skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not adopt a solution that’s already there and works well, namely AirPrint?
> "The ultimate control knob on atmospheric CO2 is fossil-fuel emissions,” said Ralph Keeling. “But we still have a long way to go to halt the rise, as each year more CO2 piles up in the atmosphere. We ultimately need cuts that are much larger and sustained longer than the COVID-related shutdowns of 2020."

I get the sense that most people concerned about this trend hold out a lot of hope for technology. But cuts as large as Keeling is talking about will take sustained cuts to consumption. In other words, rich countries actually consuming less, despite the economic consequences. It could take the form of rationing. Maybe consumption taxes. Maybe something more unusual. And that's never been on the table in any meaningful way.
This is a good example, because Chess rules do not surpass human intellectual capacity. With enough time, you can understand the reasoning of an AI.

But when it comes to raw intellectual superiority, say, explain the logic behind new mathematical or physical concepts and discoveries, very high level predictions, we come to our human limit and cannot surpass it.

The AI can give us implants to improve our intelligence, but only to a certain limited degree, our biological brain will slow us down significantly.

That is the barrier we cannot possibly cross in a timespan of human life.
Isn't the basis stepped up after estate tax is paid? So if you die holding stock no tax is avoided.
Really? How certain of it are you? What's your source?

Very recently UK government has struck a deal with Novartis to provide "the world's most expensive drug" to children with spinal muscular atrophy - at £1.8M a dose(the amount NHS agreed to pay Novartis is confidential).

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/08/nhs-use-worl...

My own father has been treated with Glivec for over 8 years, all on the national health service - treatment which in the US costs about $100k/year.

Like, I'm genuienly curious if you have a source, or is this just a flex of some kind?
PS: To better use your analogy, suppose rich guy X, had an open relationship with their spouse (the government) and then started dating someone without mentioning their marriage. That’s much closer to what’s going on because it’s not a question of if what they did was legal but rather the secretary around it and the impact on society.
Yep, I can’t testify personally that Solaris is a treatment , not a cure
Maybe naive question, but why do _any_ insurance companies provide payments for these medications?
> thanks to the obstructionist party still being very influential and working very hard to disenfranchise voters.

Fantastic. Thanks for reminding me to vote for them a third time in a row.
Luckily we wouldn't be starting from zero here either since DARPA has been doing climate research for thirty-plus years, and if the global climate situation turned dire I'm sure it would get more resources than even COVID did:
https://web.archive.org/web/19970429012543/http://www.au.af....
Honest opinion is the compensation has always largely correlated with the quality of the job and how youre treated. Companies that pay less often want to squeeze out more.
I'd like to point out that ever since SMETS2 new (and some firmware updated) smart meters are compatible in the UK, although I do acknowledge they didn't used to be.
> I would prefer not to completely stagnate the internet just yet.

Isn't Internet infrastructure in a lot of the US kind of stagnant right now?
Want to add a feature? it could be just a button
> To counter them, you will need a very sizeable air force fitted with best radars possible to track them down individually, and strafe with a cannon

Or, you know, currently fielded SHORAD systems and CIWS?
These are all really good reasons to be against mobile device tracking and electronic telemetry too.
> remember, the vaccines do not prevent COVID, they only ensure it doesn't become serious enough to warrant hospitalisations

What exactly is the ~95% effectiveness of the vaccines then?
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Sadly though, even with the drug lifetime in this case is only 15-19 years.
Usage patterns at the substation level are important. They don't need household detail.
Quid pro quo. I have zero issues if individuals want to conduct transactions with their full [individual] legal and financial liability on the line. But if/when one wants the privilege of government recognized legal and financial limited liability in transactions then I have zero issues with those transactions being regulated and taxed.
To be fair (but not too much), the devs did compress and minify their JS and host everything on the same domain, so with HTTP/2 the network impact should not be too high in comparison.

In comparison to a "normal" web page that loads 213KiB of script that's not necessary because the HTML already shows the big zero regardless. At least the CSS is fairly minimal.

The web is a terrible place. Google should rank Javascriptless websites higher in search results to push for less scripting, it's the only way I can see this situation improving.
If two radiologists can consistently reach wildly different conclusions then it really can only mean two things. Either or both radiologist are incompetent. There is not enough information available in the diagnoses tools we have to make a diagnoses.

In both cases I would say this counts against radiologist and for an AI solution. I would rather have a continuously improving AI then a coin tossing radiologist.
I just posted above - UK's National Health Service has just struck a deal with Novartis to provide Zolgensma to children who need it at no charge:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/08/nhs-use-worl...
It's frankly scary that this line of thinking has become so in vogue. Let's exacerbate the definition of something to the point that it must be censored.

