skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what you consider "meaningful" I suppose...but yes, as long as the sample's representative. You can do a lot with n=100 - unless the authors cherry-picked it would be incredibly unlikely for them to find 83/100 non-compliant hospitals by chance if there are only, say, a few hundred non-compliant hospitals.

$ R -q -e "binom.test(17, 100, p=0.9, conf.level=0.999)"
> binom.test(17, 100, p=0.9, conf.level=0.999)

Exact binomial test

data: 17 and 100
number of successes = 17, number of trials = 100, p-value < 2.2e-16
alternative hypothesis: true probability of success is not equal to 0.9
99.9 percent confidence interval:
0.06925006 0.32125658
sample estimates:
probability of success
0.17

Of course, there would be potential for "not fully compliant" to be insignificant for practical purposes (e.g. if it included hospitals that just missed a couple of billing codes), but based on TFA that doesn't seem to be the case.
While I agree that vårdcentralen-level health care is hit or miss, the point is that _everyone_ has a basic level of health care and getting sick won’t bankrupt you.

This has the second-order effect that _I_ won’t have to worry about _someone dear to me_ will be personally bankrupted by a medical condition. It saves me having to decide whether or not I should indebt myself to pay for their treatment.

Not having to raise fundraisers for my family members cancer treatment is worth a whole lot of disposable income for me.
They wouldn't be our competitor on B2B, more like a user of this tech. They might have it at some point (either through us or in house), but only available for merchants on their platform.
> How, in the face of being presented with a list of evils the world over, are we all (us Americans) not prostrate in shame?

You're asking Americans to feel shame for the actions of an unelected agency that has subverted their democracy? And lied to them and hid those actions? Americans, as a whole, should be ashamed, not just the CIA?

Do you also demand Russians feel guilty for allowing Stalin to take power?
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but "I know this is an unpopular opinion" adds nothing to comments but a false sense of contrarianism.
is it as portable as a macbook pro?
It's interesting to me that kangaroo meat is banned in California but it's legal in Australia.

Speaking of, Kangatarianism is a "recent practice of following a diet that cuts out meat except kangaroo on environmental and ethical grounds."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_meat#Kangatarianism
I had almost the exact same experience in late Jan [edit: 2020], along with most of my coworkers. I did keep wondering if I had Covid so I got tested, but with a negative result. The main piece of evidence that speaks against the Covid theory is any kind of mortality deviation, which didn't occur until later half of March.

Anecdotally, over time I heard many other locales, workspaces and schools experienced a similar "weird cold." It may not have been Covid but there was certainly a very widespread, and very unusual cold in the winter of 2019-2020.
I've heard stories like this from a lot of people in Dec/Jan/Feb. Many of them carried on in the months that followed as if they were already in possession of antibodies, believing that they "already had covid".

As others have pointed out, there are lots of cold-and-flu style illnesses endemic in the human population. There are antibody tests that can tell you reasonably authoritatively, if you're actually curious.
We cure can't have it with, so let's try.
When you do a proper REST call, your data is always going to be smaller than your html+data.

If you don't show it, you don't need to query it.
In case of git it is more like a blocktree, I suppose.
While I am generally in favor of very heavy taxation of wealth rather than hoping for favors from the ultra-rich in their generous moods, I am happy that at least (unlike taxes) none of this money went to the military.
nonsense. code is intended for a computer by definition.
I think Gods Unchained, a collectible card computer game, is a pretty cool use for blockchain technology. I'd be much more inclined to "pay to play" if I actually owned the thing I'm paying for and could sell it later. Though I didn't personally get into the game enough to bother spending money on it.

Here is a quick MIT Tech Review article on it from 2019: https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/07/11/693/this-blockch...
In April a power outage in China caused Bitcoin hash rate to drop by 45% - https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-hashrate-drops-xinjiang-bla...

In the idealized little crypto world no one person has control, sure, but we have one country with the majority of the raw compute power on the earth and a government that has no problem seizing control over that compute power when it suits them.

One of the many reasons I am bearish on crypto and have been since 2014.
Bitcoin seems like an obvious success story.

So, I didn't bother clicking the click-bait link to read the article.
Important topic.

Documentation, in general, could use all the help it can get.

I wrote up a long piece on this[0]. No one will read it, because it's long. I've found that no one reads anything that is more than about a "7 minute read," these days. Part of my documentation problem, is that I can get too verbose. It's not a good thing.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/
There definitely are. The simple pendulum (or rather harmonic oscillators) are the problem we want to transform harder stuff to, because we know how to solve that one. In other words, you might have to make a bunch of assumptions till you have reduced your problem to simple harmonic oscillations around a steady state that you have found separately.
Those are well know historical incidents that are documented with many, many sources. For instance:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
>but US society has culturally ingrained work ethic guilt that makes equality and leisure things that are not aggressively sought after consistently throughout society.

