skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that they are Medicare covered means the retirees will choose to retire in lower tax jurisdictions. They do not need state governments to provide healthcare.
I think he means people who have enough money at, say, 40 years old, to pay for everything but health insurance. I can see the temptation myself, since insurance as you get into your 50s can be 2000/month or more. If NY State pays that while I wait for Medicare to kick in, hey, FIRE!
Willing to guess this happens across pretty much every Smalltown, USA.

The train came to town, and all rejoiced! The trains continued to get bigger, but towns did not anticipate this. The mayor doesn't live on "that" side of the tracks, so doesn't ever think about it. People complaining about it are from "that" side of the tracks, so doesn't rate highly on the TODO.
What crazy off-the-wall things could the US do, if the crisis got to a critical juncture? Is there some kind of "moonshot" way of moving large amounts of freshwater across long distances that would solve this problem?
We already have a shortage of doctors and it is very expensive to become a doctor. How will paying doctors less help this? We need to reduce requirements for becoming a doctor and have "tiers" so people who just do family doctor things only need to know family doctor things.

Prescription drug spending is less than 20% of medicare. Negotiating prices might help but taking that 20% to 10% still leaves healthcare as a very very large expense (source https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...).
This will be a tough problem to solve. We could start by eliminating the AMA.
Words That Come from Sanskrit
They're worth talking about right now. But they're not the only thing worth talking about right now.
I don't want to be rude, but if you paid 17%, that's basically the minimum income tax rate (10+4+3) for NYC. That's pretty far form the OP's "NYC high earners". Of course, if you got credits, that's orthogonal as normally those credits cost more than they are worth. For instance, the child credit is far from the cast of raising a child.
Why? Wouldn't a line skip be by definition something that the public system isn't offering?
A collection might not be worth much to them. A suggestion might be to have them displayed at your funeral with instructions to bequeath them to attendees as a memento. That's if most attendees know about your collection (that is, would associate old books with you) and their actual value is low enough. A brawl over your one six-figure book wouldn't be the goal
> Could you please elaborate? I think the way the US did it's COVID stimulus was outstanding and very close to the ideal way to actually address people's potential needs.

I have a number of friends in the contracting/remodeling/construction industry. Demand for their services skyrocketed during COVID while they were all simultaneously working with their accountants to maximize their take from the COVID PPP program.

Huge quantities of COVID money were pumped into companies that absolutely did not need it, and that's not even counting the massive volume of fraudulent claims. The COVID Paycheck Protection Program was supposed to shore up companies that would otherwise have to fire employees, but AFAICT nothing really stopped highly profitable companies from also collecting the money.
Should have just used Papyrus. Now we'll never have a sequel to that SNL sketch.
Parent coment talks about pesticide use and you pivot to "GMO"... Interesting. Why the deceptive debate tactic?
There's no magic here (that there is no magic is part of the point). You have the same phenomenon in n-tier Postgres deployments: to be highly available, you need multiple instances; you're going to have a write leader, because you're not realistically want to run a Raft consensus for every write; etc.

The point of the post is just that if you can get rid of most of the big operational problems with using server-side SQLite in a distributed application --- most notably, failing over and snapshotting --- then SQLite can occupy a much more interesting role in your stack than it's conventionally been assigned. SQLite has some very attractive properties that have been largely ignored because people assume they won't be able to scale it out and manage it. Well, you can scale it out and manage it. Now you've got an extremely simple database layer that's easy to reason about, doesn't require you to run a database server (or even a cache server) next to all your app instances, and happens to be extraordinarily fast.

Maybe it doesn't make sense for your app? There are probably lots of apps that really want Postgres and not SQLite. But the architecture we're proposing is one people historically haven't even considered. Now, they should.

I'm not sure "litestream replicate <file>" really costs a whole innovation token. It's just SQLite. You should get an innovation rebate for using it. :)
I spent the last few years really working hard to understand async frameworks/libraries like VertX, Mutiny etc I've gone from "I hate it" to "I can live with it". Now I dont have to. :) Yay.
If the tenants will pay and it doesn't break any rules, why not raise rent before taxes go up and pocket the extra? (serious question)
I doubt it as well.

That's sad though because SQLite is really missing a lot of features that PostgreSQL has.
I don't understand your argument.

You are helping others & others help you. What's the problem?

> If I made this story a bit more personal and wrote ("I am too ill to work anymore, so I drove to my son's house and took $200 off his counter to buy my medication) HN would be reacting with outrage.

How about making the story more fitting the reality here: You drive to your sons house and ask him to help you with your health bill and he helps you because...why wouldn't he?
>You can't design a city for both walking and bicycles.

Your assertion shows that you have never visited a Dutch city.

