skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it's a label that will be applied if you're doing something you want, just for the hell of it, without making it look cool. the people that are super conscious about themselves and how they present themselves cannot accept it.
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> Remember all those ridiculous lawsuits from the RIAA over downloading illegal music? Well, it turns out when people actually took them to court they won every time. But people settled out of fear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_Inc._v._Thoma...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_v._Tenenbaum

These were widely covered because most people just settled, and there were high hopes for something putting a damper on the lawsuits... from the page about the second case " It was only the second file-sharing case (after Capitol v. Thomas) to go to verdict in the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) anti-downloading litigation campaign"

So 2 for 2 there were found in favor of the RIAA, for huge damages even after appeal.

More recently, even ISPs are getting hit hard: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/1-billion-piracy...
actually it's using "github.com/hashicorp/raft" and not its own version.

So since Hashicorp survived Aphyr test, it should be fine.
I've had this concern for a while myself.

I once quit a bay area tech startup job in my 20s due to burn out (5 years no vacation, easily 50+ hour weeks) and in those few months of taking time for myself I got hit by a bout of what I assume was appendicitis. I delayed going to the hospital because I didn't have insurance since I had just left my job. The pain passed that day, but then a few weeks later the same excruciating pain came back -- just really indescribable pain -- to the point where I semi-consciously was asking my partner to make sure I didn't die. Ended up at the hospital, they confirmed appendicitis, did the surgery in less than an hour, and I got hit with a $25k bill. I remember an administrator coming into the room before the surgery and asking me for a credit card while I was completely out of it, because I assume someone told them I didn't have insurance.

After it all happened I was talking to a friend of mine who is an ER doctor and he told me, quite frankly, that if you ever find yourself in a situation like that to just leave your wallet at home and give a fake name. As a doctor they're going to treat you no matter what.

It's horrifying that we have to deal with this system in the United States. It does make me consider seeking citizenship elsewhere, which I consider more seriously the older I get.
Ok, and understanding/knowing that somehow doesn't change the tone to "said person should be helped"? I get why it's seen that way if you're oblivious to mental illness being a thing, but we're presumably more capable of understanding mental illness, at least at society level.
It's not specifically mentioned in the article I linked, but Gmail does this, and has for years.
And I've been to plenty of ER visits in many parts of the country and seen nothing like this (although there have been waits), and seen effective triage, including a patient I was with walking in (looking fine) and being admitted in like three minutes flat based on an initial cardiac test. And you got treated quickly also.

Perhaps you are in a local minima of bad conditions.

Even if what you saw is widespread, it is still no excuse for this kind of stupid response from insurers. It is not even close to justified.
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Leaked to who, though? If you use this feature, then sure, Apple will know that you're using an Apple device.

But the purpose of the proxy is to shield the end-user's IP address, and probably their user agent, too. Some email providers already do this. If you load an image from a Yahoo mailbox, for example, the reported user agent is "YahooMailProxy; https://help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-mail-proxy-SLN28749.html".
I've really just started digging into decentralized finance, and a lot of what I see does seem like nonsense; however, I realize that things are still in a very primitive state.

With some of the largest financial institutions in the world having a net interest margin between 250 and 300 basis points, I cannot help but think there is some potential for decentralized finance to somehow give at least a portion of that margin back to people. It's going to take time though. When you are moving money around, you cannot break things and then ask for forgiveness later. Good engineering practices will need to be brought to the space. Good risk management will need to be brought to the space. I'm curious as to what this will all look like when things mature. Will we be able to transfer the entire functionality of a bank into a smart contract someday with all of the regulatory metrics currently attached to traditional banks fully intact?
One thing I read is public hospitals seem to be overwhelmed with uninsured patients who often come for emergency care because they have no other options. Private hospitals are able to grab the insured patients. Medicaid funding is not enough to pay for the cost of care for low income patients so hospitals survive on those private insurers to balance the books. There was a recent Frontline documentary about this. https://www.pbs.org/video/the-healthcare-divide-rv6npd/
I see. I’d be very surprised if those amounts didn’t generate the required SARs. KYC is also not foolproof.
MRSA (see also 'spider bites'), meningitis, adverse reactions to a drug, Staphylococcal scaled skin syndrome (especially in infants), Stevens-Johnson syndrome (which can be a reaction to medication), toxic shock syndrome, among others.
Unfortunately asking users doesn't usually work out well. My favorite example is from Netflix. They asked users, "What movie needs to be on the service for you to consider it a good service with good movies that you would want to see repeatedly". A lot of people answered "Schindler's list". But when you looked at those same user's actual viewing, they never once watched Schindler's list, but they watch Jackass multiple times. So what they really wanted was Jackass, but either were too ashamed to admit it, or didn't actually understand their own preferences.
Are you sure that's not something else like inertia in various mechanical parts or engine tuning? Maybe it sacrifices responsiveness at low RPM for better emissions or better performance at high revs. There's certainly no need for the software side of things to be laggy or discrete.

