skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Snaps require you to allow each publisher to automatically push arbitrary software updates to your machine, and snap deliberately does not allow you to disable this misfeature.

Your emphasis is completely unwarranted here, since it's easy and trivial to install a snap without it being tied to the store such that it will never update:

snap download certbot

then use the two commands given:

snap ack certbot_889.assert
snap install --classic certbot_889.snap

Now certbot is installed as a snap, but software updates for the snap are disabled.

Edit: I wouldn't recommend this, of course, because telling users to never update their Internet-connected software is a really bad idea, both for their security and for everyone else. More conventionally you'd want finer grained control over update schedules for production use (https://snapcraft.io/docs/keeping-snaps-up-to-date) rather than block updates entirely. Claiming that you cannot do it, with emphasis, though, is outright false and is an invalid claim only used by the haters. I bet you're now going to come back and tell me how the control isn't good enough somehow, but that doesn't matter. The point is that you can control updates, and you're being outright misleading by claiming otherwise.
They still go in to shadow once per orbit typically.
I have a physical box for each minor version of GNU Radio; working installs of 3.6 to 3.8. I doubt I'll be moving anything major to 3.9 any time soon.

Unrelated, I wish the gnuradio website would have HTTP and HTTPS. HTTPS only is pretty restrictive and not relevant in the context.
I think this point of view neglects the emergent properties of a society where millions of people can spew nonsense all at once, at the speed of light, using AI assisted audience targeting. Crackpots and liars have existed since the beginning of time but never before has a technology been designed to so readily amplify and reenforce their nonsense. Never before has a technology been so adept at hiding from you that the speaker is a crackpot or liar.
For there to be benefit to an annual checkup, it would need to fall in the window wherein symptoms have not yet occurred, but the disease is already measurable, and also one that is searched for in those checkups.

I haven't visited a general practitioner in a decade, and when I last went it was indeed because of I noticed the symptoms of of an ear-infection that I indeed suffered.
In a country with socialized medical care, someone else does pay.
Before the pandemic, you could make $15-30/hr AFTER expenses driving for Uber in my city. This includes gas, maintenance, depreciation, and cleaning. This was with a Honda Fit.

But only for 10-15ish hours per week. And you had to know when and where to drive.

You could find another 20 hours making above minimum wage.

Any hours beyond that though were usually at or below minimum wage.
I have come across a number of teams where designers jump on a PR because it links a particular build they need to test.

Not particularly referring to a nightly build.

Personally asking for a vetted build seems a little slow. IMO designers should be able to discover that themselves.
Not sure this is totally uncommon. Zapier asks for Stripe keys also afiak, or am I missing your point?
The wikipedia page states more correctly: "animal meat, other than fish".
You’re advocating for the same system that ruined colleges: guaranteed loans.

Also coverage is also a huge deal in the US, although it may not be a problem for you specifically. Obamacare covered millions who otherwise might have stayed home instead of seeing the doctor.

The problem with US health is scoping. Insurance companies are effectively “certifying” which hospitals and doctors you can see instead of actual certification bodies.
Does Jones have an official GoFundMe for legal expenses?
Out of curiosity, how much will this reduce the cost of health care? The idea, as it's been explained to me, is that visibility into the cost of medical care will result in downward price pressure. How much?
There is now 2 million ether (~3 billion USD) staked for ETH2.

If are so certain of it not being viable, what's stopping you from shorting it? You and every Negative Nancy out there could pool together to bet against it, no?

Even if you are not interested in the money, you can donate to environmentally-friendly causes - what do you think?
That's a big if though.

GPT-3 is much more interesting autocomplete based on most commonly used patterns than something which figures out that Problem X has a lot of conceptual similarities with Solved Problem Y so it can just reuse the code example with some different variable names.
The Modern Web Design Process
Thanks, I never realized that existed.
> is this really a problem that I'm going to come across in the real-world when 90% of our time is spent ingesting a poorly-formatted csv, doing some quick plots and perhaps building a model to test something out

Yes, multiple dispatch is not some highfalutin ivory tower concept that only comes up in specialized code. For example, the model in question could define custom plotting recipes[1] so that you can just call plot() and have it produce something useful.

Also, why shouldn't dplyr perform comparably against data.table? Seems like there would be no need for a fragmented library ecosystem here if the abstractions the tidyverse is built upon were lower-cost. Moreover, what if my data isn't CSV or in a table-like shape at all? "real world" does not mean the same thing across different domains.

[1] http://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/recipes/
I can only agree with that.

I have had been involved in to many "stale" but neither fixed nor forgotten issues which would
have become very cumbersome if a stale bot was
involved.

