skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on another recent article, my impression is that indoor air pollution in general is severely understudied.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-hidden-air...
> And not keeping the old API around incurs work, potentially a lot, for everyone using the thing - transitively.

Not only that, but breaking backwards compatibility will cause dependency conflicts once a dependency graph is a bit larger, and this can easily completely stall transitioning of software to a new version.
Sounds like a vulnerability in the wifi client betraying your preferred ssid names and therefore address.

Wifi needs an encrypted handshake
"During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the CIA committed a series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in
the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, including physical and sexual abuse, torture, rape, sodomy, and murder."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...
Stereoptypes Sometimes Work
Hi! Co-founder here. A few responses:

1) When we launched we had issues with Capital One. We've since fixed those and have thousands of customers who have successfully linked CapOne accounts.

2) Sorry about the beta experience, it may have just been bad timing and communication on our part. We are no longer in beta and definitely list our price more clearly on our website now. We do still charge $10/month or $90/year, though Beta users received a 50% discount.. Our paying users see us as much more than a budgeting tool—more of a holistic, all-in-one personal finance tool. Budgeting and cash flow analysis are just a piece of that, but it also goal-planning, investment analysis, and more.

3) I'd love to get your feedback! We do regularly survey both existing and churned users, but if there's a way to contact you, I'd be happy to hear more (and if you're willing to give us another chance now that we've improved our integration, I can make sure we figure out a way there and that you get the beta user discount).

4) We're currently working on the "sinking fund" budgeting and plan to launch that later this year.
Until your friend with the Android phone comes over to hang out, and then boom, Google's got it.
Oh look, a false equivalence between the standard GOP scare tactics playbook, and Republicans breaking all norms of governance.
> it's, rightly, considered rape to have sex with someone under false pretences.

What are you talking about? Rape is forced sex. Lying to someone about who you are is not use of force.
There exists no news publication where costs are not a consideration. No one is going to give people an unlimited budget for an article few people will read.
Right, are the researchers aware that devs can choose which countries their apps appear in? Seems like a really basic thing to miss.
It's not interactive but the wikipedia article on herd immunity demonstrates it perfectly though I would try to steer your friend in a different direction as herd immunity can be used as an excuse not to get vaccinated (see Free Rider Problem), instead try to get to the root of their uncertainty and try to get them into a mindset where they consider others rather than just their own welfare.
> So why didn't the parents succeed then?

Investing your optimism in the next generation is just the immigrant way.
> There are plenty of new ones all the time; egirls, fuckboys, vsco girls, streamers, influencers, incels, you can also be "basic", "based", etc... it's possible you're not seeing it as much because you're getting older and these are adolescent tribes

Most of those are not new... "egirls", fuckbois, etc. were all around back then as well. These groups are somewhat non-related, since many of the listed groups are not mutually exclusive. You can have a fuckboi influencer, vsco egirls, etc.
That's also been my strategy. I use Ubuntu and I don't mess with the configuration.

Printers, scanners, nvidia graphics cards, dual monitors have all been a huge source of issues for me.

Then a lot of stuff is just glitchy and fixing it is a pain. For some reason QT from apt was completely messed up for me, so I had to compile and install it myself, which was non trivial.
> not broadcasting your SSID

Unless I am woefully misinformed, this is in fact not possible. I could set a flag somewhere that would instruct clients not to present the SSID as an option, but I can not hide its existence; not even just the name. The only thing hiding the SSID does is inconvenience me.
Even if you had that representation, resolving merge conflicts would be a huge headache. Imagine resolving code conflicts by resolving things at the AST level.

Forget CAD, we don't even have a good way to version control images, something programmers work with every day, besides "use Git LFS and pretend an image is just a pointer".

edit: just saw GumTree mentioned above. Guess I have something to check out...
One is the St Louis Fed study, which I found you and I have discussed briefly in the past. ;) https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/files/pdfs/hfs/is-college...

I’m only skimming quickly, this doesn’t fully back me up, but section III talks about some causal analysis, for example: “mediation tests causal relationships between variables. While the SCF is not longitudinal and thus a pure causal effect cannot be tested, we can be confident that reverse causality in the ordering of these variables is not possible.”

I have to be fair and note that there are also several comments about what is not causal as well as data that implies more causation than what their analysis reveals.

The references in this paper point to a couple of other papers that have “causal” in the title. Unfortunately I don’t have the time right now to read these again, but I recall seeing causal analysis during that previous discussion about the St. Louis Fed study, research that studied education outcomes and controlled for people with similar SES backgrounds, similar family history of education, etc., and found the apparent causal contributions of education.