Also have you tried an electric car? You might be impressed. EVs may have more software, but they don't have nearly as many physical constraints on responsiveness. They don't have to wait for an engine to suck in more air. They don't have to overcome the inertia of pistons and rods and flywheels and clutch discs and long driveshafts. It's just instant torque. Compared to my Model 3, every internal combustion vehicle feels like it has turbo lag.
To be fair, it behaves most of the time. It’s just that sometimes (I’d say, about once a week) it doesn’t. And yes, Apple occasionally do cock up. But I have seen this sort of things happening too often for comfort with Logitech’s drivers, over more than one decade.
It's weird though, you'd think that would be exactly the kind of risk that would be insurable. Privately or as a whole society. Some of us will keel over on the spot or otherwise incur near-zero end-of-life costs; others will need $2 million of care to make it through the last couple of years. It seems less relevant whether people in society pay their everyday medical costs out of pocket, compared to the fact that any one of us might need rare expensive treatment or complex care. The whole country sharing the risk as a massive national collective self-insurance exercise seems like the best solution.
I had mallet finger once. Went to a doctor in a nearby hospital (this is pre-doctor's care places on every corner). He saw me, gave me a plastic splint and said don't let your finger bend for 8 weeks and it should be fine. It was.

Then I got the bill which insurance paid. The hospital decided to code it as a broken limb and everything that goes along with it, xrays (which I didn't have), plaster cast (which I didn't have), etc... Even though insurance paid, this sort of thing just pisses me off. So, I spent hours on the phone getting it fixed which made the bill maybe 1/4 of what is was originally.
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I still enjoy a lot of the movies—more especially since I can relive the 'first watch' experience with my kids. It's hard to make sure I don't reveal some of the fun plot twists in older movies but it pays off.

Sadly, since my kids saw Toy Story 2 before Star Wars Episode V, the whole 'I am your father' bit didn't land with the same impact it did on previous generations :(
Another way to get more EVs faster is for EV tax credits to apply to conversions as well as new vehicles. Let's say you have a Honda Civic. Ideally, you'd be able to buy a kit from Honda or a 3rd party that has all the parts including battery boxes and hire your local mechanic to install it.

Right now, hardly anyone does conversions except well-motivated hobbyists because many of the parts have to be made from scratch and you have to do a lot of custom engineering per vehicle. Also the parts that are available tend to be expensive and produced in low volume.
I strongly believe that gaping holes did exist in peoples souls waaaay before ads were invented.

Don't know, though ... when I asked the all-knowing internet if "gaping holes did exist in people's souls before ads were invented", the first search result is a link to the Harry Potter Fandom-Wiki article about Dementors:

"Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them... Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself... soulless and evil. You will be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life."
Well, honestly, doctors can only do so much too.

Serious abdomen pain can be gas or something serious.
You can cough hard enough to fracture a rib.
Chest pains can be acid reflux or a heart attack: I had gastritis when this happened to me.

And this is a good deal of the issue: You don't know how serious it is until you go to the doctor.

Now, this doesn't cause all of ER misuse, but we aren't doing anything to make that better. A doctor won't see you if you can't pay upfront. This is the same problem with urgent care: Either pay upfront or don't get helped. The ER, though, will bill you. Which does mean that if you are poor - especially just over the income level to get help with a lot of expenses - you either go to the ER when you need a doctor or you don't get seen and have to wait until it IS serious enough for the ER.

We can solve this by making sure everyone can very easily afford health car (I no longer live in the US: My out of pocket is $300 per year, and this includes necessary prescriptions, doctors, physical therapy, some dental stuff, and so on). The rest is paid in taxes, which are less than federal + state + health insurance was in the states: Nevermind having to pay a deductible before the out of pocket. (I know my GP will bill me, by the way).

