skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that Trump's policies working against the federal workforce may have skewed those results.

For an example, see this:

https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2020/02/white-house-rev...

Not sure about state and local government employees.
Goodbye stack overflow copy pasting, welcome copilot auto generated code. It will bring similar problem of someone using something they don't understand.

Another extra work for code reviewer. However on the right hand it will be very powerful!
> How are state and federal grants not made up of tax dollars?

State is different because the funding situation of state and federal governments are not equivalent, but marginal federal spending is not tied to marginal increases in tax revenue even in principal, so quite literally changes in federal spending do not come from tax dollars.

If you assume that (1) the lifespan of the federal government is finite, and (2) the federal government will have no unpaid, transferred, forgiven, or externally covered debt from now until and including the eventual final shut-down, then it follows that any spending must eventually be covered by taxes, but while (1) is a reasonable assumption, (2) is...less clearly justified.
Starlink doesn't.

My feeling is municipal broadband is a good idea from a decade ago, but about to be made obsolete by fast wireless.
Wow, he really hid it well. I remember thinking how composed he was and how clearly he communicated whilst watching videos of him speak
Most devs using React work in development mode which is several times slower than production. I used to test with a chromebook and production builds were often faster than dev builds on my macbook.
> - Someone who drank so much and annihilated their liver, requiring significant & expensive surgery

That’s called an addiction. It’s a disease. And that should (and can) be fixed by a doctor.

> - Someone who couldn't stop eating at McDonald's and hasn't touched a vegetable in a decade now wants lifetime insulin and kidney transplant

Same thing + metabolism issues, aggravated by voluntarily aggressive marketing. Can and should be fixed by a doctor.

> - A hypochondriac who wants to see their doctor for every scratch, off-color skin mark, etc.

Psychiatric issue with real psychiatric or physical pain : can and should be fixed by a doctor.

> - Someone voluntarily jumping off planes, doing dangerous sports, etc. without insurance, and expecting someone else will foot the bill

Just make insurance mandatory for extreme sports like in most countries.

> - Someone who wants every and any blood test because they coughed once

Same as above. Hypochondriasis is totally documented as a real suffering and psychiatric issue.

All your examples are situations that can be prevented with preemptive medicine which is the norm in countries where you can see a doctor long before being sick. I’m not saying it’s easy or perfect, but it’s easier for doctors to prevent diabetes if they can follow patients regularly and check their vitals than if they only see them once a year or less because they can’t afford it.
This website is an echo chamber many times more niche than other social websites. It’s mainly tech nerds with very similar beliefs and backgrounds. Opinons here, as with most websites, should be taken with a grain of salt.
The question you address is much more difficult to answer, if not impossible.

I read the article with the preface: Lets suppose workimg hard is desirable. How to do this?

This is the correct reading for me
> So to many Canadians, at some point, the potential to make more money outweighs the UHC enough to leave Canada and go to the US to make it big.

It isn't so cut and dried.

At any point these people can return to Canada and receive free healthcare again after only a year of waiting.

What these people are doing is betting that they won't have any crippling healthcare incidents while they're young and banking on the fact that they can always move back to Canada to receive free healthcare for the chronic health conditions that accrue in old age.

Many of these people are effectively leaches on the Canadian health care system as they do not pay taxes into it and then make use of it in old age when they return to Canada.
> Suetonius' account, written many years after the event, has them salute the emperor with the phrase "morituri te salutant" ("those who are about to die salute you"). There is no evidence that this form of address was used on any occasion other than this single naumachia.

So this is when that famous quote allegedly originated.
There’s kind of a bit of a (thankfully bloodless) naumachia near Spetses every year at the Armata festival:
https://www.greeka.com/saronic/spetses/festivals/armata-fest...
…related to:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nauplia_(1822)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laskarina_Bouboulina
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spetses
Crime in San Francisco: Using Seaborn FacetGrid and Contextily
it's way beyond me; my grasp of quantum mechanics is at a slightly-beyond-pop level. My road into the systems memeplex was from trying to understand my own intuitions about software engineering and wicked problems in the social space. From there it's been mostly philosophy with a little bit of maths.
He should let much more of that into his writing, because he could have written this post in 2007 and it would mostly read the same, and he's not the same person he was back then. Also, in sort of the same way that pg-writing-about-lisp is one of the harder pg's to dislike, dad-mode pg is probably his most likable and persuasive mode.
Of course hard work matters, but when VC tells you to work hard, take it with the grain of salt, because this is how VC is going to make money off your work. What is missing from this advice is what is sacrificed. If and when 10-20 year later you cash out, what else are you going to have beside money? Family, friends, health? If you can make this trade-off consciously - good for you, but most people just go with the flow and don't think about it until it's too late.

