skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're confusing me with someone who hasn't achieved things. I'm doing great in life, but I still have empathy and don't assume others are where they are due to their inherent faults.

Turns out I grew up in a shitty family, I escaped, but that doesn't mean I've lost empathy for those who couldn't.

You seem to think that the world is fair (which is ironic because I bet you've told folks "life isn't fair"). It's not, and no amount of pretending can change that. Folks can do their damnedest and still end up on the streets. I'm not saying we shouldn't try, I'm saying we need to be empathetic and stop doing things that work against them.
> How do you think Buddhism reached China?

Bodhidharma, iirc.
My employer sponsors some of mine as well, but even if they weren't my premiums are still around half of what they listed in the article ($12.5k I think is listed in the article if I read it right). This is with coverage that has a minimal deductible and that includes great mental health coverage amongst other things.
That was not my experience, and certainly not the experience of my coworkers that have been at Amazon "many, many years". If you are cozy with the people of the team you hope to get into, then is easy, otherwise, you get your CRs reviewed, asked for design docs, and need to talk with several people on the team. If you worked on a small project for a year, or were hired to maintain something that was already there, you don't get to have design docs, nor impact opportunities (even if you asked your manager for it during 1on1s). Also the next manager can make you apply (your current manager gets notified) and then rejects you, just because, and you will be in a delicate situation.
Lovely. If this passes, I'll be paying more than I do for catastrophic, unless I decide to make significantly less money.

If this is as it sounds, my future is definitely not in California.
You only loose out though if you’re employed and you assume you’ll always be employed over 250k and never end up in a situation where your income drops and you loose your health insurance.

There are no national insurer btw, except for self insured employees.
> A proposed constitutional amendment (ACA 11) in California would increase taxes...

However literally true that might be, the chance of the amendment being passed by voters seem neigh-zero. And the article seems to carefully avoid that subject.

So file this one in the "if we had a metal which could easily contain the temperatures and pressures needed for economical hydrogen fusion..." bin.
Not just that, there is speculation, gambling, etc. with those two being the most used usecase, nothing else.

Once banned that is where they will reside, I hear that Monero is thriving in that (illicit) environment, as well as Bitcoin, Ethereum (paired with Tornado)

But for now banning is likely.
nice. thanks for the recommendation. i like her sound, so that's an instant sub.
Hmm, did it where I live, on the side of a hill which goes to the brook at the bottom of the hill into a named river which starts about a mile away, that river flows into the Trent and out into the North Sea.

The site instead thinks water flows a completely different direction eventually ending up in the River Severn

That said it seems to start the trace from about 2 miles north from where I clicked, and that looks right based on that starting point. Didn't realise how close I was to the East-West watershed of the UK!
How Hollywood and America learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (2020)
I would consider it as such already. Federations are ultimately responsible for the failures and flaws of their constituent states if they have the power to prevent them. Nobody considers the US federal government entirely free of blame when a US state passes an illiberal or undemocratic law (e.g. Jim Crow laws), and neither should EU be absolved of responsibility in properly enforcing EU laws in places like Poland and Hungary.
It's not invisible at all, what your employer pays for your health insurance is clearly stated on your W-2 in Box 12 unless you work for an exempt company.

https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/form-w-2-reporting-o...
It seems filming will start in 2022.

There is a wiki which will probably be updated about it: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_television_series

If only Chris Avellone and the incredibly talented people involved in the originals and in New Vegas were involved in the writing...
A more balanced approach would be to increase property taxes. CA already has a high income tax.
I'm not sure either, but during my time at Apple (one the richest and most advanced companies in the world) an additional $5-$6k was taken out of my paycheck if I wanted health care for me and my family. It's not like health care is automatically free for the working population.
> my actual change is net zero

Really? From what I can find on the internet, CA state income taxes are usually in the 10% range for most folks. Are you really paying 10% of your income for health insurance? I'm paying about 2.5% right now.
Yeah… good luck with that hope.

Have you haerd of Exxon?

The Sacklers held on for 20 years on Oxycontin…
I'm sure all the Silicon Valley multi-millionaires are going to love losing their world-class healthcare benefits so the junkie on the corner in LA gets the same level as care as they do.
I hope Kaiser Permanente lobbies this or we can opt out. I've lived in many states and my exp with Kaiser in California is among the best. I don't see the state (especially bloated California) doing better.

(I pay out of pocket via a side business, not from my current employer.)
Reading the wiki below in a comment below specifically about the court I see parallels in the US - which is scary.

Though lawful, Republicans ignored their own 'rules' and just refused to 'seat' nominee (by not holding a hearing despite having almost half a year of time left). To be fair can argue wouldnt be confirmed even if they held a vote, but then why didn't they allow that? They then flipped those rules again when it suited their agenda.

