skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As interesting as the vessel is the noncompliance of the crew in being used as propaganda:

> This treatment turned worse when the North Koreans realized that crewmen were secretly giving them "the finger" in staged propaganda photos.

and

> Eventually the North Koreans threatened to execute his men in front of him, and Bucher relented and agreed to "confess to his and the crew's transgression." Bucher wrote the confession since a "confession" by definition needed to be written by the confessor himself. They verified the meaning of what he wrote, but failed to catch the pun when he said "We paean the DPRK [North Korea]. We paean their great leader Kim Il Sung". (Bucher pronounced "paean" as "pee on.")

I wasn't even familiar with the verb "paean", brilliant of the commander to know that non-native speakers wouldn't catch on to the idiosynchronies of using an uncommon homophone as an insult.
Despite being legal under local law in a number of states, possession of even small quantities of marijuana remains illegal under federal law[0].

In the words of the National Security Adjudicative Guidelines[1]: "The illegal use of controlled substances... can raise questions about an individual's reliability and trustworthiness, both because such behavior may lead to physical or psychological impairment and because it raises questions about a person's ability or willingness to comply with laws, rules, and regulations."

Whether or not you agree with the policy, it's still the policy, and if it's enforced when non-famous people with security clearances use drugs (it is), it should be enforced when famous people with security clearances use drugs.

[0] 21 USC § 844: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/844

[1] the official policy defining the criteria by which security clearances are granted: https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/intel/sead-4.pdf
I fundamentally disagree with this definition of art, "consensus" as it may be. It's OK as an application to the field of "making art" but as an M.F.A. I see artists in this form of purely aesthetic/emotional production all over and it's not in service of what I see as its real weapon: the challenge to the viewer.

I can't say I'm challenged in my corner of art by the Mona Lisa or David so I won't speak to it. How about Ad Reinhardt's "Black Square", an obsessive pursuit of the pure object, the Thingness of the Thing stripped of the heart? Or how about Detroit techno that Jeff Mills described as "architecture" (you mean music can be architecture, can this be real?) and makes immanent that other artist Wagner when Godfrey says to Parsifal, "here my son time turns into space"?

That's the shit right there. That's the stuff that blows open your head and lets the good stuff come rolling in. That's worth fighting for.
If they handle collecting and remitting VAT and sales tax in different states and countries, it's worth every penny.

Trying to figure out which county in some state you owe $0.14 to is a nightmare.
I can clearly see a honey badger on this photo.
It's an interesting question.
Health care is a human right. Therefore it must be free.

A prompt and fair trial is also a human right. Therefore legal help must be free.

Moving around, staying warm and basic hygiene - a lot of stuff sound like basic human rights, but very few argue that transportation, heating and sewer draining services should be free.

I think most people around don't mind paying for the service. They just want the prices to be reasonable and predictable.
Yeah, I agree that's the reason. Alcohol is common place enough that people don't even regard it as a drug. And it goes back thousands of years, so it's long been part of society.

Still it's a blatant example of how illogical us humans are.
sure looks like a yeti to me

"There's a large, out-of-focus monster running around the countryside. That's extra scary to me. Run, he's fuzzy!" (mitch hedberg)
This is generally incorrect, sending PHI over email is not inherently a HIPAA violation, it all depends on factors that really need to be reviewed by a compliance officer.
I’m familiar with all of that. The “comfortable experiences” don’t bother me, but they also don’t stimulate me. I enjoy 6DOF shooters and racing simulators.
I'm not justifying the situation, I'm simply saying this is how it works which is why the situation plays out how it does.
From the financial risk perspective, Tim really can't say anything.
The only country able to stand up to China is the US. Without the US not trying enough we are all doomed...

I dont want my country to become once again a russian satellite. China is too far away but will feed Russia to influence my part of the world.

Seriously muricans get your shit together.
Sometimes the (paycheck - cost of living) nets you more money in the smaller city.
It's roughly comparable to squinting at a pile of rocks, seeing what looks kinda like a leg bone, and declaring "dinosaurs walk among us!"
Well it complements this article:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/11/mysteriou...
> all the pharma companies would save millions every year.

Their savings would never be passed on to the customer. And it's hard to believe there would be any savings overall, because the advertising must be bringing in more money than it costs or they wouldn't be doing it.
They are just preparing the kids for their inevitable stint in prison isolation units later on in life that are guaranteed due to their being tortured as children. Of course torturing children doesn't need any supervision by the state. I mean come on, who would abuse children? That's never happened once in human history.
Sadly in many walks of life (more so politics) we see people focus upon the messenger instead of the message. It stems IMHo from that primitaive tribal legacy that we still see play out today, be that sports with the teams or party politics. This is not a trait that all have and many have thru various factors, moved on and with that there are many who focus upon the message and put aside and loyalty or prejudices they may have in how they recieve and approach the message.

