skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just so happens that a nuclear fission reactor analysis framework recently emerged on github partially with hopes that people like you would be interested in contributing. It hasn't been widely publicized and is pretty esoteric but is there.

https://github.com/terrapower/armi

Some more open source things in the domain can be found here: https://github.com/paulromano/awesome-nuclear/blob/master/RE...
I live in a universal health care country. I also had a private health insurance thru my employer which guaranteed specialist care within a certain time.

The universal health care means that the extra insurance was not very expensive at all since it only covered the speedy access part. If you have money capitalism will always ensure you have speedy access to healthcare.
I'm not so sure that analogy holds. The problem is that it presumes the skeptic of the heliocentric model has significant followers and that there is any point in changing their minds.

There is no point in the astronomer debating that skeptic because convincing his followers won't change anything. The astronomer has nothing to win.

A significant segment of the public does not believe AGW is actually happening so there's benefit to be had in having the debate: The skeptics followers will watch it. Refusing to do it just allows the skeptics followers to remain within that bubble completely unchecked.
That's what I've never understood about the arguments against single payer:

>You can't pick your own doctor

I already can't. If they're in network, I'm good, but if they're out of network - like my doctor was - then I have to find a new one.

>You can't pick your treatments

My spouse was denied medication by an insurance company because it was too new. So.

>You don't get to have all the healthcare you want

I already have to have pre-approval for anything up to and including emergency surgery according to my annual medical contract. So that's out the window, too.

And I have good insurance through a respectable company who may or may not have a name that rhymes with smue-smoss smue-smield.

Not sure what other arguments there are.
The UK system is still the same from the user point of view as in 1944? It's now somewhat stretched but fundamentally you don't need to deal with insurers, billing, etc.
This is somewhat like saying that, if the Net interpreted damage as damage and routed around it, there would never be service outages when undersea cables are accidentally cut.

There's a lot of malicious damage out there, and the Internet has been steadily centralizing, de facto, for a couple decades now.

It's an arms race, basically. I support the defensive side here, but victory is by no means assured.
I think you are saying that buying or selling shares should be as difficult as immigration? Or only if the buyer and seller are in different countries?
Deregulate the business side of the industry, tell the government to govern and stop worrying about health insurance, and let the market cull the inefficient, overpriced providers.

The health care system has been jacked since government/employers got involved.

Insurance is a product. Health is ultimately up to the individual. The whole ting is a smoke and mirrors racket imo.
You need to pay a subscription to run your own code on your own device? Why anyone puts up with Apple's anticonsumerism is beyond me.
Haha, it couldn't possibly be due to the fact that the microcosm is riddled with snags. This is just moving the inequality gap vertically without shrinking it at all.
Depends on how fast they're going. Fusion generates quite a lot of energy per reaction.

According to HB11's papers, each shot would have about 30 kilojoules input power via laser, consume 14 grams of fuel, and produce over a gigajoule output power, or 277 kWh.

They think within a decade the lasers will be capable of one shot per second. Right now it's more like one per minute.
it is categorized as a learning application, but I am quite curious how you made a proxy with it.
Debt is a way to leverage in finance that leads to more return on equity. It is very healthy to pursue debt at this level and will have a positive effect on free cash flow especially with negative interest rates.
That also doesn't factor in the indirect benefits to the economy, like all the people who can't start a new business (etc.), being stuck in jobs they don't want because if they left they'd lose their benefits.
If all the "Adult" actors need a licence, is there a practical test like a driving test?

If so, jobs at the DMV are going to get much more popular.
Was Simone de Beauvoir as feminist as we thought? (2019)
When I lost my job in 2018 and had to pay for health insurance myself, even a relatively low tier plan would cost me upwards of 400+ a month while still leaving me on the hook for a majority of the bills if I got sick or injured.

Thankfully the COBRA loophole meant I could avoid paying the costs if I ended up finding a job quickly, but during that period I was travelling with a check for the full amount of the insurance just in case.

Now imagine that but far worse for someone who couldn't actually afford any of those costs.
> Users should always be allowed, at the very least, to build and sideload their own code.

You barely can anyway. Unless you pay $99/yr for a developer account, any self-compiled apps you install will expire after seven days. If you want your app to keep working, you need to plug your phone into a computer and recompile every single week. That's just not realistically usable for anything other than simple testing.

Yes, it should be allowed. But it's not. It's been this way for the entire history of iOS and it's awful.
It's still comparable with the hybrid system in the U.S. too - i.e. outpatient surgery procedures can take months no matter which system.
We do a lot of development work for client's in the medical and medical billing department.

