skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the tax credit based on comprehensive coverage was $1000/month, and catastrophic coverage cost $400/month, would someone who chooses to only have catastrophic still receive the $1000/month (giving them $600/month they could use on anything regardless of whether or not it is related to healthcare), or just receive $400/month, or receive whatever their insurance and medical costs actually are each month up to $1000/month?

If the later two it would be universal healthcare. Not sure how the first would be classified.
> students will attempt to defeat the purpose of the system.

Given any system, why would people not attempt to defeat it? And if they can defeat it, perhaps the system is wrong?
I’ve found in the past that Yandex’s reverse image search is vastly better than Google’s. I am almost always able to find things with Yandex that I cannot with Google.
> I don’t see what’s sad about that, other than maybe the disappointment of losing naiveté.

From my own experience, some sadness is due to treating a few people with disdain in my youth. At times, I was an arrogant, pissy teen. I wish I could make amends, but some of those people are gone.
“What are you going to do? Bleed on me?”

- King Arthur talking to The Black Night in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
I think we need to eliminate the "employee bundle" and just talk more directly about what we want for workers and legislate that. Most problems here relate to the bundle concept. For example, healthcare shouldn't be tied to employment, minimum wage laws could apply to all classes of labor, withholding for taxes could be for independent contractors, etc. A lot of this was shown in the AB5 bill in California, which was an attempt to create exemptions for employee classification for special interests. If you create a bundle that is wrong for a certain group, you can either do what we have been doing and make the bundle more complicated, or just get rid of the bundle.
> Yes, I would much rather get more cash than a bunch of... benefits I have to manually keep track of and optimize.

I've worked at a few large financial institutions that pay technical employees significantly below market rate, but aggressively and publicly boast about how competitive they are because of "total compensation".

It's absurd, and often results in large dysfunctional teams where they have to hire 10+ junior people, for ~60k each, because they're unwilling to hire 1-2 experienced people, for ~150k each.
I suggest asking some professional historians this question and you will be surprised at the answer. Only Americans believe that the the USA was the primary nation responsible for victory in WW2.
Chesterton’s Fence is a nice mental model to ensure we don’t harshly judge choices

https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
The Great Delusion (2020) by prof. John Mearsheimer: https://youtu.be/nZVIaXFN2lU

That if someone really wants to understand where we are with all those Libya, Syria, Iraq, ... Ukraine.

And how and when this one really started:
https://youtu.be/ppD_bhWODDc

As of Francis Fukuyama predictions...

I am Ukrainian by myself. With family spread over West Ukraine and Russia East.
Note: Russia is the second country after Ukraine where Ukrainians leave.

There is a concept of "for the Motherland" and there are many as Russians as Ukrainians who still consider joined Russia and Ukraine as a common motherland and those predictions are completely out of touch in this respect.
I am on my phone so I can't contribute a PR right now, but here are tons of PHP examples: https://ntfy.sh/docs/publish/

Also check the other pages on the docs.

Here's one example:

file_get_contents('https://ntfy.sh/mytopic', false, stream_context_create([
'http' => [
'method' => 'POST', // PUT also works
'header' => 'Content-Type: text/plain',
'content' => 'Backup successful '
]
]));
California startup Astrolab unveils space rover, more than a mere 'moon buggy'
A few things;
1. There's no good onpage stuff to tell google that this is an appropriate word for it.
2. Based on page speed probably wouldn't rank well compared to others
3. As you noted, links.
Price of a tank of gasoline (60L), as a percentage of avg monthly net salary
Be careful what you ask for. If companies need to be profitable to be considered successful, where will it end?
These days everyone is immediately drafted into <Franchise X Phase Y Spin Off Z Origin Story> :)

IIRC Marvel had trouble finding directors for their latest phase (or the one before that) because everyone was tied up doing franchise movies (or series).
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This is looking like wishful thinking or propaganda.

I love this story and I want it to be true.

But I am not sure we know that much.

From what we can gather, not everything is going perfectly for Putin, but it could take years or even decades before we can clearly see who are the winners.
Apple was using the precursor to UEFI (EFI) back when most windows boxes were still booting using BIOS derived from a rip off of a 1980s IBM.
That relationship of a teacher being an obstacle to a grade that signals institutional approval, it is totally broken. This is gamefied "education," where the course material and even the instructors recognition doesn't persuasively have intrinsic value.

I'm dealing with something now outside academia, where there is absurd bureaucracy, and I'm sidestepping and shortcutting it because I see the mission outcome as separate from the prescribed process, and the trickling and breadcrumbing of details is an abuse of my time, so I sympathize with the student perspective - but in an educational setting, the prescribed process is essentially a sacrificial cost that enables you to "become," a person who has mastered it, as it makes the skill the effect of a skill, and not just the affect of the outcome. Education is necessarily transformative, otherwise it's just rote training.

