skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The really dumb title for this submission is distracting from the better parts of the interview. That quote wasn't Snowden implying he thinks he's in imminent danger of being murdered; he was just rebutting people saying that he was suicidal.

The interview itself has zero relationship to the whole Epstein thing (of which I find many of the details to be scandalous).
Here's a good example, take a look at the recently published articles in PloS Computational Biology: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/ Just scanning through them... there aren't really any that are a simple "we made a single hypothesis, performed a significance test, and because p < 0.05 we attempted to publish it". In my experience that's just not the usual way science is actually performed (but my experience is very limited to certain branches of biology). I don't mean to say that p-values aren't used at all, just that their application seems to be limited and used mostly to bolster very specific sub-arguments buried in a larger story. I guess the story is that the unit of work that a particular journal article represents is often the union of many statistical tests/ hypotheses / models / simulations / etc that together form a possibly-compelling story about how something works. Not really sure if that's better or worse from a statistical sanity perspective...
They are working on a banana. One VPN to rule them all. Nobody would corrupt that.

Or so it sounds.
And in Japan your property rights don’t go to the center of the earth so they can tunnel under your house with zero recourse. Not so here in the US of A.
I'm turned off by typos, especially one in the subject's name so early into the text -- "Snwoden"
Obesity is increasing for animals - pets and even wildlife:
https://psmag.com/social-justice/just-people-getting-fatter-...
At least if it was an inelastic good like health care.

Gas goes up a quarter and elected officials are thrown out of office. $600 for a drop of super glue? Okay then.
This is why I've considered and End-Server License Agreement. In providing service to me as a User, yada-yada-yada yada.

If I actually went through the trouble of formally writing one up, and spreading it far and wide on the winds, and could actually get a significant portion of the population serving it in instances of predatory policy/pricing, and refusing the product such that a meaningful impact was made on service provider's bottom line, I've often wondered whether or not an equilibrium could finally be established where businesses stopped looking at customers who don't complain as people not yet sufficiently fleeced.
Yeah, I'm familiar with the guidelines. What makes this a personal attack? The person I was responding to very much derailed a conversation with a disagreement that wasn't really in good faith. Is it a personal attack to point out when someone is an orthodox ideological fundamentalist trying to inflict their views on others? Should you just flag and move on and not respond and follow the maxim "don't feed the trolls" ?
In my experience ops call the developers when something breaks overnight in any case.
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> Okay, but there's no reason accessibility needs to be tied to one clipboard and not the other.

Yeah, tying it to accessibility doesn't make sense. I think they probably meant usability or whatever word conveys the idea of building an interface that doesn't break pre-existing interface features or that align with the rest of the system's conventions. Kind of like how some websites have buttons that can only be activated with the mouse because they work by being bound to a click event, and so that breaks the expectation that every link or button can be activated with the keyboard's Enter key.

> And the system that automatically copies because it thinks I might want to paste is the worse one.

I really don't see the benefit of requiring an extra step to indicate that you want to copy, much less from a different device. Do you often find it a problem that it's done automatically? Like do you often select foo, then select bar, and want to paste foo? That's probably the only benefit Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V has over PRIMARY selection.

Or maybe you think selecting actually copies text? It only causes the program to tell the X server that it holds the PRIMARY selection. No text is actually copied until you paste it.
I have to keep my feet under me for a few dozen steps while I come to a stop. I might not be able to do that at 20 MPH, but I think I can at 12 MPH. I can at whatever speeds I was going when people ran over my back wheel. (Once was a parking lot, so I was probably going fairly slowly, but the other was biking downhill.)
From the article: "It was unclear whether Ms. James’s initial findings of new Sackler funds would influence the parties that have agreed to the settlement. "
Shouldn't all vegetarians or vegans fall ill sooner or later then? It seems like a weird statement given how many people do it successfully. Of course, as a vegan/vegetarian you have to look at replacements for what you are missing, but saying that "don't forget that you need your meat!" in this modern world with no source or mention of any specific nutrient is a little weird.
In feed lots they're fed grain, but that's only the last few months of their life. That's why it's called grain-finished rather than grain-fed.
Only the ones who have never worked them before lol.
Once upon a time, I had a surprise bill for about $4,000 that health insurance decided should have been $700 for that procedure. I fought it and won. But it took forever, almost a year of calling them and going back and forth - and this was actually decent corporate health insurance.

