skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wake up at 1:30AM. I then do deep coding (Lisp, obviously) for 15 hours. At this point my kids are getting home from school, and I spend 8 hours with them and my wife engaging in wholesome physical activities, finishing off with some exercise and a healthy meal (I only eat one meal a day for IF). Then following this I spend 7 hours carefully studying the latest CS theory, and software. I end with working on my ML side project (I'm making a custom neural network in Rust that automates my day job).
Utah's Mike Lee: Architect Behind Anti-American Immigration Bill
You have naive and warped view of what constitutes capitalism. Dumping, protectionism, state subsidies, what have you, have had a long and varied role to play in the history of capitalism.
Keeping with apples to apples comparison, the WHO says that more than 8 million a year die from smoking, for a growth of 5 million per year over 22 years, which is not that far below 7 million.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tobacco
No, you're probably right - I suppose the database drivers might naively serialize that in a one-to-one representation (to be honest, I've never really looked into the protocols that postgres or Ms sql use for transferring data).

I didn't consider the kind of expansion you're alluding to - on the other hand i can't ever remember seeing an indication that the amount of data returned is an issue with app performance.

But I've certainly seen the number of round-trips result in real issues. And complicated joins, for that matter.
Only the latter option is a feasible solution. If you look at countries with mixed systems (like South Africa), a great deal of the cost savings disappear. Tim Faust has a great new book that breaks this down. Also, recommend his interview on the Death Panel podcast.

https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/health-justice-now/

https://deathpanelpodcast.com/2019/02/02/all-care-for-all-pe...
Stylistic Variation on the Donald Trump Twitter Account: A Linguistic Analysis
It’s kind of created by the immoral environment of private insurance, but I would argue someone who doesn’t have health insurance to save a few backs, who can otherwise afford it, and waits until they suddenly have $100k expenses incoming to get insurance is a moral hazard even if they’re going to die.

Imagine there were no private companies but a perfect decentralized blockchain shamwow insurance system that magically worked and distributed all profits back to its participants.

I would think the dying man is committing moral hazard here. But it’s up for debate.

If you do this against a big private insurance company and they lose a penny, it doesn’t sound so bad, but I’m not convinced
Thanks! I wish someone could put it all together in a book. It is very much a mystery. The best scholars can provide the info, but not the interpretation.

Wouter Hanugraff (read "western esoterism, a guide for the perplexed")

Shwep.net

Pythagorean Sourcebook

Oration on the dignity of man

Iamblicus

Origen

Plotinus

Philo of Alexandria

Many more. It is so fulfilling to read these old texts!

Check Perseus project for searching old texts.
Another anecdote: I went completely vegan ~3 months ago. I don't really "feel better". It's always the first thing someone asks when I say I went vegan.. "Do you feel better?" - I feel basically the same.

Although my weight has been trending downward, slowly, which is great since that's happening without trying to limit the amount I eat at all. That's very different from when I wasn't vegan, my weight would always trend slowly upward unless I was making a deliberate effort to cut back on calories.

BUT: I think the real reason I'm slowly losing weight on a vegan diet is the simple fact that eating a restricted diet (ANY restricted diet) requires you to think about and analyze absolutely everything that enters your mouth. It introduces a level of mindfulness that just wasn't there when eating an unrestricted diet. For me, this has had the side effect of also cutting out most processed food (read: junk food) from my diet, even though most junk food is vegan. I'm convinced this is the biggest value of being vegan.. it just makes you think about everything you buy at the grocery store, everything you order when out to eat, etc.

Another commenter calls this "paying attention to what you eat" - I think that's right on target, however cliche it may sound.
I'm not sure why this is even newsworthy. An officer forgot to put the cruiser on the charger at the end of his shift so it ran low. The department even stated this happens all the time with gas powered cruisers.

It doesn't matter if it takes less time to fill up with gas than charge the car if the officer only noticed it's low mid-chase.
The private companies that administer much of Medicare drug coverage in fact do negotiate prices. CMS can't step into those negotiations.
Cop cars aren't collectively bought. For one its on a state by state basis, and then in some states individual PDs are responsible for their own vehicles, they just get a budget to buy and fix them.

That means they usually end up in an imbalanced power relationship of small 20-30 person local PD force approaching Ford / GM asking for their police cruisers.

Some states, of course, do collectively bargain their service vehicles like that, the USPS is probably the most prominent example of collective bargaining on a national scale - the post office bought 140,000 of them over 7 years for below consumer grade vehicle pricing. Even nowadays when they are reevaluating replacing their fleets it only averages out to about 41k per truck for a new model and that includes having to refit garages and post offices to accommodate them.