So with that, like yourself I view this transparency price thing as a good thing as it boils down to ticking the fairness box and being good for the people.

Equally, I can see how from business aspect wise it is bad and heck - what business would love to service a customer and not tell them the price only after the work has been dowe without them having any say in it. I'm sure many, however unfair/unscrupulous it may seem. So I see why they will fight it, be it to revoke it, change it or delay it in legal red-tape in the whole process. However, the approach of invoking the tribal support aspect to kill this of and by that, everybody who dislikes the party or the president that made this come about would be a devious tactic and unfair approach. Yet, that does appear to be the one being driven, be that directly or perhaps more so, the biases played out by the reporter/media outlets.

But a tribal bias in media outlets is something we are all aware of, some more balanced than other. But imagine if you had those opposing biases in the same location debating things and how that would deteriorate. Well, imagination is not needed as you get exactly that upon social media platforms.

So will be interesting and equally, concerning how this whole fight by hospitals plays out. As will the effect if/when it comes to pass. Will it help lower prices or will it drive up health tourisim abroad as you may find it is cheaper to hope on a plane to say Canada and get the blood test done there and work out cheaper. As will be the case with a few procedures using other countries.

Also be interesting how people react to this and will we see hoards of protestors fighting for the hospitals to stop this happening based solely upon party political tribal mentalities. I'd like to think not, but we live in such interesting times, you just can't rule that out.
Exactly the way it works in a SE Asian country I grew up. The private and public hospitals have price quotes on different procedures and it's for everyone to see. The comments above using Boglehead's quote as a justification of why medical pricing has a lot of variance is mostly a lie. My wife, who is a doctor trained in our home (SE Asian) country and is doing her residency in the US, and I were just laughing at the fact that it's much, much more expensive to get an X-ray here in the US than it is in our country (which costs ~$4 at most). Here, there's no price list for procedure as simple as taking an X-ray.

Hospitals, doctors, insurance companies and pharma companies are all scamming the US population. Every evening, my wife and I watch TV (WNBC to be exact) and we see many commercials from hospital networks, insurance companies and drug companies. This reminds us everyday that medicine and healthcare is commercialized to the max in this country and the only way from here is downhill. We both don't hope to retire in the US; when we grow old, we will go back to our home country and live there in the hope of getting much more affordable (and yet, of more or less similar quality) medical treatments.
I kinda thought it might be a play on WTF, so, "what the social".
So I'm confused, because according to https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/starlink-is-a-...

"Based on the Starlink website, that all satellites will be deployed below 600km. In this case, satellites may be visible during twilight but not after nightfall, greatly reducing the potential impact to astronomy."

Can anybody verify this?
Pretty frightening to see the propaganda machines win so hard. We don't know who's behind this, it could for example be a third party looking to cause turbulence between the superpowers. Everybody not allied to the US or China win when the two start fighting. I feel like the gloves have yet to come off, though, in this trade war.
This was the article that gave me that impression iirc - https://medium.com/@dhh/air-quality-matters-but-dont-trust-f...
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I'm skeptical, but a genuine question:

If we had an "Earth rover" that took similar photographs as the Mars rover did, would it find examples of insect fossils?

If not, it seems like this is just seeing Jesus in a piece of toast.
OK, but that's not addressing the problem raised in the OP.

Dedicated CubeSats have largely filled the smallsat niche. I would expect the Starlink mass has been carefully optimized already.

There are interesting mission concepts (telescope + star shade; NEO detection [1]) that are in the works with dedicated CubeSat constellations, but yoking them to another spacecraft bus with its own constraints doesn't sound likely to succeed.

[1] https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2017/07/aa29809-...
Is LAX really that bad? I haven't been there in years, but this seems a bit egregious. What terrifies you? The long lines at the bathroom? The food court selection? The lack of charging ports?
The joke is there are already sufficient vacant properties to house everyone, it is simply our defective economic system that fails to distribute them equitably.
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SUPERHOT VR is the best VR game I've played and it was definitely better in VR than 2D. To date, it is the only game experience I've had in VR that I felt could justify the hardware.
This is beyond a reach and doesn't even make sense. What would tiny wings do on a planet with a thin atmosphere roughly equivalent to being over 100,000 ft high on earth?

That last article about life on mars was much more compelling: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/im-convinc...
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It's because the city can grow only so much. You are not buying the right to freeze the neighborhood in time. You are not buying the right to forbid everyone else from building up and altering the face of the neighborhood.

