skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Employer contributions to health insurance currently average $10446 per employee and cover 71% of a household’s premium. These employer premiums are equivalent to a 12.29% tax on payroll exceeding the first $2 million... Therefore, any payroll tax less than 12.29%, our upper bound in the SHIFT interface, would result in savings for employers.

This excerpt makes it glaringly obvious that no economists were consulted when writing this paper. Checking the list of authors confirms this. While they may be experts in public health, they're making one of the most elementary errors in Econ 101. That is they're assuming that a private expenditure (employer provided healthcare insurance) can be transformed into a public tax with no loss of efficiency.

Deadweight loss[1] is the very first consideration in tax policy analysis. The reason it exists is very simple. Private actors have an incentive to minimize taxes in a way they do not with private expenditures. If you cut your company's health insurance plan, your employees will be unhappy and you'll either lose workers or have to raise compensation in other forms. If you restructure your company to avoid payroll taxes, your employees still enjoy the same access to single-payer healthcare.

Many M4A advocates try to hand-wave away this problem. It's the equivalent of declaring "Then a miracle occurs". In this case the authors assume that the current employer-paid premiums are equivalent to replacing with a uniform payroll tax matching this aggregate. While 12.29% is the average across the entire economy, there's still wide variance between employers. Approximately half of employers are currently paying less than this. A significant proportion are paying substantially less than this.

If the current system was replaced with a uniform payroll tax, the cost of labor for employers falling into this category will rise. In response that means those employers will lower their demand for labor, which results in either both economy-wide reductions in employment, wages and ultimately investment and GDP. Those results will mean that not only will the hypothetical new payroll tax not raise the revenue the authors are projecting, but current pre-existing taxes, like income and capital gains, will also see revenue shortfalls relative to baseline.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss#Tax
Cars slowing down when they shouldn't be can create dangerous situations, though I'd agree it's relatively safer when compared to speeding (particularly in residential areas, or roads not made for faster travel).
Antitrust authorities have been busy.  The public needs to get involved too
There's US insurance companies that enroll about as many people as live in Canada. The negotiating power Canada has comes from "take it or leave it", not from scale.
really? HN crowd is talking about 10 hr days as “exhausting” ? i can’t remember the last time i worked less than 5x10.
No it’s not. If that were true none of these marketplaces would exist.
SoftBank’s $240M Bet on No-Brand Products Just Hit Zero
In a highly networked world, Metcalfe's Law [0] trends most services towards winner-take-all. Living off the 0.01% may be our least-worst alternative to neo-feudalism.

One under-discussed aspect of UBI is that it might render minimum wage unnecessary; people could end up working for luxuries rather than subsistence. And of course, there are other non-monetary incentives to work (intrinsic rewards, passion projects, prestige/reputation).

Still, the issue you raise is significant. The thing that bugs me about UBI as proposed, is that there isn't a clear Schelling focus, or organic emergent self-balancing process, for deciding how much it should be. I'm a fan of Yang, but the "$1000/mo" target is ultimately arbitrary, because it's a nice round number, and large enough to have a significant impact in people's lives.

But why not $750 or $1250? Why shouldn't it index to regional cost of living and/or GDP? What metric do we use to decide when/if it should update? I don't think that's a reason not to do it, and I suspect any amount of UBI will result in better outcomes than spending the same money on bloated federal bureaucracies; but it feels very zero-sum / tug-of-war to just pick a nice-sounding number, and then have to fight over raising or lowering it every election cycle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
Exactly this. As far as I'm concerned the purpose of ISOs at companies more than a year old is to trick junior engineers into accepting a lower salary than they would receive elsewhere. Unless you have at least half a percent of a company you really, truly believe in I'd just ignore this article and put the value somewhere between $0 and a roll of lottery tickets.
Ah, thanks! I couldn't tell that was a case from the readme.
> Not sure what other arguments there are.

The one I've heard the most lately is that "people like their existing insurance companies", which I think is an almost absurd thing to say on its face. But its probably just a way to say "people don't like change" that doesn't get insurance companies or "people" salty about it.
In general, my main method of reaching out is to contact creators directly. I'm constantly trying to interact with content creators and victims of demonetization and complete deletion. It's hard to do in bulk, but PG has always said to do things that don't scale.
Also I'm not trying to fall into the realm of only targeting "conservatives" vs "democrats." I don't think that would be necessarily helpful to our goal of reclaiming what made video-sharing so powerful prior to being heavily regulated and advertiser focused. Though conservatives have been very vocal about the said problems, conservatives aren't the only ones that are being affected. The CAVI team and I are trying to solve this problem in a more general sense, but at the same time, we will keep in mind those who were affected the hardest.
Would the right thing be single-payer or what would have to replace it once the economy and the medical profession have been destroyed?
Mainly because economic velocity of money is higher and the inertia greater for money given to people who have none. If you give a rich person another $12k it will go into a bank or some conceptual entity like a stock or share and will not actually help some human being directly which is the main point of guaranteed income.

