skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

And what's wrong with that? Aren't we talking about an economic stimulus program? What do you think is the whole point of an economic stimulus program, other than stimulating the economy?
This puzzle also exists in a transfinite version, where the two players converge on the correct solution but require longer than infinity for the process:

http://jdh.hamkins.org/cheryls-rational-gifts/
May we all be Don Knuth on this blessed day
Given that you were already unlikely to move to NYC, I’m not sure your opinion has much weight compared to that of existing New Yorkers…
> It leads to gambling and prostitution for example.

That took a wild turn. Does allowing ice fishing on Lake Michigan also lead to prostitution?
Eh, I got into the meme stocks, cashed out, and paid off my student loans. So, not everyone is stupid for it!
It's also lanky and lopsided because it's trying to get more light.
An increasing frequency of such articles actually signals a good buying opportunity. Look at 2018/19 as the most extreme example.
I have Canadian friends and it sounds better than when my older brother had to call their insurance company every months to get their anxiety meds covered because, for some reason, the insurance company lost the paper work for approving them every month. For a year.

Funny because it’s just the sort of thing to cause more anxiety in an anxious person.

I’d also love hear how many Canadian cancer survivors have to put up gofundmes or go bankrupt for care.
Coming from Turkey that has this, I can 100% vouch for it. Prescriptions are partially covered. Private insurance and private hospitals is an option but that doesn't mean state hospitals are bad. Healthcare quality is very good in state hospitals. It's actually one of the only two categories in which Turkey's in a good standing among OECD countries.

It has its own wrinkles of course. For example, doctors make less money and their working conditions are worse than private hospitals. Because of that, it's common to get asked to pay a "knife fee" in secret for operations. Some doctors ask for an expensive bottle of whiskey etc. I haven't experienced this myself but heard about those incidents many times.

However, wait times aren't long. Appointments are organized electronically through E-State portal. Although wait times in ER can be long based on your triage, that's the case with United States anyway.

The benefits of single payer healthcare outweigh the drawbacks by a wide margin. You never worry about unemployment. You don't have homeless people due to their mental problems as they're treated in mental clinics. You don't worry about "getting bankrupt" suddenly from an unforeseen health issue. Healthcare costs are low even if you're not insured. That means drugs are cheap even though state won't cover 100% of the cost. Even private insurance is cheap (~$1000 a year).

Yes, taxes are high in Turkey, but healthcare system costs make up a very small portion of it (~5%).
Was the link updated? None of the books at the current link seem like they "revolve around an ethnicity issue", at least from the short summaries on the page.
It seems many streamers can barely take care of themselves. With the money involved I'd imagine a large cottage industry of Agents, Marketers, Content editors, and subsidies to friends and teammates who participate in their content. Not to mention a complicated tax situations, irregular income levels, periodic industry events, etc.
It’s like the last three years all my instruments said “tilt” and none of my traditional financial analysis tools were worth a damn. Now I am getting readings and things are working again. Hope it stays this way. I expect we may overshoot on the downside but that’s typical.
Almost all inventions can be reduced to "just math", because after all, that's what we use to describe the physical world, and oh also computer software things.

I'm not in favour of patents at all, but the entire "it's math" argument has always seemed exceedingly weak to me.
Thanks, I needed to be reminded of this game changer!
You know bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency to actually have worth because it's the only cryptocurrency created for idealistic reasons. That makes a difference. That white paper. It's the only one where the intent is to...prevent theft from society. It's about property rights, the absolute first thing any investor has to make sure of.

Satoshi's wealth, which he probably is locked out of, is an undesirable side effect, like a rash from a pill. Like the author of Steal this Book says, to write a countercultural book and end up on the bestseller lists is an embarrassment.

