skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things to keep in mind/think about...

- Employer-sponsored healthcare is aggressively anti-entrepreneurial and any universal program would be a massive boon to independent workers and those who own or want to start their own business.

- In addition to the $400-$600 us and/or our employer pay every month (for one person), we also have to pay for copays, coinsurance, deductibles and so on. I'd hope that under any universal system these would all disappear. And no more HSAs and other unnecessarily complicated programs we've designed to deal with our bizarre system.

- CA already has a variety of healthcare systems that are universal for those who qualify and are very expensive. I'm curious how these might operate under a statewide universal system, especially fully federal programs like the VA.

- More than anything, I'd love to leave behind our byzantine and unpredictable system of trying to determine which providers accept our insurance (goodbye "networks") and how much a given treatment will actually cost us. Even as a person who does not often need medical care, I've still encountered many unexpected bills, in some cases despite direct assurances from the provider and/or insurer that I would not have to pay. Then comes the appeals... another absurd aspect of out system we could leave in the dustbin of history.
Presumably because parantheses don't really have anything to do with tuples, it's commas that do. Parantheses are there to help the parser group things in case of ambiguity, and to support expressions spanning multiple lines.
Typical the argument is that a single payer system is to avoid waste. California Government would be the perfect candidate for this since they are so fiscally responsible and do such an amazing job managing their finances. God Speed.
Ultimately it's about education, tools are never the entire answer.

That said, I point them to Apple ecosystem, all mail is gmail / gsuite with the web interface as the client, this works quite well for spam and phishing. I have not encountered something for the sms and WhatsApp phishing, there I still have to rely only on education.
People inherently produce value though. You're going to have to get pretty specific because I can't imagine those people leaving are taking anything vital away from those who stayed.
Why are you posting content that is behind a pay wall that nobody has access to?
lst = [range(0, 10, 2)]
I just watched this on Youtube [1], and was surprised to see the actors in the scene were John Spencer (from The West Wing) and a (very young) Michael Madsen (Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs). According to Wikipedia, this was Madsen's 2nd role ever.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-T_uhQ0iE4
The rich and powerful have entire cottage industries providing legal protections to their shenanigans. It's why this case stands out so much (aside from American TV's obsession with "X happened to Attractive Blonde Woman). She exceeded the normal plausible deniability framework that the elite operate from.
What about unexpected events, like getting sick, or getting stuck at an event for too long, or being distracted by relative, etc?
*Most* attempts fail even in the hospital.
The way this headline is written reminds me of a recent article that asked if you would rather have a treatment with a 10% chance of death or one with a 90% chance of success.

This is from an advocacy organization that is more or less anti-tax. There are probably much more balanced takes on this proposal from other sources.
It’s the preexisting injury part that jacked up the prices. They aren’t allowed to deny enrollment or charge significantly higher premiums if some was has cancer or something. And that totally makes sense morally, but that causes the risk burden to be offset on the aggregate of the subscribers resulting in higher premiums for everyone.

It would be kind of similar to forcing auto insurance carriers to afford coverage to cars they didn’t previously insure after they had already been in an accident.
There is a non-zero chance—-very unlikely: it would require a 50%-60% decrease in housing prices—-that they could lose the backyard without making income. The weighted probability might lower the Expected Value 1k. That said, foreclosure would still be beholden to the profit split agreement should the lot be profitable.
HN and VCs ought to be extremely interested in single-payer for this reason. Healthcare (for themselves and their families) is a big reason why, in practice, people stick around at stable employers.

Also, private stock valuation can't simply pay health insurance bills.
Not true really. Germany has had pretty good success. Wait times even on the public side are reasonable. But govt is actually not very involved in providing care - they are more of a market administrator. 100+ nonprofits compete for patients in various ways. And everyone has to have coverage.

Also, coverage is rationed more in these systems, they would never approve these the $20,000 per bill with limited evidence type treatments.
That's unfortunately how polarized topics work. We can't do much about human nature.
The explanation that kogi is pronounced like yogi implied to me, limited being that I am, that the 'g' was a so-called hard consonant, not that the vowel sounded like 'oh'.

But yes, that does assume American English pronunciation (and for what I know, various other Englishes too).
I pay less than half of that. So in effect you’re seeking to drive up my costs in order to drive yours down. I can at least understand why you would want to, but I won’t be your ally.
We pass through building costs, there is perfect alignment in our incentives, which is to maximize sales price.
No sorry for confusion. It is ka-gi, just accented in the same way as yogi.
Or relaxing licensing rules?
I expect "that won't work in the US" to become "the rest of the country isn't like California" after it's a resounding success.
Ask HN: What Comes After Webhooks?
I feel like it's time for an improvement on / replacement for webhooks.

