skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're cherry-pick anything, you will find plenty of demonstrably false statements anywhere.
The price of Novo insulin in Denmark has not risen since 2005 for the products I checked.[0] So they haven't followed the price index and have thus become cheaper.

[0] https://www.medicinpriser.dk/?lng=2
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I honestly don't consider this particularly relevant, especially in the case of Spotify which has a paid ad-free option (as opposed to something like cnn.com, where you don't have a choice).

If you want to boycott Spotify for endangering people's computers, go ahead. Heck, if you want to attempt to use Spotify with an ad-blocker, go ahead. I don't feel morally comfortable using ad-blockers, but I won't fault others for using them.

You do not get to use Spotify's free tier, block their only potential revenue stream for that tier, and then turn around and cry fowl when Spotify notices and bans you.
Ehm... The same people that currently do so at Open Access journals, or at institutional repositories?
If you're interested in PL and blogging, mine night be of use to you.

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"stone loach, a freshwater fish that can live on sandy-bottom lakes"

So what's the technical difference between fresh and salt water fish if freshwater fish can happily live in very salty water?

Edit:
Digging just raises further questions. The Stone Loach is apparently European, and no mention of tolerating salt water is mentioned
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_loach
You'll get

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https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=nightly&mode=debug&editi...
This, a thousand times. Besides, I recall someone saying (I think it was Bruce Schneier) that the way technology is making privacy something that cannot be taken for granted is similar to a process of pollution, in that the small effects accumulate until they become more visible in the future.

I think the analogy is even more appropriate, because the general attitude to pollution (especially Climate Metldown) seems to display that same cognitive mechanism you mention. There are the small cumulative effects, the ways in which taking any meaningful measure would uncomfortably interfere with our habits. The social fabric has just molded itself to the absurd reality, and our comfort and complicity is what makes the absurdity inspire oblivion and indifference instead of alarm and indignation. And then one day, unbreathable air, food insecurity, and nominal democracy become facts of life, and the dogma of progress (rather than progress itself) is what remains a constant.
Seems like we're always finding new precedents to set like the "nuclear option" in the Senate.

And 230yrs is pretty young for a country.
Agreed.

I hate misleading article titles.
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I think that being able to leave a job and still have the same health care would be transformative for entrepreneurialism in the United States.

I’ve known lots of folks over the years who’ve felt tied down to a job because they were the only member of their family to have health insurance, and they couldn’t afford to risk their spouse or children getting sick.
A better analogy is a protection racket: pay up or we'll serve ads that might contain malware to your device. If Spotify took responsibility for fixing my computer when it gets a worm from an ad, we'd have a deal that is much more fair.
> It will not allow participating institutions and providers to offer private care for covered services to the rich

I feel this is going to be a major talking point... Canada's system kinda works like this. Basic coverage with additional coverage you can purchase.
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Using US prices, a black basic coffee is probably $2-3 at a coffee shop.

Any kind of specialty drinks, which most people I would believe get at Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, the local coffee shop, end up being $5-8, not even in a major city or metropolitan area.
Were my domestic pets actually amorphous blobs of text, damned straight I'd prefix or suffix their names with "dog" or "cat" just so I could keep them straight. "Honey, where's the header file for the blue one? Can't remember if it gets dog food or cat food."

To torture the metaphor a bit more, of course I'd eventually remember which one is which because they live with me. A better metaphor is the feral cat that shows up on my doorstep once a week looking for a handout. I've slept since then, what are you again?
Do they have ads in the paid version??
> If you want to place your work in the public domain, you're free to do so.

Fun fact: in many places, you actually can't. You can sign over copyright to someone else, or you can give anyone permission to do whatever, but many legal systems have no concept of "disclaiming copyright". You have it, whether you like it or not. This is why it is frequently advised against putting "I put this code in the public domain" as your open source licensing term. It has no legal meaning in many places, which means that it's not properly licensed at all (i.e. full copyright applies).
I've been using Crisp for a while on my own project where users can click ito start a chat (it doesn't pop-up with a message initially). I don't have any hard data but I've found it really valuable in terms of being a solo developer:

- For support problems, resolving over chat is much quicker and personable. I think this leads to happier customers. Composing well thought out and well written emails back and forth eats up a huge amount of time in comparison.

- It's way easier to get to know your customers more with chat. You can quickly ask them a series of related questions and get an answer, whereas with email it's much more effort on both sides e.g. a series of question/answers like "What kind of website are you checking with the tool? Oh, so how many websites do you have? Would you find it more helpful if...?" is painful over email and they'd probably stop replying.