It took a lot of reading through the 600+ page plan document and finding loopholes. For example, I asked them that if they thought it should be done for $700, who would actually do it for $700? They couldn't list one provider that would accept the payment rate they thought they should pay. And since this was a reimbursement, and they had already pre-approved the procedure (knowing the price), I think I caught them already saying they would do it, but them not following through. There was a lot of going back and forth about in-network vs out of network, but again, no one in-network would perform the procedure. In the fine print of the plan document, it said if there are no in-network providers, the plan must provide you were in-network rates and deductibles for using an out-of-network provider.

So I told them if they can't find anyone who will accept what they are willing to pay, their figure is obviously wrong. It helped that with my health insurance, everything was supposed to be covered, 100% with no copay. So the fact that they tried to charge me for the $3300 overage was very out of line for them.

They never just said "no, we're not going to cooperate" it was more just endless stalling on their part. It was never really a blunt refusal, or if they tried that, I just proved how ridiculous their arguments were. I kept a lot of documentation.

I think in the end, they just relented because they were spending more dealing with me than actually just paying me my money. But it was certainly an uphill battle the whole way, and not one I would recommend to someone who isn't well versed in legalese.
> working code beats comprehensibility.

If you give long names to every variable, by the time you finish reading a line you forgot what they were doing.

Tolstoy novel problem.
> retained surgical instruments inside a patient.

> If their procedures couldn't detect these nitrosamines for years -- what else is being let through? Heavy metals? Pyrogens? Some other class of toxic chemicals? Inadequate/overly-high active ingredient dose/concentration?

Leaving behind instruments in a patient is a "never event". The accepted amount is literally zero.

When it comes to heavy metals, there are standards of acceptability, because you'll never get all of the lead out of a sample of calcium.

Same for pyrogens.

No active pharma ingredient is 100.000000% pure. And the cost of making them so would defeat the purpose.

At some point you say: "Well, the air you're breathing isn't free of cancerous pollution either, when should we spend dollars on that instead of safer pills?" because there is a line between the two.
Is Snowden publishing a book at the same time there is some confusion about voting in Russian elections? I'm a big fan of Snowden and don't want to insinuate malice. Is this just a mere coincidence?

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-novosibirsk-sergey-boyko-nav...
If they give in to the few people who have the initiative to complain, they likely placate the few people who'd have the initiative to demand change.

See also, the TSA precheck systems. By allowing people like frequent flying businessmen and politicians to avoid the standard TSA experience, they reduce the likelihood that such people might use their influence to advocate against the TSA, for the betterment of all passengers.
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
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Welder here. I live in Australia.

Well, not just welding: we're considered engineering tradespeople - that's what it says on my trade certificate.

Earned over $100k last financial year, doing 50+ hour weeks, so plenty of over time, we certainly work for it.

If you're in the right workshop, or doing the right site work, we're getting paid reasonably well. If you can buy a house away from the major centres, maybe one that needs a bit of a refresh, and don't need a brand new car every few years, we can live quite comfortably.
Just to expand on your comment, I don't think there is an analog hearing aid that has a working solution for the "cocktail party effect". There are several advantages to digital hearing aids.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect
In every country in the world, transferring money out of a company when you are aware of future financial liabilities that put it into bankruptcy many times over trivially pierces the veil.

Purdue would immediately declare insolvency with just any one settlement. These transfers are the first big-item ticket you would be looking at.
I just got an emergency room bill. I had a severe sore throat and fever for 2 weeks, step tests came back negative. Then at night my back side started hurting so I went to the ER.

I paid $850 at the ER and today I received another bill for $850.

The only thing on the Bill just says

> "Charges": $11,680
> "Adjustmnets: $9,980

I just got off the phone with them and they say that it will take 10 business days to receive an itemized bill. However, that means the itemized bill will be delivered after the current bill is due.

How are they going to charge somebody $1700 without an itemization?

Furthermore, I am expecting another bill from the ER doctor that saw me because they bill separately and are not covered by insurance. The ER legally cant tell you if the doctor or the hospital accepts your insurance. Thats so crazy.

My wife was absolutely mortified. In brazil I never carried insurance but going to the ER I just had to pay R$400 flat fee for a private hospital. Anything else for tests they would give me the prices up front.

My wife about started screaming when the woman brought in the credit card machine while I was still in pain in the ER hospital bed. It was so embarrassing.

