skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I don't find this argument compelling. Insurance companies already have significant influence in the government, and the line from sugar consumption to health care costs has already been established. So if this is the concern, well... guess what... it's already the case.

Also, while there are examples of behavioral engineering taxes (tobacco, etc.), this can't really be applied so easily to a basic food item like sugar, which is in practically everything in varying degrees. People have revolted over taxes on tea, mind you. A coffee tax, sugar tax, etc. is nearly unthinkable.

Furthermore, this type of taxation is not correlated with already existing examples of socialized medical systems, and this concern over pleasure taxes is not typically expressed by opponents to socialized medicine. Rather, the issue I hear expressed is that people who have good insurance already are scared they will wind up with something worse, and will have no other options at that point. This belief seems to be related and magnified by the xenophobic tendencies of the American political right (the more vocal opponents of socialized medicine; though so-called moderate liberals don't really entertain it either). They believe that if we let marginalized groups have equal access to good medical care, it will dilute their own access, creating scarcity and resulting in longer wait times to get treatment. These people also generally fear 'big government', and characterize anything run by the government as inefficient and costly. Therefore, they essentially believe they will pay more in taxes than the cost of their existing insurance; that they will be subsidizing the cost of care for peoples they generally contempt (HIV meds for homosexuals; abortions for women); and will have worse care for themselves. That's pretty much the argument in a nutshell. It's extremely petty and self-serving.

But, it's not so much that their belief is fully incorrect. While it is likely that health care would cost much much less overall for everyone, it could reduce their presently-VIP access to essential medical treatment in some instances. They believe their money entitles them to better access to medical treatment.

In conclusion, the more realistic (and actual) good faith argument is that insurance companies already do lobby the government to prevent any legislation that would pose an existential threat to their industry, which has vast wealth and power. Socializing medicine is good for medicine, and bad for medical insurers. So, they pay politicians who perpetuate the beliefs I described above and resist meaningful regulation and reform of the medical industry.

This is simply a fact. No need to construct unrealistically contrived stories about pleasure taxes. Ask these people in private what they believe. They will certainly tell you!
To put it simply...I use downvotes on YouTube to assess quality constantly.

The ratio is meaningful.
Well, thanks EU for all the good doses!
I'd love a simpler route choice in Google Maps. It very telling that they don't provide it - do they use their own product.
Focus on the Language, Not the Framework
All my comments were deliberately couched to specifically not pretend there is a simple answer to healthcare cost bloat in the US. It is merely a testament to a single factor that increases costs while also inhibiting naive comparisons. The US healthcare system is awfully complex to even scratch the surface about causal factors in a forum post.

Beyond that, you may be conflating prescription costs with drug research, which is not the same. The fact that prescription costs take up roughly the same percentage of total healthcare costs seems to support my point. An equal percentage of a bigger pie would indicate they are inflated.

My personal stance is that the US optimized for access and quality at the expense of cost. As the saying goes, you can only have two. R&D spending is a large part of this. The US contributes over 40% of the worlds medical R&D, effectively subsidizing other nations. It’s not a bad thing and it doesn’t explain away all healthcare costs but it does create systemic ramifications. It’s been awhile since I’ve viewed the numbers, but the US had the highest health access and quality scores for a country of comparable size. Off the top of my head, I think the next closest was Russia. Again, the point being simple comparisons are harder than one may think when dealing with complex systems.
“ Religion makes it a habit in believers to believe without evidence, forbits questioning, and delays answers to "afterlife". Hence takes away the power of understanding and reasoning.”

I haven’t found this to be true, but it is definitely possible in fundamentalist circles.

I have found atheists who run from the question and don’t want to engage with ‘is there meaning, or is there no meaning?’
Depends on what you’re looking for. Finding the approved ride share pickup spot can be pretty tricky in some airports. It can also be hard to identify and communicate exactly where you are on the curb (where’s “gate 6”?).
I didn’t mention VSCode in that comment, and I don’t think it’s really relevant to what I was saying. I switched from ST to a different editor (and not directly to VSCode) because I was under the impression that ST was no longer being actively developed. I don’t have anything bad to say about ST other than I didn’t like how it didn’t handle Python project environments well, and if I had believed it was still being actively worked on, I might have stuck with it.
Hey, why so passive aggressive? I've already read quite a bit on Valve googling it, just thought you might have some specific insightful article or thread in mind.
Well, this might be why. [0] That's a Biden video hosted by CNBC Television that currently has 571 upvotes and 1400 dislikes. There there is the Joe Biden channel, where almost all videos have at least 50% dislike count compared to upvotes, and a significant number have more dislikes that upvotes. [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f2D0GxCuBo
[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/JoeBiden/videos
From what I understand this is not the case. There is no replacement for some of the work this telescope could do, mostly around the ability to also act as a giant RADAR with its powerful transmitters.
Honestly Windows does this right with AD, Kerberos, Spnego

