skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the next sentence. "even legal uses of copyrighted content"

In practice, this constitutes the abolition of the "fair use" doctrine on the internet.
They are probably against the link tax, but in favour of the content filtering.
> A workaround would be for EA to simply officially sell the game's "coins"

Preventing this kind of workaround is already part of many gambling laws. They usually define the payment/stake/wager as a very generic term like "anything of value". For example, in NV (as a stereotypical representation of a locale allows gambling), the law defines[1]:

>> “Representative of value” means any instrumentality used by a patron in a game whether or not the instrumentality may be redeemed for cash.

>> “Wager” means a sum of money or representative of value that is risked on an occurrence for which the outcome is uncertain.

Any type of in-game "coin" still represents value to the people playing the game, so trading them for lootboxes with uncertain contents is still a "wager".

The gaming industry could solve a lot of this mess if they simply *sold people the game (or game pieces) directly as a defined product. Of course, that wouldn't exploit the human weakness to operant conditioning[2]... ~sigh~

[1] https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-463.html#NRS463Sec01862

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWtvrPTbQ_c
I don't Mozilla is limited:

https://www.alexkras.com/firefox-launches-marketing-offensiv...
Those people would be the ones doing the peer review of such a paper.
If you want research literature, you can just click the links. Some of them are pointing to papers. Other to lists of scientists which you can then look up and read their works.
There is also such a thing as a good recruiter who does intelligent searches, finds good matches, and then reaches out selectively to non-random strangers. Those are the ones I actually want to hear from, and I have gotten jobs from such communications via LinkedIn.
Maybe Microsoft should address the reasons why people do not switch? Look, Edge is a fine browser - it's fast, stable, and easier (compared to IE) to build websites for.

But it's not cross platform. I use a Windows desktop, Debian laptop, and Apple phone. Edge is available on exactly one of those platforms, while Firefox and Chrome are available on all of them.

Until that is fixed I will not consider edge, despite how fast or "secure" it may be over the competition.

Edit: seems that Edge is available on the App Store[1], and Linux requires a Wine workaround. I prefer native support, without hacks or clunky install processes.

[1]https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-edge/id1288723196?...
You’re forgetting that Corbyn is a staunch Leaver, he opposed the EU his entire parliamentary career. That is a matter of public record. And most Leave voters were in traditional Labour areas and most Remainers were traditionally Tory voters.

So the “Tories” narrative just doesn’t add up.
CVS is a PBM. How blatant does a conflict of interest need to be before policymakers take action?
Ok, well you can also search online to see why you're then too.
I wonder who was running the PR for cardio and weightlifting in the 70-90's. For some reason weight lifting, and barbell training in particular, has a weird anti-intellectual connotation. Getting up to run for two hours at 4 am is the habit of a successful business executive, but spend a couple of hours a day in the gym and carry an excess of muscle mass and you're clearly dumb. It's very strange.
Gangs of beetle larvae lure fathers of their next meal into sex trap
Here's my anecdote.

I tried playing Quake Champions, because I remember enjoying Quake 3 as a mid-to-late teenager, and on paper, that type of game should be incredibly up my alley. I found the experience of the initial load screen dumping you directly into the daily loot box screen so offputting that I actually couldn't even enjoy playing the game proper. The very act of just opening the game was so nakedly manipulative and felt so unfun that I simply uninstalled it; I just cannot be assed to expend the energy trying to ignore the loot box mechanics to play the game on it's own merits.
Didn't know until now there is a list of ports restricted in all major browsers blocked by default...
https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/PortBanning....
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/net/base/ne...
An honest answer, thank you.

Noam Chomsky would agree with you. I used to. Now I don't. I've commented about this elsewhere.
Who the hell would recommend an Arch flavor to ordinary users? Windows/MacOS should be compared to Ubuntu/Fedora(/Tubleweed). Arch is not ready for anyone who is not very interested in their OS.
Indeed, that's like "friending" everyone in a stadium or concert hall. Without a genuine connection, what is a relationship?

Definitely better than any other career site, imho.
To be fair, the legs of healthy people who perform the same type of exercise do tend to have very similar shapes.
>Why shouldn't they?

Say BBC decides they don't need the money and doesn't charge for links, but every other major outlet does. Now everyone will just link to BBC when they want to link an article on the topic, and Google News would essentially be BBC and a bunch of small independent outlets. Shortly thereafter the market share of all major news outlets that aren't BBC plumets as less and less people visit their online presences.
I've gotten my last several jobs through it, literally using my linkedin printout as my resume in place of a word doc.
Yeah, and the system is deeply in the red in Japan and everyone knows it. Seniors only pay for 10% of the cost and go way more to get medical care than salarymen, so there's no one to pay the bill in the end. It's not sustainable at all. You know that an injection of a typical cancer drug costs like 150 000 JPY and it's once every 2 weeks or so? And you have chronic conditions like Psoriasis or RA where biologic treatments cost more than 100 000 JPY per month/patient, and potentially for dozens of years as patients remain on treatment. This represents massive costs for the healthcare system.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Chronic-deficits-plague-Japa...