I looked at the free chat offerings from Crisp, Intercom, Drift and Tawk recently. I think until you're getting large numbers of chat users per day there's not a lot to decide between them. I mostly prefer Crisp because the admin interface responds quickly and settings are easy to find. It's pretty crazy how many features and settings they all have.
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Yes, most of the time. Publishers should be blamed because they ask money for a service which is no longer needed. But who gives them the money, nevertheless? Academic management. Researchers have very little to say about this, except if you look at their real behavior (arXiv, sci-hub, etc). However, in management land everything is designed to support the publishers.
Buckaroo and Nix serve different needs. You can use Buckaroo in Nix https://github.com/LoopPerfect/buckaroo/wiki/FAQ#nix
To what bigot is "after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends" a scandal?
Have you tried using the intermediate segments of the finger instead of the fingertips? It makes a big difference for me in pain perception. Drawing blood is a bit harder sometimes but I still prefer that over having to prick the sensitive tips. (Not that I fret over it. Luckily I lost that within a week of doing regular measurements.)

Hospital staff is surprised when they see where I draw blood but so far none told me to change it. I still let them prick the fingertips so they don't have to change their routine.
So, basically the article says that unemployed people who received a basic income stipend of $685/month weren't any more likely to get jobs within 2 years than a control group who didn't.

This doesn't seem very surprising to me – if anything, I would expect people on UBI to be less likely to get jobs, and this study seems like evidence against that.
I actually have to hand it to you if that's true. You waited it out for like 25+ years, that's some impressive dedication. The "I told you so" attitude doesn't come off as pleasant though.
I think it's human nature to do a little as possible for the most reward. If someone is giving you money to literally do nothing, then you're likely going to do..nothing!
In case you don't do this already:

You can use Bandcamp Downloader [https://github.com/Otiel/BandcampDownloader] to download the artist's music – including any or all albums and any of the songs – just by entering the addresses of the pages.

Might make getting the audio easier, considering you've already paid.
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Hold on there just a cotton picking minute. You're the one that invoked philosophical zombies. So they're science when you invoke them, but only philosophy when I do?

I would rather say that it seems likely science in the strict sense cannot either support or refute the existence of consciousness. It's essentially a philosophical question.
Yeah, eating less carbs is great for T2s like me (I don't take insulin, I control my blood sugar with a keto diet and metformin).

For T1s, eating less carbs might reduce the amount of insulin they need, and make swings in blood sugar less likely, but they're still going to need some insulin.
Not for Spotify directly. However, I do use Purify for iOS as a content blocker for Safari. It might work depending on if Spotify has any web views embedded in its app.
> or even $5?

$10 is obviously nuts, but I find this one surprising as I've seen it come up a couple times. I'm on Vancouver island in BC and I'd be hard pressed to find a non-drip coffee that's not from a fast food place and isn't almost $5 after taxes.
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Nothing forces you to use Spotify.
To all the type II diabetics here, I'd suggest looking in to iodine. I'm not diabetic, but I started taking it for other reasons and as a side effect I seemed to have better blood sugar regulation. There are also doctors out there that claim it reduces insulin dependence.

I'm not claiming a cure, or even an actual treatment. Just want to point some people to something that most people have never heard of.
Another good reason to not use Spotify.
The slick movement makes it hard to see what the changes were -- a classic diff would be orders of magnitude more effective here.
Basic at my local shop is under $2, including the sweetener bar (cream, raw sugar, nutmeg in a grinder(!) etc)

Its actually a family-owned chocolate shop (Winan's) offering Yurgacheffe, Costa Rican, Nicaraguan, Guatamalan and many blends. So a pretty good deal!
Although I do not support the idea of UBI I can't help but feel a bit disappointed that it didn't work out.
I realize it's a barrier, but you can typically contact the researcher directly and get a pre-edited copy as well as supplemental data pretty easily. They're more than happy to share and even schedule calls or in-person meetings to discuss the work.

The share restraint is usually on the edited version journals provide, which frankly, after working on several published papers, isn't much from my experience. The editors don't really prod the theory, methodology or data -- just grammar and formatting (nice but not critical for the science).
It was about pricing, above.

As I understand it, Navi's meant to be very aggressively priced.
Plenty of businesses don't give away free samples, and survive fine.
She should just ship the machines over to China as that country seems better able to appreciate the art of manufacturing.
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Ask HN: For privacy, would you use IE over Chrome?
Every time someone says, "ugh, I'd pay for FB just to remove the ads" ... well, here you are.

This is spotify's action to protect its revenue for its ad-supported free offering. You can pay to be rid of it.

