skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like some of the NHS Digital work too. They have some interesting blogs, eg this: https://digital.nhs.uk/blog/transformation-blog/2019/icons-a...
I think at this point, the question is not whether there will be serious disruption, but how badly it will hit and where the prime spots will be to live. Anywhere North with access to fresh water is looking pretty good right about now. I'd imagine anywhere currently hot and arid will be more so, but it's hard to predict.
Why do you stop there? The chain goes on. Employer will have to listen to the employees or they will be on a lookout for better place to work. It's not uncommon at all for employers to tout benefits as a way to attract new hires.
That's fair. Additionally with D&D, it is what you make of it. The themes and context can very with the group playing, whereas Harry Potter is exactly what it is.
Nice lowercase L... first thing I look for in a font!

|Il nonsense is unacceptable, but I have to deal with it all the time.
Interesting use of the word "honest". If there's any agenda being pushed during a survey at all, then it's not an honest survey, statistically speaking. An honest attempt to figure out a line of attack isn't an honest poll.

So, any "survey" that is trying to sway or push opinions at all is a push poll in my book, even if they're also collecting information & using the information collected. You're trying to draw the line at one extreme, all push and no poll, but I believe the term "push poll" has long been used by many people for surveys that do both.

Since you can't influence the thing you're sampling and get an accurate sample at the same time, don't you think the line actually needs to be at 100% poll and 0% push, rather than requiring 0% polling before you can call it a push poll?
Individual US tax payers pay for most of the world's security. This is one tax of being the global super power, so it's not particularly surprising that when you include all things the US tax payer pays for privately that is taxed in other countries, you arrive at a number higher than other similar countries.

In reality, there is no country with which we can fairly compare US tax rates.
I think most games have orthogonal twitch and strategy components. All games of course have some strategy -- even decided games like Checkers have the optimal strategy, along side unoptimal ones.

There are "action" games (high twitch) that have very high strategic content. The kicker is that sometimes twitch can serve as a ceiling for strategy. That is, below a certain twitch level, some strategies are not viable or available. Games with very low twitch minimize this, like turn-based RPGs and strategy games. But even StarCraft requires high twitch (aka unit micro) to execute some strategies!
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I've played Roblox with my kid. It's actually a bunch of different games, some of which are entertaining and complex.

Try experiencing what your kids experience and judge for yourself.
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I definitely place myself on the liberal side of politics and will support social security for people before and after myself, but the current generation of older folks definitely appear to be trying to pull that ladder up behind them.
Yeah I've seen kids at the local library playing Roblox nonstop for hours. I think the library made a special table of computers for them. Didn't know it was addictive, but it would not come as a surprise.
Good choice to base this on Franklin Gothic. Given that IRS tax forms already use it, it's effectively been part of the US government's "brand identity" for a long time.
Video games are fine, but as I tell my sons, there's a huge difference between learning how to play guitar and learning how to play Guitar Hero. Virtual worlds are fine to engage with, but those accomplishments are virtual and ephemeral, while real world skills remain with you.
That's not how the market works.

When a short-seller is done with their term, they have to BUY the shares back. When short-sellers buy (to cover), the price increases back.

In the long term, a short-seller sells the stock (which will drop the price), but then has to buy the stock later (which increases the price of the stock). The long-term trend of any short-seller is neutral at the worst-case.
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> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Goa
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Dadra_and_Naga....
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sikkim#Annexation_b....

None of these examples are of aggression. Goa and 'Dadar and Nagar Haveli' were Portuguese occupied territories (much like rest of India was a British territory before independence). India got independence from Britain, but the Portuguese territories remained occupied.

Watch this interview (video) of an Indian officer (Mr. kaul) from during the time of Liberation of Goa to get some perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRWTzp3RlJk
I find it ironic that you stated the answer to your own question and didn't notice.

That is, how notoriously terrible the government is at organization is a major reason for why people are against universal healthcare. Whether their concerns are overblown or not I leave to opinion. But that is a major fear for many.
My family in Germany throws a fit when they have to pay 50 Euro for something. In the US you can happy if your cost for seeing a doctor is less than 4 digits.
I think your perspective reading it is different from mine - I read it more as being somewhat from the founder’a perspective.
You're paying into SS but that money is not being set aside for you, it's being used for current retirees. The next generation will have to pay into SS for you and betting that SS will not change it's payout conditions till then, in the midst of mounting debt liabilities and potentially shrinking contributions, is quite optimistic.
According to a comprehensive study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, U.S. admin costs are double that of Canada.[1] More context in this NYT column, which features this quote: "'The extraordinary costs we see are not because of administrative slack or because health care leaders don’t try to economize,' said Kevin Schulman, a co-author of [another] study and a professor of medicine at Duke. 'The high administrative costs are functions of the system’s complexity.'"[2]

Also, these studies don't take into account the time/opportunity cost to consumers of navigating this complicated system, which can be quite substantial.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsa022033

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/upshot/costs-health-care-...
Just to be clear, $300 was only our share of the bill. Insurance also picked up more than that, and there were insurance "discounts" applied.
For me English has been working decently on DDG but last time I tried I had a really hard time getting decent results in other languages.
> Is it illegal to buy an essay?