Pains / concerns:

* Local development is annoying (ngrok, etc.)

* Security is low

* Doesn't work super well with serverless stack

Curious how others are thinking about this.
While the US does contain some stellar hospitals and surgeons, by broader metrics the US performs poorly. From 2010 to 2015 (before COVID messed with the data), the US ranked 43rd [1] in overall life expectancy. This is behind countries like Cuba and Slovenia, and well behind other rich countries like Japan, Canada, or the UK.

Healthcare costs and outcomes can't be separated from each other. The more expensive it is to receive treatment, the fewer people will get the treatment they need. Having good service isn't sufficient if that service isn't available to everyone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_life...
I know there were threads about this previously but I can't find them. Anyone?

Edit: thanks all!
JRuby is in wide deployment at hundreds or thousands of businesses across every industry. We generally run real-world apps much faster than CRuby (lower latency, better use of CPU and memory) and are especially good at big data and high concurrency applications.

JRuby remains the only alternative Ruby to see large-scale production deployment.
>>Though lawful, Republicans ... refused to 'seat' nominee...

[Party B] followed the rules. [Party A] did not have sufficient votes to appoint a judge, and so no judge was appointed. [Party B] is under no obligation to assist [Party A].

>> They (Party B) then flipped those rules

[Party B] changed no rules. [Party B] had the votes to appoint a judge, and so a judge was appointed. [Party A] did not have sufficient votes to oppose it.
True, but doesn't seem relevant for updating an interactive shell.
Uh, yeah. My business budgets out 20k/year for insurance premiums on the employer side per employee. This might be an old shorthand, but it's what we use in our models. Some employees pay extra out of pocket for added dependents.
Inactivitated pathogens are themselves nanoparticles. Many pathogens even are made of lipids as well.
If it wasn't desigend to be disabled it would be buried under multiple and multiple metal layers. You can't "cut" it like a wire. Metal layers run all over the place [1].

Therefore it would have a an e-fuse or a regular old 'current' fuse -- which is just passing a calculated amount of current through an intentionally thin interconnect so that it burns away.

1 - https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/1840/images/2019-0...
Even if you don't have a credit card you may have a mortgage, or a car loan, or a business loan, or...

To have none of those things in the US you must be either very rich, very poor, or dependent on someone else who does.
And that's not what I was talking about. throwawayacc2 was clearly not trying to paint 1_player as supporting the 1-6 insurrection, but making a meta point about the latter's argument.
California had a $75 billion surplus last year.
The whole bit with the "farmhouse" cover for it is nonsense. The actual facilities were clearly marked, fenced, and heavily guarded, with the usual "Use of deadly force authorized" signs. Every local knew where they were, as did the Soviets.

Handling your issue .38 that way would get you a reprimand.

And, of course, the military never ran exercises with the real equipment, or without telling the crew.
Please don't hijack a discussion on foreign politics to drop your hot take about US politics.

Baseless fear mongering is not new but it does feel more common. The supreme court is not dramatically out of wack nor have they "rolled back abortion rights". They specifically rejected a particular emergency appeal because of issues with immediate harm.

Preventing state discrimination in charter school funds is not a rollback of lgtbq rights, which are stronger than they have ever been, nor are charter schools mandatory.

Media is not republican controlled and the vast, vast majority of media coverage in the US is liberal in leaning.

Please stop doomsaying.
Well, let's say you're exploring a cave with six entrances.

If it's any old cave, you might just explore one at a time.

If you're pretty sure the Holy Grail is somewhere in it, you might hire six explorers, at higher initial expense.
I am US Citizen living in CA, while also have lived (and am citizen) of other 3 countries, Canada as one prior to US. To remind all, Michael Moore's Sicko documentary is huge misrepresentation of how good socialized HC is, while it did point huge issues with the current privatized/greed-based private US HC with crooked HC+insurance industry.

So as not all is BW, from my experience with Canadian HC, socialization of the health-care system shall produce the following:
1. significantly lower the quality of services (same or lower number of staff, material, equipment serving higher number of people)
2. waiting lists shall start appearing slowly and then progress over the years
3. HC shall deteriorate slowly (look at the UK and many other countries)
4. Extended/add-on/"bridge" HC shall become popular to fill in the gaps for the working people who demand at least better minimum (in Canada this is the norm, where typical Canadian pays just for this add-on HC similar per paycheck amount as US employer for the whole today's HC!)

Populist government "figures" shall play any card to live for another day and "please voters" including "changing realities" or avoiding the real "put all on the table and have open conversation" approach.
I try NOT to use any service that uses SMS OTP. Paypal for example require that you use an SMS OTP which is good for security, but bad generally since SMS one-time-codes can be intercepted. And if your phone number got into the wrong hands, your accounts are trivial to take over.
Did you get your entire understanding of economics from an Ayn Rand novel?

