skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Food deserts are a tough problem to solve, because they’re often definitively caused by lack of demand, making supply unprofitable and impractical. For example [0]:

> Between 2004 and 2016, more than a thousand supermarkets opened nationwide in neighborhoods around the country that had previously been food deserts. We studied the grocery purchases of about 10,000 households in those neighborhoods. While it’s true that these households buy less healthy groceries than people in wealthier neighborhoods, they do not start buying healthier groceries after a new supermarket opened. Instead, we find that people shop at the new supermarket, but they buy the same kinds of groceries they had been buying before.

> The food desert story is that the lack of supply of healthy foods in food deserts causes lower demand for healthy foods. But the modern economy is more sophisticated than this explanation allows for—grocers have become amazingly good at selling us exactly the kinds of foods we want to buy. As a result, our data support the opposite story: lower demand for healthy food is what causes the lack of supply.

[0] https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2019/decemb...
I'm cofounder of Levels.fyi and we have a Resume Review Service [1] and Negotiation Service [2]. There's several video reviews from prior customers on the page that may be helpful. I'm obviously very biased but investing less than $3k total on education and services to potentially bag a job / salary increase in the thousands (many times tens of thousands, so like 2-3x+) seems like a good investment to me. For context 10% return in the stock market may be considered avg.

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Netflix wasn't even a "meme stock". Some companies will do worse (and some better) than others at any given point in time, that much is obvious. There's definitely a correction afoot, but twisting the narrative into "see you shouldn't follow the online hype, instead invest into wherever we tell you – Bloomberg" is pretty deceiving.
The relevant question would be the ratio of the movement of net payers to net benefit recipients into the system.
I don't think the NHS is a great example... things can surely be better than that.

Incentives are a complicated issue in healthcare.
In Australia there is a 'two-tiered' system in the sense that there is a large public system funded federally and by states that provides access to anyone and everyone, and a private system where most people have private insurance and also pay additional fees. There is no insurance linked to employment.

Primary care can be accessed for free or depending on where you live, often involves paying a gap for each visit.

What doesn't happen is that all the best and most experienced doctors/nurses go and work in private. Almost all the doctors worth seeing work in the public system as well. Why? Well, it differs for each person but some combination of status, access to a professional network, collegiality, access infrastructure and expertise, job flexibility and the fact that it acts as a referral stream to 'take patients private'. The facilities in the public system are 'the best' becaue they still handle all the complicated and difficult care (Oncology, Transplants, Dialysis etc), despite what the private hospitals say in their brochures.

My point is that if you make some adjustments, bake in some infrastructure funding, and make smart use of non-financial incentives, you can avoid creating a two-tiered system and build enduring capacity and quality in a single payer system.
Sounds like they could have used a union.
If you’re earning 1m + in w2 income, then your effective rate is right about 50% in nyc. If the marginal tax bracket goes to 60%, high earners will definitely be moving. Nyc really has a high opinion of itself if they think people are going to be willing to pay 20% extra in taxes for the privilege of living in a city where garbage is left on the sidewalks and infrastructure is constantly breaking down
> It needs to be explained that it's not using ableist language

Why? This doesn't logically follow to the author renaming their thing unless you think speech policing on the internet is some kind of valid passtime or has any weight on anything in the real world.

> meaning that every time it's shared a discussion like this one will take place

So it's a good PR move because the PC police can't figure out that just maybe every corner doesn't have a nazi around it and maybe it's just a play on bastard?
You are lucky, I kept having the same message asking me to prove that I wasn't a robot and couldn't access to the article at all (same reason as you, they "detected unusual activity from your computer network").
I'm a developer who started a cloud based pos app from the ground up. The last two years of scaling have been a master class in sql and thinking about data.

I blame a lot of performance and scaling problems on ORMS which are fundamentally a bad abstraction for sql and enable devs to brute force something that "works" instead of dinging an elegant and high performance solution to a problem. Most devs don't really understand how to use case statement or aggregate queries for instance. When i was building out analytics pipeline, my original vision was to use some sort of elastic search. We're scrappy and bootstrapping though so instead I came up with a set of triggers that populated special tables that pre-crunch certain bits of data from the original source. Between that and judiculous use of indexing, we are able to do realtime queries with no delay. If you know how to layout your information correctly, the database can be more than fast enough for most use cases.

I think everyone working on database abstraction libraries should look at Ecto. It doesn't try to hide sql. instead it embraces the semantics of sql and extends it to make it more ergonomic. It become easy to escape hatch into raw sql for things the libary doesn't support and even better, I don't have some werid under the hood transformation going on that messes with my intuition for the sql being generated.

tldr: stop treating sql as a glorified k/v store. you can do a lot of cool stuff inside the db and benefit from a crazy speed boost
Please check dbt package
The machines I’ve tried it on were a Dell Latitude with a Windows Precision touchpad and a friend’s Dell XPS 13 running debian.