It's not totally the same, but reads similar to me.

IDK if it's more scary that I personally believe Dems should exercise the same power to balance it back out. Though that would probably just cause a loop of reciprocating action towards chaos unless Dems can fix issues like the electoral college, redistricting, or add new states to balance the power towards more representational Democracy. Not many other remedies I can think of though.

The court in the US has huge power and they are doing similar things as in Poland such as rolling back abortion rights, LGBTQ rights (I argue this in the recent private school funding ruling and I wouldn't be surprised if they use more 'religious discrimination' to legally allow discrimination against the groups these religions despise).

This goes to your point about power of religion.

I would also add power of media to spread flat out lies (worse, that they are smart enough to realize what they are doing) to further their agenda. While not government funded, the Republican admin and Republican elected basically dictate and actually organize the coverage. Crazy to me.
This makes me think of the old American Express commercial with Jerry Seinfeld and “the perfect pump”: https://youtu.be/m3JVr5HoeoA

For some reason I always think of this commercial when I am pumping gas, and how outdated it is. I feel like most people pay using a card now, and those that don’t usually have to pre-pay now, so the gas would shut off when they hit their amount anyway.

I do remember trying to hit round numbers pumping gas when I was younger, though.
We hate getters/setters. There is `using Str = Buf<char>` if you looked into Buf you will find ptr and count and cap. You are looking for ptr
So that you know, that's autodiscovey, not some weird remnant. That's so you can just put the URL for the page in your feed reader and it can find the feed(s) for you. Browsers with RSS support detected it, too.

https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery
I'm cautiously supportive of single-payer health care, but gross-receipts taxes are one of the dumbest ways of apportioning taxes...
5k fires/year may not seem like much compared to the billions of non-incident pumps, but what about our limited municipal firefighting capacity? Wouldn't gas pump fires contribute to their being overloaded, unnecessarily, when all is required is a simple rule that hurts no one?
Your employer is required to tell you the value of the benefit, you can notably find it in the imputed income sheet for unmarried folks.
I would gladly move to a state with a single-payer healthcare system and I have never considered leaving my state before in my life so it might not be quite as one-sided as you think
This is very useful information, though. People can analyze this to find out if there is any increased risk of adverse effects (or not) by all kinds of factors that hasn't been released. Things like underlying medical conditions.

Some people with certain medical conditions are vaccine-hesitant because of their health condition. If this data can prove that people with certain health conditions aren't at any increased risk from the vaccine, it could mean more people get vaccinated.
Vioxx gets complicated; other NSAIDs, including non-selective ones, turn out to have a pretty nasty cardiac risk profile too, and the withdrawal harmed a lot of patients who relied on it.

https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/feature/still-fee...

> After Vioxx was withdrawn, there were numerous papers and discussion on the increased risk of cardiovascular events with all NSAIDS and labelling changes were made. However, Silman argues that it has still not been proven in observational studies that Vioxx’s cardiovascular events were any higher than, for instance, diclofenac, a popular non-selective NSAID.

> It proved to be complex: not all COX-2 inhibitors have the same cardiovascular risks and not all non-selective NSAIDs have the same cardiovascular risks. “If the VIGOR study had been comparing Vioxx against diclofenac, it is entirely plausible that it would have shown no difference in cardiovascular events,” Silman points out.

> ...

> If MSD had not withdrawn the drug, perhaps regulators would have deemed that it not be used in patients with pre-existing heart conditions and the elderly, Silman ponders. “It was not necessarily a given that Vioxx should have been withdrawn completely. For instance, diclofenac has not been withdrawn and is still on the market but with advice to use with caution,” he says.

> Neither does Silman think Vioxx should have been withdrawn, since it proved to be a very effective anti-inflammatory drug. “The joke at the time of its withdrawal was that every rheumatologist was stockpiling Vioxx because of its efficacy.” The Vioxx story is not so simple and it was not about “Vioxx being the bad guy”, he says.
I am doing a Computer Sceince masters in this field.

I am personally quite sceptical of this study. The methodology seems somewhat arbitrary and I doubt that the signal is there for what they are inferring from the data. I suspect this is a case of finding what you want to find.
From my experience in the finance dept of a few large Australian apparel retailers, I see BNPL sales from online at around 35% of sales dollars and in the brick & mortar stores around 1-3% of sales dollars.
I've got access to employer numbers.

Grandfathered plans are an absolutely screaming deal. You can do an HSA plan with a $2000 deductible and low OOP max, fully fund the HSA ($7,200) and come out way ahead at modest cost. This let's you do things like vision / dental / chiro / accu / whatever day to day stuff on the HSA, then keep costs controlled (after 2K) for a major issue. If you don't end up using the HSA you can basically use it in retirement.

