skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if it comes to making a choice between better health outcomes, weighed against doctors only making six figures a year (and medical schools only charging five figures per year), I think the choice for most of us would be pretty simple.
Fauci more or less came out and said that the CDC's public recommendations at that time were not based on the science available to them, but were an action-driven measure to preserve the available PPE supplies for healthcare workers, as in the depths of the early pandemic they were dangerously depleted.

To put it another way, they lied to the public to keep the masks where they could do the most good.

https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-confirms-public-health-experts-...

You can equivocate about what is "enough evidence" that masks are effective and whether that threshold had been reached yet (you can always collect more evidence, but when people are dying it's not bad to make some guesses that it probably is airborne/aerosol and masks will help). But the Surgeon-General went as far as to claim that the science showed that masks were not effective. That the science was in and it showed that masks did not prevent transmission among the general public - which is different from "not enough evidence to conclusively say yet".

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/health/face-masks-coronavirus...

The USG's actions here were medically unethical - they misrepresented the benefits and dangers of an intervention in order to manipulate the patient's behavior. Maybe it's justifiable under the circumstances but at best it's shady.

I think under a different president it probably would have gone differently. But it doesn't change the responsibilities of the medical professionals involved here - you don't get to abdicate your ethical vows just because the president tells you to.
They default to showing the walking path?
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you wrote, but it seems to me that Wallace is actually arguing the point: that these two senses are in fact an artificial distinction, that people are inherently religious, that they are inherently worshipers, at least of a sort. It seems like he is saying that wherever we find our identity is a god that we worship.

It is perfectly fine for him to argue that they are equivalent (though I disagree). The issue is relying on the etymology of the word worship to argue that point.

I'd also like to clarify that while I disagree with Wallace, the accusation of dishonestly was directed at throw0101a, who made an absurd etymology based argument after it had already been pointed out that such arguments are flawed.
Of they are this bad at Fermi estimates of carbon emission, I can only imagine how bad they are at web analytics.
Dental insurance of any kind is pretty rare in the US. Large employers may offer this to their employees, but even then it’s a situation of very high coinsurance for any procedure of substance, and covered procedures are limited. So however bad your national dental system may be, it at least provides some baseline option for everyone — including the poor, the homeless, the jobless, and employees of small businesses alike.
That same beast produced a vaccine to Covid-19 in merely two days. I believe all but one of the major vaccines to the virus come from the USA. The machine is all-consuming but it surely doesn't all go to waste.
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The issue is that of incentive, to put it bluntly.

What is the incentive of a medical provider to provide The Best Care Possible, when they know for sure there is no competition? You end up with a system whose only raison d’etre is to continue working as little as possible with no real progress.

Yes, not being able to afford it is obviously a bigger issue than being blind for a year. In this case, she had the option to go to a private surgeon and get it taken care of for much more money.

As for your last point, in a socialistic type of service, “progress” serves to elect public officials. In a capitalistic service, “progress” serves to make more money. Both of these approaches have their flaws; however, I would argue that progress is faster and service of higher quality when a government is not involved. The gov’t advantage is that it’s “cheaper” and thus more accessible to everyone.

As a commenter posted below, I think we have a critical mass of folks (half the country, basically) who would be willing to go the public route. I really have to think this through, though, bc it would create some interesting incentives to sign people up to one or the other.
It supports Mozilla. Browser is pretty important, but they do other things like Rust.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Projects/Complete
From the abstract the US has 0.7% higher survival rate than Australia. Which I wouldn’t be surprised turns out to be within the margin of error.

Regardless, in Australia fewer will reach that cohort because preventive measures through universal health care are in place. That means widely available cancer screenings will catch malignant tissues before they turn cancerous.

Additionally those screenings will be lower cost than the US model and the patients will have a better quality of life.
If you don't know anything about VPN's and are unlikely to (have time, motivation to) do a lot of research then you might trust Moziala/Firefox more
then some unknown company-named Mullvad.
I shelled out money for a license the day they announced that they would be providing RPM repositories for active license holders to use. Sublime Text was and is my favorite editor, but it used to be a real pain in the ass to install.
> Nobody is against health care for all.

Few will say that explicitly in mixed company, but the gravitational pull seems pretty clear to me in the wider debate. Nobody is against health care for all who deserve it, but it's considered very gauche in most circles to directly argue that some people don't deserve health care, so I think it sublimates into complaints about stuff like the constitutionality of the ACA mandate or wait times for hip replacements in Canada or whatever.
I find dislikes a hostile form of conversation. If you want to discern if a DIY video gives legit advice, look at comment section. A good video will have something like “this totally works, thanks” with many likes.