Absolutely no one is strong-arming you into this.
I think more companies with a free and paid teir should start doing this. The answer to ads shouldn't be an ad blocker, it should be to pay for the service. The big problems we have to solve with this is making it easier and safer to pay for online services, and giving more services a paid and a free tier.
> We had a much larger economy and resource potential than germany and japan.

Yes, I once thought that it should have been surprising that Germany didn't get the bomb first. Upon more reading, the effort that the US threw at the project was simply staggering - nobody knew which was the best technique for how to do a bunch of different things, so the Americans tried all of them at the same time. No other participant in the war could have duplicated that level of effort. And despite all of that effort, the bomb was only ready to be dropped after Germany had already been defeated by conventional arms.

I have also read that the German scientists' point of view is that a nuclear bomb as a practical military weapon was an interesting idea, but that nobody would be able to build one in time for the current war. And they were right - for themselves.
If this were a real thing, we'd all be using Linux on the Desktop by now.
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> The act of perception directly implies that some self-aware entity is perceiving.

No it doesn't. It's entirely sensible to say that the AI that detects faces is perceiving.
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Yeah, but to my disappointment (and surprise) it didn't affect latency.
So, if the government denies a treatment that could save my life due to some cost / benefit calculation, I can't get access to that treatment, even if I manged to raise funds for it on my own?

Come to think of it, if this passes, I'm going to lose access to a medication that I'm taking right now. Insurance denied coverage for it because they want me to try a half dozen others first, even though all of them have significantly worse side effects. I'm only able to get what I'm currently taking because the manufacturer covers the cost through their charitable foundation for anyone who can't get insurance / insurance approval.

If "medicare" for all banishes not only private coverage but all private care, and that extends to coverage for drugs, I'm f*cked. Death Panels indeed :(
I don't know man?

Right now it's looking like Germany is clearly the power in Europe. With American military still there, and still largely based in Germany. I could be totally off, but it really does seem like Europe is dominated, in most meaningful ways, by Germany.
> The aim was to see if a guaranteed safety net would help people find jobs

I'm confused, was that ever the expected goal of basic income?
Really miss that feature as well. It's a real shame it was removed.
I’m Type 1 and I agree with him. Injections are not a problem worth solving for me. It’s the constant mental grind of tight-rope walking blood sugar through balancing food, insulin, exercise, and random body events (that you never quite figure out) that is the problem.

Blood sugar testing is an annoyance, but the main problem is not the actual test, but the inadequacy if testing your sugars a few times a day as a method of control. There we do have solutions coming out; the latest generation of continuous blood glucose monitors are life-changingly good.
Except the clown paid to host the party with the caveat that they get to yell at people. It's their party that you're getting to enjoy for free. You tried to get the benefit without any cost despite he terms being known and now the clown is kicking you out as a result.
I'm confused - you expect people on UBI to be less likely to get jobs, the article is evidence against that, and you're not surprised?
That's provably false.
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So that if they are happier then that IS success. Job or no job is irrelevant.
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This bill is less about what it gives and more about what it takes away. Can they convince 155 million people to give up their employer-sponsored insurance for a government option?
Maybe, maybe not.

Yes is a real possibility. I was born in a country where government is largely trusted and live in another. It's a mixed story depending on branch, but by and large people trust the government no less than they trust the average bigco, and partly more.

But you're in the US, which seems different, so maybe not. And I've always wondered: Why is that? You Americans seem to distrust your government so much. Why do you vote as you vote and get a result you don't like?
I actually didn't mean to say "via my senses", what I meant is that I definitely perceive things, period. That encompasses both of your scenarios. Thanks for the correction!
Same here. I've never heard that angle.
Within the framework of rewarding people for behaving the way you're compelling them to, that's probably roughly true.

But I'm doubtful that people are actually sitting around, twiddling their thumbs, doing _nothing_. Maybe they're not getting jobs per se, but I'm very curious about what they actually are doing with the time they'd otherwise have to sell.
Next 30-40 years from 1945 on.
Toronto Starbucks: $4.95 for a grande cafe macchiato, which becomes $5.60 w/ tax. Even the cheapest black coffee is $3 I believe.
I wonder whether this also has the reverse effect: that publishing your work behind a paywall in an Elsevier journal will hurt your impact, because fewer researchers will read it.

In my opinion, it's these incentives that are the problem. The main reason researchers keep going for the same paywalled (or high publishing fee-) journals is because they need to list the stamp of approval of its brand name on their CV. Fewer readers makes that brand name less valuable.

That said, I don't think that will be enough. The world needs to transition to another way of evaluating research that does not depend on where they publish.

(Disclosure: I'm working on such a system [1]. You can help by installing the extension [2]!)

