skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All except the smallest employers are required by law to provide health insurance to full-time employees and may have employees contribute up to only 10% of their household income.

I did some random shopping for a typical family of 5 and found a max rate of ~$1600/mo for insurance premiums. You would only pay this if you were self-employed, part-time employed at a pretty shitty job, or unemployed and run out of the various mechanisms to keep your insurance. After that you have to spend your net worth until you qualify for the insurance benefits for the poor in your state.

In reality, with various employers I have paid between $0 and $200/month for insuring just myself. (I have paid $0, I don't remember the most expensive, but it was <$200 in any case)

Who gets screwed and bankrupt are the lower-middle class who can't manage to get a full time job, especially single parents who get sick. The system is biased towards benefitting married partners with children, only one person needs that full time job to cover everyone. If you are in the middle class or above and do only a small amount of planning, you're fine. If you are below the middle, you generally have to lose everything or go bankrupt before the system will help you – people in that position are often the least equipped to figure out and head through the optimal path for themselves and end up making very bad decisions.

We don't need public healthcare, we need better support which reaches higher up the income scale and better education.
>You pretty much have to go out of your way to make a language that won't run on Windows.

That's a bit ridiculous. In the group of most desktop operating systems, Windows is the odd ball. Supporting it is a huge hassle, and from a certain point of view with a very small ROI.

I wonder why the Swift threads have far fewer complaints about missing Windows support. Perhaps the absurdity is more obvious in that case?
Really? How did the French Revolution go? The French Revolution is a famous disaster. Reign of terror, oppressive government, many people killed, tons of bad stuff.
Why is Wi-Fi signal strength important?
But it doesn't integrate with the file system. On the desktop (at least on Windows), you still have a regular folder that syncs, full of folders regular files that sync - except now, you can make some of those files and folders to only look real, but actually store no data on the drive itself, and transparently fetch it when needed. It integrates completely seamlessly with all the other software you use on the machine.

(I think a good Linux analogy would be FUSE, things like sshfs.)
Is there a way to stream the talks?
A lot of MIT subdomains are hosted by students. A MIT subdomain getting enough traffic to bring it down isn't surprising in itself. It's that this one is hosted by the administration itself (seemingly) that makes it notable.
Ironically some of the SEA countries probably have better medical services than Tokyo.

You guys are criticizing me for calling Asia a monolith but I can assure you the difference between Tokyo and Myanmar is smaller than NYU and the Midwest
>I wonder how many people these days would think he was a terrorist...

Jefferson said that in reference to Shay's Rebellion, and he certainly wasn't praising the people behind it, describing the rebellion as having been “founded in ignorance ... The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.”"

The entire quote even ends with him comparing such people to manure. He was, indeed, calling such people "terrorists", as he considered them traitors and a threat to the Union. Jefferson also said the following just prior to that famous quote:

"...what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them."

In other words, while he recognized that rebellion was inevitable in a free society, he did not believe such violence was always justified, or that it should be encouraged.

But is it hate speech? Well... it has been used to justify terrorist activity. Tim McVeigh was wearing the quote on a t-shirt the day he decided to set off the Oklahoma City bombing, and I doubt Jefferson would consider him a patriot doing his duty. So yes, while it wasn't originally hate speech, the nature of the extremist fringe of modern American gun culture, neo-libertarian and anarchist ideology has twisted it around to interpret it in the most hateful way possible.
There's a dead simple "quack/crank" test for security products. If it hasn't been publicly discussed and analyzed for at least year, but is already for sale as a "usable device" not a "prototype", the seller is either fraud or a fool, and regardless of which, is not to be trusted.
Look exciting. Realistically, what can one expect to learn from the class? Would I learn any practical skills or is it just an overview?
From my subjective perspective, Zig, of all the languages, is what feels most the modern successor of C.

I think, it even does a better job than C++ which share some of the C syntax.

The problem i guess is complexity and productivity. Zig here is a hit while Rust is a miss as much as C++.

The question Zig was trying to answer is: Can we have a simple, free and powerful language as C but with a more modern approch?

While Rust in its cruzade to be seen as a C++ competitor were not aiming at simplicity and user ergonomics.