If a video is misleading or fake, I think it should be reported and removed or marked as misleading and fake.

I see that my view is not popular, I’m open for debate.
>I don't know who they expect to consume their Youtube content but it apparently isn't the establishment's voter base.

Who, honestly, gets their news from YouTube? If there's someone pushing an agenda it's all the people on this thread who are extremely concerned with the (low) like counts on some videos, which most people don't know exist in the first place. 3.4k votes is nothing. I searched "Bach" and "This week" and this video from two days ago has 1.3k likes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_sPYQj7uTU

3.4k likes is low for a YouTube video. WH videos don't get many views, either; view counts are in the tens of thousands, with a few poking up to around 200k. There's nobody even looking at the page to whom you could push a narrative, in theory.
What percentage represents “mostly” here? We’re solidly upper middle class and I can’t think of many people who are. The only time I was when I worked for a California startup and that was like magic compared to insurance in New Hampshire.
They just use whatever the source for your power is which is so varied you couldn't ever assume. And even the same fuel source going to a power station to generate electricity for your car is massively more efficient than an ICE engine that regularly starts/stops and idles.
> There are people in America who literally have to choose between fixing the constant pain of mouths full of rotten teeth and caring for their children

And if government got out of the business of healthcare --other than ensuring a fair and safe market-- these people would not have to make that choice.

Take corrective eye surgery as a very simple single-variable example. It used to cost tens of thousands of dollars to have your eyesight corrected with laser surgery. I think we are down to $500 or $1,000 these days.

Imagine that, with different scales, applied across the entirety of healthcare. Let entrepreneurs do what they do best. It has proven to lift more lives than anything else in our history.
"Dark patterns" is what we call it when it's done in the interest of the company, and usually against the interest of the consumer. In this case, being for the public interest, it's aligned with the much more benign "Libertarian Paternalism" approach outlined in the book Nudge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_%28book%29
I guess Tron wasn’t clear enough, it should have been “fight for the end user.”
It just seems honest and pragmatic to me. There are nice collaboration tools, but there will always be a gap vs face-to-face. I think you just have to make other areas of remote work offset the lost value of that unfixable gap.
Jog off troll
When you propose a "green credit" instead of a "carbon tax", what do you mean? Is it just a different name for the same thing, or would it work differently? If it would work differently, then HOW? I'm assuming that a carbon tax would put a fixed tax per weight of C02 released charged either to the end-user or somewhere higher in the value chain (eg: a gas tax).
Do you have any recommendations for PDP11 emulator?
Not sure how...
Fight plastic pollution every time you dine out or get delivery
You can still be very misleading with objectively true calculations. "There is very low stress on the patient's arteries and only a very small tear." - said patient bled to death and has only atmospheric stress now that their veins are bloodless. Less than 0.1% of their total vein area has a rip in it.
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With health care, average is just what health care is. Being rich shouldn't get you better actual health care. Cancer is cancer. A broken bone is a broken bone.

Everything else is bells and whistles. Want to pay to get that MRI next week instead of in two months? Fine. Want to pay for an fancy room? Fine. You still get the same health care, though. Even if you pay more tax
That's still the advertiser, isn't it?
It's more complicated than that.

I was a military wife when I was diagnosed with a serious, incurable condition that is very expensive. Most of my medical care was free. I had the occasional small copay for drugs not carried by the military hospital.

I began getting better by spending $300/month on supplements and making dietary changes.

I was a homemaker, so it "wasn't my money" and my husband wasn't an ass about it, but money was always a sore point and I always felt very aware of some of the psychosocial stuff where everyone not only thought I was kind of a loon for pursuing "alternative" remedies, but I was also "being financially irresponsible" to do so.

I got better. I feel justified. The world continues to call me a loon to my face.

I can't win for losing, but it's made me very aware that if you give free drugs to people, some people will take drugs instead of doing things like eating healthy and exercising.
It would have been an interesting experiment to show dislikes for premium users and see how many people pay for those feature, but I think that would have been too controversial compared to the ads that are accepted practice already.
It’s not incorrect. N95 works. Saying it is unlikely is a flat out lie. And the absurdity of saying that is what broke the trust of the government officials early on the pandemic. It’s a crime for them to have said that.
My pet peeve is that there is no hybrid bike/transit routing option. If you choose transit, they assume you are pedestrian. Maybe the option is there and I just have not found it.
> he doesn't have a good voice for singing.