In fact in the second case, I recommended the app, and my friend rejected because he felt the touchpad scrolling was off.
Ok and do what? Destroy the countries economy? Station troops at factories? Seize all vehicles and remove CFCs? Take all their air conditioners?

The idea is ridiculous.
You know we had 2008 and we learned that in high finance there were these complex derivatives that a lot of people understood in a loose sense, but rarely in a detailed sense. And that they were basing those complex instruments on credit ratings that were essentially fraudulent. And that structure of a fraudulent base and mounds of complexity on top can surf for a really long time before blowing up catastrophically.

How is this not just the exact same formula? "Oh you see it's stable because there's this exchange mechanism and it's attached to this floating currency, blah blah blah." It all sounds very complex but then it breaks and you look underneath and it seems like anyone who understood what the mechanics actually were would've always been a little sketched out by it. Is this whole ecosystem not just small-time hobbyists and programmers trying to create this exact dangerous dynamic over and over?
> Capital fleeing to asset classes with more favorable risk adjusted returns in a rising interest rate

Which markets, care to ellaborate?
...and why combined tax rates for the middle class are around 50%.

As someone who's lived in the Canadian health care system and the US system - it is absolutely lower quality than what average private employer healthcare plan provides in the US.

Even before covid, Quebec's healthcare system was in crisis with packed ERs having dozens of neglected patients on beds in the hallways for weeks... GP access is impossible with waiting lists 3 years long. ...and the nursing shortage was bad before - now because covid caused the government to order nurses to do forced overtime.

Americans have rose-colored glasses when they think about the quality of care in Canada. The truth is that Canadian healthcare is better for people that cannot afford healthcare. ...and American healthcare is far better for the average person that is employed with those benefits.

It's a simple tradeoff. Significantly higher taxes + healthcare for the poor (Canada) vs better healthcare for the average middle-class employed person (US).
Org is theoretically just a markdown format. In practice it starts out as a markdown editor with a bunch of neat features, and can become this omnibus of organization. There's a whole organizational ecosystem which uses org as a sort of lingua franca, so the more you sacrifice at its alter the more it all comes together. I use it to unify my todo list and calendar, and have it display what needs to happen both on an hour to hour level and day to day. I use it to pin emails I want to reply to with one key combo, and connect notes to each other any way I want. I have no idea if it's useful enough to justify the time I put into it. For most people, probably not. But I've gotten it to the point that it's just totally frictionless for me, and not a single other system I've ever used has been easy enough to stick to.
Author should have stuck with ansible a bit longer.

It can stream shell commands so you've got all the usual sed awk etc

And has a battle tested OS detection logic built in.

>This value is correct for Debian and derivatives, but not for my Gentoo or FreeBSD systems, so I’ve created OS-specific configuration files for these.

And can copy in different templates depending on OS.

Hell it can even detect whether its in a KVM or LXC or metal environment with right helpers and same for architecture so very useful for building a script that works in a very mixed environment

Still to each their own. I occasionally feel the need to reinvent a specific wheel too.
The problem with Lua at least is that in order to do anything remotely useful you will have to pull in a bunch of 3rd party libs from luarocks or somewhere. There's basically nothing in the stdlib at all except primitive functions to build on. At least with bash the host system _is the stdlib_. And you can usually rely on that.
Congress urged to ease immigration for foreign science talent
We're not shying away from "boring" stuff at all. We just have a small team with bigger priorities that's spread too thin. There's a million things like resizable volumes we need to ship and we're aggressively hiring to get them done.
Great! Thanks for the explanation.
"Single payer" is just another word for Monopoly. It's insane anyone thinks this is a good idea. Just Google "quebec/canada healthcare crisis"
America has bent over backwards to further particular (Christian) religious causes, even while they whine and moan about how their majority is "oppressed".
The optical performance of the telescope continues to be better than the engineering team’s most optimistic predictions. ... The image quality delivered to all instruments is “diffraction-limited,” meaning that the fineness of detail that can be seen is as good as physically possible given the size of the telescope.

Congratulations, Webb team!
"I guess this is only a problem if you don't have access to a car or bus."

Most people in the US live in urban areas, and most urban areas in the US have awful public transportation.

Even when they have some means of getting to richer areas, the poor (who are most likely to live in food deserts) rarely if ever go shopping in rich areas, where the most nutritious food tends to be. They tend to shop where they live.
Professional organizations have stronger incentives to increase their compensation through restricting supply instead of decreasing their compensation to help their customers.