Most Dutch cities were originally designed for walking (they are old, at least in the core), then (like most places) the car took over in the 30s - 70s, but since the 70s there's been a concerted effort to re-establish bicycle supremacy, along with strong public transport.

The outcome is that pretty much everyone (including the elderly) cycle everywhere because it's most convenient. And walk around perfectly fine once you've parked your bike. And if you need to go a bit further afield when you're done? Jump back on the bike.

The hybrid of public transport/bike/walking works incredibly well, everyone co-exists perfectly, without making any compromises. Obviously, this wouldn't happen without there having had been a concerted effort to build good multi-modal infrastructure nationwide for the last ~50 years, but it really pays off. The urban environment is really nothing like pretty much anywhere else.
Taco Town!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evUWersr7pc
Half of California's tax revenue comes from the top 1% [1]. Medicare retirees are almost guaranteed to not be part of that 1%. You're talking huge tax revenue losses here if the 1% do decide to leave.

[1] https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/7
I'm not even sure what they mean by ban "healthcare" (insurance, doctors, hospitals?), and I can't decide if that makes me agree with you more or less.
With Postgres, you might have one server, or one cluster of servers that are coordinated, and then inside there you have tables with users and the users' data with foreign keys tying them together.

With SQLite, you would instead have one database (one file) per user as close to the user as possible that has all of the user's data and you would just read/write to that database. If your application needs to aggregate multiple user's data, then you use something like Litestream to routinely back it up to S3, then when you need to aggregate data you can just access it all there and use a distributed system to do the aggregation on the SQLite database files.
I went to a clinic in Canada a few years ago to see a doctor. My provincial health card had expired and I didn't know. I was sick and wanted a consultation with the doctor. I said I would pay cash and was told that they are not allowed to charge people who are eligible for public healthcare. So I had to go and wait at our equivalent of the DMV (while sick and seeking medical attention) to get my health card renewed before I could see a doctor. I'm sure there are countless bureaucratic nightmare stories coming out of the US health insurance system, there will be countless more under a public system
Not necessarily, because you have to consider the entire lifecycle.

When doing frontend rendering you usually work against a REST(ful) API to fetch data, the idea is to reuse endpoints for multiple frontend components, because of this generalization you usually end up sending more data than necessary, not only between the database and the backend, but also between the backend and the frontend.

And not only that, you start doing JOINs over HTTP and JavaScript.

With server side rendering I can write an exact SQL query to render that component.
WA is also lower than NY. I have a few properties, and I would say property tax is 0.75% to 1% of market value, max.
Reading this brought back memories of my own family's cabin in the Sierra Nevada. My grandfather always left a fire laid when leaving so with one match, you could light it on arrival and start heating the place up instantly. An old school, kinder and simpler solution.

I'm happy for Tony. But I also miss my grandfather and his kind of engineering.
https://lwn.net/Articles/710537/ introduces Sage and other symbolic mathematics programs for Linux.
I'm originally from Finland. Our urban planning used to combine pedestrians and bicycles into "light traffic". That approach became obsolete 10-15 years ago, when it was widely realized that they are two different modes of transport that operate at different speeds and scales. The change has improved the bicycle infrastructure significantly, as the old approach didn't really see bicycling as a form of traffic that should be taken seriously.
Agree, I think there's also an overblown perception that you need to obtain credit and loans in order to build a decent credit rating. Which whilst true, doesn't really disadvantage you if you don't.
Having met my fair share of Germans, I find it hard to believe that SUSE is so overtly antisemitic as this one-sided account makes out. The Germans I've met all go into anaphylactic shock at the slightest whiff of antisemitism, or anything politically to the right of the American DNC (which they consider quite right-wing).

So I'm reserving judgement until I've heard what both side have to say.
After 15mins, I turn the car around and go back home for an hour. I'm not sitting in my car stationary for an hour for the train to pass. Trains aren't allowed to stop during commute hours. They have to do that in certain windows.
I live in Amsterdam and I think he has a point. Many major Dutch cities are old, so they don't really work as a counterexample. Looking at new developments, like Almere or even the outskirts of Amsterdam, it's clear that they don't have the same structure.
4 states would be about 1/3 of all of USA's population too...
Examples I witnessed are friends who never lost their job got like an extra $8k (couple working with two kids). So they bought stuff with it.

I have multiple friends in tech who switched to remote and literally used the extra stimulus cash to trade with Robinhood and crypto.

I doubt this is representative. But people making $100k who ended up saving money from no longer needing to commute did not need thousands of dollars in stimulus. Of course, it was neat getting the money, but it resulted in a lot of extra cash.

Comically, I also have friends who just paid down debt and didn’t buy anything.

But my anecdotes are lucky in that I didn’t know anyone who lost their job or got seriously ill.
> Could you please elaborate?