So my feeling is, Zig is much more compeling as a C substitute than any other language out there, and probably thats the reason why your friend like it more than others.
Show HN: 2020VISION.EARTH
Hoping for early suggestions/contributions. Maybe the first cut is too wordy or polarising.

https://www.2020vision.earth/

Repo: https://github.com/danfo/2020-vision
I am just about to sell my father's $320,000 house so I can pay for his nursing home care. He sadly did not have the foresight to acquire long-term disability insurance or put his assets into a trust so we'll be paying out of pocket until his money runs out and he goes on Medicaid, which will still only cover 60% of his care.

$320,000 / $8000+ a month (not including rising costs) means he has 3.25 years of care coverage paying out of pocket which I don't consider many years.
Guide to Using Reverse Image Search for Investigations
Reminds me Lewis Carrol's The Game of Logic: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4763/4763-h/4763-h.htm
Having LLVM support is only half of the story, someone needs to make the runtime and standard library work on the platform as well.
There's two ways you can get pictures on iOS.

1. UIImagePickerController - This opens the system image picker and ONLY returns the user selected image to the application.

2. "Access Camera Roll" Permission - This is what WhatsApp, Facebook, etc. use so that they can show their own image picker UI. It just gives the app permanent access to APIs that can retrieve photos.

Both leak EXIF information to the app, but the first one only leaks the information for a specific picture.
Because you wouldn't get your money back at the end of that 50 years. If you sold it after 35 years, you would essentially be selling a 15 year contract to own the apartment, which would likely be factored into the resale price.
C++ is easy to transition to.

The powerful libraries growing up around it make dropping down to the dangerous level mentioned largely unnecessary, without giving up performance.
I'm going to speak directly to your point, which is the claim that only absolute wealth matters, but relative wealth does not.

Relative wealth buys you status, position, and power in society. That status protects you when things go wrong, when the system fails to measure or optimize for the things that you care about, or when the music suddenly stops and you find that you're the one left without a chair.

People deeply care about not being on the bottom of the pecking order, because if you look at history, when anything goes wrong, it's always those at the bottom who get hit the hardest - whether it's famine, war, economic recession, or any of the myriad of instabilities and ills that visit our societies from time to time.

Your contention that we should only care about minimum living standards requires a large amount of faith, not just in the system as it stands today, but that the system won't slowly erode those minimums over time because the poor lack the political and social power to keep their minimums. Without the power to protect your own interests, you're at the literal mercy of those who are better off than you to throw you a bone when you're most vulnerable.

And the best guarantor of social and political power is to be necessary - to be a critical component of the means of production. Automation, outsourcing, and foreign competition have all been chipping away at the competitive position of the median American worker.

A look at the path of inflation-adjusted minimum wage, the evisceration of unions, the opioid crisis, the recent Great Recession, the fact that standard housing, schooling, and medical care is becoming increasingly out of reach of the average wage-earners would suggest that in fact, life is not getting better for those at the bottom, despite the very large increase in absolute wealth since the 1970s.
Many people forget that Saudi Arabia (fifth biggest by land) is in Asia too.
I am from Turkey but living in US for 10 years now, and plan to retire in a low-cost area within the US, despite the fact that Turkey would have been much cheaper - but states is home now.

I don't think what you say is remotely true, though. Sure if you plan to live in high-cost areas in Europe, healthcare would be expensive, but taking Turkey as an example, the healthcare is very reasonably priced even in top private institutions, compared to what they would be in the US.

I do not have first hand experience for critical surgeries, but i have a recent experiences and learned what the price would be in Turkey.

Labor: US: $40K, Turkey: ~$2K.
Dental implant: US: $6K, Turkey: $660

They are both pre-insurance, though.

The same should follow for critical surgeries like healthcare, cancer, etc.
A very simple hardware entropy source is a noisy diode. I wonder why so few people are using it
Dr Hannah Fry on Pigeons, AI and the Power of Maths
Awesome Space: a repository of space related code and data
> they know exactly how to turn the whole thing off.

The problem is that no, they don't. Companies wrote infrastructure on premise that user would never ask/get/delete the info that is stored on him/her therefore now it's really difficult for companies to actually gather/delete data that is tied to a specific user in a safe matter.
Not to publish another game.
Seems like the reporter not so shyly pointed out that an incentive for these men to retire to SE Asia is not just the healthcare but the women?
Rust or modern C++, although the abstractions on the latter are leaky
I think you guys are missing the joke. The users experience is with the U.S. health system. Because the stereotype and the parent comments have the implication that doctors from Asia are seen as inferior; the joke being that the U.S. sets a fucking low standard for quality of care.
These statements about 'absolute living standards' are utter crap because they absolutely ignore the law of rent. Simply stated the more people in a given city make the higher the rents, fees and cost of living in general. The more the middle class makes the more is taken away from them. Middle class then keeps only paying fees left and right and witnessing ever increasing poverty around them.