That's what it was reminding me of. (The USSR comparison should have given it away, but I can be slow that way.) Complete with the farmers going all "John Galt". Of course, what Rand forgot was that there's not going to be pitchforks at the granary. Like, what, folks are just going to let that land lie fallow? Like there isn't going to be some other steel company glad to have the competition out of the way? (re: Atlas Shrugged) Some folks like to fantasize that the world will miss them when they take their ball and go home. Some will later discover that the world is cruelly indifferent to them.
Wait, really? I'm in WA, and I tip every time I go through there. I asked the first time whether it was appropriate to tip, and the guy was like "uhh, yeah!" so I've never asked again.
If you google "Sneakers streaming", there are several services that are streaming it for a price. There are surely other ways to watch it as well. It's definitely worth a watch. I love both (as well as The Matrix and Hackers), all for different reasons.
A sugar tax will accomplish a lot and is much easier.
A scene was shot right next to my muni stop at Embarcadero and Folsom. I’d think about this movie every day, if for no other reason thinking about how they made that area look like no traffic existed.
> By the time they are 75 or even older the cost would be insane if this continues.

That's more or less why Medicare exists.
The reverse, that you are in effect advocating, amounts to letting the big fish get away with fleecing LOTS of people while coming down much harder on the small fry that robs one person at a time.

Also a very American way of thinking AFAICS.
Definitely. I argued the same in a top-level comment.
It is explicit: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscript...

There's also a handy summary in the same policy document: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscript...
I searched for several different variations of this story before I posted it. I was not able to find them.
This looks like pretty clear evidence of wasting IP addresses to me...
> If you contrast his grandfather's life of civic virtue with his cosplay reactionary Anglophilia

Its interesting that we are discussing a famous poet from a bygone era when we juxtapose those works with what passes as wit in our modern era.
Affinity for your own people over others has been the human condition for much of its existence. Even though we "know better", the conflicts we see in history and even today help me to at least understand why heterogeneity would not have seemed like the obvious or intuitive solution to our forebears.
There's a really good NPR podcast about this very kind of thing, where there's a guy who's been hunting down a particular "musical tone" for more than a decade, and it talks both about how hard it is to be the kind of person that needs those answers, the process of arriving at an answer (including many, many false starts and red herrings), and the satisfaction that comes from figuring it out.

I don't want to spoil it, but the tremendous tragedy/irony is that a certain class of people within the IT industry could have answered the guy's question (or at least put him definitively on the right track) after hearing it just one time, which I think is actually a really important lesson to fully internalize: whatever thing that's been haunting/daunting you, if you get lucky enough to just mention it in front of that one right person you'll be immediately closer to an answer than if you spent literally ten years chasing it without their insight.

I'm not a huge podcast (or any audio/visual media) advocate, but this one is worth listening to if you're stuck in the car or something:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/516/stuck-in-the-middle/act...
You can still use the feature at your own risk - no one is forcing you to install the microcode update.
I wonder how much infrastructure affects these calculations. In theory a company built on serverless resources should have much better revenue/employee, since a key premise of serverless is to replace headcount with a higher cloud bill. A saas company using expensive cloud services might look artificially more successful than one built with on-prem or more traditional cloud servers, if investors focus too much on employee specific costs.
Do you have any recommended reading on Ubuntu Core? The docs seem good but there's little content online for it. In particular I've been trying to understand how to get GPIO and I2C etc working on the Pi with Core and then allowing the snap access.
Uh, not really? They have to stay there anyway for SB9 - this gives them a tractable (aka actually) doable way to get more wealth now without having to leave, and still retaining their home as-is in many cases. And it means SB9 like densification and additional housing is more likely to actually happen.

99% of homeowners could not actually do what you need to do for this densification - the planning, paperwork, and execution to get everything done is very difficult. 20% of net profit in exchange is pretty good actually. You’d need some truly crazy levels (several million+) of pure gain before it would make sense to try it yourself IMO.

I’ve done a decent amount of permitted work and far smaller projects can easily burn a year of nights and weekends.
We pointing out aggressive, divisive and intolerant way of thinking that always lead us into bad things.
Many people rent and buy cars with money they have saved. Some others, use public transportation. While many middle-class people take advantage of credit, it is not a requirement to participate in modern society. It is optional, in any normal sense of the word. Search "debt-free lifestyle" and you'll find blogs of many who advocate for living this way.
And even if you can build the scoop a Bussard Ramjet has a theoretical efficiency limit of .12c unless you can somehow reclaim the energy of the infalling matter.
How many millions are waiting in the US because they can't afford care?
Which country/language has interesting IPv6-only content?
$9B to Build the Future
Okay got it only non-confirmation bias affirming statements need support and when provided it’s discarded anyway, and comments further up the chain that agree with confirmation bias get a free pass on support.
Isn't the censorship applied by Airtel, Jio, etc, because of local laws?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India

I don't see how Cloudflare or any other provider can make Airtel "fix" the snooping when Airtel is forced by law to block those sites.

