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NY should pay for single payer in part by raising real estate taxes, it's the only clear way the state has to avoid capital flight in the way you're describing here.

This said, a big thing NY benefits from is that a lot of people work in NY state temporarily as consultants in addition to the bridge and tunnel crowd that come in from NJ and CT, this gives them a much larger tax base than the population living there brings in on its own.
Would healthcare overall in e.g New York be equivalent though? In Canada, we have "free" healthcare but literally have no other option so it's the Soviet style mess you'd expect a government monopoly to be. But would this bar paid healthcare? Couldn't people still have health insurance and get private care? Is there something preventing that?
Did you write your own rust raft implementation or reuse something already available?
There are low latency dongles you can use for old consoles to output to HDMI, see my reply to the parent.
I would just like to say that “bicycle” is considered equivalent to “pedestrian” over here in NL, at least in the context of city planning. This allows for this additional “reach” of distance for many families without using a car or bus (which is important for children and teenagers), and it’s a big difference from e.g. the US way of approaching things.

It’s easy to see why it almost takes a completely different way of thinking, or “you got to see it for yourself”, before you can fully appreciate the little advantages it brings. The other way around is also true: I took me a while to understand the dependence that quite a few people have upon their car and/or public transport. Walking 10km is certainly a bit too much to ask, but common enough a distance to work or school, and very reasonable for the bicycle.
New York is losing population at a breakneck pace. Our government is to blame.

I am for single payer to some extent, but if done poorly medical staff (who are already leaving due to pandemic policies) will just pick up and leave.

We recently expanded the privileges of nurse practitioners which is great, but two large nursing unions are less than 60 days away from striking.
Are health insurance companies allowed to discriminate customers by their health status, that includes age? With a good deal of populace morbidly obese and not even bothering to exercise, it's expected that healthy 25 yo are going to pay crazy insurance payments. Corps, on the other hand, absolutely do discriminate by all sorts of characteristics and insurers know what they are signing up for. Offer health insurance tiers by age and BMI and watch premiums getting reasonable again (for some).
> If NY does this, the near zero chance of my moving there ever would go to absolute 0.

Are they proposing kicking you off your insurance? From the bill:

> SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Every New York resident will be eligible to enroll, regardless of age, income, wealth, employment, or other status. There would be no network restrictions, deductibles, or co-pays. Coverage would be publicly funded. The benefits will include comprehensive outpatient and inpatient medical care, long-term care, primary and preventive care, prescription drugs, laboratory tests, rehabilitative, dental, vision, hearing, etc. all benefits required by current state insurance law or provided by the state public employee package, Family Health Plus, Child Health Plus, Medicare, or Medicaid, and others added by the plan.

As someone that has lived in NYC for 15 years, I'd really love to see this happen.

Edit:

> Private insurance that duplicates benefits offered under New York Health could not be offered to New York residents.

So yes, I guess it would be kicking those off of their current private insurance. It sounds like it'd force private insurers to offer plans that would augment off of a base of public care.

I'm still fine with this.
This is absolutely correct for books, but a blogpost is not a book. The most significant reason to use sans-serif for UI text is that screens with less DPI tend to utterly destroy serif fonts with small font sizes. Serif fonts just rely that much more on high DPI values like on a book. If you somehow have an audience that's exclusively on Retina displays (e.g. for iPad/iPhone apps), I would be less hesitant to try out a few serif options. But designers tend to forget that e.g. not all desktop users are on color-graded 5K iMacs.
Is this true even for individuals? I think one version of the problem might be that we pay too little for some peoples healthcare and too much for others, but do the people who pay the most still end up with worse results?
It's not just browsers. One popular Windows-based video surveillance platform has hardware decode support for H264, but it's software only for H265; that's on both Windows clients and Android mobile. That means your H264 cameras show up instantly but H265 takes a few seconds per stream, and too many of them on one screen means you're skipping frames. At least two companies I installed these for decided to double their storage instead of taking the perceived UI performance hit.
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maybe I'm misunderstanding but I see at least 4-5 cosponsors that are members of the health committee?

not saying I think this will come to pass necessarily but there's like 30 cosponsors listed and the NY State Senate is 63 members.
Then perhaps it's time to unlink employment and health care coverage entirely.
Vermont tried it first, and it is tiny, and stopped it because it was unaffordable. I would say the correlation is with how Democrat a state is, not how populous it is. And while it is good for political campaign slogans, I highly doubt CA/NY/MA legislators actually vote it into law.
> I worked as a consultant for BP shortly after the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Then you'll remember that they were given an industry award for safety that year. Yes, after the disaster.
A GPU more likely would give performance that’s independent of the pattern and that has constant stepping time, but given the existence of Hashlife (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife), I don’t think it’s a given that a GPU would provide the ultimate in performance.
OP sounds to be arguing the opposite. One lives in a low tax state while earning money / paying taxes, then retires to a rural part of NY / CA to receive tax-payer-backed benefits without paying for them.
People who question beyond a certain point seem to get fired. One would think this would've come out sooner at least.
I live in Iceland. ETR is about 40% for me but I'm in a high tax bracket. None of the Scandinavian countries even have 60% marginal tax rate.