Double irony of this advice is that many VCs are one of the most laid-back people you can meet. Usually they are already rich, so they don't exactly have to hussle anymore, and can choose when to do so.
I used to be a power-user of apple notes too. I loved how simple it is but I also missed having more functionality. My notes and folders became messy very quickly with limited options to organise. I also had to review my notes and put the action points into a calendar which became too much work. Decided to start building something better, https://acreom.com/

Happy to share the access and get feedback.
Can you cite some of this credible evidence?
Where do the savings come in? If you know how to securely send lottery tickets why can't you use the same system to send the money instead?
They are. Their taxes pay for the vouchers.
- Why is wealth inequality a problem? If average people is relatively wealthy (which i think is the case for USA), why does it matter that some people are very wealthy? This is different than some 3rd world countries where average people is poor and some very small percentage have wealth (and mostly due to corruption / crime / political influence)

- Rate of incarceration may also mean that USA does a good job of imparting justice / catch criminals.

- Healthcare costs looks like an issue, but socialized systems also have their problems (bad quality, wrong economic incentives for doctors to improve their practice, etc.)
The fact that over 80% of individuals don’t even have $1MM in assets certainly is a basis to dismiss the point. “It’s possible” is technically correct (no, that’s not the best kind of correct), but leaves out just a ton of context. “It’s possible” for a Boltzmann brain to form. Doesn’t mean it’s likely, common, or that people who don’t achieve it have somehow done something wrong.
Far fewer kids have gotten vaccinated than have caught covid.
If you think you can reduce this to the singular axis of "deaths", you're making a straw-man argument: we should absolutely vaccinate the children who are at risk of death, and fortunately, we can easily identify them, because it's not random. Essentially all child deaths from Covid have occurred in kids with serious pre-existing conditions.

Moreover, you're implicitly using a biased selection of data to make this argument. Want more children to die of myocarditis? Keep doing the same thing we're doing now. It will happen. We've been vaccinating kids for a fraction of the time they've been getting Covid.

I will say this for the benefit of others: regarding the CDCs numbers, in particular, they've used the incorrect counter-factual (no doses vs. two doses), and substantially mis-represented the rates of myocarditis in children.

https://medium.com/@wpegden/weighing-myocarditis-cases-acip-...

I've been mortified to see the CDC spreading this kind of mis-calculation so widely. It's simply unconscionable.
If you store zoned time in UTC then the zones or UTC change then the time can be formatted correctly in the future.

My point in mentioning the solstice is that while some events are at “2pm”, others are “when something happens”.

Sure, UTC is not suitable for conducting astronomy. It is suitable for working with human friendly times, since it is the foundation of timezones.
Yep. And now imagine these people with Github Copilot in their arsenal. God help us all.
> And, it covers everything (except no pre-existing conditions)

You're foisting the sick and the elderly onto government programs, and patting yourself on the back for pulling yourself by your bootstraps.
Alright, so under some conditions the worst price for oil is competitive with the best price for solar. I know it's important to correct me, and obviously I should've expanded on the fact that it's thermal energy to make it more fair, but nit picking on my argument doesn't change the story. Apparently Saudi Arabia can get oil at $5/barrel, so that's a factor 6 we're still off by.

I fully agree, if it can be done in Saudi Arabia, it can probably also be done in Death Valley or some other nice sunny area reasonably close to a large population, and it will help a lot. I just fear that regardless of what we or anyone wants to pay, Saudi Arabia is still going to be wanting to sell it as long as it's over $5/barrel.
You can rest assured that this is already the case if your picture was ever posted online. There are dozens of such products that law enforcement buys subscriptions to.
So you think that Nature as a journal saying previous covid infection gives antibodies like the vaccines, is comparable to how primitive medical science once didn’t know you had to wash your hands before surgery?
is it anxiety? I don't have a single hobby at this point that doesn't involve learning new stuff or having to work as part of it. I've totally stopped watching movies for enjoyment or playing video games because it feels so "unproductive"
Analogy fans: Plain text is to human as IR is to compiler.
In what way did PG work hard? His job seems incredibly cushy to me. He even had the leisure to write his own lisp! VCs don’t work hard. They sit there and watch people grovel.
how does this compare to just creating a personal wiki with internal hyperlinks between all your topics of interest?
I wonder how much of this is due to shifting housing stock. Were there more 1 bedroom/small 2-bedroom units in the past?

Anecdotally in Boston there has been a longstanding push towards "family housing" this results in a relative oversupply of 5+ bedroom units that are almost exclusively leased to large groups.
> Goodbye stack overflow copy pasting, welcome copilot auto generated code. It will bring similar problem of someone using something they don't understand.

To be fair, “beat on it until it seems to work” without AI assistance or copy-pasting code also frequently involves a fair amount of “using something they don’t understand”.