I'm also pretty sure there are licensing deals between US auto makers and various state bureaucracies to price control service vehicle costs, but its still never like a private automaker is getting an order for 80k cop cars from one entity.
Well this made my day. I just noticed esr's original piece was updated to include it in four columns too - so perhaps I'm not nuts.
The problem is control, especially when there is an over abundance of food, mostly crap (it takes some effort to find the good food) that is tasty and addictive.

Then you have alcohol, alcohol advertising and culture, food eating in culture (from dating at restaurants, to pizza for the team, visiting someones house and they make a 3 course meal and it's rude not to finish).

Basically losing weight or not drinking alcohol requires some degree of pushing aside social norms and not fitting in. Arguing with people and making them slightly confused, angry or concerned. Being an asshole (even though really you are not, you just want to choose what to eat).

In the UK it's madness. Not drinking at Friday lunchtime would be seen as weird if you have been seen drinking before.

It also means literally throwing away food in the bin to go to landfill. Someone gave you chocs for your birthday? In they go.

Yeah "smaller portion size" is simple but not easy!
Riseup VPN is good, and doesn't need an account.
Ah, this explains all the push back I got from Warby Parker about not providing a lens prescription. I'd already used Zenni before and gotten used to treating my glasses like what they are...a simple product with lens ground to a specification, not a potentially threatening medication.

Too bad their support couldn't explain why they were hassling me for a document they didn't need (except for in a legal sense).
Whether being angry is right or wrong is largely irrelevant. It's great to advocate for educational reforms, but society won't agree to your demands soon enough to make any practical difference for you personally. Focus on what you can practically achieve within the current system, while continuing to work for changes that will benefit future generations.
Not an apples to apples comparison, Amazon needs to be a horizontal play. Apple intentionally chooses not to.
in my experience, if cruft is a major concern in your day-to-day use of linux, you probably already have a desktop/window management environment and theme you've settled on :P

i consider myself a sort of power-casual linux user, i don't develop professionally but love to tinker and play around with it, almost exclusively for aesthetic reasons. regolith being built on ubuntu means that the second i find myself out of my element, there's always the familiar and ever-present terminal i can pull up, that responds to all the commands i already know, has the binaries and services i am already familiar with, etc.

that being said, i've taken some light dips into the wild, mainly using manjaro architect to play around with manjaro/i3 - regolith was a very awesome(lol) way to learn i3wm because i wasn't simultaneously having to also learn the ins-and-outs of a non-debian-based operating system
Menthol competes for the same enzyme that breaks down nicotine, keeping nicotine active longer. It is also a moderately strong kappa-opioid receptor agonist: vaping too strong menthol liquid can induce extreme dysphoria, anxiety and panic attacks.
How to Install Lakka on the RockPro64
Medicaid mandates drug prices at a fixed percentage of what private buyers pay.
I have a complex prescription and I buy my glasses out of pocket from the web at around $15-20 a pair for both lenses and frames. My last order I bought 6 pair and a pair of sunglasses for less than $150 out of pocket. They may not last as long, but I've lost enough "expensive" frames to not care anymore. There's also the peace of mind of bringing 3 pairs of glasses on vacation and not caring if any of them get lost or broken.
As someone totally unfamiliar with tape aside from knowing some places still use it for archival and recording audio to tape - something totally different - is incredibly expensive and most (if not all?) recording tape is out of production, I’m surprised storage tape is still a thing.

How does storage tape even work? Is this literal tape in a cartridge much like tape in a cassette tape? I assume we’re not talking about data stored in 1s and 0s? Is this technically an analog medium!?

Going to do some googling now to quell my curiosity.

The article does seem targeted at consumers. I’m going to guess I’d need some expensive hardware to even use one of these $60 tape drives.
(Former Luxottica Employee):

Luxottica owns EyeMed, which isn't VSP.

Luxottica just purchased Essilor -- so, now, one company handles the insurance, frames, and lenses...turning it into a bigger monster.
I have the impression this is what lead to the Great Depression. Lots of people were saying, well, banks are failing, they screwed up, let them fail. More recently we had bailouts because the people running things learned about the Great Depression in school.
Earbuds may restrict other hearing. Having the speakers near but not in your ear may be a better alternative.
the entire "third wave" of "unicorn startups" are counterfeits and it will (once again) all end in tears and recrimination...
Even a more centrally coordinated approach is likely to end up in roughly the same place as a laissez-faire market approach: building replacement energy infrastructure faster rather than slower as a reaction to a persistently declining petroleum supply. As long as that happens, the "energy trap" described by Murphy doesn't materialize. A major French response to the first oil crisis in the early 1970s was a government coordinated plan to build nuclear reactors [1].