> No. All papers are 100% custom-tailored to your specifications and upon submission we are transferring copyright to you. You are free to publish, submit, or retain the paper you pay for.

I think this is misleading. It is probably legal to buy, but if the user submit the essay as a homework and someone notice, the ethical committee will be unhappy.
Oh sorry, I'll clarify... My concern is not that it will become untenable and money will run out - my concern is that it will be slashed into the ground as part of an "entitlement cut" - it's actually pretty unlikely given the party of cutting things that people like gets a lot of votes from the social security crowd, but there is only so much more than can slice off Medicaid before they start looking elsewhere.
It kinda makes sense google thinks using a Pareto distribution (Matthew Effect) is correct, people search on popular topics, so popular results are typically the correct one.

BUT... now we have a big problem with what google filters and promotes. It has altered its search engine to ignore search modifiers in some of its products. Such examples, Google wants to be in the TV/Entertainment business so its promoting hollywood above content creators. And many results favor CNN/NBC on its platforms, even with "exact title searches". Its using its business models to override consumers wants.

Its like google turned the search into a BuzzFeed top 10 generator.
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" Social Security to not exist when you get old,"

that's totally self defeating. There are simple adjustments that can be done to make it viable long term. But there are quite few people in DC who desperately want it to fail to show that government is no good.
Over half of this page is an ad on iPhone SE.
> The article calls out examples like Emacs, Perl, and Python, but the proportion of people who use software and have used (and liked) these tools is vanishingly small.

All tools have benefitted from standing on the shoulders of these and other giants. Software doesn't exist in a vacuum and it doesn't appear fully formed from nothing. Ideas and inspiration are drawn from a multitude of projects. Take a look at the third party software required to build Firefox sometime.
Has anyone tried to compile GraphBLAS via emscripten [1] and have it running on wasm [2]?

[1] https://emscripten.org

[2] https://webassembly.org
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Medicare seems to work just fine.
> I liked Edge because of its fantastic battery life (for browsing, Edge was like having a 25% larger battery.)

For what it's worth, I suspect this is the result of using the system DirectComposition. If you look at the more recent additions to that API, they're essentially just CSS 3. Basically, Windows integrates portions of CSS deeply into its OS stack, like macOS does with Core Animation. It's sad that moving to Chromium will regress this elegant architecture, as saving the extra blits that come from doing everything at the application level as Chromium mostly does (except for video playback IIRC) is a nice power and performance improvement.

> Chrome-based, but somehow results in far better battery life than Chrome.

Most likely because of ad blocking.
I'm familiar with short-selling, but not the phrasing there. As you note, the point of short selling is that you borrow the stock ... then sell it. So short-sellers shouldn't ever be "holding" the shares to begin with, except very briefly.

What I think it means is that the value of the short positions is 17% of Tesla's market cap?
Algorithms should take into account, not ignore, human failings
I remember it supporting EPUBs, but memory may be faulty here. In my defense, Reader survived longer than I think most people realized because it stopped being a default installed app pretty quickly (I think 8.1 did that, IIRC), and it still ran in Windows 10 for quite some time (if you had previously installed it) before it was shutdown for good. It may have been during that weird period on Windows 10 before it was entirely shutdown.

That said, the core point still remains that hopefully even if Edge doesn't continue to support EPUBs they might spin it out into an app.
Just to clarify, your payments aren't being specifically earmarked for you (this isn't a government run retirement plan) they are being pooled and that pool is being used to pay for current and future SS beneficiaries, but the pool isn't going to run out anytime soon. It's more likely that it will be diverted for political reasons and defunded - to speak precisely the "entitlements" you paid for will be taken away without recompense.
An MRI that you can book in 3 days, if you have the money. I know people with health care insurance that had to postpone imaging for months in order to be able to afford the cost.
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The US is the only place I know of where someone with good insurance coverage could expect to pay that much for a basic visit.
It's pretty common for bribes to be pretty cheap compared to the gain. Same in DC. The ROI for lobbying is enormous. Spend a few million to get billions in subsidies or tax cuts.
This analysis ignores VAT taxes entirely, which can add significantly to an employee’s tax burden.
> how notoriously terrible the government is at organization is a major reason

A major propaganda point, not a reason based on data. It’s really hard to find a first-world country which has a medical system which doesn’t compare favorably with American insurance companies on either cost or quality — the baked-in conflicts of interest are too powerful.
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Drug-Resistant Fungus Has Sickened Almost 600 in US, Poses Global Health Threat
Someone else beat me to it, but being Canadian who moved to the US, I can kind of see where some people are coming from.