You login to a physical machine with a password (the machine is trusted on the network via AD so physical access is one factor and password is a second)

You visit websites and they use SPNEGO to land on Kerberos or NTLM auth which then bootstraps off the fact you're already authenticated to Windows. You never even need to see a login page

It's achievable with macOS and Linux but afaik there's some more configuration to be done. The only place I saw with a setup like that was a bank and it was part of a new technology stack that almost nothing used yet

With that setup there's almost nothing to phish if you can train people to only enter their password into the OS at login. You can pretty much eliminate the possibility of credential sharing but locking logins to certain machines
Looking at your GitHub repo, it seems your data sources are Singer/Pipelinewise taps.

Is AirByte an orchestration layer for Singer taps/targets, like Meltano or Pipelinewise?
I see healthcare as a special case, though (the rule about exceptions becoming the rule, notwithstanding).

The healthcare system is interwoven with rules and regulations. For instance, we already have tax rules depending on your yearly FSA/HSA contributions, tax deductions based on how much money is spent, and most importantly the Obamacare rule that one must have insurance or suffer penalties. Would another exception break the system?
Proposition Joe had the connect on lockdown with the eastside and westside working together pumping out 15 million doses. Until young Marlo came in and put a stop to that. The game is the game, vaccines or not.
It'll be one vat with the potential for 15 million doses... the corrupted mix never reached the individual dose stage.
I had a similar setup with an ISDN line. I got a discount because I worked for an ISP. I had a full /24 routed to my home, too.
Hubble has been operational for about 30 years. An observatory needs to last only for its expected lifetime, until its successor arrives in orbit. One would expect to be lifting newer, improved platforms to orbit on a brisk cadence as the cost of launch continues to decline.
Author here. Lisp-Stat is no April's fool's joke. The project is real and only a coincidence that it was mentioned here shortly before 1st of April.

The Overview [1] and About [2] pages provide the best background to the project. Also see Tierney's paper, Back to the Future:
Lisp as a Base for a Statistical Computing System [3]

Although inspired by Tierney's XLisp-Stat, this is a reboot in Common Lisp. XLisp-Stat code is unlikely to run except in trivial cases, but existing XLisp-Stat libraries can be ported with the assistance of the XLS-Compat [4] system. One of the goals was to make porting easier so as to have a ready-made eco-system of sorts. To that end I've also collected all the XLS code that is still readily available and put that on github. A summary of what's there is available on the website [5].

In developing the system, I wanted to avoid the 'lisp curse' [6] and picked existing libraries where possible, developed what didn't exist, and documented them all in an attempt to make the learning curve somewhat less steep. It's now to the point where I can use it in my own work and thought the broader CL community might find it useful.

[1] https://lisp-stat.dev/docs/overview/

[2] https://lisp-stat.dev/about

[3] https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Compstat-20...

[4] https://github.com/Lisp-Stat/XLS-compat

[5] https://lisp-stat.dev/docs/contributing/xlisp/

[6] http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
I had forked a fork of this a while ago (unbury.us) -- I don't see any updates on the GitHub repo that links to that domain: https://github.com/duaneking/unburyme

The contact info is also quite vague now, where it previously linked to the creator's twitter and github.
Incident report: shortly before the meltdown, we believe the safety supervisor was knocked unconscious by an improperly secured axe head that became detached from the handle swung by the junior safety officer. We recommend increased testing of axe head attachment mechanisms in future nuclear safety devices.
Only Ullman — he never renounced his views.
Underground transit stations can be a huge pain in the ass to find the right exit for, when you want to come out going a particular direction, because you have no sense of cardinal directions while underground.
Let's say you're a communist in Hungary in that year: would you still walk in the street very calm? Even if you are a communist, demonstrating that to a Russian communist wouldn't be very easy, don't you think? Saying "hey I love communism!" wouldn't cut it.
"It just specifically lists how children could play with those dolls, "

No, it doesn't at all do that.

Not even in one instance.

The article says 'these dolls have certain characteristics' - and then goes on to speculate bout the potential social ramifications of such playtime without any real evidence.

The article fails to hone in on the social nature of playtime at all.
I made a campsite alert website to send you an email and text message when a campsite becomes available so you can book it. I put up a buy me a coffee page and in a month, had over $500 in donations.
Can Amazon match them and show you the carbon footprint comparison for competitive products?
Somehow when I last read about this technology I had thought it was only triggered when copying or printing counterfeit currency, but really the history is that it was the fear of counterfeiting which helped the US government get printer manufacturers to add this tracking info to most color laster printers. Ugh. Good to know...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/household-printers-trackin...
Intellectual ventures is one of the worst.
What sort of symptoms did you have that lead you to insist on getting tested?
Yup, 1978 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/800248.807380
Source needed.