He never spent any of it. Although thinking about it he could have made sockpuppets to drive adoption, like the reddit founders, have mined that way, and ultimately spent it for real. But you know, he just strikes me as a terrible speculator, made bad estimates in how long it would take to mine the second block, that was a fumble. He wanted it to be super bullet-proof, but had no compute himself, I think he figured it would get picked up much sooner than it did, like go viral in the first day based on the difficulty he set.

Whatever, it's the best coin, there are none like it to its equality. It is gold, the rest are silver or worse. They have "features", whereas bitcoin has integrity.
I didn't say anything about increases in taxes. You added that. I also didn't say anything about increases or drops in rent. You added that again.
Isn’t this sort of guaranteed to fail? High earners already have great insurance from employers. There’s not likely to be a mechanism to get those benefits back as dollars like you would expect in a national scale steady state system.
So this relies on finding someone stupid enough to lever up 3x on the most volatile asset around? And not just someone, hundreds of millions of dollars of market cap worth of someones?
It kinda is voluntary. If you don't like it, you can leave the country which wants you to pay.

I don't get why you have a problem with that. It sounds to me like some anti-social behaviour pattern. Don't you pay for taxes or Government services too? This is how a civilized society works. The attitude you display here has become a bad joke when people talk about the US health system. You must be aware of that.

What do you expect people to do which can't afford to pay their health bills because they've been unlucky or something like that? Are they supposed to just die?
If you’re against patents, yes.

If you’re gainfully employed doing math things that turn into codecs, no.

Patents suck, but they also serve a purpose.
Probably depends what you mean by high income. I think someone making 100k will not pay that much and that is considered high in a lot of places. But I am not sure that is considered high in NYC. High is probably more like 150k - 200k+ and that still wont be anywhere near 60%.

I do get to ~40% when you add up federal, state and city. I don't think anyone is really looking at an actual 60%. Maybe 50% if you're making like over a million.
I have the same experience with Germans but SUSE leadership (https://www.suse.com/leadership/) isn't very German either.
I don't think the op is talking about you. Many professionals in NYC already pay over 40% in effective income tax.
Does ice fishing as you describe involve debt?
I lost two jobs directly due to COVID and got $0 “stimulus” while my sister was employed the entire time and got an absurd amount of free money.

It wasn’t a stimulus. It wasn’t COVID related either. It was income redistribution. I might respect it to some extent if people called it what it was.
> Not really, there are people who get great health care for free from their employer

It is not 'for free' it is part of your compensation! It's like saying your employer pays 6.2% + 1.45% in SS/Medicaid taxes 'for free'. That is part of your compensation.
I'm under the impression that VP9 is in the same generation with H265 (in terms of video size and encoding/decoding performance) but VP9 is free and open, so as a consumer, I'll happily accept if everybody just uses VP9.
Bathroom scales are one of the few devices where it's worthwhile to invest into a smart device with Bluetooth or Wifi

Regular tracking of your weight over years does provide valuable information about your health and no normal person regularly enter it into Excell
RoundUp-ready crops allows for farmers to spray herbicide directly onto food. That means we are now eating the chemical in much higher than trace amounts. This is new, untested and seemingly bad (if you go by the non-Monsanto-funded studies).
My town charges $3 per CCF (748 gallons). The biggest challenge to getting residents to alter their usage is that that number gets lost amongst all of the fixed charges. If I turned off my meter for a month, I'd still face $85 in fixed charges. My lowest water bill of the past year was $91 and the highest was $106. Typical bill is $94.

The water usage rates are pretty much noise for all but the poorest families.
Seriously! Her writing is brilliant and it's so nice to see her recognized for it.
Diablo 1 is probably the only notable game you could legitimately describe as a real-time roguelike.

Diablo 2 drifts pretty far from the formula, to the extent that it largely defines the "action RPG" genre as we still know it.
Directed me to a captcha too. It's just that the captcha didn't work and "please try again".
Or is it intentionally broken, as a ploy to hurt Bloomberg's bot detection algorithm.
I wonder how much Bezos paid for that !
Maybe 250. 300-550. I rarely go up to 550 and never below 300 that I can recall. With 5 degree increments, that’s only 50 clicks, fewer if the system is speed sensitive.
All code, across all paradigms, frontend, backend, low level, high level, whatever; all code becomes really messy when you have complex state management.

