skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on the asset.

I can argue that Facebook's incentive to help politicians manipulate my community has far greater impact on me. Thanks to Facebook and Twitter enabling algorithmic propaganda, I will lose my right to live and work in the UK.

I wonder how organic were all these uprisings that were organised on Facebook and Twitter. These things changed the middle east and Europe.

Check out Zeynep Tufekci, a scholar doing wonderful job in researching these issues. Recent article of hers: https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-n...

In my opinion, Facebook and Twitter will be harnessed by local governments to control the conversation OR countries will replace them with local alternatives like in China, effectively ending the democratic processes.

Decentralised networks with incentives of profiting directly from the users by providing services directly to the users have great potential to become the thing that internet was promised to be.
Added to my comment:

>Edit: I should clarify that I think C is the only rational choice and that Rust is ill suited to osdev as well. I'm only talking about C++ here.
Isn't releasing new versions of shared system code what an OS update is? Not trying to be snarky or anything, it just seems like that's what this is.
Don't forget the medical bills after football, which your former team(s) will not cover. I haven't verified the stat, but one of the 30-for-30 shorts said that something like 75% of NFL players are broke within 5 years of retirement.
> It's not a popular opinion to share online

It is actually one of the most popular lifestyle opinions people share online and in real life, aside from proselytizing things generally recognized as religions, and has been for probably a couple of decades.
We could. But why would we want to? Why, in your view, would city states be better than nation states?
>should have been a much bigger deal

Yeah, and it's a pattern we've seen before (e.g. Big Tobacco).

I think it's a playbook. They string out the lies over a long period, then let the suspicion trickle out slowly. So, there are moments of muted outrage along the way, but by the time the full story comes out the pressure build-up has already been relieved. Beyond that, the finally-admitted truth is something we already knew for so long that our outrage has waned.

Basically, a PSYOP.
You know we live in strange times when Linux falls behind Mac OS on terminal support.
> Of course the culture is born again in a different form, as Native American culture endures today

Well, a culture is born again; culture just tends to happen if you put people together, it's in our blood. The question is whether it flourishes. I am from Europe so cannot say this for certain, but I get the impression that all over both American continents, Native Americans are still very much an ethnic minority whose rights are being trampled over.
What a bunch libertarian non-sense. Health Care is not market since there is hardly any market opaqueness. You simply don't know how much anything costs in health care, its all a big mystery until you get your bill. Health providers are out to make sure you never know how much something costs until it is time to pay for it.

It is very difficult to shop around for prices in the American health care system. Your average person can't do it and most really capable people could not do it either.

Giving people cash as their Medicare/Medicaid would be a complete disaster. Bulk buying by the government goes right out the window, no cost controls at all and completely ignores what insurance is in the first place. People are generally dumb. If you gave them cash and said this is your medicare, they would take it and spend it on everything but medical care. In the end, they would get sick and die or be crippled or worse, they would still go to the hospital and then leave everyone else with the bill.

We know prices would never drop to the floor because that is the system we have in place now and prices keep going up.
Why Take Ecstasy
Show HN: River of News
Part of the problem is that three very different kinds of things are being conflated.

If you have an emergency and need immediate care, yes, you can't shop around. That is what insurance is supposed to be for: dealing with unanticipated expenses that you can't pay out of pocket.

However, most health care is not like that. It's either predictable, regular expenses like annual physicals, or unpredictable but small expenses like getting a course of antibiotics if you have an infection. These would seem to be easily bought and sold on a market, yet our health care system insists that we do it through "health insurance", when these items are not even insurable items to begin with.

The third category, and the one that is the hardest to deal with, is non-emergency conditions that require expensive treatment, like cancer. Ideas like having a large risk pool make sense for these kinds of conditions, but again, our health care system insists on doing everything that way, even though it doesn't make sense for other kinds of conditions. And again, this kind of risk pooling is not really "insurance" in the way that covering emergency care is (although there are similarities).
Supplements are explicitly not considered "health care" in the US

Countries with single payer also offer eye drops, family doctor visits, and LASIK... they just tend to pay less for them

You don't need "government force" to change how health insurance works. See Germany, many other countries. All you do is create a government healthcare pool that's large enough to cover risk, fund it, and give folks the option of using it or using a private insurer that will cost a lot more.
"They will have a more meager fortune ... which had total assets of about $10 billion in 2016."
>It's very difficult to get quotes

It's very difficult to get quotes because no one is actually paying for it themselves. This would be solved immediately by empowering individual consumers.

>you can't easily compare providers (there's no obviously corpus of "ratings" from other prior customers)

This is because your insurance provider has chosen for you. Once again, this would be resolved by putting peoples' money back into their own hands.