It's only people pushed toward bad decisions by short-term desperation (weak government leaders facing rioting, individuals too poor to steer market investment decisions) whose behaviors would set up this "energy trap." Market-driven investors and rational governments alike will invest resources into reducing future consumption of an increasingly expensive fuel even if it somewhat exacerbates the immediate problems caused by higher fuel prices.

[1] Building nuclear reactors as a reaction to high oil prices made more sense than may be obvious now. At the time, France actually did produce a lot of electricity by burning oil. Oil-fueled electricity became much less popular after the 1970s except in petro-states and in isolated locations. Surprisingly, Pakistan managed to make the same mistake in the 1990s of building oil-fired electricity plants, which became very expensive to operate less than a decade later.
> Bose offers the larger QuietControl 30 buds, but the tech is still in a bulky "headband" connected by short wires.

I have the Bose QC30, and I'm a fan of the (neck)band, since it gives the earbuds somewhere to hang if I'm walking around and need to be aware of my surroundings, or need to interact with someone.
The nice thing is, you still get big discounts on glasses with VSP. So when I buy absurdly expensive Bellinger carbon fiber frames, I get something like $120 off the top plus another 20% discount. And I'm not enriching Luxottica.
Is it a new theory tho? There is a chapter about this topic in The 4-Hour Body (2010). And I'm pretty sure Tim Ferriss isn't the author of the theory so it was known before this book.
Fortunately, pressure on politicians doesn't come solely from how their policy affects their own lives.
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> The quality of service is low but higher than in major metro areas in US

This is always my question when I hear about service being "great" or "terrible" - relative to what? I honestly have no idea if my healthcare is "good" or "bad", because I've only experienced one system. I have plenty of complaints, but there are also lots of things that don't go wrong that could.

People complain about lines in other countries, but me/my family has had waits of 2-6 months getting appts for new ob/gyn, dermatologists, rheumatologists, sleep specialists, etc. Mental health experiences have been worse until we stopped trying to do it through insurance at all and just ate the costs. Involved treatments (e.g. at a hospital, even outpatient) involve multiple, pricey bills.

So when you say "quality is low", what does that MEAN?
>Isn't the point of a lock just to keep honest people honest? I mean you can buy the world's sturdiest, more secure lock and attach it to the world's strongest door, someone with a hammer can easily break a window.

In my home, the locks and windows (laminated glass[0]) are hard enough to break that when you attempt to do so I have time to ready my firearm. Something like this would potentially allow someone to sneak up more quickly and perhaps undetected. When my family isn't home I don't really care if you break into my house, insurance will cover the loss.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2HxWn6eP74
Huh I didn’t know about the tax credit. That sounds like another layer of backwards thinking and another reason to get rid of the whole practice. I’m sorry for your situation.
I presented as an option for the specific item you presented as an example. I never claimed it's an option for the majority of shippers. It's an option for many of the cheap, light items people present as examples.
What exactly is a processed food? That's a name thrown around like a bad word by nutrition fans everywhere but it seems to mean "food we don't like".
> it just scares me to hear the game plan to get there is political pressure after a critical mass of people are uninsured

And who are you attributing this to? This seems like either a strawman or a misunderstaning to me.
..with a computer patents don't happen anymore.

Law evolves over decades or centuries. Computer related patents are very new to the scene (in law years). They are getting better but there are still some clunkers out there.

In other more mature industries like medical devices, autos (auto parts really), kitchen gadgets, fasteners, packaging, HVAC, etc., the patent litigation (including trolls) is fierce too and has been for decades.
You’re not wrong about there being something ”extra” in tobacco, and it’s not being talked about publicly.

See https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine#addictiveness
No they do not.
That is if you have a few devices. But if you have a mesh network of 200+ nodes exchanging health and routing information and at the same time trying to send and receive some actual data, bandwidth quickly becomes a rather important concern.
> So Google improperly saved HTML into database string fields and now needs to figure out how to safely render it in a template.

FWIW, "store anything, sanitize at render time" is the preferred approach for some popular web frameworks, including Rails.
you seem to be assuming I was steering the car
I think GraphQL will certainly find it's place after the initial hype. There are some good use cases. But in my opinion it should be only used on a need basis.
> grandma couldn't have invested in WeWork unless she was an accredited investor

Which is a protection around American private capital markets.
Apparently this is a picture of ultraprocessed foods: https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/201...

This seems like nonsense. There's baby formula in the top right corner: were they really feeding baby formula to grown adults in the lab trials?