BTW, there is absolutely a fuzzy gray line here. What I’m calling causation (social bias) may be what you’re calling correlation (education alone is not the entire causal reason for higher incomes - to your point that one cause is the people). Lest we get too stuck on terminology, I’m perfectly happy pointing out that the correlation is extremely high, and the statistical difference between with degree and without degree is surprisingly large.
That is a common anti-american talking point that is at best an extremely narrow view of the truth.
As Next ambiguously puts it: "The React Framework for Production" [0]

It's excellent for building page-based sites and apps and comes with lots of nifty features that just seem to work. And, the most part, it's just out of your way.

Regarding the ideal use, I'd say any project that benefits greatly from (partially) pre-rendered content and statically generated pages is best served by Next and its data fetching [1]. I can't think of a FE-based solution that is anywhere near as good. It's also the only sane way to work with the insanity that is JAM stack [2].

Whatever you do, it's a safe bet.

0 - https://nextjs.org

1 - https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/data-fetching

2 - https://jamstack.org
> To what purpose? ? Do you believe that it would result in a happier and more successful populace/world?

No, just in the interest of promoting a varied selection of ideological opinions and in support of the search for truth.

> I'd argue these counter-narratives already exist, so why do we need a new one/more of them/them to be stronger?

My contention is exactly that they are insufficiently represented in the current cultural zeitgeist! You're free to disagree, but the context here is that the parent post expressed an interest in 'signal boosting' this narrative, and I was agreeing. Sounds like you disagree.
Flight Simulator comes to mind, but that's the only one I know of (and it’s pretty unique in a lot of ways).

My Windows PC is a gaming machine pretty much exclusively, and it runs LTSC.
One CIA cable released in the report reveals that detainee Majid Khan was administered by enema his “‘lunch tray’ consisting of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts and raisins was ‘pureed and rectally infused’”. One CIA officer’s email was in the report quoted as saying “we used the largest Ewal [sic] tube we had”.

Rectal feeding is of limited application in actually keeping a person alive or administering nutrients, since the colon and rectum cannot absorb much besides salt, glucose and a few minerals and vitamins. The CIA administered rectal rehydration to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “without a determination of medical need” and justified “rectal fluid resuscitation” of Abu Zubaydah because he “partially refus[ed] liquids”. Al-Nashiri was given an enema after a brief hunger strike.

Risks of rectal feeding and rehydration include damage to the rectum and colon, triggering bowels to empty, food rotting inside the recipient’s digestive tract, and an inflamed or prolapsed rectum from carless insertion of the feeding tube. The report found that CIA leadership was notified that rectal exams may have been conducted with “Excessive force”, and that one of the detainees, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, suffered from an anal fissure, chronic hemorrhoids and symptomatic rectal prolapse.

The CIA’s chief of interrogations characterized rectal rehydration as a method of “total control” over detainees, and an unnamed person said the procedure helped to “clear a person’s head”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/cia-torture-...
> Jim Morrison’s dad literally started the Vietnam War when he led the fleet that fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin Incident:

No, he didn't, because the Vietnam War (the US involvement, which itself arguably was merely a continuation of the French colonial conflict) started long before the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
It seems like you switched from bemoaning how difficult it is to make money to "why bother making money anyway?". If you don't value money and you prefer to take it easy, then I don't see what the problem is?
1. History, as it relates to today. It's important for the coming generation to recognize the ebbs and flows of humanity. The media wants to say that "this scenario is unprecedented and scary, and you should be worried". History shows that most things are "another one of those" (credit to Ray Dalio).

2. Retirement planning. At age 18-25 you have the greatest opportunity to significantly influence your future success, but many people miss that opportunity.

3. The Way The World Works. Idealism is nice and should be pursued, but you will not be successful in that pursuit if you are ignorant of the way things are (even if the way things are is wrong). Learn and understand the system, work the system, and you'll then have the best chance to change the system for better.
Google is selling this data openly using their Geolocation API, check this: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation...
Similar price in London. One provider I checked indicated $560 for their "platinum service" which included lots of mostly pointless extras, but $280 for the basic service.

Private hospitals in London largely live off a split of offering cheap convenience or extracting money from foreign patients, but there are so many of them fighting for a small pool of patients given most people just go to the NHS that they have to compete hard.
I’ve also wondered just how independent the CIA is from the rest of the state. Surely, they don’t seem to face any consequences when they are caught doing something bad, even to US citizens. Is it possible they have any sort of rouge work or do much work not on behalf of the US.
Monolithic hell: 40 bugs in three files.

