skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, I've worked with gov departments here (Canada), and sometimes there is planning, but even so, it seems seldom well thought out.

Things get done, but almost in spite of the planning.

I certainly wouldn't mind knowing too.

(edit: I only get called when planning fails, or things have gone off the rails, now that I think about it, so maybe an unfair opinion.)
>You can't, because the health insurance is provided by your employees so you get whatever they give you.

That's not true, is it? You could decline coverage and then go purchase a policy of your own elsewhere. Yes, that might be expensive but the original claim was "Y'all actually have one of the best systems in the world, it's just way too expensive." and that still tracks.

Even better, you could purchase a policy through the Obamacare exchanges.

If the government offers you bad medical care, you turn to the black market or you fly to the US to get the procedure done because the government has banned alternative care. This is a very normal Conservative talking point and the inherent competition in US healthcare is arguably the biggest benefit of its current system.
At least if we only used fossil fuels for agriculture that would cut back on 75% of the current use of them.
PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year again – 2021
It's all there for you, you were just too lazy to find it

Another national survey conducted by Ed Choice found that support for four types of school choice — education savings accounts, tax-credit scholarships, vouchers, and charter schools — all surged between the spring and fall of 2020.

The same survey also found that 86 percent of parents with school-aged children now support funding students directly through education savings accounts. Education savings account initiatives would allow families to use a portion of their children’s K-12 education dollars to cover the costs of approved education providers, including private schooling, homeschooling, micro-schooling, pandemic pods, tutoring, and special needs services.
If I might suggest, you may enjoy reading Seneca. He lived under a death threat while he wrote, and wrote a lot about death and mortality.

One of my favorite observations of his is that we are dying every day. Death stalks behind us and claims every moment that passes, whether well spent or squandered. Our final hour is not when we die, but the point where we finally stop dying.

Our lives are a bit like that of a candle, whether burning intensely or barely at all, every moment that passes is a moment that we are approaching the point where we run out of wax.
This variant here works a bit different:

exec {checkfd}>/dev/null
CHECKFDPATH="/proc/$$/fd/${checkfd}"
(while [ -e "$CHECKFDPATH" ]; do sleep 1; done) > >(true) &
STDINPID="$!"
disown "$STDINPID"
READER="/proc/$STDINPID/fd/1"

{ while IFS= read -r LINE; do
echo "$LINE" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
if [ "$LINE" = "bye" ]; then
echo exiting > /dev/stderr
break
fi
done < "$READER" ; kill -9 "$STDINPID" 2>/dev/null || true ; } | { nc -q 1 -l 8080 > "$READER" ; kill -9 "$STDINPID" 2>/dev/null || true ; }
exec {checkfd}<&-
No I don't like seafood.
Again, what does exactly the Exxon case 'prove' here? Also, how? Which act of theirs? (I'm pretty sure I miss a lot of details there and that might be the reason I have no idea what connection are you drawing here.)

Also, no one said "trust and don't verify". What was said is that they don't have to verify all the data and read through all the pages. Because the risk is just too high and they will obviously look into the details here and there.
Very nice to see my work get recognized outside of the Reddit/Discord community. I have to admit, it was weird seeing the traffic for my AGZ repo spike higher than the CGZ repo that I just released.

Feel free to ask me any questions about this or the CGZ, I'll answer anything that's not a variation of "will you be releasing/selling it?" :)
This one size fits all approach is wrong. It is not about the size, but of quality. If you are able to hire all A-star employees then small size makes sense. But the reality is very different. You cannot get all A-star employees from the start, and you are also racing against time. So you try to balance between time, size and quality. If you are lucky, you will get second A-star senior engineer. Otherwise you have to hire two junior A-star engineers instead of one senior engineer both being mentored by a senior engineer.

Depending on what your team configuration is, the way of communication changes. With senior engineers the communication is minimal but with junior team member configuration the communication increases. Similarly, the cost structure(implicit and explicit) also differs between these two configuration.

So suggesting a single prescription is not viable. The reality is very different and needs to be looked at on a case by case basis.
It is an odd argument for many reasons, but it seems to be the one that is given more often. Yet I've never seen any specific reasons why a single-payer system can work in e.g. Finland and Sweden and not in the US.