Or did the authors of this piece just grab a bunch of foods from the grocery store and assumed they were related to the study?

I want a link to the actual study. Pictures like the above just piss me off. There's a lot of issues in health-reporting and diet reporting. Lots of "Ultraprocessed" discussion going on, but there's no definition of what "ultraprocessed" is.

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EDIT: Here's the next photo:

https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/201...

Are you seriously telling me that __canned peas__ are highly processed? That's ridiculous. Especially in the face of highly-refined, enriched, white-flour in the "unprocessed" food picture.

Look: I get that Spam and frozen-pizza are "ultraprocessed" foods. But canned peas and Goya chickpeas are processed? Who made these photographs? They fed Spam to people in hospital, and these images are drawing conclusions about canned peas.

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I think there's something to be said about "Spam is bad for you" (actual study) vs "We fed Spam to 20 people in a hospital for 2 weeks, and we've concluded that Frosted Flakes and canned peas are bad for you". Unfortunately, this article feels a lot like the latter conclusion.
Would something like the Impossible Burger patty be considered ultraprocessed?
> I am talking about Amazon Echo glasses.

Which literally changes nothing. It's an item on your body with a microphone. So just like your phone, your headphones, etc. It's nothing even particularly new.

Google glass, at least, had a camera that significantly changed the privacy equation. These change nothing.
For the record I want to say that the second link you pasted - http://www.jparksmd.com/blog/a-massively-overpaid-cartel -actually argues against even more effectively than I was able to.
I will update it with the intermediate step!
That thought was in parentheses. According to commonly accepted writing style, that indicates that the thought is ancillary and not completely necessary to the argument being made.

It’s perfectly acceptable to ask for clarification on something, but it’s rude to attack me, doubly so in this case because it’s from you misinterpreting something and not me insulting you first.

I’m done with this thread, unless you care to bring the discussion back on topic.
The government wrote a white paper about this because they proposed yet more blocking (for the whole anti-pornography thing where they want you to go buy a "pass" to look at porn) back in 2018.

The ISPs are not inclined to pay for DPI or whatever other nonsense, even if they believe it could be effective, which it probably can't be. Government does not want to take on a major budgetary extra to pay for something that's already unpopular. So that leaves it not getting done. Much hand-wringing.

The government already acknowledges that Tor completely defeats all existing attempts to censor the Network, but they supposed that DNS blocking is affordable and good enough. So, we make it no longer "good enough" and then too bad for their stupid policy.
Thanks! I haven't heard of Zulip, I will be taking a look!
Yep, mitmproxy is my go-to tool, but HTTP Mock maybe wins for zero-setup convenience.
> One thing that will not make healthcare less expensive is "Medicare For All". It will just shift the bill to different people.

One of the myriad reasons healthcare in the US expensive is the middlemen who stand to profit from taking as big a cut of your premiums as possible, while paying for as little care as possible. Without this fundamental force driving healthcare prices it doesn't seem clear to me at all that prices would stay the same. Your dismissal of single-payer plans like M4A glosses over the largest proposed change to the structure of medical billing.
Patents protect how a problem is solved not what is being solved.

Several valid patents can be directed at the same exact problem as long as they solve it using different techniques.
Lately the most standard response when people hear I'm from Oregon: "Oh, Portland! Cool."

It takes a minute to explain that Portland is to remote parts of Oregon like...New York City is to Morgantown, West Virginia in both distance and everything else.
Fwiw, I'm a big proponent of the thoughtfulness theory.
I never understood how anything can return more than zero after inflation "in the long run". If it did, then over time people with that asset would have all the wealth. But if they did, then they would buy things with it, raising prices of everything else.
Sure, this would be nice - and yet, he's still sending his kid to the school. And the school is still running. It seems to make no difference in this case.

So, what are the reasons to actually focus on customer experience? When does it pay off? (Not as often as you'd like. Amazon is a prime - pardon the pun - example that once you have enough of the market, you can let customer experience go downhill, because people value convenience over experience)
i'm on the wary side of this thread, but kudos for this
Cloudflare is not even remotely a trustworthy company:

https://codeberg.org/crimeflare/cloudflare-tor/src/branch/ma...
> had his account removed because he listed it as his contact.

Do you have any link for that?
I use Siri to do a few things[1], but I've never done it when there were people around that I'm aware of. I'd feel awkward.

[1]start workouts, set timers, shuffle music
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There is more to it than just the weather, as others have pointed out. However, your comment reminded me of "Winter-over syndrome" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter-over_syndrome) - worth a look for those interested in the effects of long periods of cold and dark isolation on human psychology.