If you're young healthy, have a good job and are a bit short sighted, you're way better off in the US (with little to no insurance or a crappy high deductible plan) in term of take home pay.

Even if you're not healthy, if you have a lot of money, you're also way better off since wait times in affluent cities are way, WAAAAAY, _WAAAAAY_ better.

When I lived up north, getting an apointment with my family doctor was a 3+ month deal, most people didn't even have a family doctor because almost none took new patients, wait times for surgeries were so high my grandma almost died while waiting for hers (and did end up dying because of lack of care in the end). And i think in some places they're talking about no longer covering some services like regular check ups?

I had a bunch of lingering non-critical conditions I never got checked until I moved to the US, because it just wasn't worth the trouble, and was able to get everything squared away in record time since I did.

Something that isn't always brought up too is things like dental, which wasn't covered up there so you needed private insurance anyway, and very few of my employers offered compared to my US employers.

It's completely messed up and only benefit people who don't think far enough or have money up the wazoo, but for those, the socialized system would be worse.
Free Software is a specific application of general ethics. This is an instantiation, not a replacement.

Free Software cares about the freedom of all software users, who are humans that just so happen to be using software. The belief that this just benefits software developers is false, although it was the way that Open Source was promoted over Free Software.

And that is part of the reason we are having this conversation.
The problem is predicting which places will suffer from drought as weather patterns shift. You could be surrounded by fresh water and safe from rising sea levels but crops will still fail if it doesn't rain enough.
If you play fortnite backwards there are satanic images.
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> Can we finally stop saying safari is the new ie, and recognize that chrome is now literally the new IE?

I never said that, and chrome is not literally the new IE, no matter how poorly the word literally is misused.

Chromium is a free (a blend of BSD-style, MIT, GPL, and other generally regarded as free licences apply) piece of software that's performant, cross-platform, receives regular feature updates, rarely breaks backwards compatibility, and doesn't try to lock you into one vendor. Compare and contrast the history of IE.

Microsoft's (new) Edge is using Chromium.

> Seriously, this means that chrome has more or less complete market dominance at this point.

No it doesn't. This is hyperbole.
Citation needed. Without going any further SWAT--of what I've read, this was back in 2011--shoots all dogs on sight, as soon as it enters the building, as standard operating procedure.
Sadly, Dr. Oz is a "real expert" chasing dollar signs
I wouldn’t say the United States provides security when our actions and interventions tend to not be just.

We are just a Mafia.
That’s because it’s behind a paywall.
U.S. gov't! https://designsystem.digital.gov/

article: https://digital.gov/2019/04/08/introducing-uswds-2/
I cannot pick my own health insurance company. My choices are:

- Whatever my employer wants

- Something on the exchange for quadruple the price (particularly without my employer's share of premiums)

How does the market decide when it isn't a competitive market? Why are employers allowed to pick their employee's health insurance? Why are employed people at large companies paying less than employed people at startups?
The SS trust fund is currently about $3 trillion. While the money you pay in isn’t specifically set aside for your own use (the whole point of the program is to pool everyone together), it’s not like a Ponzi scheme where contributions from people paying in are directly used to make payments to beneficiaries.
A mouthwash with cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) might help with gum health. Crest makes a version with CPC and Hydrogen Peroxide that was recommended by a dentist at one point.

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

Edits: spelling + link.
I'm sure you're well-intentioned and want what's best for your kids, but I'm going to push back a bit. My ability to play video games in general has improved over the years, and for me it's a source of pleasure. It's not ephemeral because many of the games I play now have the same mechanics as the ones I played when I was a kid.

People like listening to guitar, but there are also a lot of people who love watching others play videogames on sites like Twitch. Of course both playing videogames and playing guitar professionally aren't a realistic goal for most people.
What is the username in this image? [ https://i.vgy.me/faxIj4.png ]

Many people select fonts where there isn't ambiguity between similar characters like o/O/0 and I/l/1. Reading the home page for the font [ https://concoursefont.com/ ] gives me a headache personally. The lowercase 't' and 'f' fight one another. The 'f' with its flowing curve and the 't' in its rigid straightness makes the text fail to flow well.