>If you're saying just give them their dollar average benefits, that pretty much defeats the whole purpose of having a risk pool.

In my head I included still providing disaster coverage, but failed to type it. So that should alleviate your fears regarding things like getting cancer.
There’s a lot of discussion on whether players are compensated for the risk. I’ll add that the career average earnings should include all the players who aspired to an NFL contract but did not succeed.
That makes it equivalent. It doesn't make it righteous. In fact, the way they talk about the corporations doing things "at the significant cost to societies health and wellbeing" shows that they know what the corporations are doing is morally wrong. Arguing that it's equivalent just shows that this is also morally wrong.

There is no sane argument for "righteous" for this behavior.
The NFL could limit some of the injuries to receivers and DB's by allowing illegal contact (less space = less speed prior to contact), but it'd hurt the offenses, and the league doesn't want low-scoring games. They could also limit the amount of zone that teams are allowed to play, but at that point, the sport begins to look very different.
Facebook's FaderNetworks manipulate selfies
Totally agree. Another aspect of this is that the decision they're making is one that humans are very bad at: prioritizing their future over their present. "Ok maybe I have headaches when I'm in my 50s but today I get paid way more than everyone I know." Knowing that humans have an unbelievable penchant for putting their present well-being over their future well-being, I think it behooves us (society) to protect these people from making these decision that will in many cases destroy their lives.
This might be a thing in the future, when the technology becomes fast enough that you watch movies live...starring yourself.
Thanks for this! I always think of him whenever discussion of the NFL comes up, and I had no idea he retired.
Weebly's CEO opposes dropshipping
I'm not sure how anything you've said disagrees with anything I've said.
REMOTE within US only ?
Boxing is not as popular as it was.
You have labeled the fake and the original the wrong way around.
I would say quite a lot.

A private small-aircraft flight over any populated area (other than the biggest cities) reveals just how sparse most towns are. Travel almost any direction away from a main highway and in a minute or two you'll be looking at trees, trees, trees (or desert/mountains/fields).

It helps give one an entirely new perspective when we're used to traveling along roads and seeing unyielding flows of civilization, when the reality is those are mere ribbons of development criss-crossing what is still mostly empty, disinterested nature.
I love not having to care about whether websites I make work on broken or incapable browsers! :-)
It's sort of related, see PS3 in the article.
Thanks for linking me to an article about Supply and Demand. I hadn't thought about that. You are still wrong.

The problem is that factory farmed animals usually eat grain which could be used to feed humans. Even if only 10% of their feed is suitable for human consumption, it's still a net loss of food, because meat is an extremely inefficient source of calories.
"This time, though, we actually have some fucking clue what we are doing."

There's confident, and then there's crazy;)

Best of luck to them:)
>Cars have the nice property of being mass-produced goods, where there's an established mechanism for testing, rating, and regulating them. There's no such thing for healthcare (and it's a service, not a hard good.)

TIL there's no testing, rating, or regulating in the medical industry.

>I ask my doctor because he's been specifically trained to make that determination.

I agree, so this concern of yours is alleviated. The market provided you an expensive option which is the one your trusted advisor recommends, and there's a cheaper one which may offer lower quality service. You are now empowered to make your own decision on the matter.

>You've got that backwards. Right now, we basically allow the worst provider to charge as much as the best one, because we don't really have any way to differentiate the best from the worst. There's no need to force any business to charge more.

Moving to single payer does not help you differentiate the best from the worst. All it does is force the good provider and the bad provider to charge the same. The current insurance regime is not better, because your provider can choose the worse provider for you if they're cheaper, leaving you no option at all.
This is a powerful law of engineering. From 1903 to 1969 (66 years) we went from the Wright Flyer to a man on the moon. In the 49 years since then, we still fly subsonic aircraft that are maybe 40-50% more fuel efficient (747 to 787).

You can observe similar plateaus in power systems (coal, nuclear), medicine, etc.
> It seems really good for routine tasks, like high frequency trading, but maybe not so great for these big one-off deals which constitute many of the best investments.

I understand what you mean from an opportunity identification perspective, but you have to keep in mind that even the "big one-off deals" require routine tasks at a lower level to verify the merit of such deals. If you think about tasks like reviewing financial statements, AI could provide faster evaluation and potentially identify trends that would elude a human analyst. In any case, Buffett is known for avoiding investments in companies he doesn't deeply understand and I would bet the same stance holds for employing new technology in his investment process.
I think you're just upset cause you'd fail the test. It's cool most stores still have cashiers to assist you.
The GP is simply suggesting that you're selective and biased in the issues you're trying to solve. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing: you have to choose your battles.