Classes hell: three bugs in 40 files.
This seems like a great way to make people less suspicious of genuinely sketchy URLs...
this is a bad analogy. A house number is assigned by a government in some form and looking up who lives at a certain address is not trivial and will certainly raise eyebrows. Workarounds exist such as election records however those were created during a time when google-level privacy invasion was not as widespread.

An SSID is created by a private individual for private use and its use as a tracking tool must be discouraged.
Agreed; that one thing, has actually been made easier with Covid-induced remote work at my project. On Zoom, people don't know I'm typing furiously - I'm a touch typer and can do reasonable amount of formatting/bullet lists without looking down, so I can look at and engage with and react to person maintaining eye contact while my fingers do their own thing :).
Its fine, except for the opt-out. I avoid google services in every way possible and as mentioned in another's posters comments, if I am using a google service it is due to the choice of some other service I use. What is ridiculous is the opt out strategy because if n number of companies start doing something like this and I have to keep appending stuff to my ssid name and reconnecting my devices, it now creates an unnecessary burden.

If people want to partake, fine. But don't make it a burden for me to opt out. AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, most people are not tech people and will not even know of this and many are not technically savvy to know how to change their SSID if they even know where to find out how to opt out. Many WAPs around me still have their default ssid from the box from their ISP provided device and probably only WAP because thats that the cable guy had them do when he plugged the box in.
Prices in Germany are set by the government. If you check the Gebührenordnung für Ärzte you'll see that in private practice an abdominal MRI is EUR 256.46.

The US are a clear outlier.
Yeah, that statement made zero sense by the other person. Sure, on paper, us Americans at the median have more money. But after you pay for a single visit to the ER or urgent care, or after you have a kid, or any expenses, Western Europeans are far better off. I know, I've been near that income level before. It's not a fun experience over here.

That said, now that I've moved into a job that pays at least $225K per year, you know, life in the USA is amazing for me. And everything everywhere else in the world is so cheap! Why can't my fellow country men just pull themselves up their bootstraps and get a high income earner job? It's so easy! You just go to the job tree and get one /s.

But more seriously, we need to completely restructure our society in the USA before the poor and middle class violently rise up against the government and make us into what Mexico was 120 years ago.
Funny story, I was a huge fan boi of Feynman's and read everything I could about him. I used this technique to integrate the "extra credit" problem on my freshman final, which I turned in with about 20 minutes to spare, and the professor accused me of cheating by knowing the answer ahead of time. When I showed him the steps and explained the origins he allowed that perhaps I hadn't cheated, but was disappointed I had used a technique that wasn't taught in class so that was somewhat unfair to the other students.

Not my best professor.
There's an episode of the Econtalk podcast that covers medical pricing.
https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...

It is clearly coming from a ... more sympathetic to free markets side of the argument but I honestly believe it's interesting on it's own terms.

It includes an explanation of the delightful term "compensated uncompensated care"
Strongly agree. The only hope is one day there will be a group of strong nations who will declare that they are not going to respect US sanctions.
they can do both, you know.

the people who fix bugs aren't the same people who make corners rounded it design control panel user interfaces or rename things.

the entire company doesn't focus on a single thing at a time.
50% of all wealth in the United States is inherited by the top 5% wealthiest families.

60% of all wealth in the United States is inherited.
Shameless self-promotion: I am launching a free service to consume emails on your RM2. I mostly wanted it so I can read email newsletters, but plan to add some organizational features. It works by signing up for email lists with your @emailnewslettertracker.com address.

www.emailnewslettertracker.com if you're interested in being a beta tester.
User of 3D CAD here. The reason this is so hard is that a part's geometry will be governed by a different set of parameters, depending on its function, and the software will not know the function of the part, unless is was written by a domain-specific expert.

I'll give the simple example of a hex-headed nut: how will the software know that the flat-to-flat measurement is critical (since it corresponds to the wrench/spanner needed to drive it) rather than the point-to-point measurement? In less trivial examples, questions like this need to be though out when creating models, and require domain-specific knowledge that a ML model will not have.
We've destroyed the atmosphere on this planet in so many ways to the point that we should all just be wearing spacesuit all the time.
The Sierra Madres clearly do not protect our southern border.
> Is that the main reason?