Not everyone agrees with that estimation

Vocal Coach reacts to Neil Young - Old Man (Live)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppSF6JpdaKQ

Neil Young "Old Man" REACTION & ANALYSIS by Vocal Coach / Opera Singer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trE7YifD9Jc
It's not even SEO. Youtube / Google personally partners with certain businesses and injects them into seemingly organic video feeds. For example, there is an invite only advertisement tier that you don't automatically get access to regardless of view or subscriber count.
If I say to hell with the CO2 emissions and pick the fastest route always, will YouTube and Search direct me toward more climate change-oriented content? :-D
This is also exactly how Canada passed its Single Payer healthcare, Province-by-Province. Saskatchewan was the first Province to offer single payer in 1947, followed by Alberta in 1951, etc. By 1961, all Provinces had some form of a single payer healthcare system. To this day, Canada's single-payer system is Provincial, not Federal.
Yes, just like they got rid of the "Discussions" search filter that used to show you results from forums (i.e. the content of individuals) - now every search topic is dominated by sales channels.

BoardReader.com aims to replace this, but IME attempts to search for exact phrases (multiple words in quotes) doesn't work well.
I grew up in the US, moved to Canada. Saw a friend wait like 6 months to get an ACL replaced. Poor guy could hardly walk for that time. I've known two people who were told to get an MRI for various reasons... the wait on that is 6-9 months too. One good reason to get an MRI: internal bleeding following a concussion can kill you in days, and a CAT scan won't rule it out. But apparently that isn't a good enough reason to skip the line.

Like the US, about half of Canadians are strongly opposed to taxes. Our health care system is about as good as it can be, with the budget we have for it.
Carbon Pricing Dashboard
Ask yourself what is the point and value of credential you award yourself?
Use cases are up to the users. They can choose what sort of content to make, and who they wish to share it with. I will add a report-button to deter the platform from being used for illegal activity.

All social-software is inherently destructive in the same way that it is inherently good. It really depends on the users. People and ideas viewed as 'bad' today, might be 'good' in the future, and vice-versa. MLK was once FBI #1 most wanted, now he is an America hero. Gay marriage was once a marxist conspiracy to subvert god-fearing capitalists, now it is legal in all 50 US states. Etc, etc.
People on the DIY solar forum already use old Tesla batteries for powerwalls so there’s likely to be kits in the future to make it plug and play.
Or get a GED.

I've never met anyone in the US of at least high school age who wasn't aware that there exist way(s) to test out, including but not limited to the GED.
My 486DX2/50MHz came with 4MiB of RAM -- I used it all the way up until I gave it away in the early 2000s (though I did upgrade the RAM at some point, I couldn't run Netscape and compile my kernel with only 4MiB of RAM).
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One of my sons took it and passed it when he was 12, because the community college wouldn’t enroll him without it. We were homeschooling, so we had a california home private school - so we just had to certify that he had completed the 10th grade in our school, which he had.
I don’t think that’s true. I think you’re misunderstanding the way some people perceive fairness.

There are some people who feel very strongly that it’s unfair to give out benefits such that the people who worked hard and took care of themselves are no better off than people who did not work hard.

For example, regarding student loan forgiveness, I have heard people say: “I struggled for years to pay off my student loans, but now the government is going to just cancel everyone else’s debt? That’s like punishing me for being responsible and rewarding people who didn’t sacrifice for putting the problem off.” And I can see how someone would feel that way. It would be more fair to track down everyone who had student loans and refund the full amount for all of them, including people who had already paid them off.

I’ve also heard friends who are legal immigrants oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants because they feel it’s like punishing everyone who went through all the trouble of the legal process.

I don’t think you can actually prove they are right or wrong in their argument. This is exactly like the parable of the prodigal son, so it’s an ancient human dilemma that giving grace and generosity to people who are in need tends to make people who are one notch up the ladder feel bitter that when they needed help they didn’t get it, and that their hard work is somehow invalidated by the fact that others got something for free when they had to work for it.

Finally, there’s always a question of who pays for things, and some people just feel that - while they’d prefer some government benefit in theory - they aren’t willing to pay any more in taxes in order to get it.

Considering the US has a track record of relatively high total taxation (when you add up all the local, state, and federal entities), while receiving generally poor public services, there are plenty of people who feel the answer is to stop “wasting money” on the problem and expect the government to become more efficient or better at providing services before they’d support any more taxes.
A billion for every chip-maker who 'makes in India,' sources say
While the underfunding and collapse of the observatory is a tragedy, I think it is perhaps less surprising in the context that much of the original political will behind the observatory was motivated by potential military applications, which became somewhat passé after the fall of the Soviet Union. This "dual use" origin is mentioned briefly in the article here, but expanded in more length in some other sources [1,2]:

The origins of the observatory trace to late 1950s efforts to develop anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defenses as part of the newly formed United States Department of Defense (DoD) Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) ABM umbrella-effort, Project Defender. [...] It was known that hot, high-speed objects caused ionization of the atmosphere that reflects radar waves, and it appeared that a warhead's signature would be different enough from decoys that a detector could pick out the warhead directly, or alternately, provide added information that would allow operators to focus a conventional tracking radar on the single return from the warhead.