Example would be, I take music lessons, I'm difficult to teach because I really like Bach and Chopin and I can play some simple preludes by ear, but my sight reading is maybe at a gr. 2 level, which is just enough to get the pieces under my fingers with a hill climbing struggle, but makes me useless as an actual musician, and probably very irritating to musicians whose performances are the effect of their years of real skills, and not the affect of hackery or savantism that an unskilled observer can't easily distinguish. Even if we played the same piece, comparing them to me would be insulting and debasing to them because it's like saying a recording of something is the same as a performance of it, so it's very diminishing.

In the case of the temperature monitoring circuit in the article, the process is designed to facilitate a mental transformation of exercising elementary skills, and being educated means being able to commit to that process of being molded by the experience. The details are to force commitment to the process and filter out those who aren't. Unfortuately, credentialism incentivises this affect of skills and drives enrollment, so if you are doing a job oriented degree, you're basically trained and not really educated through a process of becoming.

It would almost make sense to offer students a deal, where they can choose a training track that leads to a 52% / C- grade and do the minimum, which takes them out of the way of the TAs, they don't participate in discussions, and they can coast and draft others, maybe date each other and say they went there, but they can't impose costs, where others can elect to aim higher and choose the education track with an understanding of what that means.
I should've read the paper carefully, because I found a link for it in the references

https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=6/39.741/-7...
My gut instinct is that it is a protection from caste discrimination, that is really just a wild guess on my part.
High deductible health plans are a thing, and fulfill the current (weak) insurance requirement in the US so the last half of that is here today.
My rhetoric got a bit over my head, but I really think that every (healthy) newborn human has the potential to become what is called a "genius". This is the norm.

The limiting factor isn't some predetermined thing like genetics.

It may come into play when we look into a very narrow set of like-minded and like-socialized where one could argue that "von Neuman" was the most "gifted" of the Martians bunch. But even there one could also argue that he just spent more time on problems. Does this maybe count as intelligence, too? The perseverance? From the Polgár-Sisters the youngest - Judit - wasn't necessarily the smartest but no one in her family would argue that she wasn' the most strong-willed by a big margin.

I definitely think the genetic factor is way overblown (like by one order of magnitude) in Western societies. From personal experience from East-Asian or Middle-East (like Iran) countries, they have a more pragmatic outlook (not denying some genetic factor but they really don't care so much, in our parts it is seems like some fetish in comparison).
If it's fine now, it was fine back then also.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending this "ASCII is good enough" mentality. But in the sort of environment where management is telling people not to write words like 'naïve', it's likely that somebody named Jìng is going by 'Jing' or 'John' in the office, if for no other reason than because their boss can't be bothered to figure out how to type ì without copy-pasting it. This has been my experience anyway. This sort of corporate international accessibility seems to expect concessions from everybody.
What a badass organization. Congrats!
There's no animation cancelling at all and the animation queue can sometimes be obnoxiously long. But that's part of the point. Most Button presses you have to commit to, requiring you to be more aware of exactly what your enemies are doing.
Harry Potter on Kindle readers are probably young adults.
> Journalists, almost entirely as a group, are experts in nothing. Colossaly ill informed on every subject, and "research" consists of scrolling through Twitter to find a point of view that backs up their preexisting predudices. These days, many struggle with even basic English and grammar.

News outlets have incentives to create clickbait (or to favor stories that otherwise align with the motivations of their financial stakeholders), and "access reporters" have incentives to cozy up to their subjects.

But there are many, many journalists out there doing the actual work of researching subjects in depth and reporting on them to the best of their capability.

This story we're discussing right now - which exposes the corruption at CNN - wasn't generated by some layabout scrolling through their twitter timeline.
On the bright side, now that you have step by step instructions for what needs to be done, you can hack together a script that will take you more time than doing that process manually would have for the rest of your life, but once you do you won't have to do it ever again.*

*unless the bank changes something about their email/website/pdf and that breaks the script
The entire Trump-Russia collusion story was invented by the Clinton campaign and fed to leftists eager to hear anything that explained how Trump could have been elected. The fact is that Trump appealed to enough people in enough states to win in 2016, but instead of believing that, leftists jumped on this collusion nonsense. That story is literally the biggest conspiracy theory of all time, and it sounds like you bought it hook, line, and sinker. Believing that Trump was taking orders from Putin is comparable to believing that the world is controlled by cabal of pedophiles. Your bias may prevent you from seeing it, or the four years of media spreading the conspiracy theory, but they are equally unrealistic.
I don't think this argument holds for TV. Unlike movies which have a large sunk cost, require a coordinated rollout and expensive marketing, television can make a short proof of concept pilot season and doesn't require a marketing blitz. Television also doesn't have the expectation of budget breaking CGI/effects. As a result, TV can take chances and do things the suits would never approve for movies. If a show fails, it fails small, but if it succeeds it can do just as well as any movie (e.g. friends).
I think the takeaway is that is The West is thinking chess and Russia is playing poker, there's going to be disconnect in lens, interpretations, reactions, etc.