Common reasons for "staleness" include:

- blocked on other issues

- blocked on external dependencies

- blocked because no one has currently time to fix the issue because there are many other high or very high priority issues. This doesn't mean it has low priority, just not high/very high priority.

- feature requests which the author agreed to should be implemented, but neither the maintainer nor the issuer has currently time to work on.

- feature requests which are braking changes and as such will only included if a new version is made

- bugs with low priority if there are higher priority things

Sure you can work around this by using many labels and making the stale bot label aware e.g.:

- label contains "blocked" => do not stale close

- label contains "bug" => do not stale close (and only assign bug if issuer provides the necessary information)

- label contains "next-version" => do not stale

- label contains "...." => do not stale

But that seems somewhat pointless for the large majority of crates.

Furthermore I believe stale bots come to some degree from the (IMHO) unrealistic idea that the amount of open issues, issue closing time and issues staleness indicate how health a project is.

But the moment you have feature request issues or "will be fixed in next release as braking change" this metrics fall apart completely.

Similar some software projects get a lot of spam issues (often an indication that a popular project probably needs some improvements of documentation or UX aspects). For this it can sometimes be reasonable to have stale bot if it doesn't act on certain labels IMHO.
Amazon Streaming Runs Afoul of the Hindu Nationalist Government in India
> I am interested to understand what makes the "raw" costs so wildly different.

There are a number of reasons. One big one is simply that doctors in the US command a much higher salary than their counterparts elsewhere in the world:

https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/how-much-do-do...

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/10/25/doctors-sal...

Another big reason is that the US is unique in that it's one of the only countries in the world where you get your healthcare through your employer. What we're seeing in healthcare costs is analogous to what you might see happen to airline ticket costs if we all got our air tickets through our employers: the vast majority of us would fly business class, while the unemployed would be simply unable to pay for business class fares out of pocket. Employers (especially medium-to-large businesses) have a much higher purchasing power (and hence, willingness to pay) than individuals.

Now, if you take this behavior and combine it with the fact that health insurers' profit margins are capped by law by percentage, insurers pay more for treatments (which doctors happily accept), charge more to employers (who are generally less price conscious vs individuals), thus bring in more absolute revenue, and therefore more profit because a capped profit percentage of a higher revenue is higher than a capped percentage of lower revenue. It's somewhat counter-intuitive, but the policy combination of an employer mandate and insurance profit cap results in the mother of all local optima.

Disclaimer: I work on health pricing in the US and sometimes adjust claims myself.
> The vast majority of the difference comes from just the raw cost of inpatient and outpatient care.

Question: What do we mean by "inpatient and outpatient care"?
aside: Singapore is a weird case and probably not a good comparitor for most healthcare systems.

> If people can't pay as much, the only thing for them to do is drop prices.

Or not offer the product at all. One problem with this entire area is that "healthcare" is really not one service/product area, and it is probably a mistake to treat it as such.

To be transparent, I don't share your optimism about market solutions to problems like this in general (more about their implementation in practice than theoretical benefits) but I can see how it might help with parts of the routine healthcare. However, when you are talking emergency and major treatments, it's well into the range where direct consumer driven decisions are more likely going to mess up the incentives badly.

If you are lucky enough to have the time (often not true), most people can become reasonably expert in their own disease state and treatment options. But that is a tiny slice of what is going on in a hospital system for example, and it's completely unreasonable to expect people to become informed enough to make good decisions there. If we want to benefit from market forces here, it's probably much more effective to have large (or single) payers who understand what the standard of care should be, and can encourage price competition from providers.

It's worth noting that in theory this is what the insurance industry does in the US, though, but is an expensive mess.
Another confounding factor is that many obvious price discovery mechanisms will be completely unacceptable to most people.

Honestly, it's a mostly faith-based argument that a cash-based market approach can find a better global solution than universal health care, at least in a relevant amount of time. It's really hard for me to see why the country should take that risk when there are well understood and well modelled approaches (albeit imperfect) that should be able to reduce costs by at least 1/2, probably more.

Why not start there?
Tech Companies to Watch for in 2021 Part II
QML is generally faster, especially on high resolution screens, as it's rendered with the GPU.
"That the OP states they were unaware that kubernetes biggest advantage was encapsulation is also concerning." What is the concern here btw? Not everyone started before 2018
For metal fabrication, yes. CNC mills do make quite a lot of commercial sense for even low volume fabrications. But we here talk about electronics manufacturing, not metalworking.
> The argument about shame based "norms" keeping people together aside, it was in many places, quite literally the law that forced women to stay with their husbands.