Here's a picture of that thing: https://i.imgur.com/GYlzOhQ.jpg

Credit: Android Jones

America's biggest problem are the Too Big to Fail™ + Too Big To Prosecute™ banks and their Fed. By controlling the currency supply, and through it the economy, they control the country. It's ultimately behind every systemic economic problem people face. It's designed that way as what amounts to a byzantine pyramid scheme.

When they fucked up and crashed the economy, who got bailed out? The citizens and taxpayers or the country's real owners?
Gotya, we'll check that. The selections are some time pretty random, since we have a large model pool.
You could do that without a blockchain.
Mapping the Intellectual Structure of the Coronavirus Field (2000–2020)
If locals really cared about affordable housing, they would loosen up those zoning laws because that is the real reason most areas don't have affordable housing, not Airbnb.
Please no. Don't extract methods methods just to avoid using a comment. You end up making code more difficult to follow when you do that since you're now jumping somewhere else in the file and you're adding a lot of noise by having to pass the function's current state along as arguments to the new function.
What is surveillance if not just looking at you? So if you object to the state or private actors being able to track you every movement through the public space, you essentially are advocating for banning people from looking at you when you walk the street.

Somehow it doesn't seem the same though. Somehow intuitively it seems different when people just look at you on the street and when some organization compiles a single database where every move of every person is recorded.
So many questions about that "Anti code and run"

http://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/anticodeandrun2.gif
Fluff piece. Block chain could be used to maintaining and secure digital licensing. We use it for a lot of dumb arbitrary things and so it seems there is no genuine use case.

You can use as a ledger to track transactions and make your transaction trackable. Do we though, do we apply this to digital exchange of actual currencies... nope.
I agree so much on this. The biggest problem for me is dumbing down the file browser when using MS office products. I used to have a workflow of quickly organizing files directly from office. But the modern file browser is so much less efficient and the extra clicks frustrate me a lot
I wish they banned adblockers, because then people would move on to Firefox in droves. It would be a killer feature and reason to use Firefox.
Bay of Pigs was before the Church committee, do you know the history of intelligence reform in the 1970s?

As for authoritarian governments, and their intelligence agencies, it’s not so much about “efficiency” in a technocratic sense so much as it is that I see no reason to believe that the government is in full control of them. How would we know if they weren’t? Authoritarians project an image of total control that often papers over a reality of internal disorder and dysfunction. We know, for example, that there was at least a brief coverup of the COVID-19 pandemic in China, just recently, to say nothing of the more famous examples, like Chernobyl.
>Or am I completely out of touch with how most of tech live?

I don’t think you are..
Based on https://web.dev/floc/#floc-server it looks exactly like an ml class, rather than a hash.

Almost certainly your browser history is summarized into a vector, and then the closest class number is chosen and sent.

You might not know which vector the number represents, but it does represent a vector for the centroid, and has relationships with other cohorts.

I'd say it's guaranteed that that interface is leaky
You should check out github.com ;)
It's as though they became what they were fighting. Totalitarianism is old enough that people now even seem nostalgic for it, but it was really awful, and it was worth preventing pretty much everywhere. A few assasinations to prevent the otherwise inevitable purges and massacres was ugly, but in the context of what they witnessed before and after the second world war, worth it. Their calculus appeared to be to accept a few thousand casulties to prevent the extermination of millions. When they succeed, it's really ugly, but when you look at the great 20th century failures of the CIA (China, North Korea, Cambodia, Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela) the consequences were even more terrible.

What seems to have changed is they're not trying to prevent it anymore, but making sure it's one they can manage. Imo, I think they got completely taken by Russia, where they thought when the wall came down the cold war was over, but really it had just started in earnest, and now every single new CIA recruit is fully indoctrinated into their old enemies' ideology before they even fill out an application. The movements behind the former Russian oppression very much exist as non-state actors today, and instead of mere nation states, they form pan-national networks facilitated by colleges, NGO's, and foundations.

It's so subtle. If you believe the biggest problems facing the world today are rooted in some other people lacking social accountability, that it is limits to the ability of institutions to organize, fund, and plan society, and that it is religion creating identities that cannot be reconciled with society, you may already have been subverted.
Are you hiring? I have built slack apps previously
MOSAiC Expedition
That feels like a wonderfully efficient way to generate a continuously fertile crop of new conspiracy theories.
Would love to compare this to a HTTP/2 version!
It sure does sound like it. But if you want to put some substance behind your thoughts, I recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Making-Science-James-Gleick/dp/...
I do this. I have a daily planner with plenty of blank pages and write down, by hand, every transaction I make. I start with my monthly budget, subtract rent, groceries, a video game, a movie, etc. Anything beyond my budget, whether it's salary or a stimmy, goes to saving/investing.