Although the concept appeared to offer a solution to the tracking problem, there was almost no information on either the physics of re-entry or a strong understanding of the normal composition of the upper layers of the ionosphere. ARPA began to address both simultaneously. To better understand the radar returns from a warhead, several radars were built on Kwajalein Atoll, while Arecibo started with the dual purpose of understanding the ionosphere's F-layer while also producing a general-purpose scientific radio observatory.

Some folks here may also be familiar with the US project to locate Soviet radar installations via signals reflected off the moon (as discussed in Steve Blank's excellent Secret history of Silicon Valley [3]), and it seems that Arecibo participated in this as well [4]:

The CIA employed a 150-foot dish antenna at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California to monitor Soviet radar signals reflected off the moon, while the National Security Agency used the Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory in Puerto Rico to intercept signals that had originally been transmitted from a Soviet Arctic Coast radar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Telescope#Design_and_c...

[2] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37898/collapsed-arecib...

[3] https://steveblank.com/secret-history/

[4] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB479/
Nebula seems like an obvious alternative
What percentage of the limited time in your life is worth what level of impact on climate change?

Do something much more likely to be useful: implement a reasonable, even revenue-neutral carbon tax and stop with this non-sense.
I think that’s a bit of an exaggeration. Most healthcare workers got into the field for reasons other than money. And with a well-funded public healthcare system, I think the US could still support pretty good wages. For example, the VA and military can attract a pretty good standard of doctor, partially through the offer of paying for medical school and with excellent benefits. I don’t think that every top specialist will opt to serve the rich in private hospitals, or that there would even be adequate demand from those rich to require the supply of every top doctor.
Please read the tweet you linked:

> CDC does not currently recommend the use of facemasks to help prevent novel #coronavirus.

Please note the emphasized word.

The CDC is not saying don't wear masks. The CDC is not saying masks fail to prevent the spread of the virus. The CDC is saying that you wearing a mask is not likely to protect you from catching it.

If you are reading that tweet and interpreting that as "don't wear masks", you are not putting enough emphasis on protecting the people around you.
I've started to noticed "no through traffic" signs around my town on the side streets Google Maps likes to send people down. I'm not sure if Google Maps has updated itself yet, but I find that rather interesting.
That sounds like it would get expensive, unless you both take the equivalent of a “marriage physical” before tying the knot.

Buy then again, as a new industry it would probably bring down the overall divorce rate.
Part of the new design is that brokers and controllers can be run on separate JVMs.
Hello,

I'm actually one of the main binder userspace maintainers in my day job there (opinions are my own), and I haven't heard about this. Do you have a reference? What has happened is that there is a userspace shim over libbinder called libbinder_rs which provides Rust support for binder, but AFAIK, the kernel driver and main userspace lib is remaining in C++. Still, would be cool.

Your Friend,
Steven Moreland
I can't stand video as casual content generally (e.g. news stories), but in terms of how-to information, a video is truly worth a million words at least. Compare watching five videos on doing a somewhat complex maintenance job on your truck compared to reading the Chiltons manual, and you get an idea.
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The graph of "how much does healthcare cost over time" on the link that you provided yourself to prove that costs have been "spiraling out of control" has had the same steepness since 1990. If it's spiraling out of control because of the ACA, then it's also spiraling out of control because of the Gulf War. At least now people with pre-existing conditions can be covered. We're not even done dealing with a pandemic that has infected 31 million people. Imagine a world where none of those people could ever get healthcare in the future because Covid-19 is a pre-existing condition.
Sure. It reveals which videos they are pushing on you despite the community of viewers recognizing them as being misleading, deceitful, or distasteful.
Given its Google, I assume those get forwarded to /dev/null
there are some flat licensing fees for each production facility the FDA oversees, and since you're producing hand sanitizer, well... no good deed left unpunished.

thankfully yes, sanity prevailed.
Do you remember what exercises you did during those sessions?
You could bring your own known safe bottle. I really doubt they would mind as long as they see you use something.
Wisdom of the Trivia Crowd: Means vs. Medians vs. Modes on 200k Responses
As a compromise they could display only the magnitude of likes and dislikes. There's no difference to me if something has 100 or 900 dislikes; 1.2M or 7.9M likes.