skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but adults like shiny colorful things too. It's kinda human nature, and it's a bummer that it might attract younger folks. But really, when I was younger, everybody was drinking whatever they could steal from their parents liquor cabinets. Having boring labels, and shitty taste didn't stop anybody. We never really went to the liquor isle in the store to see what was available and pick out what looked the best. You got what you could get. When you're that age, you can't be picky and choosy, and you're not drinking for the flavor, you're drinking to get drunk.
That's a non-sequitur. The pandemic, as in the actual killing / harming of people with the virus, is mostly over for vaccinated people.

True, some political response to the pandemic are still in place, but that would happen no matter what as politics tends to move slower than the reality on the ground.
That's why you look at net income and not revenue
Ok, you deleted your original post for some reason, so trying again.

Excited for SB9 and what you are doing! However, could you be more specific about the example lot you shared of 4511 Sally Dr? Looking at that on Google Maps ( https://goo.gl/maps/ZJUS37dskqd3f3jFA ) , it seems like there is not enough room to add anything more than an ADU to the current parcel. Is the idea that the existing house would be torn down, lot split into two, and two new houses then built? If so, could you clarify on the costs because you indicted you are only financing one house. If not, could you point out how you could possibly manage to fit another house there?
If you want to live in a nice society that has nice things, best learn to pony up.
I don't see anything here that other countries don't do and then cover it up and put on a democratic facade.
Very well put! Thank you, I am stealing some of your quotes. :)
The healthcare system in the United States is debatably one of the worst in the world. Cheers to California for trying to find a way to guarantee that all Californian's have access to the worlds worst healthcare system.
One of those 9,950/10,000 employees would have figured out that better way. Size matters when there are multiple orders of magnitude of difference.
Do you actually pay that much a year in insurance premiums? I don't live in CA, but I sure don't and my health coverage is pretty good. Keep in mind, this is also just the insurance premium, there's no talk of what co-pays or deductibles would be.

In addition, your employer now has to pay more based on their gross receipts and if you make more than 150k a year you are paying even more.
Sounds like a bug in the second-chance pool selection algorithm.
I'm not a human very often, according to Google

If Google says you're a robot, it must be true! You should behave accordingly.

There's actually a comic strip in the newspaper going through this storyline right now. Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! was told by a CAPTCHA that he's a robot, so he's going through life that way. The other robots do not seem to be happy to have him as part of their culture.

http://www.brewsterrockit.com
Probably 95% jobs, 5% safety.

https://jwkblog.com/wordpress/fire-at-gas-stations-some-fact...

5k fires/year, 61% involving vehicles so about 3k fires/year, presumably from pumping gas.

But given how many billions (or maybe even trillions) of customer-pump interactions per year that’s a really low incident rate.

It would be interesting to see if NJ and OR with no self-serve have dramatically lower rates but I couldn’t find that info.
Also, I guess in theory an employer could pass through the savings of paying for your insurance to your salary. Of course, I'm pretty cynical about that.
How Are Police Using Drones
Is it poisoning as in you are going to die? No. But I took so many edibles one time that I was legit hallucinating and was convinced I did permanent brain damage. It was scary. I can easily see why people would go to the hospital if they didn't realize they ate edibles.
The dosage can vary by patient. I got 30mg.
It’s very hard to do the math here. It’s largely invisible to me how much my employer is paying in health insurance premiums and it’s unknown that they will add that sum to my salary.
As a taxpayer I don't actually have a problem with this.

However, as a California resident who has seen this state's inability to think through regulations effectively or solve housing problems, I'm incredibly skeptical of California's ability to implement single payer healthcare effectively.

I would likely leave the state because I assume California would fail to deliver, and taxes would get raised for nothing.
Missing the most important part: avoid them (including boost), when you have a choice.

Professionals often don't have that choice. Cue many thousands of comments on HN why working in c++ sucks.
I do not believe single-payer is a good idea, but then lots of people DO seem to think it is, and the state is probably the best level at which to conduct an experiment this way. As a Californian, I'll be happy to see the experiment conducted, sad that it happens in my state, and excited to be a guinea pig.

My only hope if we do this is that the federal govt or other states do not leap quickly into this and give it a good 10 years to see how things work out for us.
Oh, and "My vOicE is mY passp0rt Verify ME" is always good when a voice "authentication" system is in need of mocking...
Yes vote for congress.
Really cool UI
I think I've seen it at top 10 vision papers 2021[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bHzytU1SeM
Never do you. Apple confirming user restriction should be enough evidence for everyone to understand that their system is a closed ecosystem.
given how much CA collects already where exactly are those nice things?
Gross receipts taxes seem a particularly bad type of tax to me. If you love vertically integrated, massive conglomerates, GRT is one path to improving their relative competitiveness.