The main criticism is that giving everyone money costs a lot more and will also cause an undue spike in commodity prices. The more rich people you give some of the BI to, the higher the spike in commodity prices, and therefore the needing people are hurt again. It's the same reason we do not give billionaires food stamps, because the cost is subsidized by the populous indirectly through tax collection. It's not magic, UBI will not somehow be immune to the way currency has worked for thousands of years, and an increase in supply of money will only hurt those who have little, so that needs to be minimized.
It's a standard federal employee option. They pretty often get straight 8s, 5-7-9 or 4x10s as they possible schedule options
> I realise what I said is not an undisputable truth and I wouldn't argue about it. I probably should have just said that I am observing an almost global strive for dev teams to be able to catch bugs earlier and to have a bit more guarantees by the mere virtue of the program successfully compiling. But it might be my filter bubble.

I think this is a pretty broad pattern, but:

1. It's not happening in isolation; there's also a move toward greater development velocity

2. There's lots of low-hanging fruit to be had--lots of people can get tremendous safety benefits by moving from languages like JS and Python to Go or TypeScript or typed-Python even if they don't have as elegant a type system as OCaml (and those alternatives don't require the same tradeoffs as OCaml or even an OCaml on BEAM).

> This is why I said an OCaml with the BEAM guarantees would likely rise very high; because my observations lead me to the belief that people want more compile-time guarantees. And yeah, that might be a skewed observation.

Like I said, I don't think it's a skewed observation, it's just that there are other ways of getting most of those compile-time safety benefits with fewer tradeoffs. But I would be a huge fanboy of an OCaml-like type system on BEAM (especially if it can have Go- or Rust-like attentiveness to practical software engineering concerns).
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has the capacity to negotiate prices that align with the therapeutic value of pharmaceutical drugs and could be a potential model for the federal single-payer health-care system. This bargaining power results in pharmaceutical prices that are 40% lower in the VA system than those under Medicare

This is a terrible proxy.

The VA doesn't really negotiate, the discounts are mandatory to do business with the VA, which is an incredibly small slice of the entire US healthcare system.

When they do negotiate, it's because they promise to exclude other drugs. As a result, there are many drugs you can't get at the VA.
You are underestimating the record profits that insurance companies make. Those will not be needed since Govt. is not in it to make money. That is another efficiency.
I was in the hospital over Christmas because of a very severe infection. I was there for 2 weeks, and am lucky to be alive. The costs were over $150k, but I ended up paying $1500 in various deductibles to Kaiser, etc. I was happy to pay $1500 and am alive because of the care that I got. I pay about $6000 a year in medical insurance per year through my employer and it ended up being totally worth it. Not a few weeks previous, one of my children was rushed via ambulance to the same hospital because of an anaphylactic reaction.

So yes, much of your costs are for possible emergencies and especially as you get older, your costs increase.
So let's say that the roads in my town are broken. No one can drive on them because they're filled with potholes.

One candidate says that they're going to reorganize the local government so that our roads will be fixed. With your argument, that candidate is trying to bribe voters in order to get into office and the voters are simply voting for benefits.
Does this include part-time workers? If so, the slight increase since 2011 could just be a reflection of the lower unemployment and underemployment.

Actually even if it's only considering full-time employees, it could still be related to unemployment, since a tighter labor market would leave more positions unfilled, which would mean more overtime.
> Pigovian tax, along with a land value tax or equity tax.

While I'm not opposed to VAT a priori, 100% agreed that those options are vastly superior.
Former Google employee: “Bizarre cult like organisation”
The market of "local DSL providers" no longer exists in the way you're invoking. While you used to be able to get a slower but customer-friendly circuit from eg Speakeasy or local dialup ISPs that moved into DSL, such general competition has withered. Outside of dense markets with decent competition, "DSL" has come to mean one single budget option from the incumbent phone company, also operating as a monopoly.

The argument is also a bit of a red herring, because even with vibrant DSL competition, the same argument could be made by the monopoly ILEC against a privacy-respecting CLEC.
You must live in a pretty blissful bubble. I have known or known of many people who continue bad habits in their life (e.g. excessive drinking and smoking) using government provided subsidies like disability, medicaid, and local programs.