The resulting state of prospering areas filled with poverty has been called the paradox of progress and poverty because the more prosperous area you have the more homelessness and disgusting living conditions you find. Whether it is San Francisco with their smelly homeless neighborhoods, Hong Kong with 4sqft apartments or London during industrial revolution as described by Dickens in Oliver Twist.

Sadly the 'absolute living standard' fairy tale is perpetuated by people on the economical right which makes anyone on the left dismiss anything further they say. (I'm on the right myself, but this crap infuriates me).

The relevant items to study in order to understand this effect
1. Law of Rent by David Ricardo
2. Henry George theorem
This thing seems fishy to me. If you want something that is mostly under your control to which you can install open source stuff into then buy some smart cards and card readers e.g. from https://www.javacardsdk.com
That's assuming a (rare) 6-day workweek. If you work 5 days, as most do, you get 20 days by law.
I started keeping a journal a few months ago and it helped me to keep it simple, quick and as painless and fun as possible. I've been heavily inspired by technique called minimalist journaling [1] which is something I read about somewhere (maybe even here on HN).

As you're probably a problem solver at heart (since you're on HN during Christmas), it might also help to write a list of things that you want the journaling to do for you (self-reflection? better mental health? loving-kindness? keeping track of memories?) and then try to come up with some system that will optimize for those values and also minimize the stress and time-commitment. Your brain is programmed to stir away from any stressful work, you the last two are mainly to make sure you aren't biologically forced out of your new habit.

[1]: https://medium.com/better-humans/draft-how-to-hack-your-brai...
Ok, we just ignore bunch of people who don't give a damn about being productive. Bunch of people who don't give a damn about society. Bunch of people who don't give a damn about anything.

For me biggest problem with this interview is ... not everyone wants to be productive, not everyone wants to have a new car, not everyone wants to have an education.

Guess what, society still has to care about those people and still has to allow them to "not give a damn". Pink colored glasses and saying "job hierarchy is to blame, we can all be productive" is foolish. You cannot force people to work "because inequality". (there were people who tried to do that but where I live we call them nazis and commies)

On the other hand I agree, most important thing is economic mobility, if someone wants a new car and he works for it, he should get it. If someone wants to be Phd in physics and she works hard and has results, no one should prevent that. But we are just water bags with silly emotions so we get together with other bags of water to feel important and to prevent other bags of water from having nice things to feel even more important.
That's very expensive for Vietnam or relative to what you get in terms of infrastructure/law. They either got a bad deal or the market right there is crazier than the US.
Its about the median across the whole of the US, not just Iowa. Other cities with lower or similar median: Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, Philadelphia, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Nashville. Loads of cities are cheaper.

https://www.kiplinger.com/tool/real-estate/T010-S003-home-pr...
because men liking women is shameful?
or the us east coast that isn't NYC
> programs written in Go are consistently in the top tier for reliability.

Citation needed. It may simply be that those code bases are doing relatively trivial work compared to large programs in other languages, where bugs are more likely to happen simply due to code size. Even in this thread another poster wrote:

> I've accidentally introduced way more bugs through Go style error handling than through Python style error handling.

I've seen production golang code where errors were being silently overwritten. Much, much worse than anything in Java or C# where exceptions are explicitly swallowed.
That’s quite impressive! I imagine creating daily projects also alleviates the stage fright developers have for showing off personal projects.
If we weren't collecting personally identifying information with paper ads, no reason to just allow it just because technology lets you.
May I ask you to elaborate? I'm curious what's the story here.
Those two statements aren't mutually exclusive
> when you're down to guessing it's guaranteed to be safe

Sure. But, in a complex situation, it's rather hard to know whether "you're down to guessing". It seems like there's no more information to be extracted from the board, but you may be wrong. (At least I often am.) That said, you can cheat by pressing "Give me a hint", and it'll tell you whether it's safe to guess.
Then why do they utilize admins and mods to delete so many submissions and comments that fall outside some predetermined narrative?
What color is your function? (2015)
The "reason" in "for whatever reason" is that Samuelson is right, and most people saw that pretty quickly. Samuelson never returned to the question (he did write a later New Palgrave entry on it) because he had more productive things to do with his time. Samuelson wrote more than 300 papers on macroeconomics, trade, finance, money, everything.