> the government decides the costs of all procedures and medicine

That's a simplification. There are rules for pricing. Drugs in Japan will typically be priced somewhere between EU pricing and US pricing because the PMDA benchmarks across different countries, so Japan drug prices can't be massively cheaper or something. Companies know that very well and on purpose do not let Japan get a first approval for any kind of major drug, as benchmarking vs EU/US will enable them to secure higher prices in Japan. There are whole teams working on optimizing the rollout of drugs worldwide just based on maximizing pricing strategies.
The funny thing is IBM might be the most open in this list.
it's not free speech if you constrain it in the ways that clause 2 does (protection of health or morals).
Here is the source blog post (and a better link imho):

https://glandium.org/blog/?p=3888
This article criticizes the spread that Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) make - the difference between the price they charge a payer (state program, employer, or insurer) and what they pay a pharmacy for a drug.

But this spread exists as a powerful incentive for PBMs to push down profits at pharmacies, which is exactly why payers work with PBMs rather than reimbursing pharmacies directly. It's also why the major PBMs mentioned in the article are all owned by huge insurers and pharmacies; when PBMs first started to grab margin away from those businesses, the companies bought or built their own PBMs. CVS' proposed acquisition of Aetna would create a PBM integrated at both ends.

The existence of PBMs is most painful for independent pharmacies, which are forced to work with PBMs in order to get paid and will thus continue to get squeezed. As much as I'd like to support neighborhood pharmacies, the reality is they are probably incapable of the major efficiencies in procurement and distribution that the giant corps can do, and over time they'll be pushed into a model that is more like uber - small providers of a storefront and licensed pill-packing services, built on a network that captures most of the value.

In theory, competition among PBMs for the business of payers like the jail mentioned in the article would drive lower costs for payers. Is there a failure of competition among PBMs? Are payers like this jail simply incapable of selecting a good PBM or are there barriers that could be solved, like monopolies or information asymmetries?
that's interesting, but it's several year outdated. is more up-to-date information available?
> "if its on the popular media, it should probably not be on HN"

Why though? Can't say for all but a majority of articles on popular media would be mostly right...that's why they are popular. As things go more fringe, there is less verification.
If Microsoft really wants to go after Google they should install a default ad blocker into the operating system.
>voice activation IS clearly superior.

Why? That's just a bald assertion with a butt load of evidence to the contrary.

>and what's "competitive" level for you

I'm pretty serious about competitive play. Started with CS 1.6, moved to SC2, then RB6:Siege, then GO, and now OW. I've consistently ranked in the top tier in each of those games. I moved my gym time to my lunch break and run when I wake up so I can play games in the evening and scrim when I'm on teams. It's an addiction.

>PTT is shooting yourself into the foot just because you can't find not-infantile teamplayers

I like how instead of addressing the technological merits of voice activation you just call people "infantile" to avoid actually discussing the subject.
What exactly do you mean by 'monitored'? Of course sites you visit on the internet know you visited them, just like shops you visit IRL know you visited them. But it's not anyone is actually monitoring you or any other user personally. The worst that happens is some algorithms change your ads.
Smaller platforms are exempted on the directive (ie, startups, single person corporations, etc.) as well as anything that doesn't do profit oriented content/active content moderation.
Like the only mutual contact being some shady/untrustworthy/cheating individual.
Archbishop of Canterbury accuses big firms of 'leeching off the public'
Any examples, beyond news sites where 95% of users come from US anyway?
I think the take away lesson is: Don't write great software, have a great sales team. At least, that seems to be the sentiment of all the failure stories posted around these parts.
The other thing this article fails to mention, is that while a new generic was billed at $100, and the pharmacy got $20 (with an $80 spread) before there was a generic, the prescription was billed in the thousands. The person paying the bill is still paying less, and overall, the company should see its bills go down.
It helps to some extent. But then again, Windows itself keeps changing my default media player and image viewer back to the Microsoft defaults, so I don't trust those settings to be as immutable as I would like them to be.
Curious about your breakdown between heavy lifting vs. cardio. I find that I can't do more than 4x/week of heavy lifting, so I've been trying to run (or something else) on the remaining 3 days.
The only unknown connections I get are either recruiters in geographies or industries I'm not interested in, or random people from India because I have a handful of legitimate Indian connections.
I agree with one exception- Seattle. For all of Seattle's faults the drivers are very aware of pedestrians and very courteous towards them.
using your analogy, youtube would be the paper maker and most importantly, the newspaper that publishes those words.