But someone else could propose only eating meat to solve the massive use of pesticide. Apart from the possible health issues, he would be as right in his position as you are.
Lol, wish I could see this ancient race of dwarves
It is illegal to sell guns with certain characteristics (e.g. fully automatic fire, select fire) without possessing a Federal Firearms License which carries certain onerous requirements of the seller.

It is not however illegal to own or make such guns.

Because the AR15 is so modular in nature and parts like the stock and barrel don't dictate if the firearm is automatic, federal laws dictate that the lower receiver is what is actually considered the firearm.

Since regulated and unregulated AR15 lowers are mostly identical, and the point at which they diverge is a nonfunctional state, manufacturers can make incomplete or 80% complete AR15 lowers that aren't considered firearms. You can then take these lowers and complete them yourself at home to have an unregistered firearm that you could not otherwise posses without registration.
Just about is fair but still short by ~400 years, unless you count the Jaredites. They purportedly fled the Old World around the time of the Tower of Babel (~2000 BCE IIRC?).

EDIT: I wasn't sure if the Book of Ether even mentioned horses, but it did, along with elephants. [1]

[1] https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/9.19?lang=eng&clan...
On the one hand I'm excited, but I ultimately hope this fails (commercially, anyways) because I don't think the world needs more devices loaded up with Google's spyware.
> The US, in particular, spends more and sees worse outcomes than other counties.

I think this "conclusion" depends strongly on how you define "worse outcomes".

> An individual is going to not make very good decisions about how healthcare dollars are allocated over the course of their life.

Not if they have no incentive to learn how, no. And our current system gives them no such incentive, since they don't control the dollars to begin with.

In other words, the system complains that people don't do something that the system prevents them from doing.
The Rise of Dart Lang (fastest growing language in 2017 according to TOIBE)
Why do you consider it a currency?
Local links run the world
In addition to these, the article "A Complete Guide to Grid" on CSS-Tricks [1] is an excellent reference to use after you've become familiar with the concepts.

1: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
$60k/year won't get you very far in 20 years, and even today won't get you far at all if you have to pay medical expenses on the damage you received playing the game.
The gcc-7-base package (assuming that's what you're looking at) looks like it's just an empty directory to put various gcc things and some basic docs.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/gcc-7-base

https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/gcc-7-base/filelist
You have the Fake and Original mixed up.

elke-1.gif is the fake
anne-1.gif is the original
As for not understanding what they're being asked to buy, what I'll say about that argument is it proves too much. Why do the markets for computer repair, automobile repair, etc. not have the problems that you claim would be inherent to a free market in human body repair?

You are ignoring the part about not having a choice of whether to buy or not. If I buy a car or something else about which I know next to nothing, I can ultimately decide not to buy, if I feel like I'm being scammed. If I get injured or sick, I can't realistically choose not to get treated.
Funny. A guy is paid by a political party to dig up or manufacture dirt on another candidate, and you don't think that this would be something that the court might be interested in when its asked to issue an extraordinary warrant based on it? You don't think him being paid wouldn't bias him?

Incredible.

We now have the spectacle of a partisan organization laundering opposition research through the FBI in order to engage the full power of the intelligence community to eavesdrop on the opposition.

If this doesn't signal the need for FISA reforms, what will?
Chart: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/dart/
thanks, just fixed this
This shows another feature of life in America - it depends on which "team" you're on. Working for a large employer, especially with a white collar job, you generally get a better policy. While you're insignificant, your employer (who is buying the insurance and defining the policy) is valuable to the insurer, so you're treated better. Same for if your insurance company is a big player in that metro area - they get pricing power vs hospitals and providers so your coverage and exceptions tend to be better.

The crap insurance with lots of exceptions come a) if you're choosing it yourself and paying low premiums, or b) if your employer is less profitable per employee or you're in a low status job (e.g. Wal-Mart offers worse coverage than Google)
It seems that audiobooks are somewhere between a minor hindrance and a minor help in their effect on drivers. It seems that someone who is extremely bored is actually more likely to get into an accident.

> During simple drives, people listening to audiobooks braked faster in response to hazards. Audiobooks also helped reduce speeding, a common driver response to mental underload, the study said.

> The findings, said Trick, are particularly useful for people with long daily commutes on familiar routes or on long stretches such as rural roads.