> Decrease in administrative overhead, calculated by extrapolating the overhead in medicare to the entire US healthcare economy.

That doesn't strike me as unlikely at all. Maybe their extrapolation is aggressive, but there are people at nearly every practice who spend a large portion of their day just managing the billing of cases to insurance companies.

The amount of work that goes into billing a case to insurance companies is really insane. It tends to be a very manual process, because every insurance company is different.
I don't know how anyone can look at the list of one-byte opcodes and conclude that x86 isn't a mess.

Even ignoring all the annoying mismatches in semantics, all the awkwardly-fit expansions and prefixes do not lead to a good encoding. And it's far slower to figure out how long an instruction is than it should be.
> The government has zero ability to control its expenditure, because the electorate vote themselves benefits.

Could you give me some examples of this? Living in a nation with universal healthcare, I've never seen this.
We're at a point in reality where accurate and balanced answers to this would lead to a ban. :^)
I think it's $320 billion spent per month.

($320 billion x 10% vat = $32 billion revenue / 32 million people = $1000 per person per month)

That just over $3.8 trillion per year of California spending that needs to be taxed at 10%.
It'd be cool to implement this as a browser extension, that either silently strips the parameters, or opens a dialogue upon a link click telling you what the extension is allowed to strip out before proceeding.
Why are investors betting against shopping centres?
On macOS: brew install clojure

Linux can use brew as well, or just download an installer shell script and run it.

Windows can use an (alpha) installer for Powershell or use Scoop via this bucket https://github.com/littleli/scoop-clojure

That's for the official CLI that works with deps.edn files for dependencies.

You can also download Leiningen -- a single shell script (macOS/Linux) or batch script (Windows).

If you use brew/scoop, I don't think you even need a JVM installed as they will do that automatically.
DrDrunkenstein’s (Magnus Carlsen) Reign of Terror
It is completely arbitrary, yes.
I think the California State Employees Association would have something to say about their members’ total comp decreased from ~six
figures to 12k/year.
Thank you. I'll be sure to check ModalEdit. Since VS Code is so easy to extend I guess I'll just have to find what things to copy over from Kak. Since Kak can be used as a server also (https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki/JSON-RPC) I can send stuff over to it for more extensive editing.

I'll check the LitScript also. Yours sounds like quite a workable workflow.
It's not my contention that RISC designs are necessarily faster/more power efficient/etc. It's just that the x86 design is, from an engineering perspective, a mess.

> Since long ago, even those processors that started as RISC got more and more instructions and started to worry about having them encoded with less bits.

x86-64 is not very space efficient, because of all the REX prefixes. Look at the comparative sizes of AArch64 and x86-64 binaries if you don't believe me.
CA already has net out migration.
Which, IMHO, is a good thing until it is too large.
The study's methodology is awful as described here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/f4uk13/a_critiq...

Not sure how it even got published
I dislike how often I see justifications for the sources of inadequacies of current systems supposedly shown by comparing different countries to the US.

An example of this in the paper is when they state that the US has more expensive healthcare, but yet worse metrics such as life expectancy. As the differences in healthcare systems between the US and these other comparison countries are obvious, they want to clearly imply causation here. But, when comparing one country to another country, you are changing so many variables at once that it doesn't allow you to conclude the source or causality of these differences. They may still be partially right, but it is nowhere near proven.

While the US does have more expensive health care, it also has higher real incomes, which seem to correlate strongly with this (see the first two images on https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-o...).
While the US does have a worse life expectancy than many 'comparable' countries, it also has significantly worse problems of obesity and drug overdoses, which when controlled for eliminate a large amount of the discrepancy.

Some parts of the paper are definitely reasonable and generally agreed-upon, but it's quite clear they had a specific goal and political call-to-action set in their minds when writing it.
Roughly, that is 20 million jobs lost. (assume $50,000 each)

Cutting $1 trillion is a change that affects 5% of GDP.

This issue is part of why Obamacare kept the insurance companies. Killing jobs didn't go over well.
where would they be kept? it wouldn't be the browser-based client that wrote and managed the log, surely, but (as with quassel), some server (e.g. the thing the browser talks to). and sure, someone could write a quassel-based in-browser IRC client. I don't believe it has been done thus far. That fact in and of itself points in the direction that others have mentioned: public logs of IRC channels are not part of the culture of IRC.
the largest difference is that Expo uses JavaScriptCore, a framework provided by apple for use by any application that wishes to execute javascript code. Since it is their own interpreter it is fine.
Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him
Perhaps, but I believe the averages are significantly lower in the US - Canada publishes theirs, you can check it.
The "10s of trillions of dollars" estimates you see are for 10 years of projected spending, not for one year.
Or the boon from not having one of the highest infant mortality rates in the developed world.
You have to be really poor to get Medicaid in most states. Yes there are relatively cheap subsidized insurance options for people not quite poor enough to get Medicaid but the deductibles are so high that these same people will end up broke before the insurance even starts paying out so they see no point in buying it.
Real question, not snarky:

Why is this sort of downsizing always wrong for white-collar workers when blue-collar workers have been dealing with it for decades?
That's odd, I don't have any of those accounts yet I still use phones, tablets and general purpose computers and servers daily. Linux works fine without any such accounts. Android works fine without one. Windows 10 might give problems in the consumer-oriented versions but the enterprise version is yet free from such misery, configure it without the MS store and you're mostly free. Mozilla is also getting a bit pushy with their sync accounts and the lack of usable self-hosted options so I do without such functionality for now where I used to host my own sync server before the switch to the new-and-'improved' version.

So yes, being pushed towards creating online accounts for general purpose computing is a problem.
The uncanny valley is strong in this one
More like quarantining people outside of a facility equipped to handle it is a bad idea. You really need a negative pressure room[0] to contain an airborne pathogen like this.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_room_pressure
I'm surprised the tech industry hasn't lobbied more for pro-growth, or wielded enough influence to relax zoning restrictions. The Bay Area is slowly losing its stronghold to cheaper cities as it becomes unviable as a place for technologists to start families, etc. The state of California will lose its tax base as high-paying jobs move to other cities out-of-state. There's a lot of losers with housing policy left as it is.

It's eating itself. The thing that makes Bay Area property so valuable (many prominent companies co-located) is going to end without more housing.
If you have a reasonably middle-class income, the plans are prohibitively expensive and unbelievably shitty.

I'm only anecdotal, but by comparison, prior the ACA, my insurance for a family of 3 was $300/month with a $2500/year deductible. That $300/$5000 plan was considered predatory and high deductible.

The first plan offered to me under the ACA was something like $700/month with an $8000 deductible. Plans this year were ~$950/month with a ~$15,000 deductible. It's Cadillac pricing and one-star benefits.

Meanwhile, my "non-compliant, high deductible" plan from a private market is $400/month with a $5000/deductible.

I opted out of ACA - it made sense to opt out even when I had to pay the $2100/year penalty, because the premiums and the deductible were still less. I qualify as "underinsured", but that couldn't be farther from the truth. My plan can be irritating to use, but they have online self-service tools for providing healthcare, and I have never been questioned about paying for necessary treatments. I pay them, they pay the doc. Very simple.

For people who relied on private insurance and weren't destitute, the ACA has been a shit-show from day one.

The only highlight to the ACA for me is the hundreds of thousands in billables I've accrued helping institutions become "compliant" with the ACA.
To be fair, my HS exposure was in honors Math, and it was very limited exposure: matrixes, determinants, and how to represent systems of equations.
Ok I'll bite. Why are these flaws irreconcilable to the point you no longer support UBI?

Let's take your main beef about giving money back to the rich. Why is that a problem? If we're giving everyone, say, $2k/month then it's naturally a scaled % of each person's income/wealth. For a poor person it's a lot. For a 0.1% person it's basically nothing. Additionally, there are very few rich people, so the amount going to rich people vs. everyone else is miniscule. Adding rules and overhead to manage this invites loopholes without actually solving any real problems.

I agree VAT is not the best and a wealth tax would be superior from a not-taxing-poor-people perspective. However, VAT is relatively easy to implement while something like a wealth tax is more difficult.
I once worked at a US biotech startup getting paid by insurers where we would build ML models just to reverse-engineer the inconsistencies of CPT coding & claim reimbursement by insurers & hospitals so we could get paid. Basically trying to automate "learn that Karen at insurer X processing claims wiht code Y from hospital Z usually decides to reimburse $XX". This whole idea of "free market is more efficient for healthcare" has to die. All the incentives are backwards. For example: insurers don't want efficient claim processing because that means less revenues for them.
Is there an English-language description of this law anywhere online? I couldn't find it and would love to learn more. Thanks!
The important difference is the turn around time -- with Expo I can make a change locally and see it with my testers in less than a minute, whereas with TestFlight everything has to be manually reviewed for 2-3 days after a heavy-handed submission process.
Oh I agree it's a radical change from what we have now (Although the resulting system is one many countries have already succeeded with). I was merely pointing out how if the program - and the tax to support it - is not truly universal, you have created incentives for businesses to weasel out of it.