So you wave aside my actual argument, about norms, then proceed to refute a straw man? Let’s posit that laws against spousal rape and gender discrimination are good things. Are those the only things that have changed in our culture and in the laws? Can we have laws allowing people to escape abusive marriages, while discouraging the vastly larger number of divorces that don’t involve those things?

More than half of Americans, including over 40% of Democrats, disagree with the proposition that “changing gender roles have made it easier for women to live satisfying lives.” https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/10/18/wide-partisan-gap.... By contrast, just 10% think that contraceptives should be banned. There is clearly a significant number of people who think the changes you list are good things, while disagreeing that all of the social changes that have happened are good.

There is in fact widespread discontentment about the status quo among women. Women report wanting more kids than they end up having. Women report wanting to get married but being unable to do so. Many women aren’t super thrilled about a culture where people call them “crazy” for wanting normal things like a marriage and kids at the biologically normal ages (20s) for having those things. (This is completely unsurprising, because women disproportionately bear the burdens of our social changes that have freed men from the responsibilities of fatherhood.)

As to Bangladesh—it’s a poor agrarian society that suffers from the problems endemic to poor agrarian societies. In particular, strong economic incentives to marry off girls. My dad, in fact, works on public health programs to discourage child marriage in Bangladesh. But there’s a pretty big gap between child marriage (something most Bangladeshis agree we should eradicate) on one hand, and normalizing and enabling pervasive divorce and out of wedlock childbirth on the other.

But on the flip side of all that, Bangladeshi society is at least somewhat functional despite crushing poverty. What would Bangladeshi villages be like if men could decide, like in America, that they don’t want the responsibilities of fatherhood and it was socially acceptable for them to abandon their families? The society would break down completely. Death and calamity would result, because unlike in America the government can’t afford to throw money at the social ills that would result.
She went into foster care, because bio parents just sat around getting stoned constantly.

Often forgetting to pick up kids from school.

I get that many techies are pro-drugs.
But a lot of people waste away on them.
Make a bookmarklet with this:

javascript:var%20x%20=%20document.querySelectorAll("div,p,li,a,hr,em,font,strong,h1,h2,h3,td");var%20i;for%20(i%20=%200;%20i%20<%20x.length;%20i++)%20{%20%20%20%20x[i].style.backgroundColor%20=%20"white";x[i].style.color%20=%20"black";}undefined;//alert("Done");;

It changes the background to white and the text color to black. I use that on worse websites than the GNU Radio one.
Well, if "danger to the community" is a requirement to set bail, and this guy was not a danger to the community, then the judge could have simply... not required bail?
In 774 AD, the Sun Blasted Earth with the Biggest Storm in 10k Years
"In the year 774 AD, an enormously powerful blast of matter and energy from space slammed into Earth.

Nothing like it had been felt on this planet for 10,000 years. A mix of high-energy light and hugely accelerated subatomic particles, when this wave impacted Earth it changed our atmospheric chemistry enough to be measured centuries later."
That figure cuts out the middle-men by breaking out administrative costs.
Unfortunately not my experience -- went to nearest ER for sudden and agonizing abdominal pain, got some basic pain meds, got a CAT scan to diagnose pneumonia, was sent home within a couple of hours (lots of waiting).

Turned out the hospital was not in network, they charged me $15,000 (including $10,000 for a "level 5" ER room stay, which is twice the most expensive price listed on the OP's website and is 10x the local average price for that service, despite the fact that my experience could not possibly have been Level 5 service). Eventually they just sold the debt to a collections agency. I tried to fight but they didn't seem to care, and why would they? They already sold the debt!
That’s undefined behavior in C though:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3928788
Face mask designs for 2021 (2020)
> I have come across a number of teams where designers jump on a PR because it links a particular build they need to test.

Sounds great, right until the designers start misinterpreting things in the PR build and reporting bugs up their command chain, giving a bad impression of the developers.

Vetting doesn't mean it goes through a full Q&A release cycle. It just means that the team is ready to say "This build is good to go for testing, but beware that X, Y, and Z features are broken".

Honestly, letting designers have ad-hoc access to builds worked well for me at small companies where designers and devs were in the same room. It completely fell apart at larger or remote companies where the risk of misunderstandings and politics outweighed any benefit.
I get what the person means immediately, but it is quite jarring.
> HTTPS only is pretty restrictive and not relevant in the context.

This seems even more off-topic than complaining about the readability of a site's style. How is HTTPS restrictive and how does context outside of "being a website" make HTTPS excessive?
I agree that we shouldn't be forcing the engineers tools into the hands of designers.

I am however fascinated when the two intersect.
> Technosolutionists were blithely dismissive of such proven measures not only because their advocates were often inconsistent in their advice (don’t wear a mask, wear a mask) but because the recommendations relied on the public (that mass of humanity whom technosolutionists, in the main, view as irrational and misguided) to adhere to them voluntarily.