The solution in each of these cases is the same, though. To simplify the state.

In general, I think a lot of the pain in web development comes from attempting to have shared mutable state between backend and frontend. Shared mutable states are almost always messy. You can get around that by pushing it all to the frontend, or pushing it all to the backend. It's when it's straddling both you're in for a headache.
The fastest way is to redefine 'full stack' to the part of the stack you already know. AFAIK, full stack commonly refers to only a small part of the stack anyway. :p
Filmmakers Identify Dozens of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates Using DMCA Shortcut
I love it when people who have no idea about our profession start doing this race baiting bullshit. I’m really hoping (too optimistic, I know) that HN will collectively one day start flagging articles written by clueless people who spend an awful lot of words to say less than nothing.

Embarrassing.
We could forgive the school debt of existing doctors and pay the entire cost (with appropriate cost controls) of medical school for new doctors.
Additionally, if this urban farm plot exists to the exclusion of several stories of apartments, and those apartments must instead be located further away from where people want to be, the net carbon emissions (not to mention the effect on housing prices) are definitely higher than that of a regular rural industrial farm.
Companies currently provide health insurance and pay per employee.

Per employee costs go up due to health care payroll taxes.

Per employee costs come down due to not paying for health insurance.

Overall, net-neutral cost to companies and simplifies health care payments for hospitals, clinics, etc so fewer employees to explain and collect payments so cost of care comes down. Seems like a win - win - win.
How is getting a degree going to help them enforce a ban on big vehicles? It seems to me that requiring a higher education level is only going to shrink the pool of potential cops and/or increase the amount they have to be paid while doing nothing for the issue under discussion.
Excel, Word, PowerPoint are COM objects that can be scripted by any language (python, delphi, c++...).

It's a pleasure seeing a template word document being managed and compose by python and then sent to a printer to fill report.

import win32com.client as win32
excel = win32.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Excel.Application')
excel.Visible = True
No. The type of pesticides we are talking about is herbicide which kills plants. RoundUp is sprayed directly onto the food. Alternatives are not because that would kill the crops.
I have made no statements about how things should be. I have lots of opinions about how things should be, which I don't share on HN.

I was making statements about how things actually are, since no discussion about how to make the world we want is likely to be meaningful or useful if there is not a shared view of what is first.
> Offer health insurance tiers by age and BMI and watch premiums getting reasonable again

That's not the way health insurance works. The way it works it that the young and healthy are overcharged and that overcharge is given to the old and unhealthy.
If it had a better name I might actually look into it.
Depends on the compiler/language.
Makes sense. Do pulitzers ever get rescinded when it turns out the material was bogus?
Network restrictions are dumb, but copays and deductibles serve a purpose. Healthcare isn't unlimited, and free services leads to long wait times because people don't reduce demand (e.g. going to the doctor for a stubbed toe). Certain specialities already have enormous wait times. You're in NY, try seeing a neurologist for a non-emergency. Given that an enormous amount of first appointments are "come back in a month if this is still bothering you" - copays need to exist. Patients have to have "skin in the game" as Andrew Yang would say.
The false alarms you get from the heat detectors are exceedingly annoying to. My last apartment, I had heat detectors as well as carbon monoxide detectors. I could not use the oven in my kitchen without setting off the heat detector in the hallway. Literally open the door after a preheat, and the damn thing goes off. Nothing burning that should be burning (it was a gas oven after all). Lots of open doors and windows (always fun in winter Chicagoland) and waving of towels at the detector...