I suspect a GRT is also a regressive form of taxation (just as sales taxes are, though many [most?] states exempt food and other staples from their sales taxes, to minimize the regressive nature of these).
“[…] tweets links to The American Conservative”

Cant blame him though. It is a great magazine.
I would say that in the UK we use both, with a different meaning according to context. But yes I agree that "Brilliant!", "Super!", and "Fab!" are all British ways of saying the same thing.
> For instance, the crypto exchange FTX with 150 employees rivals Coinbase and its 4115 employees.

I bet Coinbase has better customer support. Customer support for a financial institution can be 1000+ people, which inflates numbers but has a huge impact on the customer.

Imagine you deposit 10k and your balance isn't showing up. A company with 150 employees is going to try to use the same (potentially broken) automated systems to help you. It can be really comforting to know there is a human on the other end looking at your account and saying, "yeah that doesn't look right, let me fix this for you."
Chia is the solution to the “Proof of Work” energy problem
> but equally it doesn’t represent an aberration or break some natural law.

The comment you are replying to never said it does.

> So I take issue with the idea that determining sex is universally trivial

the comment you are replying to never said this.

> sometimes these people need help to understand how they fit in a world that culturally assumes they don’t exist.

The comment you are replying to doesn’t dispute this.

It’s not clear how what you have written relates to the comment you are replying to.
100% agree. The headline and the article are utterly dishonest. How much are people currently paying in de facto mandatory payments (aka taxes) for health "insurance" ? How much will the total tax on people in various financial situations change? The article doesn't say, distracting with a myopic definition of taxes instead.

As a libertarian, false dichotomies between de jure and de facto government are really bothersome. There are certainly arguments to be debated about single payer. There are certainly arguments to be debated about this particular attempt at "single payer". There are certainly arguments to be debated about who may be shouldering more or less of the costs with this plan. None of them are discussed here.
Absolutely!

I do not know any single word or short phrase that describes "the freedom [you are] referring to", since as far as I can tell, the concept you use is known only among certain libertarians where it is called "freedom". Perhaps it would be "the absence of a hypothetical[0] threat of legally sanctioned violence from 'the government' in response to actions outside of a certain limited range". (Personally, if we're discussing the threat of violence, I am much more concerned by non-legally sanctioned violence from 'the government'[1][2], where by "much more" I mean "not very much at all" since violence and the threat thereof is actually fairly low on the useful methods of coercion scale.

Now, if you are interested, my personal definition of "freedom" is along the lines of (OED, 1978 ed., "Freedom (4)") "the state of being allowed to act without hindrance or restraint" with the additional proviso of something like "...not infringing excessively on the freedom of others..." and made all lovely and transitively closed by the Kantian version of the golden rule.

[0] Before you get all wrapped up around "hypothetical", consider: let's say your state health officials declare a mask mandate and you, like all rational people, do not wish to obey; you go into a convenient Half-Price Books mask-free. Many freedom-loving libertarians seem to believe that the next event would be a member of the 101st Airborne popping out of a convenient closet with an M1A1 Abrams under each arm and reduce you to a fine mist for your temerity. What would much more likely happen would be a store employee or manager asking you to leave. Unfortunately, that presents a problem for our libertarian friend---at that point, you are technically trespassing and even the fiercest libertarian would say the use of force against you is legitimate, no?

[1] What is the dividing line between 'the government' and any other human institution, and why do you regard it as more dangerously coercive than, say, your family?

[2] Y'all do realize Rand Paul doesn't want people who vote Democratic to have their votes counted? The methods for that are technically legal, I suppose, but it's not really very far from "round'em up and shoot'em" (which would be illegal) in the grand spectrum of historical human behavior.
I made a wordle clone because I wanted to play more than once a day and also to try it with different length words. Definitely changes the game if you play with 3-4 letter words or 6-7 letter words.
Sure, I'll be happy to accept this. Just waiting for this disfunctioning government to deliver this pipedream in 100 years.
I disagree that you can't value variety and novelty while being thrifty. There are a lifetime of recipes using very common ingredients in completely different ways. I would accept that one major part is differing spices which are relatively rare and expensive (at least, if you're trying to emulate a variety of non-Western cuisines and you're in the US).
This will be one of the easiest “No” votes I’ll have ever filled out on my ballot.

For those following along at home, this resolution would take the form of a Constitutional Amendment, if passed by Californians on the ballot that would raise per household taxes by $12,500/year. The important thing here is that Californians have to agree to pass it.
The comments in HN threads regarding the vaccines are bizarre. The majority of stances here essentially boil down to "the vaccine is fine" vs "the vaccine is bad."
They really aren't. 100 people moving to a town in Idaho makes a big impact on that town in Idaho but is not felt at all by California.
I dropped one in Cambridge and it took a pretty weird route through some fields instead of a much more direct route through drainage channels. I think it gets a little confused in the Fens because everything is basically at sea level.
By the way, if anyone is curious what a really terrible constructor looks like:

https://github.com/jupyterhub/kubespawner/blob/81e6059a14811...