Example:

"takes a disproportionate amount of effort to refute"
-> This is a pretty decent definition of toxicity
-> Silencing it is really the only effective way to deal with it.
I think your reasoning is too simplistic, it's about two agreements that are self contradicting. At least for Ukraine - they had an economic alliance with Russia, they wanted to have another economic deal with the EU which in turn would put Russia and the Eastern population at the loss, then the whole shitstorm broke loose. To cite Nuland - "Fuck the EU" - was exactly how the people in Donbass and Crimea felt.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
Arch-TK I absolutely agree with everything you are saying, and I don’t intend to get a smart meter myself for as long as possible.

However, you are incorrect that meters are incompatible between utility companies. You are right that SMETS1 meters _are_ incompatible. However, all new meter installations are SMETS2 and these are fully compatible between energy companies.

SMETS2 has been the standard for a number of years now. There are still old SMETS1 installations still active though.
It functions like income when they treat it like an average person treats their income. Spending on their home, their car, travel, etc. They’re using the loan to avoid taking income or realizing gains.

But yeah, I would be down for a more sensible sales tax situation. I’m sure there are a hundred ways to skin this cat.

Edit: ways
I imagine many people use:

5 stars - I liked it

1 star. - I didn't like it

In fact, I imagine many people do this.
It is no longer asymmetrical, as it was during the intifada with its stabbing attacks and suicide bombers.

Now it's a full-scale war (or at least that's how missile attacks on the population centers called in any other country except Israel).
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That's also bad, yeah. We came to the abstract definition because it has value after all. (I think) OP and me just stated that it's not necessarily useful or sufficient to try to understand starting from the definition, but I do think there is still value in even just stating the definition already, for reference.

Luckily I can't remember encountering that didactic approach in math or language learning, but I'm not surprised at all if it exists and is somewhat widespread.
So the focus of the article should have been on eliminating the step up basis (which ProPublica admitted is a bipartisan thing to do) or other ways of avoiding capital gains tax rather than conflating tax avoidance with tax deferral. And all the activities they complained about billionaires doing are things that the middle class can relate to too: deferring taxes (401(k)), avoiding taxes using step up in basis and $500k home gain exemption, borrowing on paper wealth without realizing gains (HELOC).
At the moment I'm using Gatsby but the client side js bundle turns me off. However, one thing I really like about Gatsby is the dynamic image component.

Is there any way (or are there any plans) for generating responsive images when using Astro? As Astro is framework agnostic, I don't think so, right?
All of this has been addressed and/and resolved elsewhere. Not sure of references of the top of my head, but check Discord (and/or maybe GH).
Your comment is mostly drivel, but I'll make a comment then add something useful at the end.

> But the sky turned orange for a week last year, as wildfires

California doesn't and can't manage its forests properly, so orange skies are expected annually. Very little to do with climate change.

The useful part in the article:

What's interesting in the article is that CO2 levels increased during a pandemic shutdown. That should be investigated to see why.

Climate scientists dream of the chance to collect measurement samples during cessation of human activities like this pandemic (same with the grounding of US aircraft during 9/11.)
Curious you’re focusing on US (politics) and not China/Taiwan/SEA… is that really relevant considering they have enough capital and Germany has plenty of manufacturing?

The only thing relevant for the US re risking starting this niche is brain drain and talent. The market is always growing, they already have vertical demand (power tools and simple car chips), and new more-local competition can never be dismissed.

It always comes down to the people at the end of the day. Your 2nd paragraph quote where they are declaring this a successful example of public/private just because the factory was built is a bit concerning to me. They’ve mearly just begun.
I can't be the only person who looks at influencers and thinks 'glad it's not me' - at first it's usually a bit of envy or disbelief, but once I think about the effort to maintain an appearance indefinitely for thousands to millions of people .... any envy disappears immediately and I instead get the sense of dread they must feel every day
Why not both? They are different things.

The free step-up in basis at death makes no sense for the very wealthy. The rule originates from the difficulty in determining the basis of assets of dead people. The very wealthy have accountants that track this.

Warren Buffett can pay capital-gains tax AND estate tax.
Free market? Wouldn't you like your insurance to cover all diseases? I know I would.
What is “annual cost based on length of therapy”?

If you take a pill for 3 months at $10k/month does it have an “annual cost” of $120k or $30k? And if it’s the latter then it would be less confusing if “annual” were omitted.
>Isn’t that generally a problem where people get slammed with huge tax bills on stock they aren’t able to sell and may not have the cash available to pay?

No, I can't say I've ever heard of that happening. You should be able to sell to cover. This will typically happen during an open trading window and brokerages will offer an option for "sell to cover".

>Why would we want to do more of that?