> During complex drives with various hazards, listening to audiobooks can be an added distraction for people who are poor at multi-tasking, the study found. People able to switch easily between tasks are not negatively affected, it said.

https://news.uoguelph.ca/2018/02/audiobooks-improve-focus-lo...
Yeah, but that has to do with MMA not brain injury.
I wouldn't know. I'm not a Republican. Are you?
what does 'serving up mobile layout' exactly mean? Thanks.

yes grid is awesome but how to deal with polyfill is the question
Even moving them to quality control or edge case handling is a win. No one is going to miss box packing.
Thanks! I was looking at [1] and wasn't sure if those were binaries.

That's perfect then. Install GCC, compilers, build headers etc via `sudo apt-get install build-essential` when necessary. So this should be the same general approach as on Alpine.

[1]: https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/26506363/
TunesKit Spotify Converter 1.1.1.784 Crack Torrent
I believe that was not factually correct. See my comment elsewhere in the thread.
So excited to see people has interest in it, and would be more excited if you or your brother can provide some helpful feedback and advice.
Reddit Is Hiring a Senior Rust Engineer
I’ve declared it a “shameless plug” and winked it was a “ritual”. None of those makes it neither acceptable nor unacceptable.

Why I posted it?

I posted it, as a comment, mainly because it is fun for a couple of hundred people to play every couple of months. Not everyone seen it before and I think it came out a good game.

This has a point: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Why I think it is acceptable?

I personally think it is acceptable because it always raises some interesting discussion about something.

That’s what comments are for.
>It's similar to when first year CS students learn that assembly is "faster" (a hazy notion itself), and then want everything to be written in assembly.

That's an interesting kind of first year students... The kind I know flee before anything lower than C++.
LiDAR collection is pretty dense from a data perspective. When I was working with helicopter collection teams we would regularly collect 1TB of point data per day at around 120 points per square meter. Based on the density of the canopy in Central America, the teams are probably using a density greater than that, and are using "multiple return" depth mapping so that they can see through the forest.

Processing LiDAR data is also quite expensive in terms of the hardware required and expertise of the people needed to correct the data back at the office. Typically LiDAR processing workstations have around 128-256 GB of RAM and a large RAID array of SSDs to quickly perform corrections interactively.

After the initial correction, most of the data is thrown out or "filtered" down to just the points of interest to save on space. Since it's quite easy to end up with hundreds of TBs worth of point data within a few months of collection. If the team is using colorized LiDAR, orthographic, and oblique images then that can take up even more space.

So the short answer to why more of the world hasn't been mapped with LiDAR techniques is money, time, and storage space. But with self driving cars now making LiDAR more prevalent, and storage space becoming more affordable every year, mapping whole regions with LiDAR is a more reasonable task.

NOTE: One of my former jobs was working with aerial LiDAR collection teams to manage the data and processing of the collected assets. This was around 2012 so some of the numbers may have changed since then.
Not always - some offices are simply like that. I was shopping for a doctor once (while sick, bad idea). A couple of them couldn't get me in to see anyone in the office for 4-6 weeks. This was not a specialist.

Naturally, I chose another doctor. This is more difficult when a doctor you have seen for a while becomes this busy for whatever reason.
> For that matter, it's possible for the receiver to claim to have received a packet that the sender had not yet generated. The sending TCP stack may very well consider this an error.

I happen to have some experience with this case (receiving an ack of an unsent packet).

Linux since 2009 will silently drop acks of unsent data [1]. FreeBSD follows the RFC and will send ack with current sequence and ack numbers to try to 'resync'. As long as this modified stack doesn't respond to that ack with another ack, it would probably be ok. There's a reviewed and accepted patch for FreeBSD to rate limit the acks it sends in this case, but it doesn't seem to have been committed [2]

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/96e0bf4b5193d0d97d1... (although the comment says this is consistent with the RFC, it actually isn't)

[2] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11929
Or these relatively cold streams harbor few parasites evolved to thrive at human body temperatures -- I would not carry this practice to warmer areas of the world.
The pool at my aunt and uncle's house has a huge Raiders mural in it, because they guy who owned it before them was a player for the Raiders until he went broke and they got it in a foreclosure sale.
>it makes you despair sometimes.

On the other hand, if you are optimistic and excited in a world where everyone else is in despair, you have some distinct advantages. :)
Seems very similar to why Challenger blew up as well.

Engineers felt unease about launching in such cold weather, but management rammed approval through.
People are injured or killed by cars. People lose their life's work when their hard drives go bad (yeah, backups, but it still happens).

I agree that they aren't perfect analogs, but we're talking tangerines and oranges, not apples and oranges.

EDIT: Downvoters care to comment on where they disagree?
> Hire people who like to work hard and who have something to prove

In my experience, having "something to prove" can often be a negative.
It's worth pointing out that the notion of "near death experiences" is not Biblical.

These are modern, Western fantasies superimposed on Christianity.