My favorite font is guilty of having ambiguous characters as well - and while I'm not personally very bothered by it - I can understand and empathize with the annoyance other people have towards issues like this.

I use Stylus to inject my own stylesheets and force every website to use my chosen fonts - their design be damned. But I also eventually write my own CSS for the site myself if I use it frequently so my opinion is likely invalid as 99.9999999% of users would never do that.
An emergency room is not a "basic visit".
It's not always an option, but if it's possible -- consider Urgent Care if that's offered in your area.
But they already needed that stuff for in person visits? I’m confused what you’re trying to say
I feel that will lead to more FUD about scientists crying the sky is falling if any predictions are incorrect. I feel it'll also hinder efforts with a "welp, guess we already lost so we can stop trying" attitude.
Those fans use nowhere close 1-2 watt delta he observed.
>Are you concerned about austerity measures / cutbacks affecting customer budgets?

Isn't every business or organization concerned about various economic forces affecting their customer budgets?
Something isn't a technical term for having a technical use-case. Expectations existed long before technology.
I'm not sure why you've been downvoted. Your statement has both facts and opinion, and forwards the conversation.

Personally, I agree with your opinion. I think that we're going to get to the point where SS is taking in less than it pays out and, combined with the large amount of individuals who don't like anyone getting government money and so push to get rid of it, the system is going to fall apart.

The worst part is that it's not even the government's money. People pay into the SS and take back out later. It's supposed to work like a savings account, to some extent.
You don’t pay taxes once you’re retired? That’s certainly not true in places like Canada.
You might have a skewed sense of what median Canadian income is. And your job might be further above that median than you realize.

Median Canadian individual income is ~$35,000 [0].

In B.C., your average 2019 tax rate would be 13.34% not including non-refundable tax credits (and so the effective rate would likely be a point or two lower). [1]

A median tax rate of 11.5% against a median Canadian individual income seems entirely reasonable.

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0: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=111002...

1: https://www.ey.com/ca/en/services/tax/tax-calculators-2019-p...
I'm not convinced that US military intervention in the last 40 years has led to a net increase in global security.

Although the existence of the US military probably helps. As long as they don't do anything.

I'm undecided on this one.
Ah, I see.

The article's wording is definitely imprecise. I agree with you there. Here's my interpretation: The share is held by a lender, who has sold the share to a short-seller. In effect, 17% of the shares are "double-counted".

If there are 1,000,000 total shares, but 17% short-interest, then there would be 1,170,000 shares in circulation. It seems clear to me that the article is talking about short-interest (but is using somewhat imprecise words at that).

So its not so much that the share is being "held by a short-seller", but the share is "double-counted because of a short seller". It probably would have been better if the article more precisely said "17% short interest", which is probably the precise and technical wording for this situation.
Is this a Canadian federalism thing? Are social payments pronvincial instead of federal?
> You have a second vision that had nothing to do with what we were talking about before

I'm sorry, I didn't realise you were the discussion warden. If we're not keeping strictly in step with the topic you've put up for discussion, we're to be derided, are we?

> Your non-sequitur

Goodness, your tone is nothing but rude. Your previous comment's lone "Okay." was much the same. Just because we're not all agog at your comment and have our own points of view to contribute…

Try adding a touch of flexibility to your interlocution.
That only works if you’re in high demand, and your health problems don’t preclude getting a new job. Very few workers can rely on that being true at any point in their lives, much less all the way until retirement.
I used to be against rent control, but when I found that in CA there is a constitutional amendment that prohibits the government from increasing the taxable valuation of property by more than 2% per year I became strongly pro it.

If you want to increase rent costs by more than 2% you’re acknowledging that your property value has increased by more than 2% and you should pay taxes on that. But the tax valuation can’t increase by more than 2% so you shouldn’t be able to increase your rent by more either.

So I’d favour something strong than rent control (that only applies to continuous residents), I’d say that no rent, lease, or similar arrangement can increase at a rate of more than 2% (or whatever the limit on increases property taxes is) year on year, irrespective of occupancy, or changes in tenants.
A phone should be able to operate reliably within it's thermal specifications. It's perfectly reasonable for a phone to occasionally throttle because it's unusually hot or cold, but it's exceedingly shoddy for throttling to be routinely used to mitigate an under-specified battery.
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> Prison labor can be rewarding and help build up the skills that a person needs when they are rehabilitated.

Your definition of rewarding is flexible or how you say it loose. Someone forced into a situation where that's all they do isn't going to think whatever they're doing is rewarding unless they've had the shittiest life ever. I'm guessing you believe whatever is put on camera or written by people who run the horror shows hidden away from modern society.