This seems to be a policy/government problem, not a Cloudflare or Airtel problem.
> 30% of the population votes for X, 30% for Y and 40% for Z.

> Now, even if followers of X and Y hate Z more than each other, the winner is still Z.

In this situation, Z would not win a runoff election though. In 2020 The PiS candidate won the presidential election[1]. I think saying that most Poles prefer the current government is imprecise but still truthful, therefore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Polish_presidential_elect...
Uh... do you want this (https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/whatistheline) ? There is a prince in Saudi Arabia who'll do it for you!

Interestingly, California is one of the lower direct carbon footprint per capita states. With drastically less heating and cooling in the Bay, LA and SD than national averages, and denser areas, it's a net positive to build more housing here than Phoenix, Austin, Houston, Dallas, etc.
I think you’ve got first mover advantage until someone with deep pockets (Zillow, OpenDoor, SVB, Rocket Mortgage) copies this, FHA 203k style (this is sort of, but not quite, like a construction or rehab loan). Best wishes for the endeavor if you can scale fast and stay ahead of competitors. Anything that provides more housing with minimal negative impact is welcome.

The riskiest part is extending credit (imho) to marginal borrowers (low to middle class), but the value of the land is proven, so the rest is logistics.
> Sneakers features a box which can decrypt anything

Not "anything". Merely the standard encryption used [and sold] by their own government.

The allusion to NSA being an arm of nation-state industrial espionage apparatus is quite muted, but it's there.
Excited for you guys. You've worked so hard.
It's amazing how sticky the myth has become, though. On Ice Lake Xeon there is basically no penalty for using the AVX-512 unit.
It says my lot isn't qualified because of high fire risk: Properties that are located within CalFire's "Very High Fire Severity Zones" are not eligible for SB 9 (unless excluded from the specified hazard zone by a local agency).

The real reason it doesn't qualify, though, is that my HOA—my entire city of ~650 SFH homes exists behind an HOA—has stated it won't approve SB9-related lot splits. The city itself wrote SB9 language into its bylaws, as required, but the architectural review committee in the HOA won't approve requests.

Moreover, all homes in my city are on septic systems, and LA County has a min lot size requirement for approving new ones. Some lots are large enough to split without dipping under that threshold, but most aren't; that means we have a sanitation reason to reject lot split requests too.

I imagine that similar developments will block lot splits in these ways. Have you run into similar issues? Have you successfully split any lots yet?
Again, it's a cost/benefit analysis.

The benefit went up. The acceptable costs of parallelization similarly went up.

(Some steps got easier, too, for the same "everyone really wants a solution yesterday" reasons, like recruiting trial volunteers. For example: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-coronavirus-vaccin...)

> For instance, it took just under 16 weeks to recruit and enroll more than 43,000 volunteers for the final phases of testing Pfizer’s vaccine. When volunteer recruitment began for clinical trials of the rabies mRNA vaccine in 2013, it took 813 days to get 101 participants enrolled. Based on this comparison, that’s roughly 730 days — nearly two years — saved in recruiting alone.

The same article cites precisely one of those parallelization steps I'm talking about:

> In a final jolt of speed, some pharmaceutical companies, bolstered by big vaccine contracts and research cash from the U.S. government’s Operation Warp Speed, were also churning out doses during clinical trials in the hopes that the vaccines would work. Once the companies had emergency use authorization in hand, they were ready to ship doses immediately.
Glad to hear you got some benefit from JRuby! A lot has changed since 2011, including much better compatibility and many little performance improvements. I'm not sure we were even on the current JRuby runtime (register-based IR + JVM JIT) at that time, which has improved perf and compat tremendously.

If you ever have any issues with JRuby again, please let us know. We spend most of our time supporting users and want them to have a good experience.
Buddhism reaching China was in the 1st century CE.

The Persians ruling over Egypt, the Punjab, and Mesopotamia was 509 years before that.

And a 1000 years before that (1500 BC) the Mittani who had very similars gods and royal names that are very similar to Sanskrit had an Empire in the Middle East.

Also, the Maury Empire had close links with the Seleucid Empire (the war elephants used in many of the Seleucid campaigns came from India)

The Indo-Chinese links as can be seen from history are not nearly as old or as well attested.
I've NEVER seen an employee denied (or asked) about their medical conditions ever. The enrollment paperwork to the carrier is like basic address / name / effective date for coverage. That is it.