The obamacare bronze HSA plans (which actually cost a bit more) have a $4,800 ind deductible and something like a $13K (!!) out of pocket max and something like a $9K+ family deductible limit. And they cost more. This is totally unworkable absent the subsidies.

I like obamacare, but something happened as part of obamacare that has CLEARLY driven up costs. Is it the lack of limits (ie, $10M in coverage during last weeks of life?) Is it some sort of other mandate?

One area where govt care is better priced is for the elderly. The grandfathered / free market type plans get expensive at 60 years +. The obamacare plans are more of deal here (relatively). At the 20 year old range obamacare is horrible for the coverage if you actually have to pay for them.
Monetary cost isn't the only thing to worry about. Can you imagine the DMV/social security office version of healthcare? God what a clusterfuck.

*edit: spelling
There's an outflow of people willing to produce value, and an inflow of people ready to consume it. It will work just great until suddenly there's not that many value left to feed all the hungry mouths. And then the mouths will take pitchforks and go raid the nearby granary because that's where they think the food is. Only to find it empty because the people willing to actually produce food left long time ago.

USSR has learned this lesson 100 years ago and paid dearly for it. I wish people could learn from the past mistakes rather than repeating them on their own...
California has a golden goose in the wealthy megacorporations and billionaires who live there.

Every tax that California adds risks killing that golden goose. Tesla has already left as highly publicized, but others are too. Apple is building a billion-dollar campus in Austin, Texas. Oracle has moved its headquarters to Texas.
Keep in mind as well that your employer probably pays a significant chunk of your insurance premiums right now, usually around 3/4 of the full costs of providing you insurance. This is what tends to bite people when they need COBRA coverage or other gap coverage when changing jobs, etc.
Yes, at first that is SUPER important, but wouldn't you ultimately want to fully decouple it from employers and just go to income taxes per individual for it?

The distinction is subtle, but in my mind having it structured as an individual paid income tax would yield better results for edge cases and not incentivize bad corporate behavior like running 1099 contractors instead of FTEs.
Nobody said it’s not closed.

You claimed everyone agrees it’s hard to leave. That’s simply false.
Nah, lots of countries have single payer and for profit institutions. France has private PCPs and specialists, private hospitals and public hospitals.
> state-aligned newspaper MK

…ex newspaper now, I suppose.
Attorney general Ziobro (which is even more right-wing radical than core PiS) have extensive powers over prosecution. Any prosecutor who would take up this case will likely be delegated to work on other side of country, and case taken over by Ziobro puppets.
Then there are multiple parallel sanctions. There is a 1M/day one as well and it's related to the rule of law. I was wrong, it's not about the abortion act but about the independence of courts [1] [2]. (As far as I can understand they created a system where judges can be disciplined and that is deemed to allow political control over them and their decisions.)

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-top-court-orders-pol...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-top-court-orders-pol...
I mean, I understand that classes which are open to extension with new methods is useful, and the right way to do OOP and all.

If it was CLOS with multiple dispatch, it would be easier to swallow. Because it would look like:

(to-json { hello: "world" })
;; error: no such function!

Then load the module, and you have a generic to-json function now, with a method specialized to handle the dictionary object and all. (I still wouldn't want to be doing this if it's supposed to be a language built-in).

I regard the ability to add new methods to a class as good, but with a valid use case, like extending some third party piece with new methods in your own application. And the fact of not having to declare methods in a class definition, which is cumbersome. Just write a new method in that class's file, at the bottom, and there it is.

I ideally don't want that third-party piece itself to be divided into three pieces that I have to separately load to get all of the methods. Or worse, pieces from separate third parties that add methods to each other.

I copied a thing or two from Ruby in TXR Lisp. The object system as a derived hook, and that was inspired by something in Ruby:

1> (defstruct foo ()
(:function derived (super sub) (prinl `derived @super @sub`)))
#<struct-type foo>
2> (defstruct bar foo)
"derived #<struct-type foo> #<struct-type bar>"
#<struct-type bar>
3> (defstruct xyzzy bar)
"derived #<struct-type bar> #<struct-type xyzzy>"
#<struct-type xyzzy>

The derived hook is inherited (like any other static slot), so it fires in bar also. The function can distinguish which class is being derived by the super argument.
>Have people forgotten why Apple switched from PowerPC to Intel to begin with?

We aren't talking about being more power efficient than IBM's desktop workstation architecture of the 90's. We're talking about having better power efficiency than ARM.

Intel has never been anywhere near that, regardless of process node.

> They're not selling at a loss.

Now that they have abandoned their attempt to enter the handheld mobile device market? Sure.

However, to attempt to break into that market, Intel intentionally sold their chips at a very large loss for quite some time.