It's been incredibly helpful for being aware of my spending. In fact it's so helpful I actually forgot how much I'm saving and was pleasantly surprised when I remembered how much it is. It's also very effective for staying on top of lifestyle creep.
That does not even seem close to being true. I think more accurately it was a reaction against an established aristocratic and monarchial system that wouldn't share power with a new growing colonial upper class. Don't think the English were codling the peasants much back then.
In my experience, it beats mid to high tier iMacs as well. Those things get clunky for no reason.
The problem with unchained too is that it is literally attached to the market not as a protocol of it's own to divise exchange and authenticity of held digital goods.

For example it is completely tied to etherium. Bet $10 that their backend just maintains the rarities but doesn't assign a real blockchain value to ensure security and ownership.
Coming at it from the other end, you may or may not already be aware that one of realthunder's branches (can't remember which right now but probably LinkStage3 since that's where the action seems to be) lets you save the .FCstd file as a directory so that you can commit it to git. I've not tried it myself yet to see how useful the diffs are, but it's not unfeasible to think there's some value there.
Emacs shouldn't have a default configuration that physically injures users who don't change it.
- WSL

- Game Bar (built in screen recording)

- Built in SSH

- Virtual Desktops

- Action Center (OS level notifications)
TIL Bayh-Dole

And after 30 seconds of reading I already feel it should be repealed as disadvantages the citizens by giving companies rights to something we paid for.
I just think most people haven't actually had a bad case of the flu or a respiratory illness before. So people who did around November/December assume it must have been covid, when they most likely just caught something that people usually catch around that time of year.
I'm definitely aware the kind of thing you're talking. We're lucky that with our solution, we deal more with retailers than designer brands. So far it's been not that bad for us.

Curious what's the name of company you are at?
When you're the default, you have representation in all media, even without it being explicitly stated, because the audience already assumes it. Why? Because there's no reason to believe that the character is anything except the most common case in society. Some would even describe being the most common case and not having to explicitly be called out for representation as privileged.
> And yet most days I accept this as normal.

That is not a symptom, but the problem. People can normalize anything. You could normalize living like a medieval peasant - many people did. Smart people know they can just keep doing something and eventually others will accept it to a degree.

You deserve better.
This is how Medicare works in the United States. The group sets the price and that’s what Medicare pays.

I recall a few years ago hearing about a company that, instead of getting a health insurance plan, hired a law firm to counter-negotiate (through legal threats) all bills down to Medicare prices, which apparently saved money.
> Turns out the PC was an accident of history

> The end goal was never really to empower people

whose end goal would that have even been?

you're talking like history possesses some sort of inherent narrative, instead of just being a bunch of people doing shit.
This is a nonsensical statement. What are you trying to say?
Not your keys, not your life is the worst idea to come out of crypto. And that's really saying something IMO.
No true Scotsmen have found a use for blockchain. This is another of those articles that defines successful use case so as to exclude blockchain. What about all those bitcoin millionaires? They don't count! What about NFTs? I think it's dumb, so I won't count it! What about inventory and logistics tracking? Not used widely enough to count! What about all those decentralized finance businesses? They aren't real businesses by my definition of businesses! Okay, you win.
Exactly my thinking. Very well said.
Yeah, the health care system here is bonkers. It wasn't so bad back around 2008 or so, I had private health insurance for my wife and I, and it was only around $400 or so a month with almost no deductible. Then the government decided to make it "affordable" so it's almost triple that now, plus you'd have an insane deductible.
Rich Joe Stalker probably would. Not directly from google, maybe, but from a company that gets it from a company that gets it from google.
Its especially bonkers considering this exists: youtube.com/watch?v=DSSfRUxCsG0

Search terms: one arm bandit garbage truck
There are 195 countries in the world. We are these UFOs only landing in the US ?
Have you seen decompiled code? That's all that compiler cares about, it is not pretty.
What about a national packet-switched drone delivery network (Interconnected)
Speaking of strawmen..."siphoning up?" We are talking about a database of wifi beacons (SSID/BSSID) and GPS coordinates for where the beacons were received. It is no different from a database of street addresses and corresponding GPS coordinates. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy for SSIDs or wifi beacons -- everyone knows they can see their neighbor's SSIDs.

You seem to be saying that if an AP stores information about other "nearby" APs there is no problem. What if I am operating thousands of APs across a broad geographic region using a centrally managed AP controller? That is a common practice for large organizations and that is exactly the setting where you see APs collecting and storing information about other wifi stations. Is that not a large enough scale to be a concern? I have to wonder at what point you are drawing the line here. What is an unacceptable scale?
Not really a workstation, but seems like folks can take their homelabs pretty seriously too.
I mean...it's not really though. There are plenty of countries that don't have the rush/stress/demands of the US (aka what you're referring to as "this attitude") that are getting plenty "done".