All this is with the top insurance my company (a ~$500 million startup) offers and to make it worse it happened when I was on a company mandated trip.
If I were a trolling or narcissistic prankster considering suicide, I might do the same. (No suggestion or accusation about Snowden is implied.)
Thanks! It was a number of things: knowing the emptiness of social media (for the most part), spending a lot of time out in the National Parks, taking care of my grandmother in her final month of life, dating an older woman for a few months, ayahuasca and bufo ceremonies, and knowing life is short.

All of this happened in the last year, so it was just a perfect storm of things at one time.

I'm living in a new paradigm I feel as I go into my 30's.
solder a board-mount LED by hand ... physically talented from decades of experience

These days most people use ovens and solder paste with laser cut stencils, which make this stuff mostly about the tedium of ordering, identifying and placing components on the board with tweezers. The solder self-corrects. There is thus little physical skill required in SMT style soldering, at least at moderate component sizes.

Source: I trained my company from scratch to the point where we can turn over new prototype quantity boards in 2-3 days (including design, fab, receipt, assembly). Nobody has decades of experience.
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I disagree. According to the article, the USPS is subsidizing Chinese imports to the tune of approximately $150,000,000 per year. We have exhausted all other practical approaches to resolving this outrage. China will not budge unless they know they have to.

That's the tie-in with prisoner's dilemma, you see? Only by making the other party aware that negative consequences are dire, certain, and soon can an equitable outcome for both parties be achieved.

I would note that China has already leveraged government borrowing power to the hilt in order to artificially support their stock market prices, leaving them almost no room the maneuver.

You argue that this it is childish for us to force the issue. No. Wrong. It's game theory. Do you want a good outcome?
Maybe now we know who bought that $1B BTC the other day.
we agree that the choice of words is bad, we agree that the metaphor is appealing, and we can probably agree that we don't know how the brain works.

Mixing behavioral ideas and whatever-else-accurately-describes knowledge of cpus (systemic?) is a bad idea, over all. That's not reductive and breaks the deductive argument.
I bought a Russian cue off eBay many years ago hoping it's extra weight would improve my break, but it was so damn heavy I couldn't propel it fast enough.
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IMHO, the core series focused too heavily on maximizing the experience for esports, and that spoiled the genre for the mid-range gamers that were its bread and butter.

And still, Dawn of War, Company of Heroes, Supreme Commander, Planetary Annihilation et al were not so long ago.

And OpenRA itself has been somewhat of a success.

BTW, C&C has a Red Alert reboot coming out before too long. It will be classic in design.
I used to work for a plumbing company,which was divided into two divisions: mechanical ( heavy pipework, industrial heating and any other big stuff) and the rest(household heating, general plumbing,etc.) The mechanical division swore by Milwaukee.They had it all. The rest of us had anything from Makita to Hitachi. Still, something thst got stuck in my memory: a colleague was using high end Hilti power drill to drill holes in ceiling.He did hundreds of holes a day.The drill, despite its superior design kept failing because of concrete dust falling into the drill.Hilti failed to address this when asked how to deal with this,so the guy ended up putting a plastic pipe cover on his drill to protect its internals from getting all the dust.. Worked pretty well.
Not sure that this qualifies as uniform distribution, even if you spread the N across the M. Because the selection must be predictable, so that any next N don't include the previous ones. That's presuming that the ‘user’ might iterate over M items in total, even if you pick chunks of N internally.
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If that's what you like, go nuts.

I'm just saying you can have it more often, since you often would like the flavor of butter, but choose something else because of the smoke point.
Aren't Hiphop and Hack existing supersets of PHP?
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You’re right, I did try to Kafkatrap you there.

But again I’m not interested in debating open borders on the merits because I’ve been to plenty of places that are ... not nice and not having a border between us and them is a recipe for Civilizational collapse.

>theaticlastic

Never encountered this word before.
For nefazodone, we had other antidepressants (so why take the risk?), and it was only taken off the market when it went generic (lol).

For BP medication, hopefully at least 1 in 100 recipients are benefitting from it. Probably more like 1 in 10. Overall, don't stop taking it. Reducing the cancer risk is possible and feasible in this case without changing therapy.

We'll probably see further testing of APIs and validation of synthetic route changes in the future because of it.
Because there’s absolutely no scientific evidence for this claim. Please share any evidence you have for the claim that a human body will “adapt” to a caloric deficit so well that it will regain the lost weight without calories increasing again.

The statement is essentially that calories consumed are unrelated to weight gain and loss except in the short term after which the body will return to its normal weight no matter what you do. This simply doesn’t make any sense. If this were true people couldn’t starve to death and obesity wouldn’t be a thing. And also the conservation of mass would not be an actual physical law.
That works really well if it finishes with EOM or <eom>.