I think it is mostly the effect of them being legacy systems. Old systems become legacy systems if they are developed further. They can be difficult to work with but the mere fact that the language or platform breaks compatibility does not make that platform any better.
It would be a pretty stupid business plan to do a ton of fake research about a company just to make a quick buck off the initial drop in the stock. If NKLA turned out to be a great company that was on their way to huge success the researchers would look incompetent, regardless of if they made any money off of shorts.
This, so much. I don't want a Microsoft account, at all, ever. So I entered a bogus email address. Now (almost) every time I log in, it tells me there's a problem with my account that I need to fix...

Free clue for Microsoft: I know you keep wanting to "leverage" your base of Windows installs into more income in other areas. But when you use leverage, your users feel forced. And we don't like it. Stop it. You're pissing off your customers.

Or like the man said, "You can't win, Gates. The more you tighten your grip, the more computer systems slip through your fingers."

(Yes, I'm calling out Gates. It started under him, decades ago.)
Hence why church and community structures are very important among immigrant communities.
What's interesting is that India (which has many languages throughout the country) pretty much adopted English as the de facto business language.

Are EU countries not the same? Genuinely don't know how English is perceived in these countries.

Although this is probably much easier for India since it is one country.
I get that. But some damage is different from other damage. Getting callouses is similar to getting blisters. But one is much worse for you. (With the other being somewhat beneficial...)

So my question is how bad is it, really? Straw man arguments of folks being ridiculously tanned from tanning beds aside, is there much trustable discussion over mild tans?

Edit: Probably better asked in terms of my blister analogy. Is there benefit to getting tanned similar to building up callouses? Or is it purely cosmetic?
Of course not possible with images as a binary blob but it could be possible with a series of operations on a (vector) image ("event log").
Thorne is also the author of Black Holes and Time Warps, which is a much more approachable book on the weird consequences of general relativity for non-physicists.
Cautiously optimistic
It's interesting to me that people like this can continue to succeed in modern democracies. There seems to be no consequences for massive financial crimes anymore, and the more brazen you are the more you are rewarded.

If I broke into the homes of millions of people to fleece them of their life savings I'd never be seeing the outside of a prison but these guys do it via a confidence scam and the internet and never see the inside of a prison. Then they become CEO of another company and start all over agin.

I stop believing in democracy when I read stories like these.
I wonder if the root causes here are closer to skyrocketing housing costs, healthcare risks, and relatively stagnant wages making it hard to de-risk the first two.

The article mentions -

By contrast, the daily stress levels for women in Western Europe went down in the last year, which researchers attribute to social safety nets for parents and workers to prevent unemployment.

But then goes on to talk about the workplace. I don't think it's the workplace. I think it's the lack of psychological security as the middle class ceases to exist.
I mentioned an LTS version of Windows.
Or allow you to scroll the contents of windows that aren't currently selected.
https://www.techaviv.com/unicorns
I think the teachers who choose Stewart books don’t necessarily know how to teach down very well, so that would probably be reflected in their lectures, too. In multi-variable calculus I had a Stewart book and the professor put me to sleep. I spent a lot more time figuring it out on my own than I should have.

I was too naive to do so, but if anyone out there is in a class and the official suggested book doesn’t help you, ask the Internet for a respected alternative.
Common Bitcoin Misconceptions
Nvidia graphics driver perhaps? Linux with proprietary drivers tends to suck (and Nvidia has been especially unfriendly to FOSS drivers). Intel and AMD support open GPU drivers, which tend to be be better. This might be why you're hearing about experiences that don't match yours.

Also, people can have legitimately different priorities. Some folks might want freedom from vendors badly enough to buy inferior but supported hardware, and/or get their hands dirty dealing with problems. At least there's a choice.
it's because your preferred image viewer isn't doing what it's supposed to do, and windows is correctly doing what it can to make sure you're using an image viewer that works.
reaching the limits of human perception with FPS

Nothing can hit 200fps at 4K, which you'd need to reach low enough latencies to be imperceptible.
You assume the CIA's only purpose is to conduct covert assassinations and overthrow "legitimate governments", as the OP is alleging.

Which is just as far from the truth as some of the lies the CIA has told over the years.

The CIA has always been involved in intelligence gathering, which means among other things preventing terrorist attacks and discovering the capabilities of potential enemy nations. Like it or not, both are necessary tasks.
Just logged in to say the same. For millions behind the Iron Curtain, it was a breath of fresh air, it was like a ray of hope. It was liberating just hear someone speaking publicly things you could not. You could write long stories about that.
ha! I just put a link this to further down thread. It was a great podcast, right?
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