I am sorry but the price you paid for your house / apt was too little to justify this behavior.
Telescopes are pretty big. It would take 5-10 Falcon 9 launches to put something with that mass into orbit (although in space you could probably have a lighter mechanism for orienting el/az). The telescope's mirror is also too big to physically fit into the F9's fairing.

Once you get it there, you need to assemble it and keep it running. Maintenance is a real doozy— building a telescope on Earth is expensive. Building a telescope in space is even harder, since it won't be regularly serviced and you have to overengineer it. A typical space telescope still costs an order of magnitude more than a recordbreakingly expensive earth-based one.
A "Life on Mars" paper was actually published in Science in 1996 too: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/273/5277/864
This is the kind of horology I enjoy. Lately it's been hard to find a community where it doesn't just mean "I buy expensive watches and post pictures of them online."
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Japan's system is interesting. Perhaps one of the most successful in the world.

Their life expectancy has gone up which obviously means the amount of care to be provided goes up. Costs haven't followed suit and the other side of the equation - outcomes, has also gotten better (comparing against 1990 since that's the first result set i can see attributed to the MHLW in JP) The challenges of their economy are well known yet they've pulled off what other countries probably would not be able to.

Yet they spend approximately half what America does - and for better outcomes.
Come on. That's patently not true. Seriously. I'm born Chinese and my family is Chinese. We were never "trained". I'm highly critical of the Chinese government (though I left fairly young) as are some members of my family. Some of them were born and raised there. Come on. Stop it with the stereotypes. People are complicated and have multitudes.

"People are tauhgt to think of themselves as completely the same as their government."

No seriously no. We aren't robots nor idiots.

"This of course allows the PRC to do whatever it wants without any complaints from the people because any thoughts against the PRC is tantamount to being anti-chinese. "

Even at the height of the Mao era there were still dissent even when it could cost you your life.

"Thus when chinese people see anything that goes against the PRC they take it as a personal insult to themselves."

It depends though, doesn't it? Are the charges being leveled fair within the context they're being viewed? Not everything in Western media is completely fair, reliable, etc. I mean, just read the articles written by the media when it comes to technology. They miss a lot of the nuances.

Is it really surprising that nationalism has an effect on people? You don't think Americans do that? Remember that fervent anti-French sentiment in some parts of the US when they criticized our invasion of Iraq? You don't think the fetishization of the military in US media is a form of propaganda? What about singing of the national anthem at NFL games? China does very similar things but perhaps more frequently. These pro-nationalist sentiments are fanned much more subtly than you've described it.
This is also pretty good evidence that Ohio exists.
Look, I'm sorry I helped you out. Won't happen again. Hopefully Lauren doesn't model her behavior after you.

If you found that disparaging, I'm afraid the Internet isn't really for you.
For what it's worth, I've lived on earth my whole life and I've never seen an insect fossil outside of a museum.
That! Also, a history of alcohol abuse can be an issue. At least over here.
I'm working on this problem now. I'm still building the lower layers, which are:

- An RPC mechanism (not built yet)

- A bi-directional multiplexing stream protocol [1] (mostly there)

- A general purpose binary encoding mechanism [2] (I've gotten bogged down with this for the past few months, but I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel!)

The idea is to get these lower layers finished so that I can build all of my data communications related projects on top of them. One of those is a general-purpose file access system that I can build actual products on top of, such as file managers, remote filesystems, streaming services, synchronization, etc. I'm rebuilding everything underneath because the existing protocols are too chatty and bloated, not modular enough, don't work with encryption, or have weird requirements (like NFS requiring kernel integration for example, or they're restricted to the local net, etc).

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/streamux/blob/master/streamux-s...

[2] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding
Today I learned entomologists have pareidolia for bugs.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/6/26/the-party-anal...
It's not as clear-cut as you think. Venezuela was the first country to abolish the death penalty, and it's still gone. The United States still willingly, and gleefully in some cases, executes citizens. For non-citizens, whether you get justice or not is a toss-up.

We have three types of penal systems here in the United States: the actual court system, the unconstitutional-yet-protected-in-court 100-miles-from-the-border Constitution-exemption zone that contains two thirds of the US population (and a large portion of the country's non-citizens),[1-2] and the unconstitutional-yet-barred-from-being-contested-in-court intelligence agencies.[3-5] It's hard to claim that you're doing that much better when you're only so far from Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay, or one of the other hundreds of black sites. Worst is when these systems mix, but it happens more and more often now.[6]

[1-2 I realized this is a weird claim, but it's true, and here are two of the outlets furthest from one another politically claiming it's true to give evidence that it is]

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

[2] https://www.rt.com/usa/court-upholds-laptop-border-searches-...