But another way to handle this is to have something akin to urgent care on hospital grounds - a place that folks can see a doctor/nurse practitioner for non-emergency things and get billed later.
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> Bonus, it also has collision detection warnings on the side of the car. It was convinced every puddle I drove through that splashed slush beside the car was an object I was about to collide with.

That's the problem I have with people who tries to rethink our relationship with cars; it's obvious that they live a Californian lifestyle. "Just share your car" "Electric and solar is the way" "AI safety with cameras is a must"

Yeah, sure.
"93.5% of all email opens on phones come in Apple Mail on iPhones or iPads"

How?
> well as an old high-end stereo (I'll need some digital-to-analog adapter, but I assume those exist).

Those adapters exist, look into Airplay 2 compatible devices.

iTunes is pretty easy to use, my older parents don't seem to have much of an issue with it. Admittedly, I don't regularly use iTunes anymore, only for the occasional iPod sync or restore.

Once you have Apple's HomeSharing setup, it's really easy to play stuff on your apple devices.

The Winamp 2 default skin was pretty basic. It had a stereo layout (play, stop, skip buttons), an equalizer, and a playlist. It was a great stand alone app. If you were just wanting a simple way to play stuff on one computer, it might be the better way to go.
I agree, it lacks some polish. I am a bit disappointed that they did not mention it, but I hope it is getting some love for the next update.
This notion that everyone skeptical of western defense contractor funded claims is paid by China is a sad evolution of the close minded rebuttals that existed during the Iraq WMD period.

There is no counter to this false claim online which is why it is unfortunately effective in shutting down discourse.

I guess we are stupid enough to walk into a potential war the same way we were scammed into one not too long ago. We already forgot the lessons as a population.
Playing with J (~ APL) certainly feels magical (though I can never remember the syntax a day later) and APL like Lisp gets a lot of leverage from a powerful vocabulary on a rich data structure (arrays and lists respectively). However the "One Great Datastructure" flattens the domain and doesn't self-document, nor constrain you from unintended uses, the way a rich type system does, so I find reading and maintaining Lisp (and I assume the same applies to APL) to be frustrating and tedious.

Writing this, I'm reminded how J felt full of "tricks" much like using Perl: there are these tricks you can use to get the result you wanted that isn't necessarily the most faithful expression of the problem.
I've worked in Ad Tech for awhile now at many different places. While the data and privacy issues that abound are mind blowing, this process:

> sift through vast piles of data, find previously unknown patterns, and then exploit them.

is much harder to pull of sucessfuly than you think. Having worked in the weeds with many projects of this nature, in practice these models are wildly less useful and powerful than the people buying the output from them believe.

For an individual case, you can exploit this data pretty well to find out shocking amount of personal information about a person. Doing this at scale in a way that doesn't converge into noise is much harder.
The law was unjust & unfair & gave away the future for nothing.

This insistence that the past be able to legislate whatever future it want, and that preservation of that past is absolute, is bogus corrupt & full of shit. I can not begin to state how strongly, how illegitemate it is to tell all future generations they must suffer ancient tyrannies.

Some compromise is necessary. This attitude that rule of law satisifies no negotiation is bizarre & I hear it again & again & again & I wish I had some way to express how radically disgusting it is.

When it comes to water rights, the rule of law is literally destroying civilization. Yet some people insist these ancient rights must be upheld. The people with water rights have no natural or rightful claim above the rest of society: old society merely granted them a privilege, and said that privilege was eternal, no matter what. I have no respect for that corrupt law, and I have no patience for the attitude that it is a threat to law to uphold that which is literally destroying us. There is some Plato-grade everything-must-be-fixed-forever in-perfect-harmony never-changing horse-shit (see: Open Society and It's Enemies) to insist otherwise.
They’re already running the risk vs other safer alternatives - even if just smaller silos.

Sure if you give it away for free they’ll be there - but if you’re trying to sell it you need to convince them (or more likely get it illegal to not use one).
Watch out, iTunes Match and the Apple Music match service are subtly different: the former will match to (and failing that, upload, transcoding to AAC 256 if needed) DRM-free versions, while the latter will match to/upload for sure but downloading them on another device (or the same if you delete the source file) will get you a FairPlay protected file.
Up until the GFC, buying and reinvesting short-term rates (e.g. treasury 3 month bills), have more than compensated for inflation. Long-term rates from 1985 up until last year have had even better risk-adjusted-returns than equities.