> The Arecibo telescope had been upgraded regularly, with several new instruments slated for installation in the coming years. “The telescope is in no way obsolete,” says Christopher Salter, an astronomer at the Green Bank Observatory, who worked at Arecibo for years.
If we are only made of the dust around us, then, like a computer, we don’t truly have any control. It’s all just an illusion.

That points to why belief in free will is an act of faith. It is, by definition, not possible to know (because you could always argue your conclusions were not made by your will). It also lies outside the usual ‘god of the gaps’ straw-man debate, because it is more like an endless chasm. :)
WeChat? Really, brah?
This has got to be the most clever thing I’ve ever heard of. Are there ethical concerns here from the company where you’re a “junior” engineer?
I feel like Google itself could probably clean up the route presentation, given their own understanding of the roads.
AlmaLinux (RHEL fork) stable is now live
Does anyone know how much of that $1000 goes to the specialist?
That about as relevant as saying “someone who can’t code fizzbuzz won a Nobel Peace Prize”.
> Raspberry Pi 4

We can easily compare that on Linux with benchmarks. I'd say at the same price point for used x86, x86 is still much faster.
Google Scholar says it was cited by 60 other papers. https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?cites=10529970687531136...
> Finding the approved ride share pickup spot can be pretty tricky in some airports.

This may be by design - the local taxi mafia usually gets the front door and then the rideshare pickup is somewhere out of the way with bad signage.
YouTube premium never shows me adds, and downvotes have reliably gotten the AI to stop suggesting a musician or autoplaying a song that I don't like, regardless of their rough membership in a genre I otherwise want to hear.

It makes me feel guilty to downvote someone or their work who's probably a good person, but it's the only reliable way to tune the AI. I get a lot of enjoyment out of music on youtube premium, but would stop using the service if they started airing ads on the pay service, or began serving music in such a way that I couldn't tune the suggestions and automatic play queues.
As someone in the ad industry (not part of Google) this makes perfect sense. Youtube likely has video quality scores (like for Grammys, Academy, etc), where they're able to get the best bang for their buck when users watch such videos.

Disliking such videos will drive users away from these videos, and hurt their profits. They likely ran a test already and deemed it worthwhile.
What bothers me is that the title is even a little misleading. They're removing the count of dislikes (which obviously has an impact) but the dislike feature itself is still there.
On what grounds do they argue we still need this? I thought money generally has enough safeguards these days that consumer color printers are no longer a threat.
every human has a right to be healthy. However it is provided is fine. We, as a society, have the means to provide this.

Just because we've set up a system that profits off of people being sick should not invalidate people's right to be healthy. That's our doing.

I also find claiming some things are "self-serve rights," to be hilarious. People going to court over constituional violations. Is that self serve? Rights, especially the ones you mention are only "free," or "self-serve," as long as all parties agree to provide them for free. If someone decides that they want to discriminate against your religion, they can do so, and it is up to you to seek remedy.

So how is that self-serve? It isn't. No right is. Things are being provided for you which we, as a society, have agreed are essential. How health is not apart of that is beyond me.
Individuals can’t compete against nation state level actors.

There are US private citizens who are monitored/tracked due to the known national security risk if they are captured to work for other nations. Cybersecurity is huge.
It's basically just profit. There's more money to be made by a system of price discrimination than there is by a system of universal healthcare.

If you want to look at the root political cause the blame here lies squarely with the Democrats and Obama Administration. Prior to the passage of the ACA the prevailing consensus was for the Healthy Americans act. Look it up. Look at the Co-Sponsors, very much bipartisan, and very much universal healthcare. If not for the ACA americans would have had Universal Healthcare 10 years ago.

The #1 thing that must be done is the decoupling of insurance from employment. The HAA does this and provides universal basic coverage, while still maintaining a private market for certain levels. It also still allows employers to contribute towards healthcare but in a much more transparent way.

Right now, employers have a massive advantage in regards to healthcare as a benefit because they can offer you a plan that may cost them only $100 a month, but if you, on your own outside of your employers group policy attempt to purchase a similar plan it would likely cost $1000+ a month.

Enacting universal healthcare in the US is not some impossible dream. It's a fairly straightforward process laid out decades ago and very nearly implemented in 2009.

Detach insurance from employment, eliminate coverage groups entirely, all private insurance companies have to pool all customers into the same group. The government also underwrites certain types of coverage for these companies, mainly preventive and catastrophic. The government then offers a competing product to consumers. It is defaultly given to every citizen, paid for via taxes. If you choose to go to a private company you can get a tax credit for a certain portion of premium paid.