Otherwise it's unclear if there is missing content.
She hasn't questioned my morality, though.

I suspect most siding with her would stop once they actually need to carve into their own way of life. I've seen many environmentalist types care about the environment so long as it is not directly impacting theirs... It makes it easy to evangelize while being on the absolute upper crust of humanity.
Not the parent, but I agree fully with their point - agile is good; but there is a difference between "agile" and "Agile".

Especially in the enterprise world, agile has been overran by worthless certifications and so-called "Agile" consultants/experts, who broadly fall into 1 of 2 groups: project managers looking to cash in, and technically inept "senior developers" looking to cash in by turning consultant.

Every one of which has their own incredibly dogmatic view of what it means to be Agile. And all of whom are skilled bullshit artists, adept at gaining the ear of upper management, proficienct at indoctrinating them into "the one true way"TM. Every one proficient at making developers miserable - all while charging exorbitant fees, and leaving just in time so management is convinced the failures are down to the heathen devs not following The Agile Way.

Standups where you literally have to stand up (simultaneously, even if spread across 3 continents and numerous time zones) and invariably go on for an hour, constant complaints (and of course meetings) about stories not finished before the sprint ends, endless meetings about the line on the bastard burndown chart, backlog refinements that last days or even weeks (invariably followed by story refinements that last days), telling the devs "decisions are up to the team... but you will choose my way", meaningless identikit retrospectives when the devs just want out so they can actually ship something...

Honestly, I'm not sure whether these "consultants" actually believe the dogmatic, quasi-religious snake-oil BS they are selling, or they know full well, but know just as well how much money they make from it.

All I know, is these people give agile a bad reputation, and bring absolute misery to many a developer.
Since when is she autistic? Autistic people don't get up on stage, go on live TV, speak eloquently and go on round the world sailing trips. I don't understand this recent push to dilute the word "autistic" into meaninglessness. What shall we call the poor people who sit on the floor flapping their hands because they're overwhelmed by the world around them?

She's also calmly reminding people that climate change is real

People don't need reminding. They heard nothing else for decades. It's not like it just slipped people's minds.

A hypocritical little girl (not a woman), with no experience of the world, is not going to suddenly get everyone to stop using cars or flying in airplanes. She isn't even willing to do that herself, as her stunt with the yaught that had to be sailed back home by people who flew to the destination showed.

For some reason climate change is absurdly polarised.

It's polarised because it's used as a stick to try and force hard left policies on the world, so anyone who isn't hard left will naturally be suspicious that the proposed remedies are all wrong and quite possibly the problem too.

This is especially true given the frequent unreliability of academics who claim to understand highly complex systems (e.g. economists), the failure of many previous predictions by climate scientists, and the near-violent hatred dished out to anyone who takes a skeptical position.

Recall that Thunberg argues for reducing carbon emissions by 50% in about 10 years. She offers no ideas for how to do that without causing a total collapse of global society that kills millions of people, the very thing that climate change activists claim they're trying to avoid. It is natural for people to consider that unhelpful at best, or self-promoting BS at worst. Why wouldn't people find her polarising?

In the end the only people who can really make a difference here are scientists and engineers. Thunberg is neither. She has literally nothing to contribute and should go back to school.
>I hate much everything of the "rental" services: you can access something but you can't own it.

Universities in the US are doing this with course material now. I had to pay for a subscription service to access my assignments, so that my professors didn't have to review anything. I had to pay for the service to get credit for that portion of the class, and then all my work in that service vanished after the semester ended. No more access to the work I had done despite having classes the next semester that I would need that work to reference. The professor didn't pay a dime, and 100 students had to pay the cost so that the professor didn't have to review our work. Involuntary consumerism at its finest.

I started a petition, and tried arguing with the admins of the school to see if we could have these services banned or at least paid for by the professor.

They asked "How is this different than buying a book you need?" Answer is obvious, books don't disappear after the semester, they can be found in the library if you can't afford them, and they don't do the professors' job.

They asked "Well you can afford tuition, can't you afford the subscription?" No, I can't afford tuition, now you want more?

At the end of the day, I went back and forth with them, and they wouldn't budge. And I could tell it was really tearing their moral fabric, but no one in power wanted to budge because $$$$$
I wonder if you could post hoc write it off as a donation to the public, and deduct it from your taxes...

(I mean, I don't seriously wonder this, just hyperbolically)