Healthcare benefits from having a larger population, and it is harder to provide quality care for a smaller population (read more expensive). Yet Finland spends less per capita and has better outcomes.
Do you think an entire industry is going to let a dysfunctional, bureaucratic government to dictate what their rates are? There will always be a market for better care to the highest bidder.
That performance hit doesn't necessarily exist on a given workload, because the hysteria over downclocking was mainly with the very early desktop implementations of AVX-512. You'd have to measure it and see nowadays (and consider that the downclocking may be simply due to yourself actually using all the execution units at once)
confession: sometimes I mislabel just so I can corrupt the dataset
I personally would buy a small business (SAAS or otherwise) and then grow it.
There was travel and commerce between far out regions in that period (1,500-3,500 BCE). The connection between the three old-world starts of writing (Sumerian, Egyptian and Chinese) is, AFAIK, not 100% clarified yet. It's widely accepted that American writing was a separate original invention, it makes sense. I believe these days the accepted understanding is that Egyptian hieroglyphic writing is an independent development that may, or may not, have been inspired by Sumerian writing. Not hard to believe: "you know son, these peoples far far away know magic, they're able to make dents in a table containing a story, and then pass on the tablet to someone else and they can retell the story!" Chinese writing may, or may not, have also come up the same way.
I yell at them. Loudly! Loud enough that people a block away turn to look.

But then, when you're staring at your phone while driving your car out of a parking lot and across the sidewalk where you only miss hitting me (before driving into oncoming traffic!) because I stopped, well you deserve that minor inconvenience of being embarrassed.
As a counter to this, Sketch uses similar pricing and it was one of the things that made migrating off of it to a competitor at my last company so easy. Since Sketch licenses were permanent, it was a no brainer of a decision. We could continue ongoing support at the last version of Sketch we had licenses for while embracing the new product, at no cost.

As a consumer I love it, but it's a risky strategy from a stickiness standpoint.
Not unless the bottom 99.99% take action. As most already suspect what this research shows, the sad answer is: No
I'm speaking about the world as a whole there. If the population of the Netherlands would decrease it would be good for the world as a whole. Of course any measures in asia would be far more powerful. But we have to set the example.

We have to stop viewing world problems as national issues. Just like the climate problem, we can be 'green' because we externalise a lot of our carbon problems to other countries. That's not helpful at all. It's just smart bookkeeping to keep behaving as we are.
Is it possible that it moves the Overton window? I mean, in the US there has been serious funding for decades aimed at moving the needle around things like guns and taxes. And that organized long term effort has been very successful. Possibly some of these things may result in some swing back to the middle?
Interesting, why would you want to use baseload power for hydrogen electrolysis rather than solar peaks? That's the opposite of the conclusion I had reached, but maybe my crude models of hydrogen electrolysis are wrong.
To be fair, there are many fewer deaths by wild dog/bear attack while pumping gas in NJ: https://www.cc.com/video/fz0xoa/the-daily-show-with-jon-stew...
I was all in on GarageBand on my 2013 ipad Air, but finally was convinced to upgrade to a new M1 iPad Pro.

I'm pretty upset about it.

Garage Band is essentially abandonware at this point and things that used to work (like coreUSB midi) don't work anymore. Like, they broke it and don't care about fixing it.

They'd rather I was using Logic, which doesn't have an ipad version (it has a nice controller app which is not the same thing).

The app store is a joke, full of scammy ad supported junk. It used to have lots of very expensive (but extremely usable) apps. Now its a wasteland.

I tried some of the DAWs and music production stuff and it all feels like windows 98 BS.

I've switched to an old mac book and have given up on the pad as a moble production rig.

SmartStrings on the iPad is a magical instrument. My brother recorded, produced, and mixed two whole albums on his iPhone while it effortlessly drummed along to his playing. What happened to the momentum that was there for iOS to be a useful professional production tool?

Lol, and forget using that fancy M1 to compile anything ever 'cause iPadders arent allowed to use xCode.
As part of the series on "Rising tides not lifting all boats", and "tax cuts for the rich don't tend to trickle down"...

https://cushman.host.dartmouth.edu/books/CommonSenseFM/Chap5...
There is I think one distinction in the analogy to be made. We shall not put the sign of equation between services offered by Kagi and Google, because we are not for example doing the same for Netflix and Youtube.

One may pay Netflix because there are _specific_ shows that they can not get anywhere else, or simply because the quality and convenience is much higher than if they tried to watch those or other shows in different ways, including free.

In similar fashion, Kagi offers a completely different product/search experience to Google, with different results, different features and attention to detail like you would expect from a premium service obsessed with user experience. Saying that Google is offering same thing like Kagi but for free, is ignoring this nuance and is same as saying that all streamed video content is the same, or that every comedy show is the same.
It's not a 'proof', it's a statistical study, and econometrics rarely convince anyone of anything.
It's not that easy. The amount of information that the someone at the FDA might need to do their job is definitely not bounded by the limitations in FOIA, they need the details. The FOIA process has to happen afterwards by the FDA anyway by law, regardless of what Pfizer provided. Additionally, the healthcare professionals who collected the data are also not qualified to do FOIA compliance, nor is it always possible to tell if a single data element will be PII after it is compiled with other information at a later date, because PII can be indirectly inferred from other elements of information.
The article addresses systemic concerns with BNPLs fairly well, is there anything about the arguments OP makes regarding this kind of consumption being far less risky at a macro level than the kind of wizardry that led to the mortgage crisis that you specifically find unconvincing?
A RAND Corporation study from a couple of years ago concluded the upward redistribution of income has cost American workers $50 trillion over the past several decades:

https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/how-much-has-inequali...
I'm not very familiar with neurostimulation. How are control groups handled? Since you have to zap the brain, it seems to me that patients would always know if they are in a control group or not. So then how could the results be attributed to neurostimulation over just placebo?
It would also eliminate the healthcare costs taken out of your salary, though. Could be an even trade or better for most people, even higher earners, AND you'd have the freedom of never having to consider healthcare again when considering switching jobs or doing your own thing for a while.

Lots of devils in lots of details, of course.
I trashed all my Alexas the moment they started interjecting advertisements.

"Alexa, play soothing lullaby music"

"Sure, and don't forget that next week is prime week. Get great deals on all your favorite items....."
I believe that, whenever possible, tests should be written in a different language that the one used for the code under test (even better, in a dedicated, mostly declarative, testing language).

It avoids replicating the same category of errors in both the test and the code under test, especially when some calculation or some sub-tests generation is made in the test.
Very nicely written article. Never thought about react & k8s from this perspective.
Here's a few extra ideas:

For Emacs users, set up a config file similar to Easy Mode Vim (e.g. C-c to copy, C-v to paste - wait until they start C-xing).

Also for Emacs users, set up evil-mode.

Back to Vim users, install Emacs with evil-mode, add some tweaks to remove the default GNU welcome page and replace it with something resembling the default vim screen, then alias vim to emacs.[1]

Figure out how to get :w, :wq, ZZ in Vim to write the file to something in /tmp and not the file as opened (better to do this so you can recover their work from after the prank is revealed, then to cause them to lose all of their work).

Alias vim/emacs to VSCode - that'll really intern their strings.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29838411
You don't need two nats, you don't have to track two types of ip addresses per customer, for most of the traffic, you don't even need nat at all (youtube, facebook, etc, all support native ipv6), and statless nat64 can be simpler and less resource intensive than cgnat
California's health spending per capita is about double it's tax receipts per capita, and the majority of that spending is private spending, so even if this analysis is accurate, doubling taxes to fund full public healthcare would be a significant overall cost savings.
I'm not sure using taxes as a way to combat income equality is effective either. Just because taxing the rich less allows them to make more money does not imply taxing them more allows the non-wealthy to prosper.
Looking for answers or looking for ammunition in an ideological war against vaccination?
Tim Cook earned over 1,400 times the average Apple worker in 2021
This is incorrect. Some users can't learn (dementia, Alzheimer's) and still use a cell phone.
One of the other regulations that passed at the same time has a caveat that you cannot reduce housing density in the future - so any units added or lots split cannot be reunited again. Each new lot must be at least 1,200 square feet and the new lots, plus likely the old one (if heavily modified), may acquire a new assessed value based on current market prices increasing the owner's property taxes.
Could potentially go the Mulvad approach and allow mailing in of cash for an anonymous user ID (numbers only) and then you enforce DoT and DoH everywhere? Kagi itself would still have access to your search queries and could identify you buy your public IP but it would be a decent step in the right direction
> lorries are trucks apparently but goods trucks on railways are not trucks!

In the US, lorry == truck. Never heard the term goods truck before today, but I think it's what we call a boxcar.
Communicating technical concepts to lay audiences is difficult, and a universal problem these days.

Very rare and impossible are nearly equivalent wrt policies that broadly and significantly impact personal health and liberty.
Easy for a bot to fake that with a random number generator. If nothing else bot authors can collect their own statistics. I understand the bots have an army of people in the background for images they don't understand yet, just collect timing data from that set and have your random number generator emulate that timing data. (I'm guessing a bell curve)
Great Q! As of now, the homeowner has to refinance on the smaller lot. We have a partner that will do it at the time of application, and underwrite it in consideration of the future income.It hasn't been a problem to date, though it may hold up some projects.

In theory banks could approve the transfer—certainly they could split the lot, but the current lien would be spread between the two lots, and we couldn't finance the property today.

A crazy insight:
Many of the customers we work with don't have mortgages.

They intrinsically don't trust debt, because of either low income, job insecurity, and/or their long tenure of homeownership (often intergenerational). They do like the ideal of selling their yard for money, and don't have the risk appetite/ability to go it alone!

We're working on a solution that will allow the existing lien-holders to stay on title until sale--making a refinance less burdensome for the current homeowner.