Thus far, that seem to be the case.

Editorial: All in all, the media continues to be as useless as it is shameless.
https://imgur.com/a/t7M2RGv

When I called, I was told that it's there to show that the OOP max for in-network and out-of-network providers isn't summed to get my total OOP max; instead it's just equal to my OON OOP max. (Of course, this plan makes it hard to go bankrupt, unlike all ACA plans. That was a bit of literary liberty.)
>And you know what? When the students blame you, maybe they are right. The teacher is supposed to use their experience to help students learn. Shouldn’t you help the actual imperfect humans in front of them, rather than imagining a bunch of perfectly rational Platonic objects?
This looks great - thank you for sharing. Now, if this (getting rapidly older) software engineer just knew how to find a mid-(late?)-career job change where the interview consisted of geeking out about these books instead of if I know how to reverse a queue with the least amount of memory...
The media has become worse again. That doesn't mean that it was never this bad before. We're in a new age of yellow journalism.
It's sad to discover that the happiness you yearned for doesn't exist.
Imagine comparing those media to RT haha
Don't make generalizations from the behavior of the residents of Berkeley!

The old joke goes, "People who are too crazy for the rest of the world come to the USA; people who are too crazy for the rest of the USA come to California; people who are too crazy for the rest of California come to San Francisco; and people too crazy for San Francisco go to Berkeley."

I'm used to being the weirdest person on any given block, but in Berkeley I don't crack the top ten. Berzerkeley is weird.
So you just speculate without evidence.

I can also speculate: Population centers have a higher density of bars and taxis. Simply because there is a larger client base.

Without evidence, you cannot tell.
https://www.poliswijzer.nl/nieuws/gevolgen-verlaging-maximum...

Bij 50 over de snelheid ben je de lul. Hoe dat zit als je in Duitsland 150 rijd overdag waarbij in Nederland de limiet van 100 dan geld zou ik niet uitproberen.
This is also how teaching went for me. I found out why teachers have attendance policies, quizzes, and all the other things that, as a student, seemed inane, if not counterproductive, to me. While those things sometimes are, and can be overly punitive or poorly applied (like anything, much of the apparatus around teaching can be done better or done worse), I now get why instructors do those things.
Why Werner Herzog thinks human space colonization “will inevitably fail”
> I feel like CGI has increased productivity a lot.

Yeah, but take a look at the massive number of VFX people listed in the end-credits of CGI-heavy films. Often several different companies (e.g. DNEG) each with its own array of artists, modellers, riggers, tech, pipeline engineers, asset developers, IT support, etc etc.
I think the Mulan update was a huge flop in China FWIW, so maybe Disney tried to thread the needle there and failed. New Star Wars movies also I think didn't do well there.

https://variety.com/2020/film/asia/why-china-hates-disney-mu...

> The most fundamental flaw, most felt, was that Disney’s new heroine starts out from childhood already equipped with superhero-like abilities, thanks to her extraordinary reserves of “qi,” the force that she cultivates and controls to excel as a fighter.

> Turning her into a superhero removes Mulan’s everywoman appeal, and leaves her with no room to grow as a character, huge swathes of Chinese viewers said.

Basically the exact criticism of the youtube video interestingly enough
Sweden follow that path of logic by imposing over 100% taxes on alcohol in order to discourage consumption. When a cup of beer costs around $10 it quickly becomes very expensive to get drunk. The state also has a monopoly on sales outside of bars, and the store closes fairly early on Fridays, is only open during a short period on Saturdays, and fully closed on Sundays. All with the primary goal of limiting consumption by making the purchasing less spontaneous and less convenient.

There is however some debate if consumption is really reduced by making it expensive and inconvenient, and if it is simply a tax on poor people who are at work during weekdays.
I’m someone who crammed their way through 4 years of computer engineering exams at a challenging university. It’s possible. It’s hard and the worst few weeks of life before exams, but it’s possible.
It's a good question, and motion should never be used without careful thought.

In my case I've written an article about request coalescing, and the animations are to go alongside the text rather than in place of it. It'll help illustrate the concept and the pitfalls that can happen.
We could nationalize facebook. That would fix all of the problems you’ve described. It would also create a lot of new ones...
There's an author I read a lot who repeatedly makes a point in this writing: there are things in my writing you won't be able to understand before you get older, there is just no way. I have to say, it is so true. There are layers of layers I can only see when I get older.