Besides, if the prospect of lung cancer was enough to scare everyone off tobacco there would be no one smoking still. People are not always rational and yes I can see someone rationalizing their decision to smoke, in part, on the fact that if they do get sick they won't have to worry about paying for it. Or from the other direction if you know doing something could make you sick the prospect of simultaneous health and financial problems will be enough to push a larger portion of the public into making the healthy decision.
But any two points are on a straight line, and with a suitable choice of the coordinate system there remains no "plane" to speak of.
I know it's an edge case, but there was that kid in the UK with an easily fixable, but fatal, heart condition. Their health association refused to pay for it because no doctors in the UK knew how to perform the surgery, and they weren't willing to pay for them fly to the USA where there were specialists who could do the surgery. After they started a GoFundMe to pay for the surgery themselves, and there was a lot of press about it, the government finally agreed to pay for it instead of letting the kid die. I've also read a lot of stories from people in Canada and the UK saying that it's almost impossible to get same day medical care, even from a general practicioner. Like, they'll have to call as soon as they open, and hope they aren't already booked for the day.
Late to this, & am not really a C programmer (longtime bash & java/scala etc, and studying Rust now), but for exemplary C I think of OpenBSD core utilities first (ie, not ports & packages), given their ongoing auditing for security and correctness. The code can be browsed online, or installed as part of a basic system. I found it interesting to browse starting with some smaller utilities like echo and ls.

Resources:

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/bin/

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/

https://github.com/openbsd

https://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html

https://www.openbsd.org/ (where I got the above links, on the left side under "Getting Source")
Invariant as Interface
The problem has never been about what system works, that's always been clear.

The problem has been, and will continue to be about all the people that are currently employed by the dysfunctional system. Managing that situation is the meat of the challenge.
Some climate change deniers will say they don't disagree it is real, but that it is man-made. I didn't know enough of the science at the time to confidently rebut the argument, so left it at that.

That was the first and last time I ever argued with a friend on Facebook about something "political", but it made me reflect on the next time I argue with someone about this topic.
Wrong takeaway.

If you're going to sell on Amazon, use FBA.

A-z claims cannot be filed on FBA orders.

If this is in fact your last sale on Amazon, and you no longer intend to do business with them, email Jeff@Amazon.com as a last resort.

Keep in mind, that email should not be used lightly. Be succinct and stoic. Provide proof that you have done everything else to resolve the matter.
i mean, i'm within coverage of brazil's public health care. i can go to any public hospital right now and get whatever care i need. no extra payment required. (you can read more here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema_%C3%9Anico_de_Sa%C3%BA...)

but i also pay for private health care -- because it's... well, better. and fortunately, i can afford it.

so i can go to a private hospital and also get whatever procedure i need.

if you think about it, i'm basically paying in double because my taxes go to the public health care system AND i pay for private insurance -- but i honestly don't care, because i want other people, that have no insurance, to have health care.
CV researcher quits due to ethical concerns
i wonder how they came to a nice round number of 1000 a month... why not 1100 or 900

i’d love to see the rationale for that
The overall average per person has declined (though not really since the 80s). However, in the same time frame, the proportion of women in formal work went from 35% to 60% [1]. So the story for men and women looks very different. Note also that for women this is a shift from domestic labor to formal labor, so it's probably not much of an increase in hours worked even though it looks like that on paper. However, in the same time frame, I believe men spend a bit more time on housework than they used to, which is not included in formal hours worked.

The point of all this is simply that it is difficult to make conclusions about labor market trends from average annual hours worked.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300002
Just to be clear, the issue with relativity you're having is not particularly related to Special or General relativity - but classic relativity.

> What about objects in a plane, where one moves but never intersects the other

Just imagine standing next to the highway - the cars are not driving directly at you - but you can still tell they're going fast. You know where they are relative to you, and how that value changes over time, which gives you velocity. If I sprint next to the cars, they increase or decrease in speed relative to me of course. They don't change speed relative to Earth, which makes it easier to be a little objective about their speeds.

Think of it this way. In the black void of space. No stars, no nothing. There's me and you. We're 20 feet apart, but getting closer together at a constant rate. From my perspective, you're getting closer to me. From your perspective, I'm getting closer to you. Both of us can effectively measure each others speeds. Even if we're not parallel - if we're perpendicular, it'll still be similar.

What may be tripping you up is rotation. If I spin in circles, is that the same as everything else spinning in circles around me? If I were to go to a parking lot and spin around quickly, like a ballerina - what's happening to the cars? Well, one second, there's a car 50 feet behind me, the next second, it's 50 feet in front of me! You might think it just traveled 100ft per second relative to me! But this isn't the case. We can determine who is rotating and who is not, even in our black void. Rotation is not relative, it is absolute.

Take our black void example again. Except this time, we're both still, but you're spinning. From your perspective you see me floating 10 feet away from you, quickly orbiting you. You might think this is a relative situation - are you spinning, or am I rapidly orbiting you? But it is in fact, objectively true that one of us is spinning and the other isn't. How can you tell? Well, a number of ways.