[3] https://www.wired.com/2015/08/hard-sue-nsa-prove-spied/

[4] https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/privacy-and-surv...

[5] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/judge-dodges-legality-...

[6] https://theintercept.com/2017/11/30/nsa-surveillance-fisa-se...
Think of it this way, go to any movie theater in China and almost half the movies are Hollywood movies.

Or if you go to any high end department store, more than half the models in ads are not Chinese. The models present a luxurious, enviable lifestyle.

Any random Chinese person can name at least 10 Hollywood celebrities and hum 10 American songs.

This type of “influence” is much more powerful than what China is currently capable of. And until Americans are like that, I’m not worried at all about “Chinese influence.”

Now if you are strictly talking about government sponsored astroturfing, then look up Operation Earnest Voice and Project Mockingbird.

I also recommend Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent.

Throwaway account since I don’t dare discuss some topics with my real account
It's the teams Google doesn't create that tell the real story. Nobody is paid to care about these users, it's just one big accounting scam contributing to their $100+ billion in savings. Wherever there are consequences for not providing support... Android users get phone and email. Domains users get phone and email. Everyone else collectively enriching Google gets nothing.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7299936

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7100415?hl=en

Their support is so bad they literally stole $75m from their own customers while support repeatedly said checks were coming and it was nobody's job to fix it until they were being sued.

https://marketingland.com/class-action-lawsuit-accuses-googl...
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Most folks complaint with Electron isn't that it isn't performative, but rather that it is bloated (you ship an entire browser when all you needed was eg the canvas and v8 engine).
I'm also interested in the markdown editor. Is this something you build yourself (based on showdown) ? I also see some codemirror css in there, so it's not clear.
The OP device is a mechanical version of the same thing.
Wouldn’t this make things worse when you may need to turn it off at night when you sleep? Also what are the side effects of vibrating for too long? These question are important
So much for the success of Chinese propaganda abroad. No democratic western state comes close to the totalitarian regime that is China. They attacked students with tanks a few decades ago and still have the same people in power. People should be informed about Chinese politics more, and that it does not happen via mainstream media is a telling sign of their financial leverage nowadays.
Original title that they changed which my original comment was based off of was, 'Hospitals pledge to fight Trump admin price transparency plan in court'

Removing the word Trump (trigger word) is what dang was referring to.
You can ping the endpoints and see where the servers are, in addition to difference in naming, app, API, domain, etc.

I don't need to trust anyone to verify the things that I can verify myself.
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To point made above, yes, it's just Federal, but the Federal stance on this could influence states to follow suit, especially since it had bipartisan support...a precious commodity in public policy these days.
I think the key difference is HN doesn't need to make money
That's why I said, "in the future". Apologies if my thesis wasn't clear.
Arthur C. Clarke's banyan trees on Mars: https://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2001-...
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I have been thinking about this problem a lot and I may have a solution. Essentially, every time the user loads the page he gets a different obfuscated version of the base game. In this way, no script or plugin can be made to hook to your code since it's different every time the game loads. In addition, you can also obfuscate the protocol (for multiplayer) so that network sniffing tools can't capture the relevant data when communicating with the server. Finally, you can tie an obfuscated version of the game to a particular user, so you can find hackers or make it harder for them to run the game.
The story in HL2 is a mess. You go from city controlled by invaders to zombie town to "They" town to nonsense alien citadel. They all have absolutely nothing to do with each other, they're just glued together because some designers/artists thought it would be cool to have them. Players fill in the rest with their own imagination, not by any smart writing or design by Valve.
ditto. it's crippling for me (a lot of sounds, particularly related to eating). Totally tied to PTSD for me.
I would not suspect so, and I think this is our time's video game violence. It's such a trope for the newly adult generation and up to start worrying about the latest fads. Sometimes justified, like vaping is legitimately a terrible habit, but ultimately hard to gauge until it's too late, i.e. until the consequences are a fact.

Relevant crosslink in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21575365
90 million according to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China

It's hard to assume that the CCP doesn't have the mandate of the people. We just don't know one way or another since there are no free elections.
I agree with everything you said, but I still think "thousands" is way too low for newsworthiness. Social networks need a critical mass before they are good for anything. Surely that number has to be in the millions, right?
Noooooo... This is an old man with pareidolia.

However, see "I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s"
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/im-convinc...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21229390

The atmosphere of Mars is not in chemical equilibrium. (Cf. Lovelock, Gaia hypothesis.)