EDIT: My MTR is ~42% so my ETR can't be 40%. I don't have a payslip to calculate and searching the interwebs isn't helping a lot right now.
Its just anecdotal, I definitely sleep better the further I'm away from cell phones, cell towers and pulsed wifi routers. I've got a meter and I've used emf shielding clothes prior to addressing my bedroom. Its pretty hard to do decent studies on it since its so prevalent. Prone to quackery and people making quick bucks on it too.
Every country in the world "endorses" the concept of "essential" patents. It's called a patent.
Oh that's standard fare. Institutional incentives are not always aligned with human needs. Not to reduce the severity of it all. It's really bad.

I'm more incredulous about academically trained domain experts being "brainwashed". Corruption and incompetence are simpler explanations that also make sense.
So grateful for the developer of MakeMKV.
I'll point out that the ridiculous latency reductions don't apply to replicating the writes to S3 and/or any replica servers, that still takes as long as it would to any other server across a network. The latency reductions are only for pure read traffic. Also, every company I ever worked at had a policy to run at least two instances of a service in case of hardware failure. (Is this reasonable to extrapolate this policy to a company which might want to run on a single sqlite instance? I don't know, but just as a datapoint I don't think any business should strive to run on a single instance)

This write latency might be fine, although more than one backend app I know renewed the expiry time of a user session on every hit and would thus do at least one DB write per HTTP call. I don't think this is optimal, but it does happen and simply going "well don't do write traffic then" does not always line up with how apps are actually built. Replicated sqlite over litestream is very cool, but definitely you need to build your app around and also definitely something that costs you one of your innovation tokens.
> Coming from a country that has this, there should be caution

It's big world - without knowing which country, this is of little help. I'd like to see a comparison of people forced into debt, bankruptcy or death due to the respective medical systems

This hits home because I have a friend that got cancer with "good" U.S. insurance and if he did not fight the insurance company he'd be in debt for 1mm+
> The problem is that's not going to be an easy thing to remember.

'G' for "Go to folder". cmd-G is standardized as "Find Next" across apps, so you add "shift" to do an app-specific behavior.

> I want to be able to view hidden files on demand.

cmd-shift-'.' . The '.' matches the prefix for auto-hidden files.
I've actually called the US Dept of Commerce to get help figuring out which Harmonized System code to use for some shipments. I managed to stump them and they had to give me a callback, but throughout they were extremely helpful.
Ancient companies requiring I print out a form, sign it physically, scan it, send it back... I just open it in Preview, use the text annotation tool and some random cursive font, "sign it", re-export, done. I haven't owned a printer or scanner in 10 years.
That is a lot of cosponsors, I was reading the page wrong

(Govtrack’s site and Congress houses have a slightly different format for showing sponsors and cosponsors together)
Benchmarking Apache Cassandra (40 Nodes) vs. ScyllaDB (4 Nodes)
I don’t understand why they haven’t used identical hardware, network latency and CPU context switching can be tricky to measure correctly.
Hackers are actively exploiting BIG-IP vulnerability with a 9.8 severity rating
Definitely seems like an asynchronous workflow, kind of like with git, is the way. I wonder whether something like this for markdown could be doable, with a GUI being able to render not just the markdown in either of the conflicting versions, but with an editing suggestion, like the ones in Google Docs. Not sure whether this would benefit from an extension of the MDX syntax, or could be handled by the runtime diff of the ASTs.
A great project with awesome implications. Well deserved, and the fly.io team are very pragmatic.

This will be even more brilliant than it already is when fly.io can get some slick sidecar/multi-process stuff.

I ended up back with Postgres after my misconfigs left me a bit burned with S3 costs and data stuff. But I think a master VM backed by persistent storage on fly with read replicas as required is maybe the next step: I love the simplicity of SQLite.
> If you really want to tackle this issue, you need to look at why men live shorter than women.

