skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're putting too much weight on "did the economy crash" here. As in, "wow, the economy didn't crash, we shouldn't have done anything" aka "wow, Y2K didn't ruin everything, we shouldn't have updated all that code" or "we didn't get hacked, why did we bother applying security updates" or similar.

"We want to prevent the economy from crashing hard and long" is how I'd phrase motivations. Certain sectors did crash immediately, and yet the overall blast radius wasn't very large and a lot of stuff bounced back immediately.

That seems like a great success.

Loans being forgiven to generously even for companies that did NOT see a sustained dip in demand, on the other hand, is a more targeted specific problem, and a lesson to learn. But if you learn too broad a lesson like "stimulus is dumb" then you just drive yourself back off a difference cliff next time something exceptional happens.
I’m an MD who trained in NYC. I have also had emergency surgery in the NHS at one of their most prestigious hospitals in London and so I feel like I’ve seen the system a little bit from the inside.

It was far cheaper for me than it would have been as a Brit in the USA, but the standard of care was lower. They didn’t have some technical and staffing resources late in the afternoon that would be a baseline in any of the hospitals I’ve been at in the USA. The English doctors were just kind of apologetic and bashful about it, talking to someone they knew was an American doctor who knew what kind of specific diagnostic algorithm was appropriate.

The NHS hospital did have really excellent amounts of ancillary staff. Someone brought coffee and tea to me like 3-4 times a day, it wasn’t hard to get my luggage delivered to my bed, etc. Not like that in the USA from what I’ve seen.

The NYC hospitals are somewhat financially strained as it is. Especially the public hospitals (Bellevue, Elmhurst, Metropolitan).

Also related would be care at the VA hospitals, which is slower/worse than care at NYC flagship hospitals. But as a society we don’t want to prioritize or pay for good care for veterans, so it is what it is.

I predict this will continue to basically just produce a more two-tiered system in the US. Most doctors who have a choice (large group practices) will take the wealthy patients with private insurance, and the big hospitals and whomever else who don’t have a choice will be forced to accept the NY single payers (basically the existing model, where the poor and 65+ are already covered under Medicaid and Medicare already). It will likely strain these systems even further, as reimbursements from Medicaid/Medicaid are insufficient to run large health systems which depend on higher rates from private insurers (payor mix). Good luck there.

In NYC even more physicians and group practices will try to go to alternate models such as cash-only. Try being on Medicaid or Medicare and finding an outpatient psychiatrist in NYC now as it is. This will extend to more PCPs, chronic disease specialists, etc.

Some patients will get better and more affordable care, but some will also get much worse care. It will be interesting to see what happens. I’m not necessarily opposed, but this is absolutely not going to be a clear and decisive win on all fronts as some commenters are suggesting. The US healthcare system, if you have private insurance, is the best in the world already in terms of level of service and access to rapid specialty and high-end care.
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOQ0FHxeRTs
> These guys are free to do whatever they want as long as they don’t break any laws.

The main issue is that they do things that are unlawful (monopolies/duopolies, dumping, violating consumer and privacy laws, insider trading, regulatory capture, bribing, and a long etc.) even when they have enough money to last them a lifetime.

I think the only way to curtail that power concentration is forcing them to share a significant part of the profits with their employees, who did the lion's share of the work towards that goal. That way, to become a billionaire, you leave some millionaires among people who is helping you do so. I'm not talking about communism, but dividends.

I'm aware this would result in a huge financial and economic shock, but any significant change does that. Modern capitalism, while probably headed in the right direction, is showing its deficiencies after a couple of centuries. I also don't worry about the consequences, because it's not going to happen on its own, and the crisis that would force it would be much bigger.
> students as a special class of people who should be insulated from having to work

You already believe that, you just disagree on the definition on student. Or should we take 14 year olds out of school and send them back into the coal mines?
You're making a pretty fundamental mistake. I am not speculating about the elasticity of rent. If taxes went to 0, would rent go down? Probably not.

So what?

The percentage of rent that is taxes is exactly the amount paid in taxes by the landlord. Period. It is an absolute number.
Anybody know how to override this feature when you’re just trying to draw a selection rectangle over the image? The App keeps recognising the portion under my pointer as text and changing the pointer to a text selection caret instead.
I mean you’re sort of right. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. So stuff is all ultimately paid by the consumer since that’s the end of the line.