Sounds like the technosolutionists were right on the money?
It's not a binary question -- every factory pollutes. If only because energy, transport, etc is necessary and people generate biowaste. The question is how much and what types. The best way to clean up any environmental damage in a poor country is to help it become a rich country. At that point, the people and gov will start to prioritize it.
I would have agreed with you prior to the success of alpha fold. Google has proven it is capable of identifying extremely talented teams that can rise above world competition where literally thousands are/were competing.

On the other hand, if local tools were 80% as effective, that definitely might be good enough for something as simple as searching for scientific literature.
I've mentioned this in another thread, but a GPT-3 that could reliably generate quizbowl questions like the ones on https://www.quizbowlpackets.com would be great in this domain. My experience with it indicates it's no where near being able to do this, though.
I think what underpins this type of criticism is an irrational desire for computationalism as a general philosophy to be wrong and inapplicable, despite the dramatic empirical success it enjoys.

> “ Technosolutionism is a way of understanding the world that assigns priority to engineered solutions to human problems. Its first principle is the notion that an app, a machine, a software program, or an algorithm offers the best solution to any complicated problem.”

But you can’t escape science. Whatever is a solution, if it can be reduced to repeatable physical processes and computational substrates, is amenable to engineering and engineering has almost universally made such solutions more scalable, more reliable, safer, more affordable and so on.

I think there is a dangerous Luddite narrative underpinning this that ultimately is not self-consistent and likely to do more harm than good.

Also anecdotally, as an introvert, I can’t overstate how much happier I feel working from home. I’ll take all the flaws of videoconferencing any day, over the constant fight-vs-flight reflex exhaustion of open plan offices and a constant stream of in-person interaction when I need solitude and privacy to get mental clarity about my work.
The writer summed up my experience with large corporations’ management. Salesmen, liars, and delusional liars. Your job is not only to protect the company. But to get actual work done. If your cronies are incompetent, no amount of selling is going to change the fact the emperor has no clothes.
They ask you if you were running them for more than three hours a day on average during the warranty process.
I have no problem with closing them for bugs, because in a few major versions usually the software changes sufficiently to have a good chance of that original bug report simply being obsolete (not reproducible, log/debug output not useful anymore, architecture changes, GUI changes, client software/driver changes, kernel changes, etc.)

But in case of a feature request, where the project maintainer agreed it's a long term goal, a bot closing it is just noise, which IMHO discourages useful/insightful comments.
“The agency said the message was sent from an IP address that matched Jones' address, according to the warrant.”

Seems like she did the crime here and deserves the full ban.
Recycling what?

Let's say you have oxygen from somewhere. You use the oxygen to burn hydrocarbons, to make energy and water and CO2.

To turn that into a closed cycle, you need to regenerate the water and CO2 into oxygen, to burn more hydrocarbons. The only way to do that is to add energy - on earth, we use solar energy via photosynthesis, but in space, you could use solar or nuclear energy via some chemical process.

But if you have the energy to regenerate the oxygen, why not just use it? Why make oxygen and then burn the hydrocarbons?

And why bother burning more hydrocarbons when a by-product of the regeneration process is carbon, a perfect fuel!
Also a great manga, some very nice editions are available
Weak bond to strong bond, release energy. Strong bond to weak bond, store energy. Enthalpy is the outside environment, like pressure and temperature, needed per internal state requirements, coarsely being internal voltage and emissivity. As the bonds of internal state strengthen, the environment requires less to maintain that internal state and loosens it's grip on it. Heat then flows from internal state to the environment.

In fusion, hydrogen is converted to helium. One proton and one electron of each hydrogen atom are free to move as they see fit. As temperatures increase, protons and electrons become free of their hydrogen atom internal state bonds. They whip around until two protons together mesh with two electrons. The freedom of movement in the plasma, and the freedom of movement from two separate hydrogen atoms grips into helium as heavier fusion requires a higher temperature. Atoms have an incredibly fine resolution, as fine as something can go. The large amount of them release substantial heat. Add neutrons, the principles of nuclear decay, nature moving heat with mass while leaving internal state properties alone, increases the ability for energy to release.

Instead of thinking of little grains of matter, the internal state is very ephemeral. Before something can be brighter, it needs to be hotter. There's a capacity to hold heat and a latency to transfer heat. This capacity is natures ability to speed up and slow down it's own internal ticking clock to move with least effort. At the smallest scales possible, instead of a little building block, likely its nature's ability to "correct the record". Nothing says nature gets to change the entire environment faster than you can observe it if it's an easier path to move.