The exemptions are billed as being "pro-small-business" but that's a BS talking point. Universal medicare for all would take away all that healthcare-plan-administration overhead that small businesses already have to deal with and pay for. Plus the extraneous benefits of having employees and customers who aren't pressured to avoid basic health care and preventative care and then go bankrupt when they need a larger procedure.

But I think only a radical change can have any real effect. You have to get the denying-care-for-profit insurance bloodsuckers out of the system completely; any concessions to them should be viewed with extreme suspicion.
> I don't know how anyone can look at the list of one-byte opcodes and conclude that x86 isn't a mess.

Or heck, even just the fact that real mode is still a thing.
Isn't this a core tenet of all UBI proposals - it's an alternative to other aid programs, not a supplement to it. That's the only way it can possibly be economical.

So either they kill off medi-cal, calfresh, and calworks, or they keep them around but disallow any "double-dipping". It seems like they've chosen the politically safer option of not killing the competing aid programs completely.
but... why? i mean, if i can afford it, i would want private health care because it's usually less crowded and you can have stuff done a lot faster.

for example: a friend of mine had to wait 6mo to do a vasectomy through our public health care system.

another friend waited 2w to do his (through private health care)

if you could afford it, wouldn't it be better to pay for it?

for me (and maybe i'm completely in the wrong here) it's like public transportation vs cabs/uber. i know i can take public transportation everywhere, but sometimes i'm in a hurry so i just get an uber. it doesn't mean other people can't use public transportation, it's just that i'm in a hurry and i need to get somewhere faster.
Panic and adrenaline? I think you must have missed the part where I said "humans are very dumb and make dumb mistakes all of the time".
I get your concern of government bungling the financial aspects. However, are we all OK with 68K people dying every year due to lack of coverage? Do we have evidence that medicare recipients ration insulin?
Depending on the area, that’s not something to encourage. There are a lot of people living in places where humans really shouldn’t be living due to the fire risk
You can also read WaPo by carefully timing a click on your browser's Reader Mode icon when the article loads. (The icon disappears once it detects that you're not a subscriber, so you need to snipe it)
Github is very popular in the hobby/open-source world, but their offering still seems very "light" to me. In the "enterprise" world, products like Gerrit and Jira are probably beating github by a large margin.
The part I don't get about this argument is - who is outlawing the ability for physicians to practice privately? I would expect that there would be concierge-style medicine available to those who choose to pay out-of-pocket for it.

You want to contract with the world-class researcher to perform an experimental surgery that is unavailable through the public system? Sure, pay the money and we'll take care of you.
If it’s true ‘astroturfing’ then it could easily be a professional operation.
SNOWFALL will become “A very rare and exciting event…
Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”
Dr David Viner – Senior scientist, climatic research unit (CRU)

“Winters with strong frosts and lots of snow
like we had 20 years ago will no longer exist at our latitudes.”
– Professor Mojib Latif (2000)

“Good bye winter. Never again snow?” – Spiegel (2000)

“Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms” – IPCC (2001)

Among others documented here...

https://climatism.blog/2019/11/18/snowfall-will-signal-the-d...
> but the total cost would still be in the 10s of trillions of dollars

Source? The linked study gives it at $3.034 trillion/year. That's on the lower end, but consistent with all other studies for single-payer healthcare I've seen, which price it in the $3-$5 trillion/year range.

Note that the US is already spending $3.5 trillion/year on healthcare.
why is this on HN? Leave the political discourse to Reddit and other ilk like it. This is my safe space!
Only to the extent that money from anything goes towards landowners in the form of increased land rents. There are other basic necessities and also some luxuries that the beneficiaries of this progressive redistribution would likely buy with the extra income.
> Allegedly, "food, clothing, medicine, and education" costs are excluded. To what extent those exemptions don't matter in practice (the grocery store pays more for printer ink and passes the cost along to you) is debatable.

It still places an excessive burden on those the UBI proposal is supposed to benefit. Necessities like utilities, phones, fuel and transportation, etc will become more costly for those who are already struggling to pay for them.

I could get behind a Pigovian tax, along with a land value tax or equity tax.
175 compounds identified by metabolomics analysis of dry sweat
Game development has a degree of notoriety for its working conditions and I’ve noticed a similar management style to yours appear subtly in certain teams here and there. The turnover is much lower, although the work tends to be less glamorized. I think it works well for the older programmers that have started families.
It’s severely hampered in many states and healthcare isn’t even mandated nationally anymore.
That has the disadvantage of imposing an effective 50% marginal tax on people below the cutoff.
This post could be reduced by 90% itself. Very low signal here.