Well one obvious factor is that society has a bias towards over investing in women's health. Look at cancer research. Pancreatic cancer kills a similar number of people to breast cancer but receives something like 1/100th of the research funding. If we reallocated breast cancer funding to pancreatic cancer, that could reduce the gender lifespan gap while still saving a similar number of lives (or even more) overall.
> it won't work well on ephemeral, serverless platforms or when using rolling deployments

I assumed that was what Fly was hiring Ben to work on.
It's a ridiculously easy thing to test, and I've never heard of a phone transmitting while powered off or in airplane mode so far.

The FCC for one would throw a fit if airplane mode or power off still actively transmitted.
It also crashes if you try to write to the DB while its open
https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/2955
I get the criticisms of "waterfall" style development, but lack of any careful thought or specification spanning a whole project leads to really terrible contracts and projects as some people (especially Enterprise) use "agile" == "nimble" == "license to rug-pull project scope" when there is significant inertia, and occasionally sunk cost, in these scope changes.

Case in point, I'm working in an engineering capacity with a "Big Mean Secret" pharma company on a contract that is essentially "Client will work with Vendor in an agile manner to <do something vague which could encompass everything or nothing>". The company I work for is nominally a "product" company, not a "services" company, and the contract specifies fixed payment terms and timeframe.

This morning, one of my teams finished implementing some stuff that was a good amount of effort, several moving parts, etc. It was explicitly called out as top priority, and its progress has been tracked by both parties over the past weeks in a shared Jira board.

A few hours later in a biweekly update meeting with said client, we mentioned having finished the feature. The client's project manager responded that actually the person who cared about that feature left the company, so it is no longer in scope. Then they erased it from the project tracking record, and in the same breath complained that so little progress had been made against the other objectives.

And a million other little papercuts like that. It seems that "agile" style process is best confined to small / internal teams re: the "how", but the high level "what" requires comprehensive elucidation from the beginning.
The original title is "Absolute monster builds 'cursed' USB-C port that works differently if you flip the cable".

From the title here, I thought it was saying Monster Cable [1] built this port.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Cable
Sure, but Apache, MIT, and GPL licenses don't require payment to the author either. That's why it's up to the company to decide to offer compensation without being required to, and why I'm curious which companies actually do it.

It's like when RedHat when public and offered pre-IPO stock to open source developers.
Ask HN: How would you learn Computer Science if time was not an issue?
If you had all the time in the world, how would learn Computer Science? Some people have recommended SICP, while others tell me to avoid it as a beginner.

I have a lot of free time and discipline is not an issue. I want to learn out of personal interest, but I am also interested in hearing opinions for a learning path with a good career outlook.
Yep. I vehemently oppose federal Healthcare initiatives but im very receptive to state options.
This is the first reference to Antithesis being used I've seen since it was announced.

Can you describe what their tools are doing for you and how you're integrating with them?
I had this same thought.

Also quartz wrist watches.

Turn that quartz watch into an automatic that you wear seldomly. (Aka you need to readjust the time each time you wear it!)
> An advanced approach could be to push template parsing to the frontend.

Sounds more like a JS view/vue ;-)

Sure, it is possible, but then you are probably better off using a proper JS framework with SSR (server side rendering) support.
Get IKEA's LADDA rechargeable NiMH, they are a rebrand of Eneloops, the some of the highest quality NiMH batteries available, and are made in Japan; all tests on YouTube and elsewhere consistently put them at the top of the line.

They have very low self-dishcharge rate (and even come precharged in packaging) and with recharge cycles ranging from 500 (for the highest capacity 2450 mAh AA ones) to up to 1000 (for 750 mAh AA/1900 mAh AAA ones). Also, they do not leak.
it appears that this bill does not actually deal with the funding mechanisms for single payer, which will undoubtedly be contentious. From the Campaign for New York Health:

> this legislation can be passed outside of the budget as a standalone bill - the #NYHealthAct is intentionally written to first pass on human rights principles - that care should be equitable and available to all. Then we pass the funding mechanisms in the following session - that is when NYHA becomes part of the budget battle) - begins implementation of systemic long-term change to guarantee universal, comprehensive, single-payer healthcare to everyone who lives or works in New York

from: https://www.nyhcampaign.org/
Very little though, the energy needed to make the noise is incredibly tiny compared to the energy used to fly.
I understand where you're coming from related to this. We (in the US) hear this critique with regards to the NHS or the Canadian healthcare system.

The part you're missing is that there is an arms race of pricing between healthcare corporations (there have been massive mergers of hospital systems) and insurance companies in terms of prices. We, the patients, are caught in between the giants while prices are going sky high and we are at our most vulnerable.

The hope is this will fix prices to a reasonable level so if we choose to go for private care, those prices will also be reasonable. A lot of specialists that I see ask for cash payments and don't accept insurance. They are also overbooked because a lot of healthcare providers are being driven out of industry from the conditions.
This bill doesn't ban private insurance, it does however have this rule:

"Private insurance that duplicates benefits offered under New York Health
could not be offered to New York residents."