Remember when you are a teenage in high school and teachers explain subtle messages in the reading? You and all your classmates are like: this is bs, totally made up by the teacher, even the author didn't think of those. Then after you get older and you may realize: those subtle messages are just so obvious and they just can't be explained to people without life experiences.
Absurd.

It is about passenger safety. The article itself mentions that people are stranded late night and one driver after another refusing to pickup the rider. Think women, emergency,.. etc.
I wonder if there's a way to reduce and soften the classic generational gap you describe.

Just like you I find myself constantly realizing most of my intuitions were wrong from being partially informed (and too keen on believing my perspective and intuitions)

On the other hand, our elders were young hot heads too at some point. They know we don't. :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30650606
I thought the article was fairly strong except for in the two points you highlighted here. In the first case, I still don't understand why you don't just mark their answer from creatively misinterpreted instructions wrong and move on with life. And in the second case it seems like just not worrying about cheaters and letting it be their own funeral (or not) is optimal. I remember who the cheaters were in my classes and a couple decades later it's clear that to a one, I would much rather be in the shoes of the diligent hard workers than the cheaters.
In a cube
Thus we see the problem that universities are admitting students who aren't ready for tertiary education.
NASA’s NuSTAR Makes Illuminating Discoveries with ‘Nuisance’ Light
> As to what the west could actually have done, it's things like "not elect Trump" or "not do Brexit" or "not have growing right wing movement in Hungary and nearby countries".

What does that have to do with anything? If anything Trump wanted to stop Nord Stream 2 and wanted Germany to arm itself, and the Hungarians have a deep-seated grudge against Russian imperialism. But none of that mattered in the end because none of it changed the fundamental calculus of "Russia has nukes, and they care more about Ukraine than the West does." We should have been honest about that, and allowed the Ukrainians to seek an arrangement with the Russians as best they could, in a way that doesn't end with civilians getting shelled. Instead, we gave them false hope with our tough-sounding rhetoric, which made a deal politically impossible for Ukranian leaders—and now people are dying because of our lies.
I'm not super familiar with strain gauges, but I've seen some discussions about designing them as part of a PCB and it seems like 2 concerns come up: resistivity and, to a lesser extent, trace width.

It sounds like strain gauges may use a metal with higher resistivity than copper, which means you get a higher overall resistance (the ones I'm using are 350 ohm) which is better for stable measurements.

With copper traces, and especially if you're using the cheap PCB manufacturing services with large minimum trace widths, I think you'd end up with maybe single-digit ohms, which would use more power and generate more heat (which would then also change the resistance).

But if it could be made to work it would be amazing and simplify the design a lot! So I'll have to keep an eye out in case anyone does more experimentation in that space.
Given these employees have had to do their own laundry (maybe) for the duration of the pandemic, and the amount of hardship we're currently seeing if we choose to turn on the television, this amounts to a non-issue. From the stand-point of total compensation being salary+benefits+ISOs+Other, why wouldn't you consider this a pay-cut?
I don't think gender has anything to do with it though.

> it's so important to show that with utter, relentless completeness, that they've created characters that are magical, who don't need to overcome anything, characters who matter mostly as individuals, who have no duties or responsibilities to anyone else (most certainly not to any men). They're just total kick-ass take-no-prisoners empowered women.

But what you've just described is Christopher Nolan's Batman (who loses to Bane physically early in the movie, and beats him by... physically overpowering Bane a bit later).

The modern "superhero" genre is completely devoid of modern responsibilities. This wasn't true before... in the 70s, you had Clark who had to be a responsible person (show up to his job, write articles, etc. etc.). Despite being a magical alien from a futuristic society, Clark Kent had a number of "human" scenes, interacting with his boss, showing off responsible uses of his powers (ex: the Robbery scene, he manages to protect Lois Lane and the Robber, by pretending to be weak. Catching the bullet and pretending to go unconscious from fright).

Today, Christopher Nolan's Batman (who is considered well written), leaves his company to go off on a Ninja-adventure. Leaves all the decision-making to a rival group of executives, and then magically takes back over the company despite his multi-year absence after siphoning funds to a secretive and poorly managed research-and-development corner of the company. And somehow the people who ran the company during his absence are the antagonists who need to be disposed of by the end of the 1st movie.

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Don't get me wrong, Nolan's Batman is really interesting and fun to watch. But he's fun to watch BECAUSE he's an amoral asshole with crap moral lessons.

Iron-man is another movie character who has this effect as well. Assholes who magically get their way are often interesting to watch.

I wouldn't want any children following in the "lessons" of Nolan's Batman or 2008+ era Iron Man. They're awful moral characters.

Ray (Star Wars, episodes 7-9) is positively a saint in comparison.
> is the cheapest and least useful form of reporting known to mankind

Maybe not the most useful form of reporting.. but the least useful form known to mankind? After reading the article I think there's more to the analysis than just that.