I lived in that apartment for over 10 years... Never once had a "real" fire, but easily had hundreds of alarms. Very, very low signal to noise ratio...
I mean... really? Is this what we're doing to discredit researchers now? I can understand the argument that the general term "climate change" is problematic as a catch all term for a lot of complex climate systems all changing at once because of one macro input changing, but "a religious statement"? Do you not realize that these changes are predictions made by researchers related to falsifiable hypotheses? Do you understand how empiricism works?
I’m sorry dang! I’m such a sucker for when someone says something upsetting. My apologies. It just slowly escalated and I always take the bait. I feel bad.
If you're a "high earner" there are a panoply of services that allow you to structure your income, wealth appreciation, or other forms of wealth generation in tax-optimized vehicles.

The tax universes at 200k/yr and 500k/yr-2m/yr income look very different.
I would build a computer with my hands.
This is an interesting approach. I find myself being sucked into the space between Forth and Lisp. Thanks for showing a working example of a system that uses Case as a color (in the ColorForth sense) for text. The more of these types of systems I see, the more I'm starting to recognize patterns... Def instead of :, swapping the argument orders (prefix/postfix), etc.

It's helpful to me specifically, because I'm trying to tweak a forth like language written in C, and you're giving me a similar framework to compare it against. As a novice C programmer, this is very helpful.
I really want the government deciding what it considers "covered". Didn't get your Vaccine? Too bad, Democrats voted they won't cover your health care costs of a hospital visit. Unprotected Sex? Too bad, Republicans decided they won't cover your Plan B the next day. Your health choices are your business. Both sides have an agenda they will leverage and hold you hostage with.

Leave the government out of healthcare. They can't get make a functional driver license system, or a post office that doesn't dump billions of tons of C02 into the atmosphere delivering spam while being open between 11a-4pm, or run an airline security service like the TSA that actually stops threats and doesn't take away your Grandma's nail trimmers.
The annotation and review process is amazingly streamlined and well vetted. Kudos to all involved
> That's sad though because SQLite is really missing a lot of features that PostgreSQL has.

It is, but luckily it's not standing still. It's added JSON support and window functions in recent years for example.
Health insurance is a constant cost per employee, effectively decreasing in percentage of income as income goes up. Payroll taxes scale up as your income goes up. So no, it's not net-neutral as it's highly redistributive. If single payer were implemented as a flat tax, then it would be net-neutral.
People like José are why I like the Elixir community. So many others would have taken offense and become defensive.
This came up in the VOX in the weeds on healthcare policy some time ago. Their conclusion from the people that had looked into it is that it is sort of impossible for states to do this. Can't really remember the reasons.

There was another state that was trying something like this, I believe it was Vermont.
The PPP was the Paycheck Protection Plan.

It was not sold as a stimulus, it was to allow businesss to pay furloughed employees (in a bizarre ill-thought-out privately-run unemployment insurance scheme) to continue to pay ongoing expenses.

What didn't make sense, of course, is what those people were supposed to be buying, since the reason they were furloughed was because.... people weren't buying things, because of lockdowns and such. Hence, inflation when aggregate $ exceeded stuff worth buying.
Hard to explain such a tendentious and careless take, especially when you apparently didn't even take the ten seconds necessary to check whether you were even right about your basic premise.
Rigth, ms office apps are big COM application that can be instantiated by other programs.
I was referring to PPP loans from the government that were forgiven: https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-o...

These were supposed to keep at-risk companies from failing when the economy crashed, but then the economy didn't crash and instead it was just a huge government handout of free money to most companies.
The US spends more per capita than other countries on healthcare.

But that doesn't mean the US would have to pay less per capita in a single-payer system.

So we could keep getting what we pay for in terms of capacity, etc, if we want. You would expect a wealthy country to be able to pay a premium to get a premium.
This happens to be all the time. Very frustrating. Sometimes the person calls me back if I don’t cancel the mistaken call soon enough.
Step 1) Raise taxes on rental properties astronomically.

Step 2) Force out investor class and/or repossess properties out of tax adjudication.

