skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with the part about doctors being overpaid in the states. My wife is a 3rd year resident of a fairly well-known hospital system in one of the biggest metro areas of the US. We always feel lucky that she is a doctor because we know that she will make $250K+ (more like $300K/year if she choose a hospital in a rural area) as an internal medicine doctor (hospitalist/attending). My wife might go for oncology fellowship and that might put her earnings close to $400K+/year after 3 years of fellowship training (during the fellowship, she will make ~$80-90K/year). We get very good health insurance from her hospital since she started her residency there. I myself quit medical school after 2 years because I hated the way I had to study to get good grades there (a lot of rote memorization). But looking back, I regret quitting.

Both my wife and I agree that if we ever have a kid, we'd encourage him/her to at least consider medicine as his/her profession (assuming that the US healthcare system stays the relatively same). We are NOT the only ones. There are so many doctor friends of ours whose parent(s) are doctors. Our friends also think the same as us (that they'd encourage their kids to consider medicine as a profession).
I’m a landlord and yes it is. My taxes doubled last year because of the stupid housing bubble and so we had to raise rent as well. Gotta make a profit here for this investment to be worthwhile.
> People often claim there will be some kind magic "visual editor" that can produce the same level of visually styled web pages as an actual programmer, but IMO there will never be such a thing.

I'm not claiming I have a solution, but I will say that I've seen "X will never exist" a number of times over the years, about pretty much anything we take for granted today, and it's always possible that X will exists in the near future, or future future.

And I thank you for saying it like that, because my mind immediately started thinking about how it can be solved, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
One thing I don't understand is how you can make healthcare "equal" in the sense that it will stand up to court challenges in the U.S.

Free speech is a self-service right, so the government can just step out of the way and everything is fine. But healthcare requires the government to do a lot. Not doing something equally (like stepping out of the way of free speech) is easier than doing something (like healthcare) equally.
Private auto and homeowners insurance are not price-insensitive, despite being mandatory (former case, by mandate, latter case, in practice for mortgaged property). If insurance companies paid out indiscriminately to the reckless; i.e. failed to manage their risk; then their premiums would get too high and they would lose their average customers.

There is no analogue for taxpayer-funded healthcare. There is no practical upper bound on the cost. The over-users will not run out of other people's money. Unless, of course, there are death panels; everyone loves death panels.
After losing contact with helicopter, NASA put the entire Mars mission on hold
"rent" != "a substantial part of rent"
NY had been holding steady at about 6.5% of the US population since around 2010, but recently dipped just below 6%

https://united-states.reaproject.org/analysis/comparative-tr...
Make responsibilities clear as soon as you enter a project. The closer you get to management the more overlap between responsibilities there are (e.g. you don't want to redo what the PO or the architect are doing).

Also there is a difference between tech and team lead. Team lead is more about mentoring and project management whereas tech lead is more about ownership of the tech afaik.
It originated on NeXTStep which used Display Postscript.

The graphics primitives still apply to macOS.
Are you making that decision because the quality of care you've received is better in the Canadian system than the American system, or because you disagree with how the American system is structured?
Yes, and that's why jobs are more stressful than hobbies even when the activity is the same. I think you're just restating my point?

The parent comment was, essentially, "Why is doing X stressful for Kottke who does it for work when I do X for fun and don't find it stressful at all?" And the answer is... Kottke does it for work and you do it for fun.
Now big question is where the smart cash is going? Real estate? Seems to be kinda in bubble too? Or might it make sense to be on the market?
That was the part that pissed me off in Poland. Long story short, country moved to a very weird spot healthcare-wise, where, in theory, 'money would follow the patient'. Doctors did well ( cuz they tend to be smart and are well organized ); patients.. not really. I was young and very, very naive at the time. I figured that if the guys, who are voting for this have to use it, it won't be so bad.

I did not anticipate that they would grant themselves special kind of access to healthcare. Like I said, very, very naive.
> I can never know how much something is going to be

I think the closest thing you can get to the cost experience of universal healthcare in the US is one of the better HMO providers like Kaiser. Everything is a known cost up front.
>Massachusetts may try it as well: https://masscare.org/

Massachusetts has had 98% health care coverage for more than 15 years. (The only countries in the world with more than that are those, such as the UK, in which no membership card is needed for receiving care.)
They are offensively low for multi-million dollar buildings in NYC. Cut some slack for owner occupiers who had the assessed value skyrocket on them. Tax everybody else fairly.
There is almost certainly a pathological component to how much effort I sunk into the book but once I started... I kinda just kept doing it.

Also, lettering was sort a of a nice peaceful zen break from the harder work of writing prose.
BPFDoor – an active Chinese global surveillance tool
I watch films for a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with the script, and Avatar had a lot going for it that wasn't written on the script when it came out, but films like that tend to age poorly. What's so impressive is that Avatar... didn't age poorly, it still looks quite good, even by our modern standards.