There is no billing of customers, providers bill the government, the government can then in turn bill private insurers if a person is covered. Certain services may be a la carte per the private insurance. For example if you want expanded services not covered by the government policy, like more days in skilled nursing, physical therapy appointments, cosmetic, etc.
>Insurance premiums average $300-$700 USD per month per person nationwide, when not available through full-time employment or (65+) Medicare.

Well, until recently:

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/02/27/smuggled-...

Health insurance is now guaranteed affordable (8.5% of income or less) in every state except Wyoming, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Texas, Kansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida (Medicaid gap).
Yeah its free until you get a random bill from the lab for tests that weren't covered.
A huge factor is that iPhone has a large, long-standing market share, with relatively few different OS and hardware versions. This means that everyone else has been able to test their Bluetooth implementations for interoperability with iPhones.
I feel like this is partly, if not mostly, a facilitation issue with the payment itself.

I signed up for Patreon to support one member, but its so easy to add/remove people to the monthly dole that I’m now up to $40/mo. I know you’re not asking for advice here but maybe something like that would be worth a shot if you haven’t tried already.

(I know that clientele though, so maybe Patreon isn’t the best route lol)
How is it trolling?? The bill mentioned is a $484B expense!! It is not "mundane" at all. It is reasonable that a lot of taxpayers would be upset by the insane spending on inefficient government health programs.
Fwiw the US really botched the lockdown strategy through lack of coordination. Lockdowns don’t appear to be feasible for longer than a month; people begin to break the rules and reduce its efficacy, plus the economic damage starts to overshadow the health effects. For shorter periods, however, they stop outbreaks. The best strategy is then to use masks, cancel large gatherings, and use lockdowns in short bursts to respond to outbreaks.

The US couldn’t form a cohesive strategy around this and fell into a partisan fight over whether to lockdown at all, leading to a perpetual half-implemented lockdown, the worst of all options. If we choose to do a retrospective on the value of lockdowns, we should bear in mind that “perpetually” is not the only way to use them.
When I read the title, I thought of Mike J Jordan immediately.

And then I clicked on the article.

HAHAHA.

I learned Bayesian inference models from him.
Where I grew up, clothing for children was tax deductible.

It was essential, so a system was put in place to serve the need.

I'm not sure why you ended up in a metaphorical pit of despair over one imagined doomsday-scenario implementation.
The core intention of YouTube is to have a platform to advertise on. Without the viewers, the advertisers would have no interest in the platform. If there were no advertisers, that would not sway the viewers from having interest in the platform. The ads are there as a means to the end, it’s not the end itself.
what narratives are being rejected?
Wholly aside from the privacy and control implications of this antifeature, these dots are actually a significant impediment to the normal use of my laser printer. Sure, they aren't visible when printing on to white paper in a single pass, but when printing on transparency or coloured paper they are very visible, and especially so when running multiple passes (for composition of images without a computer).

They also affect me when I use the printer for producing PCBs using the toner transfer method - the dots act as an etch resist and impose an uncorrectable noise of copper dots on to an otherwise excellent result.
Technically it sounds feasible, but they'd want to avoid being accused of undermining the open data of the GTFS ecosystem.
> they have no other way to send a message to Disney

Actually, the best and most effective way is to respond as consumers and vote with their dollars. Disney is a very profit centered and savvy company. If their profits on Star Wars and their streaming service drop off they will change their direction.

All signs point to people upset at Kathleen Kennedy as being a vocal minority. Disney is raking cash in on Star Wars and Lucasfilms in general and the population of Star Wars fans is growing. If #CancelDisneyPlus was a big deal then we'd see it in Disney's actual business moves, but it hasn't had an impact and downvoting on YouTube is probably similarly ineffective.
Except 1. preventing the spread of coronavirus IS preventing it and 2. public health officials explicitly told people not to wear masks:

> “Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!” tweeted Dr. Jerome Adams, the U.S. Surgeon General, on Feb. 29. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!” In an interview with Fox & Friends, Adams said that wearing a mask can even increase your risk of getting the virus. “Folks who don’t know how to wear them properly tend to touch their faces a lot and actually can increase the spread of coronavirus.”

https://time.com/5794729/coronavirus-face-masks/
Seems the intent is to clearly separate commentary from code. I could see that being intentional, imagine cursive annotations on a printed document.
This probably explains why only 5M doses of J&J vaccine were allocated for the week of April 5 as opposed to the 11+M that were anticipated.

Emergent was also supposed to be approved to ramp up the full supply chain but that hasn’t happened yet, could be related.
50000 people would show up to a Trump rally. 15 journalists to a Biden rally. Engaged dislikers are not "bots". And the left has plenty of resources to have their own like-"bots". No, the truth is very simple. There's at least 50000 Trump supporters that will downvote Biden's white house. Even more because ... no travel required.