There’s really no way to increase taxes without impacting consumers. Unless you try to limit rents, but then you have other problems with people not wanting to invest in apartment buildings.
Does Team Videolan have anything like it on their roadmap?
The problem here is that you are going to get regulatory capture by the healthcare unions. So we'll get worse service at higher cost, not to mention incredible fraud
I am just returning from a 10 month sabbatical, my second deliberate one in the past 5 years, and one of several career breaks I have taken since I started working in tech in the late 90s. I also highly recommend it. For me weekends and even annual leave doesn't reach the same level of relaxation that I can hit when I know that there is no job hanging over my head, and no countdown to when I need to return. (Running out of cash would be a fairly hard limit, of course, but in our industry it's easy to put enough money away to live without work for a year every few years.)

One thing I don't feel is that these sabbaticals have necessarily been some kind of radical life-altering experience. I pretty much just did the same stuff that I enjoyed doing anyway, but I did it entirely at my own pace, with zero pressure or stress. I'm not really seeking enlightment, I'm just seeking peacefulness.

As I am getting older, I am thinking that perhaps instead of doing my usual 1-2 years at a couple of different companies and then breaking, it might be nicer to have a consistent job that would allow me to break and come back. I have returned to two companies in my employment history - one after spending a year overseas, and another that I returned to part-time as a remote freelancer during COVID. Unfortunately I don't think many companies are inclined to offer this as a formal benefit, especially in countries where months-long parental leave isn't a thing. I suppose people who enjoy these kinds of sabbaticals and come back refreshed and hopefully more productive are still enough of a minority that it isn't seen as something that would be in a company's interest to promote.
How does it replace the backpressure mechanism from reactive solutions?
https://people.videolan.org/~unlord/SVT-AV1_BD-rate.png

Comparation between codecs and encoder presets.
At the same speed SVT-AV1 gives better quality vs h264, h265. M10-M8 look like nice spot
FWIW, Bunq's app works on GrapheneOS without any Google services installed whatsoever.
And what you focus on brings about thoughts of a zero sum game which I called out. You can safely assume I don’t agree with what you find most pertinent.

I think a country which lets some get rich off of other’s cancer is an abhorrent, indefensible, system.
Food Deserts in America
NY currently greatly restricts how health insurers can discriminate on price based on age to the point that age basically isn't a factor. But most states allow for a ~3x price difference based on age. The other state with a similar rule, Vermont, has a form of single payer insurance as well
Another question is why don't browsers support MKV container format?

From an arbitrary search "The Matroska project is supported by a non-profit organization and is a fork of the Multimedia Container Format. It was first announced to the public at the end of 2002 and is a completely royalty-free open standard that's free for both private and commercial use."
No apologies necessary! It did not, and I appreciate you bringing it up.
NY's property taxes are among the highest in the nation (top 10).
Hugging Face Raises $100M to Democratize AI
Thanks for sharing that. I've never really looked at open source projects as acquisition targets. I see in another comment that you're going to continue releasing it under the Apache license. It's easy for me to see why fly.io would want to hire you, with an agreed percentage (anywhere from 0%-100%) of your time continuing to go into Litestream. If you forgive the blunt question, what more do they get for the $500k (acquisition cost / signing bonus)? (Part of me is wondering if an open source project of mine, which various startups have shown some degree of interest in, is holding a significant payday I hadn't realized. Probably not, but it seems more possible than a moment ago.)
Anyone know of a recent slideshow of the reservoir?
The European Union almost certainly does, that's why it's allowed in countries like Germany and the United Kingdom (pre-Brexit and post-Brexit).
> YouTube ruthlessly punishes creators that don't upload on a consistent schedule. I imagine TikTok and Instagram are similar.

Older videos are naturally downranked because users want fresh content. The age of a post is a strong predictor of user interaction. However, it doesn't mean Youtube actively punishes less frequent creators. YouTube actually promotes a lot of old content (>1 year old) compared to other platforms. At the extreme, Instagram Stories are deleted after 24 hours forcing you to produce content daily.
To an extent, it is. Americans can’t do much about hay shipped to the Middle East, but buying cheap produce out of season pushes markets to grow crops in unusual places. Less of a problem when buying in-season foods from down the road, but that’d mean customers also have to stop shopping at places like Walmart.
Sort of, the supply of physicians is artificially limited by the AMA - which dictates how many physicians there are. That keeps the cost of physicians nice and high.
This is why movies cost so damned much and we're stuck with nothing but reboots, sequels, rehashes, and spinoffs, because the money people need a sure thing with this kind of expenditure.
Insofar as GP seems to be against software patents in general, it is not an argument against his position, is it?
Yes, because age (like smoking) is one of the few factors ACA Marketplace plans can take into consideration. But healthy older people pay the same premiums as unhealthy older people, which means one of these two groups is being overcharged. Moreover, it means that there is less incentive (not none, but less) to make an effort to end up in the first group as it won't affect your health insurance costs.
"People spending that stimulus money to invest (often for the first time) on zero-fee platforms like Robin Hood"

You mean people gambling and trading. Very few people engaging in these activities are really investing.
> 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.