The AMA is actually doing a great job at this recently compared to the ABA, where there have been too many lawyers graduating recently for insane salaries except at the top.
I would imagine time is a bigger factor than supply: healthier foods often take longer to prep; to put it the other way, the faster the meal, often the worse the health.
It’s not a bubble. This is seasonal.

> “Sell in May and go away” is an old Wall Street saying that suggests investors sell their stocks during the summer to avoid a seasonal decline in the stock market.
That's actually a great comparison. Believing you're possessed by demons is simply a belief with no grounds in reality, same as believing you should be the opposite sex.

Yet people still try exorcisms to alleviate the former, and hormone supplements and surgery for the latter, despite their futility in actually doing what is intended. But it does usually make them feel better anyway, at least in the context of the delusion.
Medicare funds medical residency (not the NIH and not the AMA). The 1997 balanced budget act passed by congress limited the expansion of new medical residency training.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2018/03/09/592333771/severe-shortage-of-...
One example is recording a macro - you can then execute it an arbitrary number of times. I've used it e.g. to add quotes and commas to a list of data so it's a proper string array, or to change a string into an object where a property is the former simple string. The workflow would be - record the abstracted process using vi editing commands, then play the macro over where needed.

Probably best to see it in action to fully appreciate it.
I wish they would share many more photos, and also document what's happening on the engineers' screens

The idea of 'exclusive use' rubs me the wrong way
Like the US dollar, perhaps?
Lol first time my thoughts on banning health insurance is the less extreme option haha...

For reference, the idea is to optimize for public good. Banning insurance would drop fees dramatically because people would get less unnecessary work done. At the same time, hospitals and others would be willing to offer loans provided you could pay it off. This would drive down costs to the point even the poor can get some decent medical treatment. Any gaps can be made by non-profits, religious organizations and the like (similar to planned parenthood). Not perfect, but makes healthcare abundant and cheap.
Once tried selling a $1k camera via eBay, with the no international buyers caveat.

First day received a purchase order with an address to a derelict house in Detroit followed by a private message to please send the camera to an address in Africa. Took about a day to cancel the order, and eBay still demanded a cut for this non-existent, fraudulent transaction.

Second day receive a virtually identical attempt, only this time eBay refused my cancellation. Attempted to fight it, no avail. Received a variety of indignant messages from the seller claiming I was some sort of scammer. Once again eBay demanded a cut of this bullshit transaction.

I logged out of the account and sold it via Amazon in about a day no problem. eBay is a joke.
It's difficult to maintain a peg when it starts to become unsustainable and the big players start to bet against you. Reminds me of when Soros took on the Bank of England and won: they were trying to peg the value of the pound using the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (the precursor to the Euro). These guys can use up all their capital easily.
I can't tell if you're being serious - but when people start moving out because of excessive taxation, prices drop and tax revenues go down with them (because real estate taxes are based on home values).

Capital flight lowers real estate tax revenues. This should be obvious, so maybe your comment was a joke?
Rewriting Python in any compiled language is better.

Imagine binding typos keeping someone awake at night. It's 2022.
The other content on the site is somewhat specious as well.
they’re often definitively caused by lack of demand, making supply unprofitable and impractical

Automation allows provisioning to reduced aggregate demand levels while maintaining profitability.
It's not just math. It's a process that can be described in mathematical language.
Here's the MIRI image (top-right) compared against Spitzer:

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2022/05/MIRI_and_S... ("MIRI and Spitzer comparison image")
Why are you so invested (given your several posts in this thread) in trying to get the rest of us to lack empathy? He says he feels burnt out. He feels burnt out.
> NYC high earners are going to be knocking on the door of 60% combined rates (city, state, federal). tax avoidance and/or relocation services are going to be booming if so.

It turns out that people don't often move over taxes, despite the claims of the anti-tax crowd, or NY and CA would have been emptied out long ago. Taxes are investment; we need to start calling them 'low-investment' and 'high-investment' states (but the liberal crowd is blind to the power of messaging and perception). People like the services and the community that investment creates, such a health care and arts.

Also, they can subtract their health insurance costs, and you are only talking about income taxes, while most taxes are either fixed rate for benefits (e.g., Social Security) or, for the wealthy, capital gains.
Why is nearly everything cheaper in capitalist countries than communist ones?