rightly, they're going after the newspaper.

it's disingenuous to suggest youtube only makes tools for video content distribution whilst omitting the fact that they are the only consumers of those tools.
Don't worry, Ling's Cars will make sure you get your full fix of Geocities design.

https://www.lingscars.com/
Mycorrhizal Fungi is rapidly becoming a pretty common addition to any garden or ag operation. It's great to see. There's a whole other green revolution waiting for us when we tap into more targeted architecting of microbiological environments, for which fungi are supremely helpful. Mycorrhizal fungi are effectively the irrigation for many microbial communities underground.
It's true that Arnold is quite a specimen. And on Reddit there was recently a video of a ninety year old man deadlifting 400lb. https://www.facebook.com/SPORTbible/videos/1131499677007260/ He doesn't quite get the full range of motion but it's still damnably impressive.
Ohhhhh... that makes sense. Now that I think about it, it's happening when I follow a link from Gmail.
Rite-Aid owns a PBM as well. However, it much smaller than CVS's.

https://envisionrx.com/OurDifference/WhoWeAre
If you try to access this via HTTPS you get a self-signed cert whose CN is set to www.example.com
This is all cool, but... once you get to a setup like this (which has many moving parts and config rewriting), why isn't that solution compared to kerberos? You get the temporary credentials giving you similar possibilities.
Why whould Google not just delist problematic sites like they did in Germany, as they tried to implement something similar there AFAIK?
"Have to" is an awfully loaded phrase. If they don't, who's going to enforce it?

"Enforce this, or we'll kick you out."

"Well, we are leaving anyway, so uh, fuckity-bye."
> Though the word implies otherwise a monopoly is not defined by the lack of competitors. At least not in a legal sense anymore.

Yes, it is, though in practice that's based on complex factual analysis of whether there is real competition not whether there are other players in the same descriptive market.

> It is defined by it's marketshare.

No, marketshare is a “same descriptive market” test that people casually talking about competition use; legally, the more relevant tests are things like pricing power—can the alleged monopolist raise prices in some range without losing sales to a competitor. You can have a very large marketshare in a descriptive market but lack pricing power, or have small marketshare in a descriptive market and have pricing power because the market described is really multiple segregated markets in practice.
Yes !

Now, granted the situation is more complex than just that the commission can push through whatever it wants, but the following statements are true:

1) the commission can block whatever it wants (ie. it has a monopoly on legislative initiative). So it has a negative veto, and can prevent (and does prevent) anything it wants.

2) the commission can, in cooperation with the EU council, create and adopt legislation, without anything more than getting the Parliament's position (but not approval) [1]

3) they can even use other procedures to get what they want [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_legislative_pro...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_legislative_pro...

In practice the commission and council requiring each other is essentially the commission doing what it wants because it's mostly the same people, and even when not, they're necessarily from the same country and party (well, everyone in one has a counterpart in the other that's from the same country and party).

So no. The EU is a dictatorship. The commission has the only lawgiving power, and can block anyone else's initiative. The parliament ... is better paid but no more powerful than my cat ... (plus the politicians in there couldn't organize their way out of a paper bag whereas my cat has claws).

(and let's ignore the fact that the commission also controls the EU court of justice)
You can escape poverty by working harder; it is just that working harder will not always work. It needs to be coupled with other virtues; of course the solution is not just simply to work harder, but to suggest that working harder is not a great deal part of the solution is false by every measure. Lets say this, you are born into a poor family - you still get to go to school that likely has a great library - the school and the library represent a deposit of great wealth that has been bestowed on you by society and you can take advantage of that - or not; most don't and mostly it is due to laziness. Most children would rather watch TV all day. Say you live in a "bad" neighborhood. You can pick up trash around your house or leave it there, or throw more trash on the ground. My observation is that the poor just throw more trash on the ground, they don't make their beds, they live in filthy or cluttered houses...with all that time on their poverty stricken hands they could at least organize their place. I have seen such stark differences...here in the states, in the middle east, and in Africa. I have seen impoverished people that wallow in their mire, and I have seen those that work hard to improve their situation, and though they may still be financially impoverished - they at least make the things around them a little nicer, educate their minds with what books they have and therefore live a more fulfilled life.
It's bad, which is why after the crisis the Dodd-Frank act was passed to reduce the chances of too-big-to-fail entities failing. So while we taught them they'd be bailed out, it's much less likely they can get themselves into that situation again.
Before conducting controlled experiments (which can verify causality) it's usual to conduct compared studies, which find the experimental factor occuring in a population and study its outcome. It's enough to establish correlation, much cheaper, and you can do it today instead of waiting however long it takes for the experiment (years if you have to grow trees while exposing them to microwave radiation)
Let's boil it down to the things that actually affect users: it's all about software.