The fact that you think family medicine is about "just knowing family doctor things" tells me all I need to know about your level of medical knowledge.

Family medicine is arguably the field with the highest knowledge ceiling, because they have the first encounter with literally anything the patient can present with.

Lowering standard and having NPs write adderall(have you heard the news about those ridiculous ADHD online clinics? btw people don't seem to appreciate that adderall is functionally meth) and antibiotics for everyone they set their gaze upon is not the right way to improve healthcare.
> Switzerland has private insurance just like the US and people I know that live in Zurich love it.

Profits are regulated (sometimes down to zero) in CH. Profits are unregulated in the US.
> 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.

And this was by design. The administration at the the time explicilty pushed for there to be no oversight at all on this. The opposition party at the time said it's just setting things up for fraud and corruption, but it was desired to have no oversight. Not even after the funds had been released (if you wanted to make an argument that upfront oversight would have slowed down the distribution).

The administration both fired the inspectors general that would oversee the program, and passed laws to prevent transparency into the program. It was fairly controversial at the time, but now mostly lost in the haze of 2020 lockdowns.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/15/inspector...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/06/16/taxpayers-...
Okay. That said, are there any particular conclusions or implications from this approach for that use case?

For that matter, are you next going to extend this simple exploration toward more complexity (eg. more widget types, more interactions, more layout constraints, etc.) or toward more data?

As I've followed your efforts in this area, the power and utility of selecting the right motivating example has been coming into focus. The parallels with a startup's MVP are fairly clear, the parallels to selecting a (dissertation) research topic a bit handwavy (in part because guidelines for the latter are extraordinarily vague). So far you haven't really chosen a new motivating end-user application since suspending development of Xi. There are lots of directions you could go, from making an equivalent to Processing, to creating a game engine, or eventually restarting Xi development with an eye toward exploration and visualization of large codebases, etc. Personally I'm starting to become intrigued by the need to dig into large neural nets and the representations encoded within (related subtopics: latent spaces, feature vectors, orthogonality):

https://distill.pub/2019/activation-atlas/

Meanwhile, I've been casting about for a proper (Rust) motivating example app/library of my own, and the closest I've come so far is something like a HTML + CSS rendering engine, though not targeted at the Web per-se, but instead at ebooks (esp. EPUB), a much smaller set of required functionality.

In theory a desktop ebook library + reader app with features like MathML support, advanced typography, and visualizing connections between millions of works and annotations seems like it would be a better fit with the direction you're (currently) going than any existing framework.
The obscure major general, Leslie Groves, that did most of the nitty gritty work in getting the Manhattan Project up and running, is a fascinating character. He was apparently recruited by General Marshall from his job supervising the construction of the pentagon.
He probably had more responsibility on his shoulders than anyone else of equal rank in the war. And probably delivered more than almost everyone in human history…

Very remarkabke for someone who almost quit during his slow progression through the field officer ranks in the army engineer corps.

There’s an amazing oral history interview of him recounting his entire experience, except for the still classified portions, here: https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/genera...
ctrl-a ctrl-c move to text editor, new. ctrl-v (or shift+ins) also works well. I must say even though it's hard to read that it reminds me visually of a 20th century badly xeroxed zine, which may be appropriate in this case.
I worry that not enough people are aware of these little touches, and that one day they'll disappear.
As the Joker said, a very poor choice of words.

Beginning the title with "Cursed" would've been fine in my book.
Thank you kindly josephcsible.
"Private insurance that duplicates benefits offered under New York Health
could not be offered to New York residents. (Existing retiree coverage
could be phased out and replaced with New York Health.)"

That is an important paragraph. If you want good public health care, you need to make sure the rich use it too. Canada does it by not allowing doctors to work in both the public and private systems. This law takes a different approach, instead barring the insurance companies from competing. Wonder if it will hold up in court.