For starters, it doesn't make sense for me to be orbiting you. There's no gravity at play, we could measure and feel that if it were the case. So if this illusion is to work, I must be zipping around you on my own accord, using my own energy somehow - like a little jetpack. But even still! Even with that ambiguity, you could tell you were rotating.

You can feel it in your arms, for one! Centripetal force will cause your arms to fly out, the faster you spin. Contrast this with floating in a straight line in our void. You could be flying by at 1000m/s or crawling at .1m/s and not know the difference without a reference point. Rotation, you can always figure out without a reference point. Rotation is absolute.
The "Penetration Test" document is here:

https://files.catbox.moe/fxn9r2.pdf

Some comments:

The beginning of the document says "Inspecting the file and testing my findings with initial hand‑crafted POST requests, I discovered that this script allows clients to specify a custom filename which is susceptible to path traversal. To make matters worse, the script does not protect against overwriting existing files": Great, you have path traversal and upload on an old-school PHP platform. You've already won! Report it and move to a bug bounty that actually pays.

Next, "Using this vulnerability, I uploaded a custom .htaccess file (with Options +Indexes ) into the /media directory": This is going too far.

Next, "Further leveraging the insecure upload script, I managed to deploy a custom index.php into an exiting /media subfolder": This is going to far.

Next, "To expedite further testing, I uploaded a copy of the p0wny‑shell. (Note that I slightly modified the file to circumvent common anti‑malware signatures.)": This is going to far.

"Knowing SlickWraps' website was powered by Magento 1.8, I located and decrypted the local configuration file. In here, I found MySQL and Redis credentials, and thus had full access to their entire database... Investigating the complete 17 GB MySQL dump gave me access to the following": Ah, so you knowingly breached real customer data. I think even you know you've gone way too far by now.

I could continue to the next steps in the exploitation chain, but won't. Per their initial Medium writeup, they didn't report it to Slick Wraps until they had walked past a not-so-thin line half a dozen times and extracted the full database content.

This behavior isn't even remotely grey-hat.
Reminds me of the joke whose punchline is that if we transition to renewable energy and go carbon-neutral we'll have gotten ourselves off of oil and its related issues (spills, war, etc.) for nothing [1].

Even if you don't believe in climate change - which I do not think is a reasonable position at this point - I would hope we can all agree that not having to rely on oil any more is a good enough economic incentive for everyone.

[1] https://solar-power-now.com/what-if-we-create-a-better-world...
Wow, she is living the dream.
Elon Musk went from sleeping in the factory to launching a crew into space
People say a lot of things.
People also thought flight was impossible. In this case, the 'construct' is the morphological traits that distinguish men from women. That's what our brains use to differentiate men from women -- chromosomes are irrelevant here. We don't need to replicate sex at a molecular level -- if someone is indiscernible from a women without inspecting their molecular structure they are for all practical purposes a woman. A far cry from changing a fly into a banana, as much as you may wish it were so.
I think the question for discord is rather if it allows that precedent on one platform it becomes much easier for cheat distribution communities to use this sort of rhetoric as a disguise to avoid being banned.

I think not allowing the distribution of cheat software even for benevolent purposes on a platform so widely used by a general audience is probably a reasonable choice.
VCs and startup founders are shooting themselves in the foot. It makes very little financial sense to work at a startup vs FAANG these days.
It's an amazing (good) achievement that they were able to debt finance, and really improves their credibility as a business in my estimation.
I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that it is common in single-payer system to outlaw at least some forms of private practice, see for example:

http://www.canadian-healthcare.org/page6.html

> In addition to public health care providers such as primary care doctors and hospitals, many private clinics offering specialized services also operate in Canada. Under federal law, private clinics are not legally allowed to provide services covered by the Canada Health Act.

One of the EconTalk links I posted above has an interview with someone who started a hospital that takes no insurance, and the total payment for a procedure is less than the co-pay for a procedure at hospitals that take insurance (or at least, that's their claim), and their cited cost was much more than 13% less than the study claims can be done. In that interview, he discussed how people had problems getting basic procedures done in a timely and affordable fashion at other hospitals.
I did it a bit different. For 2020, working four days gives me 204 workable days per year. Working five days gives me 255 workable days per year.

What I do is that I work five days a week and around June-July I take ten weeks off. I have the same amount of working days per year with the same income but it feels like a godsend to have a yearly sabbatical of over 2 months during the best weather of the year. It reminds me of being in school again with the long summer holidays.

If I ever have children that means being with them for six weeks fully dedicated to them.
This is full of assumptions and judgement. Of course you are viewed as a grumpy dev. You are one. Own it.
In your defense, I don't see a link to the extension anywhere on the GitHub page.