^ I'm also curious to hear from people whether this kind of design is "OOP" or not, or if there are any good terms for talking about this particular antipattern.
This is going to be a fun comments section.
Fintech for the Poor: Financial Intermediation Without Discrimination
DOS attacks were pioneered by progressives in the 60s. We’ve had 60 years to make the system robust to DOD attacks
The US health care treatments are the best in the world, just the costs are higher than the rest of the world.
Everyone who makes ~>250k would assumingly lose on this idea. Cost of insurance + maximum out of pocket would be smaller then the tax increase.

I assume it would also be restricted to Cali without procuring a reciprocity agreement with a national insurer.

If Dems managed to repeal the SALT deduction cap OR Cali just codes it to get around it (payroll tax direct to company only, and independent contractor business tax), this would be a much better idea.
> For me, ancient Chinese civilization is so interesting in large part because of how isolated it is.

For the Europeans this might be true, but not for the Indians. There was lot of exchange between Indus and Chinese civilisations. How do you think Buddhism reached China?
So... ko-gi? The phoneme used by the letter o in yogi is not something anyone is going to associate with the letter a.

There are multiple phonemes often represented by the letter a; the GP is asking which of those is correct.

Edit: all of these assume American English pronunciations.
DSL Developer Kit – DDK
Instead of pointing the finger at C++, I'd scoff at any language that promotes the belief that a standard library could possibly meet all the needs of a project.
Abstract

"I ask whether machine learning (ML) algorithms improve the efficiency in lending without compromising on equity in a credit environment where soft information dominates. I obtain loan application-level data from an Indian bank. To overcome the problem of the selective labels, I exploit the incentive-driven within officer difference in leniency within a calendar month. I find that the ML algorithm can lend 60% more at loan officers’ delinquency rate or achieve a 33% lower delinquency rate at loan officers’ approval rate. The efficiency is maintained even when the algorithm is explicitly prevented from discriminating against disadvantaged social classes."
I mean, my employer technically sponsors part of mine, but to cover my family I'm still paying roughly $10K each year in premiums.
Not anymore. I'm actually old enough to have worked the "serviced lane", or "full service" as it was called in the U. S. If you are disabled, there is still the option to have an attendant come out an pump it for you (I have never even seen this, let alone experienced it). Otherwise, I haven't seen a full service lane in probably twenty years, save Oregon and New Jersey, where it self-service is illegal (unless you're on a motorcycle).

As a side note, barely-above minimum wage though it was, I loved that job. Kinda sucked in the Indiana winters, but otherwise stand outside all day and talk to people.

Side-side note: as a former "professional", I'll admit I got bored after 1976, so I have no score to post.
when has California's government recently shown any capability to successfully implement big projects or spend tax payer money efficiently?

How is the high speed train project coming along?
> (1) An annual excise tax is hereby imposed upon a qualified business, as defined by the Legislature, for the privilege of doing business in this state at a rate of 2.3 percent of the gross receipts of that qualified business minus the first two million dollars ($2,000,000) in annual gross receipts of that business.

This part seems insane. Any business with slim profit margins and out of state competitors is screwed.

Also, does this mean multi-state/multi-national companies have to pay 2.3% of their nation/world-wide revenues to California? That's obviously absurd...
How do you protect family from email or SMS fraud?
Like I’m sure is the case for many of you I am the de facto tech guy for all of my close friends and family.

The older ones in particular I’m struggling with a good solution for spam and fraud email and texts.

My grandfather in particular I warned about links in suspicious emails, but of course that warning didn’t work well when he got an email that appeared to be from a store he frequents.

They also receive fraud SMS messages claiming all kinds of things from sweepstakes to a package they need to pickup.

I’ve warned them not to give out their phone number or email, but sometimes it’s unavoidable.

What do you use to filter email and SMS?

Any tips on how to prevent it?

They’re using iOS devices, but I’m open to solutions for Android.
Which is why it's important to structure the "tax" to land in exactly the same place that health care costs land.
Agreed, the numbers indicate a pretty significant exodus although it seems as though the supply has decreased and the pricing has increased on both rentals and homes for sale.

Mathematically, the extent to which it happens and the duration don’t make much sense to me.
> I can assure you there is nothing "cutesy" about mental health

You misread what I wrote, and then got angry about what you imagined I wrote. Usually I don't explain myself to strangers on the internet, since people who angrily misread also usually angrily double down, but here goes.