Without this paragraph I don't think it could be a good system. With it, there's at least some hope.
I absolutely agree with charging people with poor lifestyle choices more for their healthcare. They cost more, so they should pay more.
> non-sublicensable, perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable

According to its license which is very short and can be read here:

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/-/blob/master/doc/P...
Both programming and CS are easy. But I’ve never heard a CS prof admit this in public.
"Litestream has a new home at Fly.io, but it is and always will be an open-source project"

Very bottom of the post. Technically, Litestream remains an open-source project, so it's more accurate to say that Fly.io acquired the brand IP and the owner of that IP.
(actual data which undermines the political rhetoric around this topic)

"Critics of drug price regulation argue that free market pricing strategies and higher prices in the United States are instrumental to innovation. One might therefore expect the United States to be the most innovative given that it is the only country with a predominantly unregulated pharmaceutical market. However, US pharmaceutical innovation appeared to be roughly proportional to its national wealth and prescription drug spending. Our data suggest that the United States is important but not disproportionate in its contribution to pharmaceutical innovation. Interestingly, some countries with direct price control, profit control, or reference drug pricing appeared to innovate proportionally more than their contribution to the global GDP or prescription drug spending."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2866602/
> Reality is it's pretty grim. Don't know if I'd recommend it to other countries to be honest.

As someone who's never experienced the UK health care system, and only know one person who has (as a foreigner, so they paid out of pocket and said the experience was positive, but otherwise not a good data point) ... I'd like to hear a bit more detail about how it's pretty grim, if you're willing to elaborate.
I read today that 40% of crypto “investors” (aka gamblers) are underwater now.

Edit: LOL. Downvoted. Here’s the news item, bro. Try to cope! https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/09/40percent-of-bitcoin-investo...
I appreciate the detailed, explanation elmerfud. Thank you.
Rust Support for Linux
I'm guessing the economy of scale for such a buy in isn't enough, and that states would have to take out as much debt as their yearly budgets or even more. Even a Elizabeth Warren's proposed solution was something like 17x the federal budget.
Nope, excluding android users from their site entirely now. Supply archive.is instead of linking to ridiculous URL
In my opinion, commit messages should say "what" changed, if necessary "why," and usually not "how."

This person has a similar guideline:

https://cbea.ms/git-commit/#why-not-how

- "Why" can sometimes be inferred easily from "what," e.g. for some simple bug fixes, but sometimes not, so that's a judgement call. (I don't think I'm disagreeing with the website here; I'm just saying that sometimes "why" doesn't need explicit language.)
- To answer "how," directly reading the code or the code diff is usually the best way.
- "What" can also be answered by reading the code diff, but providing a high-level summary in the commit message can save future maintainers a lot of time.
Ok, but I'm talking specifically about Almere. Which unless I'm massively mistaken, does not look walkable (in most of the residents being able to rely on walking to complete most of their daily tasks) at all.
The first and second point kind of cross each other.

Stimulus to people who need it (to spend) is inflationary. Stimulus to those who don't need it inflates stock prices.
Right, because the measure of how much we should talk about injustice is how much we've talked about injustice, rather than how much injustice there actually is. Because ignoring problems is always how to solve them.
I would also be interested in understanding whether there is a proper pricing model for such things. Wordle comes to mind. Or a friend that has an IPad app that took 2 years to build that is something novel but not released. Some projects are open-source and some aren't. Some are acquired for users and some are acqui-hired for continued development. Any interesting advice or links here for folks that don't want to be founders but want to make a solid chunk of cash, have an expertise of value and love the development work.
Median household income in NYC for 2020 was $67k [0]. $100k (especially for a single earner, as is often the case in tech) is considered quite high, but not outrageously so if that makes sense? That's "1BR apartment in a nice but not too trendy neighborhood outside of Manhattan" money, so well on the upper side of middle class. I think people tend to overestimate how much money those outside of the tech bubble actually make.

[0] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewy...
A better lesson to learn is that shutting down major sectors of the economy was dumb. It was a total overreaction, and proved to be completely ineffective in controlling the pandemic. If politicians hasn't done that then there wouldn't have been a risk of an economic crash in the first place.
Relative to VP9, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.06091.pdf is a good reference. The technical details on the official AOM site are pretty much just the raw specs and code.
People would probably get in trouble if they painted buildings in the colour as in the BBC article (people actually have gotten in problems with the city council, and at the very least it would be a Rijdende Rechter episode). Dutch people are allergic to bright colours or something.
No. Property tax rates are extremely- some would say criminally- low in NYC. I would think it unusual for more than 20% of rent to go to property tax.

Mortgage much much more likely to be the dominant expense for a residential landlord, but varies significantly with age.

There are many longtime landlords for whom their tenants are now nearly all profit. Which is INSANE.