I didn't make a value statement one way or the other. I'm just saying your claim is wrong and maybe your misunderstanding of taxation on stock is not the reason that unrealized capital gains aren't taxed.
Better off changing the link to https://github.com/apache/superset so that people actually know what it is
...Plus the money you pay monthly in order to have health insurance.
Yes. The problem is allowing pharmaceutical products to be advertised directly to consumers. That’s only legal in 2 countries — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-consumer_advertising

As a consequence, many large drug companies spend more money marketing drugs than developing them — https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2019/7/...
Netflix traffic patterns are definitely unlike almost every other large network, but I do wonder how much they're missing by sampling TCP only.

TFA mentions transport of (aggregated) flow data back to base over a choice of protocols, including UDP, which makes sense -- you don't want your monitoring data affecting your business data when you get close to redlining. (You'd expect you'd have enough forensic data leading up to that point to make some informed decisions.)

QUIC runs over UDP, and I can imagine that growing rapidly for most corporate & public-facing networks.
Well… Because my doctor prescribed it and said it’s necessary, and as it turns out it was…. I’m just thankful that I have good insurance…
You're forgetting what a Common Carrier is, by definition:

"A common carrier in common law countries ... is a person or company that transports goods or people for any person or company and is responsible for any possible loss of the goods during transport..."

So, a _company_ can be a common carrier. An abstract notion describing interconnected physical entities and organizational entities related to them cannot be a common carrier (nor, in fact, any carrier).
read the propublica article - it explains. or be lazy. loans ;) in particular low interest loans. as high interest loans would sort of ruin the plot and those are reserved for the working class.
> implementation bugs. Source: have worked on a client-side implementation

well because the hard part is the client-side. caching is a client-side only thing with http, keep-alive is a thing that a server pushes to a client, the same with chunked transfer, which is not as easy to implement for a client like it was with content length.

basically a server does only need to implement certain headers, but a client needs to know all.
also most clients even accept bad servers, like content for head requests, etc..
most stateless protocols put a lot of burden into clients.

h2 on the other hand is stateful and keeps the same hard semantics onto the client side and also makes servers more complex, because it's a state machine.
Not the point. They were also told that a failover system would kick in and re-route traffic had there been any issues, but this was where to be seen.

A worldwide outage happened that affected almost all locations and everybody, so actually SLA is meaningless in this case. Where was the extra redundancy? Where was the failover system? Why was other companies indirectly affected?

As far as I know Fastly's status page was even down during the outage, the fact that the best answer to this 'is we don't know' tells you everything you need to know. Maybe stop victim blaming this situation and focus on the main culprit.
I am on my own rainwater tanks. I don't see any reason it's not a viable alternative considering how many of us use it.
It has been somewhat sad in that I have seen cultural / communication problems. There are a lot of folks who just don't talk or comport the same from different regions around the world and it has been easily misinterpreted as negative vs simply not functioning the same socially.
Kind of amazing how your third point so neatly wrapped around to the first one.

I've become tremendously cynical in the past decade regarding all the ecofriendly stuff I'm supposed to be doing. It always seems to come out that the effort I was committing to Thing X turned out to be either worthless or even worse than that.

Recycle my plastic bottles? Nope, they're just getting dumped into the Yangtze River. (I put the bottles in the trash now.)

Okay, but my sink faucet no longer drips, so that's good right? I guess, but that one container of almonds just wiped out whatever yearly water savings I achieved with the repair.

I would consider buying carbon offsets if I had any faith at all that they really truly represented a net reduction in atmospheric CO2. I don't have that faith. Way too easy to launder or fabricate.

It reminds me of the 90s, when grocery stores switched from "forest-destroying" paper bags to "ecofriendly" plastic bags. Then we all did a 180 on that. Now I'm paying for the bags--also they use roughly 3x the amount of plastic--and I still use them twice (once for the items, once as a trashcan liner), just like I did before.
For the record, no. My position on lab leak speculation is it is highly politicized and counter productive. The reference to a grand social experiment was purely in the context of our response to the pandemic, rather than speculation about the origins of the virus.
Yes, that summarizes it, but all of that was already known and did not to be supported by leaked tax records. The root cause is automation and technology is allowing for more winner take all markets, combined with government money printing and reduced power of labor to negotiate for a bigger piece of the pie means assets keep getting more and more valuable.

Which lead to ever widening wealth gaps which might not be good for society, so taxing unrealized gains might be an answer.
~nobody pays those prices out of pocket

There's absolutely no way you can have a medical system without insurance (either govt underwritten or private corporation underwritten) beyond something trivial like a village herbalist.

The only question is who does the underwriting and even more importantly how are the premiums collected (taxes, that is proportional to income, or flat fees).
This AndroidEnv code is well-written, pure-python code with no Java components [1] but still is able to do RL. Very cool.

As an Android app developer I'm wondering if this is used for better fuzzing over the classic "monkey" command [2]. In other words, can an agent learn to crash apps?