I'll probably see these for the spectacle, if nothing else.
Jim Carrey did a pretty good Matthew McConaughey SNL skit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3eN9u5N2Q4
Any writeups on either?
Don't we already have oil pipelines criss-crossing the country? Why would water be any harder? Enough capacity to ensure the populace has enough to drink (ie not replace agricultural requirements) seems like a reasonable goal.
I used to use Preview.app extensively for work until it was rewritten & hobbled post-Mavericks. While it's still useful it lost a lot of functionality i.e. "smart" text insertion.
That name is problematic as it's too close to an abelist slur. You should change it to something like Bashfig, Bashful, etc. to be more inclusive.
Obligatory: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
It’s totally possibly to engineer devices that last a lot longer.

I’m currently working on a new device that will monitor my weight for 3 years without recharging. (It reads continuously, it’s a scale for Bottomless.)
> No, but calculus is demonstrably valid and has real-world benefit. Rand, on the other hand, is fantasy for assholes.

I've put up with your rude and relatively empty comments nicely and patiently for 2 comments now. But calling your fellow commenters on this site assholes is crossing a line.

Especially when you admitted you didn't read the book.

Instead of having a graceful intellectual conversation you just double down on being a jerk.

There's nothing I have to say to argue against that. Because it's obvious to all that when you replace discussion with incivility, you have no argument.

I hope you will find a community that is more suitable to your style of communication.

Flagged.
We wrote a different title for this blog post, and we did in fact buy Litestream (to the extent that anyone can "buy" a FOSS project, of course).
I picked first US patent listed (US 7,292,636), and it's first claim says

> 1. For a bitstream comprising a first video picture, a second video picture, and a third video picture, a method of decoding comprising: computing a particular value that is based on (i) a first order difference value between an order value for the third video picture and an order value for the first video picture, and (ii) a second order difference value between an order value for the second video picture and the order value for the first video picture; computing a particular motion vector for the second video picture based on the particular value and a motion vector for the third video picture; and decoding at least one video picture by using the computed motion vector.

That certainly sounds like math to me.
Some states let you deduct a portion of rent in place of property tax.
Walking in a urban area well designed for it also requires no helmet, no hassle of dealing with cars trying to kill you, and no pain from hunched over road bike posture. You also can stop and chat or pop into businesses easier and don't have to park or lock up your bike anywhere.

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.
It's unintentional that it messes up so badly that you realize how pervasive and perverse it is. But its actual mechanism of action is entirely intentional.
I mentioned cannons as the absolute worst case option in case US air-to-air missiles suffer from the same issues as Russian SAMs appear to, and from the perspective of extant US capabilities that could be adapted and rapidly fielded for immediate use. My ultimate point being that we're just way better positioned to handle these drones right now and into the near future than the Russians are or will be.
The whole market is down, but when you consider that (for example) Netflix is down >70% from November 2021, it's a different level of drop.

It's sort of impressive that GME is still holding out at around $100, however...
Pretty revealing that a HN post can make to the front page with a broken link.
In a bull market it’s too hard to tell if you are a genius or taking a random walk on a rising tide. Most think they are the former.
Thank you very much for your response.

I'm sorry if my post came off as accusing Cloudflare of malice, it was never my intention. I was rather worried about negligence on supporting these older codebases, and I'm relieved to hear Cloudflare is on top of this bug.
> and as soon as I ask about something seemingly basic

Do you have an example?
But won't you think of the administrators at all of these private health insurers that would be out of their cushy jobs? I consulted for a "non-profit" Blue Cross Blue Shield franchise 15 years ago. It was rampant with nepotism and outright incompetence. A good chunk of our health-care "system" is just a giant jobs program.
There are no laws against depicting Muhammad in Saudi Arabia. Muslims frown upon depictions of prophets (including Jesus) because of its tendency to result in idolatry, but there is nothing criminal or illegal about it.
There was a DW documentary that I can't find now, which stated that art is a tax and dirty money shelter. Not sure if this was the case for buying a painting that 4(?) years ago was sold for ~130M and was now sold for ~500M.
How many of them 1) always published long-form material, and 2) hit their stride/"were selected by the algorithm" in the last few years?

I would believe that what you describe is true for long-established YouTube personalities, and I can think of plenty myself, but I can think of pretty few that haven't been doing it for at least five years or so (with the exception of the woodworking space, where it seems like perhaps there's still some growth opportunities despite plenty of creators--my guess is it's because the ad revenue is way better there). I follow a lot of smaller essayists 'cause I like that sort of thing and have a friendly recommendation network to leverage; YouTube very rarely recommends me long-form content, in either Search or Suggested Videos, from somebody I've never seen before.
> Why would you want it nation wide?