So in other words, private insurances can only be offered if they provide benefits that surpass whatever the public option has.

I imagine that private insurances will logically offer more benefits regardless, otherwise why would someone pay extra to use them over the public option?
Whenever this comes up, I ask myself: What are the reasons kids learn math? Reading poems, doing chemistry, or any other topic for that matter.

Naturally, there will always be someone who likes a given topic and there will be someone absolutely loathing it.

So people came up with different education systems (for the sake of discussion I keep it at two):

1. Let kids choose themselves what they want to learn [0]

2. Conventional education, where everyone gets to see a broad spectrum of topics, whether they like it or not

Personally, besides domain specific arguments for the importance of topics, I think showing kids different topics and letting them work in as many different fields as possible is important.
And I don't just mean passive consumption of knowledge, but applying it.

There are definitely kids who know for certain what they're gonna do when they grow up, but for most people life isn't a straight line and age 13-18 is THE best time to try them out IMO.

As for domain specific arguments:

1. Applying logic is obviously going to benefit anyone, just like learning math. Surely, with a kid this argument won't fly, but it's directed towards HN so I'm pretty sure you guys know what I .

2. As many have pointed out and to point out the obvious once more: Computers are everywhere and everyone is using them. I honestly think people should know, at least on a surface level, how computers and networks actually function. This isn't necessarily an argument for programming, but programming goes hand in hand with what I'd call "tech literacy", so why not kill two birds with one stone.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education
Considering that more powerful machines continue to become more affordable, it's a safe bet that most of us will never hit those limits.
Because the GPU in your laptop does not support x265 hardware acceleration. You need and intel 7th gen or newer for 10bit h.265. 6th gen only supports 8bit.

AMD APU's started getting h.265 support around the same time.
Isn't the data technically stored on-chain with proof-of-space chains?
Imma put in this here endpoint that'll just run any ole bash command at root, leave it turned on, 'n all, whatchu think Cletis?
I’m a Canadian living and working in the US and I’d take the Canadian system any day of the week.

I think it’s crazy that your access to healthcare is dependent on your employment.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

This is a bug, so:

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by a bug".
I know what you mean, but I prefer to picture them trying to fit a massive equal arm balance and stack of reference dumbbells in their bathroom.
> he had a lot of domain knowledge

It doesn't take domain knowledge to stockpile smoke detectors. He learned what he did from high school chemistry textbooks.

> had the ambition to learn more

Apparently not, as evidenced by him not having successfully built anything nor pursued any higher education.
I come from a country with universal healthcare too, and my experience is the opposite.

Yes, to this day, it doesn’t cover dental or vision, which is BS if you ask me, and there is some co-pay for certain prescriptions; regardless, it is a fantastic system, and I miss it so much every time I need to go to the doctor here in the US. The main reason is uncertainty: in the US, I can never know how much something is going to be, even if it starts as a mere visit to a family doctor, because there are uncountable variables that may factor in the final cost.

As a result of this, I try to avoid going to the doctor as much as I can, and it makes me think about all the people who really cannot afford healthcare, and don’t qualify for Medicare either.
AV1 Video Codec
Biden: High-speed internet is not a luxury. It’s a necessity
Here is a list of the essential patents from the main pool: https://www.mpegla.com/wp-content/uploads/hevc-att1.pdf

Find a single US patent that "claims" maths as GP argued. It doesn't exist.
Big employers like having health insurance tied to employment. It makes changing jobs a riskier maneuver for employees as they do not know the quality of the other jobs' insurance coverage, and it creates higher overhead costs for smaller employers so it provides a competitive advantage there too.
Rendering server-side HTML is fine, as long as your application is stateless. Then it's really easy. However, when your application becomes more interactive and thus state-driven, is it really easier to it server-side? Remember, the primary function of modern frameworks is to have a declarative way of creating your by writing it as a function of state. Things get messy really quickly once you start to build something more complex.

Also, is it really easier to everything on the server? I don't think it is so by definition. You could argue that a stateless REST API with client-side state management is less complex than doing everything server-side. It's a much more scalable solution and creating interactive user interfaces is very easy.

Ofcourse it could be that interactive user interfaces is not something you are aiming for. That's fine. But do understand that most applications are actually usually very interactive.
understandable, I didn't realize it had this many cosponsors and I live in NY.
I don't buy the patent argument. AV1 is not unique, it would not be hard to find some similarities in the math and argue infringement of one of tens of thousands of patents these companies sit on. The companies simply don't want to upset the largest tech companies, though apple already buys from them.