>Intel is subsidizing its chips — practically giving them away to partners — and recording the transactions as "contra revenue." Intel is shipping its mobile processors and offering refunds or rebates to the vendor for using them. If devices with the processors don't sell, Intel gives its partner, say Lenovo or Dell, a refund.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-to-hit-40-million-mobile...
I thought Vermont already tried single-payer healthcare?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-v...
The only thing that annoys me to this day is that they have the numbers first. I get the logic why: it means they're ordered in the directory properly.

That said, it's very annoying in that they're not tab-completable... any time I have to edit one, I have to stop and hunt in the entire list for what I'm looking for.
Thank you California! I now know where I will be spending the years of my life when I have no income and insanely high medical bills.

Gonna stick in PA with our 3.07% while I am earning bank and healthy though.
This is an interesting book series that is still in development:
https://leanpub.com/b/development-and-deployment-of-multipla...
That is exactly what Google uses/used-to-use the captcha for. It is/was fairly well known/understood.
Leaked emails indicate that government official ordered TV to create a smear campaign about one judge that just ruled aginst prime minister in a court case. And TV immediately complied.

I doubt it's the same in Spain.
Do you know of any research testing whether ADHD can increase when people are required to focus on one thing (like a computer) or stay in one place (like a desk) all day?

I've always wondered if there could be an environmental link to the situation people have to operate in, and certain mental pathologies.
> And still no expressive switch/case statement

There's match/case in 3.10 - https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0636/
How is it better than using a proxy server to access Google?
Literally any car should do that, the clip works based on pressure - once the tank fills up the clip should bounce back, regardless of what car you drive.
i mean, that's always been true. it's pretty rare when proprietary software is better than FOSS.

the only reason why apple even became a reasonable option was because they went back to nextstep which was built on mach and various FOSS userland (rebranded as darwin).
A couple of things:

* Many podcasts deliberately take a slow, clear tone. That's nice, but a small boost in speed (I like 1.4x) and shaving silences between words makes it sound peppier and more engaging. I have the same thing: when I do voice work I have to be slower and clearer than I would be in my own natural voice, because that's the tone that maximizes the audience, but I myself would prefer to be a bit more lively.

* I tend to listen to podcasts when I'm partially but not fully engaged, like driving or running. Pumping up the energy level helps bring it closer to the level of engagement I want to be at to avoid boredom. (It might well be better for me to learn to disengage, but for that what I really need is to not be listening to podcasts at all -- and I try to go for a run occasionally without it for that reason.)

For me, there's also the fact that there's just a ton of content and I want to listen to it all. Even after pruning shows and episodes I don't like, there's still 20+ hours a week of stuff I'd like to hear. I don't know if other people are as easily bored as me, but I suspect that quite a few people are.
You can always spot the ones who have tried it! A satisfying and poetic way to retire a system.
https://archive.is/CaUXN
38% decrease in people moving to California 12% increase in residents moving out of state last year.

In San Francisco Bay Area, it's even more stark. There was a 45% decrease in entrances from other states to the Bay Area and a 21% increase in residents leaving for other states.
Yeah, that was my exact reaction here.

"Doubling my taxes?!"

Oh... for a CA based single payer healthcare system that for the last 10-20 years people have continually asked for again and again? (Ok, maybe not just for CA, but... sometimes ya gotta start somewhere)

So now I'm back into the evaluation phase after headline whiplash. Will definitely consider the 'total compensation package'.
These aren't items that are bought and sold. If you give up your slot, you can not buy it back at any price.

Now your have to re-route your whole airline network.

The value is in terms of not bankrupting your company.
Median household income (in 2019 dollars), 2015-2019 $75,235

Per capita income in past 12 months (in 2019 dollars), 2015-2019 $36,955

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/CA/INC110219

Your median Californian, and significantly above your median Californian, makes below $250k.
Ask HN: Bloated Node.js CMSes
Is it just me or are NodeJS content management systems like Ghost, Strapi very difficult and slow to install. And when you eventually do install they are resources hungry, large, over-abstracted and have too little in-built tools?

Not a rant kinda person but I curious about others experience. Am I doing something wrong?
I'd also recommend Lyle Campbell's Historical Linguistics: An Introduction for historical linguistics especially. It's a very concise introduction and I believe you could understand most of it without a deep background in linguistics (maybe some understanding of the IPA and phonetics mostly)
When I write a README for a library I always try to include 1-2 code samples of the highlights of said library. So the reader sees quickly what to expect.
Rich FANG employees don't sell their bay area homes, they are just buying a second (and third) one to have their remote job location outside of the bay area. (Anecdata only- family members not me personally)
Maybe I'm naive (and I couldn't read the article - "limit reached") but what all those people have to do? I expected they have a bunch of PDFs not sheets of paper to scan. If they don't, ask for PDFs next time.

450,000 pages at 1 to 10 MB per page would fit in a USB hard disk.