OTOH, copy pasta and AI assisted code are less likely to get “I don’t know why this works” or “I don't know why this is necessary” comments to highlight that to the reviewer.
You can get you own armed guards - but you will still subsidize other people's police force.

You pay taxes to provide a minimum service to all of the community, you can then take advantage of it or not - that's your prerogative.

I pay for school taxes, but I don't have kids - should I get my money back?
OP is talking about ISPs not “US Tech”. In the UK (and talking to F&F across Europe) we have significantly better access to broadband than the US. I have at least 6 companies I can purchase broadband from (thats off the top of my head, it’s probably more if I did some research) - I currently pay £32 per month (so like $45) for 200Mb up and 20Mb that is bullet proof stable.
Everyone pays them, but only probabilistically: the cost of a single commit gets spread out over the cost of all 1000 of those transactions (in the same way that costs of doing business that you can't track to a single customer still get paid by all customers simply inflating your price just a bit). As an example, if the cost of your product is $0.01 and the cost of a bank transfer is $0.25, and you receive tickets at 1/2500 probability, then you tack on to everyone's receipt "their share" of that fee, charging them $0.0101 instead of $0.01, for a claim value per ticket of $25.25 (as $25.25*1/2500==$0.0101), which you can see includes the $25 for the 2500 products people bought and the extra $0.25 to pay the banking fee. So: the recipient paid that fee, but passed it on to the sender, who ultimately paid that fee... but a much much lower fee ($0.0001 instead of $0.25).
All the things you noted aren’t substantive arguments against the essay, in my view.

The casual assertions, the unsupported and contentious theme, and the complete omission of anything approaching a consideration of alternatives are common themes in PG’s essays. And those are what make them almost uniformly worthless, in my opinion.
Types of Coffee to Try Before You Die
Work on floppy formatting, CRC calculation and sector writing
Alternatively, if you want to get global coverage, there's https://www.bivystick.com/bivy-stick-satellite-communicator/

Disclosure: I worked on an implementation of the Android-side Bluetooth stack for this. It's... decent.
If BTC sneezes because mining is prohibited, proof of stake cryptocurrency stay health.
See my response to your other question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27681781 (but like, the idea is that you can spread the cost of an underlying transfer--which costs money to perform and potentially permanently store on the underlying blockchain--across all of the people making probabilistic payments, which you can make very small if the people involved are willing to tolerate the variance on a resulting purchase and have a high enough principal to still have a reasonably high efficiency after paying for the amortized fees).
Another argument I've seen on redstate (a GOP news agency): "and the left keep shifting goalposts of what speed is considered broadband, they say you need 1 Gbps, while a typical video stream fits in 3 Mbps, and reality is that 25 down / 5 up is a great speed!" I guess the big ISPs don't forget to donate to GOP.
Simplicity in programming and why it matters
How did they cost that much? We had several doctor visits, virtual and otherwise, and never had more than a $20 co-pay, with most of them being free.
In my experience, doctors are like programmers.

Nobody really has any effective way to evaluate them, or at least, nobody does so on a broad basis or consistently. Some of them can’t pass fizzbuzz. Some of them can churn out CRUD apps, but have no idea what they’re doing when it comes to anything else. Some of them are extremely dogmatic about design patterns and tooling and ignore anything they don’t like. Some of them are inattentive or poor listeners. Some of them assume it’s Problem X they’ve seen a million times, but it’s not. Some of them are assholes. Some of them are really sharp and really engaged, but get overly excited and reinvent the wheel or spend a lot of time doing stuff that’s completely unnecessary and maybe even harmful.

I don’t know how to evaluate doctors until I see them, I have no idea if better doctors cost more or less, I doubt there’s a strong correlation because nobody else can evaluate them either. They either help me or they don’t.

I think it absolutely is necessary that I should be able to have a history and see the same doctor, and that I should be able to see another doctor any time I want for the same condition for a second, third, or fourth opinion. I have seen this be absolutely necessary for myself and others with common conditions that were resolved after seeing a different doctor.

I assume this is still possible in most if not all public health care systems (I live in the US but local doctors and hospitals are all government run, an interesting aside), but I am not sure. I recently had a conversation with a Canadian friend who has debilitating autoimmune disease his specialist is doing basically nothing for and he made it seem like it wasn’t possible, but I didn’t want to press.
I saw this new Org mode port for NeoVim[1].

I wouldn't expect this to be anywhere near feature complete but for an old vim hand like me it's interesting.

I'm a big fan of VimWiki personally but I'm in awe of some of the Org-mode demos I've seen.