Water rates in Seattle are 3 cents per cubic foot. Do you really think some is going to be able to hoard enough water to make a glass of water cost a dollar?
I have personally been impressed with the increased offerings at my local 7/11 (milk, eggs, decent produce i.e. bananas). While not a perfect selection, it certainly serves as a walkable stop-gap of healthy offerings. Would be interesting to see such options increase in availability in communities such as these.
Uber tells staff company will cut down on costs, treat hiring as a ‘privilege’
Same reason we're told to stop eating beef and take public transport to fight climate change, and almost nothing about reducing population or taxing and punishing fossil fuel cartels and profiteers.
Those people are not applying because they live elsewhere. If they moved they would have a different candidate pool.
GME is propped up by a cult with almost millenarian views of the stock market. It’s more like a giant penny stock scam from the 00s than anything
Yes, I guess I wasn’t explicit enough and now we’re having a silly discussion about a few dozen Ukrainian planes.

The entire point was… anyway…

I’ll be more explicit next time so we don’t run into the weeds and waste everyone’s time and get right to the issue
For any older java programmers that may have a bad taste in their mouth when they think of green threads: when Java first came out, it had green threads, and all N threads that were spawned were tied to a single kernel thread. It also required cooperative multithreading, where one green thread may need to yield.

Java upgraded to native threads, and then you could have N java threads bound to N kernel threads. This was way better, but had downsides: You're limited on how many threads you can spawn, you need a threadpool to help manage, and any long-running tasks could effectively deplete your thread-pool.

With Loom, now you have M green threads mapped to N kernel threads. These green threads are way cheaper to spawn, so you could have thousands (millions even?) of green threads. Blocking calls won't tie up a kernel thread. So if you have many long-running IO tasks, they aren't going to waste a kernel thread and have it sit around idle waiting on IO. This is similar to async libraries, but without the mental overhead. You should be able to just code synchronously and the JVM will take care of the rest.
Water rates in Seattle are 3 cents per cubic foot. Do you really think people will be priced out of water?
Perhaps 'restore' would be a better choice of word.
Apple's Eddy Cue Restructuring Services To Focus More On Streaming, Advertising
I basically operate within small to medium size business as sales in California. Every business owner I know took/got so much PPP money they flat out feel guilty but at the same time all they did was take what was being offered. It's probably the most internally rage inducing thing I've ever heard of, but Im so used to faking agreement to keep the sales relationship alive I basically can block it out.
Money is sales feels like fake money anyway so I can cope. But I think if any hard working people really found out what happened they'd almost go French revolution on government.
I've recently been in a similar situation and it's very tough. Agree 100% on the LinkedIn (I didn't try AngelList) the quality was terrible, which I think is because of how easy they make it to apply, so you just end up getting randoms that don't actually have any interest in working for you.

I ended up finding peopl through a personal connection. After going through lots of personal connections that were not interested. I think that (unfortunately) one of the key things you are expected to bring as a founder is the connections to hire people.
official update from terra https://twitter.com/terra_money/status/1523749536379793408
One of the main errors that people miss is that the people leaving California and New York are the people making money and paying tax revenues.

Covid CRUSHED NYC tax revenues - and many people have still not returned.
Interesting - when I zoom in (to the 'detail' box) it looks very striated : i'm seeing what appears to be some sort of 45 degree diagnoal scanning procedure. Is this from the source or some sort of artifact of PNG? (zoom into the top left box which says 'detail')
previous thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31318328
it's easier to have less total derailments, but higher numbers of cars derailed.

Put every train car in the country on one train and derail it. Now 100% of the capacity was derailed, but it's an incredible success, because the number of train derailments shrank from 1056 to 1!

So much safety!
The release mentions that MIRI captures on a wavelength which includes both starlight and interstellar clouds, which admittedly looks awesome when put together!
What about the people losing money? Also, that statement implies that these are all honest efforts, not scams.
This is anecdotal, but I know multiple people who have moved to Washington and Texas from NY and CA specifically to save on taxes from large stock grants at tech companies. I don’t think this is a unique experience in the tech industry. At a large public company I worked for, an entire team ended up moving.
You'd be better off using the highest profile h.264 today. _MOST_ of the way to h.265 and is way better on patents and slightly better for still-frame quality.

For long term archive work the above or AV1 (if you have infinite time / energy budget) are probably better, depending on settings.
You’d have to try it for yourself and see.
While that's quite a word salad sentence, there's a bit of truth to it -- the subtitle typeface that reads "The Last Airbender" is Adrian Frutiger's Herculanum, which is what you actually download when you click "Download Font" on that page -- which, ah, seems of dubious legality. The actual "Avatar" title looks clearly hand-drawn.
Some of these concerns have also been voiced by ESA. There's two main problems with it. One is taking up all the orbits and bandwidth simply by being there first (on a race to monopolize LEO), and the other is putting dual use technology in space. Both of them are rational concerns and afaik they remain unanswered.
NYS has a bigger population than all of Canada which seems to do make universal healthcare work.