- Major vendors don't support Linux.

- Installing software that's newer than what is provided by your distribution is difficult.

- Installing software that's outside your distribution's channels is difficult.

- Drivers installed outside the kernel are unstable.
I get a lot of Indian connections despite having no real connection to the place.
That is one part of the problem, but I think you are being hyperbolic in describing it as the key. In many countries single parents (or single income families) are not automatically poor. Having a single income (at minimum wage) be above the poverty/food stamp line would be a start. Sick/carers leave and subsidised childcare also have huge impacts in allowing mothers to retain higher paying jobs.

The real question is: why won't America care about children?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brycecovert/2012/07/16/the-rise...

https://singlemotherguide.com/single-mother-statistics/
You should also show the brain scans of the triathlete versus a sedentary computer programmer.
I find Linked-In pretty useful to stay in contact with former coworkers and fellow students from university.

To a journalist, whose contacts may be more accustomed to the benefits of actually staying in contact and who sees professional networking as part of their job, the benefits of a streamlined social networking sites may be much less clear, of course.
And as long as you aren't of the wrong demographic. Laws that are selectively enforced allow racism and sexism to flourish among the police. In consistent enforcement of a law should be a valid defense of violating the law, and a very cheap one to employ.
>How have the added convenience features added to Windows 10 that do make it more accessible like a phone, equate to a reduction in your ability to work on it?

Because they've implemented those features in a managed runtime that is slow as molasses. I have 64 GiB of RAM, a high-end enthusiast CPU (Skylake-X), an NVMe drive, a high end GPU -- and the start menu lags, and sometimes loses keystrokes altogether. Search was completely broken for me between builds 1607 and 1709 (the start menu would not find recently installed apps, it would not find any files at all, etc.)

This completely disregard for performance and consistency infects every part of the operating system they "update." -- The new control panel's VPN applet frequently gets out of sync w/ the actual state of the tunnel, and the connect/disconnect controls stop working. There are many things you can't even do with the new control panel. There are many instances where you have to wait for the control panel to fail it's happy path (e.g: printer auto discovery) before it just gives up and presents you a link to the old printer adding wizard.

Then let's talk about their updater: I've already told you I have what I consider to be an enthusiast-class workstation, yet the last major update took over an hour to complete. What is it doing w/ nearly an hour when it has 50,000 IOPS and 300Mbit/s of WAN at its disposal? Any Linux distro I have ever used can basically finish an installation as fast as it can do IO, meanwhile the Windows updater doesn't even in-flight a second download while the previous package is installing, and then it proceeds to waste my time with three to four reboot cycles.

Then, after these updates are finally finished, they pull stunts like in the OP. When it did the Fall Creator's Update (1709?) it reset my default browser to Edge. (Nevermind that part of my job is web development, and I'm very particular about the suite of browsers I have installed & how I have them configured.) -- I've had Windows tell me I'm running out of RAM when I have >30% left. (That's _20 gigabytes of RAM._)

This is absolutely insane, I have lost so much productivity to this pile of trash. I have never regretted an OS purchase from Microsoft before, but I regret this purchase, and that is coming from someone who owned Windows Me and Vista.
A) You said: "There are no more variables".

B) I answered: "Here are some variables".

That's all. I did not write anything else. You are building your own straw man, having a fight with it and ending up angry.
According to the article, cycling isn't enough. You need to do heavier resistance training.
I was going to start working on this, but yeah the issue is that the website would still act as a middleman to send the money around. There are a few problems with this:

- some use paypal, some use patreon, some use neither so where do you send the money

- even if it was either paypal or patreon, they would take their cut which is unfair.

- even if organizations/foundations would give their bank account info, you could probably use stripe to send the money to the right place, but not sure.

I would be happy to discuss about this by email as I think it is an idea that could be further explored.
> It's money lost otherwise.

It's a choice between more money or less money, but the opposite way around to what you're implying—because nobody will pay for the privilege of gifting traffic to someone else.

If you're a web publisher and you're not making more money as your traffic increases, you're doing it wrong. And if you can only make money by taxing all potential inbound sources of traffic, you'll quickly find yourself with no traffic—and no money.
I think the easily solution (for the EU) would be the better advertise the fact they have MEPs and that you vote for them.

EU elections have a rather disappointingly low participation, it's no wonder that things get lobbied into existence.

Representative democracy is IMO the most effective form of democracy for large scale hierarchies of authority, at least if you want something democratic. (There is always the option of a benevolent, immortal god-princess but we lack candidates with qualities in the categories benevolent, immortal and god-, not for a lack of belief or trying)
Seems better than nothing. Generally they're just recruiters and anyway they apparently didn't think so lowly of the person as to decline the request.