College students who weren't planning to have any income anyway before Covid hit. And that's at least still a relatively "legitimate" payout compared to the screw-ups like sending money to prisoners [0].

But really both cases are massively massively dwarfed by anyone who could fog a mirror starting an LLC and getting $40k to $250k of PPP money. I personally know a couple people who should go to jail for this (but probably won't even have to repay the money, let alone repay with interest, let alone get in trouble).

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/04/05/gover...
Neat concept, cringe inducing name.

Could have called it "Baby Got Bash"
Literally any other option than telling our children they must involuntarily pay, like they're our own personal piggy bank. Saving, asking nicely, charity, debt/mortgage the house, and other forms of voluntary transactions sound acceptable. If you truly have no other options then you can make the moral judgement whether you want to involuntarily take from our children because you think the investment on yourself is worth more than the investment on the youth.
Microsoft provides a separate h265 codec you can buy in the Microsoft store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/uitbreidingen-voor-hevc-vi...

Some hardware comes with the codec pre-purchased (my laptop does). I don't think I've ever heard of anyone buying a codec in the MS Store, though.

I think most Android phones come with HEVC support. Mine did, anyway; I suppose it's up to the vendor to choose if they want to support it. Apps like VLC will also play the codec just fine. My camera app even records in h.265. This is a phone from Xiaomi, which not exactly known for their great software packages and compatibility.

I'm pretty sure Safari already supports h.265 because Apple switched to HEIF pictures while the rest of the world still just uses JPEGs for everything, and HEIF is pretty close to a single h.265 frame packaged as a picture. Not even Apple would be so foolish to switch default formats on their mobile devices and not support it across their software products.

Browsers don't feel like paying license fees over downloads of their free products and I can't blame them. Mozilla's h.264 decoder is only published along with it because Cisco had reached the license fee cap (which doesn't exist for h.265) and they decided to use their license so that Firefox can play videos freely.

I think Apple and physical disks formats are the only players heavily invested in h.265 right now. AV1 hardware decoding support is slowly coming along, so soon enough everyone can just use AV1 and be free of the proprietary patent bullcrap.
It'd be more apt to group them on their own if anything, just as Dutch cities tend to have separate lanes for cyclists, drivers and pedestrians. At least for The Netherlands, cyclists often feel like a protected group both pedestrians and drivers have to pay attention to.

The latter is more apparent in old roads and areas where there's no clear distinction between road and sidewalk, where cars are generally not allowed but bicycles are. Watching for cyclists feels like playing Frogger at times. Also cases where cyclists just ignore pedestrians and expect priority, when it is obvious pedestrians have priority (zebra crossings, traffic lights).

The above does illustrate why cities made for walking alone and cities made for walking and cycling would or should differ.
How/why is failure inevitable?

>Contrast to single payer, which is hard to kill because people are yes paying a tax but also seeing a benefit and seeing a benefit that they didn't have before

Isn't that true for a public option as well?
Why not just include an error code and help and insight?

That way, when the help and insight inevitably fails to solve the problem at some point, the user can still dump the error code into Google to see if other people have run into/solved the problem.
> The people calling out her “colonialist” references to Mars claim to be speaking on behalf of their friends. Then you have actual Indian people coming along later, wondering what the fuss was about and welcoming the author to India.

Eh. Actual Indian person here. I think it's pretty stupid to comparing a flight to India to "going to Mars". You have Pizza Hut, Subway, and KFC in India, for crying out loud.

In normal times, the person saying things like this would have been chided by a few of their friends. Now they are viciously attacked by the whole of the Internet – which is the real problem.
But why?

Literally, no one here cares. Couple this with the fact that some don't pay tax, it can make it more difficult.

(Native Canadians don't pay tax. And as a business, many items are tax exempt, if they are for resale. )

You're trying to solve something that isn't a problem. This is because it is cultural.

All haggling is done on the basis of pre-tax.

You know in Canada, we used to have built in taxes on textiles, levied at the distributor too. We got rid of it, an replaced it (and others) with a tax at the cashier.

This is because, if you buy product from out of province, or out of country, it is easier to decouple the tax.

You may not agree, but so what? We prefer it. It is how we do business.

Every time I buy something from amazon in the UK, to ship to me in Canada, I get told the wrong price, because silly VAT is built in.

So when I Google for competitive quotes, UK businesses appear to have wildly inflated pricing.
The former. I for one happily upvote a submission before reading it, to keep it on the front page which is so fragilely ephemeral for new submissions, so I can read the article and then come back to (hopefully) some good comments from others in the thread.
How much of this do you think comes from the Bay Area and Los Angeles housing costs and the ability to remote work in the last couple of years (which seems to be coming to an end... possibly) and how much do you think is because of policy and city deterioration which has been publicized?