In the US, it is frowned upon to take a scheduled day off just to relax, outside of your annual 2 weeks of vacation. So you call in "sick". Since you're not really sick, but want to relax, you call your reason for illness a "mental health day". I characterized this practice as cutesy, because it's a cutsey repurpose of the concept of sick day for self-care. It's not a mental health crisis, it's relaxing. But as long as you characterize it that way, it gets a nod and a wink from anyone who cares.

In Europe, by contrast, if you need time off because work is stressful, you plan ahead, take the day off and be cheerfully honest that you spent the day at the beach or whatever. But if you tell people you were sick, and then spend the day at the beach, people will at best think you are odd, but probably will think you're a liar. Telling people it was a "mental health break" to call in sick in order to go to the beach will not get the same cozy reception it gets in the US.

Clear?
>The whole law basically amounts to "the government needs to impose more control and restrictions in order to keep citizens safe"

Isn't that basically the argument behind everything covid?
Could you give some examples of major democracies (except the US, that is in a bad place, and maybe Hungary) where the same is happening and what is happening in those countries?
Everyone wants to leave, that’s why houses sell for 2-3m$ clearly
That would be incredibly useful!!!
This is much cheaper than the cost of my big tech health insurance. It's at about the bottom 25th percentile by total estimated cost of ACA plans for a 22 year old. The article discusses some issues with the details but I'd happily approve a tax increase of this magnitude in exchange for achieving this efficiency of healthcare provision.
Yeah, but had there been a loud minority of climate scientists professing less moderate views, then the opponents would have simply retorted "see, they themselves can't even agree on what they think will happen!" And the scientific community was painfully aware that any internal disagreement would be used by the opponents to spread doubt, as seen in the leaked Climategate correspondence. Of course, this call for a united front was then used by the denialists as evidence for their climate conspiracy theory, so it's not like the humanity had any actual chance of winning against itself here. We really done fucked up this time.
It's not really an operator. It's part of the syntax of string literals. "foo" "bar" is an alternative way of writing the string literal "foobar". If foo is not a string literal, foo "bar" is invalid syntax.
If this passes I will be the first to move to California. I am happy to pay high taxes if it means it will better my lives and the lives of others.
Why do you believe single-payer is a bad idea? The model works very well in most European countries.
They won't. They will take the savings from you.
Now that SB9 is in effect, shouldn't the ability to split a lot and build on it be priced in to the price of the original lot? It seems like you would just be extracting your 20% from wealth the owner already has, leaving them poorer. I guess this could be good if they really didn't want to move.
I'm curious to see how a single payer system will work when the entire industry is profit-based. In most countries that with a single-payer healthcare system, all the medical institutions are either publicly funded or owned, or have some sort of cap on profits and monetary incentives. California as a single state with a single-payer funding having to then give all that money to profit-driver medical institutions seems like a very tricky situation.
Ejs plus rx seems like a fun weekend challenge
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/us/california-population-...

CA lost population in 2020.
I have no problem with that, but if the paperwork isn’t produced, the FDA can’t enforce or use any of the process for any reason because its not transparent.

Take as long as you want, just lose any legal power those documents give you so that you aren’t unjustly using them if there is evidence of some kind of fraud or other issues.

Take 100 years, but for those 100 years the paperwork can’t be used with any legal authority because its not transparent.

Problem solved.
interesting case in point. i just learned today that std::variant and boost::variant differ in their:

1. exception-safety guarantees
2. real-time safety

2 is caused by 1, because to be exception safe requires a heap allocation, and that's not RT-safe.

Who would want to work in a language where you could not make these choices?
I thought that burned up your hard drive.
I think this just shows how underpaid so many people at Accenture must be. You figure out of nearly 3/4 of a million employees, they must have several hundred, maybe a thousand or more executives making $200-500k/yr in salary. There must be a ton of consultants doing the grunt work for $30-50k to make that feasible.
See also psDooM, a similar concept for Unix processes.

http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
Can't you see how much of your salary goes to your insurance on your pay slip? In France, I can see how much "I" pay every month for my employer insurance plan (which covers most of the time 10% of the healthcare expenses, the other 90% being covered by the public healthcare system)
There have been decades of criticism of "slumlords", and various laws to bring up the standards of housing to what are essentially middle-class expectations.

This article now nostalgically glorifies real low-income housing with no proper kitchen, and mice and bedbugs.

It shows that you can't wave away problems with laws. Mandate nice apartments, and the cost will go up.

You can rely on charity or government programs, but the donors and taxpayers/voters have limited resources that they are willing to part with.

Substance abuse is a major factor because, honestly, few really make it out. It's most effective to do something before addiction.

I'm against the war on drugs in general. But when it comes to meth or herione, sometimes I wonder...
Crypto Bros Are Building a Giant Elon Musk Goat Statue in Arizona
Just `exec bash` doesn't get you a proper login shell so plenty of things will break. It's likely that you don't care about login shells or not, but some will. But at least do `exec bash -l` instead.