The "all currencies die or devalue" thesis is technically correct if you're holding cash under your mattress, but it's also misleading since real rates have been historically positive...
I got the feeling that car companies treat SW like a cost center, asses in seats kind of mentality. They don't pay well, you work on uninteresting stuff and corporate ladder is likely a dead end.

So I doubt they (traditional car companies) are going to get better at software any time soon.
>>how about if you send millions of bottle messages?

assuming we can integrate all learnings from those bottles into a system that can classify any given situation and apply the learning in that domain. But to build a system that can classify any problem is where we're stuck at and RL can't get us there
Thanks! yeah, I got that. I was just considering in a comment the fact that I wish I had a better word for people with strongly held believes that their solution will solve all things.

Architecture astronaut is one Joel Spolsky used back in the day that I liked. Maybe solution peddlers? Thought-leaders works though and yeah I think for most people it is pretty cringe inducing.
5 & 10 are already here... the rest aren't far.
Telecoms are heavily regulated, and your link reinforces that: The FCC is able to directly fine telcos from selling our location data. Tech companies generally aren't subject to the same fines as telecoms are for doing... exactly the same things.

And while Verizon, T-Mobile, etc. all have programs that opt-in to data collection and marketing practices, it's often impossible to opt out of tech companies' behaviors. Because telecoms are required to get your opt-in consent to use your data, generally they offer incentives to join rewards programs that have the additional marketing permissions as a requirement.

For example, Verizon Up Rewards requires you enable Verizon Selects, where they can collect information about your web browsing activity and such: https://www.androidauthority.com/verizons-new-rewards-progra... Not something I'd want to participate in, but Verizon is paying it's users for that data in effect, something tech companies never do.

> Opinions are my own.

I find it impressive how well this line still singularly identifies the employer of anyone who uses it. :)
Advertising is linked to depression, body dysmorphic disorders like anorexia, and numerous other adverse mental conditions. The advertising industry has a whole lot of blood on their hands. This is an industry that doesn't think twice about exploiting people's feelings of vulnerability or isolation to help sell products. The more vulnerable the demographic, the more abusive the advertising industry gets. Just look at the shit they subject teenagers to; almost all the advertising to teenagers is focused on how buying [product] will make the teenager like the popular and attractive models being used to shill the product.
expect immediate and catastrophic thromboembolism upon IV administration of any current covid vaccine none of them are formulated for IV administration

https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/Coronavirus/Community_Resource...
I'll remember not to care to reply in the first place.
The debate between presenting absolute vs. relative rates is a really interesting one in epidemiology, for the record, with roots spanning everything from "absolute risk regression models are actually kind of tricky" to the early arguments about smoking and lung cancer, casual criteria, and R.A. Fisher being on the wrong side of history.
Many cars use eMMC to back the infotainment system.

Recent non-tesla rentals I've driven have definitely had functionality that could only be accessed through the touch-screen. e.g. a Chrysler my mom rented a couple weeks ago had just temperature and fan control on knobs; everything else for climate was touch-screen only. What happens when the eMMC gives up the ghost in this car? I don't know, but I suspect you won't be able to e.g. manually put the defogger on...
And probably also a much better antenna.
Maybe this will make people switch off of Chrome, but I doubt it. In just the last 3 years Chrome has gained >6.5% market share.
FED: The risk of inflation is low
CPI rises 5% yoy
FED: inflation is transitory
CPI only rises 4% next time
FED: see, we told you
And if they do not suffer, does that not imply that some mental functions available to the majority of people is lacking in them? I'm not trying to excuse them if they're culpable, but trying to fix instead of vilifying seems even more important when the cost of the actions falls on others.
Discussed at the time:

Why Go Is Not Good (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10704115 - Dec 2015 (453 comments)

Why Go Is Not Good - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7962345 - June 2014 (356 comments)
In a sense prices are this high because someone keeps paying. If the money dries up maybe the issue will resolve itself.

Maybe a stretch, but possible.
> Where have I said that only one side has political interests?

You haven’t, but you have repeatedly cited only one side’s political interests to further your argument that that side is lying.
I used Go for an HTTP scraper a long time ago and had to go to insane* lengths to get that library to not leak and be performant. Honestly, that was about when I soured on the language and moved on.

* https://github.com/pkulak/simpletransport
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I doubt it. However, it might help reining in advertisers and close a gaping leak of private information that is quite difficult for a random user to plug. I wish, anyway.

We don’t owe advertisers a viable business. If their business plan depends on them sucking in private information without my consent, well, fuck them.