I can't speak for CA but I see parallels in Seattle, though there's only movement to other cities within other WA cities (mainly the east side).
A rolling release is not a "pre release" but rather a continuous succession of releases, one for every package update. To the extent the rolling release has no broken packages it is completely globally coherent. And I don't think a failing package is necessarily a failure in coherence either - it just means the blessed version is broken. Incoherence is when you have A depending on C-1.0 and B depending on C-2.0 and the two versions of C not simultaneously installable (local coherence of C) - it is only the complex constraint-solving package managers that would be able to function with such a dependency tree. Such a situation is unlikely to occur in a rolling release - it is more likely to have two C package C1-1.0 and C2-2.0 which do not conflict.
>I love biking, but it's a bit shortsighted to think that bicycling in urban areas can replicate the same benefits of a city that is well designed for walking.

That's exactly the point, in the Netherlands it can and does. Sometimes you walk, sometimes you cycle, it just depends on the context of your specific trip. (Are you going one place or many? Is the weather a bit cold today? Will it rain a lot later?). Both options are pretty much as good as each other.
> are they really off?

When my iPhone's battery is depleted the screen goes blank. If I try to turn it on, an empty battery logo appears and it says "Find My enabled" underneath. So, I assume not.
Aren't these for things published in 2021?
Has anyone found the $$$ range?
Landlords are also competing with each other and tenants have limits based on what they can actually afford to pay. At some point they can be forced to move out of the city to a lower cost of living location, dropping demand. In fact it's entirely possible for a significant increase in tax rates to make rental units a poor investment, causing housing prices to plummet and rents to drop.

Your mistake is assuming that people who bought up housing stock are guaranteed future profit on their speculative investment.
for starters, try to actually experience your market as a buyer.
Biden administration is capping the cost of internet for low-income Americans
Ah, Almere... The Irvine, CA of The Netherlands! :)

(NB: I have a good friend in Almere and I live in Irvine.)
Looking at the Linux source "tpacpi::power" is in the "TPACPI_SAFE_LEDS" list; the setting mentioned in that thread only protects things like "tpacpi::dock_active", "tpacpi::dock_status1", etc.

I checked, and my kernel doesn't have that option, and I can change it just fine ("echo 0 >/sys/class/leds/tpacpi::power/brightness", as root of course).
Do people really belief that this is from Leonardo? It is so much unlike and I would say, forgive me, inferior compared to his uncontested works.
Definitely mount Almere.

The whole thing looks like a render to me on that picture.
Where's the next round of greater fools coming from?
A gurrl working in this place with only boys! Well, how did YOU end up with this job then?
TRVs have barely been developed. They’ve existed for about 4 years so far and most Chinese sellers have already gone through 4 - 5 design iterations. Any TRV relying to auto adjust based on temperature of the thermals from the TRV head are wrong. It’s a stupid design and was never going to work.

The only way to reliably set temperature is by reading it elsewhere in the room. With radiators that’s really inconsistent because they’re slow to heat up and slow to cool down if you “over heat”.

Also the window detection feature on any TRV should be disabled. It’ll only cause you issues.

I simply have a “fully open” or “off” control from a Zigbee gateway per room. I’d consider adding sustained motion sensors to each room but to be honest just having a timer to turn them on in the morning, off at bed time and the ability to adjust and view what rooms are on manually from my desk or phone is more than enough.

There’s value in electric TRVs but not in the automating part beyond scheduling.

Thermostatic Radiator Valves for anyone wondering.
One reason is it is expensive to fund the research and testing and so the companies need to recoup that cost. They cannot in Europe and Canada due to price controls which means people in the US offset the cost. The US is basically subsidizing other Western countries.
What's the state of encoding? I'd like to try moving some videos to AV1, but I'm not willing to wait... IIRC, it was literally days of encode time for minutes of video last time I tried.
I don't think that's it. I mean, it's true that breast cancer research is one of the best funded types of cancer research, but there have also been tons of reports that a lot of medication is only tested on men and not on women. Or that women are less likely to be taken seriously when they visit a doctor. So I don't think it's so clear cut that women receive substantially better health care. There are blind spots all over the place.
Yawn. Quite unsurprising [0]. But we're still waiting 13 years, for all of it to completely die and go away forever. Maybe is that why Meta [1], Stripe [2], Signal [3] and others [4], [5] are still using them?

This is just another wiping out of the speculators and the crypto maximalists again. Sorry, but it's going to take more than that to 'get rid of it all'.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29752372

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/09/instagram-testing-nfts-sel...

[2] https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto

[3] https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...

[4] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ukraine-electronic-...

[5] https://ir.moneygram.com/news-releases/news-release-details/...
Yep! That's usually how I find out usage inside companies. :)