They didn't say they did, they said we're closer to having a legitimate discussion.

But to answer your question, if it's better, we might want it nationwide for similar reasons we have a national minimum wage and national child labor laws. For some things making sure there's a lower bound that everyone can rely on is a large part of the benefit, so inconsistent rules across the nation don't allow for a large portion of the benefit to be realized.

Whether this is one of those cases is something we'll hopefully get some more data on.
> The one-tool-to-fit-all-usecases programming language hasn't been invented yet as far as I can see.

Well, just like you can use a screwdriver to pound a nail into the wall (flip it handle-first), you could use C or Rust or Go or Java or...nearly anything to build...nearly anything if you really _forced_ it hard enough, had infinite time, expert labor and budget, but...

...there are better tools for the job of pounding a nail into the wall than a screwdriver! ;-)

In other words, I totally agree with you. Sure, you could build, oh I dunno, say a compute-intensive application entirely in, say, Ruby, but you'd need to throw some ungodly expensive hardware at it. Makes a lot more sense to use the right tool for the job!
Alright, who's gonna make the "I have two sources of the same footage with different flaws and I want to combine the best of both" AI?
I think funding the elderly is a lofty goal, but I don't see a good intellectual argument for FORCING our children to pay for our healthcare. You shouldn't view your child (nor your neighbor's child) as your own personal piggy-bank to extract from when you get ill.

IMO our goal should be to hand down resources from parent to child, not the opposite direction.

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.
When someone equals the Web programming with innane CSS knowledge I want to facepalm so hard.

CSS is just a way to present things. 99% of the things you do could be equally solved with a basic HTML4 POST form and no one would be hurt except the guys who desperately needs the round corners to show a three paragraphs of text.
80 inches of rain!?! Curious where that is! I lived in about 50ish inches and found that too much already.
> if you were looking at DOW or S&500 for past couple days it’s nothing but losses

So? The article is about the past 2 years, not the past 2 days.

You could pick any short time period in the past few years that would make meme investors look good compared to the total market. But if you zoom out to a two year period, it's clear the meme investors underperformed.
The problem with Comic Sans is that it was a originally a pixel font designed to look good un-antialiased at a specific pixel size. When that was expanded to a vector font, the resulting proportions looked really horrific at other sizes.

Like taking an old 16x16 NES Super Mario Bros sprite, scaling it up to 4K and expecting it to look like an attractive portrait of an Italian plumber.
I mean the young get kicked out of their commercial plans at age 65. So in a way they don't pay for it at the commercial level.
You can't just assume tax increases directly lead to increased 1:1 consumer prices, that's not how supply and demand works.
It's a bad link, the correct one: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-08/day-trade...
The trick is a technique called "traunching". You take your 1 BTC token and sell the bottom 20% of its market value as a stable coin, and sell top 20% as a derivative with exposure to Bitcoin, leveraged say, 3:1.

If the BTC price collapses the people who bought your leveraged coin get wiped out, and effectively pay off the bottom guys.

This is why leveraged Bitcoin pawn-style loans are all over the place.
Isn't OpenAPI that defined structure, too?
> - Covid stimulus going to people who didn't need it

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.

> - People spending that stimulus money to invest (often for the first time) on zero-fee platforms like Robin Hood

What's exactly the problem? Aren't people free to spend their own money any way they feel like it? Or are we now held accountable by a righteous capitalism police to determine if an expense we make is kosher?

> - Meme stock investors intentionally manipulating stock prices to cause them to diverge from the underlying value of the company

What's exactly the problem? I mean, who are you to tell what's the "underlying value" of something, specially in a free market economy?

It seems to me that worst case scenario the people spending their money on stocks are only gambling their own money, and best case scenario they profit from their own investment.
Consistently having trouble identifying sarcasm in print—without the "help" of idiotic illiterate marks like "/s"—is one of the signs of autism (<http://www.healthcentral.com/autism/c/1443/162610/autism-sar...>).
What alternative do you propose? Suicide booths?
> Condition & Restoration

> [Regarding the eyes]
After many attempts over a period of several months I reached a reasonably satisfactory result by doing as little as possible.

:)
I'd add to your comment by emphasising that Westland is a super intensive agricultural area with tons of dense greenhouses, trying to eke out as much production out of a small area as possible (and doing pretty well at it).
I think he was arguing against "chartists", people who try to read a random walk like they could tea leaves. But IMO most day traders are essentially doing that and aren't going to beat beta returns from the market unless they get lucky.
That is really clever, should really be used more often.