> attitude like this is almost impossible to work with.

Again, in reality, it is not impossible and works well enough all over the world.

> It is ultimately a rather selfish lifestyle.

In response to a post about US workers being among the most stressed in the world, you're suggesting that alternative strategies are "selfish"?
There is a very good reason for pooling finances through civil unions, joint filings, etc.

When spouses/partners are working together for mutual success, there are countless things done by one party to enable wealth accrual of the other. In many cases, without one person doing very demanding work to enable their partner to work long hours, take major career risks, etc. their partner would have been unable to get wealthy at all.
> (Maybe Google could start by paying Wikipedia for some of the traffic they generate).

What does this mean? You think Google should pay for people who are sent to wikipedia.org after a Google Search? Or you think Google should pay for the information they scrape from Wikipedia and display to users on a Google search results page?
Best way to be a billionaire, pretend to give a fuck about kids by becoming a science teacher to appease the innate motherly instinct of women and marry the clueless dumb bitch who just got divorced the richest man.
If the name of the function and the parameters are clear, documenting the code seems useless.

Take this real example:

/**
* change the temperature set point in use by the thermostat
*
* @param ctx the thermostat context
* @param sp the new set point in 0.1 celsius degrees
* @return 0 on success, < 0 in case of an error
*/
int change_sp(void *ctx, int sp);

But we can change around the name of the parameters like this and use proper strict types:

/**
* change the temperature set point in use by the thermostat
*
* @param thermostat_ctx the thermostat context
* @param set_point the new set point
* @return SUCCESS on success, otherwise an error code
*/
error_t update_temperature_set_point(thermostat_ctx_t *thermostat_ctx, celsius_degree_t set_point);

And thus the doc comment now it's useless and can be removed, leaving only:

thermostat_error_t update_temperature_set_point(thermostat_ctx_t \*thermostat_ctx, celsius_degree_t set_point);

And in a codebase, more than 95% of the comments would be like that. There are the exception where you need to explain something in more details. In that case you first should ask yourself if there is really not a better way, and if not in that case the doc comment is fine. In all the other cases, it's probably not.

Doc comments on the other hand really makes the code less readable, the increase the number of lines for most of the times not saying anything useful at all.
Wow, I feel as if I wrote this. This is exactly how I feel: I've tried doing this many times and always fail at the note taking thing.

Lately I'm using Notion though for journaling and I really enjoy it. I'm keeping up a journaling streak.
Do you have any credible analysis which supports your assertion that governments are more effective than charities at their goals?

My conclusion is usually that governments are good _coercion_ mechanisms for dealing with situations where the actions of individual players cannot lead to a good outcome for all unless they are somehow forced to go against their self-interest (i.e. collective action problems), but that as _execution_ mechanisms it is a pretty clear point that they are tremendously wasteful.
But each time Amazon added a category, they acquired users who would spend on their existing categories, and, later, merchants who could offer newer categories. Each search tweak Google made gave them a new set of tools to monetize clicks, but also reinforced the instinct to perform lots of searches. Facebook’s marketplace is partly a way to monetize the site, but it also gives buyers and sellers one more reason to log in every day; as it turns out, one of the most addictive games ever launched on the Facebook platform is called “Affordable Exercise Equipment Quest,” and I’m a daily active user.

If someone had just bought shares of these three stocks a decade ago and turned off their computer,went outside, and did nothing else, they would have beat probably 99.5% of money managers/funds. Moreover, it would not have required any special insight or skills, but rather just investing in companies that a decade ago were already very big and dominant and in the news, not trying to find a hidden gem.
So using the export function? Or do they still run the next.js server without having the real benefit of it?

In other words: what is the benefit of next.js when you only do CSR?
Mathematics of Bookmaking
This is the prevent the flow of negativity HN is sometimes known for, similar to the comment you yourself posted.
Funny how HN completely discount the best performing asset of the past decade.
What’s New in Material Design?
Thanks for pointing this out. It should be said, however, that Kuhn did cite Polanyi pretty extensively.

Related: Destin, at the Smarter Every Day YouTube channel, has been kind of sliding into the same distinction Polanyi outlined, between "tacit knowledge" and explicit knowledge. Destin would label those "understanding" and "knowledge", respectively, but he has a lot of neat demonstrations of this distinction, e.g. riding a backwards bicycle[0], or hovering a helicopter[1].

[0] https://youtu.be/MFzDaBzBlL0

[1] https://youtu.be/eXR1olg_I0w
> every single new CIA recruit is fully indoctrinated into their old enemies' ideology before they even fill out an application

What? Every CIA recruit is an acolyte of the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism?
incorrect, the original sum zero inventor had a use case and in fact he went broke to attempt to prove it

Most of you were too young or not born yet

Google cipher punks and you may get a glimse