1. https://github.com/kristijanhusak/orgmode.nvim
There is meshtastic, which is open source and uses pretty cheap hardware:

https://meshtastic.letstalkthis.com/
People doing CRUD apps at Google makes lots of money and Google still hires everyone who pass their general tests afaik. Not everyone can work at Google, but if all software engineers were great we would have way more well run tech companies and therefore more companies paying similar to Google. So that argument doesn't really makes sense, software demand is still far from being met so all value any programmer can be delivered will be used up. Unlike for example cleaners, if every cleaner did 2x the work then we would just hire half as many cleaners.
> As a society we should make sure that the brightest people get appropriate knowledge and become as productive as possible

Right, that's exactly why I believe we should factor in things like a student's school and zip code along with their standardized test scores, so that we can identify the bright kids who are otherwise being underutilized.

Using standardized test scores alone means kids with middling intelligence but lots of educational resources will edge out brighter kids without those resources. Plus a kid with a lot of educational resources at their disposal will probably be fine either way, so identifying and advancing underutilized kids will likely yield a higher ROI.
For many people increased anxiety in general is part of the aging process.
At some point we have to accept that Corona doesn't go away and stop restricting people.

The next mutation is always around the corner and arbitrarily restricting people's freedom like this is not helping.

I hope politicians around the world where there is a high amount of vaccinated, will take note and let people go about their lives.

Current numbers for California

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/

Current numbers for UK where Delta is the dominant variant

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

And a link to the efficacy of vaccines for the Delta variant

https://fortune.com/2021/06/15/astrazeneca-pfizer-covid-vacc...
Show HN: A Browser extension to filter the GitHub news feeds based on events
Right but my main point is that those things look A Lot like social healthcare, except for the name.

It's like the stuff we did when we were kids: "I'll do it because I want to, but not because you tell me to".

Things like the NHS or Germany health system (both I've experienced) are pretty good. But hod forbids the US implements those /socialist/ systems.
Yeah really bad example there.
Like I said, I would be just as correct. There are addictive games and gamers, just as there are trashy novels and people who devour them one after another. I would consider neither more valid than the other.

I have met people I value through games and gaming, just as I have through Internet forums. I have experienced emotional highs and lows through the characters I’ve encountered in games, through the twists and turns of stories.

Like I said, perhaps you’ve missed out.

I’ve also blown off a lot of steam and enjoyed it as frivolous entertainment. I’m not trying to say it’s always worthy, social or a growth experience, that would be as absurd a claim as that it can never be so.
Diets Engineered to Work with Your Microbiome Are Latest Startup Craze
> I hear they might need to move it all to Azure soon!

I'm not sure if you made that post as a joke or not...but you just described a certain San Francisco based startup that operates in the SPF/DKIM/DMARC space...

Which company (if you can say) were you describing?
>But the point was that the CPI doesn’t accurately track real housing costs. Do you believe housing costs have gone down relative to inflation?

Well we just saw that adjusting for interest rates wipes away most of the increases in housing prices, and we didn't need CPI to reach that conclusion, only housing price index and interest rates.

> Housing costs relative to median income have doubled but that isn’t reflected in CPI data.

And what's your source for that claim? I'm sure that in the hottest housing markets that's true, but the CPI is a national measurement, not a local one.
Maintaining old code has a cost. Any changes Microsoft wants to make need to be compatible with the old code unless they remove it

Things like tests/validation on new hardware is also costly. Microsoft (used to?) have an absolutely massive fleet of physical hardware to test Windows on
Companies are just made up of people, so that's a very bitter view of huge swathes of our species. Is human society really just the vicious race to the moral low ground you describe? As a species we have our failings, for sure, but I believe that most people, most of the time and with the freedom to choose try to do the right thing as they see it, and that's as true of people who work for companies as for people who don't.
> wsl on windows 10 has been amazing to develop and work on.

Now imagine how amazing it would be just on Ubuntu ;-)
It's not even really a trade-off because at the end of the day both live in the same country. The friction and dysfunction that is caused by this division also shrinks the space of the top 20%, who end up in a golden cage at best.

I'm German from a low income family and I went to school with kids of millionaires and everyone walked through the same streets and went to the same bars. First time i went to the US I noticed what living in a bubble actually means. And the kids of the 'winners' seemed as neurotic as the kids of the 'losers'. There's an entire mindset of "if I not go into college X will I be where my parents are", "is such and such street safe", "should we move to X neighbourhood, is it better than Y". Even the "opportunities" that the people in the top 20% is basically are pure stress.
Excellent. Now we just need tools to automatically shit out convoluted JIRA cards, run them through this, and automatically generate the PRs.

Then we can run it overnight each night, knock back whatever rubbish it generates before breakfast now that there's nobody left to complain and schedule 6 hours of meetings to "fix" it, and instead we have the whole day to just build it quickly and properly the first time.

We just increased productivity on the average enterprise project by 50%. Good stuff.
Is starlink performance comparable to a symmetric fiber connection? I’m not aware of any wireless technologies that come close.