When it comes to kitchen scales, most Kenwood food processors double as very accurate and premium kitchen scales with backlight, as as they are plug-in they don;t need battery - great option if you have the counter space - you just place a platform where the chopping bowl goes.

After someone nicked my electronic calipers, I got mechanical ones - they are perfectly adequate for all home use so far.

I used to use electric ones for 3D prints and designs, and haven't tries that since - might not be able to get the same perfect results with mechanical ones.
What in the name of God is "a piece of creative"?
NixOS is globally coherent: the packages are specified using global identifiers like "python3", "vlc", etc. and each of these identifiers corresponds to a "blessed" version. But it is not locally coherent, because the hashes allow installing multiple versions of a package at once. So NixOS would be "locally tolerant", to use your terminology.
do you buy, sell or hold?

personally, i’m a little spooked
Sure. If you need your software to be a process I think you should build it to be both: a library first and a process second. Libraries are so much easier to use, test and reason about.
"Joyfully incoherent" comes to mind. :)
I read through the bill and there are no specifics written on how the entire thing is supposed to be funded, other than saying that payroll taxes will be increased to fund it. My guess is that once the numbers come out on how much tax would have to be paid that this bill would be dead.
Are you implying people don't read the body of the article or that there's bot interference? (I can imagine either could be true.)
Only if you haven’t been paying attention to how upvoting rings control HN, against all the behind the scenes work to thwart them.
Where did I assume that?
Rockwell 6502s have bbr/bbs (branch on bit set/reset in a zp address) - I think for use with io ports mapped into zero page (they’re not terribly useful otherwise).
The renter is not paying the property taxes. The landlord is. This feels like a slight of hand that leads to double counting.
Software patents should not be a thing... but the US neoliberalism fucked it up for everyone.
I wish it would focus more on using technology provided by the underlying platform instead of its own half-baked and slow implementations. Clojure’s concurrency story is horrendous. There are multiple versions of shared memory concurrency on its JS and JVM runtimes but none of them scales to match the performance of the local APIs (Promises and Project Loom for Java). They are always playing catch-up five years after the original features have been shipped. Even today, trying to find an up to date library for features like WebWorkers or WebRTC that has seen a commit in the past year is a waste of time.
I don't see the connection here. What do these have to do with '22 awards?
As far as I know, you can set limitations, but they are timelimited. I think you can bequeath the books with limits for anyone alive when you die, or maybe N generations hence.

So, yes, you can. But you cannot prevent your great great grandson from getting the books as a set and promptly auctioning them off
> It seems to me that worst case scenario the people spending their money on stocks are only gambling their own money, and best case scenario they profit from their own investment.

A lot of people got swept up in the hype and got left holding the bag after the initial set of meme investors made their money and got out.
Where is that?

My parents lived in North County and paid 13k+ a year on a $350k house. Their current place in Tampa is about 400k and the taxes are less than half of what they were in NY. Maybe Florida is a special case?
This really makes me appreciate my well.

It uses around $0.45 in electricity to pump 1000 gallons from my well continuously. Around $0.37 for 1000 gallons pumped intermittently.
Would you kindly share said list ?
China 'Deeply Alarmed' by SpaceX's Starlink Capabilities
Yes, it is. That's what databases and POST data is for and it's all incredibly quick.

Almost all applications that are written in the world today are glorified forms.

That's reality because 95% of apps are written for the business world. Most don't really do much apart from take some form data, apply business logic to it and show the results/send some messages.

Even most consumer apps like Facebook/Twitter/TikTok/Pintrest/etc. are basically glorified forms.

You can do save/load state all in nanoseconds, any competent programmer can easily aim for 50ms page loads, well under human detection.

This is incredibly basic stuff and how it was done for decades before SPAs.
> But it's also crazy that your access to healthcare is based on how the government prioritizes your need of it.

Triage is a pretty universal concept.

Healthcare has difficulty with competitive market effects because the amount anyone is willing to pay to live is essentially infinite.
The SC is trying its best to devolve all powers to the states. They can't have it one way for a contentious issue and then be hypocrites for anything else.
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I generally favour the way covid stimulus went but I suppose the argument would be that if it's going to people who are using it to buy GME maybe they didn't actually need it.

Whether it _should_ only have gone to those who needed it, or just to everyone, is another question.
The winners are:

A fictional story about the Netanyahus

A recasting of Hamlet in the American South

The origin of a treaty in a conflict between early colonists and indigenous peoples & A 500-year history of Cuba (tie)

Biography of a man living in the Jim Crow era

Poems about working class life in the Rust Belt

Book-length nonfiction about growing up homeless and poor

And there are plenty of counter-examples in the runners up too. It's not even close to every single book. There are other things to talk about, and talking about them won Pulitzers.
By that logic, no one pays taxes except consumers.