.
And here are the incentive for the the trucker to not being careless :

- death

- disabled for life

- life in prison

- monetary damages

- no company will hire you
Right, but amazon isn't known for low prices nor is it a monopoly. This will allow them to lower prices and become known for the lowest prices while still preserving their margin (if that's the market they want to target).
The 2-month loophole you describe is the only useful thing about Cobra for most people.

For many people, having no income means they cannot afford the $500+/month it will cost to continue their coverage.
Agree that there are fewer pensions, however, I think the incentives for rent seeking in 401Ks are still quite strong, and the 401K is quite common for professional jobs.
It is true and I also find it amazing that the company seemingly did nothing other than withholding 22% (below1M$). It seems like the switch to RSUs did not take into account the downside risk.
The one thing I don't understand about it is what would be the "Walmart of healthcare" in this example? The author says it doesn't currently exist, but what would it look like if it did?

It's also odd to me they stop short of saying it doesn't currently exist because of the regulation/subsidy scenario outlined. It makes me think the analogy is disingenuous in some way.

Maybe there are other objections to be had, but that's the one that jumped out at me immediately.
This is brilliant, and I hope it gets taken up by some companies.

Sadly, I think some of them are going to look at total printing time, and they're not going to accept longer print times.
> If the US goes "single payer" aka "paid through taxes" I'm retiring at whatever age I am when that goes into effect. I would have enough money to retire early except I can't estimate future health care expenses.

Do it! We've got more people than jobs necessary anyways, certainly once automation enters full swing.

> I tried to downshift in 2017 but ended up having a $1400/mo health ins. payment for my family and me and that was more than my mortgage, which was about $650/mo. At least with the mortgage you know your future costs.

This sounds like single payer will provide you with freedom.

> Now, the last question is: What will taxpayers bearing the cost of everyone's healthcare do to my taxes? The US is $21 Trillion in the hole and counting. I won't be paying much income tax, only taxes on capital gains and dividends.

Even a Koch funded study found that the cost of providing cover is +/- 5%-ish the amount we're spending on medical cover right now, and other studies have shown Medicare does a better job of controlling costs than private insurers. The way the system would be executed is that the amount employers are currently paying private insurers would be redirected to the public purse, either via payroll tax or via personal income tax, or both. No new money needs to suddenly appear from thin air, it's just getting re-allocated.

You won't be paying much income tax, others will. Dividends are usually treated as ordinary income, FWIW.

> I don't like private health ins--I work at a major provider and I know full well how billions get wasted. However, I think government taking it over is going to be the worst thing the US has seen since probably the Civil War. I'm certainly not paying for it all, you can go figure it out for yourselves.

And yet you were planning to go on Medicare right? People in America seem to like Medicare. Why is it socialized medicine only becomes "good" once you hit 65? It's like parents trying to explain alcohol to children: It's really really bad until you turn 21 then suddenly its really really good.
Three mile Island's core also melted by didn't breach containment. That fact hasn't been widely publicized. And there is a tendency to skip over that TMI is on the Susquehanna River which drains into Chesapeake Bay.

TMI came within hours of being a monumental disaster.
IIUC, those who did overcome the problem in the simulator lost around 8,000 feet of altitude in the process (despite presumably going into the simulator already knowing what they were going to be facing). It's not clear to me that the Ethiopian plane ever had enough altitude (above the ground) to allow for such a recovery.
I wonder how Radiohead fits into this when everybody expects them to deviate from a style.

The two albums that would typecast them (OK Computer, The Bends) are one of a kind. No one wants more of them.
Yes certainly. I just typed "abortion" into Google and DuckDuckGo and compared the results. Look at the news articles, and "coincidentally" planned parenthood are the top two links.

Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=abortion&oq=abortion

DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=abortion&t=h_&ia=web

DuckDuckGo (news): https://duckduckgo.com/?q=abortion&t=h_&iar=news&ia=news
As far as 401k plans go, self-employed individual running their own 401k often have an advantage over employees who have to take whatever 401k plan is offered by their employer. The downside of not having any other members to share administrative overhead costs is more than dwarfed by the ability to ruthlessly optimize for favorable tax treatment on the combined "employee" and "employer" parts without regards to which entity gets what.
> There's a lot more to a system than the CPU.

I said SoC, not just the CPU, but even there, no, there isn't much difference as you yourself state:

> If someone writes ACPI tables for Allwinner SoCs, it will work :)
I interpret what seanmcdirmid wrote to mean it’s messed up that healthy (and usually economically productive) people can sequester themselves in groups that have lower health insurance premiums.