[1] https://plaudit.pub/

[2] https://plaudit.pub/extension/
I think that's a big reason so many non-insurance companies are fighting against the idea of universal healthcare for all citizens, they like having this tremendous power/leverage over their employees.
Agreed. There's actually a term for it: Job lock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_lock
I think it will all depend on how this plays out in practice. For now, this is only some fineprint in a ton of other legalese that might or might not be used in the future.

I mean, if they show you a notification that you should really sign-up for a paid subscription or disable your adblocker, this does not really seem a big deal for me and all right for Spotify. However, if they terminate your account because you happened to use Spotify for a while on a system with adblocking enabled (does being on a Pi-Hole network count?), I am wondering if they won't just drive a lot of potential customers to Apple Music & Co, which is the last thing they need right now... I mean, if they would terminate my account like this, I definitely would not come crouching back to them asking for mercy to be allowed to sign-up for a paid subscription. I mean, I do have some dignity left.

(I usually use Spotify using their apps, so without ad-blocking, but I cannot guarantee that I haven't been using their web player from time to time, too, and of course my browser has an enabled ad-blocker. I don't pay for Spotify because I buy my MP3s and use Spotify primarily to discover new songs.)
Your government-enforced death will enable millions more to have basic coverage so don't feel bad.
That's true, but not quite the same. There is one system and one payer for emergency care, as an example. You can't pay for additional or better care. However, eye glasses aren't covered by the public system. Additional coverage would help here.
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I was on a CGM (Dexcom) for about 3 months until my new insurance would not cover it. Even though it's convenient, it comes with its own set of problems - having to restock every month (with copays) got tiring and somewhat expensive compared to strips. I also had false low reads a number of times. And the amount of wasted plastic (the applicator gun) is concerning if you are environmentally conscious.

As for lancets, you might want to try the AccuCheck fastclix. It's a pen shape device with a cartridge that holds 6 lancets. One cartridge can last me a couple months as I tend to use the same lancet 10 or more times (I know, probably not recommended). It's also the most painless lancet I've ever used and it's easy to carry around.
I assumed Twitter did it. Why would someone log into my account and then do absolutely nothing other than set the location?
Same here. I'm contemplating unsubing and my first thought was to look if there is a tool to download my discover weekly archive. I have an IFTT applet that adds the weekly playlist to an archive so I can listen to it later. Over 900 songs that I still haven't checked/catalogued.
National Geographic autoplays video, to troll its readers.
Can you add any sources for this? I see several that support OP's position from a cursory search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_effort

https://medium.com/the-mission/dont-use-rewards-for-motivati...

http://hepg.org/hel-home/issues/10_2/helarticle/the-case-aga...
That's actually a good call! I just inherited something that's not quite a split keyboard -- it's one of those "ergonomic" keyboards from a colleague who left, and it basically forces my elbows out so that I can still keep my traps relaxed & wrists straight, even when my keyboard is higher than I would typically have it.
Want to bet the actual legislation is just minor tweaks to ObamaCare re-branded as "Medicare for all"? Why do I suspect the article is overly optimistic and that the author is just reading into vague and noncommittal comments made in meetings that they think will make it into the bill?
> 2 coffees for a month

Where is that price from? What if I live in a poor country and price of 2 cup of coffee is $0.40?
When I visited San Francisco I saw some cafe lattes and similar to be over $10, and that was the smallest size. That place is seriously expensive.

On the other hand it’s nice to visit a place where restaurant food costs more than in Finland.

EDIT: A Finnish comparison might be ”It’s just a pint or two per month”. So not that expensive.
I don’t think you can sprinkle complexity dust on paradox and make it go away.
#longarmsolidarity :)
That's how all businesses have worked since the beginning of time.
Just banners advertising popular new releases.
It sounds like Heisenberg is predicting that the USSR would not be a major power in postwar Europe. And this didn't turn out to be the case.

Whether this was a good thing or not, I think newsgremlin should ask some Poles.
We actually had to stop using Intercom because of their pricing. We had a custom plan for years that accommodated our needs greatly. We were very happy and sang their praises all the time. A couple of months back they announced that they would be changing their pricing, so our $300/month price would become $2000/month. We started a long discussion with a sales person back and forth and they just wouldn't help us. We got copy and pasted responses that were not at all answers to our concerns.

It ended with them charging us $1800 even though we explicitly said we just wanted the "Chat" option for $100 per month a couple of times. After a stressful evening they refunded us. It really did leave a bitter taste in our mouth.

I agree completely with the article. Intercom was a crutch for us to deal with the failings of our own product.
> Also, it's worthwhile to mention that there are 100% free really good Intercom alternatives

When I was looking into this, I think live chat really is something where you want them to have a paid business model because of its importance.