Your final paragraph has a basic misunderstanding of the Cambridge capital controversy that is surprisingly common among the heterodox. There was a primitive theory of capital to which the CCC applied. But modelling improved, and this theory was completely superseded by the 70s. But somehow the heterodox have inflated it into being the core proposition of all of mainstream economics. The modern theory of capital is completely immune to the arguments of the CCC.
DualShock
Other than Haskell and Nim, the rest are hardly compiled to machine code.
With that said, 50 year property rights are likely a stepping stone to something "better" since no one has hit that point yet, so the laws could change before then. However a lot of other things could change before then that might work against you (e.g.increase in corruption, attitudes towards foreigners could sour, property rights policies could revert back to less rights, etc).
> This allows Nim to be in the top10 of json parsing in TechEmpower: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=p...

Maybe I'm misreading but to me this implies that the TechEmpower JSON benchmark doesn't use the `json` module. Just to be clear that is not the case, it uses the `json` module. Parsing performance is not benchmarked there, just serialization.
In stories we tell, the good guys are often fighting, and defeating the bad guys.

Even though I would not say it is a good thing, I would respect somebody more who stood up for themselves and were aggressive in tense moments – if it seemed justified (provoked by the aggressive party).
And it took 10 years for NVidia to make it match the ISO C++ memory model introduced in C++11, as per NVidia talk at CppCon 2019.
I'm not confident that this is a good thing after the mess that resulted me in having to navigate dozens of cookie popups on most days.
I think it really depends on what you are writing. I built up a column-store database in C recently (not for production, just as a project) and while I can imagine rebuilding it in C++/Rust, I don't think it would be possible to do it in a performant way in Go.

Go is nice, but tends to be very verbose and also is garbage collected. It's for a different usecase.
Sort of. They were the first police force in an English speaking country afaik. Your other comments are nonsense. Something is not counterfactual just because certain phrasing offended you.
Sounds like you rolled your own RTOS. Dang. Very nice!
It’s not but the old white man/submissive younger Asian woman dynamic is one of those uncomfortable stereotypes that ring true
I wonder if it could be (ab)used to LaTeX-ize plain TeX.
Most companies do not comply with GDPR, and it's not about the minutia, it's about just very basic concepts regarding user data and privacy.

I'm a US expat and honestly its extremely frustrating to try to use sites I formerly was able to access (with µblock) due to either absolutely obtrusive and confusing opt-in/out policies (e.g., Oath) or complete rejections/refusal of anyone with an IP outside the US (this is exceptionally frustrating as I don't even live in the EU, but because the lazy solution of applying the GDPR block to any non-US address is often used, I cannot read many US new sites)

Global companies have __not__ adapted to GDPR, and instead have just dragged their feet. I'm curious if the EU is going to do anything about it for sites that frequently do business in the EU, or if they will start enforcing actual GDPR policies on the big players (for example, Google is a beast to use in any EU member nation if you choose not to grant consent for data collection by just using element blocking)

The idea that companies have complied with GDPR does not mesh with my experience actually trying to use websites in the Schengen Area. And I don't blame GDPR, I blame companies for the insane amount of data and tracking they want for viewing even a minute amount of content.
Inequality in living standards is exactly what they’re talking about when they talk about inequality.

Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the nuanced discourse of groups tackling these problems directly at the political level, instead of taking textbook definitions of words and none of the context of the broader social movements behind the effort.

“Wealth” is a measure of relative living standards. You’re talking about the same damn thing these groups do but somehow seem annoyed at your own lack of experience with the political conversation.

DRY can apply to more than code. No reason to reinvent definitions and quantify problems when people
have already spent a lifetime discussing these things.

Get off HN and engage directly maybe, rather than getting circle and repetitive.

Humanity built bridges and roads and trade before it had any answers like we do about physics and math. We do not need or rely on the uptight definitions in academia. Language is mushed up as needed.

STEM headed nerds would be wise to forget their academia a bit and their propensity for falling into functional fixedness when it comes to language
2020 resolutions: ween myself off chrome and improve my online privacy + learn basic vehicle maintenance
1. Learn Go for building my startup.

2. Learn everything I can do build and run a decent software startup.

3. More regular and well-defined Strength training, intermittent fasting and meditation practice.

4. Be less distracted by video games and focus on self and professional development.

5. Higher quality time with my partner and family, more mutual and outdoor activities, less screen time.

6. Write/start a blog to share my ideas on focus and productivity. (A hobby of mine)