Down the road, we'd like to provide the owner to keep some ownership interest in the property with homestead, if they'd prefer long term income. In this arrangement, we likely wouldn't
> Except anybody you consider to be a "good" doctor won't take this insurance because the payouts are too low

When you are the single payer for the entire state, yes, I think the doctors in the state will take it.
You get as many sick day's as you need, but if it longer than 2 (or maybe 3 I forgot) days, you need note from doctor.

> If I am anxious or depressed, going outside into nature or to the beach would help me tremendously.

If you are feeling that semi regularly, you might be on your way to a burnout or actually experiencing one.
> don't see the state (especially bloated California) doing better [than Kaiser Permanente]

In what sense? What do you like about KP: the doctors, nurses, etc.? The billing department? Single-payer would not take the staff away. It would get rid of large swathes of the billing department that are pure waste.

Not everyone has had your positive experience with KP. We switched away due to lack of availability of certain specialists.
If you know of any person that doesn't deal with repeatable processes all the day, I would really like to hear an example. Specifically on computing (most people here are software developers, aren't they?) the entire attention is focused on creating repeatable processes, that then we use computers to repeat for us.

PDCA means basically that you test a change before completely committing to it. That concept is the same as our canary releases, for example, but more clearly, it's the same idea as running one or two iterations of your algorithm on paper before you go and write the program.

It's not some niche thing that is rarely useful, it's just that people try to push it into exactly the work that can't use it.
> Canadians have almost 3 years longer life expectancy than us in the US, are healthier throughout their lives...

Which is more likely caused by different lifestyle choices (e.g. 27% vs 42% obesity rate). Also if you take out all the southern states the gap get quite a bit smaller (e.g. 82.4 in Ontario vs 81.7 in California and 81.4 in New York).
Dense in the sense of land to building use, not people per square foot. You have a 3-5,000 square foot home for a family of four on a quarter acre lot.
If by covid you mean general national health concerns including polio, smallpox, measles, rubella, salmonella, E. coli, cholera and ebola, then yes.

That's exactly the argument behind regulation to keep us from getting sick.
That same saying could be used for the other argument. Rising taxes not lifting all boats. Taxes for the rich don't tend to trickle down.
Our simple plan to commercialize my next lossless codec
> You can't complain to the government.

Yes, you can.

And you get a vote on who is running it, too
Emerging from Censorship (1993)
It's worth noting that this group has posted all of the documents from the lawsuit on their webpage, but has not posted the original FOIA request.

What are they hiding?

It's also worth reading the brief from the (obviously exasperated) appendix to the FDA's response if you want to understand just how bonkers this conduct is:

https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/023-FDA-Appendi...
You're still missing the part where its not poor folks who hold cash. The bottom quartile owns next to zero cash. All that an average person in that position owns is the clothes on their back, their personal effects, and maybe a shitty beater car.

The rest of your argument unravels, because you've based it on this fundamentally flawed assumption.
My point is simply, if the UK is the "best" example of universal coverage - that's very very very worrisome!

I happen to think the UK is not close to the best example.
IntelliJ offers a similar pricing: if one subscribes for at least an year - which has a fair price - they'll get a perpetual license.
> The reporter suggests the FDA reassign other people to process the FOIA requests but I would prefer those people continue working on important things like reviewing the safety and efficacy of medical devices[1] and reviewing the safety of food and infant formula [2] rather than spending their time processing paperwork

I'm puzzled why they didn't make the document FOIA friendly in the first place. It was pretty obvious that it was going to be requested as it is of extreme public interest.

I'm wondering if this "burden" wasn't intentionally planned. But there's no reason to do so: after all, the FDA should be working in the public's interests, and they have nothing to hide.
A national strategy for the “new normal” of life with Covid
It's worth noting (READ IT!) that the court order specifically calls out that given the urgency of the current disease situation and political and public health trust issues, it is the Court's opinion that there is almost nothing the FDA has to do that could be MORE important.

The FDA, at the behest of Pfizer, et al, have been deliberately obstructive in making publicly available drug trial information that is clearly required by both law and rule. All parties involved knew they needed to publish that info, and have steadfastly refused to do what the law requires them to do. If I were the judge, I'd have given them 90 days to turn over everything, and thrown the head of the FDA and the CEOs in jail for contempt until all those records are indeed published. IMO, they got off really easy.
I'm pissed that people who are clearly aware of the end results of corporate ownership of government still play the red vs blue game. It is exactly this deadlock of the citizenry that guarantees a weak government, subservient to the corporations.
Wait, what were the issues with the mRNA vaccines? If you are accusing the mRNA vaccines of having "issues" then it's important you provide details and a citation
I am endlessly amazed by the community and ingenuity that has sprung up around retro console modding. Replacement screens, shells, buttons, power delivery, even things like optical drive emulators that read from an SD card.

The only downside is that systems, Game Boys especially, have shot up in price from people buying them specifically to gut them and do new builds.