[1] https://github.com/deepmind/android_env/tree/main/android_en...
[2] https://developer.android.com/studio/test/monkey
Is this true or is a belief?

The fact is that most people don't even have an opinion about what is Python or Perl.

Python can seem easy to share after you copy part of a python script and miss one blank space somewhere at the end of a line or start copying in the wrong line. If you use a dumb text editor the script will easily turn into a ugly mess. Perl scripts don't have this problem, so some people could say that they are easier to exchange and share in fact.

Many Perl authors will be really glad to share your code with you. This is what they built an online community of knowledge and libraries called CPAN where you can find it easily. To find authors willing to help and explain obscure parts of their own scripts also if asked politely, is not uncommon or particularly difficult.
> they have an air “pure consumerism”

It's not clear what you're saying here. What is "pure consumerism"? Are you suggesting that aesthetics is bad? It's a stylish object. People enjoy stylish objects.

> the games are there but not promoted.

that's probably because the developers are still working on the games and aren't ready to fully show them off yet.
Make all the good arguments you want, won't change anything.
OP here. ProPublica made the same argument. Maybe I should have covered it.

Here's why that step-up doesn't really matter. For round numbers, let's imagine Bezos acquires shares of Amazon at $1 each. Fast forward a few decades and they're now worth $100 each. He's accrued $99 in taxable gains. But he blows up in space, so it's all left for heirs. At transfer, the cap gains part is thrown away. But this is only to avoid double taxation, as the heirs now pay 40% on current market value for assets > $1m. Making them pay 20% CG on $99 and 40% would be far too high. So the gov lets them only pay 40% on ~$100, which is roughly 2x the total receipts.

(If the assets are left in trust, you can avoid the estate taxes. But then you're back to paying cap gains when the money is withdrawn.)

EDIT: Technically it's assets over $1m + other exemptions and deductions. In practice it kicks in more like $10-12m depending on particulars. But the amounts in question here are way, way above that baseline.
Yes, like speaking will not make you better at comprehension, although comprehension is required to have any meaningful conversation. Speaking needs to be practiced, but input and understanding comes first.

I'm pretty sure the originally poster did not mean to never speak at all. But just not to worry about it for a while.
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Does it follow that philanthropy does not equal ethical behavior? Ie:

1. Corruption cannot include legal behavior in which every ("reasonable") human partakes. [Implied: because it is legal]

Therefore, 2. Ethical standards are encoded in law.

Therefore, 3. Ethical behavior is governed by law.

Therefore, 4. Voluntary actions not specifically compelled or disallowed by law have no ethics.

My point is that it is possible for something to be legal, common, sensible from a perspective of pure self-interest, and still wrong and worthy of reproach.
> video games don't have a functional purpose any greater than beautiful design

some games do, some games don't. Different games have different goals.
Other sources[1] say its 65nm, and the chips won't even be used for automotive purposes.

[1]: https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/bosch-opens-...
I didn't know this existed. It looks like a good start for an open source product that could end up competing with Business Objects, QlikView, PowerBI etc.

Will follow with interest. Might even contribute.
Do the Microsoft links not work for anyone else too? I get a "Something went wrong" error on all the links. Would like to read more about specific vulns.
> But....shares are useless until sold.

You can borrow cash against them, and live entirely on that cash for decades.
The most egregious was when the CFC ban went into place and the non-CFC inhalers were all under patent again.
The "identifier" is often something that's computed later or returned from the API. Think about something like an ec2 instance - the identifier is the instance ID that's returned from AWS. You can have many instances that basically look identical so how do you differentiate which one this logical resource is referencing?

And back to the s3 bucket use case sometimes you want uniqueness in your name so you use a prefix instead of specifying the whole name - how do you determine which bucket that resources is referencing if there are multiple buckets matching the prefix?

I hear what you're saying in terms of wanting state management to be simplified, but pretty much every IaC solution uses this explicit logical resource -> physical resource mapping in state.
Do insurance companies actually pay full price for these drugs? I was under the impression that (at least in the US) it’s a bit of a racket where the bill will say $1000 and insurance will make a deal with the supplier to pay $100 (while simultaneously telling you they saved you $1000).
I'm pretty sure 'stuffiness' isn't measured on any meter.
I notice how the prices are not rationalized beyond "because that's what Pharma charges" because of rarity of the illnesses, etc. But there's no concrete 'why' the prices are what they are. It seems they charge what they can get away with charging (it is a market economy, after all).

It's not goodrx's fault in their reporting (bravo to them, in fact), it's that there is no transparency into that industry that would provide such a breakdown (that I know of -- surely never see it reported).
Yea, well Myasthenia Gravis is not terminal, so I’ll likely be on Solaris for the next 30-40 years… so $28,000,000 USD :(