Step 3) Public housing!
Reminds me of water conservation focusing on personal use versus industrial agriculture in the middle of literal deserts. Or the output of a Toyota Camry versus a container ship.
>A substantial part of your rent is property taxes.

Here.

Without determining elasticity, it's impossible to determine how much of that cost is flowing through or how much goes to impact margin.
@dang, can you do us a favor and fix the link? I don't seem to be able to fix it myself.
yep, also been doing that, mixing epoxy requires good accuracy.

that being said, UK police considers kitchen scales as evidence that you were dealing drugs
Reused a well known library that uses raft. I don't know if I should mention any more details since it was a private project.
WaPo's coverage was indeed excellent. The best that I read anywhere, overall. Good call by the Pulitzer board.
> video codecs are the exemplary "we'll patent math and there's nothing you can do about it" scam, since that's literally all a video codec is

Most software is literally all math.
I... am not sure, but having seen similar movies before, I think given that we have an election year, any real pain that needs to happen will not happen prior to elections despite Powell's posturing.

It is mildly annoying that this heuristic works so well..
and yet they are not doing it
AFAIK state of the art is using fast presets of SVT-AV1, combined with Av1an [0] for parallelism.

[0] https://github.com/master-of-zen/Av1an
The Chapo boys make some interesting pro Avatar (the movie) points: https://youtu.be/s7CtTo88QOI
Don't blame the dogs. It's always someone else's fault. Dogs are blameless. People, however, are not.
This is true on some level, but not true on another. The reality is that as web products change over time, they bring on new customer expectations. For instance, when searching for something with a finite set of possible results, the users' expectation is that they will see a dropdown with auto-complete suggestions. And on top of that, they expect to be able to navigate up and down the list with their up/down arrow keys. That, as well as a mountain of other examples, cannot be done with CSS.
There are no blockchain owners. There is just a blockchain, and consensus rules to what goes into it.

People talk about the DAO thing as if it was just a matter of calling some people and ask them to refund everyone, as if history could be reversed. What happened was a fork, and the decision on what fork to go on still required consensus building: those running ethereum nodes and who were against the DAO fork stayed on their paths and went on to call it "Ethereum Classic".

As for gas prices: https://l2fees.info/ will show you that transfers can easily be done with a few cents, and Raiden is (finally!) live and able to do sub-cent transactions (https://medium.com/raiden-network/the-raiden-network-now-liv...)
tc (traffic control) is often not-mentioned but super powerful. It's lower-level/upstream from iptables and barely takes any overhead. Mirroring, port knocking, advanced byte dropping, etc are all possible. Documentation/examples a bit lacking, unfortunately.
The VOX in the weeds healthcare people looked at it some time ago, and most healthcare economists thinks it is not possible for states to do something here.
So many animations, huge blocking ads, and scrolling videos. The reading experience on the Bloomberg.com site was so poor that I lost my retirement savings.
You have rose-colored classes for the past. Multiple-megabyte state cookies were very common in business applications written in .NET WebForms, because even simple CRUD business applications have a lot of state to carry around that nowadays is simply managed in-memory by JavaScript. 50ms load times were out of the question; you were lucky if you could do it in 500ms. No "competent programmer" could do anything about this because WebForms didn't let them. As soon as you needed to filter one dropdown based on another dropdown, you needed to write custom JavaScript anyway.

Writing a stateful front-end that just asks for what it needs from a well-built API when it needs it is enormously simpler than trying to store all state in some server session and having to work around your own framework whenever you need a dynamic dropdown list.

We all seem to have collectively forgotten how awful web frameworks used to be, and how little interactivity the user actually expected. Things are way better now.
It's the actual amount on my water bill. And yeah. 2-3 toilet flushes a day. Probably a 3 minute shower. A gallon or two for plants. The biweekly high-efficiency washer. (And I'm sometimes traveling but much less so recently.) The weekly dishwash. Etc. Surprises me too. But that's what the numbers say. Not even trying to be unusually convervationist.